CN111294224B - Method and apparatus for measuring quality of service information - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for measuring quality of service information Download PDF

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CN111294224B
CN111294224B CN201811501737.6A CN201811501737A CN111294224B CN 111294224 B CN111294224 B CN 111294224B CN 201811501737 A CN201811501737 A CN 201811501737A CN 111294224 B CN111294224 B CN 111294224B
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The application provides a method and a device for measuring service quality information by a user. The method comprises the following steps: before the terminal equipment initiates service data, a first message is sent to a core network element through an application program interface, and the first message is used for requesting to measure QoS information of the service data between the terminal equipment and a user plane function network element; the terminal device receives a second message sent by the core network element through the application program interface, where the second message is used to trigger measurement of QoS information, or the second message includes QoS information, so that the terminal device can obtain the QoS information, and the terminal device can obtain the QoS information before initiating service data, so that the terminal device can selectively initiate service data in a network environment with better QoS information, which is beneficial to improving user experience.

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Method and apparatus for measuring quality of service information
Technical Field
The present application relates to the field of communications, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for measuring quality of service information in the field of communications.
Background
In both wired and wireless networks, quality of service (QoS) information is used to measure the quality of a service. For example, the delay is an important indicator of QoS information, and different service types have different requirements on the delay. How to determine whether to meet the user's requirement by measuring the Qos information of the service is a problem that needs to be solved currently.
In the prior art, when a terminal device needs to measure QoS information of certain service data, a third-party application server may be used for detection, for example, the terminal device initiates a request for establishing a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session to a core network element to establish a user plane connection between the terminal device and the third-party application server, and after the user plane connection is established, the terminal device transmits service data to the third-party application server through the core network PDU to measure the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the third-party application server. However, the method for measuring QoS information cannot measure QoS information of a link between a terminal device and a user plane functional network element, and thus cannot determine whether a current network environment is suitable for initiating service data, so that user experience is poor.
Disclosure of Invention
The application provides a method and a device for measuring service quality information, which are beneficial to improving user experience.
In a first aspect, a method for measuring quality of service information is provided, including: before the terminal equipment initiates service data, a first message is sent to a core network element through an application program interface, and the first message is used for requesting to measure the QoS (quality of service) information of the service data between the terminal equipment and a user plane functional network element;
and the terminal equipment receives a second message sent by the network element of the core network through the application program interface, wherein the second message is used for triggering the measurement of the QoS information, or the second message comprises the QoS information.
Therefore, in this embodiment of the application, the terminal device may send the first message to the core network element through the application program interface, and request to measure the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element, so that the terminal device may measure the QoS information according to the second message or the terminal device may obtain the QoS information in the second message, and thus may obtain the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element, and may determine whether to initiate the service data according to the QoS information, which is beneficial to improving user experience.
It should be noted that, before initiating the service data, the terminal device may measure the QoS information according to the second message or obtain the QoS information in the second message.
Further, the terminal device may request to measure QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane function network element at any time before initiating the service data, for example: before service data is initiated, the QoS information can be measured under the condition of a better network environment (such as an office park with better network signals, and people flow dense areas such as subway stations and railway stations), so that the terminal equipment can selectively initiate the service data under the network environment with better QoS information, and the user experience can be improved. In one possible implementation, the second message may be a response message to the first message.
In this embodiment of the present application, the core network element is not limited, for example, the core network element may be a capability openness network element, and the capability openness network element may transparently transmit the first message to the policy control function network element.
In one possible implementation, the QoS information includes latency information.
In a possible implementation manner, when the second message is used to trigger measurement of QoS information, the terminal device may measure the QoS information according to the second message, and then send the QoS information to the core network element, for example, the terminal device may send the QoS information to the policy control function network element through the capability openness network element, so that the policy control function network element determines whether to adjust the QoS information of the service data.
In a possible implementation manner, the first message includes at least one of an IP address of the terminal device, an identifier of a service type of the service data, an application identifier associated with the service data, or a configuration parameter, where the configuration parameter includes at least one of a size of the detection packet, a frequency of sending the detection packet, or a duration of sending the detection packet.
In a possible implementation manner, the second message is used to trigger measurement of QoS information, where the QoS information is delay information, and after the terminal device receives the second message sent by the core network element through the application program interface, the method further includes:
the terminal equipment sends a first detection message to a user plane function network element at a first moment;
the terminal equipment receives a second detection message from the user plane functional network element at a second moment;
and the terminal equipment determines delay information according to the first time and the second time, wherein the delay information is the delay information of the service data.
In a possible implementation manner, the second message includes a network protocol IP address of the user plane function network element, so that the terminal device can obtain the IP address of the user plane function network element in the second message. In a possible implementation manner, the source address of the first detection packet is an IP address of the terminal device, and the destination address of the first detection packet is an IP address of the user plane function network element. The source address of the second detection message is the IP address of the user plane functional network element, and the destination address of the second detection message is the IP address of the terminal device.
In a possible implementation manner, the second message includes QoS information, and before the terminal device receives the second message sent by the core network element through the application program interface, the method further includes:
the terminal equipment receives a third detection message from the user plane functional network element;
the terminal equipment acquires the IP address of the user plane function network element in the third detection message;
and the terminal equipment sends a fourth detection message to the user plane functional network element.
In a possible implementation manner, the source address of the third detection packet is an IP address of the user plane function network element, and the destination address of the third detection packet is an IP address of the terminal device. The source address of the fourth detection message is the IP address of the terminal device, and the destination address of the fourth detection message is the IP address of the user plane functional network element.
In one possible implementation manner, the first detection packet, the second detection packet, the third detection packet, and the fourth detection packet are internet packet detector Ping packets.
In a second aspect, a method for measuring quality of service information is provided, comprising: the method comprises the steps that a strategy control function network element receives a first message from a capability opening network element, wherein the first message is used for requesting to measure the QoS (quality of service) information of service data between terminal equipment and a user plane function network element;
the strategy control function network element determines a first forwarding rule of the detection message based on the first message, wherein the first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data comprise the same QoS information;
and the policy control function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the user plane function network element through the session management function network element.
Therefore, in this embodiment of the present application, the policy control function network element may determine the first forwarding rule based on the first message, so that the user plane function network element sends the detection packet according to the first forwarding rule, and thus, the user plane function network element may determine the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane function network element according to the sending time and the receiving time of the detection packet. Or, the user plane functional network element may cooperate with the terminal device to receive or send the detection packet, so that the terminal device determines the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element.
In one possible implementation, the QoS information includes latency information.
In a possible implementation manner, the first message includes at least one of an IP address of the terminal device, an identifier of a service type, an application identifier associated with service data, or a configuration parameter, where the configuration parameter includes: the first forwarding rule comprises configuration parameters.
In a possible implementation manner, after the policy control function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the user plane function network element through the session management function network element, the method further includes:
and the policy control function network element sends a second message to the capability openness network element, wherein the second message is used for triggering the measurement of the QoS information, or the second message comprises the QoS information.
In some implementations, the second message is used to trigger measurement of QoS information, the method further comprising:
and the policy control function network element receives the network protocol IP address of the user plane function network element from the session management function network element, wherein the second message comprises the IP address of the user plane function network element.
In a third aspect, a method for measuring quality of service information is provided, including: the user plane functional network element receives a first forwarding rule of the detection message from the session management functional network element, wherein the first forwarding rule and a forwarding rule of service data between the terminal equipment and the user plane functional network element contain the same QoS information;
a user plane functional network element generates a first detection message of service data;
and the user plane functional network element sends a first detection message to the terminal equipment.
In a possible implementation manner, the first detection packet may be a detection packet for determining QoS information by a user plane function network element, and the first detection packet may also be a detection packet for determining QoS information by a terminal device.
In one possible implementation, the QoS information includes latency information.
In one possible implementation, the first forwarding rule includes: at least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, or the duration of sending the detection message.
In one possible implementation, the first forwarding rule may not include the size of the detection packet, the frequency of sending the detection packet, and the duration of sending the detection packet. At least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, or the duration of sending the detection message may be sent to the user plane functional network element in other manners.
In a possible implementation manner, the QoS information is delay information, and the sending, by the user plane function network element, the first detection packet to the terminal device includes:
the user plane function network element sends a first detection message to the terminal equipment at a first moment, and the method further comprises the following steps: and the user plane function network element receives a second detection message from the terminal equipment at a second moment.
Specifically, when the first time is before the second time, the user plane functional network element may determine, according to the first time and the second time, QoS information of service data between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element. When the second time is before the first time, the user plane functional network element may cooperate with the terminal device to receive the detection message and send the detection message, so that the terminal device determines the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element according to the time for sending the detection message and receiving the detection message.
Optionally, when the user plane function network element determines the QoS information, the user plane function network element may send the QoS information to the policy control function network element through the session management function network element, so that the policy control function network element determines whether to adjust the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane function network element.
In some implementations, the first time is before the second time, the method further comprising: the user plane function network element receives first indication information from the session management function network element, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating the user plane function network element to measure time delay information;
and the user plane functional network element determines time delay information according to the first indication information, the first time and the fourth time, wherein the time delay information is the time delay information of the service data.
In some implementations, the method further includes: and the user plane functional network element receives second indication information from the session management functional network element, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating that the user plane functional network element does not perform charging operation on the first detection message and the second detection message. And the user plane functional network element does not perform charging operation on the first detection message and the second detection message according to the second indication information.
In some implementations, the first detection packet and the second detection packet are internet packet probe Ping packets.
In a fourth aspect, a method for measuring quality of service information is provided, comprising: the session management function network element receives a forwarding rule from the policy control function network element, wherein the first forwarding rule is used for the user plane function network element to send a detection message, and the first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data contain the same QoS information; and the session management function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the user plane function network element.
Optionally, the first forwarding rule is determined based on a first message sent by the terminal device through the application program interface before initiating the service data packet, where the first message is used to request to measure quality of service QoS information of service data between the terminal device and the user plane function network element.
And the session management function network element sends the network protocol IP address of the user plane function network element to the policy control function network element.
