Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fg Innovation Company Limited

Yudai Kawasaki

Masafumi Aramoto

Yoko Kuge

Shuichiro Chiba

Yasuo Sugawara

Tsuyoshi Takakura

Masaki Izumi

According to an aspect of the present invention, a mobile terminal apparatus and an intra-core network apparatus do not enable congestion control during connection of a mobile terminal apparatus to a non-public network (NPN) in 5GS. Alternatively, during connection of the mobile terminal apparatus to the NPN in 5GS, the mobile terminal apparatus and the intra-core network apparatus enable congestion control only in a public land mobile network (PLMN) specific to the congestion control to provide a congestion control method in an NAS level to the mobile terminal apparatus being connected to the non-public network (NPN) and the intra-core network apparatus in 5GS.

User equipment (UE) and method for controlling congestion

A procedure in updating information of a connection in associating an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with a UAV controller to establish the connection is not clarified. For the connection for performing communication of the UAV, a user plane resource is to be activated. The UAV updates stored identification information and IP address of the UAV controller, based on reception, from a network, of a PDU session modification command message including identification information and IP address of the UAV controller. The UAV, in a case of establishing a PDU session that provides a QoS flow for performing Command and Control (C2) communication, transmits and/or receives information for establishing an Always-on PDU session to and/or from a network.

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

According to one aspect of the present invention, a communication control method is provided that determines whether congestion control is to be continued in a destination PLMN in a case that a PLMN is changed during the application of congestion control and the PLMN before the change is a home PLMN. In a case that the PLMN is changed while a back-off timer received along with a cause value for the congestion control is running and the PLMN before the change is a home PLMN, it is determined whether to allow UE to transmit an SM request message in the destination, based on the presence or absence of an information element notified from the network.

UE and communication control method for controlling transmitting PDU session request message

A UE transmits a registration request message including an S-NSSAI and receives a registration accept message including the S-NSSAI, a first cause value, and a first back-off timer value. The UE starts a back-off timer using the first back-off timer value corresponding to the S-NSSAI. In a case that the UE receives a configuration update command including the S-NSSAI, a second cause value, and a second back-off timer value before expiration of the back-off timer, the UE updates, in a case that the second back-off timer value indicates a value other than zero the back-off timer to be the second back-off timer value and stops, in a case that the second back-off timer value indicates zero, the back-off timer. In a case that the back-off timer expires or stops, the UE transmits the registration request message including the S-NSSAI or a PDU session establishment request message. This allows for provision of a communication unit for implementing a function related to management of a maximum number of UEs and/or a maximum number of PDU sessions connected for each network slice in a 5GS.

User equipment (UE)

UE and communication control method

UE and communication control method for controlling transmission of PDU session request message

According to an aspect of the present invention, provided are a procedure and a communicator for initial registration of UE or periodic or mobility-based registration for achieving Network Slice Specific Authentication and Authorization in 5GS. Furthermore, a communicator for achieving a function related to Network Slice Specific Authentication and Authorization in 5GS is provided by providing Network Slice Specific Authentication and Authorization initiated by a network, a procedure, initiated by the network and initiated based on completion of the Network Slice Specific Authentication and Authorization, for changing a UE configuration, a de-registration procedure initiated by the network, and a communicator.

User equipment and core network apparatus

The present invention provides a communication method for realizing a function for URLLC that requires high-reliability and/or low-latency communication in a 5GS. A user apparatus can provide a communications method capable of realizing a URLLC function in a 5GS by performing the communication method, which comprises: receiving, in a registration procedure, a registration accept messages including DNN and S-NSSAI for URLLC; receiving, in a first PDU session establishment procedure, a PDU session establishment accept messages including information indicating that an SSC mode for a PDU session for URLLC is SSC mode 1; and transmitting, in a second PDU session establishment procedure, a PDU session establishment request messages including information indicating that the SSC mode for the PDU session for URLLC is SSC mode 1.

User apparatus for performing a registration procedure

A user device for implementing error handling is provided. The user device comprises a control unit that establishes, in a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session establishment procedure using a Local Area Data Network (LADN) Data Network Name (DNN), a PDU session for the LADN; and a transceiver unit that prohibits transmission of a PDU session modification request message for the PDU session, in a PDU session modification procedure, based on reception of a specific cause value, wherein the LADN DNN is provided by the user device in the PDU session establishment procedure.

User device, control device, and communication control method

Provided is a communication unit for implementing error processing of a control device of a core network and error processing of User Equipment in a case that connectivity to a Local Area Data Network (LADN) is not able to be provided in a 5GS. Provided is a communication unit for implementing error processing in which a request for establishing connectivity to a Local Area Data Network (LADN) requested by a user equipment is rejected by a control device of a core network in a case that the connectivity to the LADN is not able to be provided in a 5GS. Further, a communication unit for implementing appropriate error processing that User Equipment performs in a case that a request for establishing connectivity to the LADN is rejected.

User equipment, control device, and communication control method

Provided is, in 5GS, a communication unit for implementing a Vertical LAN. Provided are, in 5GS, a unit for registration of a UE, a session establishment procedure, and generation of a 5GLAN group for implementing the Vertical LAN and a 5GLAN service, a unit for starting communication using the Vertical LAN and the 5GLAN service, and the communication unit. In addition, provided are a unit for modifying a configuration of the UE registered with a network, a unit for managing an established session, a unit for deleting the 5GLAN group, a unit for deleting the UE from the 5GLAN group, and a unit for stopping communication using the Vertical LAN and the 5GLAN service.

User equipment, control apparatus, and communication control method

A terminal apparatus or a device in a core network exchanges capability information for each function in a registration procedure or a PDU session establishment procedure, and in user data communication additional information is added into an uplink packet to implement terminal apparatus-initiated RQoS control, and additional information is added into a downlink packet to implement network device-initiated RQoS control. A dedicated control message and information for an authentication and/or authorization function by a DN are defined to implement the authentication and/or authorization function by the DN. Furthermore, the terminal apparatus and the device in the core network have a timer or a control process for each network slice to implement a management process such as congestion management for each network slice. This provides a communication control method in order to implement the terminal apparatus-initiated or network-initiated RQoS control, implement the authentication and/or authorization function by the DN, and implement the management process such as congestion management for each network slice.

User equipment, communication control method of user equipment, core network device, communication control method of core network, SMF, and communication control method of SMF

A terminal apparatus and an apparatus in a core network exchange information indicating maintenance of a PDU session in a procedure for releasing UP resources, and thereby releases the UP resources associated with a specific PDU session while maintaining establishment of the specific PDU session. A terminal apparatus and an apparatus in a core network further exchange information indicating a release of only the UP resources in a procedure for releasing the UP resources, and thereby the terminal apparatus recognizes the release of the UP resources associated with the specific PDU session. In this manner, in order to release the UP resources associated with the specific PDU session while maintaining establishment of the specific PDU session, and to allow the terminal apparatus to recognize the release of the UP resources, a system and a communication control method are provided.

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