Tracking QoS violated events
A method in a network node comprises: detecting a Quality of Service (QoS) Violated Event in respect of a particular QoS flow of a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session; and sending a corresponding QoS violated event report to any one or more of: a Session Management Function (SMF) of the network; a Policy Control Function (PCF) of the network; an Application Function (AF) of the network; and a third party service provider.
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by an access network (AN) node from a session management function (SMF), a request for monitoring Quality of Service (QoS) event associated with a packet delay;
receiving, by the AN node, an uplink protocol data unit (PDU) associated with a PDU session; and
sending, by the AN node to a user plane function (UPF) over more than one user plane (UP) path, a PDU including the uplink PDU, wherein the PDU further includes a timestamp indicating at which time point the PDU leaves the AN node;
wherein the packet delay is a duration between the time point indicated by the timestamp and a time point at which the PDU arrives at the UPF, and
monitoring the packet delay over each of the user plane (UP) paths and reporting the packet delay over each of the UP paths to the SMF.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the timestamp is associated with a determination on the packet delay associated with the QoS event which triggers a report of the packet delay to the SMF.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the QoS event includes that the duration exceeds a threshold.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the request is received during a PDU session establishment procedure associated with a UE from which the AN node receives the uplink PDU.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the request is received during a modification procedure associated with the PDU session, wherein the PDU session is associated with a UE from which the AN node receives the uplink PDU.
6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the UPF is a PDU session anchor (PSA) UPF associated with the PDU session.
7. A method comprising
receiving, by a user plane function (UPF) from a session management function (SMF), a request for monitoring a QoS event associated with a packet delay; and
receiving, by the UPF from an access network (AN) node over more than one user plane (UP) path, a protocol data unit (PDU) including an uplink PDU, wherein the PDU further includes a timestamp indicating at which time point the PDU leaves the AN node;
wherein the packet delay is a duration between the time point indicated by the timestamp and a time point at which the PDU arrives at the UPF; and
monitoring the packet delay over each of the user plane (UP) paths and reporting the packet delay over each of the UP paths to the SMF.
8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the method further comprises:
determining, by the UPF, whether the QoS event occurs according to the packet delay.
9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises:
reporting, by the UPF, the packet delay if the QoS event occurs, wherein the QoS event includes that the packet delay associated with the time point indicated by the timestamp exceeds a threshold.
10. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the method further comprises:
determining, by the UPF, the packet delay according to the time point indicated by the timestamp.
11. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the request is received during a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment procedure associated with a UE from which the AN node receives the uplink PDU.
12. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the UPF is a PDU session anchor (PSA) UPF associated with the PDU session.
13. An apparatus comprising one or more processors coupled with a non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method including:
receiving from a session management function (SMF), a request for monitoring a Quality of Service (QoS) event associated with a packet delay;
receiving an uplink protocol data unit (PDU) associated with a PDU session; and
sending to a user plane function (UPF) over more than one user plane (UP) path, a PDU including the uplink PDU, wherein the PDU further includes a timestamp indicating at which time point the PDU leaves the AN node;
wherein the packet delay is a duration between the time point indicated by the timestamp and a time point at which the PDU arrives at the UPF; and
monitoring the packet delay over each of the user plane (UP) paths and reporting the packet delay over each of the UP paths to the SMF.
14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the timestamp is associated with a determination on the packet delay associated with the QoS event which triggers a report of the packet delay to the SMF.
15. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the QoS event includes that the duration exceeds a threshold.
16. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the request is received during a PDU session establishment procedure associated with a UE from which the AN node receives the uplink PDU.
17. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the request is received during a modification procedure associated with the PDU session, wherein the PDU session is associated with a UE from which the AN node receives the uplink PDU.
18. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the UPF is a PDU session anchor (PSA) UPF associated with the PDU session.
19. An apparatus comprising one or more processors coupled with a non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method including:
receiving from a session management function (SMF), a request for monitoring a Quality of Service (QoS) event associated with a packet delay; and
receiving from an access network (AN) node over more than one user plane (UP) path, a protocol data unit (PDU) including an uplink PDU, wherein the PDU further includes a timestamp indicating at which time point the PDU leaves the AN node;
wherein the packet delay is a duration between the time point indicated by the timestamp and a time point at which the PDU arrives at the apparatus; and
monitoring the packet delay over each of the user plane (UP) paths and reporting the packet delay over each of the UP paths to the SMF.
20. The apparatus according to claim 19 , wherein the method further comprises:
determining whether the QoS event occurs according to the packet delay.
21. The apparatus according to claim 19 , wherein the method further comprises:
reporting the packet delay if the QoS event occurs, wherein the QoS event includes that the packet delay associated with the time point indicated by the timestamp exceeds a threshold.
22. The apparatus according to claim 19 , wherein the method further comprises:
determining the packet delay according to the time point indicated by the timestamp.
23. The apparatus according to claim 19 , wherein the request is received during a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment procedure associated with a UE from which the AN node receives the uplink PDU.
24. The apparatus according to claim 19 , wherein the apparatus is a PDU session anchor (PSA) UPF associated with the PDU session.