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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Alexander Sirotkin, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Yifan Yu, Haidian District, CN;
Min Huang, Beijing, CN;
Jaemin Han, Portland, OR (US);
Feng Yang, Beijing, CN;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a Next Generation Node B (gNB) are described herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes, including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU may include a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. The gNB may initiate an El interface setup procedure, a bearer context setup procedure, and a UE context setup procedure to establish a UE context that includes a signaling radio bearer (SRB) and a data radio bearer (DRB) configuration. The UE context setup request message may be configured to include quality-of-service parameters for the DRB configuration.