Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Jinyin Zhu

Juying Gan

Ralf Keller

Yunjie Lu

Afshin Abtin

Xiaoming Li

Yingjiao He

Yong Yang

Zhiwei Qu

Wu Wang

Zhansheng Wei

George Foti

Xinyu Zhang

Kai Zhang

Susana Fernandez Alonso

Hui Calvin Yang

Wenliang Xu

Shabnam Sultana

Angel Navas Cornejo

Kefeng Kenny Zhang

Venkata Ramesh Balabhadruni

Deqin Zhan

Jesús Ángel De Gregorio Rodríguez

Yongzhong Liang

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for access or RAT restriction. A method at a first access management entity of a network comprises determining that a user equipment (UE) is using LTE-M radio access technology (RAT). The method further comprises obtaining access restriction or RAT restriction data associated with the UE, wherein the access restriction or RAT restriction data indicates that LTE-M RAT type is restricted. The method further comprises determining whether the UE using LTE-M is allowed to attach or register to the network based on the obtained access restriction or RAT restriction data associated with the UE.

Method and apparatus for access or RAT restriction

Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an enhanced Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) association procedure for session restoration. In this regard, a method performed by a PFCP node comprises deleting one or more PFCP sessions of the PFCP node that are associated with a failed PFCP entity or with a failed PFCP path. The method further comprises sending, to a PFCP peer node, a node level message to request that the PFCP peer node delete a corresponding one or more PFCP sessions of the PFCP peer node that are associated with the failed PFCP entity or with the failed PFCP path, wherein the node level message comprises an indication of the corresponding one or more PFCP sessions. Some embodiments provide that the node level message comprises a PFCP Association Setup Request including sessions retention information to indicate whether to retain PFCP sessions associated with the PFCP Association Setup Request.

Enhanced PFCP association procedure for session restoration

Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for subscribing a notification of a change of a network function. A method for subscribing to notification of a change of a network function may comprise: transmitting (S) a subscription message to a monitoring network function; and receiving (S) a notification from the monitoring network function to notify a change from the network function whose status is required to be monitored. The subscription message indicates of the network function. The attribute comprises a serving scope indicating one or more target served area of the network function whose status is required to be monitored. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a simple and fast implementation for subscribing notification of change of network function may be achieved. Particularly, both the response time and the accuracy of the notification about a change of a subscribed network function may be improved.

Method and apparatus for subscribing change notification of network function

A method and apparatus for local application server discovery in edge computing. A method at a network node comprises determining whether one or more domain name system (DNS) servers in an edge computing of a network are available for a user equipment (UE) based on at least one of local configuration information, the UE's current location, the UE's capability or the UE's user subscription. The edge computing is close to the UE. The method further comprises in response to a positive determination, sending, to the UE, a first message including respective address of the one or more DNS servers in the edge computing of the network.

Method and apparatus for local application server discovery in mobile edge computing

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for allocating a PDU session ID for a terminal device. The method comprises: selecting (S), for a terminal device, a protocol data unit session identity, PDU session ID, from a group of PDU session IDs. The group of PDU session IDs are not allocated to the terminal device. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the network node may select, for the terminal device, a PDU session ID from a group of PDU session IDs, which are not allocated to the terminal device yet. Thus, any newly selected PDU session ID may be ensured as unique.

Method and apparatus for allocating PDU session ID for terminal device

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for session management. A method implemented at a first network function (NF) may comprise detecting that a path between the first NF and a second NF is failed or the second NF is failed, wherein the second NF maintains one or more data network connections or sessions established between one or more user equipments (UEs) and one or more data networks; selecting an available second NF for the at least one of the one or more data network connections or sessions; sending at least one address or address range of at least one UE corresponding to the at least one of the one or more data network connections or sessions and respective priority metric of the at least one address or address range to the available second NF.

Method and apparatus for session management

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for user plane path failure and recovery handling A method comprises detecting that a user plane path is failed; and monitoring the user plane path within a configurable period to determine whether the user plane path is recovered or not.

