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Sandvine Corporation

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.

Nokia of America Corporation

Lucent Technologies Inc.

Alcatel

Nokia Technologies Oy

Sridhar, Kamakshi

Pauwels, Ludwig

Kamakshi Sridhar

Alexander Havang

David Elie-Dit-Cosaque

Maarten Petrus Joseph Vissers

Lars Anton Gunnarsson

Ty Sayers

Mostafa Mohamed Hassan

Gerard Damm

Jonathan Dean Segel

Atiya Suhail

Sven Ooghe

Tony Van Kerckhove

Hakki Cankaya

Peter Thomas Salanki

Matthew Lee Farmer

Maher Ali

Ludwig Alice Pauwels

Kavi Kanasupramaniam

Kenneth David Faiczak

Hajo Bakker

Edward Grinshpun

Peter Roberts

An Ge

Charles Payette

Ljubisa Tancevski

Jessy Victor Rouyer

Tushar Mulkar

Alexander Osman

Nilanjan Sarkar

Akash Manchanhalli Suresh

Roberto Lucarelli

Mark Daniel Yamada

Samuel Cameron Cullen

Sheryl Tarnaske

Nick St Pierre

John Hoover

David Amedeo

Pavle Mihajlovic

Mark E Jacobs

Ashok N Rudrapatna

Zulfiquar Sayeed

Anil M Rao

Jin He

Italo Busi

Thomas Wayne Anderson

Ahmed A Tarraf

Andreas Weber

James Paul Seymour

Stepan Kucera

Gopal N Kumar

Alberto Bellato

Alberto Conte

Shahid Akhtar

Tomas S Young

Vincenzo Sestito

Kariem Fahmi

Marcus Weldon

John Coulter

Peter Busschbach

Philippe Dauchy

Frank R Favichia

Donald P Zriny

Gangaraju K Siddalingaiah

Ambuj Mittal

Taeho Kim

Dmitry Demianchik

James Talley

Gerardo A Gonzalez

Gino Dion

Johan Van Besouw

Lyndon Wayne Cantor

Jorge Quan

Seshu Dommaraju

James Beecker

Arman Naeiman

Marcel Szekely

Kenneth Faiczak

Manuel Jesus Rebellon Tascon

Kris Kobernat

Ativa Suhail

Jim Seymour

Roberto Guglielmi

Oscar Rodriguez

Fabian Willebrand

Wonhong Cho

Nicolas St Pierre

Rajani Nesargikar

Edward A Grinshpun

Sheryl Tamaske

Chuck Payette

Ahmed Tarraf

David-Elie-Dit Cosaque

David Elie Dit Cosaque

A method for traffic flow acceleration including: retrieving a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) User Datagram Protocol (UDP) or Quick UDP Internet Connection (QUIC) traffic flow from the computer network; mapping the traffic flow to a subscriber; determining congestion control parameters associated with the traffic flow; determining subscriber buffer management parameters based on the subscriber and the congestion control parameters; and managing a buffer depth at a subscriber level based on the subscriber buffer management parameters. A system for traffic flow acceleration including: an analysis module configured to retrieve a TCP, UDP or QUIC traffic flow and map the traffic flow to a subscriber; a congestion control module configured to determine congestion control parameters associated with the traffic flow; and a buffer management module configured to determine subscriber buffer management parameters based on the subscriber and the congestion control parameters; and manage a buffer depth at a subscriber level.

System and method for traffic flow acceleration

A method and system for root cause analysis in a computer network. The method includes: determining a degradation of QoE for at least one traffic flow of at least one user; determining a traffic pattern associated with the degradation of the QoE; determining a root cause for the degradation based on the traffic pattern; and implementing a traffic action response based on the root cause. The system includes: a QoE module configured to determine a degradation of QoE for at least one traffic flow of at least one user; a detection module configured to determine a traffic pattern associated with the degradation of the QoE; a issue determination module configured to determine a root cause for the degradation based on the traffic pattern; and a traffic action module configured to implement a traffic action response based on the root cause.