In some implementations, the method further includes: and the session management function network element sends first indication information to the user plane function network element, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating the user plane function network element to measure the QoS information.
In some implementations, the method further includes: the session management function network element sends first indication information to the user plane function network element, where the first indication information is used to indicate that the user plane function network element does not perform a charging operation on the detection packet, and for example, the detection packet may be a first detection packet, a second detection packet, a third detection packet, a fourth detection packet, and the like.
In some implementations, after the session management function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the user plane function network element, the method further includes: a session management function network element receives QoS information from a user plane function network element; and the session management function network element sends the QoS information to the policy control function.
In a fifth aspect, a method for measuring quality of service information is provided, comprising: the method comprises the steps that a capability opening network element sends a first message from a terminal device through an application program interface, wherein the first message is used for requesting to measure the QoS (quality of service) information of service data between the terminal device and a user plane function network element;
and the capability opening network element sends a second message to the application program interface of the terminal equipment, wherein the second message is used for triggering the measurement of the QoS information, or the second message comprises the QoS information.
In some implementations, the second message is used to trigger measurement of QoS information, the second message including an IP address of a user plane function network element.
In some implementations, when the second message is used to trigger measurement of QoS information, the terminal device may send the determined QoS information to the capability openness network element, and the capability openness network element sends the QoS information to the policy control function network element, so that the policy control function network element determines whether to adjust the QoS information of the service data.
In a sixth aspect, an apparatus for measuring quality of service information is provided, which includes means for performing the steps of the method of the first aspect or any possible implementation manner of the first aspect.
In a seventh aspect, an apparatus for measuring quality of service information is provided, which includes means for performing the steps of the method of the second aspect or any possible implementation manner of the second aspect.
In an eighth aspect, there is provided an apparatus for measuring quality of service information, the apparatus comprising means for performing the steps of the method of the third aspect or any possible implementation manner of the third aspect.
In a ninth aspect, there is provided an apparatus for measuring quality of service information, the apparatus comprising means for performing the steps of the method of the fourth aspect or any possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect.
In a tenth aspect, there is provided an apparatus for measuring quality of service information, the apparatus comprising means for performing the steps of the method of the fifth aspect or any possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect.
In an eleventh aspect, there is provided an apparatus for measuring quality of service information, the apparatus comprising: a transceiver, a memory, and a processor. Wherein the transceiver, the memory and the processor are in communication with each other via an internal connection path, the memory is configured to store instructions, the processor is configured to execute the instructions stored by the memory to control a receiver to receive signals and a transmitter to transmit signals, and when the instructions stored by the memory are executed by the processor, the execution causes the processor to perform the method of the first aspect or any possible implementation manner of the first aspect.
In a twelfth aspect, there is provided an apparatus for measuring quality of service information, the apparatus comprising: a transceiver, a memory, and a processor. Wherein the transceiver, the memory and the processor communicate with each other via an internal connection path, the memory is configured to store instructions, the processor is configured to execute the instructions stored by the memory to control the receiver to receive signals and control the transmitter to transmit signals, and when the processor executes the instructions stored by the memory, the execution causes the processor to execute the method of the second aspect or any possible implementation manner of the second aspect.
In a thirteenth aspect, an apparatus for measuring quality of service information is provided, the apparatus comprising: a transceiver, a memory, and a processor. Wherein the transceiver, the memory and the processor are in communication with each other via an internal connection path, the memory is configured to store instructions, the processor is configured to execute the instructions stored by the memory to control the receiver to receive signals and control the transmitter to transmit signals, and when the processor executes the instructions stored by the memory, the execution causes the processor to perform the method of the third aspect or any possible implementation manner of the third aspect.
In a fourteenth aspect, an apparatus for measuring quality of service information is provided, the apparatus comprising: a transceiver, a memory, and a processor. Wherein the transceiver, the memory and the processor communicate with each other through an internal connection path, the memory is configured to store instructions, the processor is configured to execute the instructions stored by the memory to control the receiver to receive signals and control the transmitter to transmit signals, and when the processor executes the instructions stored by the memory, the execution causes the processor to execute the method of the fourth aspect or any possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect.
In a fifteenth aspect, an apparatus for measuring quality of service information is provided, the apparatus comprising: a transceiver, a memory, and a processor. Wherein the transceiver, the memory and the processor are in communication with each other via an internal connection path, the memory is configured to store instructions, the processor is configured to execute the instructions stored by the memory to control the receiver to receive signals and control the transmitter to transmit signals, and when the processor executes the instructions stored by the memory, the execution causes the processor to execute the method of the fifth aspect or any possible implementation manner of the fifth aspect.
In a sixteenth aspect, a system for measuring service quality information is provided, the system including the apparatus provided in the sixth aspect, the apparatus provided in the seventh aspect, and the apparatus provided in the eighth aspect; or
The system comprises the apparatus provided by the sixth aspect, the apparatus provided by the seventh aspect, the apparatus provided by the eighth aspect, the apparatus provided by the ninth aspect, and the apparatus provided by the tenth aspect; or
The system comprises the apparatus provided by the eleventh aspect, the apparatus provided by the twelfth aspect, and the apparatus provided by the thirteenth aspect; or
The system comprises the device provided by the eleventh aspect, the device provided by the twelfth aspect, the device provided by the thirteenth aspect, the device provided by the fourteenth aspect and the device provided by the fifteenth aspect.
A seventeenth aspect provides a computer program product comprising a computer program for performing the method of the aspects or any possible implementation of the aspects when executed by a processor.
In an eighteenth aspect, there is provided a computer readable storage medium having stored therein a computer program for performing the method of the aspects or any possible implementation thereof when the computer program is executed.
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The technical solution in the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application can be applied to various communication systems, for example: global system for mobile communications (GSM) systems, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) systems, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems, LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) systems, LTE Time Division Duplex (TDD), universal mobile telecommunications system (universal mobile telecommunications system, UMTS), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) communication systems, future fifth generation (5G) or new radio NR systems, etc.
Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a system architecture applied to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 1, the system 100 includes: a policy control function network element (PCF) 101, a user plane function network element (UPF) 102, a network capability opening Network Element (NEF) 103, a session management function network element (SMF) 104, and a User Equipment (UE) 105. Optionally, the system 100 further includes at least one of a core network access and mobility management function (AMF) 106, a Radio Access Network (RAN) 107, an authentication server function network element (AUSF) 108, a Data Network (DN) 109, an Application Function (AF) 110, a unified data retrieval network element (UDR) 111, or a network storage function element (NF retrieval function, NRF) 112. Wherein, the UE105 is connected to the AMF106 through an N1 interface, and the UE105 is connected to the RAN107 through a Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol; RAN107 is connected to AMF106 via an N2 interface, RAN107 is connected to UPF102 via an N3 interface; a plurality of UPFs 102 are connected through an N9 interface, the UPFs 102 are connected with the DN109 through an N6 interface, and meanwhile, the UPFs 102 are connected with the SMF104 through an N4 interface; the SMF104 is connected with the PCF101 through an N7 interface, the SMF104 is connected with the NEF103 through an N29 interface, and meanwhile, the SMF104 is connected with the AMF106 through an N11 interface; SMF104 acquires policy data from PCF101 through an N7 interface; the SMF104 controls the UPF102 via the N4 interface.
The PCF101 includes a subscriber subscription data management function, a policy control function, a charging policy control function, a QoS control function, and the like.
And the UPF102 performs forwarding of the user service data according to the forwarding rule sent by the SMF 104.
The NEF103 supports a network capability opening function, network capabilities and services are developed externally, and the 3GPP network element publishes the functions and events supported by the NEF to other network elements through the NEF. The capability and events of the network element opening can be safely opened to third party applications. NEF stores/retrieves structured data using the standardized interface (nurr) of the unified data repository (UDR 111).
The SMF104 is responsible for user plane network element selection, user plane network element reselection, IP address allocation, session establishment, modification and release, and QoS control.
The terminal devices are either UE105 or terminal devices, and the terminal devices (terminal) involved may include various handheld devices with wireless communication capabilities, vehicle mounted devices, wearable devices, computing devices, or other processing devices connected to wireless modems; and may also include a subscriber unit (subscriber unit), a cellular phone (cellular phone), a smart phone (smart phone), a wireless data card, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) computer, a tablet computer, a wireless modem (modem), a handheld device (dhhand), a laptop computer (laptop computer), a cordless phone (cordless phone) or a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a Machine Type Communication (MTC) terminal, a mobile station (mobile station, MS), a terminal device (terminal device), and the like. For convenience of description, the above-mentioned devices are collectively referred to as terminal devices in this application.
The AMF106 is responsible for mobility management of users, including mobility state management, assigning temporary user identities, authenticating and authorizing users.
RAN107 is used to implement radio-related functions. RAN107 may also be referred to as an access device, which refers to a device accessing a core network, and may be, for example, a base station, a broadband network service gateway (BNG), an aggregation switch, a non-3 GPP access device, and the like. The base stations may include various forms of base stations, such as: macro base stations, micro base stations (also referred to as small stations), relay stations, access points, and the like, which are not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present application.
The AUSF108 is responsible for security authentication of the UE 105.
DN109 is a data network that provides a service to the user, typically with the client located at UE105 and the server located at the data network.
The AF110 is responsible for application management for the user.
UDR111 is responsible for managing subscription data.
NRF112 is responsible for providing other network elements with storage and selection functions of network functional entity information.
It should be noted that the name of each network element (e.g., SMF104, NEF103, AF110, UDR111, UPF102, etc.) included in fig. 1 is only a name, and the name does not limit the function of the network element itself. In the 5G network and other networks in the future, the network elements may also be given other names, which is not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present application. For example, in a 6G network, some or all of the above network elements may use the terminology in 5G, or may use other nomenclature, and so on, which are described herein in a unified manner and will not be described again below.
It should be noted that, the network elements in fig. 1 do not necessarily exist at the same time, and which network elements are needed may be determined according to requirements. The connection relationship between the network elements in fig. 1 is not uniquely determined, and may be adjusted according to the requirement.
