METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUALITY OF SERVICE MONITORING OF SERVICES IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

A method is disclosed for allocating resources to quality of service monitoring of terminal service sessions of a plurality of services in a communication network. The method comprises configuring (50) a global quality of service resource limit defining the total resource available for monitoring the quality of service for a plurality of services in the communication network; estimating (52) service reporting resource requirements for each of the plurality of services; allocating (54) the available global quality of service resource limit to the plurality of services depending upon the estimated service reporting resource requirements for the plurality of services; and instructing (60) terminals to send terminal service session reports for each of the plurality of services depending on the allocated quality of service resource for that service.