Enhancements for Handling Network Slice Quota

    公开(公告)号:US20210368421A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-25

    申请号:US17313702

    申请日:2021-05-06

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A Public Land Mobile Network includes a network slice quota (NSQ) node to implement a quota on the number of user equipments (UEs) or (UE, PDU_Session) pairs that may be registered on a network slice. An access and mobility management function (AMF) queries the NSQ on whether quota is available for registration of a UE on a network slice in response to a notification of successful authorization and/or authentication (AAA) of the UE. Alternatively, the AMF may preemptively capture one or more units of network slice quota for the UE prior to initiation of the AAA procedure. The AMF may start a timer after UE deregistration is initiated, and not relinquish the quota unit held by the UE until after the timer's expiration. The network may also include a session management function (SMF) that provides UE identification as well as PDU Session ID when requesting registration of a UE.

    SCANNING OPTIMIZATION IN 5G NR MULTI-RAT ENVIRONMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20210345204A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US17239160

    申请日:2021-04-23

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to improve candidate search and measurement in non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) 5G new radio (NR) multi-radio access technology (RAT) environments. For Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) NR-dual connectivity (EN-DC), a user equipment (UE) skips 5G band measurements for an initial search or an out-of-service (OOS) search. For SA dual connectivity, the UE avoids 5G remaining band (RBS) scans and limits 5G deviated band search (DBS) scans to bands configured for the carrier.

    TECHNOLOGIES FOR STANDALONE OPERATION FOR NETWORK SLICING

    公开(公告)号:US20250063463A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-20

    申请号:US18774399

    申请日:2024-07-16

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for network slice availability based de-prioritization. An example, method includes receiving user equipment (UE) routing selection policy (URSP) information. The method further includes starting an application associated with a network slice while registered with a standalone (SA) network. The method further includes evaluating routing selection descriptor information in the URSP information to determine an availability of the network slice of the SA network. The method further includes determining whether to de-prioritize the SA network based on a determination of availability of the network slice as indicated by the routing selection descriptor information.

    Network slice quota management
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12167325B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-10

    申请号:US18458882

    申请日:2023-08-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing network slice quota management. A network slice quota management function may store capacity information for one or more network slices. The network slice quota management function may receive a request for an indication of whether a network slice has additional capacity. The network slice quota management function may provide an indication of whether the network slice has additional capacity in response to the request. The capacity information may relate to the capacity of the network slice with respect to the number of wireless devices registered for the network slice, or to the capacity of the network slice with respect to the number of packet sessions established with the network slice, or both, among various possibilities.

    USER EQUIPMENT (UE) TECHNIQUES FOR CONSTRAINTS ON SIMULTANEOUS USE OF NETWORK SLICES

    公开(公告)号:US20240406905A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-05

    申请号:US18800651

    申请日:2024-08-12

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein facilitate configuration of network slices for a User Equipment (UE) supporting constraints on simultaneous operation of slices. One example embodiment is a UE device configured to: transmit a registration request message to request registration on a set of requested network slices; and receive a registration accept message indicating the UE is registered to a set of allowed network slices, and wherein the registration accept message indicates slice compatibility information for each allowed network slice of the set of allowed network slices for the UE, wherein the slice compatibility information for each allowed network slice indicates whether or not other configured network slices of the set of configured network slices are compatible with the configured network slice for simultaneous operation by the UE.

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