It should be noted that the interface name between each network element in fig. 1 is only an example, and the interface name may be other names in a specific implementation, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present application.
QoS information is an indicator of network performance. For example, the QoS information may include at least one of delay information, packet loss rate, bandwidth, and jitter. Different services (e.g., internet browsing, voice, online game, etc.) have different requirements for QoS information, and how to measure the QoS information is a problem to be solved.
In the prior art, when a terminal device needs to measure QoS information of a certain service data packet, a third-party application server may be used for detection, for example, the terminal device initiates a request for establishing a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session to a core network to establish a user plane connection between the terminal device and the third-party application server, and after the user plane connection is established, the terminal device transmits a data packet with the third-party application server through a user plane functional network element to measure the QoS information of the data packet between the terminal device and the third-party application server. Taking the measurement delay as an example, for example, the terminal device records that the time when the uplink data packet is sent to the user plane functional network element is T1, after the user plane functional network element sends the uplink data packet to the application server, the application server sends the downlink data packet to the terminal device through the user plane functional network element, and the terminal device records that the time when the downlink data packet is received is T2, then the terminal device may calculate the round-trip delay of the data packet to be T2-T1, and assuming that the transmission delays of the uplink and downlink are symmetric, it may be estimated that the transmission delays of the data packet in the uplink and downlink are (T2-T1)/2, respectively. However, the above method for measuring QoS information cannot measure whether the QoS information of the link between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element really meets the user's expectation, so how to measure the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element is a problem to be solved by the embodiment of the present application. For another example, taking the measurement of the network speed as an example, when the user is not satisfied with the current network speed, the user may apply for a traffic acceleration packet, such as "for any me" traffic acceleration packet service of china mobile, where the traffic acceleration packet service indicates that the speed is increased on the basis of the original broadband, and the cost is 15 yuan per month, for example, the original network speed is 2 mbits/sec, and after participating in the speed increase, the network speed is increased to 4 mbits/sec to 8 mbits/sec. As shown in fig. 2, it is assumed that the third-party application server is measuring the network speed, and the third-party application server measures the network speed between the terminal device and the third-party application server, but after the traffic acceleration packet service is used for acceleration, the network speed between the terminal device and the core network element is increased, while the third-party application server measures the network speed between the terminal device and the third-party application server, and there is no method for measuring the QoS information between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element. Therefore, after applying for the traffic acceleration packet, it is measured that whether the network speed between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element reaches the expected value through the third-party application server, in other words, after the user spends money on the traffic acceleration packet service, whether the money spent by the user really reaches the expected value, and the third-party application server cannot accurately measure, so that it cannot be determined whether the current network environment is suitable for initiating service data, and user experience is reduced.
The embodiment of the application provides a method for measuring QoS information, and a terminal device can request to measure QoS information of service data between the terminal device and a user plane function network element in a current network environment through an application program interface at any time before service data is initiated. For example, when the terminal device is located in a geographic location with a poor network environment, such as a subway station, a train station, or other people traffic aggregation area, the terminal device may obtain that the current network environment cannot meet the user requirement by requesting to measure actual QoS information of a certain service in the network environment, and then the terminal device may select a geographic location with a good network environment, such as an office park, to initiate data packet transmission of the service, so as to obtain better user experience. Therefore, the actual QoS information of the current network environment can be measured at any time before the service data is initiated, so that the terminal equipment can selectively perform service in the network environment with better actual QoS information, and the user experience can be improved.
A method for measuring quality of service information in an embodiment of the present application is described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 3 illustrates a method for measuring quality of service information provided by an embodiment of the present application, including:
s310, before the terminal device initiates service data, a first message is sent to a core network element through an Application Programming Interface (API), where the first message is used to request to measure QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and a user plane function network element.
The core network element is not limited in this embodiment of the application, for example, the core network element may be an NEF network element in fig. 1, the terminal device sends the first message to the NEF through the application program interface before initiating the service data, and the NEF may pass the first message through to the PCF.
Optionally, the QoS information comprises latency information.
Optionally, the first message includes at least one of an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the terminal device, an identifier of a service type of the service data, an application identifier associated with the service data, or a configuration parameter. The configuration parameter includes at least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, or the duration of sending the detection message.
When the first message includes the IP address of the terminal device, the policy control function network element may determine the terminal device that sent the first message according to the IP address of the terminal device. That is, the IP address of the terminal device is used to determine the terminal device that sent the first message.
When the first message includes the identifier of the service type of the service data, the policy control function network element may determine the service type that requires QoS information measurement according to the identifier of the service type of the service data. That is, the identification of the traffic type of the traffic data is used to determine the traffic type for which QoS information measurements need to be made.
When the first message includes the application identifier associated with the service data, the policy control function network element may determine, according to the application identifier associated with the service data, an application that requires QoS information. That is, the application identification associated with the traffic data is used to determine the application that needs to perform the QoS information.
When the first message includes the configuration parameter, the user plane functional network element may generate a detection packet according to the configuration parameter. That is, the configuration parameters are used to detect the generation of the message. For example, after receiving the first message transparently transmitted by the NEF, the PCF sends the configuration parameters in the first message to the user plane functional network element via the SMF, so that the user plane functional network element may generate a detection message according to one or more of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, and the duration of sending the detection message, thereby detecting the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element using the detection message.
S320, the terminal device receives a second message sent by the core network element through the application program interface, where the second message is used to trigger measurement of QoS information, or the second message includes QoS information.
In the embodiment of the present application, the QoS information may be measured by the terminal device, or the QoS information may also be measured by the user plane network element. In the example where the terminal device measures the QoS information, the second message is used to trigger the measurement of the QoS information. In an example where the user plane function network element measures QoS information, the second message includes the QoS information measured by the user plane function network element. For example, the second message may be a response message to the first message.
Therefore, in this embodiment of the present application, before initiating service data, the terminal device may send a first message requesting to measure QoS information to a core network element (for example, a NEF network element) through an application program interface, and after the core network element sends parameters in the first message to the user plane function network element through the PCF and the SMF, the user plane function network element may measure QoS information based on the parameters in the first message and send the QoS information to the application program interface of the terminal device through a second message. Alternatively, the core network element may trigger the terminal device to measure the QoS information by sending a second message to an application program interface of the terminal device. The QoS information in the embodiment of the application is the QoS information of the service data to be initiated, which is measured before the service data is initiated, and the QoS information between the terminal equipment and the user plane functional network element is measured, so that the accuracy of measuring the QoS information can be improved, and the improvement of user experience is facilitated. For example, when the terminal device is located in a geographic location with a poor network environment, such as a subway station, a train station, or other people traffic aggregation area, the terminal device may obtain that the current network environment cannot meet the user requirement by requesting to measure actual QoS information of a certain service in the network environment, and then the terminal device may select to transmit a data packet of the service at the geographic location with the good network environment, such as an office park, to obtain better user experience. Therefore, the actual QoS information of the current network environment can be measured at any time before the service data is initiated, so that the terminal equipment can selectively perform service in the network environment with better actual QoS information, and the user experience can be improved.
The method for measuring the service quality information in the embodiment of the present application is described below in two cases. The first case is that the terminal device measures QoS information. The second case is that the user plane function network element measures QoS information. In the second case, after the user plane functional network element measures the QoS information, the QoS information may be sent to the terminal device through other network elements of the core network. For example, the user plane function network element may send the measured QoS information to the policy control function network element through the session management function network element, the policy control function network element may send the QoS information to the NEF through the second message, and the NEF sends the second message to the application program interface of the terminal device.
In the first case, the second message is used to trigger the measurement of QoS information. For example, the QoS information is delay information. After the terminal device receives the second message sent by the network element of the core network through the application program interface, the method further includes:
the terminal equipment sends a first detection message to a user plane function network element at a first moment;
the terminal equipment receives a second detection message from the user plane functional network element at a second moment;
and the terminal equipment determines delay information according to the first time and the second time, wherein the delay information is the delay information of the service data.
Optionally, the first detection packet and the second detection packet have the same configuration parameters, for example, the sizes of the first detection packet and the second detection packet are the same, the sending frequencies of the first detection packet and the second detection packet are the same, and the durations of the first detection packet and the second detection packet are the same.
Optionally, the first detection packet and the second detection packet are the same as the service type of the service data. Therefore, the delay information determined according to the first time and the second time is the same as the delay information of the service data. That is, before the service data is initiated, the delay information of the service data after the initiation can be accurately measured.
Optionally, the source address of the first detection packet is an IP address of the terminal device, the destination address of the first detection packet is an IP address of the user plane function network element, the source address of the second detection packet is an IP address of the user plane function network element, and the destination address of the second detection packet is an IP address of the terminal device.
Optionally, before generating the first detection packet, the terminal device needs to acquire an IP address of the user plane function network element. In a possible implementation manner, the second message includes an IP address of the user plane function network element, and the terminal device may obtain the IP address of the user plane function network element in the second message. For example, the SMF may send the IP address of the user plane function network element to the NEF through the PCF, and the NEF then sends a second message including the IP address of the user plane function network element to the application program interface of the terminal device. For another example, the SMF may directly send the IP address of the user plane function network element to the NEF, and the NEF then sends a second message including the IP address of the user plane function network element to the application program interface of the terminal device, or the NEF sends the IP address of the user plane function network element to the application program interface of the terminal device through a third message after sending the second message to the application program interface of the terminal device.
That is, in the first case, when the terminal device sends the first message to the core network element, the first message may carry the configuration parameter, for example, the core network element may be NEF, when the NEF receives the first message, the first message is sent to the PCF, and the PCF sends the configuration parameter in the first message to the UPF through the SMF, so that the UPF may generate the second detection packet according to the configuration parameter, thereby sending the second detection packet to the terminal device. The terminal device may determine the delay information according to the time (first time) of sending the first detection packet and the time (second time) of receiving the second detection packet, where the delay information is the terminal device and the user plane function network elementAnd detecting the time delay information of the message. For example, the first time is
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In the first case, the terminal device may determine the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element according to the time of sending the first detection packet and the time of receiving the second detection packet, so that the QoS information is determined by the terminal device itself, and the trust level of the terminal device on the QoS information may be improved.
