Method for scheduling traffic of home node, and applied to the same

摘要

Disclosed are a method of scheduling traffic at a home node and an apparatus employing the same. The home node integrated with the femtocell function to interwork with a mobile phone, the home gateway function to control electronic devices, and a set-top box function schedules traffic data transmission according to the characteristics of available services, thereby ensuring the optimum QoS (Quality of Service) according to the service characteristics. Accordingly, the QoS of mobile communication services requiring real time is ensured independently from that of Internet application services. Priorities are assigned to Internet application services according to the characteristics thereof, so that data requirements are satisfied according to services.

主权项

1. A home node apparatus comprising:
a home gateway device for providing a home network service to a service area based on a home network inclusive of, at least, real time transmission service, a service of controlling electronic equipment and non-real time transmission service; a femtocell module connected to a mobile phone core network through an Internet circuit to provide a limited mobile communication service to a mobile terminal located at the service area of the home gateway device through the mobile phone core network within a controlled short radius surrounding the home gateway device; and scheduling apparatus for performing at least said real time transmission service through the home network service and said mobile communication service through the femtocell module according to preset transmission priorities for both the home network service and the mobile communication service, with said scheduling apparatus comprising: a buffer for storing traffic data received by performing a home network service representing a first type of traffic data and or a mobile communication service representing a second type of traffic data; a traffic classifier for distinguishing between said first type of traffic data and said second type of traffic data and for classifying each of the two types of traffic data; scheduling software for performing a scheduling process to assign transmission priorities determined by each of the two types of traffic data wherein the second type of traffic data is assigned a transmission priority which is higher than the transmission priority assigned to the first type of traffic data, with the traffic data of the second type processed based on service attribute priorities with real-time transmission accorded the highest transmission priority; and a transmitter for transmitting the traffic data corresponding to the assigned transmission priority.