Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Beijing Tenafe Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.

Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

Wanqiang Zhang

Xiaolong Guo

Yali Guo

Xiaobo Wu

Lan Liu

Xiaoyan Shi

Zhenglei Huang

Weihua Zhou

Ming Li

Yizhuang Wu

Qi Yu

Qiang Deng

Huadong Hu

Shufeng Shi

Lin Shu

Hai Liu

Yanmei Yang

Weisheng Jin

Lyle E Adams

Priyanka Nilay Thakore

Chen Xiu

Meng Li

Yijun Yu

Haiyang Sun

Frank Mademann

Chunguang Wang

Qinghai Zeng

Lei Guan

Bingzhao Li

Bo Lin

Hui Ni

Chunshan Xiong

Lei Zhu

Xin Xiong

Weiwei Chong

Cuili Ge

Yanping Zhang

Anni Wei

Wei Guo

Chan Zhou

Riccardo Trivisonno

Ishan Vaishnavi

Hui Wang

Wenruo Zhu

Yanglai Shuai

Weihua Qiao

Serkan Ayaz

Ruizhi Liu

Dario Serafino Tonesi

Qingshun Liu

Chenghui Peng

De Chen

Zhipeng Fang

Tingting Deng

Guanbin Xu

Patrice Michel Christophe Hèdé

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a communication method and apparatus. an example method includes: setting up a first radio bearer for a first terminal device, where the first radio bearer is used to transmit a first service; allocating a first RNTI and a second RNTI to the first terminal device, where the first RNTI is used to schedule a service for the first terminal device, and the second RNTI is used to schedule the first service for a group of terminal devices including the first terminal device; and scheduling a data packet of the first service for the first terminal device on the first radio bearer by using the first RNTI and the second RNTI.

Scheduling a data packet by using radio network temporary identifier

A hardware-implemented, pre-sequence execution checker is used to receive a set of firmware instructions that includes a suspend command, an intervening command, and a resume command, wherein the suspend command and the resume command are associated with suspending and resuming a same command, respectively; access a configurable conditions table that includes whether the suspend command and the resume command are supported by a storage media device; access state information that includes whether said same command has completed; and determine whether to perform or skip the suspend command based at least in part on the configurable conditions table and the state information. If it is determined to perform the suspend command, the suspend command and the intervening command are output. If it is determined to skip the suspend command, the intervening command is output.

Firmware-controlled and table-based conditioning for flexible storage controller

This application provides a communication method and apparatus. A first mobility management function entity may receive event information from a unified data management function entity, where the event information indicates a first-type terminal event. Therefore, when a terminal apparatus is reachable, the first mobility management function entity may send, based on the event information, a terminal event report to an application function entity that subscribes to the first-type terminal event, thereby improving pertinence of sending the terminal event report.

Communication method and apparatus

This application provides a network node selection method and apparatus. An SMF network element obtains transmission capability information of an access network device, and selects, for a terminal device based on the transmission capability information of the access network device, a UPF network element that supports at least one transmission capability included in the transmission capability information. In this process, the SMF network element obtains a transmission capability of the access network device, and selects the UPF network element based on the transmission capability of the access network device. The selected UPF network element supports the transmission capability used by the access network device, so that data can be successfully transmitted between the access network device and the UPF network element. Therefore, a data transmission success rate is improved.

Network node selection method and apparatus

Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a communication method and a communications apparatus. The solution includes: sending, by a source access network device, a first data packet of a terminal to a target access network device; and when the source access network device determines that the target access network device has received the first data packet, sending, by the source access network device, a first message to the terminal, where the first message is used to indicate the terminal to hand over to the target access network device.

Communication method and communications apparatus

This application provides a method for processing a change in a radio capability of a terminal apparatus and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by an access network apparatus, indication information, where the access network apparatus stores radio capability information of a terminal apparatus, and the indication information is used to indicate that a radio capability of the terminal apparatus changes, or is used to request a current radio capability of the terminal apparatus from the access network apparatus; and obtaining, by the access network apparatus, radio capability information of the terminal apparatus according to the indication information. According to this application, communication efficiency of a radio control resource connection performed when a radio capability of the UE changes in a suspend state can be improved.

Method for processing change in radio capability of terminal apparatus and apparatus

Embodiments provide a method for reporting location information of user equipment, and an apparatus. A master access node is provided, including an obtaining module, configured to obtain location information of user equipment, where the location information of the user equipment includes serving cell information of at least one secondary access node of the user equipment. The master access node also includes a sending module, configured to send the location information of the user equipment to a core network node, where the location information is used by the core network node to determine a control policy for the user equipment according to the location information of the user equipment.