Optionally, in the first case, the terminal device may send the determined QoS information to the capability openness network element through the application program interface, and the capability openness network element sends the QoS information to the policy control function network element, so that the policy control function network element determines whether to adjust the QoS information of the service data.
In the following, referring to fig. 4, a first case is described with QoS information as delay information as an example, and the method 400 includes:
s401, the capability openness network element receives a first message sent by the terminal device through an application program interface, wherein the first message is used for requesting to measure the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane function network element.
S402, the capability opening network element sends a first message to the policy control function network element, and the policy control function network element receives the first message sent by the capability opening network element.
S403, the policy control function network element determines a first forwarding rule based on the first message, where the first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data include the same QoS information.
It should be noted that, in S403, the policy control function network element determines the first forwarding rule based on the first message, see the description in the method 600.
S404, the policy control function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the session management function network element, and the session management function network element receives the first forwarding rule sent by the policy control function network element.
S405, the session management function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the user plane function network element.
S406, the session management function network element sends the IP address of the user plane function network element to the policy control function network element.
Optionally, the order of S405 and S406 is not limited, and S405 may be before or after S406.
S407, the policy control function network element sends a second message to the capability openness network element, and the capability openness network element receives the second message, where the second message includes the IP address of the user plane function network element.
S408, the capability openness network element sends the second message to the terminal device, and the terminal device receives the second message sent by the capability openness network element.
S409, the terminal equipment acquires the IP address of the user plane function network element in the second message, generates a detection message 1 according to the IP address of the user plane function network element, detects the source address of the message 1 as the IP address of the terminal equipment, and detects the destination address of the message 1 as the IP address of the user plane function network element.
S410, the terminal device sends the detection packet 1 to the user plane function network element at time T1 (for example, may be a first time).
S411, the user plane functional network element generates a detection packet 2 (for example, the second detection packet). And detecting that the source address of the message 2 is the IP address of the user plane functional network element and the destination address of the message is the IP address of the terminal equipment.
The detection message 2 and the detection message 1 have the same configuration parameters, for example, the size of the detection message 2 is the same as that of the detection message 1, the transmission frequency is the same, and the duration is the same.
Optionally, before S411, the user plane function network element may obtain the IP address of the terminal device according to the following two ways:
in the first mode, the terminal device determines a Data Network Name (DNN) and single network slice association information (S-NSSAI) associated with the application according to locally stored user routing policy (URSP) information, and then the UE sends a session establishment request to the AMF through the RAN to trigger establishment of a data plane link between the terminal device and a user plane function network element, which stores an IP address of the terminal device, thereby generating a detection message 2 according to the IP address of the terminal device.
In the second mode, the terminal device sends a first message including the IP address of the terminal device to the policy control function network element through the capability opening network element, the policy control function network element sends the IP address of the terminal device to the session management function network element, and the session management function network element sends the IP address of the terminal device to the user plane function network element, so that the user plane function network element can obtain the IP address of the terminal device, and a detection message 2 is generated according to the IP address of the terminal device.
S412, the user plane function network element sends the detection message 2 to the terminal device according to the first forwarding rule, and the terminal device receives the detection message 2 sent by the user plane function network element at time T2 (for example, may be at time T).
And S413, the terminal equipment determines the time delay information between the terminal equipment and the user plane function network element according to the T1 and the T2. The terminal device may determine whether to initiate service data according to the delay information.
Specifically, assuming that the uplink and downlink transmission delays are symmetric, the terminal device may determine, according to T1 and T2, delay information of traffic data between the terminal device and the user plane function network element, for example, the delay is (T2-T1)/2.
Optionally, the method 400 further includes S414 and S415:
and S414, the terminal equipment sends the time delay information to the capacity opening network element through the application program interface, and the capacity opening network element receives the time delay information sent by the terminal equipment through the application program interface.
S415, the capability openness network element sends the delay information to the policy control function network element, so that the policy control function network element determines whether to adjust the delay information of the service data.
In the second case, the second message comprises QoS information, i.e. in this case the user plane function network element determines the QoS information. Before the terminal device receives the second message sent by the network element of the core network through the application program interface, the method further includes: the terminal equipment receives a third detection message from the user plane function network element, wherein the source address of the third message is the IP address of the user plane function network element, and the destination address of the third message is the IP address of the terminal equipment; the terminal equipment acquires the IP address of the user plane function network element in the third detection message; and the terminal equipment sends a fourth detection message to the user plane functional network element, wherein the source address of the fourth message is the IP address of the terminal equipment, and the destination address of the fourth message is the IP address of the user plane functional network element. The user plane functional network element may determine the delay information according to the time of sending the third detection packet and the time of receiving the fourth detection packet, where the delay information is the delay information of the service data.
Optionally, the third detection packet and the fourth detection packet have the same configuration parameters, for example, the third detection packet and the fourth detection packet have the same size, the third detection packet and the fourth detection packet have the same sending frequency, and the third detection packet and the fourth detection packet have the same duration.
Optionally, the third detection packet and the fourth detection packet are the same as the service type of the service data. Therefore, the delay information determined according to the third detection message and the fourth detection message is the same as the delay information of the service data. That is, before the service data is initiated, the delay information of the service data after the initiation can be accurately measured.
Optionally, in the second case, the user plane functional network element may send the determined QoS information to the policy control functional network element through the control plane network element port, so that the policy control functional network element determines whether to adjust the QoS information of the service data.
In the following, referring to fig. 5, a second case is described with QoS information as delay information as an example, where the method 500 includes:
s501, the capability openness network element receives a first message sent by the terminal device through an application program interface, wherein the first message is used for requesting to measure the QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane function network element.
S502, the capability opening network element sends a first message to the policy control function network element, and the policy control function network element receives the first message sent by the capability opening network element.
S503, the policy control function network element determines a first forwarding rule based on the first message, where the first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data include the same QoS information.
It should be noted that, in S503, the policy control function network element determines the first forwarding rule based on the first message, see the description in the method 600.
S504, the policy control function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the session management function network element, and the session management function network element receives the first forwarding rule sent by the policy control function network element.
S505, the session management function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the user plane function network element.
S506, the user plane function network element generates a detection message 3 (for example, a third detection message), where the source address of the detection message 3 is the IP address of the user plane function network element, and the destination address of the detection message 3 is the IP address of the terminal device.
Specifically, the manner in which the user plane function network element obtains the IP address of the terminal device refers to the description of the method 400.
S507, the user plane function network element sends the detection message 3 to the terminal device according to the first forwarding rule at time T3 (for example, the first time in the method 700), and the terminal device receives the detection message 3.
S508, the terminal device obtains the IP address of the user plane functional network element in the detection packet 3.
S509, the terminal device generates a detection message 4 (for example, a third detection message) according to the IP address of the user plane functional network element, where a source address of the detection message 4 is the IP address of the terminal device, and a destination address of the detection message 4 is the IP address of the user plane functional network element.
The detection packet 3 and the detection packet 4 have the same configuration parameters, for example, the size of the detection packet 3 is the same as that of the detection packet 4, the transmission frequency is the same, and the duration is the same.
S510, the terminal device sends a detection message 4 to the user plane function network element, and the user plane function network element receives the detection message 4 at a time T4 (for example, the second time in the method 700).
And S511, the user plane function network element determines the time delay information between the terminal equipment and the user plane function network element according to T3 and T4.
Specifically, assuming that the uplink and downlink transmission delays are symmetric, the user plane function network element may determine, according to T3 and T4, delay information of traffic data between the terminal device and the user plane function network element, for example, the delay is (T4-T3)/2.
Optionally, the method 500 further comprises S512-S515:
s512, the user plane function network element sends the time delay information to the session management function network element, and the session management function network element receives the time delay information sent by the user plane function network element.
S513, the session management function network element sends the time delay information to the policy control function network element, and the policy control function network element receives the time delay information sent by the session management function network element.
Optionally, the policy control function network element may determine whether to adjust the delay information of the service data according to the received delay information.
S514, the policy control function network element sends a second message to the capability openness network element, where the second message includes time delay information, and the capability openness network element receives the second message sent by the policy control function network element.
S515, the capability openness network element sends the second message to the application program interface of the terminal device, the application program interface returns the second message to the terminal device, and the terminal device may determine whether to initiate service data according to the time delay information in the second message and the time delay information. For example, when the delay is large, the terminal device may determine not to initiate the service data first.
In a possible implementation, the first detection packet and the second detection packet in the first case may be internet packet probes (Ping) packets. Similarly, the third detection packet and the fourth detection packet in the second case may be Ping packets. Wherein, the Ping package principle is: personal Computer (PC) sends a message to the target IP address by using the uniqueness of the IP address of the network machine, and then requires the other party to return a message with the same size to determine whether the two network machines are connected and communicated, and what the time delay is. The difference between the time when the PC connected with the terminal equipment starts to send the message and the time when the PC receives the response message is the result of time delay statistics.
Fig. 6 illustrates a method 600 for measuring quality of service information according to an embodiment of the present application, where the method 600 includes:
s610, the policy control function network element receives a first message from the capability openness network element, where the first message is used to request to measure quality of service QoS information of service data between the terminal device and the user plane function network element.
S620, the policy control function network element determines, based on the first message, a first forwarding rule of the detection packet, where the first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data include the same QoS information.
As an optional embodiment, the first message includes at least one of an IP address of the terminal device, an identifier of a service type of the service data, an application identifier associated with the service data, or a configuration parameter. The configuration parameters include: at least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, or the duration of sending the detection message. Optionally, the first forwarding rule comprises a configuration parameter.
When the first message includes the IP address of the terminal device, the policy control function network element may determine, according to the IP address of the terminal device, the terminal device that sends the first message, and determine, according to the forwarding rule of the terminal device, the first forwarding rule. For example, the first forwarding rule may be obtained by adjusting a forwarding rule of the terminal device according to the configuration parameter.
