Mobility management method, device, system and computer storage medium

• US 20160242026A1
• Filed: 02/21/2014
• Published: 08/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Bao, Jian, Sun, Aifang, Cao, Jianfu, Ling, Zhihao, Zhang, Zhifei, Gao, Chong, Qi, Xuewen
• Application Number:
  US15/023,927
• Publication Number:
  US 20160242026A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/02 Processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location Register]; Transfer of mobility data, e.g. between HLR, VLR or external networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/30 Network data restoration; Network data reliability; Network data fault tolerance

Abstract

Disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention are a method, device and system for mobility management as well as a computer storage medium. The method comprises: reception by an MME of a service command and extraction from same of service information; determining on the basis of said information which wireless networks are accessed by each terminal of a terminal cluster; invoking, on the basis of the wireless network accessed by each terminal of a terminal cluster, the service requested by each such terminal of a terminal cluster.

Claims

1. A mobility management method, comprising:

acquiring, by Mobility Management Equipment (MME), service information from a service instruction after receiving the service instruction;

determining a wireless network accessed by each terminal in a terminal group according to the acquired service information; and

invoking a terminal in the terminal group to execute a service requested by a user according to the wireless network accessed by each terminal in the terminal group.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

before determining the wireless network accessed by each terminal in the terminal group, sending, by the MME, an invoking request to each terminal in the terminal group, finding a terminal of which terminal capability meets a requirement of execution of the service requested by the user according to a response to the invoking request from said terminal, and waiting to determine the accessed wireless network.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

before invoking the terminal in the terminal group to execute the service requested by the user, sending, by the MME, a service issuing instruction to a network server, and receiving service data issued by the network server.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

in case of service interruption of the terminal executing the service requested by the user in the terminal group, invoking other terminals in the terminal group to continue executing the service requested by the user.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

when currently-operating MME has a single-point failure, switching a current service and the terminal executing the service requested by the user to backup MME.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the wireless network accessed by each terminal in the terminal group comprises:

calculating matching degrees with current networks according to the acquired service information;

collecting signal strength and time delay information of each wireless network as acquired parameters;

acquiring a decision parameter for network accessing from the matching degrees and the acquired parameters based on a fuzzy logic theory; and

determining the wireless network accessed by each terminal according to the decision parameter.

14. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

when currently-operating MME has a single-point failure, switching a current service and the terminal executing the service requested by the user to backup MME.

7. Mobility Management Equipment (MME), comprising:

a service information acquisition module, a network resource allocation module and a terminal invoking module, wherein

the service information acquisition module is configured to acquire service information from a service instruction after receiving the service instruction;

the network resource allocation module is configured to determine a wireless network accessed by each terminal in a terminal group according to the service information acquired by the service information acquisition module; and

the terminal invoking module is configured to invoke a terminal in the terminal group to execute a service requested by a user according to the wireless network accessed by each terminal in the terminal group, the wireless network accessed by each terminal in the terminal group being determined by the network resource allocation module.

8. The MME according to claim 7, wherein the service information acquisition module is further configured to, before the wireless network accessed by each terminal in the terminal group is determined, send an invoking request to each terminal in the terminal group, find a terminal of which terminal capability meets a requirement of execution of the service requested by the user according to a response to the invoking request from said terminal, and wait to determine the accessed wireless network.

9. The MME according to claim 8, wherein the service information acquisition module is further configured to, before the terminal in the terminal group is invoked to execute the service requested by the user, send a service issuing instruction to a network server, and receive service data issued by the network server.

10. The MME according to claim 7, wherein the operation that the network resource allocation module determines the wireless network accessed by each terminal in the terminal group comprises:

calculating matching degrees with current networks according to the acquired service information;

collecting signal strength and time delay information of each wireless network as acquired parameters;

acquiring a decision parameter for network accessing from the matching degrees and the acquired parameters based on a fuzzy logic theory; and

determining the wireless network accessed by each terminal according to the decision parameter.

11. A mobility management system, comprising:

working Mobility Management Equipment (MME), at least one piece of backup MME and at least two terminals, wherein

the working MME is the MME according to claim 7;

the at least one piece of backup MME is the MME according to claim 7;

the working MME is further configured to, when a single-point failure occurs, send a replacement request to the at least one piece of backup MME, and switch a current service and a terminal executing a service requested by a user to the at least one piece of backup MME;

the at least one piece of backup MME is further configured to return a response to the replacement request after receiving the replacement request from the working MME, acquire execution state information of the service requested by the user after it is determined that the at least one piece of backup MME is selected, reconfigure a terminal execution environment and network resource of the service requested by the user, and continue executing the service requested by the user; and

the at least two terminals are configured to execute the service requested by the user after being invoked by the MME.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein, when there are multiple pieces of backup MME, the working MME is further configured to execute an MME selection algorithm to select new MME from the multiple pieces of backup MME.

13. A computer storage medium having stored therein computer programs for executing a mobility management method, the method comprising:

acquiring, by Mobility Management Equipment (MME), service information from a service instruction after receiving the service instruction;

determining a wireless network accessed by each terminal in a terminal group according to the acquired service information; and

invoking a terminal in the terminal group to execute a service requested by a user according to the wireless network accessed by each terminal in the terminal group.