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ZTE Communications ›› 2021, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (3): 64-72.DOI: 10.12142/ZTECOM.202103008

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QoE Management for 5G New Radio

ZHANG Man(), LI Dapeng, LIU Zhuang, GAO Yin   

  1. Algorithm Department, Wireless Product R&D Institute, ZTE Corporation, Shanghai 201203, China
  • Received:2021-05-19 Online:2021-09-25 Published:2021-10-11
  • About author:ZHANG Man (zhang.man4@zte.com.cn) received her master’s degree in communication engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China in 2020. She is currently a technology pre-research engineer at the Algorithm Department, ZTE Corporation. Her research focuses on next generation radio access network.|LI Dapeng received the M.S. degree in computer science from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2003. He is currently a senior researcher in ZTE Corporation, China and mainly focus on research and implementation of wireless access network system.|LIU Zhuang received his master’s degree in computer science from Xidian University, China in 2003. He is currently a senior 5G research engineer at the R&D center of ZTE Corporation and the State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia, China. His research interests include 5G wireless communications and signal processing. He has filed more than 100 patents.|GAO Yin received her master’s degree in circuit and system from Xidian University, China in 2005. Since 2005 she has been with the research center of ZTE and engaged in the study of 4G/5G technology. She has authored or co-authored about hundreds of proposals for 3GPP meeting and journal papers in wireless communications and filed more than 100 patents. In May, 2021 she was elected as 3GPP RAN3 Chairman.

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Abstract:

Quality of Experience (QoE) is used to monitor the user experience of telecommunication services, which has been studied for a long time. In universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN), evolved UTRAN (E-UTRA) and Long Term Evolution (LTE), QoE has also been specified for the improvement of user experience. The 5G New Radio (NR) technology is designed for providing various types of new services, and therefore operators have strong demand to continuously upgrade the 5G network to provide sufficient and good QoE for corresponding services. With new emerging 5G services, 5G QoE management collection aims at specifying the mechanism to collect the experience parameters for the multimedia telephony service for IP multimedia subsystem (IMS), multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS), virtual reality (VR), etc. Taking LTE QoE as a baseline, generic NR QoE management mechanisms for activation, deactivation, configuration, and reporting of QoE measurement are introduced in this paper. Additionally, some enhanced QoE features in NR are discussed, such as radio access network (RAN) overload handling, RAN-visible QoE, per-slice QoE measurement, radio-related measurement, and QoE continuity for mobility. This paper also introduces solutions to NR QoE, which concludes the progress of NR QoE in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).

Key words: NR, QoE, measurement collection, activation, deactivation, mobility, RAN visible QoE, radio?related information