METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR BLOCKING NETWORK ACCESS BY ACDC

• US 20170041854A1
• Filed: 11/10/2015
• Published: 02/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: LEE, Ki-dong, KIM, Jaehyun, LEE, Youngdae, KIM, Laeyoung, KIM, Hyunsook, KIM, Taehun
• Granted Patent: US 9,860,824 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2433 Allocation of priorities to traffic types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2475 for supporting traffic characterised by the type of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/02 Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0215 based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0289 Congestion control load shedding arrangements in network planning H04W16/08; performing reselection for handling the traffic H04W36/22; wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/06 based on traffic conditions

Abstract

A disclosure of the present specification provides a network access blocking method performed by a user equipment. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving application specific congestion control for data communication (ACDC) blocking information and access class barring (ACB) blocking information; determining the category of an application being executed according to a network access attempt by the application; performing an ACDC blocking check on the basis of the determined category and the received ACDC blocking information. Here, when the network access attempt by the application is not blocked as a result of the ACDC blocking check, an ACB blocking check on the basis of the ACB blocking information may be skipped.

Claims

1. A method for barring a network access, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising:

receiving an application specific congestion control for data communication (ACDC) barring information and an access class barring (ACB) barring information; and

performing a ACDC barring check based on the an ACDC category for a network access request of an application and the received ACDC barring information;

wherein although a previous network access has been barred according a previous ACB barring check, the network access request of the application is not barred according to the ACDC barring check.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein if the network access request of the application is not barred according to the ACDC barring check, ACB barring check to be performed based on the ACB barring information is skipped based on an ACB barring check skipping indication.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

although a barring timer is running since the previous network access has been barred according to the previous ACB barring check, if the network access request is not barred according to the ACDC barring check, stopping the barring timer.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

indicating, by a lower layer to a higher layer, that the barred network access results from the ACB barring check;

or

if the network access request is barred according to the ACDC barring check, indicating, by the lower layer to the higher layer, that the network access request is barred.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein

the ACDC category is determined based on application information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the application information includes at least one of:

a group, a category, a priority, information and an identifier of an application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the ACDC barring information includes at least on of:

a barring rate, a barring factor, a barring time, a roaming information, and an access class barring (ACB) skipping configuration, which are defined per a specific unit of an application.

8. A user equipment (UE) for barring a network access, the UE comprising:

a transceiver;

a processor configured to control the transceiver and configured to perform;

receiving an application specific congestion control for data communication (ACDC) barring information and an access class barring (ACB) barring information; and

performing a ACDC barring check based on an ACDC category for a network access request of an application and the received ACDC barring information;

wherein although a previous network access has been barred according a previous ACB barring check, the network access request of the application is not barred according to the ACDC barring check.

9. The UE of claim 8, wherein if the network access request is not barred according to the ACDC barring check, an ACB barring check to be performed based on the ACB barring information is skipped based on an ACB barring check skipping indication.

10. The UE of claim 8, wherein the process is further configured to perform:

although a barring timer is running since the previous network access has been barred according to the previous ACB barring check, if the network access by the executed application is not barred according to the ACDC barring check, stopping the barring timer.

11. The UE of claim 8, wherein the process is further configured to perform:

indicating, by a lower layer to a higher layer, that the barred network access results from the ACB barring check.

12. The UE of claim 8, wherein

the ACDC category is determined based on application information.