CONTROL METHOD AND LOCAL CONTROL PLANE DEVICE

• US 20180192456A1
• Filed: 02/28/2018
• Published: 07/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2015
• 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.)
• Granted Patent: US 10,506,648 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/082 among bearers or channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a control method, the method is applied to a wireless communications system, and the wireless communications system includes user equipment, a base station, a gateway device, a local control plane device, and a remote control plane device. The method includes: obtaining, by the local control plane device, context information of the user equipment from the remote control plane device according to an interaction process between the user equipment and the remote control plane device; and setting up, by the local control plane device according to the context information of the user equipment, a radio bearer between the user equipment and a base station in which a current camping cell of the user equipment is located.

Claims

1. A control method, comprising:

obtaining, by a local control plane device, context information of a user equipment from a remote control plane device according to an interaction process between the user equipment and the remote control plane device; and

setting up, by the local control plane device according to the context information of the user equipment, a radio bearer between the user equipment and a base station in which a current camping cell of the user equipment is located.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the interaction process comprises at least one of:

an attach request process initiated by the user equipment and a packet data network connection setup process initiated by the user equipment.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining the context information comprises:

in the interaction process between the user equipment and the remote control plane device, forwarding, by the local control plane device, forwarding plane modification information from the remote control plane device to the gateway device, wherein the forwarding plane modification information carries the context information of the user equipment; and

obtaining, by the local control plane device, the context information of the user equipment by parsing the forwarding plane modification information.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining the context information comprises:

in the interaction process between the user equipment and the remote control plane device, receiving, by the local control plane device, the context information of the user equipment from the remote control plane device.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein setting up the radio bearer comprises:

in response to receiving a service request from the user equipment via the base station, sending, by the local control plane device according to the context information of the user equipment, a context setup request to the base station.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein before the local control plane device receives the service request, the method further comprises:

in response to receiving a downlink data arrival notification message, initiating, by the local control plane device, paging to the user equipment according to the context information of the user equipment.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein after obtaining the context information, the method further comprises:

in response to receiving a context deletion request from the remote control plane device, deleting, by the local control plane device, the stored context information of the user equipment; and

sending, by the local control plane device, the context deletion request to the gateway device.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein after setting up the radio bearer, the method further comprises:

sending, by the local control plane device, a user state modification notification to the remote control plane device, wherein the user state modification notification is used for modification of state information of the user equipment.

9. A local control plane device, comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor configured to obtain context information of a user equipment from a remote control plane device according to an interaction process between the user equipment and the remote control plane device; and

set up, according to the context information of the user equipment, a radio bearer between the user equipment and a base station in which a current camping cell of the user equipment is located.

10. The local control plane device according to claim 9, wherein the interaction process comprises at least one of:

an attach request process initiated by the user equipment and a packet data network connection setup process initiated by the user equipment.

11. The local control plane device according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to:

in the interaction process between the user equipment and the remote control plane device, forward forwarding plane modification information from the remote control plane device to the gateway device, wherein the forwarding plane modification information carries the context information of the user equipment; and

obtain the context information of the user equipment by parsing the forwarding plane modification information.

12. The local control plane device according to claim 9, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive the context information of the user equipment from the remote control plane device.

13. The local control plane device according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to:

after a service request from the user equipment via the base station is received, send according to the context information of the user equipment, a context setup request to the base station.

14. The local control plane device according to claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

after a downlink data arrival notification message is received, initiate paging to the user equipment according to the context information of the user equipment.

15. The local control plane device according to claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to:

after a context deletion request from the remote control plane device is received, delete the stored context information of the user equipment; and

send the context deletion request to the gateway device.

16. The local control plane device according to claim 9, wherein the transceiver is further configured to send a user state modification notification to the remote control plane device, wherein the user state modification notification is used for modification of state information of the user equipment.

17. The local control plane device according to claim 9, wherein the remote control plane device comprises:

a mobility management entity of a evolved packet core (EPC) network architecture;

or a central control plane device of a control-forwarding decoupling network architecture.

18. A wireless communications system, comprising:

a remote control plane device, configured to perform interaction process with a user equipment; and

a local control plane, communicatively coupled to the remote control plane device and configured to obtain context information of the user equipment during the interaction process, and set up a radio bearer between the user equipment and a base station in which a current camping cell of the user equipment is located according to the context information.

19. The system according to claim 18, further comprising:

the base station, configured to receive a context setup request from the local control plane device, and set up the radio bearer.

20. The system according to claim 18, further comprising:

a gateway device, configured to receive forwarding plane modification information from the local control plane device, wherein the forwarding plane modification information carries the context information of the user equipment.