Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso

Thorsten Lohmar

Miguel Angel Puente Pestaña

Rodrigo Alvarez Dominguez

Carlos Jimenez Cordon

Veronica Sanchez Vega

Alfonso De Jesus Perez Martinez

Maria Luisa Mas Rosique

Antonio Cañete Martinez

Marcus Ihlar

Ruth Pallares Del Egido

Pablo Molinero Fernandez

Marc Molla

Franco Foresti

Hans Mattsson

Jiehong Yang

Zaheduzzaman Sarker

Linus Andersson

Javier Campo Trapero

John Woods

David Del Peral Chico

Marcos Caballero Del Dedo

Reiner Ludwig

Susana Fernandez Alonso

Göran Eriksson

Yong Yang

Attila Mihály

Göran Rune

Wenliang Xu

Stefan Håkansson

Ibon Gochi Garcia

Irene Martin Cabello

Carlota Villasante

Julian Espinosa Santos

Yumei Song

Esperanza Alonso Franco

Matthias Reinhold

Miguel Angel Julian Aguilar

Stephen Terrill

Fabian Castro Castro

Ana Maria Lopez Nieto

Aldo Bolle

Erik Wikström

Miguel Angel Pallares Lopez

Javier Muñoz Kirschberg

Carlota Villasante Marcos

Maria Esther Terrero Díaz-Chirón

Juan Jose Delgado Reimundez

Stuart Clark

Miguel Angel Recio Rodriguez

Antonio Camas Maestre

Juan Francisco Canton Padilla

Victor Gomez-hidalgo Perez

Daniel Torres Gonzalez

Raul Barreda Soto

Simone Ferlin

Tianmei Liang

Francisco Maldonado Martos

Maria Esther Terrero Diaz-Chirón

Mirja Kuehlewind

Alfonso De Jesús Perez Martinez

Methods, apparatus and systems performed and configured to operate in a wireless communication network are presented. In example implementations, a request to register or update a Network Function, NF, profile of an NF in a Network Repository Function, NRF, is sent from the NF to the NRF. The NF profile signaled via the request comprises one or more parameters relating to one or more of a hardware characteristic of hardware comprised in the wireless communication network, a latency characteristic of the wireless communication network, and a throughput characteristic of the wireless communication network. An acknowledgement of the request may be sent from the NRF to the NF.

Method, apparatus and system for NF selection

A technique for handling cookie information in a wireless communication network is presented. According to an exemplary aspect, a method of storing cookie information in a core network domain (CND) of the wireless communication network is presented. The method is performed in the CND and comprises receiving, from an entity in a content provider domain (CPD), a cookie handling request including identification information and cookie information, wherein the identification information is configured to be mapped on a subscription in a subscriber database and wherein the cookie information is configured to control execution of an application hosted in the CPD for a wireless subscriber device associated with the subscription. The method also comprises triggering storage of the cookie information in the CND and in association with the subscription.

Technique for storing cookie information in a core network domain of a wireless communication network

A method for operating a policy control entity () in a cellular network, the method comprising: —receiving subscriber data comprising a policy with an indication that a conditional Quality-of-Service handling is to be applied to a data packet session exchanged between a user equipment of a subscriber and an application in dependence on at least one condition, the sub-scriber data further comprising a charging indication used for charging the subscriber for the data packet session in dependence on the fact whether the conditional Quality-of-Service handling has been applied to the data packet session, —generating a policy and charging rule for the data packet session, the policy and charging rule comprising the conditional Quality-of-Service handling of the data packet session in dependence on the condition and the charging of the subscriber in dependence on the fact whether the conditional Quality-of-Service handling has been applied or not, —transmitting the generated policy and charging rule to a session management entity of the cellular network configured to manage the data packet session in the cellular network.

