CN102244604B - A kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system - Google Patents

A kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system Download PDF

Info

Publication number
CN102244604B
CN102244604B CN201010170207.5A CN201010170207A CN102244604B CN 102244604 B CN102244604 B CN 102244604B CN 201010170207 A CN201010170207 A CN 201010170207A CN 102244604 B CN102244604 B CN 102244604B
Authority
CN
China
Prior art keywords
home network
service
home
quality
equipment
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Active
Application number
CN201010170207.5A
Other languages
Chinese (zh)
Other versions
CN102244604A (en
Inventor
方平
吴黄伟
张钦亮
朱萸
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Huawei Device Shenzhen Co Ltd
Original Assignee
Huawei Device Co Ltd
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Huawei Device Co Ltd filed Critical Huawei Device Co Ltd
Priority to CN201010170207.5A priority Critical patent/CN102244604B/en
Publication of CN102244604A publication Critical patent/CN102244604A/en
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of CN102244604B publication Critical patent/CN102244604B/en
Active legal-status Critical Current
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical

Links

Abstract

The present invention proposes a kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system, belong to communication technique field.The embodiment of the present invention is congested to generation by the equipment Inspection of home network framework, and sends congestion messages by home gateway to home network controlling apparatus when occurring congested, knows that home network there occurs congested to make user.Home network controlling apparatus generates service quality adjustment information according to congestion messages, and is sent to home gateway; The service quality adjustment information that home gateway receives, adjusts the quality of service policy of home network framework equipment.The embodiment of the present invention can be detected congested by home network framework equipment, and can notify home network controlling apparatus when occurring congested, user is known and there occurs network congestion, improve the experience sense of user.And when occurring congested according to the input adjustment quality of service policy of the setting of home network controlling apparatus, the service quality of the terminal equipment that priority is high can be ensured like this, improve the experience sense of user.