System and method for root cause analysis in a computer network

A method for delivering quality of service to a moving user equipment in a computer network, the method including: identifying a moving user equipment on the computer network; predicting a path of travel for the user equipment; determining a load of a cell in the path of travel; determining a traffic action response based on the load of the cell; and providing the traffic action. A system for delivering quality of service to a moving user equipment in a computer network, the system including: a location module configured to identify a moving user equipment on the computer network; an analysis module configured to predict a path of travel for the user equipment; a load module configured to determine a load of a cell in the path of travel; and a traffic action module configured to determine a traffic action response based on the load of the cell and provide for the traffic action.

System and method for delivering quality of service

A method for providing a network portal including: collecting network data for at least one network provider; analyzing the network data; determining a user role of a user accessing the network portal to review the network data; and providing a visualization of the analyzed network data based on the user role of the user accessing the portal. A system for providing a network portal including: a data collection module configured to collect network data for at least one network provider; an analysis module configured to analyze the network data; a user module configured to determine a user role of a user accessing the network portal to review the network data; and a reporting module configured to provide a visualization of the analyzed network data based on the user role of the user accessing the portal.

System and method for providing a network traffic portal

A method for managing mobile network congestion including: determining cell metrics over a predetermined time interval for each cell of a plurality of cells; determining correlations between the cell metrics for each cell; determining whether any cell of the plurality of cell are congestion based on the correlations; determining a type of congestion for any cell determined to be congested; and determining traffic actions based on the type of congestion. A system for managing mobile network congestion having: a collection module configured to determine cell metrics over a predetermined time interval for each cell of a plurality of cells; a correlation module configured to determine correlations between the cell metrics; an analysis module configured to determine whether any cell is congestion based on the correlations and a type of congestion for any cell determined to be congested; and a traffic action module configured to determine traffic actions.

Method and system for managing mobile network congestion

A method for subscriber tier plan adjustment including: monitoring traffic flow for one or more subscriber of a plurality of subscribers on an operator's network; determining a bandwidth requirement for each of the one or more subscribers; determining a recommended tier plan for each subscriber based on the subscribers' bandwidth requirement; and providing the recommended tier plan for each of the subscribers to a network operator. A system for subscriber tier plan adjustment including: a learning module configured to monitor traffic flow for one or more subscribers of a plurality of subscribers on a network and determine a bandwidth requirement of each of the one or more subscribers; an analysis module configured to determine a recommended tier plan for each of the subscribers based on each subscriber's bandwidth requirement; and a notification module configured to provide the recommended tier plan for each subscriber.

System and method for subscriber tier plan adjustment in a computer network

A method for calibration of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) traffic flow acceleration in a computer network, the method including: initializing a maximum congestion window parameter; determining at least one slow start threshold; monitoring the traffic flow within the network; and updating parameters based on the monitored traffic flows. A system for calibration of TOP traffic flow acceleration in a computer network, the system including: an initialization module configured to initialize a maximum congestion window parameter; an analysis module configured to determine at least one slow start threshold; and a monitoring module configured to monitor the traffic flow within the network; and update parameters based on the monitored traffic flows.

System and method for calibration of traffic flow acceleration

A system and method for managing access congestion in a computer network, the system and method including: determining a plurality of channels within the computer network via a subscriber channel module; determining a set of subscribers for each of the channels of the plurality of channels via the subscriber channel module; determining a congestion level of each of the channels of the plurality of channels via an analysis module; determining each subscriber's impact on the respective channel based on each subscriber's network usage via the analysis module; and determining a reallocation of the subscribers to balance the channels, based on the congestion level and each subscriber's network usage, via a distribution module.

