Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Zu Qiang

Yong Yang

Dinand Roeland

Hans Bertil Rönneke

Peter Hedman

Ivo Sedlacek

Ahmad Shawky Muhanna

Samy Touati

Gunnar Mildh

Stefan Rommer

Anders Lundstrom

Gunnar Rydneil

Octavio Lima

Hans Rönneke

Methods of operating a network node in a wireless local area network, a mobile terminal and a server, respectively, are disclosed. Corresponding computer programs, as well as a network node, a mobile terminal and a server are also disclosed. The network node establishes connection with the mobile terminal; and sends at least one network name to the mobile terminal, wherein the at least one network names correspond to possible public land mobile networks, PLMNs, based on the determined AAA information. The mobile terminal can thus display the network name.

Mobile terminal, network node server, method and computer program

The use of overlay networks, such as Network Virtualization using Overlays over Layer 3 (NVO3), is a growing trend to address networking issues in data centers that make use of virtualization and cloud computing techniques. Additional considerations may be required to support multipath forwarding scenarios.

Multipath forwarding in an overlay network

Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards determining a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (PMIPv6) control plane used by a network node peer in an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) transport network. The example embodiments provide a mechanism in PMIP protocol stack, to allow a Mobility Access Gateway/Local Mobility Anchor (MAG/LMA) node such as SGW (which may be supporting both PMIP draft and PMIP RFC) to decide which PMIP protocol stack shall be used to communicate to the peer node, i.e. LMA/MAG.

PMIP protocol enhancement

The use of Network Virtualization using Overlays over Layer 3 (NVO3) is a growing trend to address networking issues in data centers that make use of virtualization and cloud computing techniques. Additional considerations may be required to support application-specific multicast traffic in such overlay networks. Systems and methods are provided for an overlay network control function node to allocate one or more overlay network edge nodes to act as a multicast gateway for each network segment. The gateway can distribute multicast traffic to other participating edge nodes in its same network segment, thus reducing network traffic.

Multicast traffic management in an overlay network

A method of obtaining addressing information may include establishing a communication path through a network between first and second peer devices with a router coupled between the first peer device and the communication path through the network. A communication may be received at the first peer device from the second peer device through the communication path and the router. Moreover, a payload of the communication received at the first peer device from the second peer device may include a public reachability address used by the second peer device to transmit the communication through the network and the router to the first peer device. Related methods of providing such addressing information and related devices are also discussed.

Methods providing public reachability and related systems and devices

In one aspect, the teachings herein propose a procedure provided by an appropriately configured 3GPP Core Network (CN), which allows External Identifiers to be provisioned dynamically by the 3GPP operator or an MTC service provider, using the existing 3GPP M2M architecture. As such, these teachings can be understood as providing for automatic activation, modification, deactivation, etc., of MTC service subscriptions or services, using protocol-based signaling between the involved entities, e.g., between a 3GPP HSS and an MTC Server (a Services Capability Server or SCS) and/or an MTC Bootstrapping Server that provides for MTC subscription activations, modifications, cancellations, etc.

Methods and apparatuses for automatic provisioning of external identifiers used for machine type devices in a 3GPP network

Establishing and controlling a tunnel for carrying a PDN connection between a first node and a second node. The first node sends a request to set up a tunnel, the request including a first identifier. The first node then receives a second identifier for use in identifying the tunnel when receiving data sent from the second node to the first node. Data packets are sent from the first node, the data packets including the first and/or second identifiers for identifying the tunnel from the first node to the second node. Data packets are received from the second node, the data packets including the second identifier from the second node to the first node.

Method and apparatus for establishing and using PDN connections

A method for use in establishing a packet data network, PDN, connection from a user equipment or UE, to a 3GPP core network via a non-3GPP access network. The method comprises receiving at the non-3GPP access network a request to establish the PDN connection; communicating with the 3GPP core network to establish a tunnel for the PDN connection between the non-3GPP access network and the 3GPP core network and to assign an IP address for the tunnel, which tunnel IP address is used subsequently by the non-3GPP access network to distinguish between the new PDN connection tunnel and at least one other such PDN connection tunnel already established for the UE, wherein the 3GPP core network is responsible for assigning the IP address, and sending address information from the non-3GPP access network to the 3GPP core network.

Method and apparatus for establishing a PDN connection

Systems and methods for differentiating between a duplicate MAC address situation and a multiple MAC address movement situation are provided. A node receives a new MAC address determines if it is a known or unknown MAC address by comparing it with a stored MAC address table. If it is a previously known MAC address, the node initiates a duplicate MAC address detection process to determine if at least one of the duplicate MAC addresses is no longer valid or is the result of a MAC mobility event.

Duplicate MAC address detection

Systems and methods for managing a service set in network function virtualization (NVF) are provided. A service set can be defined as an ordered list of services to be applied to packet traffic and assigned to instances of the services in a distributed pool of virtual hosts. Responsive to determining that a first service in the service set is to be transferred from a first host to a second host, other services in the service set can also be identified to be transferred to the second host to maintain quality of service and latency as a packet is processed by the service set.

Network function virtualization service chaining

Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards determining a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (PIMPv6) control plane used by a network node peer in an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) transport network. The example embodiments provide a mechanism in PMIP protocol stack, to allow a Mobility Access Gateway/Local Mobility Anchor (MAG/LMA) node such as SGW (which may be supporting both PMIP draft and PMIP RFC) to decide which PMIP protocol stack shall be used to communicate to the peer node, i.e. LMA/MAG.

Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a device, mobility management node and/or a serving gateway, and corresponding methods there, for providing application, service or priority based paging. According to some of the example embodiments, the decision whether or not to issue or accept a paging request may be made based on a priority, application or service (or type of service) associated with the paging request.

Node and method for priority of application based handling of a paging request

A network can handle access attempts by a mix of user equipments (UEs) that do and do not support multiple packet data network connections and do and do not support Internet Protocol version(IPv) and access attempts from networks that do and do not support multiple PDN connections. A method of operating a Trusted Non-3GPP Access network with a 3GPP network involves an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) proxy in the Trusted Non-3GPP Access network and a UE that supports multiple PDN connections, with the AAA proxy sending an indication to the UE that the network supports multiple PDN connections.

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