Flow-based quality of experience as a service

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for receiving telemetry data and computing a client quality of experience (QoE) score for each traffic flow associated with a client from the received telemetry data. Performance data for each traffic flow is aggregated to arrive at an overall radio availability score, which can then be used to identify a list of recommended target radios that are more likely to service the client with better QoE than the radio to which the client is currently associated. Depending on certain considerations, e.g., whether a client has recently been steered to a new radio(s), or if steering is imminent, the recommended list of target radios are filtered to arrive at a subset of the recommended list identifying the most preferred target radios to which clients can be steered. Steering recommendations can be generated based on the recommended list.