Data transmission method and system

• US 10,667,305 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2018
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Liu, Yalin
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thai
• Application Number:
  US15/991,691
• Publication Number:
  US 20180279393A1
• Time in Patent Office: 728 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/5601 Transfer mode dependent, e.g. ATM
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/5667 IP over ATM
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels

Abstract

Disclosed are a data transmission method and system. One or more pre-setup first bearers are disposed between a first network device and a base station. One or more pre-setup second bearers are disposed between the first network device and a second network device. The transmission method includes the following steps: receiving, by the first network device by using one first bearer, data sent by the base station, where the data is sent by a terminal to the base station by using an air interface resource, and the first bearer used to receive the data is corresponding to a first service attribute of the data; and sending, by the first network device, the data to the second network device by using one second bearer, where the second bearer used to send the data is corresponding to a second service attribute of the data.

Claims

1. A data transmission method, comprising:

receiving, by a first network device by using a first bearer, data from a base station, wherein the base station receives the data from a terminal, wherein the data carries a first identifier of the terminal, wherein the first bearer used to receive the data by the first network device from the base station corresponds to a first service attribute of the data, wherein one or more first bearers are disposed between the first network device and the base station, and wherein one or more second bearers are disposed between the first network device and a second network device;

obtaining, by the first network device, an IP address of the terminal according to a correspondence between the first identifier of the terminal and the IP address of the terminal; and

sending, by the first network device, the data to the second network device by using a second bearer, wherein the second bearer used to send the data to the second network device corresponds to a second service attribute of the data, and the data sent by the first network device to the second network device carries the IP address of the terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first bearer is set up when the base station is initialized.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first bearer is set up when the first network device is initialized.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second bearer is set up when the base station is initialized.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second bearer is set up when the first network device is initialized.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second network device is a server, and the second bearer is set up when the server is initialized.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first service attribute of the data is an attribute of an air interface resource, and the first bearer used to receive the data corresponds to the attribute of the air interface resource.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first service attribute of the data is a first service quality characteristic of the data, and the first bearer used to receive the data corresponds to a first service quality characteristic of the data.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second service attribute of the data is a second service quality characteristic of the data, and the method further comprises:

determining, by the first network device based on the second service quality characteristic of the data, the second bearer used to send the data to the second network device.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein a bit quantity of the first identifier is less than a bit quantity of the IP address.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data is sent from the terminal to the base station by using an air interface resource.

12. A first network device, comprising:

a first processor;

a first receiver; and

a first transmitter;

wherein one or more first bearers are disposed between the first network device and a base station;

wherein one or more second bearers are disposed between the first network device and a second network device;

wherein the first receiver receives, using a first bearer from the one or more first bearers, data from the base station, wherein the base station receives the data from a terminal, wherein the data carries a first identifier of the terminal, and wherein the first bearer used to receive the data by the first network device from the base station corresponds to a first service attribute of the data;

wherein the first processor obtains an IP address of the terminal according to a correspondence between the first identifier of the terminal and the IP address of the terminal; and

wherein the first transmitter sends the data to the second network device using a second bearer from the one or more second bearers, wherein the second bearer used to send the data to the second network device corresponds to a second service attribute of the data, and the data sent by the first transmitter to the second network device carries the IP address of the terminal.

13. The first network device according to claim 12, wherein the first bearer and the second bearer are set up when the first network device is initialized.

14. The first network device according to claim 12, wherein the first service attribute of the data is an attribute of an air interface resource, and the first bearer used to receive the data corresponds to the attribute of the air interface resource.

15. The first network device according to claim 12, wherein the first service attribute of the data is a first service quality characteristic of the data, and the first bearer used to receive the data corresponds to the first service quality characteristic of the data.

16. The first network device according to claim 12,

wherein the second service attribute of the data is a second service quality characteristic of the data;

and

wherein the first processor determines based on the second service quality characteristic of the data, the second bearer used to send the data to the second network device.

17. The first network device according to claim 12, wherein a bit quantity of the first identifier is less than a bit quantity of the IP address.

18. The first network device according to claim 12, wherein the data is sent from the terminal to the base station by using an air interface resource.