CN107438268B

CN107438268B - Method and device for accelerating wireless network for mobile device

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Publication number: CN107438268B
Application number: CN201710198876.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 许业灿; 杨镔
Original assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Current assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Priority date: 2016-03-31
Filing date: 2017-03-29
Publication date: 2021-12-24
Anticipated expiration: 2037-03-29
Also published as: CN107438268A

Abstract

The application aims to provide a method and a device for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device. Specifically, a network access request submitted by a mobile device via a wireless network is acquired; determining a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request; processing the network access request via the preferred route. Compared with the prior art, the method and the device have the advantages that after the network access request submitted by the mobile device through the wireless network is obtained, the preferred route is determined from the accessible direct route and the accelerated route, and the network access request is processed through the preferred route, so that the route used for access is flexibly selected in the process that the mobile device accesses the wireless network, and the network access speed is accelerated better.

Description

Method and device for accelerating wireless network for mobile device

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of computers, and more particularly, to a technique for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device.

Background

With the rapid popularization of mobile devices, the access of wireless networks is increasing day by day, but the wireless networks are often restricted by objective factors or the access speed is unstable due to the influence of operator network topology, in order to accelerate the wireless networks, the prior art generally adopts an optimization mode of near access, lays a front node and maintains a high-quality backbone link in the early period, finds the nearest node to access when the networks access, and thus connects to a target access source station server needing to access quickly.

However, in the prior art, when the source station is closer to the mobile device, the speed of network access is lower than that of the source station directly accessing the target in the network, and a side effect is generated on acceleration.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the present application is to provide a method and apparatus for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device, so as to solve the problem that the acceleration mode selection of the mobile device is not flexible during the acceleration of the wireless network.

To achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present application, there is provided a method for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device, which solves the problem that the acceleration mode selection of the mobile device is not flexible during acceleration of the wireless network, the method comprising:

acquiring a network access request submitted by a mobile device through a wireless network;

determining a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request;

processing the network access request via the preferred route.

To achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present application, there is provided an apparatus for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device, which solves the problem of inflexible acceleration mode selection of the mobile device during acceleration of the wireless network, the apparatus comprising:

network access request acquisition means for acquiring a network access request submitted by a mobile device via a wireless network;

a preferred route determining device, configured to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request;

network access request processing means for processing the network access request via the preferred route.

To achieve the above object, according to another aspect of the present application, the present application further provides an apparatus for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device, comprising:

a processor;

and a memory arranged to store computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

processing the network access request via the preferred route.

Compared with the prior art, the method and the device have the advantages that after the network access request submitted by the mobile device through the wireless network is obtained, the preferred route is determined from the accessible direct route and the accelerated route, and the network access request is processed through the preferred route, so that the route used for access is flexibly selected in the process that the mobile device accesses the wireless network, and the network access speed is accelerated better. Further, two routes accessed by the network can be subjected to real-time acceleration effect evaluation through an exponential weighted moving average evaluation processing model, so that the route state is dynamically evaluated and the preferred route is determined in the network access process, and the network access speed is always in the optimal state.

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Other features, objects and advantages of the present application will become more apparent upon reading of the following detailed description of non-limiting embodiments thereof, made with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates a flow diagram of a method for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device in accordance with an aspect of the subject application;

FIG. 2 illustrates a flowchart of a method of step S2 according to a preferred embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 illustrates a flow diagram of a method for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device in accordance with another aspect of the subject application;

FIG. 4 illustrates a flowchart of a method of step S4 according to a preferred embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 illustrates a device diagram for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device in accordance with yet another aspect of the subject application;

FIG. 6 shows an apparatus diagram of a preferred route determination device according to another preferred embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 illustrates a device diagram for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device in accordance with yet another aspect of the subject application;

fig. 8 shows a device schematic diagram of a routing capability determination apparatus according to another preferred embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 shows a schematic diagram for preferred route determination according to another preferred embodiment of the present application.

The same or similar reference numbers in the drawings identify the same or similar elements.

Detailed Description

The present application is described in further detail below with reference to the attached figures.

In a typical configuration of the present application, the terminal, the device serving the network, and the trusted party each include one or more processors (CPUs), input/output interfaces, network interfaces, and memory.

The memory may include forms of volatile memory in a computer readable medium, Random Access Memory (RAM) and/or non-volatile memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM) or flash memory (flash RAM). Memory is an example of a computer-readable medium.

Computer-readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, computer readable media does not include non-transitory computer readable media (transient media), such as modulated data signals and carrier waves.

FIG. 1 illustrates a flow chart of a method for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device in accordance with an aspect of the subject application. The method comprises steps S1, S2 and S3.