When the first message comprises the IP address of the terminal equipment and the identification of the service type of the service data, firstly, the strategy control function network element determines the terminal equipment according to the IP address of the terminal equipment; then, the strategy control function network element determines which service type of the terminal equipment is according to the identification of the service type; and finally, the strategy control function network element determines a first forwarding rule according to the forwarding rule of the service type of the terminal equipment. For example, the first forwarding rule may be obtained by adjusting a forwarding rule of the service type of the terminal device according to the configuration parameter.
When the first message comprises the IP address of the terminal equipment and the application identifier associated with the service data, firstly, the strategy control function network element determines the terminal equipment according to the IP address of the terminal equipment; then, the strategy control function network element determines which application of the terminal equipment is according to the application identification associated with the service data; and finally, the strategy control function network element determines a first forwarding rule according to the applied forwarding rule of the terminal equipment. For example, the first forwarding rule may be obtained by adjusting an applied forwarding rule of the terminal device according to the configuration parameter.
When the first message comprises an IP address of the terminal equipment, an identifier of a service type of the service data and an application identifier associated with the service data, firstly, a policy control function network element determines the terminal equipment for sending the first message according to the IP address of the terminal equipment; secondly, the strategy control function network element determines which service type of the terminal equipment according to the service type identification of the service data; thirdly, the strategy control function network element determines which application of the service type of the terminal equipment is according to the application identification associated with the service data; and finally, the strategy control function network element determines a first forwarding rule according to the applied forwarding rule of the service type of the terminal equipment. For example, the first forwarding rule may be obtained by adjusting, according to the configuration parameter, the forwarding rule of the application of the service type of the terminal device.
As an optional embodiment, the forwarding rule of the terminal device, the forwarding rule applied to the terminal device, or the forwarding rule of the service data may be stored in the context, the policy control function network element may obtain the forwarding rule of the service data in the context, and then the policy control function network element may adjust the forwarding rule of the service data, or the forwarding rule of the terminal device, or the forwarding rule applied to the terminal device, by using at least one of information in the configuration parameters, such as the size of the detection packet, the frequency of sending the detection packet, and the duration of sending the detection packet, so as to obtain the first forwarding rule.
Optionally, the forwarding rule of the service data is consistent with the first forwarding rule, and the consistency is understood as: the forwarding rule of the service data has the same 5G QOS identifier (5G QOS identifier) and/or Allocation and Retention Priority (ARP) as the first forwarding rule.
It should be noted that, the first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data include the same QoS information, and it can be understood that: and determining a detection message by using the first forwarding rule, wherein the QoS information determined according to the detection message is the same as the QoS information determined by using the forwarding rule of the service data, for example, the delay information is the same, and the packet loss rate is the same.
S630, the policy control function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the session management function network element.
In one possible implementation manner, the first forwarding rule may include the configuration parameter, that is, in S630, the policy control function network element may include the configuration parameter in the first forwarding rule and send the configuration parameter to the session management function network element, and the session management function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the user plane function network element.
In one possible implementation, the first forwarding rule may not include a configuration parameter, that is, the method further includes: the policy control function network element sends the fourth message including the configuration parameter to the session management function network element, and the session management function network element sends the fourth message including the configuration parameter to the user plane function network element, which needs to be described that the fourth message may not include the first forwarding rule.
As an optional embodiment, the second message is used to trigger the measurement of the QoS information, and the method 600 further includes:
and the policy control function network element receives the network protocol IP address of the user plane function network element from the session management function network element, and sends a second message to a capability opening network element, wherein the second message comprises the IP address of the user plane function network element.
As an alternative embodiment, after S630, the method 600 further includes: and the policy control function network element sends a second message to a capability opening network element, wherein the second message is used for triggering the measurement of the QoS information.
Fig. 7 illustrates a method 700 for measuring quality of service information according to an embodiment of the present application, where the method includes:
s710, the user plane function network element receives the first forwarding rule of the detection packet from the session management function network element. The first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data between the terminal equipment and the user plane functional network element contain the same QoS information.
Wherein, the first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element contain the same QoS information, which can be understood as: and determining a detection message by using the first forwarding rule, wherein the QoS information determined according to the detection message is the same as the QoS information determined by using the forwarding rule of the service data, for example, the delay information is the same, and the packet loss rate is the same.
It should be noted that, the first forwarding rule refers to the description in the method 600, and in this embodiment of the present application, the first forwarding rule is a rule that is used for a user plane function network element to send a detection message. Alternatively, the first forwarding rule may be determined based on a first message sent by the terminal device through the application program interface before initiating the data traffic, the first message being used for requesting QoS information for measuring traffic data between the terminal device and the user plane function network element.
S720, the user plane functional network element generates a first detection message of the service data.
Optionally, the first forwarding rule may include configuration information, which may include, for example: at least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, or the duration of sending the detection message. Thus, the user plane functional network element can generate the first detection message according to at least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message or the duration of sending the detection message.
Optionally, the first forwarding rule may not include configuration information, for example, at least one of a size of the detection packet, a frequency of sending the detection packet, or a duration of sending the detection packet. But the session management function network element still needs to send the configuration information to the user plane function network element via the fourth message. Thus, the user plane functional network element can generate a first detection message according to the configuration information.
And S730, the user plane functional network element sends a first detection message to the terminal equipment according to the first forwarding rule.
Optionally, the method 700 further comprises:
s740, the user plane functional network element receives the second detection packet sent by the terminal device.
Optionally, the first detection packet and the second detection packet have the same configuration parameters, for example, the sizes of the first detection packet and the second detection packet are the same, the sending frequencies of the first detection packet and the second detection packet are the same, and the durations of the first detection packet and the second detection packet are the same.
Optionally, the first detection packet and the second detection packet are the same as the service type of the service data.
As an optional embodiment, the user plane function network element receives second indication information from the session management function network element, where the second indication information is used to indicate that the user plane function network element does not perform a charging operation on the first detection packet and the second detection packet. And the user plane functional network element does not perform charging operation on the first detection message and the second detection message according to the second indication information.
Optionally, the second indication information may be that the policy control function network element sends the policy control function network element to the user plane function network element through the session management function network element. Optionally, the second indication information may be determined by the session management function network element and sent to the user plane function network element.
Optionally, the source address of the first detection packet is an IP address of the user plane function network element, and the destination address of the first detection packet is an IP address of the terminal device. The source address of the second detection message is the IP address of the terminal device, and the destination address of the second detection message is the IP address of the user plane functional network element. That is, when the user plane function network element sends the first detection packet to the terminal device, the IP address of the terminal device needs to be acquired. The manner for the user plane function network element to acquire the IP address of the terminal device is referred to S411.
The following is described in two cases, the first case is that the user plane function network element measures QoS information, and the second case is that the terminal device determines QoS information.
In a first case, taking QoS information as delay information as an example, a user plane function network element sends a first detection message (for example, detection message 3 in method 500) to a terminal device at a first time (for example, T3 in method 500); the user plane function network element receives, at the second time, the second detection packet sent by the terminal device (for example, the detection packet 4 in the method 500). And the user plane functional network element determines delay information according to the first moment and the second moment, wherein the delay information is the delay information of the service data. In other words, the delay information determined according to the sending time of the first detection packet and the receiving time of the second detection packet is the delay information of the service data between the terminal device and the user plane functional network element.
Optionally, the user plane function network element receives first indication information from the session management function network element, where the first indication information is used to indicate the user plane function network element to measure the delay information; the user plane function network element determines time delay information according to the first moment and the second moment, and the method comprises the following steps: and the user plane functional network element determines the time delay information according to the first indication information, the first moment and the second moment.
Optionally, the first indication information may be that the policy control function network element sends the policy control function network element to the user plane function network element through the session management function network element. Optionally, the first indication information may be determined by the session management function network element and sent to the user plane function network element.
Optionally, after the user plane function network element determines the time delay information, the user plane function network element may send the time delay information to the policy control function network element through the session management function network element.
Optionally, the user plane function network element may also determine QoS information, and may send the determined QoS information to the policy function network element through the session management function network element.
In the second case, the user plane functional network element receives a second detection message (for example, the detection message 1 in the method 400) sent by the terminal device. The user plane function network element sends a first detection message (which may be, for example, detection message 2 in method 400) to the terminal device. In other words, the user plane functional network element receives and sends the detection message in cooperation with the terminal device, so that the terminal device determines the QoS information.
Optionally, in the method 700, the first detection packet and the second detection packet are internet packet probe Ping packets.
Therefore, in the method for measuring QoS information provided in this embodiment of the present application, before initiating service data, a terminal device may send a first message to a core network element through an application program interface to request for measuring QoS information of the service data between the terminal device and a user plane function network element. The user plane functional network element or the terminal equipment can determine the QoS information of the service data through the time for sending the detection message and the time for receiving the detection message, and the terminal equipment can determine whether to initiate the service data according to the QoS information because the QoS information is the time delay information after the service data is initiated, so that the user experience is improved. Or, the policy control function network element may determine whether to adjust the QoS information of the service data according to the QoS information, so as to meet the requirement of the terminal device for the QoS information of the service data, thereby facilitating improvement of user experience.
In the following, the method for measuring QoS information provided in the embodiment of the present application is described with reference to fig. 8 and 9, taking QoS information as time delay information as an example, and taking a terminal device as UE and a detection message as a Ping packet as an example for description, but the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto. Fig. 8 shows measurement delay information of the terminal device. Fig. 9 shows the measurement delay information of the user plane functional network element.
Fig. 8 illustrates a method 800 for measuring quality of service information according to an embodiment of the present application, where the method 800 includes:
s801, the UE sends a first message to the NEF through the API, wherein the first message is used for requesting to measure the QoS information of the service data between the terminal equipment and the user plane function network element. The first message is also used to trigger the NEF to interact with the PCF.
Specifically, when the UE opens a certain application, before performing data service, the UE sends a first message to the NEF through the API, and the NEF sends the first message to the PCF, for example, the first message may be a QoS monitoring configuration request (QoS monitoring configuration request) message. Optionally, the first message includes one or more of an IP address of the UE, an identifier of a service type of the service data, an application identifier (application ID) associated with the service data, or configuration information. The configuration information includes at least one of parameters such as the size of the Ping packet, the frequency of sending the Ping packet, or the duration of sending the Ping packet.
Optionally, before S801, the method further comprises: before initiating service data, the UE determines DNN and S-NSSAI associated with the application according to locally stored User Routing Selection Policy (URSP) information, and then sends a session establishment request to the AMF through the RAN to trigger establishment of a data plane link between the UE and a user plane functional network element.
Through the session establishing process, the AMF network element selects an SMF network element associated with the session, the SMF network element allocates an IP address for the UE, the IP address is used for the UE to transmit a service message, and meanwhile, the SMF network element stores a UE ID, a session identifier, DNN, S-NSSAI, the IP address of the UE and the like.
S802, the NEF sends the first message to the PCF after receiving the first message.
S803, after receiving the first message sent by the NEF, the PCF determines, according to the first message, the time delay information of the Ping packet to trigger measurement when determining the message this time. The PCF generates a Policy and Charging Control (PCC) rule for the UE or the traffic type or the Ping packet of the application according to at least one of the IP address of the UE, the identifier of the traffic type of the traffic data, and the identifier of the application associated with the traffic data, which are included in the first message, wherein the PCC rule includes a QoS rule, that is, the QoS rule may be the aforementioned first forwarding rule, and the QoS rule is consistent with the QoS rule of the UE or the traffic type or the application (that is, the QoS rule of the Ping packet has the same 5QI and/or ARP as that of the UE or the traffic type or the QoS rule of the application), so that the UE or the traffic type or the application may be associated with the Ping packet.
Optionally, if the service data is Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR), the PCF may also determine the bandwidth according to parameters such as size of Ping packet, packet sending frequency, duration period, etc.
Optionally, the PCF determines, according to the IP address of the UE included in the stored context, the UE ID corresponding to the IP address and the SMF network element currently serving the UE. Optionally, the PCF may further determine a DNN and/or S-NSSAI corresponding to the Application according to the Application identifier (Application ID), so as to determine an SMF network element serving the UE according to the DNN and/or S-NSSAI, or the PCF may send the DNN and/or S-NSSAI to the determined SMF network element, so that the SMF network element determines the UPF network element according to the DNN and/or S-NSSAI.
S804, the PCF initiates a session modification procedure to the SMF, for example, the session modification request may carry at least one of the PCC rule (including the QoS rule, i.e. the aforementioned first forwarding rule) of the Ping packet and the information of the UE ID, DNN, S-NSSAI, etc.,
s805, after receiving the session modification request sent by PCF, SMF sends a N4 session modification request to UPF, and sends the QoS rule of Ping packet to UPF.
Optionally, the SMF may send second indication information to the UPF, for example, the second indication information may also be carried in the N4 session modification flow request, where the second indication information is used to indicate that the UPF returns a downlink Ping packet (for example, the second detection packet in the method 300 or the detection packet 2 in the method 400) immediately after receiving the uplink Ping packet (for example, the first detection packet in the method 300 or the detection packet 1 in the method 400) from the UE side, and charging processing is not required for the Ping packet.
Optionally, the SMF may send the second indication information and the QoS rule to the UPF simultaneously, or send the second indication information and the QoS rule to the UPF separately, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.
In one possible implementation, the second indication may be that the PCF sent the SMF and the SMF sent the UPF.
It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, in S804 and S805, including the QoS rule (i.e., the aforementioned first forwarding rule) in the session modification request and the session modification flow request of N4 is only one possible implementation manner, and the QoS rule may also be sent to the SMF in other manners, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.
S806, the SMF sends the destination IP address for Ping packet detection (i.e., the IP address of the UPF) to the PCF.
Optionally, S806 may be after or before S805, which is not limited in this application.
S807, the PCF sends a second message to the NEF, for example, the second message may be a QoS monitoring configuration response (QoS monitoring configuration response) message, and the second message includes a destination IP address (i.e. an IP address of the UPF) for Ping packet monitoring.
S808, the NEF sends the second message to the API of the terminal device, so that the IP address of the UPF in the second message can be returned to the UE through the API.
S809, the UE receives the second message sent by the NEF through the API, and constructs a first Ping packet according to the IP address of the UPF in the second message (for example, the first detection packet in the method 300 or the detection packet 1 in the method 400 or the second detection packet in the second case in the method 700), where a source IP of the first Ping packet is the IP address of the UE, and a destination IP is the IP address of the UPF.
S810, the UE starts a timer, sends the first Ping packet to the UPF, and records the sending time of the first Ping packet as p.
S811, after receiving the first Ping packet sent by the UE, the UPF may obtain the UE IP from the first Ping packet, construct a second Ping packet, and immediately return the second Ping packet to the UE (which may be the second detection packet in the method 300, the detection packet 2 in the method 400, or the first detection packet in the second case in the method 700).
S812, the UE receives the second Ping packet returned by the UPF, and stops the timer, where the time for stopping the timer is q, and assuming that the uplink and downlink transmission delays are symmetric, the UE may determine, according to p and q, delay information of service data between the UE and the UPF, for example, the delay is (q-p)/2.
Optionally, the method 800 further comprises S813 and S814:
s813, the UE sends the delay information to the capability opening network element through the application program interface, and the capability opening network element receives the delay information sent by the UE through the application program interface.
S814, the capability openness network element sends the delay information to the policy control function network element, so that the policy control function network element determines whether to adjust the delay information of the service data.
Fig. 9 illustrates a method 900 for measuring quality of service information according to an embodiment of the present application, including:
S901-S903 is the same as S801-S803.
S904, the PCF initiates a session modification procedure to the SMF, for example, the session modification request may carry the PCC rule (including the QoS rule, that is, the aforementioned first forwarding rule) of the Ping packet and information such as the UE ID, DNN, and S-NSSAI.
S905, after receiving the session modification request sent by the PCF, the SMF sends an N4 session modification request to the UPF, and sends the QoS rule of the Ping packet to the UPF.
S906, the SMF sends first indication information to the UPF, where the first indication information is used to indicate the user plane function network element measurement delay information.
Optionally, the first indication information in S906 and the QoS rule in S905 may be sent together to the UPF, for example, the first indication information may be included in the N4 session modification request. Alternatively, the first indication information in S906 and the QoS rule in S905 may be separately sent to the UPF, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.
S907, the UPF constructs a third Ping packet (for example, the third detection packet in the method 300 or the detection packet 3 in the method 500 or the first detection packet in the first case in the method 700) according to the first indication information, where a source IP of the third Ping packet is an IP address of the UPF and a destination IP is an IP address of the UE.
The embodiment of the present application does not limit the manner in which the UPF obtains the IP address of the UE, and for example, the method can be obtained through the following three manners:
in the first mode, optionally, the SMF determines the IP address of the UE according to the context of the UE, and sends the IP address of the UE to the UPF through S905, so that the UPF may generate the third detection packet according to the received IP address of the UE.
In the second way, optionally, in S905, the SMF may send the UE ID and the session identifier to the UPF, and the UPF network element determines, according to the UE ID and the session identifier, the IP address of the UE corresponding to the session stored in the context, so that the UPF may generate the third detection packet according to the received IP address of the UE.
In a third mode, optionally, in S904, the PCF sends the IP address of the UE to the SMF, and the SMF sends the IP address of the UE to the UPF, so that the UPF may generate the third detection packet according to the received IP address of the UE.
And S908, the UPF starts a timer, sends a third Ping packet to the UE, and records the sending time of the third Ping packet as S.
S909, after receiving the third Ping packet sent by the UPF, the UE obtains the IP address of the UPF from the third Ping packet, constructs a fourth Ping packet, and immediately returns the fourth Ping packet to the UPF (for example, the fourth detection packet in the method 300, the detection packet 4 in the method 500, or the second detection packet in the first case in the method 700), where the source IP of the fourth Ping packet is the IP address of the UE, and the destination IP is the IP address of the UPF.
S910, the UPF receives the fourth Ping packet returned by the UE, and stops the timer, where the time for stopping the timer is t, and assuming that the uplink and downlink transmission delays are symmetric, the UPF may determine, according to S and t, delay information of service data between the UE and the UPF, where the delay is (t-S)/2, for example.
And S911, the UPF sends the delay information to the SMF, and the SMF receives the delay information sent by the UPF.
S912, SMF sends the delay information to PCF, PCF receives the delay information sent by SMF.
Optionally, the PCF may determine whether to adjust the delay information of the service data according to the received delay information.
S913, PCF sends the time delay information to NEF, and NEF receives the time delay information sent by PCF.
S914, the NEF sends the delay information to the application program interface of the UE, and the application program interface returns the delay information to the UE.
The method for measuring the qos information provided by the embodiment of the present application is described in detail above with reference to fig. 1 to 9, and the apparatus for measuring the qos information provided by the embodiment of the present application is described in detail below with reference to fig. 10 to 13.
Fig. 10 shows a schematic block diagram of an apparatus 800 for measuring service quality information according to an embodiment of the present application, where the apparatus 1000 may correspond to a terminal device described in the foregoing method, and may also correspond to a chip or a component of the terminal device, and each module or unit in the apparatus 1000 may be respectively configured to perform each action or process performed by the terminal device in the foregoing method, and as shown in fig. 10, the apparatus 1000 for measuring service quality information may include a transmitting unit 1010 and a receiving unit 1020.
A sending unit 1010, configured to send a first message to a core network element through an application program interface before initiating service data, where the first message is used to request quality of service (QoS) information of the service data between a measurement apparatus and a user plane function network element;
a receiving unit 1020, configured to receive, through an application program interface, a second message sent by a core network element, where the second message is used to trigger measurement of QoS information, or the second message includes the QoS information.
As an optional embodiment, the first message includes at least one of a network protocol IP address of the terminal device, an identifier of a service type of the service data, an application identifier associated with the service data, or a configuration parameter, where the configuration parameter includes at least one of a size of the detection packet, a frequency of sending the detection packet, or a duration of sending the detection packet.
As an alternative embodiment, the second message is used to trigger measurement of QoS information, where the QoS information is delay information, and the sending unit 1010 is further configured to: after receiving a second message sent by a core network element through an application program interface, sending a first detection message to a user plane function network element at a first moment;
the receiving unit 1020 is further configured to: receiving a second detection message from the user plane functional network element at a second moment;
the device still includes: and the first processing unit is used for determining delay information according to the first time and the second time, wherein the delay information is the delay information of the service data.
As an alternative embodiment, the second message comprises a network protocol IP address of the user plane function network element.
As an alternative embodiment, the second message includes QoS information, and the receiving unit 1020 is further configured to:
receiving a third detection message from the user plane function network element before receiving a second message sent by the core network element through the application program interface;
the device still includes: the second processing unit is used for acquiring the IP address of the user plane function network element in the third detection message;
the sending unit 1010 is further configured to: and sending the fourth detection message to the user plane functional network element.
As an alternative embodiment, the first detection packet, the second detection packet, the third detection packet and the fourth detection packet are internet packet probe packets.
It should be understood that for the specific processes of the units in the apparatus 1000 to execute the corresponding steps, reference is made to the description of the method embodiment in conjunction with fig. 3 to 5, and for brevity, no further description is provided here.
Fig. 11 shows a schematic block diagram of an apparatus 1100 for measuring quality of service information according to an embodiment of the present application, where the apparatus 1100 may correspond to a policy control function network element described in the foregoing method, and may also correspond to a chip or a component of the policy control function network element, and each module or unit in the apparatus 1100 may be respectively configured to perform each action or process performed by the policy control function network element in the foregoing method, as shown in fig. 11, the apparatus 1100 for measuring quality of service information may include a transceiver unit 1110 and a processing unit 1120.
A transceiving unit 1110, configured to receive a first message from a capability openness network element, where the first message is used to request to measure quality of service (QoS) information of service data between a terminal device and a user plane function network element;
a processing unit 1120, configured to determine, by the policy control function network element, a first forwarding rule of the detection packet based on the first message, where the first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data include the same QoS information;
the transceiving unit 1110 is further configured to: and sending the first forwarding rule to a user plane function network element through a session management function network element.
As an optional embodiment, the first message includes at least one of an IP address of the terminal device, an identifier of the service type, and an application identifier or configuration parameter associated with the service data, and the configuration parameter includes: the first forwarding rule comprises configuration parameters.
As an alternative embodiment, the transceiving unit 1110 is further configured to:
and after the first forwarding rule is sent to the user plane function network element through the session management function network element, sending a second message to the capability openness network element, wherein the second message is used for triggering the measurement of the QoS information, or the second message comprises the QoS information.
As an alternative embodiment, the second message is used to trigger the measurement of the QoS information, and the transceiver unit is further configured to:
and receiving the network protocol IP address of the user plane function network element from the session management function network element, wherein the second message comprises the IP address of the user plane function network element.
It should be understood that for the specific process of each unit in the apparatus 1100 for executing the corresponding steps, reference is made to the description of the method embodiment in conjunction with fig. 6, and for brevity, no further description is provided here.
Fig. 12 shows a schematic block diagram of an apparatus 1200 for measuring quality of service information according to an embodiment of the present application, where the apparatus 1200 may correspond to the user plane function network element described in the foregoing method, and may also correspond to a chip or a component of the user plane function network element, and each module or unit in the apparatus 1200 may be configured to perform each action or process performed by the user plane function network element in the foregoing method, as shown in fig. 12, and the apparatus 1200 for measuring quality of service information may include a transceiver unit 1210 and a processing unit 1220.
A transceiving unit 1210, configured to receive a first forwarding rule of a detection packet from a session management function network element, where the first forwarding rule and a forwarding rule of service data between a terminal device and a user plane function network element include the same QoS information;
a processing unit 1220, configured to generate a first detection packet of service data;
the transceiving unit 1210 is further configured to send the first detection packet to the terminal device according to the first forwarding rule.
As an alternative embodiment, the first forwarding rule comprises: at least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, or the duration of sending the detection message.
As an optional embodiment, the QoS information is delay information, and the transceiver unit 1210 is specifically configured to:
at a first moment, sending a first detection message to terminal equipment;
and at a second moment, receiving a second detection message sent by the terminal equipment.
As an alternative embodiment, the first time is before the second time, and the transceiver unit 1210 is further configured to:
receiving first indication information from a session management function network element, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating a user plane function network element to measure time delay information;
the processing unit 1220 is further configured to: and determining delay information according to the first indication information, the first time and the second time, wherein the delay information is the delay information of the service data.
As an alternative embodiment, the transceiving unit 1010 is further configured to: and sending the time delay information to a session management function network element.
As an alternative embodiment, the transceiving unit 1010 is further configured to: and receiving second indication information from the session management function network element, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating the user plane function network element not to perform charging operation on the first detection message and the second detection message.
As an alternative embodiment, the first detection packet and the second detection packet are internet packet probe Ping packets.
It should be understood that for the specific processes of the units in the apparatus 1200 to execute the corresponding steps described above, reference is made to the description of the method embodiment in conjunction with fig. 7, and for brevity, no further description is provided here.
The apparatus 1000 of each of the above solutions has a function of implementing corresponding steps executed by a terminal device in the above method, the apparatus 1100 of each of the above solutions has a function of implementing corresponding steps executed by a policy control function network element in the above method, and the apparatus 1200 of each of the above solutions has a function of implementing corresponding steps executed by a user plane function network element in the above method; the functions may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software comprises one or more modules corresponding to the functions; for example, the transmitting unit may be replaced by a transmitter, the receiving unit may be replaced by a receiver, other units, such as the determining unit, may be replaced by a processor, and the transceiving operation and the related processing operation in the respective method embodiments are respectively performed.
In particular implementations, the processor may be configured to perform, for example and without limitation, baseband related processing, and the transceiver may be configured to perform, for example and without limitation, radio frequency transceiving. The above devices may be respectively disposed on separate chips, or at least a part or all of the devices may be disposed on the same chip. For example, the processor may be further divided into an analog baseband processor and a digital baseband processor, wherein the analog baseband processor may be integrated with the transceiver on the same chip, and the digital baseband processor may be disposed on a separate chip. With the development of integrated circuit technology, more and more devices can be integrated on the same chip, for example, a digital baseband processor can be integrated on the same chip with various application processors (such as, but not limited to, a graphics processor, a multimedia processor, etc.). Such a chip may be referred to as a System On Chip (SOC). Whether each device is separately located on a different chip or integrated on one or more chips often depends on the specific needs of the product design. The embodiment of the present application does not limit the specific implementation form of the above device.
It is understood that, for the processors referred to in the foregoing embodiments, the functions referred to in any design of the foregoing embodiments of the present application may be implemented by executing program instructions through a hardware platform having the processors and a communication interface, respectively, and based on this, as shown in fig. 13, the present application provides a schematic block diagram of an apparatus 1300 for measuring service quality information, where the apparatus 1300 includes: a processor 1310, a transceiver 1320, and a memory 1330. Wherein the processor 1310, the transceiver 1320, and the memory 1330 are in communication with each other through the interconnection, the memory 1330 is configured to store instructions, and the processor 1310 is configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory 1330 to control the transceiver 1320 to transmit and/or receive signals.
In a possible implementation manner, if the apparatus 1300 is a terminal device, the transceiver 1320 is configured to send a first message to a core network element through an application program interface before initiating service data, where the first message is used to request quality of service (QoS) information of service data between a measurement apparatus and a user plane function network element; the transceiver 1320 is further configured to receive a second message sent by a network element of the core network through the application program interface, where the second message is used to trigger measurement of QoS information, or the second message includes QoS information.
In another possible implementation manner, if the apparatus 1300 is a policy control function network element, the transceiver 1320 is configured to receive a first message from a capability openness network element, where the first message is used to request to measure quality of service QoS information of service data between a terminal device and a user plane function network element; the processor 1310 is configured to determine, by the policy control function network element, a first forwarding rule of the detection packet based on the first message, where the first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data include the same QoS information; the transceiver 1320 is also for: and sending the first forwarding rule to a user plane function network element through a session management function network element.
In another possible implementation manner, if the apparatus 1300 is a user plane functional network element, the transceiver 1320 is configured to receive a first forwarding rule of a detection packet received from a session management functional network element, where the first forwarding rule and a forwarding rule of service data between a terminal device and the user plane functional network element include the same QoS information; processor 1310 is configured to generate a first detection packet of service data; the transceiver 1320 is further configured to send a first detection packet to the terminal device according to the first forwarding rule.
It should be understood that the apparatus in fig. 10 or the apparatus in fig. 11 or the apparatus in fig. 12 in this embodiment of the application may be implemented by the apparatus 1300 in fig. 13, and may be configured to perform various steps and/or flows corresponding to the terminal device, the policy control function network element, and the user plane function network element in the foregoing embodiment of the method.
It should be understood that the various design-related methods, procedures, operations, or steps described in the embodiments of this application can be implemented in a one-to-one correspondence manner through computer software, electronic hardware, or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether the functions are executed in a hardware or software manner depends on specific applications and design constraints of the technical scheme, for example, aspects such as software and hardware decoupling with good universality and low cost are considered, the functions can be realized in a manner of executing program instructions, and aspects such as system performance and reliability are considered, and special circuits can be adopted for realization. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present invention.
According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application further provides a computer program product, which includes: computer program code which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method in the above-described embodiments. The various embodiments in this application may also be combined with each other.
According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the present application also provides a computer readable medium, the computer readable medium stores program code, and when the program code runs on a computer, the computer is caused to execute the method in the above embodiment.
In the embodiment of the present application, it should be noted that the above method embodiments of the embodiment of the present application may be applied to a processor, or implemented by a processor. The processor may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in the form of software. The processor may be a general purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an off-the-shelf programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, or discrete hardware components. The various methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and a processor reads information in the memory and completes the steps of the method in combination with hardware of the processor.
