COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20230300622A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-21

    申请号:US18322541

    申请日:2023-05-23

    摘要: This disclosure provides a communication system and a communication method. The communication system may include a network service node (NSN) and a user service node (USN). The NSN communicates with the USN through an external interface. The NSN includes an authentication function entity and/or an access management function entity. The USN is associated with one more terminal devices. The USN includes the following function entities: a data forwarding function entity, a session management function entity, and a user data storage function entity. The function entities included in the USN communicate with each other through an internal interface. Based on the function entities included in the USN, the USN may provide a basic network service for the associated one or more terminal devices.

    Method for using context awareness for the coordination of management and mobile network service operation planes

    公开(公告)号:US11240096B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-01

    申请号:US16714061

    申请日:2019-12-13

    IPC分类号: H04L12/24

    摘要: The present application relates to a mobile core network (MCN) supporting end-to-end (E2E) network slicing, which comprises a controlling entity (CA_NF), one or more network function (NF) entities extended with functionalities (CA-NFExt), a network management entity (OSS) extended with functionalities (CA_OSSExt), and a coordination entity (CA_CF). The CA_NF communicates with the CA_OSSExt through the CA_CF using interfaces (If-CA_MP and If-CAC_OSS), and with the CA-NFExts using a respective interface (If-CA_NF) and/or other NFs interfaces. Based on information received from the OSS and the NF entities, the CA_NF generates a context with a certain type, sends, based on the generated context, context-related information towards entities impacted by the generated context amongst the NF entities and the OSS, and blocks, for a period of time, a transmission of any generated context towards the NF entities upon receiving, from the OSS, a notification message once the OSS decides to enforce a change.

    Method and system for device location management

    公开(公告)号:US10602475B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-24

    申请号:US16291619

    申请日:2019-03-04

    IPC分类号: H04W64/00 H04W4/029

    摘要: The embodiments of the disclosure relates to a device location manager for a communication system, the device location manager comprising: a southbound interface configured to receive a physical location information of a mobile device from an infrastructure manager of the communication system, a location processor configured to map between the physical location information and a logical location information, and a northbound interface configured to send and/or receive the logical location information to and/or from at least two network slices of the communication system.

    SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING SYSTEM FOR DISTINGUISHING PACKET-IN MESSAGES

    公开(公告)号:US20190097927A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-28

    申请号:US16203638

    申请日:2018-11-29

    摘要: The application provides a switch device and a software defined network (SDN) controller. The switch device includes a storage unit configured to store control flow entries, each control flow entry comprises at least one service field associated with at least one processing action, a receiver configured to receive a data plane packet, and a transmitter configured to transmit, to the SDN controller, a packet-in message, and a processor configured to determine whether at least one information field of the data plane packet or of the packet-in message matches the at least one service field of a control flow entry, and instruct the transmitter to transmit the packet-in message according to the processing action associated with the matched service field, if the at least one information field matches the at least one service field.

    COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20230300716A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-21

    申请号:US18323222

    申请日:2023-05-24

    IPC分类号: H04W40/24 H04W40/20

    CPC分类号: H04W40/248 H04W40/20

    摘要: A communication method and a communication system. The method may include: A first network device generates a node identifier, where the node identifier includes a global part and a local part, and the global part is determined based on geographical location information of a region covered by a second network device in which a node is located, for example, the second network device may be a device in mobile edge computing (MEC), and the local part is determined based on identity information of a terminal device associated with the node. The first network device sends the node identifier to the terminal device. In embodiments of this application, the geographical location information is introduced into the node identifier, so that a node that is identified nearby in space can also be short-distance in a physical network, thereby reducing an end-to-end latency.

    Apparatus for V2X-oriented local E2E path establishment and QoS control

    公开(公告)号:US11140573B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-05

    申请号:US16788244

    申请日:2020-02-11

    IPC分类号: H04W28/02 H04W76/11 H04W28/24

    摘要: A configuration module allows for the establishment of a local end-to-end (E2E) path connecting at least one source node and at least one target node via at least one radio access network (RAN) node. The configuration module is configured to select data radio bearers (DRBs) per quality of service (QoS) flow based on inter-node information from the at least one source node, the at least one target node, the at least one RAN node and all other nodes involved in establishing the local E2E path, and is also configured to initiate, after selecting the DRBs per QoS flow, a radio resource communication connection configuration using an identification of the local E2E path to be established. Thereby, a localized traffic between the at least one source node and the at least one target node can be exchanged with QoS guarantees.

    Systems and methods for monitoring network slices using probes

    公开(公告)号:US10979921B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-13

    申请号:US16509882

    申请日:2019-07-12

    IPC分类号: H04W24/08 H04L12/24 H04L12/26

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to a slice monitor for monitoring slices programmed by a slice owner and deployed by an orchestrator in the control and data planes of a communication network. The slice monitor comprises multiple databases containing different types of information, selects the probes to monitor each slice in the control plane or the data plane and instantiates the selected probes as well as a single-slice monitoring device specific to each slice. For optimization, the slice monitor configures the content of its databases by communicating through multiple interfaces with different actors such as the slice owner, the owner of the orchestrator and the owner of itself. Using alarm handlers and a reconfiguration engine, the slice monitor together with the single-slice monitoring device can detect and compensate for possible violations in the service-level agreement by reconfiguring the slice. If the compensation fails, the slice monitor requests the orchestrator for reconfiguration.