Abstract:
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a method and device for managing a forwarding plane tunnel resource, wherein the method includes: sending a forwarding plane tunnel resource request message to a forwarding plane device, for enabling the forwarding plane device to allocate a forwarding plane tunnel resource according to the forwarding plane tunnel resource request message; acquiring the allocated forwarding plane tunnel resource from the forwarding plane device; and sending the acquired forwarding plane tunnel resource to a target network element, to establish a packet data network connection with the target network element. By adopting the present invention, the load balancing of the forwarding plane device is achieved, the signaling interaction between the control plane device and the forwarding plane device is reduced as much as possible, and meanwhile, efficient failure processing can also be achieved in the case of a failure occurred in a device.
Abstract:
A communication system, apparatus and method are provided according to embodiments of the present invention. The communication system includes: a base band unit (BBU), at least two antennas and at least two radio-frequency (RF) units, where the at least two RF units are connected with the BBU respectively; and each of the antennas is connected with at least two RF units respectively, so that a signal received from a same sector by an antenna is sent to the BBU via different RF units. With the embodiments of the present invention, the reliability of RF units may be improved without increasing the hardware cost of the base station.
Abstract:
This application provides a network connection configuration method and an apparatus. The method is as follows: After a terminal device obtains network configuration information of an application in the terminal device, the terminal device sends the network configuration information to a core network control plane network element, so that the core network control plane network element may determine a network connection that is of the application and is between the terminal device and the data network and that meets the network configuration information.
Abstract:
A communication method and apparatus are provided to improve a power saving effect of the terminal device and service experience. After obtaining traffic characteristic information of a service, an access network device determines power saving configuration information based on the traffic characteristic information, and then sends the power saving configuration information to the terminal device. The power saving configuration information is used to determine that the terminal device is in an active state or a sleep state when the service is performed. In this way, the access network device can sense the traffic characteristic information of the service, to determine the power saving configuration information matching the service, and to improve the power saving effect of the terminal device and the service experience.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to time-aware Quality-of-Service (QoS), in particular techniques for providing time-aware QoS in communication systems such as 5G NR (New Radio). In particular the disclosure relates to a device for translating between a first communication network, in particular a deterministic communication network, and a second communication network, in particular a mobile communication network, in particular a 5G communication network, wherein the device comprises: an application function that is configured to translate between Quality-of-Service (QoS) parameters of the first communication network and QoS parameters of the second communication network; a QoS profile comprising the QoS parameters of the first communication network translated by the application function and, optionally, additional QoS parameters originating from the second communication network; and a signaling procedure configured to exchange the translated QoS parameters within the second communication network.
Abstract:
This application discloses a communication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: An access network element receives first indication information from a session management function network element, and activates a congestion acquisition function of the access network element based on the first indication information, where the congestion acquisition function is for obtaining a congestion status of the access network element in a data flow transmission process of a target service. The access network element obtains the congestion status of the access network element, and sends first congestion information to a terminal device or a user plane function network element to indicate the congestion status of the access network element. In this application, the access network element sends, to the user plane function network element or the terminal device, the first congestion information indicating the congestion status of the access network element.
Abstract:
A data processing method applied to a data processing apparatus is disclosed. The data processing apparatus includes a central processor and a sensor processor set, and the sensor processor set includes at least one sensor processor. The data processing method comprises obtaining status information of at least one sensor processor in a sensor processor set; determining task switching information based on status information of the at least one sensor processor and/or status information of the central processor, and processing the data processing task switched from the first sensor processor to the central processor, and/or processing, the data processing task switched from the central processor to the second sensor processor. The task switching information indicates to switch a data processing task of a first sensor processor to the central processor, or switch a data processing task of the central processor to a second sensor processor, and the first sensor processor and the second sensor processor each is a sensor processor in the sensor processor set.
Abstract:
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a positioning method, an apparatus, and a system, so that a network side obtains accurate geographical location information of a terminal device in time in a satellite communication scenario. The method includes: After determining that a trigger condition occurs, an access network device sends first location information of a terminal device to a core network device, where the first location information includes a first tracking area identity TAI, and the first TAI is an identifier of a tracking area in which the terminal device is currently located.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a routing control method, network device, and controller. The method may include the network device obtaining a route suppression request. The method may also include determining the second routing entry. Furthermore, the method may include setting a state of the second routing entry to a non-delivery state that is used to indicate that the second routing entry does not need to be delivered to a forwarding table. In the method, the network device may have a first routing entry and a second routing entry, an address prefix of the first routing entry is a first address prefix, an address prefix of the second routing entry is a second address prefix, a network segment to which the second address prefix belongs is a subset of a network segment to which the first address prefix belongs, and a mask in the second address prefix is greater than a mask in the first address prefix.