Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Jianning Liu

Chunshan Xiong

Lei Zhu

Yan Li

Fangyuan Zhu

Fang Yu

Zhixian Xiang

Anni Wei

Haitao Xia

Ning He

Patrice Hede

Xu Yang

Embodiments of this application provide a roaming method. The method includes: A terminal device accesses a second PLMN when the terminal device cannot access a first PLMN, where a dynamic roaming agreement between the second PLMN and the first PLMN is enabled; the terminal device receives indication information from the second PLMN, where the indication information is used to indicate to disable the dynamic roaming agreement between the second PLMN and the first PLMN; and the terminal device sends an access request message to the first PLMN based on the indication information.

Roaming method, apparatus, and system

A method includes a communication apparatus receives first parameter information of an air interface scheduling resource allocated by an access network device accessed by a terminal device, where the first parameter information includes a length of a first periodicity and a first start moment. The communication apparatus determines, based on the first parameter information, second parameter information of a scheduling resource for processing first uplink data, where the second parameter information includes a length of a second periodicity and a second start moment. Based on the foregoing solution, the communication apparatus receives the first parameter information of the air interface scheduling resource, and adjusts, based on the first parameter information, a periodicity and/or a start moment for locally processing the uplink data, so that an end-to-end latency is reduced, thereby improving user experience.

Communication method, apparatus, and system

A data packet sending method including obtaining a first data packet from a first home address and sent by a mobile node, determining, according to routing control policy information, whether to enable routing control for the first data packet, backing up the first data packet, in response to determining to enable routing control for the first data packet, sending a backup first data packet to a designated routing node according to the home address status information in the routing control policy information, and sending the first data packet to a destination node via a current mobile router of the destination node through a tunnel with the current mobile router of the destination node.

Data packet sending method, mobile router, and network device

The disclosure discloses systems and methods for network function processing. In one embodiment, a method includes: separately sending, by a network function agent module in an enhanced VNF entity, a reconstruction request to a physical network element management module and a virtual network element management module. The request includes connection point information. The method further includes receiving, by a PNF entity in the enhanced VNF entity, a first connection instruction sent by the physical network element management module, and establishing a connection to the network function agent module based on connection point information in the first connection instruction. The method additionally includes receiving, by a VNF entity in the enhanced VNF entity, a second connection instruction sent by the virtual network element management module, and establishing a connection to the network function agent module based on connection point information in the second connection instruction. By using the systems and methods disclosed herein, resource utilization and reliability of hybrid networks can be improved.

Network function processing method and related device

An alarm information reporting method and apparatus are provided. The method is applied to an NFVI. A monitor is arranged at an NFVI hardware layer, a software layer includes a VNF virtual machine, and a monitor, an alarm classifier, and a virtual machine manager are arranged at the software layer. The method includes: detecting, by the monitor, physical resource alarm information and sending the physical resource alarm information to the alarm classifier; obtaining, by the alarm classifier, virtual machine information from the virtual machine manager based on the physical resource alarm information and sending the physical resource alarm information to an analog processor corresponding to the virtual machine information; and obtaining, by the analog processor, virtual resource alarm information based on the physical resource alarm information and reporting the physical resource alarm information and the virtual resource alarm information to a VNF in a virtual machine.

Alarm information reporting method and apparatus

The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes after a service management system SMS detects that operating performance data of a VNF is abnormal, sending network service association request information to a system management module, where the network service association request information is used by the system management module to query a fault and feed back a network service association response to the SMS. The method also includes performing, by the SMS, fault diagnosis according to the network service fault association response and the operating performance data of the VNF, to obtain a network service fault diagnosis report. Additionally, the method includes sending the network service fault diagnosis report to the system management module, where the network service fault diagnosis report is used by the system management module to perform fault recovery.

Network service fault handling method, service management system, and system management module

A troubleshooting method based on network function virtualization is provided, where the troubleshooting method may include: obtaining, by a first function management entity, fault information of a function entity; triggering, by the first function management entity, fault correlation processing according to the fault information, and formulating a troubleshooting policy according to a result of the fault correlation processing; and if the troubleshooting policy is formulated when troubleshooting time arrives, processing, by the first function management entity, a fault according to the troubleshooting policy; or if the troubleshooting policy is not formulated, processing, by the first function management entity, a fault according to a preset troubleshooting policy, where the preset troubleshooting policy is a policy formulated for a fault generated due to a reason of the function entity, so as to ensure that a service is not interrupted in a troubleshooting process, so that user experience is improved.

Troubleshooting method based on network function virtualization, and device

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a VNF package operation method and apparatus, so as to resolve a technical problem of relatively poor information security because a current VNF package is targeted at all user equipments instead of only some user equipments. A private type is defined in embodiments of the present invention. If a type of a VNF package is the private type, only an authorized user is allowed to use this VNF package, so that the VNF package can be opened to only some user equipments. A specific authorization scope may be self-defined. Therefore, information security is improved, and the problem that cannot be resolved in the prior art is resolved, so as to provide a better service for a user.

VNF package operation method and apparatus

System and method for resource management are disclosed. These include receiving, by a virtualized network function (VNF) manger (VNFM) entity, from a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO) entity a granting indication including a granting granularity in which the NFVO entity permits the VNFM entity to perform multiple VNF management operations for one or more VNFs, determining, by the VNFM entity, that a first VNF management operation is in a scope of permission based on the granting indication upon the first VNF management operation being triggered, and sending, by the VNFM entity, a first resource allocation request for the first VNF management operation to a virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) entity.

System and method for resource management

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a data packet sending method, a mobile router, and a network device for solving a technical problem in the prior art that data cannot be sent to a designated network node. In an embodiment, routing control policy information is set, and when a data packet is obtained, how to send the data packet may be determined according to the routing control policy information.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a routing method and a routing apparatus. The routing method includes: receiving a first data packet sent by a first mobile node to a first communication peer end, where the first mobility router is a mobility router in a visited network of the first mobile node, and the first data packet includes an address of the first communication peer end; acquiring an address of a proxy routing entity based on the address of the first communication peer end, where the proxy routing entity is located in a communication path between the first mobility router and the first communication peer end; establishing a first tunnel to the proxy routing entity based on the address of the proxy routing entity; and transmitting, by using the first tunnel, a data packet sent by the first communication peer end to the first mobile node.

Routing method and routing apparatus

Embodiments provide a fault management method, which can implement fault reporting and processing in an NFV environment. The method includes acquiring first fault information, including a faulty entity identifier and a fault type, of a network functions virtualization infrastructure NFVI entity, where the first fault information is used to indicate that a fault occurs in a first NFVI entity having the faulty entity identifier. The method also includes generating first comprehensive fault information according to the first fault information, where the first comprehensive fault information comprises the first fault information and correlated fault information of the first fault information. The method also includes performing fault repair or reporting processing according to the first comprehensive fault information.

Fault management method, entity, and system

The present invention discloses a data transmission method and apparatus. According to the present invention, when transmitting data by using a first radio bearer, a UE receives radio resource control connection reconfiguration information sent by a base station; the UE obtains a second radio bearer according to the radio resource control connection reconfiguration information; the UE sends radio resource control connection reconfiguration completion information to the base station; the UE transmits a part of the data which has not been transmitted by using the second radio bearer. The solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention are suitable to be adopted during switch between an adaptive streaming mode and a progressive download mode.

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