Method for reporting location information of user equipment, and apparatus

Embodiments of the present application provide a coverage enhancement (CE) function implementation method and a device. The method may include obtaining, by a first radio access network node, CE authorization information of a terminal. The CE authorization information may include at least one of the following: CE indication information and an authorized CE level range. Further, the method may include determining, by the first radio access network node based on the CE authorization information, whether a CE level of the terminal meets an authorization requirement, and controlling, based on an authorization result, use of a CE function by the terminal. It can be learned that, not all terminals can use the CE function, but only an authorized terminal can use the CE function, to ensure that the terminal can use the CE function properly within an authorized range and to improve radio channel resource use efficiency.

Coverage enhancement CE function implementation method and device

A control plane network entity for providing a multicast/broadcast service for one or more user equipments in a cellular communication network is provided. The control plane network entity is configured to: receive a session setup request for a multicast/broadcast session for the user equipments, wherein the session setup request comprises one or more identifiers identifying the user equipments and/or one or more spatial regions the user equipments are located in; select one or more access and mobility management function entities of the cellular communication network based on the one or more identifiers for providing the multicast/broadcast session to the user equipments; and send a user plane session setup request to the selected one or more access and mobility management function entities. Moreover, the disclosure relates to a user plane network entity and a radio access network node for anchoring and providing a multicast/broadcast service respectively.

Entities and methods for providing multicast/broadcast services in 5G networks

A communication method, apparatus, and system, the method including sending, by a policy control network element, policy control information to a network device, where the policy control information includes a trigger event for reporting transport network information, and where the trigger event triggers the network device to report the transport network information to the policy control network element, receiving, by the policy control network element, the transport network information from the network device, formulating, by the policy control network element, a control policy based on the transport network information, and sending, by the policy control network element, the control policy to the network device.

Communication policy control method, apparatus, and system

In response to receiving an exception indication, an exception-handling state variable in state information is asserted. Firmware instruction(s) are selected from a plurality of firmware instructions based at least in part on: (1) a conditions table that includes condition(s) for handling the plurality of firmware instructions and (2) the state information that includes the exception-handling state variable. It is determined how to handle the selected firmware instruction(s) based at least in part on: (1) the conditions table and (2) the state information that includes the exception-handling state variable where. The plurality of firmware instructions includes: (1) a non-exception-handling set of firmware instruction(s) and (2) an exception-handling set of firmware instruction(s). The conditions table prioritizes execution, by the hardware, of the exception-handling set of firmware instructions over that of the non-exception-handling set of firmware instructions in the event the exception-handling state variable is asserted. A storage media device is communicated with via an interface.

Firmware-controlled and table-based conditioning for synchronous handling of exception cases

Firmware instruction(s) are selected from a plurality of firmware instructions based at least in part on: (1) a conditions table that includes one or more conditions for handling the plurality of firmware instructions and (2) state information. It is determined how to handle the one or more selected firmware instructions based at least in part on: (1) the conditions table and (2) the state information. In the event the determined handling is to perform the selected firmware instructions, an instruction sequence is obtained, from a sequencing table that includes one or more instruction sequences associated with a storage media device, based at least in part on the one or more selected firmware instructions. In the event the determined handling is to perform the one or more selected firmware instructions, the obtained instruction sequence is output to the storage media device.

The present disclosure provides a method which includes: receiving a message, where the message carries a parameter indicating a validity period of a short message sent to a user or indication information indicating whether a record needs to be added to MWD of a user when a short message cannot be transmitted or fails to be transmitted; determining that the short message cannot be transmitted or the short message fails to be transmitted, and a value of the parameter is 0 or the indication information indicates that the record does not need to be added to the MWD of the user when the short message cannot be transmitted or fails to be transmitted; and skipping adding the record to the MWD of the user, where the record includes an identifier of a service center for short message service serving the user. According to the method, additional signaling interaction is reduced.

Method, device, and system for optimizing short message signaling

A data transmission method provided in embodiments of the present application includes: determining, by a mobility management entity MME, that user equipment UE changes from an unreachable state to a reachable state; sending, by the MME, a request message to a serving gateway SGW; receiving, by the MME, downlink data sent by the SGW; and sending, by the MME, the downlink data to the UE. In this way, when the UE changes to a reachable state for downlink data, the MME requests the SGW to send the downlink data, and the MME then sends the downlink data to the UE, thereby avoiding loss of the downlink data caused by delivery of the downlink data to the UE that is in an unreachable state, and improving real-time accuracy of transmission.

Data transmission method and apparatus

The present disclosure relates to discontinuous reception communication synchronization methods and apparatus. One example method includes receiving a system message that is broadcast by a base station and that indicates that the base station supports a capability of extended discontinuous reception (DRX), sending an extended DRX value to a network element of a core network, receiving, from the network element of the core network, extended DRX support information indicating that the network element of the core network supports the extended DRX, calculating a paging time using the extended DRX value, and receiving a paging message delivered from the base station according to the paging time.

Discontinuous reception communication synchronization method and apparatus

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