Quality of service dependent policy rules

A technique for transmitting and using a session identifier of a session between a user plane gateway and a control plane gateway is disclosed. In a method implementation, a third gateway, GW, in a Control Plane, CP, of an Evolved Packet Core, EPC, transmits, to a fourth GW in the CP, a session identifier of a first session established between a second GW in a User Plane, UP, of the EPC and the third GW, wherein the second GW is co-located with a first GW in the UP and wherein the first GW has a communication interface to the fourth GW. The fourth GW may receive the session identifier from the third GW and provide the session identifier to the first GW. The first GW may receive a data packet, forward the data packet to the second GW and provide, to the second GW, the session identifier. The second GW may receive the data packet from the first GW and obtain the session identifier from the first GW.

Session identifier handling for co-located user plane gateways

A method of operating a user plane function UPF node of a core network CN for a communication network is provided. An association message is transmitted to a session management function SMF node of the CN. The association message includes an indication that the UPF node supports a capability to modify session traffic in response to a handover. A session establishment request message is received from the SMF node. The session establishment request message includes an indication to modify session traffic of a protocol data unit PDU session for the communication device in response to handover. Methods relating to session management function SMF nodes and policy control function PCF nodes are also provided.

Methods supporting a capability to modify session traffic in response to a handover and related network nodes

A computer-implemented method, performed by a first node (), for verifying a second node () as a server for an application. The first node () obtains (), from a third node (), a first request to verify a first Internet Protocol (IP) address for a first domain for the application. The first request indicates the first domain and the first IP address. The first node () sends () a first connection request to the second node () using the first IP address. The first connection request comprises the first domain indicated in the first request. The first node () receives (), in response to the sent first connection request, an indication from the second node (). The indication comprises a certificate of the second node (). The first node () also sends () a message to the third node () based on a result of the validation and authentication.

First node, second node, third node, communications system and methods performed, thereby for verifying the second node as a server for an application

A method of enabling the core network to determine the RAT type in a dual connection non-standalone configuration. The RAT type is either embedded in the GTP-U header by the RAN which is then extracted by the PGW-U or it is derived by the PGW-U by using a Reinforcement Language Agent activated by the SPR, through the PCRF and the PGW-C.

Methods of and devices for enabling a core network of a mobile communication network to perform mobility actions based on a radio access technology, RAT, with which a user equipment, UE, connects to said core network

A method for enabling an efficient provisioning of Packet Flow Descriptors (PFD) for the detection of applications in 5GC. The method comprises receiving a PFD together with an application identifier and at least one further parameter, aggregating the PFD with other PFDs of the application identifier sharing the at least one further parameter and storing the aggregated set of PFDs together with the application identifier and at least one further parameter in a user data repository entity. The method further comprises receiving a PFD request including the application identifier and at least one further parameter and transmitting a set of PFDs matching the application identifier and the at least one further parameter. The at least one further parameter comprises at least one of an application version, an operating system identifier, an operating system version, a UE identifier, a UE vendor identifier, or a UE model type.

Packet flow descriptor provisioning

A network operator node () is provided. The network operator node () includes processing circuitry () configured to receive data traffic that is encrypted using one of an uplink and downlink public cryptographic key, decrypt the data traffic using one of an uplink and downlink private cryptographic key, apply at least a first traffic management action to the decrypted data traffic, after applying at least the first traffic management action, encrypt the data traffic using one of an application server, AS, public cryptographic key and an application client, AC, public cryptographic key where the AS public cryptographic key is associated with an AS private cryptographic key that remains unshared with the network operator node (), and the AC public cryptographic key is associated with an AC private cryptographic key that remains unshared with the network operator node ().

Traffic management with asymmetric traffic encryption in 5G networks

A method for providing a policy rule from a User Equipment to a mobile communication system. The method includes establishing a communication channel between the UE and a User Plane entity of the mobile communication system, sending the policy rule through the communication channel from the UE to the UP entity and receiving at the UE from the UP entity an indication of whether the policy rule is accepted or rejected. The UP entity may send the policy rule to a first Control Plane entity for authorization. In turn, the first CP entity may send the policy rule to a second Control Plane entity for authorization. The User Plane entity may be a User Plane Function including a Collaborative Performance Enhancement (COPE) entity.