Wherein, in step S1, device 1 obtains a network access request submitted by the mobile device via the wireless network; in step S2, device 1 determines a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from among a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request; device 1 processes the network access request via the preferred route in step S3.

Specifically, in step S1, device 1 obtains a network access request submitted by the mobile device via the wireless network. The mobile device refers to a mobile terminal capable of performing wireless network access, such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, and the like. The network access request refers to an access request of application service logic in the mobile terminal to a wireless network, for example, a request for accessing content in a server of the Alibaca on a mobile phone Taobao is made. The request that the mobile device needs to access the corresponding source station server through the wireless network is acquired, so that the system knows that the network routing requirement exists in the mobile terminal and needs to reach the source station server where the content needs to be accessed from the mobile terminal, and the optional routing state can be further analyzed according to the requirement. Herein, the manner of obtaining network access includes, but is not limited to, intercepting a request of the mobile device, monitoring a dynamic condition of the network, actively sending by the mobile device, obtaining in a background, and the like.

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the above-mentioned manner of obtaining a network access request is merely an example, and other existing or future manners of obtaining a network access request, such as may be applicable to the present application, are also included within the scope of the present application and are hereby incorporated by reference.

Next, in step S2, the device 1 determines a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from among a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request. The target access device corresponding to the network access request refers to a source station server that needs to be accessed or other devices that can obtain access requirement content, for example, an ariibaba server corresponding to the time of accessing the contents of the treasure. The direct routing refers to that a mobile device sending a network access request is directly connected with a target access device through a wireless network node directly used by an operator or other mobile devices without passing through an established acceleration node, a link or a network, for example, a path passed by the routing is 'terminal-operator node-source station'. The accelerated routing refers to that a mobile device which sends a network access request connects a target access device through an established accelerated node, link or network, for example, "terminal-operator node-accelerated node-source station". The direct route and the accelerated route have different conditions that one access speed is better than the other in different environments and time due to the fact that the conditions of the network complexity and the terminal position are changed, and the accelerated route is not always better than the direct route, so that the connection conditions of two route paths need to be evaluated and the route with the optimal access speed or experience needs to be selected as the priority route by combining relevant information in the connection process of the two routes. By selecting the optimal route, the mobile equipment can obtain the fastest access and response speed when performing network access, and then the user obtains the optimal network access experience.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the above-described preferred route selection is merely exemplary, and other existing or future preferred route selection schemes, as applicable to the present application, are intended to be encompassed within the scope of the present application and are hereby incorporated by reference.

Next, device 1 processes the network access request via the preferred route in step S3. That is, after selecting the preferred route, the mobile device may access the target access device through the preferred route, for example, if the direct connection route is selected as the preferred route, the mobile device directly accesses the source station server through the operator network without using an acceleration node, a link, or a network. Preferably, another route can be used as an alternative route in the process of accessing through the preferred route, the states of the two routes are dynamically monitored, and once the condition that the currently used preferred route is worse than the alternative route occurs, the preferred route is switched to the previous alternative route after corresponding evaluation and confirmation. Therefore, the route used for access is flexibly selected in the process of accessing the wireless network by the mobile equipment, and the network access speed is better accelerated.

Preferably, the present solution is implemented in the mobile terminal itself, that is, a request initiator, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a vehicle-mounted device, etc., which is in a mobile network and initiates a request using a wireless network.

Fig. 2 shows a flowchart of the method of step S2 according to a preferred embodiment of the present application. Wherein the step S2 includes step S21, step S22, and step S23.

Wherein, in step S21, the device 1 detects whether a route comparison condition is satisfied; in step S22, if the device 1 satisfies the route comparison condition, comparing the direct route and the accelerated route between the mobile device and the target access device corresponding to the network access request to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request; in step S23, device 1 satisfies the route comparison condition, and randomly selects the direct route and the accelerated route as the preferred route corresponding to the network access request.

Specifically, the device 1 detects whether the route comparison condition is satisfied in step S21. In the process of accelerating the wireless network through the preferred route, the direct route and the accelerated route are dynamically monitored, and when the connection state, speed and the like of one of the two routes as the preferred route are inferior to those of the other route, or when the mobile equipment or service has just started and has no data on the network access speed and the network access state of the two routes, or when the route state is evaluated manually, the two routes need to be compared, so that the premise of ending the route comparison is that the two routes meet the route comparison condition. The route comparison condition is a condition for determining whether the evaluation comparison state of the cut-in route is satisfied, for example, the random probing number is satisfied, the current route state is better than or equal to the candidate, the state is set as a non-probing state, and the like.

Those skilled in the art should understand that the above-mentioned route comparison condition is only an example, and other existing or future route comparison conditions, such as may be applicable to the present application, are also included in the scope of the present application and are hereby incorporated by reference.

