Policy and charging control in the evolved packet system
IEEE Communications Magazine
Policy and charging control in the evolved packet system
IEEE Communications Magazine
Modeling of a QoS Matching and Optimization Function for Multimedia Services in the NGN
MMNS 2009 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services: Wired-Wireless Multimedia Networks and Services Management
Quality of service in WiMAX and LTE networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Analysis of QoS requirements for e-health services and mapping to evolved packet system QoS classes
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications - Special issue on healthcare applications and services in converged networking environments
A survey of QoE assurance in converged networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A token pricing scheme for internet services
ICQT'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Internet charging and QoS technologies: economics of converged, internet-based networks
Improving session continuity through user mobility tracking for EPS inter-serving gateway handover
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
A resource allocation algorithm for users with multiple applications in 4G-LTE
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Cognitive radio architectures for broadband
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Quality of Service Drivers in LTE and LTE-A Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Third Party Multimedia Streaming Control with Guaranteed Quality of Service in Evolved Packet System
International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering
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In this article we describe the QoS concept of the evolved packet system, which was standardized in 3GPP Release 8. The concept provides access network operators and service operators with a set of tools to enable service and subscriber differentiation. Such tools are becoming increasingly important as operators are moving from a single to a multi-service offering at the same time as both the number of mobile broad-band subscribers and the traffic volume per subscriber is rapidly increasing. The "bearer" is a central element of the EPS QoS concept and is the level of granularity for bearer-level QoS control. The network-initiated QoS control paradigm specified in EPS is a set of signaling procedures for managing bearers and controlling their QoS assigned by the network. The EPS QoS concept is class-based, where each bearer is assigned one and only one QoS class identifier by the network. The QCI is a scalar that is used within the access network as a reference to node-specific parameters that control packet forwarding treatment. This class-based approach, together with the network-initiated QoS control paradigm, gives network operators full control over the QoS provided for its offered services for each of its subscriber groups.