Policy provisioning to a mobile communication system

A method for deactivating Server Name Indication, SNI, encryption in a telecommunication network, wherein said telecommunication network comprises a Domain Name System, DNS, server, said method comprising the steps of receiving, by said DNS server, from a User Equipment, UE, a DNS query comprising a Domain Name to be converted to an Internet Protocol, IP, address, determining, by said DNS server, that SNI encryption is to be deactivated for subsequent traffic associated with said Domain Name, forwarding, by said DNS server, said DNS query to an external DNS server, wherein said DNS query comprises said Domain Name and a request for deactivating SNI encryption, receiving, by said DNS server, from said external DNS server, a DNS answer, wherein said DNS answer comprises said converted IP address and wherein said DNS answer is free from encryption keys for encrypting SNI and forwarding, by said DNS server, said DNS answer comprising said converted IP address to said UE, wherein said DNS answer is free from encryption keys such that said UE is not able to encrypt said SNI in said subsequent traffic.

Methods and nodes for deactivating server name indication, SNI, encryption in a telecommunication network

Implementation of an application rule for an application to be accessed by a User Equipment, UE, in a user session in a Service Based Architecture, SBA, domain in a core network of a telecommunications system is disclosed. The SBA, among others, comprises a Policy Control Function, PCF (), an Application Function, AF (), and a Session Management Function, SMF (). The method comprising the steps of receiving, by the PCF (), an application rule comprising an AF Identifier, AF-ID, identifying the application rule, an Application Identifier, App-ID, identifying the application, and at least one service requirement for processing the application in the SBA domain. The PCF () instructing the SMF () to execute the at least one service requirement to all present and future user sessions pertaining to the respective application. Complementary methods of supporting the execution of the application rule and devices are also presented.

Methods of and devices for implementing and executing policy rules on a per application basis in a telecommunications system

A method of and a Session Management Function, SMF, for provisioning processing rules for user traffic at a User Plane Function, UPF, in a core network of a telecommunication network are disclosed. The core network comprises an Access and Mobility Management Function, AMF and a Policy Control Function, PCF. The SMF first transmits to the PCF a request for obtaining processing rules for user traffic; the SMF then receives from the PCF processing rules enabling at least one of a Uniform Resource Identifier, URI, level processing policy and a Server Name Indication, SNI, level processing policy for the user traffic and provision the received processing rules with the UPF. The UPF can then process user traffic based on the provisioned processing rules, differentiating the user traffic at the more detailed URI and/or SNI level.

Method of and a session management function for provisioning a user plane function, a method of and a user plane function for processing user traffic and a method of and charging function for charging user traffic

A method of supporting Packet Flow Descriptor, PFD, management in a Service Based Architecture, SBA, based telecommunication network, wherein said telecommunication network comprises an Application Function, AF, that is arranged for implementing an Packet Flow Descriptor, PFD, management service allowing request and response message from and to a Network Exposure Function, NEF, comprised by said telecommunication network, said method comprises the steps of receiving, by said AF, from said NEF, a request message for requesting a PFD, wherein said request message comprises an application identification for identifying an application transmitting, by said AF, to said NEF, a response message comprising said application identification and said requested PFD. A complementary method and corresponding network functions and a computer program product are also presented herein.

Method of supporting packet flow descriptor management in a service based architecture based telecommunication network

A node of a wireless communication network receives first data indicating a desired quality of experience level for user data traffic of a user of the wireless communication network. Based on a control policy and the desired quality of experience level, the node determines a rule for controlling the user data traffic. Further, the node obtains second data indicating an estimated quality of experience level for the user data traffic subject to control according to the rule. Based on the first data and the second data, the node adapts the control policy, e.g., using a reinforcement learning, RL, mechanism.

Machine learning based adaptation of QoE control policy

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Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso