Machine type communication monitoring framework for 3GPP systems

• US 10,524,156 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2018
• Issued: 12/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Jain, Puneet K., Rao, Varun N., Venkatachalam, Muthaiah
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Tri H
• Application Number:
  US15/905,100
• Publication Number:
  US 20180192318A1
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
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Abstract

A 3GPP monitoring architecture framework provides monitoring event configuration, detection, and reporting for machine-type and other mobile data applications by configuring monitoring on a mobility management entity (MME), a serving general packet radio service support node (SGSN), or a home subscriber service (HSS) node through existing interfaces, such as Tsp, T4, and T5 interfaces.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a network element to perform operations comprising:

receive a monitoring request message to configure a monitoring event on the network element comprising a mobility management entity (MME) or a serving general packet radio service support node (SGSN) for monitoring events associated with a user equipment (UE) configured to provide machine type communications (MTC) in a cellular network, the monitoring request message indicates a monitoring type and originates from a services capability server (SCS) or an application server (AS) configured to receive the MTC;

examine the monitoring request message to enable the monitoring event based on the monitoring type;

determine whether the monitoring request would exceed a quota or rate of submitting monitoring requests; and

provide at least one of a cause value indicating an error in response to determining the monitoring request has failed and a monitoring response message to acknowledge the monitoring request message.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, in which the monitoring request message indicates a recipient of a monitoring indication message to be provided by the network element.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, in which the monitoring request message includes a parameter to associate a monitoring event report to a specific monitoring request or an original source of the monitoring request message.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, in which the monitoring request message includes a parameter that indicates a status of the monitoring request message.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, in which the monitoring request message includes a parameter to deactivate event reporting or includes information indicating a condition for which monitoring expires.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, in which the monitoring request message includes a parameter that makes a monitoring request a continuous monitoring request or that indicates that a monitoring request should generate a single monitoring report.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, in which the network element is further configured to perform operations comprising:

detect an occurrence of the monitoring event; and

generate a report in response to detecting the occurrence of the monitoring event.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, in which the monitoring request message comprises subscriber data provided by a home subscriber service (HSS), and in which the network element is further configured to perform operations comprising determine, based on an operator configuration, whether the network element can accept a monitoring request.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, in which the network element is further configured to perform operations comprising delete a monitoring configuration.

10. A network element to provide machine type communications (MTC) in a cellular network, the network element comprising:

a memory device; and

a processor operatively coupled to the memory device and configured to;

receive from a node in the cellular network a monitoring request for monitoring event configuration of a monitoring event associated with a user equipment (UE) configured to provide machine type communications (MTC) in the cellular network;

determine whether the monitoring request may be used for configuring the monitoring event on one or more of a mobility management entity (MME), a serving general packet radio service support node (SGSN), or a home subscriber service (HSS) node;

determine whether the monitoring request would exceed a quota or rate of submitting monitoring requests; and

send to the node at least one cause calue indicating an error in response to determining the monitoring request has failed and a monitoring response message to acknowledge acceptance or failure of the monitoring request.

11. The network element of claim 10, in which the processor is further configured to:

determine whether a services capability server (SCS) or application server (AS) are authorized to make the monitoring request; and

provide to the node a cause value indicating an error in response to determining the monitoring request has failed.

12. The network element of claim 10, in which the node is a services capability server (SCS), an application server (AS), or an MTC interworking function (MTC-IWF).

13. The network element of claim 10, in which the monitoring request comprises a first monitoring request message, and in which the processor is further configured to:

prepare a second monitoring request message based on the first monitoring request message; and

send the second monitoring request message to the HSS.

14. The network element of claim 10, in which the monitoring request includes a parameter to associate a monitoring event report to a specific monitoring request or includes an identification to associate a corresponding monitoring report with the node.

15. The network element of claim 10, in which the monitoring request includes a parameter that indicates a time at which a related monitoring request is considered to expire.

16. The network element of claim 10, in which the monitoring request includes a parameter that indicates a maximum number of event reports to be generated by the node until an associated monitoring event is considered to expire.

17. The network element of claim 10, in which the monitoring request includes a parameter that makes a monitoring request a continuous monitoring request or that indicates that a monitoring request should generate a single monitoring report.

18. The network element of claim 10, in which the monitoring request includes a monitoring type, and in which the processor is further configured to provide a message including the monitoring type to the MME/SGSN.

19. The network element of claim 10, in which the processor is further configured to receive the monitoring request from an MTC interworking function (MTC-IWF) through an S6m interface.

20. A network element to provide machine type communications (MTC) in a cellular network, the network element comprising:

a memory device; and

a processor operatively coupled to the memory device and configured to;

receive from a node in the cellular network a monitoring request for monitoring event configuration of a monitoring event associated with a user equipment (UE) configured to provide machine type communications (MTC) in the cellular network, wherein the monitoring request includes a parameter that indicates a maximum number of event reports to be generated by the node until an associated monitoring event is considered to expire;

determine whether the monitoring request may be used for configuring the monitoring event on one or more of a mobility management entity (MME), a serving general packet radio service support node (SGSN), or a home subscriber service (HSS) node; and

send to the node a monitoring response message to acknowledge acceptance or failure of the monitoring request.