Description

A kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system
Technical field
The present invention relates to communication technique field, particularly a kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system.
Background technology
Along with the development of technology, housed device starts networking.From the voip phone till now of computer internet the earliest, IPTV, game machine, even comprises various air-conditioning, washing machine, refrigerator, defines and comprise home entertainment network, the home network of home data network and home automation network.Simultaneously, the networking technology of home network is also more diversified, from the cable technology such as Ethernet, power line to the wireless technology such as WiFi, bluetooth, wherein HNID (HomeNetworkInfrastructureDevice, home network framework equipment) achieves the connection between home network different segment and different home network architecture equipment.Such as WiFiExtender can make more space in WiFi wireless coverage family, and powerline adapters can realize the connection of power line to network segments such as Ethernets.Therefore, in prior art, home network can comprise for the HG (HomeGateway, home gateway) of interconnection network, for connecting the HNID of various terminal equipment, various EndDevice (terminal equipment).Wherein, home network framework equipment HNID can be WiFiExtender, or power line turns the adapter of Ethernet.Home gateway can be with multiple downstream interface, and has the connection device of upstream Interface, with by home-network linkups to external network.
In existing home network, to the requirements at the higher level of video quality, the bandwidth making video flowing may exceed existing home network technologies to provide, thus cause the congested of home network.Such as: as shown in Figure 1: STB1 with STB2 is connected HNID respectively, and HNID connect HG.Two STB (SetTopBox, the Set Top Box) equipment that has now in home network plays HD video and SD video respectively by HNID, and namely HNID receives two data flow flow1 and flow2.If in the situation shown in figure, user opens again the 3rd STB equipment STB3, and when iting is desirable to play the data flow flow3 of HD video again by HNID, HNID because of congested, packet loss can occur, and HNID can detect and there occurs packet loss.When occurring congested, can STB1, STB2, STB3 may be caused all cannot normally to work, or STB3 cannot normally work.
Realizing in process of the present invention, inventor finds that prior art at least has following shortcoming:
If when offered load is very high, the business that premises equipment requests is new, will produce network congestion like this.When producing network congestion, not only the business of latest requests cannot work, and causes interference to the normal operation of existing business.Meanwhile, user terminal cannot be known that terminal equipment cannot normally work and to be caused by network congestion, causes Consumer's Experience sense very poor like this.
Summary of the invention
In order to solve in prior art home network occur congested time, terminal equipment cannot normally work and user cannot know that the problem of the Consumer's Experience sense difference that network blockage causes, the embodiment of the present invention propose a kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system.Described technical scheme is as follows:
The embodiment of the present invention proposes a kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway, comprising:
After home gateway receives the congestion notification of home network framework equipment transmission, send congestion messages to home network controlling apparatus;
Home gateway receives the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus is arranged according to described congestion messages;
Home gateway adjusts according to the quality of service policy of described service quality adjustment information to described home network framework equipment.
The embodiment of the present invention also proposed a kind of home gateway, comprising:
Congestion messages sending module, for receive home network framework equipment send congestion notification after, to home network controlling apparatus send congestion messages;
Quality of service policy adjusting module, for receiving the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus is arranged according to described congestion messages, and adjust according to the quality of service policy of described service quality adjustment information to described home network framework equipment.
The embodiment of the present invention also proposed a kind of Network service quality control system of home network, comprising:
Home network framework equipment, for detecting the congestion situation of home network, and when detecting that home network occurs congested, sends congestion notification;
Home gateway, for receiving the congestion notification of described home network framework equipment, sends congestion messages according to described congestion notification to home network controlling apparatus; Receive the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus generates according to described congestion messages, and adjust the quality of service policy of described home network framework equipment according to described service quality adjustment information.
The beneficial effect of the embodiment of the present invention is: the embodiment of the present invention is congested to generation by the equipment Inspection of home network framework, and send congestion messages by home gateway to home network controlling apparatus when occurring congested, know that to make user home network there occurs congested.Home network controlling apparatus generates service quality adjustment information according to congestion messages, and is sent to home gateway; The service quality adjustment information that home gateway receives, adjusts the quality of service policy of home network framework equipment.The embodiment of the present invention can be detected congested by home network framework equipment, and can notify home network controlling apparatus when occurring congested, user is known and there occurs network congestion, improve the experience sense of user.And when occurring congested according to the input adjustment quality of service policy of home network controlling apparatus, the service quality of the terminal equipment that priority is high can be ensured like this, improve the experience sense of user.
Accompanying drawing explanation
The home network architecture schematic diagram that Fig. 1 provides for prior art;
Fig. 2 is the schematic flow sheet of first embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 3 is the schematic flow sheet of second embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 4 is the structural representation of third embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 5 is the structural representation of fourth embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 6 is the schematic flow sheet of fifth embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 7 is the schematic flow sheet of sixth embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 8 is the schematic flow sheet of the present invention's instantiation;
Fig. 9 is that home network framework equipment sends the schematic diagram of data flow according to qos policy;
Figure 10 is the structural representation of seventh embodiment of the invention;
Figure 11 is the structural representation of eighth embodiment of the invention.
Embodiment
For making the object, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearly, below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, embodiment of the present invention is described further in detail.
Embodiment 1
First embodiment of the invention proposes a kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway, and its flow process as shown in Figure 2, comprising:
After step 101, home gateway receive the congestion notification of home network framework equipment transmission, send congestion messages to home network controlling apparatus;
Step 102, home gateway receive the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus is arranged according to described congestion messages, and adjust according to the quality of service policy of described service quality adjustment information to described home network framework equipment.
Wherein, home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment, and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.
The embodiment of the present invention is congested to generation by the equipment Inspection of home network framework, and sends congestion messages by home gateway to home network controlling apparatus when occurring congested, congested to make user know that home network there occurs by described home network controlling apparatus.Home network controlling apparatus generates service quality adjustment information according to congestion messages, and is sent to home gateway; The service quality adjustment information that home gateway receives, adjusts the service quality of home network framework equipment.The embodiment of the present invention can be detected congested by home network framework equipment, and home network controlling apparatus can be notified when occurring congested, know that to make home network controlling apparatus current home network there occurs network congestion, thus improve the experience sense of user.Meanwhile, when occurring congested according to the input adjustment quality of service policy of home network controlling apparatus, can ensure the service quality of the terminal equipment that priority is high like this, improving the experience sense of user.
Embodiment 2
Second embodiment of the invention proposes a kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway, and its flow process as shown in Figure 3, comprising:
After step 201, home gateway receive the congestion notification of home network framework equipment transmission, send congestion messages to home network controlling apparatus.Wherein, this congestion notification can be sent by universal plug and play equipment management agreement.Certainly this just illustrates, can also send the congestion notification embodiment of the present invention not as limit by other agreements.The information of the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives at least is comprised in this congestion messages; That is:, in the network architecture as shown in Figure 1, the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives is flow1, flow2 and flow3.Home gateway can be made like this to know the terminal equipment being currently connected to home network framework equipment.
Step 202, home gateway receive the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus is arranged according to described congestion messages.
Wherein, home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment, and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.
Wherein, in step 202, the mode that home network controlling apparatus obtains service quality adjustment information can be multiple, such as:
Multiple quality of service policys of pre-stored are sent to home network controlling apparatus by step 2021, home gateway;
Step 2022, home network controlling apparatus select a quality of service policy from aforesaid multiple quality of service policy, and generate service quality adjustment information, and service quality adjustment information is sent to home gateway.
This mode when occurring congested, can make user can select one according in the multiple quality of service policys pre-seted fast, to adjust quality of service policy rapidly, improving the experience sense of user.
Certainly, this just illustrates the one of the embodiment of the present invention, and the embodiment of the present invention can also obtain service quality adjustment information by other means, such as:
It is congested that step 202a, home network controlling apparatus know that described home network occurs, and sends service quality adjustment information to described home gateway.
In step 202a, the service quality adjustment information sent can be the information of user's input, such as: adopt equally as shown in Figure 1 situation time, user can send acknowledge message by terminal equipment, and acknowledge message comprises as preferential in flow3 or flow2 is preferential or flow1 is preferential or stop flow3 or stop flow2 or stop flow1 etc.Now, after service quality adjustment information is sent to home gateway, home gateway needs to be revised as the quality of service policy that home network framework equipment can identify.If service quality adjustment information can by home network framework recognition of devices, then quality of service policy is identical with service quality adjustment information, and home gateway is without the need to modifying.The present invention does not limit and modifies the need of to service quality adjustment information.
This mode has good flexibility, and user can according to the priority of each terminal equipment of service condition free setting of current terminal equipment, to improve the experience sense of user.Such as: when user watches HDTV (High-Definition Television) in parlor, the terminal device prioritizes level that can set parlor when occurring congested is the highest.And when user is in bedroom, the terminal device prioritizes level that can arrange again bedroom is higher.
Step 203, home gateway adjust according to the quality of service policy of described service quality adjustment information to described home network framework equipment.
Wherein, for each terminal is provided with priority in quality of service policy, as shown in Figure 9, in family's network architecture equipment, there is different priority queries simultaneously.When receiving the data of service, the queue of different priorities can be put it into according to the address/port of bag.Such as: the team's class bag of Flow3 and flow2 being put into respectively high priority and high medium priority, and Low Priority Queuing put into by the bag of flow1.And when data are sent to terminal equipment, then preferentially send the bag of high-priority queue flow3, secondly send the bag of medium priority queue flow2, finally send the bag of Low Priority Queuing flow1.By the setting to quality of service policy, can realize, to the difference scheduling of flowing in home network framework equipment, realizing preferential transmission or the stopping of various flows.
At this home network framework equipment, when the content transmission that dequeue can not complete all queues causes starting packet loss, just think congestion events occurs.
In the present invention first and second embodiment, be have employed the network configuration as shown in the Fig. 1 in background technology, comprise: home network controlling apparatus, home gateway and home network framework equipment.Multiple home network controlling apparatus (such as terminal equipment) connects home network framework equipment by network, home network framework equipment connection home gateway, and home gateway connects local side apparatus.In the present embodiment, be described for terminal equipment, home network framework equipment HNID and home gateway HG.Certainly, HNID equipment also can be that other can configure the home network device of QoS, and home gateway can be other domestic network control center in home network, realizes administering and maintaining home network QoS.Home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment (EndDevice), and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.Because some terminal equipment in home network does not have Presentation Function, then can send this message directly to the terminal equipment pre-seted (equipment such as the total control terminal of such as home network, master control remote controller), thus home network be occurred congestedly be shown to user.Therefore, a step can be increased in the above embodiments:
Home gateway judges whether the terminal equipment of current access supports display, if it is sends message to terminal equipment, occurs congested with home network described in notification terminal equipment; Otherwise send message to the terminal equipment preset, to notify that described in this terminal equipment preset, home network occurs congested.
Embodiment 3
Third embodiment of the invention proposes a kind of home gateway, and its structure as shown in Figure 4, comprising:
Congestion messages sending module 100, for receive home network framework equipment send congestion notification after, to home network controlling apparatus send congestion messages.
Quality of service policy adjusting module 101, for receiving the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus is arranged according to described congestion messages, and adjust according to the quality of service policy of described service quality adjustment information to described home network framework equipment.
Wherein, home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment, and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.
The embodiment of the present invention is congested to generation by the equipment Inspection of home network framework, and sends congestion messages by home gateway to home network controlling apparatus when occurring congested, knows that home network there occurs congested to make user.Home network controlling apparatus generates service quality adjustment information according to congestion messages, and is sent to home gateway; The service quality adjustment information that home gateway receives, adjusts the service quality of home network framework equipment.The embodiment of the present invention can be detected congested by home network framework equipment, and home network controlling apparatus can be notified when occurring congested, know that to make home network controlling apparatus current home network there occurs network congestion, thus improve the experience sense of user.Meanwhile, when occurring congested according to the input adjustment quality of service policy of home network controlling apparatus, can ensure the service quality of the terminal equipment that priority is high like this, improving the experience sense of user.
Embodiment 4
Fourth embodiment of the invention proposes a kind of home gateway, and its structure as shown in Figure 5, comprising:
Congestion messages sending module 100, for receive home network framework equipment send congestion notification after, to home network controlling apparatus send congestion messages.Wherein, this congestion notification can be sent by universal plug and play equipment management agreement.Certainly this just illustrates, can also send the congestion notification embodiment of the present invention not as limit by other agreements.The information of the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives at least is comprised in this congestion messages; That is:, in the network architecture as shown in Figure 1, the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives is flow1, flow2 and flow3.Home gateway can be made like this to know the terminal equipment being currently connected to home network framework equipment.
Quality of service policy adjusting module 101, for receiving the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus is arranged according to described congestion messages, and adjust according to the quality of service policy of described service quality adjustment information to described home network framework equipment.
Wherein, home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment, and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.
Wherein, the mode that quality of service policy adjusting module obtains service quality adjustment information can be multiple, such as:
Communication module 102, for being sent to terminal equipment by multiple quality of service policys of pre-stored.
Home network controlling apparatus selects a quality of service policy from aforesaid multiple quality of service policy, and generates service quality adjustment information.Then service quality adjustment information is sent to the quality of service policy adjusting module 101 of home gateway by home network controlling apparatus, adjusts according to the quality of service policy of described service quality adjustment information to described home network framework equipment to make quality of service policy adjusting module 101.
This mode when occurring congested, can make user can select one according in the multiple quality of service policys pre-seted fast, to adjust quality of service policy rapidly, improving the experience sense of user.
Certainly, this just illustrates the one of the embodiment of the present invention, and the embodiment of the present invention can also obtain the mode of service quality adjustment information by other means.Such as:
It is congested that home network controlling apparatus knows that described home network occurs, and sends service quality adjustment information to described home gateway; Home gateway, according to service quality adjustment information, adjusts the quality of service policy of home network framework equipment.
Wherein, sending service quality adjustment information can be the information of user's input, such as: adopt equally as shown in Figure 1 situation time, user can send acknowledge message by terminal equipment, and acknowledge message comprises as preferential in flow3 or flow2 is preferential or flow1 is preferential or stop flow3 or stop flow2 or stop flow1 etc.Now, after service quality adjustment information is sent to home gateway, home gateway needs to be revised as the quality of service policy that home network framework equipment can identify.If service quality adjustment information can by home network framework recognition of devices, then quality of service policy is identical with service quality adjustment information, and home gateway is without the need to modifying.The present invention does not limit and modifies the need of to service quality adjustment information.
This mode has good flexibility, and user can according to the priority of each terminal equipment of service condition free setting of current terminal equipment, to improve the experience sense of user.Such as: when user watches HDTV (High-Definition Television) in parlor, the terminal device prioritizes level that can set parlor when occurring congested is the highest.And when user is in bedroom, the terminal device prioritizes level that can arrange again bedroom is higher.
Wherein, for each terminal is provided with priority in quality of service policy, as shown in Figure 9, in family's network architecture equipment, there is different priority queries simultaneously.When receiving the data of service, the queue of different priorities can be put it into according to the address/port of bag.Such as: the team's class bag of Flow3 and flow2 being put into respectively high priority and high medium priority, and Low Priority Queuing put into by the bag of flow1.And when data are sent to terminal equipment, then preferentially send the bag of high-priority queue flow3, secondly send the bag of medium priority queue flow2, finally send the bag of Low Priority Queuing flow1.By the setting to quality of service policy, can realize, to the difference scheduling of flowing in home network framework equipment, realizing preferential transmission or the stopping of various flows.
At this home network framework equipment, when the content transmission that dequeue can not complete all queues causes starting packet loss, just think congestion events occurs.
In the present invention third and fourth embodiment, be have employed the network configuration as shown in the Fig. 1 in background technology, comprise: home network controlling apparatus, home gateway and home network framework equipment.Multiple home network controlling apparatus (such as terminal equipment) connects home network framework equipment by network, home network framework equipment connection home gateway, and home gateway connects local side apparatus.In the present embodiment, be described for terminal equipment, home network framework equipment HNID and home gateway HG.Certainly, HNID equipment also can be that other can configure the home network device of QoS, and home gateway can be other domestic network control center in home network, realizes administering and maintaining home network QoS.Home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment (EndDevice), and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.Because some terminal equipment in home network does not have Presentation Function, then can send this message directly to the terminal equipment pre-seted (equipment such as the total control terminal of such as home network, master control remote controller), thus home network be occurred congestedly be shown to user.Therefore, a terminal type judge module can be increased in home gateway, for judging whether the terminal equipment being linked into described home network framework equipment has Presentation Function, if it is control the display of described terminal equipment and occurring congested; If otherwise it is congested to control to preset terminal equipment display generation.
Embodiment 5
Fifth embodiment of the invention proposes a kind of network service quality control method of home network, and its flow process as shown in Figure 6, comprising:
Step 301, the equipment Inspection of home network framework occur congested to home network, send congestion notification to home gateway;
Step 302, home gateway send congestion messages to home network controlling apparatus, congested to notify that home network described in user occurs;
Step 303, described home network controlling apparatus, according to described congestion messages, generate service quality adjustment information, and are sent to described home gateway;
After step 304, described home gateway receive described service quality adjustment information, the quality of service policy of described home network framework equipment is adjusted;
Step 305, described home network framework equipment, according to described quality of service policy, adjust the priority of terminal equipment.
Wherein, home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment, and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.
The embodiment of the present invention is congested to generation by the equipment Inspection of home network framework, and sends congestion messages by home gateway to home network controlling apparatus when occurring congested, knows that home network there occurs congested to make user.Home network controlling apparatus generates service quality adjustment information according to congestion messages, and is sent to home gateway; The service quality adjustment information that home gateway receives, adjusts the service quality of home network framework equipment.The embodiment of the present invention can be detected congested by home network framework equipment, and home network controlling apparatus can be notified when occurring congested, know that to make home network controlling apparatus current home network there occurs network congestion, thus improve the experience sense of user.Meanwhile, when occurring congested according to the input adjustment quality of service policy of home network controlling apparatus, can ensure the service quality of the terminal equipment that priority is high like this, improving the experience sense of user.
Embodiment 6
Sixth embodiment of the invention proposes a kind of network service quality control method of home network, and its flow process as shown in Figure 7, comprising:
When step 401, the equipment Inspection of home network framework occur congested to home network, send congestion notification to home gateway; To make described domestic network control Spot detection congested to generation.Wherein, this congestion notification can be sent by universal plug and play equipment management agreement.Certainly this just illustrates, can also send the congestion notification embodiment of the present invention not as limit by other agreements.The information of the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives at least is comprised in this congestion messages; That is:, in the network architecture as shown in Figure 1, the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives is flow1, flow2 and flow3.Home gateway can be made like this to know the terminal equipment being currently connected to home network framework equipment.
Step 402, home gateway send congestion messages to home network controlling apparatus, congested to notify that home network described in user occurs.
Step 403, described home network controlling apparatus, according to described congestion messages, generate service quality adjustment information, and are sent to described home gateway.
After step 404, described home gateway receive described service quality adjustment information, the quality of service policy of described home network framework equipment is adjusted.
Step 405, described home network framework equipment, according to described quality of service policy, adjust the priority of terminal equipment.
Wherein, home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment, and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.
In aforesaid step 403, the mode generating service quality adjustment information can be multiple, such as:
Multiple quality of service policys of pre-stored are sent to home network controlling apparatus by step 4031, home gateway;
Step 4032, home network controlling apparatus select a quality of service policy from aforesaid multiple quality of service policy, and generate service quality adjustment information, and service quality adjustment information is sent to home gateway.
This mode when occurring congested, can make user can select one according in the multiple quality of service policys pre-seted fast, to adjust quality of service policy rapidly, improving the experience sense of user.
Certainly, this just illustrates the one of the embodiment of the present invention, and the embodiment of the present invention can also obtain service quality adjustment information by other means, such as:
It is congested that step 403a, home network controlling apparatus know that described home network occurs, and sends service quality adjustment information to described home gateway.
In step 403a, the service quality adjustment information sent can be the information of user's input, such as: adopt equally as shown in Figure 1 situation time, user can send acknowledge message by terminal equipment, and acknowledge message comprises as preferential in flow3 or flow2 is preferential or flow1 is preferential or stop flow3 or stop flow2 or stop flow1 etc.Now, after service quality adjustment information is sent to home gateway, home gateway needs to be revised as the quality of service policy that home network framework equipment can identify.If service quality adjustment information can by home network framework recognition of devices, then quality of service policy is identical with service quality adjustment information, and home gateway is without the need to modifying.The present invention does not limit and modifies the need of to service quality adjustment information.
This mode has good flexibility, and user can according to the priority of each terminal equipment of service condition free setting of current terminal equipment, to improve the experience sense of user.Such as: when user watches HDTV (High-Definition Television) in parlor, the terminal device prioritizes level that can set parlor when occurring congested is the highest.And when user is in bedroom, the terminal device prioritizes level that can arrange again bedroom is higher.
Wherein, for each terminal is provided with priority in quality of service policy, as shown in Figure 9, in family's network architecture equipment, there is different priority queries simultaneously.When receiving the data of service, the queue of different priorities can be put it into according to the address/port of bag.Such as: the team's class bag of Flow3 and flow2 being put into respectively high priority and high medium priority, and Low Priority Queuing put into by the bag of flow1.And when data are sent to terminal equipment, then preferentially send the bag of high-priority queue flow3, secondly send the bag of medium priority queue flow2, finally send the bag of Low Priority Queuing flow1.By the setting to quality of service policy, can realize, to the difference scheduling of flowing in home network framework equipment, realizing preferential transmission or the stopping of various flows.
At this home network framework equipment, when the content transmission that dequeue can not complete all queues causes starting packet loss, just think congestion events occurs.
In the present invention the 5th and the 6th embodiment, be have employed the network configuration as shown in the Fig. 1 in background technology, comprise: home network controlling apparatus, home gateway and home network framework equipment.Multiple home network controlling apparatus (such as terminal equipment) connects home network framework equipment by network, home network framework equipment connection home gateway, and home gateway connects local side apparatus.In the present embodiment, be described for terminal equipment, home network framework equipment HNID and home gateway HG.Certainly, HNID equipment also can be that other can configure the home network device of QoS, and home gateway can be other domestic network control center in home network, realizes administering and maintaining home network QoS.Home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment (EndDevice), and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.Because some terminal equipment in home network does not have Presentation Function, then can send this message directly to the terminal equipment pre-seted (equipment such as the total control terminal of such as home network, master control remote controller), thus home network be occurred congestedly be shown to user.Therefore, a step can be increased in the above embodiments:
Home gateway judges whether the terminal equipment of current access supports display, if it is sends message to terminal equipment, occurs congested with home network described in notification terminal equipment; Otherwise send message to the terminal equipment preset, to notify that described in this terminal equipment preset, home network occurs congested.
In existing home network, because video flowing can take massive band width, therefore adopt the framework of this home network as shown in Fig. 1 of background technology equally and adopt high definition video steaming to be that example is described the embodiment of the present invention further.Certainly, this just illustrates, the data flow in the embodiment of the present invention can be multiple, not as limit.Same, the terminal equipment in the embodiment of the present invention can be STB, and can be also the another kind of subscriber equipment coexisted with STB, the embodiment of the present invention be as limit.Suppose in HNID equipment, to have there is a high definition video steaming flow1, and the video program stream flow2 of a single-definition.When user open STB equipment wish play HD video time, the congested of HNID equipment upper reaches can be caused.Now, the flow process of the embodiment of the present invention as shown in Figure 8, comprising:
Step 1: user opens STB equipment, it is desirable to play HD video program, wherein this high-definition program stream needs through home network architecture equipment HNID;
Step 2: owing to there is flow1 and flow2 in HNID equipment, does not have the HD video program stream flow3 that enough bandwidth supports newly increase, and cause HNID packet loss when sending data, and HNID equipment can detect this packet loss event;
Step 3:HNID equipment, by the event message of UPnPDM (universal plug and play equipment management), reports the QoS event that packet loss occurs to home gateway HG, and the stream information existed in HNID, flow1, flow2 and flow3.Stream information wherein in HNID equipment can be included in packet loss QoS event and send, and reports when also can be the querying command of subsequently received HG to home gateway;
Step 4: when home gateway HG receive in HNID equipment there is QoS flow congestion events time, HG sends message by UPnP protocol to terminal equipment (EndDevice), shows in HNID equipment occurred QoS congestion problems to user; And several option dynamically arranging quality of service policy can be provided to user further, as flow3 is preferential, or flow2 is preferential, or flow1 is preferential, or stop flow3, or stop flow2, or stop flow1 etc. (specifically when providing user to select, flow3 can be revised as concrete equipment, as living-room TV is preferential, Bedroom TV is preferential, or study TV is preferential, depends on the name of user when configuring UPnP network to each equipment).Wherein, this EndDevice can be the STB equipment of initiating high definition video steaming flow3, also can be other terminal equipment that other is convenient to user and checks or use;
Step 5: home gateway receives the QoS Provisioning Policy of user's selection by EndDevice, such as preferential flow3, can arrange default option here, as adopted default option when waiting for 15 seconds and do not have user to select, as stopped flow3 or preferential flow3 etc.;
Step 6: home gateway is selected according to the QoS Provisioning Policy of user or acquiescence, and arrange the quality of service policy in HNID equipment, as preferential flow3, the video flowing that can realize in STB3 is preferentially play.
By above step, user's prompting of QoS problem in home network can be realized, and the dynamic-configuration to quality of service policy in HNID equipment in home network.Such scheme is adapted to the dynamic management of the QoS of miscellaneous equipment in home network equally, thus the Dynamic Maintenance realized QoS in whole home network and management.
Wherein can adopt following mode to the strategy configuration of QoS in HNID equipment: the quality of service policy that HNID equipment can accept HG is arranged, then strategy setting module wherein dynamically arranges classification link or dequeue scheduling link, classification link can put it into the queue of different priorities according to the address/port of bag, as the bag of Flow3 and flow2 put into respectively in Fig. 9 team's class of high priority and high medium priority, and Low Priority Queuing put into by the bag of flow1, the bag of high-priority queue flow3 is preferentially sent in dequeue scheduling link, secondly the bag of high medium priority queue flow2, finally send the bag of Low Priority Queuing flow1, thus the priority scheduling realized high-priority queue.By the setting to quality of service policy, can realize, to the difference scheduling of flowing in HNID equipment, realizing preferential transmission or the stopping of various flows.
At this HNID equipment, the content that can not complete all queues when dequeue sends, and when starting packet loss, QoS congestion events occurs, when HNID detects that this event occurs, namely reports this event to HG.
Embodiment 7
Seventh embodiment of the invention proposes a kind of Network service quality control system of home network, and its structure as shown in Figure 10, comprising: home network framework equipment 201, home gateway 202.As shown in Figure 10, home network framework equipment 201 is connected to external network by home gateway 202.
