Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Rana Pratap Sircar

Athanasios Karapantelakis

Qiang Li

Leonid Mokrushin

Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan

Maxim Teslenko

Swarup Kumar Mohalik

Salem Abid Ahmed

Ramani Venkatakrishnan

Methods () and devices () enable tracking using existing mobile networks' infrastructure. A radio module (, R,) that is attached to a shipment sends one or more network attachment requests including a network-type identifier. Although the requests are rejected, the network records location information if the network-type identifier is actively associated with a shipment identifier.

Method and system for cellular-based shipment tracking

The invention relates to method and devices of enabling determination of overall Quality of Service (QoS) of at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device. In an aspect of the invention, a method of a network node () is provided of enabling determining of an overall QoS of at least one IoT device. The method comprises transmitting (S), to a device connectivity middleware (DCM) node (), an identifier of said at least one IoT device () for which a QoS measure is to be acquired, receiving (S), from the DCM node (), a network profile of the IoT device () associated with said identifier, transmitting (S), to a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF,), a request for the QoS measure of the IoT device () for the received network profile, the SCEF () acquiring the QoS measure from a Policy and Charging Control (PCC) function (), receiving (S), from the SCEF, the requested QoS measure of the IoT device (), transmitting (S), to a Lightweight Machine-to-Machine (LWM2M) device (), a request for availability information for said at least one IoT device (), and receiving (S), from the LWM2M device (), the requested availability information, wherein the received QoS measure and the availability information is taken into account for determining the overall QoS of said at least one IoT device ().

Devices and methods for QoS determination of IoT-based applications

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