Method for admission control of multiple service flows paging in mobile packet domain

• US 8,315,390 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2008
• Issued: 11/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Ji, Chong, Liu, Junyi, Chen, Donghua, Sun, Hongyue
• Primary Examiner(s): Flynn, Nathan
• Assistant Examiner(s): KOSOWSKI, CAROLYN M
• Application Number:
  US12/452,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20100122322A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,615 Days
• Field of Search: 726/4, 380/271
• US Class Current: 380/271
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A method for paging admission control for multi-service flows in a mobile packet domain is provided and comprises steps of when authentication of a mobile station accessing a connectivity service network through an access service network succeeds, assigning a service flow paging strategy for a downlink service flow of the mobile station, and sending the service flow paging strategy to the access service network; receiving, by the access service network, downlink data of a mobile station in IDLE state from a home agent, searching for a downlink service flow to which the downlink data belong, and judging whether the service flow admits paging according to the service flow paging strategy, and if yes, initiating a paging flow triggered by the downlink data.

Claims

1. A method for paging admission control for multi-service flows in a mobile packet domain, comprising:

when authentication of a mobile station accessing a connectivity service network through an access service network succeeds, assigning a service flow paging strategy for a downlink service flow of the mobile station, wherein the service flow paging strategy includes paging admission information indicating whether the downlink service flow admits paging or not, and sending the service flow paging strategy to the access service network; and

receiving, by the access service network, downlink data of a mobile station in IDLE state from a home agent, searching for the downlink service flow to which the downlink data belong, and determining whether the downlink service flow admits paging according to the service flow paging strategy assigned for the downlink service flow, and if yes, initiating a paging flow triggered by the downlink data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method specifically comprises:

when authentication of the mobile station accessing the connectivity service network through the access service network succeeds, assigning, by an authentication authorization accounting or strategy server, the service flow paging strategy for all downlink service flows of the mobile station, and sending the service flow paging strategy to the access service network for storage;

when establishing the downlink service flows, utilizing, by an anchor service flow authorization functional entity situated in the access service network, the service flow paging strategy to obtain paging admission information of each of the downlink service flows, and binding, by a serving service flow authorization functional entity, the downlink service flow with the paging admission information thereof; and

after receiving, by an anchor data path situated in the access service network, downlink data of the mobile station in IDLE state from the home agent, searching for the downlink service flow to which the downlink data belong, and determining whether the downlink service flow admits paging according to the paging admission information, and if yes, initiating the paging flow triggered by the downlink data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein,

after the access service network receives the service flow paging strategy, the service flow paging strategy is stored by the anchor service flow authorization functional entity.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the process of establishing the downlink service flows further comprises:

A, when establishing a downlink service flow for the mobile station, searching, by the anchor service flow authorization functional entity, for the service flow paging strategy of the mobile station according to an identification of the downlink service flow to obtain paging admission information of the downlink service flow, the paging admission information indicating whether the downlink service flow admits paging or not; and

B, sending, by the anchor service flow authorization functional entity, a resource reservation request to the anchor data path to trigger a flow of establishing a downlink service flow path, wherein the paging admission information of the downlink service flow is carried in the resource reservation request, and binding, by the anchor data path, the downlink service flow with the paging admission information thereof after receiving the resource reservation request.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

in the step B, adding a new field of Type Length Value in the resource reservation request, or amending an original definition of a Type Length Value field in the resource reservation request, in order that the Type Length Value field is used to represent the paging admission information of the downlink service flow.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein,

in the step B, the downlink service flow bound with the paging admission information is uniquely determined by an identification of the mobile station, to which the downlink service flow belongs, in conjunction with the identification of the downlink service flow.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein,

after receiving the downlink data of the mobile station in IDLE state from the home agent, the anchor data path situated in the access service network finds the downlink service flow to which the downlink data belong through searching a classifier, and then finds the paging admission information bound with the downlink service flow by using the identification of the mobile station, to which the downlink service flow belongs, in conjunction with the identification of the service flow.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein,

if the anchor service flow authorization functional entity and the anchor data path are deployed in one network element, the resource reservation request is represented by an internal message, or sending of the resource reservation request is omitted.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein,

after receiving the downlink data of the mobile station in IDLE state from the home agent, the anchor data path situated in the access service network finds the downlink service flow to which the downlink data belong through searching a classifier, and then finds the paging admission information bound with the downlink service flow by using an identification of the mobile station, to which the downlink service flow belongs, in conjunction with an identification of the downlink service flow.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein the service flow paging strategy adopts any one of the following approaches:

specifying a range of IP addresses in which paging is admitted;

or

explicitly pointing out whether each service flow admits paging or not.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the service flow paging strategy adopts any one of the following approaches:

specifying a range of IP addresses in which paging is admitted;

or

explicitly pointing out whether each service flow admits paging or not.