Method and system for processing bearer under ISR mechanism

• US 8,451,780 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2011
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2008
• 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: Wu, Wenfu, Wang, Shanshan, Di, Zhiyu
• Primary Examiner(s): ABELSON, RONALD B
• Application Number:
  US13/215,688
• Publication Number:
  US 20110305201A1
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 370/236, 370/328, 370/331
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1403 Architecture for metering, charging or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/66 Policy and charging system
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/204 UMTS; GPRS
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing
• 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 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]

Abstract

A method and a system for processing a bearer under an idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) mechanism are provided. The method for processing a bearer under an ISR mechanism includes the following steps. A mobility management network element acquires an access mode of a current network. The mobility management network element notifies a serving gateway (SGW) of the access mode of the current network, so that the SGW processes bearer according to the access mode of the current network. It can be ensured that the access mode of the current network is consistent with the access mode for a policy and charging control (PCC) strategy adopted during a bearing procedure under the ISR mechanism.

Claims

1. A method for processing a bearing procedure under an idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) mechanism, comprising:

receiving, by a serving gateway (SGW), a create bearer request sent by a packet data network gateway (PGW);

storing, by the SGW, the create bearer request, and notifying a mobility management entity (MME) and a Service GPRS Support Node (SGSN) to page a user equipment (UE);

receiving, by the SGW, a notification about an access mode of a current network; and

notifying, by the SGW, the PGW of the access mode of the current network.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before storing the create bearer request and notifying a mobility management entity (MME) and a Service GPRS Support Node (SGSN) to page a user equipment (UE), the method further comprises:

confirming, by the SGW, that the UE is in an IDLE state.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein before receiving a notification about the access mode of the current network, the method comprises:

acquiring, by the MME or the SGSN, the access mode of the current network after receiving a service request from the UE; and

notifying, by the MME or the SGSN, the SGW of the access mode of the current network.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein before notifying the PGW of the access mode of the current network, the method further comprises:

comparing, by the SGW, the access mode of the current network with a recorded access mode of an original resident network;

wherein notifying the PGW the access mode of the current network further comprises;

sending, by the SGW, an update bearer request to the PGW when the access mode of the current network is different from the access mode of the original resident network, the update bearer request carries the access mode of the current network.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

sending, by the PGW, the access mode of the current network to a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) entity; and

acquiring, by the PGW, a policy and charging control (PCC) rule corresponding to the access mode of the current network from the PCRF entity.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

initiating, by the PGW, a bearer activation process according to the acquired PCC rule corresponding to the access mode of the current network.

7. A serving gateway (SGW), comprising:

a first receiving device, configured to receive a create bearer request sent by a packet data network gateway (PGW);

a first processing device, configured to store the create bearer request and notify a mobility management entity (MME) and a Service GPRS Support Node (SGSN) to page a user equipment (UE);

a second receiving device, configured to receive a notification about an access mode of a current network;

a second processing device, configured to notify the PGW of the access mode of the current network received by the second receiving device.

8. The SGW according to claim 7, further comprising:

a judge device, configured to judge whether the UE is in an IDLE state;

wherein the first processing device stores the create bearer request and notifies the MME and the SGSN to page the UE when the judge device confirms that the UE is in the IDLE state.

9. The SGW according to claim 7, the judge device is further configured to compare the access mode of the current network with a recorded access mode of an original resident network;

wherein the second processing device sends an update bearer request to the PGW when the access mode of the current network is different from the access mode of the original resident network, the update bearer request carries the access mode of the current network.

10. A mobility management network element, comprising:

a paging device, configured to receive a paging notification for an user equipment (UE) sent by a serving gateway (SGW) and initiate an UE paging procedure; and

a notification device, configured to notify the SGW of an access mode of a current network after receiving a service request from the UE.

11. A mobile network system, comprising:

a serving gateway (SGW), configured to receive a create bearer request sent by a packet data network gateway (PGW), store the create bearer request, notify a mobility management network element to page a user equipment (UE), receive a notification about an access mode of a current network, and notify the PGW of the access mode of the current network;

the mobility management network element, configured to receive a paging notification for the UE sent by the SGW, initiate a UE paging procedure, and notify the SGW of the access mode of the current network after receiving a service request from the UE; and

the PGW, configured to send the create bearer request to the SGW and receive the notification about the access mode of the current network notified by the SGW.

12. The mobile network system according to claim 11, the SGW is further configured to judge whether the UE is in an IDLE state, and store the create bearer request and notify the mobility management network element to page the UE when confirming that the UE is in the IDLE state.

13. The mobile network system according to claim 11, the SGW is further configured to compare the access mode of the current network with a recorded access mode of an original resident network, send an update bearer request to the PGW when the access mode of the current network is different from the access mode of the original resident network, the update bearer request carries the access mode of the current network.

14. The mobile network system according to claim 11, the PGW is further configured to send the access mode of the current network to a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) entity, and acquire a policy and charging control (PCC) rule corresponding to the access mode of the current network from the PCRF entity.