Method and system for managing access congestion

A method for determining subscriber experience in a computer network including: defining a plurality of features influencing subscriber experience; initializing a weight for each of the features of the plurality of features; determining a feature value for at least one subscriber for each of the plurality of features; determining a subscriber score for the at least one subscriber based on the feature values and the weight of the feature; determining at least one subscriber with a subscriber score outside a predetermined threshold; and performing a subscriber response action for each subscriber with the subscriber score outside of the predetermined threshold.

System and method for determining subscriber experience in a computer network

A method for congestion management on a network including: determining whether a cell on the network is congested; identifying at least one heavy user on the cell; determine traffic flow criteria of the at least one heavy user; and shape network traffic of the at least one heavy user based on the traffic flow criteria of the heavy user. A system for congestion management on a network including: a QoE module configured to determine whether a cell on the network is congested; an analysis module configured to identify at least one heavy user on the cell and determine traffic flow criteria of the at least one heavy user; and at least one shaper configured to shape network traffic of the at least one heavy user based on the traffic flow criteria of the heavy user.

Method and system for application aware congestion management

A method and system for managing adaptive bitrate video streaming. The method including: retrieving raw data associated with a video stream traffic flow; determining at least one video chunk from the raw data of video stream traffic flow; determining parameters associated with the video chunk; determining a bitrate factor based on the parameters; determining a Quality of Experience (QoE) score based on the bitrate factor; and providing a traffic action based on the QoE score. The system including: an input module configured to retrieve raw data; an analysis module configured to determine at least one video chunk from the raw data and determine parameters associated with the video chunk and a bitrate factor based on the parameters; a QoE module configured to determine a QoE score based on the bitrate factor; and an output module configured to provide a traffic action based on the QoE score.

System and method for managing adaptive bitrate video streaming

A system and a method for traffic management on a network. The method including: determining a desired intent for a network operator's traffic; determining a set of classes for a traffic flow through a link; determining a minimum and target bandwidth for each class in the set of class based on the desired intent; measure user score and bandwidth use for each class; allocate a bandwidth per class based on the minimum and target bandwidth and measured user score; and shape the traffic flow to the allocated bandwidth.

System and method for intent based traffic management

A system and method for creating a model for predicting and reducing subscriber churn in a computer network. The method including: for a predetermined time period: retrieving traffic flow data per subscriber for a plurality of subscribers in the computer network; determining at least one metric per subscriber from the traffic flow data; determining at least one systemic feature associated with the plurality of subscribers; and storing the at least one amalgamated metric and feature; on reaching the predetermined time period create the model by: analyzing at least one metric and at least one feature for the predetermined time period; predicting, per subscriber, whether the subscriber is going to churn within a churn period in the future based on the analysis; validating the prediction by determining whether the subscriber actually churned during the churn period; and creating the model based on the validated predictions.

System and method for predicting and reducing subscriber churn

A method and system for network management on a 5G network. The method including: building a subscriber persona associated with a subscriber on the network; predicting a traffic load on a network function based on the subscriber's persona; and allocating the subscriber to a network function based on the traffic load and the subscriber's persona. The system including: a subscriber persona builder configured to build a subscriber persona associated with a subscriber on the network; an analysis module configured to predict a traffic load on a network function based on the subscriber's persona; and an allocation module configured to allocate the subscriber to a network function based on the traffic load and the subscriber's persona.

System and method for 5G mobile network management

A system and method for Quality of Experience (QoE) management on a network. The method including: determining a set of service categories for an operator's traffic, wherein at least one of the service categories is video streaming; mapping a plurality of traffic flows to each of the service categories; determining a target and minimum intent for each of the service categories; measuring a score and bandwidth use for each of the service category; determining whether each of the service categories are reaching an associated minimum bandwidth intent; if the minimum bandwidth intent is not being reached for at least one service category, adjusting the minimum intent for at least one of the service categories; allocating a bandwidth per service category based on the adjusted minimum intent; and shaping the traffic flow to the allocated bandwidth; otherwise allowing the traffic flow to continue with a current bandwidth allocation.

System and method for quality of experience management through the allocation of bandwidth per service category

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