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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2019
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Jinyin Zhu, Shanghai, CN;
Juying Gan, Shanghai, CN;
Yunjie Lu, Shanghai, CN;
Wenliang Xu, Shanghai, CN;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a serving gateway control plane function to manage a plurality of serving gateway user plane functions, and a mobility management entity to communicate with the serving gateway control plane function. Embodiments may provide a method for the serving gateway control plane function. The method includes: connecting with the plurality of serving gateway user plane functions; storing serving area information of the plurality of serving gateway user plane functions; selecting a first serving gateway user plane function among the plurality of serving gateway user plane functions for a user equipment, according to location of the user equipment and the serving area information of the plurality of serving gateway user plane functions; and sending serving area information of the first serving gateway user plane function to a mobility management entity.