Home network framework equipment 201, for detecting the congestion situation of home network, and when detecting that home network occurs congested, sends congestion notification to described home gateway 3; And according to the quality of service policy that described home gateway 3 adjusts, the priority of adjustment terminal equipment;
Described home gateway 202, for sending congestion messages to home network controlling apparatus 200, congested to notify that home network described in user occurs; And for receiving the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus 200 generates according to described congestion messages, and adjust the quality of service policy of described home network framework equipment 201 according to described service quality adjustment information.
Wherein, home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment, and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.
The embodiment of the present invention is congested to generation by the equipment Inspection of home network framework, and sends congestion messages by home gateway to home network controlling apparatus when occurring congested, knows that home network there occurs congested to make user.Home network controlling apparatus generates service quality adjustment information according to congestion messages, and is sent to home gateway; The service quality adjustment information that home gateway receives, adjusts the service quality of home network framework equipment.The embodiment of the present invention can be detected congested by home network framework equipment, and home network controlling apparatus can be notified when occurring congested, know that to make home network controlling apparatus current home network there occurs network congestion, thus improve the experience sense of user.Meanwhile, when occurring congested according to the input adjustment quality of service policy of home network controlling apparatus, can ensure the service quality of the terminal equipment that priority is high like this, improving the experience sense of user.
Embodiment 8
Eighth embodiment of the invention proposes a kind of Network service quality control system of home network, and its structure as shown in figure 11, comprising: home network framework equipment 201, home gateway 202.As shown in Figure 10, home network framework equipment 201 is connected to external network by home gateway 202.
Home network framework equipment 201, for detecting the congestion situation of home network, and when detecting that home network occurs congested, sends congestion notification to described home gateway 202;
Wherein, this congestion notification can be sent by universal plug and play equipment management agreement.Certainly this just illustrates, can also send the congestion notification embodiment of the present invention not as limit by other agreements.The information of the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives at least is comprised in this congestion messages; That is:, in the network architecture as shown in Figure 1, the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives is flow1, flow2 and flow3.Home gateway can be made like this to know the terminal equipment being currently connected to home network framework equipment.
Described home gateway 202, for sending congestion messages to home network controlling apparatus 200, congested to notify that home network described in user occurs; And for receiving the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus 200 generates according to described congestion messages, and adjust the quality of service policy of described home network framework equipment 201 according to described service quality adjustment information.
Wherein, home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment, and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.
Wherein, the mode that quality of service policy adjusting module obtains service quality adjustment information can be multiple, such as:
Home gateway 202 comprises:
Communication module 2021, for being sent to home network controlling apparatus 200 by multiple quality of service policys of pre-stored.
Home network controlling apparatus selects a quality of service policy from aforesaid multiple quality of service policy, and generates service quality adjustment information, and service quality adjustment information is sent to home gateway; Home gateway, according to service quality adjustment information, adjusts the quality of service policy of home network framework equipment.
This mode when occurring congested, can make user can select one according in the multiple quality of service policys pre-seted fast, to adjust quality of service policy rapidly, improving the experience sense of user.
Certainly, this just illustrates the one of the embodiment of the present invention, and the embodiment of the present invention can also obtain the mode of service quality adjustment information by other means.Such as:
It is congested that home network controlling apparatus knows that described home network occurs, and sends service quality adjustment information to described home gateway; Home gateway, according to service quality adjustment information, adjusts the quality of service policy of home network framework equipment.
Wherein, sending service quality adjustment information can be the information of user's input, such as: adopt equally as shown in Figure 1 situation time, user can send acknowledge message by terminal equipment, and acknowledge message comprises as preferential in flow3 or flow2 is preferential or flow1 is preferential or stop flow3 or stop flow2 or stop flow1 etc.Now, after service quality adjustment information is sent to home gateway, home gateway needs to be revised as the quality of service policy that home network framework equipment can identify.If service quality adjustment information can by home network framework recognition of devices, then quality of service policy is identical with service quality adjustment information, and home gateway is without the need to modifying.The present invention does not limit and modifies the need of to service quality adjustment information.
This mode has good flexibility, and user can according to the priority of each terminal equipment of service condition free setting of current terminal equipment, to improve the experience sense of user.Such as: when user watches HDTV (High-Definition Television) in parlor, the terminal device prioritizes level that can set parlor when occurring congested is the highest.And when user is in bedroom, the terminal device prioritizes level that can arrange again bedroom is higher.
Wherein, for each terminal is provided with priority in quality of service policy, as shown in Figure 9, in family's network architecture equipment, there is different priority queries simultaneously.When receiving the data of service, the queue of different priorities can be put it into according to the address/port of bag.Such as: the team's class bag of Flow3 and flow2 being put into respectively high priority and high medium priority, and Low Priority Queuing put into by the bag of flow1.And when data are sent to terminal equipment, then preferentially send the bag of high-priority queue flow3, secondly send the bag of medium priority queue flow2, finally send the bag of Low Priority Queuing flow1.By the setting to quality of service policy, can realize, to the difference scheduling of flowing in home network framework equipment, realizing preferential transmission or the stopping of various flows.
At this home network framework equipment, when the content transmission that dequeue can not complete all queues causes starting packet loss, just think congestion events occurs.
In the present invention the 7th and the 8th embodiment, be have employed the network configuration as shown in the Fig. 1 in background technology, comprise: home network controlling apparatus, home gateway and home network framework equipment.Multiple home network controlling apparatus (such as terminal equipment) connects home network framework equipment by network, home network framework equipment connection home gateway, and home gateway connects local side apparatus.In the present embodiment, be described for terminal equipment, home network framework equipment HNID and home gateway HG.Certainly, HNID equipment also can be that other can configure the home network device of QoS, and home gateway can be other domestic network control center in home network, realizes administering and maintaining home network QoS.Home network controlling apparatus can show congestion messages to user; Home network controlling apparatus can be terminal equipment (EndDevice), and also can be the equipment of home network centralized control remote controller one class, also can be the equipment of Set Top Box one class, the embodiment of the present invention make restriction to this.Because some terminal equipment in home network does not have Presentation Function, then can send this message directly to the terminal equipment pre-seted (equipment such as the total control terminal of such as home network, master control remote controller), thus home network be occurred congestedly be shown to user.Therefore, a terminal type judge module can be increased in home gateway, for judging whether the terminal equipment being linked into described home network framework equipment has Presentation Function, if it is control the display of described terminal equipment and occurring congested; If otherwise it is congested to control to preset terminal equipment display generation.
All or part of content in the technical scheme that above embodiment provides can be realized by software programming, and its software program is stored in the storage medium that can read, storage medium such as: the hard disk in computer, CD or floppy disk.
This is only preferred embodiment of the present invention above, not in order to limit the present invention, within the spirit and principles in the present invention all, and any amendment done, equivalent replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (12)