Method and apparatus for user plane path failure and recovery handling

Methods, apparatus and computer program products for binding information management. A method implemented at a policy control node in a wireless communication network comprises: obtaining information indicating a collocated deployment of a session management node and a binding support node (); and inhibiting, in response to the information, a registration of binding information to the binding support node (). A policy control node can know that a binding support node is collocated with a session management node, and no registration of binding information to the binding support node will be triggered for the policy control node.

Method and apparatus for binding information management

The present disclosure relates to a serving gateway control plane function to manage a plurality of serving gateway user plane functions, and a mobility management entity to communicate with the serving gateway control plane function. Embodiments may provide a method for the serving gateway control plane function. The method includes: connecting with the plurality of serving gateway user plane functions; storing serving area information of the plurality of serving gateway user plane functions; selecting a first serving gateway user plane function among the plurality of serving gateway user plane functions for a user equipment, according to location of the user equipment and the serving area information of the plurality of serving gateway user plane functions; and sending serving area information of the first serving gateway user plane function to a mobility management entity.

Serving gateway control plane function to manage a plurality of serving gateway user plane functions, and mobility management entity to communicate with the same

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for network triggered service restoration (NTSR). According to an embodiment, a serving gateway (SGW) obtains, from a mobility management entity (MME), information capable of indicating whether to apply NTSR for a terminal device. In response to detecting a failure of the MME, the SGW determines whether to apply NTSR for the terminal device based on the obtained information.

Methods and apparatuses for network triggered service restoration

A method of establishing a Voice over Internet Protocol, VoI P, call between a calling User Equipment, UE, and a called UE, wherein said calling UE is served by a core network via a packet-switched radio access network, PS-RAN, and wherein a bearer is to be established between said calling U E and a gateway node in said core network, over said PS-RAN, for obtaining access to an Internet Protocol, IP, multimedia subsystem, I MS, network, wherein said method comprises the steps receiving, by a an IMS Call Session Control Function, CSCF, node a notification message thereby notifying said I MS node that said VoIP call establishment is in progress and initiating, by said I MS CSCF, re-establishment of said bearer between said calling UE and said gateway node, over said PS-RAN, in case said establishment of said bearer has failed due to a temporary failure.

Method of establishing a voice over internet protocol, VoIP, call between a calling user equipment, UE, and a called UE

Methods and apparatuses for exposure of presence reporting area (PRA) functionality are disclosed for a wireless communication system. According to an embodiment, a service capability exposure function (SCEF) entity receives, from a requesting server, a first request for initiating PRA functionality for at least one user equipment (UE). The PRA functionality is used to monitor whether the at least one UE is located in at least one area of interest. The SCEF entity obtains at least one monitored result for the at least one UE from a mobility management node via a home subscriber server (HSS) or via a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) entity. The SCEF entity sends the at least one monitored result to the requesting server.

Methods and apparatuses for exposure of presence reporting area functionality

A method for communications is proposed. The method may comprise transmit a request for a packet data network connection of the terminal device to a network node. The method may further comprise receiving a response to the request from the network node. The response may indicate whether user plane setup is needed for data transfer on the packet data network connection.

Configuration of a packet data network connection

The present disclosure proposes a method of a policy controlling device in a communication network, for supporting Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) specific 3GPP Data Off Exempt Services (DOES), the method comprises providing one or more uplink filters associated with a PLMN specific list of 3GPP DOES to a terminal device in the communication network. According to various aspects and embodiments of the method, per PLMN 3GPP DOES may be supported with a simplified scheme, and/or impact to existing network can be reduced.

Methods and apparatuses for supporting data off exempt services in a communication system

The embodiments herein relate to terminating call handling for power saving activated user equipment. In one embodiment, there proposes a method in a IP Multimedia Subsystem Application Server, IMS-AS, for handling a terminating call for a User Equipment, UE, using power saving functionality, comprising: obtaining power saving information of the UE; handling the terminating call based on the power saving information. With the embodiments, the time and network resource for the terminating call can be saved and the user's experience can be enhanced.

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Jinyin Zhu