Preferably, the route comparison condition comprises at least any one of: obtaining or updating the routing performance information of the direct route and the accelerated route; the number of times of randomly selecting the direct route and the accelerated route is equal to or greater than a preset route probing number threshold value; the current state has been set to the route dynamic preference state.

The obtaining or updating of the routing performance information of the direct route and the accelerated route refers to obtaining sufficient routing performance information that can be used as a routing network access state evaluation reference, where the routing performance information refers to information that can represent or reflect a network access speed of a route, such as a time from initiation to termination of a request, a parameter that reflects access speed after calculation, and the like. As shown in fig. 9, the opposite of "whether the network condition of the current route is worse than that of the alternative route" is that the current route is better than or equal to the alternative route, that is, the route comparison condition is set, and a relevant threshold parameter is set for the route performance information, for example, when the time value from the initiation of the current route to the end of the response is not more than fifteen percent of the corresponding time value of the alternative route, it is considered that the route comparison condition is satisfied, so that the comparison state of the two routes is ended, that is, the tentative state shown in fig. 9, or the current non-comparison state is kept unchanged.

The number of times of randomly selecting the direct route and the accelerated route is equal to or greater than a preset route probing number threshold, namely that two routes are randomly selected for a plurality of times to obtain corresponding route state information when the terminal is started for the first time or in the route state comparison process, the number of times of selecting the random route is set, and route comparison is stopped when the number of times of selecting the random route is greater than or equal to the number threshold, and corresponding evaluation and determination of the preferred route are performed. For example, "whether or not it has been tried enough 10 times" shown in fig. 9 is such a route comparison condition.

The current state is set to the route dynamic preferred state, which means that two routes are currently monitored, but the two routes are not compared, the current route state is maintained, but whether other conditions for performing the route comparison state are met is constantly monitored, for example, in fig. 9, that is, the current state is not in the probe state, and whether the current state is in the normal request state is the route comparison condition.

Next, in step S22, if the device 1 satisfies the route comparison condition, the direct route between the mobile device and the target access device corresponding to the network access request is compared with the accelerated route to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request. After the route comparison condition is met, the two routes are evaluated according to the obtained related information of the two route states, and the final preferred route is determined. For example, as shown in fig. 9, a comparison is made between "whether the network condition of the current route is worse than the alternative route" and "whether the current route is still worse than the alternative route", and when the two route comparison conditions are satisfied, the selection of the preferred route is evaluated. The evaluated credentials may be information of the routing states collected just after the mobile device traffic is turned on or in the heuristic state shown in fig. 9, i.e., the route comparison state, such as, but not limited to, the request initiation to end time, or the result of the calculation of the relevant parameters. Determining the preferred route allows network access by the mobile device to be in a faster route, thereby achieving optimal access speed.

Next, in step S23, if the route comparison condition is not satisfied, the device 1 randomly selects the direct route and the accelerated route as a preferred route corresponding to the network access request. Here, the preferred route refers to a route selected at random as a route used for information collection in order to evaluate the performance of both routes, and is not a stable preferred route after the complete evaluation, here, only a route temporarily selected in a tentative state as shown in fig. 9. In order to satisfy the routing comparison condition to select the optimal route, it is necessary to collect the relevant information of two routing statuses, as shown in fig. 9, that is, the heuristic status shown therein, where each heuristic is to randomly select one routing to collect the relevant information, where the number of times of randomly selecting the routing may be determined according to the specific needs, for example, ten times in fig. 9, so that the network access status information of two routes of sufficient samples can be obtained, and the two routes can be more accurately evaluated.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the above-described manner of randomly selecting routes is merely exemplary, and that other existing or future manners of randomly selecting routes, such as those that may be available or later become available, are also intended to be encompassed within the scope of the present application and are hereby incorporated by reference.

Preferably, in step S22, if the device 1 satisfies the route comparison condition, the device 1 compares the direct route with the accelerated route according to the route performance information of the direct route and the accelerated route to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request. The route performance information refers to relevant information that may reflect the route performance, such as network access time and speed, for example, an rrt (round Trip time) that collects a route every time a route is randomized, that is, the time from initiation to termination of a request, and the longer the time is, the worse the network access state is. Here, it can be considered that the data interaction time of 2KB per routing single request is consumed as the routing state information of the handset, because the amount of information transmitted and received by most network requests is not less than this value, but other values can be used in combination with the traffic scenario decision. And measuring RTT by itself does not cause additional delay in network requests, i.e., probe states do not cause blocking or delay of network access to mobile devices or services. The quality of the two routes can be judged according to the route performance information, so as to determine the preferred route, for example, the shorter the RRT value is, the better the route state is.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the foregoing manner of collecting performance is by way of example only, and that other existing or future manners of collecting performance information, such as those applicable to the present application, are also encompassed within the scope of the present application and are hereby incorporated by reference.