1. a method for controlling quality of service for home gateway, is characterized in that, comprising:
After home gateway receives the congestion notification of home network framework equipment transmission, send congestion messages to home network controlling apparatus;
Home gateway receives the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus is arranged according to described congestion messages;
Home gateway adjusts the priority arranged for each terminal in the quality of service policy of described home network framework equipment according to described service quality adjustment information, to make described home network framework equipment when receiving the data of service, described bag is put into different priority queries by the address/port according to bag;
Wherein, described home network controlling apparatus shows congestion messages to user, and described service quality adjustment information is the information that user inputs.
2. the method for controlling quality of service of home gateway according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described congestion notification comprises the information of the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives.
3. the method for controlling quality of service of home gateway according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described method also comprises:
Multiple quality of service policys of pre-stored are sent to home network controlling apparatus by described home gateway; And receive the service quality adjustment information of described home network controlling apparatus according to the quality of service policy generation selected from described multiple quality of service policy.
4. the method for controlling quality of service of home gateway according to claim 1, is characterized in that, after described home gateway receives the congestion notification of home network framework equipment transmission, sends congestion messages be specially to home network controlling apparatus:
Home gateway receives the described congestion notification that home network framework equipment is sent by universal plug and play equipment management agreement, sends congestion messages to home network controlling apparatus.
5. a home gateway, is characterized in that, comprising:
Congestion messages sending module, for receive home network framework equipment send congestion notification after, to home network controlling apparatus send congestion messages;
Quality of service policy adjusting module, for receiving the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus is arranged according to described congestion messages, and according to described service quality adjustment information, the priority arranged for each terminal in the quality of service policy of described home network framework equipment is adjusted, to make described home network framework equipment when receiving the data of service, described bag is put into different priority queries by the address/port according to bag;
Wherein, described home network controlling apparatus shows congestion messages to user, and described service quality adjustment information is the information that user inputs.
6. home gateway according to claim 5, is characterized in that, described congestion notification comprises the information of the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives.
7. home gateway according to claim 5, is characterized in that, also comprises:
Communication module, for being sent to described home network controlling apparatus by multiple quality of service policys of pre-stored;
Described quality of service policy adjusting module, specifically for receiving the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus generates according to the quality of service policy selected from described multiple quality of service policy; And adjust described quality of service policy according to described service quality adjustment information.
8. home gateway according to claim 5, it is characterized in that, the described congestion notification that described congestion messages sending module is sent by universal plug and play equipment management agreement specifically for receiving home network framework equipment, sends congestion messages to home network controlling apparatus.
9. a Network service quality control system for home network, is characterized in that, comprising:
Home network framework equipment, for detecting the congestion situation of home network, and when detecting that home network occurs congested, sends congestion notification;
Home gateway, for receiving the congestion notification of described home network framework equipment, sends congestion messages according to described congestion notification to home network controlling apparatus; Receive the service quality adjustment information that described home network controlling apparatus generates according to described congestion messages, and according to described service quality adjustment information, the priority arranged for each terminal in the quality of service policy of described home network framework equipment is adjusted, to make described home network framework equipment when receiving the data of service, described bag is put into different priority queries by the address/port according to bag;
Wherein, described home network controlling apparatus shows congestion messages to user, and described service quality adjustment information is the information that user inputs.
10. the Network service quality control system of home network according to claim 9, is characterized in that, at least comprises the information of the data flow that described home network framework equipment receives in described congestion notification.
The Network service quality control system of 11. home networks according to claim 10, it is characterized in that, described home network framework equipment is specifically for detecting the congestion situation of home network, and when detecting that home network occurs congested, by universal plug and play equipment management agreement, send described congestion notification to described home gateway.
The Network service quality control system of 12. home networks according to claim 9, is characterized in that, described home gateway is also for being sent to described home network controlling apparatus by multiple quality of service policys of pre-stored; Described service quality adjustment information is generated according to the quality of service policy selected from described multiple quality of service policy to make described home network control control appliance.
CN201010170207.5A 2010-05-11 2010-05-11 A kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system Active CN102244604B (en)

Priority Applications (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
CN201010170207.5A CN102244604B (en) 2010-05-11 2010-05-11 A kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
CN201010170207.5A CN102244604B (en) 2010-05-11 2010-05-11 A kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system

Publications (2)

Publication Number Publication Date
CN102244604A CN102244604A (en) 2011-11-16
CN102244604B true CN102244604B (en) 2015-11-25

Family

ID=44962454

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
CN201010170207.5A Active CN102244604B (en) 2010-05-11 2010-05-11 A kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system

Country Status (1)

Country Link
CN (1) CN102244604B (en)

Families Citing this family (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN104202833A (en) * 2014-09-15 2014-12-10 中国联合网络通信集团有限公司 Signal strength display method, signal strength display device and base station
CN104836743B (en) * 2015-05-25 2018-09-04 新华三技术有限公司 A kind of jamming control method and device
CN106330742B (en) * 2015-06-23 2019-12-06 华为技术有限公司 Flow control method and network controller
CN107204937A (en) * 2017-07-12 2017-09-26 安徽信息工程学院 Home network QoS controllers and control method
CN110874729B (en) * 2018-09-03 2022-09-06 Oppo广东移动通信有限公司 Switching method and switching device for electronic red packet identification strategy and mobile terminal
CN110048891A (en) * 2019-04-22 2019-07-23 上海市共进通信技术有限公司 The intelligent flow control method of man-machine interaction mode is realized based on residential gateway APP management terminal
CN111314145A (en) * 2020-02-25 2020-06-19 邦彦技术股份有限公司 Flow control method, terminal and switch

Citations (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN101299714A (en) * 2008-05-19 2008-11-05 华为技术有限公司 Flow control method, apparatus and system
CN101605057A (en) * 2009-07-02 2009-12-16 中兴通讯股份有限公司 A kind of home gateway is realized the method and system of downlink Qos

Family Cites Families (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US8533021B2 (en) * 2007-11-21 2013-09-10 Alcatel Lucent System and method for remotely repairing and maintaining a telecommunication service using service relationships and service management system employing the same

Patent Citations (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN101299714A (en) * 2008-05-19 2008-11-05 华为技术有限公司 Flow control method, apparatus and system
CN101605057A (en) * 2009-07-02 2009-12-16 中兴通讯股份有限公司 A kind of home gateway is realized the method and system of downlink Qos

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
CN102244604A (en) 2011-11-16

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
CN102244604B (en) A kind of method for controlling quality of service of home gateway and home gateway and system
US9712387B2 (en) Method and system for content aggregation via a broadband gateway
CN101652974B (en) Method, apparatus, and computer program product for dynamic bandwidth management in an ip-network
EP2393236B1 (en) Method and system for utilizing a broadband gateway to provide energy efficient management in a home network
CN103392329B (en) Service conversation resource management
JP5639260B2 (en) Gateway device for multimedia content
CN101800693B (en) Method for managing data transmission in moca network and coaxial cable network
US8958485B2 (en) Method and system for providing selected layered video service via a broadband gateway
EP2393235B1 (en) Method and system for energy efficient based service optimization by a broadband gateway
CN1323519C (en) Resource management system
JP2010525690A (en) Network connection communication processing apparatus and system, and communication connection adaptation method
US20110055708A1 (en) Method for changing service quality of a content adaptively
CN108566286B (en) Method for realizing service quality of intelligent router, router and electronic equipment
CN102017549B (en) Methods and devices for managing a network
JP5485543B2 (en) Communication method in network including primary network and secondary network
EP2975811A1 (en) Interface switching method and device
Monk et al. The multimedia over coax alliance
EP2773053A1 (en) Hybrid cable-wireless system
US7823178B2 (en) Method for controlling a network station in a network of a first type from a network station in a network of a second type, and connection unit for the connection of the networks of the first and second types
JP5152846B2 (en) Digital broadcast receiver
JP2004140814A (en) Resources management system
EP2905999B1 (en) Data transmission method, multi-medium access point and multi-medium client

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
C06 Publication
PB01 Publication
C10 Entry into substantive examination
SE01 Entry into force of request for substantive examination
C14 Grant of patent or utility model
GR01 Patent grant
CP01 Change in the name or title of a patent holder
CP01 Change in the name or title of a patent holder

Address after: 518129 Building 2, B District, Bantian HUAWEI base, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong.

Patentee after: Huawei Terminal (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Address before: 518129 Building 2, B District, Bantian HUAWEI base, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong.

Patentee before: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.