Granted Patent B2

US 12,256,258 · App. 17/790,316 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Inventors: Mattias Bergström (Sollentuna, SE); Cecilia Eklöf (Täby, SE)

Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)

H04W24/10H04W48/12

Abstract

Claims (42)

1. A method performed by a wireless device for communicating a Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement, comprising:

receiving, from at least one network node, an explicit indication that indicates whether the at least one network node supports Radio Resource Control (RRC) segmentation, wherein the explicit indication comprises one or more of:

an indication received inside a QE configuration container; and

an indication received outside the QoE configuration container and in a message used by the at least one network node to send a QoE measurement configuration to the wireless device; and

transmitting, to the at least one network node, the QoE measurement based on the RRC segmentation in response to receiving the explicit indication that indicates the at least one network node supports the RRC segmentation.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the explicit indication comprises forwarding the indication received outside the QoE configuration container from an access stratum layer in the wireless device to an application layer in the wireless device.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

receiving the explicit indication from the at least one network node further comprises receiving the explicit indication from a first network node that indicates the first network node supports the RRC segmentation; and

transmitting the QoE measurement to the at least one network node further comprises transmitting the QoE measurement to a second network node based on the RRC segmentation.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the QoE measurement comprises one or more of:

determining a permitted size of the QoE measurement; and

truncating the QoE measurement to the permitted size.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein a subset of QoE measurement comprises one of:

a latest acquired QoE measurement; and

a specific type of the QoE measurement.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the QoE measurement comprises one or more of:

employing a QoE measurement buffer of a first size if the explicit indication indicates that the at least one network node supports the RRC segmentation; and

employing the QoE measurement buffer of a second size smaller than the first size if the explicit indication indicates that the at least one network node does not support the RRC segmentation indicating an adjustment to a size of the QoE measurement buffer from an access stratum layer in the wireless device to an application layer in the wireless device.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the QoE measurement comprises one or more of:

discarding the QoE measurement in response to a contradiction related to transmitting the QoE measurement based on the RRC segmentation;

transmitting a subset of the QoE measurement in response to the contradiction related to transmitting the QoE measurement based on the RRC segmentation; and

storing the QoE measurement in response to the contradiction related to transmitting the QoE measurement based on the RRC segmentation.

8. A wireless device, comprising:

processing circuitry configured to cause the wireless device to:

receive, from at least one network node, an explicit indication that indicates whether the at least one network node supports Radio Resource Control (RRC) segmentation, wherein the explicit indication comprises one or more of:

an indication received inside a Quality of Experience (QoE) configuration container; and

an indication received outside the QoE configuration container and in a message used by the at least one network node to send a QoE measurement configuration to the wireless device; and

transmit, to the at least one network node, a QoE measurement based on the RRC segmentation in response to receiving the explicit indication that indicates the at least one network node supports the RRC segmentation; and

power supply circuitry configured to supply power to the wireless device.

9. A method performed by a base station for communicating a Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement, comprising:

transmitting, to a wireless device, an explicit indication that indicates whether the base station supports Radio Resource Control (RRC) segmentation, wherein the explicit indication comprises one or more of:

an indication received inside a QoE configuration container; and

an indication received outside the QoE configuration container and in a message used by the at least one network node to send a QoE measurement configuration to the wireless device; and

receiving, from the wireless device, the QoE measurement based on the RRC segmentation in response to transmitting the indication that indicates the base station supports the RRC segmentation.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein transmitting the indication to the wireless device further comprises providing an explicit indication to indicate a permitted size of the QoE measurement and/or a number of permitted RRC segments.

11. A base station, comprising:

processing circuitry configured to cause the base station to:

transmit, to a wireless device, an indication that indicates whether the base station supports Radio Resource Control (RRC) segmentation, wherein the explicit indication comprises one or more of:

an indication received inside a Quality of Experience (QoE) configuration container;

an indication received outside the QoE configuration container and in a message used by at least one network node to send the QoE measurement configuration to the wireless device; and

receive, from the wireless device, a QoE measurement based on the RRC segmentation in response to transmitting the explicit indication that indicates the base station can support the RRC segmentation; and

power supply circuitry configured to supply power to the base station.

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