Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Huawei Technologies,co., Ltd.

Runze Zhou

Yanping Zhang

Zhongping Chen

Longyu Cao

Lin Shu

Xiaobo Wu

Yang Xin

Weiwei Chong

Yanmei Yang

Qiang Deng

Qing Wei

Riccardo Trivisonno

Clarissa Marquezan

Shengxian Nie

Han Zhou

Jing Liu

Jingwang Ma

Yan Wang

Zhenzhen Cao

Fenqin Zhu

Lei Zhang

Jun Zhu

Jinping Hao

Changchun Xu

Zhenyu Tao

Mingyue Yang

A positioning method, applied to a mobility management network element, includes when learning that a terminal device needs to be handed over from a first access network device to a second access network device, sending a first message to a location management network element, where the first message indicates to suspend positioning measurement on the terminal device, and when learning that the terminal device has been handed over to the second access network device, sending a second message to the location management network element, where the second message enables the location management network element to send a first positioning request, and the first positioning request requests to perform positioning measurement on the terminal device.

Positioning method and related apparatus

The present disclosure relates to external services provided to a network. One example method includes: obtaining a clone service invocation request from an other network entity, wherein the clone service invocation request includes clone service invocation information of a clone of a service provided by an external network entity, and providing a service invocation request to the external network entity, wherein the service invocation request includes service invocation information.

Entities for providing an external service to a network

A communication method and a communications apparatus are disclosed. The method is performed by a control plane function entity and includes: obtaining a correspondence between address information of a user plane function entity and a user plane capability supported by the user plane function entity; receiving a request message from an application server, where the request message is used to request to establish a session for a first service and includes service information of the first service, and the service information includes at least one of broadcast area information and service type information; determining address information of a target user plane function entity based on the correspondence and the service information; and establishing a session connection to the target user plane function entity based on the address information.

Communication method and communications apparatus

Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method, an apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes sending first request information to an access management network element, where the first request information carries an application capability of a terminal device. The method also includes receiving first response information sent by the access management network element. The method further includes sending a session establishment request to a session management network element based on the first response information, where the session establishment request requests to establish a connection to a first application network element. According to the technical solutions provided in this application, interaction signaling between a terminal device and a server can be reduced, and communication latency can be reduced.

Communication method and apparatus and computer-readable storage medium

A session management method, an access management function device, and a session management device, where the method is carried out by an access and mobility management network element and includes: obtaining first subscription data of a terminal in a first communications network and second subscription data of the terminal in a second communications network, where the first subscription data includes a data network name (DNN), and the second subscription data includes an access point name (APN) corresponding to the DNN; allocating a bearer identifier to a bearer in a packet data network (PDN) connection corresponding to the APN; receiving a flow identifier that is of a flow in a protocol data unit (PDU) session corresponding to the DNN and that is sent by a session management network element; and sending the bearer identifier and the flow identifier to the terminal.

Method for allocating bearer identifier, apparatus, and system

This application provides an example group management method, apparatus, and system. The example group management method includes receiving a first group request from an application function network element, where the first group request includes indication information, an external group identifier, and first group information, and where the indication information indicates a group service type, and the external group identifier is a group identifier that is not identified by a network element by a network element inside a core network, in response to that the group service type is creating a group, obtaining an internal group identifier corresponding to the external group identifier, and associating the internal group identifier, the external group identifier, and the first group information, where internal group identifier is a group identifier that is identified by the network element inside the core network.

Group management method, apparatus, and system

A method supports transfer of service traffic between an external network entity and a second network entity. The method includes: sending, by the second network entity, a first transfer request to a first network entity, wherein the transfer request includes first service traffic; receiving, by the first network entity, the first transfer request from the second network entity, and sending, by the first network entity, a second transfer request to the external network entity, the second transfer request including the first service traffic; and receiving, by the second network entity, a fourth transfer request from the first network entity, the fourth transfer request including second service traffic.

The present disclosure relates to external services provided to a network. For example, the disclosure proposes network entities that are involved in at least one of registration of an external network entity or registration of one or more services provided by the external network entity, and entities that are involved in transfer of service traffic from an external network entity providing one or more services to another network entity consuming the one or more services. For instance, the disclosure proposes a network entity for supporting at least one of registration of the external network entity or registration of one or more services of the external network entity at another network entity.

This application provides a configuration method. The method includes: receiving, by a network repository network element, a request message from a second network element, where the request message includes information about a network slice, and the request message is used to request to obtain status information of a system feature supported by the network slice; and sending, by the network repository network element based on the request message, the status information of the system feature supported by the network slice to the second network element. Based on this solution, the second network element may obtain, from the network repository network element, the status information of the system feature supported by the network slice. The status information of the system feature supported by the network slice includes status information of an NF service corresponding to the system feature.

Configuration method and apparatus

A method includes obtaining a first service experience data set of a service, where each piece of first service experience data in the first service experience data set indicates service quality of all users or a plurality of users in a network, wherein the service is executed by the users, and the service is run in the network, obtaining information about a first service quality requirement of the service, where the information about the first service quality requirement indicates a requirement on the first service experience data, and determining a second network data set of the network based on the first service experience data set, a first network data set of the network, and the information about the first service quality requirement.

Resource management method and apparatus

A group communications method and system, and a device are provided. The method includes: when a first terminal initiates access to a local area network group, obtaining, by a group management function network element, an identifier of a first user plane network element to be accessed by the first terminal, context information of the local area network group, and a first session port identifier; creating, for the local area network group, a rule group applied to a first session port, and creating or updating, for the local area network group based on the context information, a local area network group forwarding action rule (FAR) applied to the first user plane network element; and sending a first message to a session management network element, for configuring the rule group on the first session port, and configuring the local area network group FAR on the first user plane network element.

Group communications method and system, and device

A communication method in which access network devices belonging to a same network instance have different network addresses, where the method includes uniquely identifying an access network device based on a network address of the access network device and a first network instance identifier to which the access network device belongs, and determining a packet forwarding rule for sending a packet to the access network device. In this way, the packet can be accurately routed.

Communication method, session management device, and system for packet routing by access network devices belonging to a same network instance having different network addresses

A method in the embodiments of the application includes: obtaining, by a first network element, first data that corresponds to a service flow and that is on each of at least two network elements, where the first data that corresponds to the service flow and that is on each of the network elements includes a first identifier; obtaining, by the first network element based on the first identifier and the first data that corresponds to the service flow and that is on each of the network elements, second data that corresponds to the service flow, where the second data includes at least the first data that corresponds to the service flow and that is on each of the network elements.

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Shanghai, China

Runze Zhou