Further, in step S22, if the device 1 satisfies the route comparison condition, and if the route performance improvement information of the alternative route relative to the current route is equal to or greater than a predetermined performance improvement threshold, taking the alternative route as a preferred route corresponding to the network access request, where the alternative route and the current route are respectively one of the direct route and the accelerated route; otherwise, the current route is used as the preferred route corresponding to the network access request. The performance improvement threshold is a set threshold for determining a performance difference between two routes, for example, when two routes are compared, setting an RRT value of one route to be less than fifteen percent of the other route, which is called as better, otherwise, the RRT value is considered to be equal, when a preferred route, that is, a current route is better than or equal to an alternative route, the current route is kept unchanged, and if the RRT value is worse than the alternative route, the preferred route is switched to the alternative route, where fifteen percent is the performance improvement threshold, but not limited thereto, a specific value of the sub-threshold may be determined according to specific situations.

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the above-mentioned manner of determining a preferred route according to a predetermined performance improvement threshold is merely an example, and other existing or future manners of determining a preferred route according to a predetermined performance improvement threshold, such as applicable to the present application, are also included in the scope of the present application and are hereby incorporated by reference.

More preferably, the using the alternative route as the preferred route corresponding to the network access request includes: randomly selecting the alternative route and the current route as a preferred route corresponding to the network access request; updating the route performance information of the alternative route or the current route; and if the updated route performance improvement information of the alternative route relative to the current route is equal to or greater than a preset performance improvement threshold value, taking the alternative route as the preferred route corresponding to the network access request. The process of switching the current route to the alternative route is, as shown in fig. 9, when it is determined that "whether probing has been performed for 10 times" is not satisfied, randomly selecting one of the two routes as the current route to collect and calculate the route performance information, updating the related performance information states of the two routes, and then, after it is determined that probing has been performed for 10 times, leaving the probing state and comparing whether the performance difference between the two routes is greater than a predetermined threshold value, for example, fifteen percent, according to the latest performance information states of the two routes, thereby determining whether to "switch to the alternative route" or "keep the current route", thereby determining the preferred route.

FIG. 3 illustrates a flow diagram of a method for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device in accordance with another aspect of the subject application. The method includes step S1, step S4, step S5, step S2, step S3.

Wherein, in step S1, device 1 obtains a network access request submitted by the mobile device via the wireless network; in step S4, the device 1 determines the route performance information of the corresponding route according to the multiple times of route test information of the direct route or the accelerated route; in step S5, device 1 acquires the route test information of the preferred route to update the route performance information of the corresponding route; in step S2, device 1 determines a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from among a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request; device 1 processes the network access request via the preferred route in step S3.

Here, steps S1, S2, and S3 in fig. 3 are the same as or similar to steps S1, S2, and S3 in fig. 1, and are not repeated herein.

Specifically, in step S4, the device 1 determines, according to the multiple times of route test information of the direct route or the accelerated route, the route performance information of the corresponding route. The routing test information refers to collected related information which can be used for performance information determination during specific routing probing or network access through routing, for example, RTT of the first 2KB of interaction from initiation to completion of each request is consumed, and the collected data can be ensured to be more accurate by collecting related test information for multiple times. The routing performance information can be obtained by calculating the routing test information through a certain weighted average, so that the influence of the historical network condition or the phenomenon influence of network jitter in the test information can be reduced to the minimum.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the above-described manner of obtaining test information is merely exemplary, and that other existing or future manners of obtaining test information, such as those applicable to the present application, are also encompassed within the scope of the present application and are hereby incorporated by reference.

Next, in step S5, the device 1 acquires the route test information of the preferred route to update the route performance information of the corresponding route. The routing performance information determined by the acquired routing test information is updated to the corresponding type of routing, so that the two routing states can be further evaluated, the preferred routing is determined, and the network access is kept in the optimal state.

Fig. 4 shows a flowchart of the method of step S4 according to a preferred embodiment of the present application. The step S4 includes steps S41 and S42.

In step S41, the device 1 acquires a sequence formed by multiple times of route test information of the direct route or the accelerated route in time sequence; device 1 applies the sequence to an exponentially weighted moving average model to determine route performance information for the corresponding route in step S42.

Specifically, in step S41, the device 1 acquires a time-series sequence of the multiple times of route test information of the direct route or the accelerated route. That is, the recorded test information of the plurality of accelerated routes and the direct route forms a sequence, for example, the sequence formed by RTT is { RTT }, the number of times of each collection is set to t, that is, t ═ 1 is the first in the sequence, the collected time is the earliest collected time in the terminal device, and therefore the value of t corresponds to the collection number of times. Preferably, when the mobile device accesses the network, the network has different network systems, so that the network with different systems respectively form a sequence formed by the corresponding latest test information.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the above described manner of constructing a sequence of test messages is by way of example only and that other manners of constructing a sequence of test messages that are currently or later become known, such as those that may be applicable to the present application, are also intended to be encompassed by the present invention and are hereby incorporated by reference.

Next, the device 1 applies the sequence to an exponentially weighted moving average model to determine route performance information of the corresponding route in step S42. The significance of determining the routing performance information by the exponentially weighted moving average model is that more measurement values at a close time point can be considered, but the historical values are considered at the same time, so that the influence of the historical values is reduced, and the problem that the measurement values at the close time are inaccurate due to the network jitter phenomenon is also restricted. Meanwhile, a KV model with a network type as key and an evaluation model as value is maintained in the previous period, before performance evaluation is carried out each time, the mode is checked and then the corresponding evaluation model is found by taking the mode as key to start calculation and storage, wherein each network type corresponds to a sequence of test information. An exponentially weighted moving average model is, for example, an RTT sequence of { RTT }, where t is 1, 2, 3 … n, where n is the number of RTT measurements, then the performance information for evaluating the current network state is EWMA (t), and when t is 1, EWMA (1) ═ RTT (1) is established; for t 1; (the weighting coefficient of the EWMA for the historical measurement data is closer to 1, the weighting of the historical measurement value is lower, the value can be determined according to the actual situation, for example, 0.6, and t in the measurement model represents the serial number of the measurement value sequence, represents the measurement value output t time, and represents the network state when the t measurement value is output).

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the above identified values are merely exemplary and that other existing or future identified values, as may be applicable to the present application, are also encompassed within the scope of the present application and are hereby incorporated by reference.

Fig. 5 illustrates a device diagram for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device in accordance with yet another aspect of the subject application. The device 1 comprises network access request acquisition means 11, preferred route determination means 12, and network access request processing means 13.

The network access request acquiring device 11 acquires a network access request submitted by the mobile device via a wireless network; the preferred route determining device 12 determines a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request; the network access request processing means 13 processes the network access request via the preferred route.

Specifically, the network access request obtaining device 11 obtains a network access request submitted by the mobile device via the wireless network. The mobile device refers to a mobile terminal capable of performing wireless network access, such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, and the like. The network access request refers to an access request of application service logic in the mobile terminal to a wireless network, for example, a request for accessing content in a server of the Alibaca on a mobile phone Taobao is made. The request that the mobile device needs to access the corresponding source station server through the wireless network is acquired, so that the system knows that the network routing requirement exists in the mobile terminal and needs to reach the source station server where the content needs to be accessed from the mobile terminal, and the optional routing state can be further analyzed according to the requirement. Herein, the manner of obtaining network access includes, but is not limited to, intercepting a request of the mobile device, monitoring a dynamic condition of the network, actively sending by the mobile device, obtaining in a background, and the like.

Next, the preferred route determining device 12 determines a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request. The target access device corresponding to the network access request refers to a source station server that needs to be accessed or other devices that can obtain access requirement content, for example, an ariibaba server corresponding to the time of accessing the contents of the treasure. The direct routing refers to that a mobile device sending a network access request is directly connected with a target access device through a wireless network node directly used by an operator or other mobile devices without passing through an established acceleration node, a link or a network, for example, a path passed by the routing is 'terminal-operator node-source station'. The accelerated routing refers to that a mobile device which sends a network access request connects a target access device through an established accelerated node, link or network, for example, "terminal-operator node-accelerated node-source station". The direct route and the accelerated route have different conditions that one access speed is better than the other in different environments and time due to the fact that the conditions of the network complexity and the terminal position are changed, and the accelerated route is not always better than the direct route, so that the connection conditions of two route paths need to be evaluated and the route with the optimal access speed or experience needs to be selected as the priority route by combining relevant information in the connection process of the two routes. By selecting the optimal route, the mobile equipment can obtain the fastest access and response speed when performing network access, and then the user obtains the optimal network access experience.

The network access request processing means 13 then processes the network access request via the preferred route. That is, after selecting the preferred route, the mobile device may access the target access device through the preferred route, for example, if the direct connection route is selected as the preferred route, the mobile device directly accesses the source station server through the operator network without using an acceleration node, a link, or a network. Preferably, another route can be used as an alternative route in the process of accessing through the preferred route, the states of the two routes are dynamically monitored, and once the condition that the currently used preferred route is worse than the alternative route occurs, the preferred route is switched to the previous alternative route after corresponding evaluation and confirmation. Therefore, the route used for access is flexibly selected in the process of accessing the wireless network by the mobile equipment, and the network access speed is better accelerated.

Fig. 6 shows a device schematic diagram of a preferred route determining apparatus according to another preferred embodiment of the present application. The preferred route determining device 12 includes a route comparison condition detecting unit 121, a preferred route determining unit 122, and a route random selecting unit 123.

Wherein, the route comparison condition detecting unit 121 detects whether a route comparison condition is satisfied; if the route comparison condition is satisfied, the preferred route determining unit 122 compares a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request; the route random selection unit 123 satisfies the route comparison condition, and randomly selects the direct route and the accelerated route as a preferred route corresponding to the network access request.

Specifically, the route comparison condition detection unit 121 detects whether the route comparison condition is satisfied. In the process of accelerating the wireless network through the preferred route, the direct route and the accelerated route are dynamically monitored, and when the connection state, speed and the like of one of the two routes as the preferred route are inferior to those of the other route, or when the mobile equipment or service has just started and has no data on the network access speed and the network access state of the two routes, or when the route state is evaluated manually, the two routes need to be compared, so that the premise of ending the route comparison is that the two routes meet the route comparison condition. The route comparison condition is a condition for determining whether the evaluation comparison state of the cut-in route is satisfied, for example, the random probing number is satisfied, the current route state is better than or equal to the candidate, the state is set as a non-probing state, and the like.

Next, if the route comparison condition is satisfied, the preferred route determining unit 122 compares a direct route between the mobile device and the target access device corresponding to the network access request with an accelerated route to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request. After the route comparison condition is met, the two routes are evaluated according to the obtained related information of the two route states, and the final preferred route is determined. For example, as shown in fig. 9, a comparison is made between "whether the network condition of the current route is worse than the alternative route" and "whether the current route is still worse than the alternative route", and when the two route comparison conditions are satisfied, the selection of the preferred route is evaluated. The evaluated credentials may be information of the routing states collected just after the mobile device traffic is turned on or in the heuristic state shown in fig. 9, i.e., the route comparison state, such as, but not limited to, the request initiation to end time, or the result of the calculation of the relevant parameters. Determining the preferred route allows network access by the mobile device to be in a faster route, thereby achieving optimal access speed.

Next, if the route comparison condition is not satisfied, the route random selection unit 123 randomly selects, as the preferred route corresponding to the network access request, the direct route and the accelerated route. Here, the preferred route refers to a route selected at random as a route used for information collection in order to evaluate the performance of both routes, and is not a stable preferred route after the complete evaluation, here, only a route temporarily selected in a tentative state as shown in fig. 9. In order to satisfy the routing comparison condition to select the optimal route, it is necessary to collect the relevant information of two routing statuses, as shown in fig. 9, that is, the heuristic status shown therein, where each heuristic is to randomly select one routing to collect the relevant information, where the number of times of randomly selecting the routing may be determined according to the specific needs, for example, ten times in fig. 9, so that the network access status information of two routes of sufficient samples can be obtained, and the two routes can be more accurately evaluated.

Preferably, if the route comparison condition is satisfied, the preferred route determining unit 122 compares the direct route with the accelerated route according to the route performance information of the direct route and the accelerated route to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request. The route performance information refers to relevant information that may reflect the route performance, such as network access time and speed, for example, an rrt (round Trip time) that collects a route every time a route is randomized, that is, the time from initiation to termination of a request, and the longer the time is, the worse the network access state is. Here, it can be considered that the data interaction time of 2KB per routing single request is consumed as the routing state information of the handset, because the amount of information transmitted and received by most network requests is not less than this value, but other values can be used in combination with the traffic scenario decision. And measuring RTT by itself does not cause additional delay in network requests, i.e., probe states do not cause blocking or delay of network access to mobile devices or services. The quality of the two routes can be judged according to the route performance information, so as to determine the preferred route, for example, the shorter the RRT value is, the better the route state is.

Further, if the route comparison condition is satisfied, and if the performance improvement information of the alternative route relative to the current route is equal to or greater than a predetermined performance improvement threshold, the preferred route determining unit 122 takes the alternative route as the preferred route corresponding to the network access request, where the alternative route and the current route are respectively one of the direct route and the accelerated route; otherwise, the current route is used as the preferred route corresponding to the network access request. The performance improvement threshold is a set threshold for determining a performance difference between two routes, for example, when two routes are compared, setting an RRT value of one route to be less than fifteen percent of the other route, which is called as better, otherwise, the RRT value is considered to be equal, when a preferred route, that is, a current route is better than or equal to an alternative route, the current route is kept unchanged, and if the RRT value is worse than the alternative route, the preferred route is switched to the alternative route, where fifteen percent is the performance improvement threshold, but not limited thereto, a specific value of the sub-threshold may be determined according to specific situations.

FIG. 7 illustrates a device diagram for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device in accordance with yet another aspect of the subject application. The device 1 comprises a network access request acquisition means 21, a routing capability determination means 24, a routing capability information updating means 25, a preferred routing determination means 22, and a network access request processing means 23.

Wherein, the network access request obtaining device 21 obtains a network access request submitted by the mobile device via a wireless network; the route performance determining device 24 determines the route performance information of the corresponding route according to the multiple route test information of the direct route or the accelerated route; the route performance information updating device 25 acquires the route test information of the preferred route to update the route performance information of the corresponding route; the preferred route determining device 22 determines a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request; the network access request processing means 23 processes the network access request via the preferred route.

Here, the network access request obtaining device 21, the preferred route determining device 22, and the network access request processing device 23 in fig. 7 are the same as or similar to the network access request obtaining device 11, the preferred route determining device 12, and the network access request processing device 13 in fig. 5, and are not described again.

Specifically, the route performance determining device 24 determines the route performance information of the corresponding route according to the multiple times of route test information of the direct route or the accelerated route. The routing test information refers to collected related information which can be used for performance information determination during specific routing probing or network access through routing, for example, RTT of the first 2KB of interaction from initiation to completion of each request is consumed, and the collected data can be ensured to be more accurate by collecting related test information for multiple times. The routing performance information can be obtained by calculating the routing test information through a certain weighted average, so that the influence of the historical network condition or the phenomenon influence of network jitter in the test information can be reduced to the minimum.

Then, the route performance information updating device 25 obtains the route test information of the preferred route to update the route performance information of the corresponding route. The routing performance information determined by the acquired routing test information is updated to the corresponding type of routing, so that the two routing states can be further evaluated, the preferred routing is determined, and the network access is kept in the optimal state.

Fig. 8 shows a schematic device diagram of a routing performance determining apparatus according to another preferred embodiment of the present application. The routing performance determining device 24 includes a routing information obtaining unit 241 and a routing performance determining unit 242.

The routing information obtaining unit 241 obtains a sequence formed by multiple times of routing test information of the direct route or the accelerated route according to a time sequence; the route performance determination unit 242 applies the sequence to the exponentially weighted moving average model to determine route performance information for the corresponding route.

Specifically, the route information acquiring unit 241 acquires a sequence formed by multiple times of route test information of the direct route or the accelerated route in time series. That is, the recorded test information of the plurality of accelerated routes and the direct route forms a sequence, for example, the sequence formed by RTT is { RTT }, the number of times of each collection is set to t, that is, t ═ 1 is the first in the sequence, the collected time is the earliest collected time in the terminal device, and therefore the value of t corresponds to the collection number of times. Preferably, when the mobile device accesses the network, the network has different network systems, so that the network with different systems respectively form a sequence formed by the corresponding latest test information.

Then, the route performance determination unit 242 applies the sequence to the exponentially weighted moving average model to determine the route performance information of the corresponding route. The significance of determining the routing performance information by the exponentially weighted moving average model is that more measurement values at a close time point can be considered, but the historical values are considered at the same time, so that the influence of the historical values is reduced, and the problem that the measurement values at the close time are inaccurate due to the network jitter phenomenon is also restricted. Meanwhile, a KV model with a network type as key and an evaluation model as value is maintained in the previous period, before performance evaluation is carried out each time, the mode is checked and then the corresponding evaluation model is found by taking the mode as key to start calculation and storage, wherein each network type corresponds to a sequence of test information. An exponentially weighted moving average model is, for example, an RTT sequence of { RTT }, where t is 1, 2, 3 … n, where n is the number of RTT measurements, then the performance information for evaluating the current network state is EWMA (t), and when t is 1, EWMA (1) ═ RTT (1) is established; for t 1; (the weighting coefficient of the EWMA for the historical measurement data is closer to 1, the weighting of the historical measurement value is lower, the value can be determined according to the actual situation, for example, 0.6, and t in the measurement model represents the serial number of the measurement value sequence, represents the measurement value output t time, and represents the network state when the t measurement value is output).

In addition, the present application also provides an apparatus for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device, comprising:

a processor;

processing the network access request via the preferred route.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents, the present application is intended to include such modifications and variations as well.

It should be noted that the present application may be implemented in software and/or a combination of software and hardware, for example, implemented using Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), general purpose computers or any other similar hardware devices. In one embodiment, the software programs of the present application may be executed by a processor to implement the steps or functions described above. Likewise, the software programs (including associated data structures) of the present application may be stored in a computer readable recording medium, such as RAM memory, magnetic or optical drive or diskette and the like. Additionally, some of the steps or functions of the present application may be implemented in hardware, for example, as circuitry that cooperates with the processor to perform various steps or functions.