It will be appreciated that the memory in the embodiments of the subject application can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. Volatile memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. There are many different types of RAM, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), Enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct bus RAM (DR RAM).
It should be understood that, in the various embodiments of the present application, the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes do not mean the execution sequence, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its function and inherent logic, and should not constitute any limitation to the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.
The appearances of the phrases "first," "second," and the like in this application are only for purposes of distinguishing between different items and the phrases "first," "second," and the like do not by themselves limit the actual order or function of the items so modified. Any embodiment or design described herein as "exemplary," e.g., "optionally" or "in certain implementations" is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, use of these words is intended to present relevant concepts in a concrete fashion.
Various objects such as various messages/information/devices/network elements/systems/devices/operations/etc. that may appear in the present application are named, it is understood that these specific names do not constitute limitations on related objects, and the named names may vary with factors such as scenes, contexts, or usage habits, and the understanding of the technical meaning of the technical terms in the present application should be mainly determined from the functions and technical effects embodied/performed in the technical solutions.
The above embodiments may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product may include one or more computer instructions. When loaded and executed on a computer, cause the processes or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the application to occur, in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored on a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center via wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, Digital Subscriber (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) means. The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device, such as a server, a data center, etc., that incorporates one or more of the available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy disk, hard disk, magnetic disk), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.
It is clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.
In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.
The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.
In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit.
The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application or portions thereof that substantially contribute to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium and including instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.
The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present application, and shall be covered by the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

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1. A method for measuring quality of service information, comprising:
before the terminal equipment initiates service data, sending a first message to a core network element through an application program interface, wherein the first message is used for requesting to measure the QoS (quality of service) information of the service data between the terminal equipment and a user plane function network element;
and the terminal equipment receives a second message sent by the core network element through the application program interface, wherein the second message is used for triggering the terminal equipment to measure the QoS information, or the second message comprises the QoS information.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message comprises at least one of a network protocol IP address of the terminal device, an identifier of a service type of the service data, an application identifier associated with the service data, or a configuration parameter, and wherein the configuration parameter comprises at least one of a size of a detection packet, a frequency of sending the detection packet, or a duration of sending the detection packet.
3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the second message is used to trigger the terminal device to measure the QoS information, the QoS information is delay information, and after the terminal device receives the second message sent by the core network element through an application program interface, the method further comprises:
the terminal equipment sends a first detection message to the user plane function network element at a first moment;
the terminal equipment receives a second detection message from the user plane function network element at a second moment;
and the terminal equipment determines the time delay information according to the first time and the second time, wherein the time delay information is the time delay information of the service data.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the second message comprises a network protocol, IP, address of the user plane function network element.
5. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the second message includes the QoS information, and before the terminal device receives the second message sent by the core network element through an application program interface, the method further comprises:
the terminal equipment receives a third detection message from the user plane functional network element;
the terminal equipment acquires the IP address of the user plane function network element in the third detection message;
and the terminal equipment sends a fourth detection message to the user plane function network element.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first detection packet, the second detection packet, the third detection packet, and the fourth detection packet are Internet packet Probe Ping packets.
7. A method for measuring quality of service information, comprising:
a policy control function network element receives a first message from a capability openness network element, wherein the first message is used for requesting to measure the QoS (quality of service) information of service data between a terminal device and a user plane function network element;
the policy control function network element determines a first forwarding rule of a detection message based on the first message, wherein the first forwarding rule and the forwarding rule of the service data comprise the same QoS information;
the policy control function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the user plane function network element through a session management function network element;
after the policy control function network element sends the first forwarding rule to the user plane function network element through a session management function network element, the method further includes:
and the policy control function network element sends a second message to a capability openness network element, where the second message is used to trigger the terminal device to measure the QoS information, or the second message includes the QoS information.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first message comprises at least one of an IP address of the terminal device, an identifier of a service type of the service data, an application identifier associated with the service data, or a configuration parameter, and wherein the configuration parameter comprises: at least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, or the duration of sending the detection message, and the first forwarding rule includes the configuration parameter.
9. The method according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the second message is used for triggering the terminal device to measure the QoS information, and the method further comprises:
and the policy control function network element receives the network protocol IP address of the user plane function network element from the session management function network element, wherein the second message includes the IP address of the user plane function network element.
10. A method for measuring quality of service information, comprising:
the user plane functional network element receives a first forwarding rule of the detection message from the session management functional network element, wherein the first forwarding rule and a forwarding rule of service data between the terminal equipment and the user plane functional network element contain the same QoS information;
the user plane functional network element generates a first detection message of the service data, where the first detection message is used by the terminal device to measure the QoS information, or the first detection message is used by the user plane functional network element to measure the QoS information;
and the user plane function network element sends the first detection message to terminal equipment according to the first forwarding rule.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first forwarding rule comprises: at least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, or the duration of sending the detection message.
12. The method according to claim 10 or 11, wherein the QoS information is delay information, and the sending, by the user plane function network element, the first detection packet to the terminal device includes:
the user plane functional network element sends the first detection message to the terminal equipment at a first moment;
the method further comprises the following steps:
and the user plane function network element receives a second detection message from the terminal equipment at a second moment.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first time is prior to the second time, the method further comprising:
the user plane function network element receives first indication information from the session management function network element, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating the user plane function network element to measure the time delay information;
and the user plane function network element determines the time delay information according to the first indication information, the first time and the second time, wherein the time delay information is the time delay information of the service data.
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:
and the user plane function network element sends the time delay information to the session management function network element.
15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:
and the user plane functional network element receives second indication information from the session management functional network element, where the second indication information is used to indicate that the user plane functional network element does not perform charging operation on the first detection packet and the second detection packet.
16. The method of claim 12, wherein the first detection packet and the second detection packet are internet packet probe Ping packets.
17. An apparatus for measuring quality of service information, comprising:
a sending unit, configured to send a first message to a core network element through an application program interface before initiating service data, where the first message is used to request to measure quality of service (QoS) information of the service data between the device and a user plane function network element;
a receiving unit, configured to receive, through the application program interface, a second message sent by the core network element, where the second message is used to trigger the apparatus to measure the QoS information, or the second message includes the QoS information.
18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the first message comprises at least one of a network protocol IP address of the apparatus, an identifier of a service type of the service data, an application identifier associated with the service data, or a configuration parameter, and wherein the configuration parameter comprises at least one of a size of a detection packet, a frequency of sending the detection packet, or a duration of sending the detection packet.
19. The apparatus according to claim 17 or 18, wherein the second message is used to trigger the apparatus to measure the QoS information, and the QoS information is latency information, and the sending unit is further used to:
after the second message sent by the core network element is received through the application program interface, sending a first detection message to the user plane function network element at a first moment;
the receiving unit is further configured to:
receiving a second detection message from the user plane functional network element at a second moment;
the device further comprises:
and the first processing unit is used for determining the time delay information according to the first time and the second time, wherein the time delay information is the time delay information of the service data.
20. The apparatus according to claim 17 or 18, wherein the second message comprises the QoS information, and wherein the receiving unit is further configured to:
before the second message sent by the core network element is received through an application program interface, receiving a third detection message from the user plane function network element;
the device further comprises:
a second processing unit, configured to obtain an IP address of the user plane functional network element in the third detection packet;
the sending unit is further configured to: and sending a fourth detection message to the user plane function network element.
21. An apparatus for measuring quality of service information, comprising:
a receiving and sending unit, configured to receive a first message from a capability openness network element, where the first message is used to request to measure quality of service (QoS) information of service data between a terminal device and a user plane function network element;
a processing unit, configured to determine, based on the first message, a first forwarding rule for detecting a packet, where the first forwarding rule and a forwarding rule of the service data include the same QoS information;
the transceiver unit is further configured to: sending the first forwarding rule to the user plane function network element through a session management function network element;
the transceiver unit is further configured to:
after the first forwarding rule is sent to the user plane function network element through the session management function network element, sending a second message to a capability opening network element, where the second message is used to trigger the terminal device to measure the QoS information, or the second message includes the QoS information.
22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the first message comprises at least one of an IP address of the terminal device, an identifier of a service type of the service data, an application identifier associated with the service data, or a configuration parameter, and wherein the configuration parameter comprises: at least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, or the duration of sending the detection message, and the first forwarding rule includes the configuration parameter.
23. The apparatus according to claim 21 or 22, wherein the second message is used to trigger the terminal device to measure the QoS information, and wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to:
and receiving a network protocol IP address of the user plane function network element from the session management function network element, wherein the second message comprises the IP address of the user plane function network element.
24. An apparatus for measuring quality of service information, comprising:
a receiving and sending unit, configured to receive a first forwarding rule of a detection packet from a session management function network element, where the first forwarding rule and a forwarding rule of service data between a terminal device and a user plane function network element contain the same QoS information;
a processing unit, configured to generate a first detection packet of the service data, where the first detection packet is used by the terminal device to measure the QoS information, or the first detection packet is used by the user plane functional network element to measure the QoS information;
the transceiver unit is further configured to send the first detection packet to a terminal device according to the first forwarding rule.
25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the first forwarding rule comprises: at least one of the size of the detection message, the frequency of sending the detection message, or the duration of sending the detection message.
26. The apparatus according to claim 24 or 25, wherein the QoS information is delay information, and the transceiver unit is specifically configured to:
at a first moment, sending the first detection message to the terminal equipment;
and receiving a second detection message from the terminal equipment at a second moment.
27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the first time is prior to the second time, and wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to:
receiving first indication information from the session management function network element, where the first indication information is used to indicate the user plane function network element to measure the delay information;
the processing unit is further to: and determining the time delay information according to the first indication information, the first time and the second time, wherein the time delay information is the time delay information of the service data.
28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to:
and receiving second indication information from the session management function network element, where the second indication information is used to indicate that the user plane function network element does not perform charging operation on the first detection packet and the second detection packet.
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