In addition, some of the present application may be implemented as a computer program product, such as computer program instructions, which when executed by a computer, may invoke or provide methods and/or techniques in accordance with the present application through the operation of the computer. Program instructions which invoke the methods of the present application may be stored on a fixed or removable recording medium and/or transmitted via a data stream on a broadcast or other signal-bearing medium and/or stored within a working memory of a computer device operating in accordance with the program instructions. An embodiment according to the present application comprises an apparatus comprising a memory for storing computer program instructions and a processor for executing the program instructions, wherein the computer program instructions, when executed by the processor, trigger the apparatus to perform a method and/or a solution according to the aforementioned embodiments of the present application.

It will be evident to those skilled in the art that the present application is not limited to the details of the foregoing illustrative embodiments, and that the present application may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the application being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned. Furthermore, it is obvious that the word "comprising" does not exclude other elements or steps, and the singular does not exclude the plural. A plurality of units or means recited in the apparatus claims may also be implemented by one unit or means in software or hardware. The terms first, second, etc. are used to denote names, but not any particular order.

Claims

1. A method for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device, comprising:

processing the network access request via the preferred route;

wherein the determining a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request comprises:

detecting whether a route comparison condition is met, wherein the route comparison condition comprises at least any one of the following items: obtaining or updating the routing performance information of the direct route and the accelerated route, wherein the number of times of randomly selecting the direct route and the accelerated route is equal to or greater than a preset route probing number threshold value, and the current state is set as a routing dynamic preferred state;

if the route comparison condition is met, comparing a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile equipment and target access equipment corresponding to the network access request to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request;

wherein the determining a preferred route corresponding to the network access request from a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request further comprises:

and if the route comparison condition is not met, randomly selecting the direct route and the accelerated route as a preferred route corresponding to the network access request to collect route state information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, if the route comparison condition is satisfied, comparing a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request comprises:

and if the route comparison condition is met, comparing the direct route with the accelerated route according to the route performance information of the direct route and the accelerated route to determine the preferred route corresponding to the network access request.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, if the route comparison condition is satisfied, comparing a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request comprises:

if the route comparison condition is met, if the route performance improvement information of the alternative route relative to the current route is equal to or greater than a preset performance improvement threshold value, taking the alternative route as a preferred route corresponding to the network access request, wherein the alternative route and the current route are respectively one of the direct route and the accelerated route; if not, then,

and taking the current route as the preferred route corresponding to the network access request.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the taking the alternative route as the preferred route to which the network access request corresponds comprises:

randomly selecting the alternative route and the current route as a preferred route corresponding to the network access request;

updating the route performance information of the alternative route or the current route;

and if the updated route performance improvement information of the alternative route relative to the current route is equal to or greater than a preset performance improvement threshold value, taking the alternative route as the preferred route corresponding to the network access request.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the method further comprises:

and determining the routing performance information of the corresponding route according to the multiple times of routing test information of the direct route or the accelerated route.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the determining routing performance information of the corresponding route according to the multiple times of route test information of the direct route or the accelerated route comprises:

acquiring a sequence formed by multiple times of route test information of the direct route or the accelerated route according to a time sequence;

the sequence is applied to an exponentially weighted moving average model to determine route performance information for the corresponding route.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

and acquiring the routing test information of the preferred route to update the routing performance information of the corresponding route.

8. An apparatus for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device, comprising:

network access request processing means for processing the network access request via the preferred route;

wherein the preferred route determining device comprises:

a route comparison condition detection unit, configured to detect whether a route comparison condition is satisfied, where the route comparison condition includes at least any one of: obtaining or updating the routing performance information of the direct route and the accelerated route, wherein the number of times of randomly selecting the direct route and the accelerated route is equal to or greater than a preset route probing number threshold value, and the current state is set as a routing dynamic preferred state;

a preferred route determining unit, configured to, if the route comparison condition is satisfied, compare a direct route and an accelerated route between the mobile device and a target access device corresponding to the network access request to determine a preferred route corresponding to the network access request;

wherein the preferred route determining apparatus further comprises:

and the route random selection unit randomly selects the direct route and the accelerated route as a preferred route corresponding to the network access request to collect route state information if the route comparison condition is not met.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the preferred route determination unit is to:

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the preferred route determining unit is to:

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the taking the alternative route as the preferred route to which the network access request corresponds comprises:

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

and the routing performance determining device is used for determining the routing performance information of the corresponding route according to the multiple times of routing test information of the direct route or the accelerated route.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the routing performance determining means comprises:

a route information obtaining unit, configured to obtain a sequence formed by multiple times of route test information of the direct route or the accelerated route according to a time sequence;

a route performance determining unit, configured to apply the sequence to an exponentially weighted moving average model to determine route performance information of a corresponding route.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

and the routing performance information updating device is used for acquiring the routing test information of the preferred route so as to update the routing performance information of the corresponding route.

15. An apparatus for accelerating a wireless network for a mobile device, comprising:

a processor;

processing the network access request via the preferred route;