Relay method of transport bearer, apparatus and communication system

• US 8,792,410 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2012
• Issued: 07/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2009
• 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: Lin, Gauquan, Chen, Weimin
• Primary Examiner(s): Mui, Gary
• Application Number:
  US13/370,732
• Publication Number:
  US 20120140697A1
• Time in Patent Office: 900 Days
• Field of Search: 370/401, 370/315
• US Class Current: 370/315
• 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 84/047 using dedicated repeater stations

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a relay method of a transport bearer, an apparatus and a communication system. According to the technical solutions in the present invention, when receiving information encapsulated by a source device and sent by the source device, a relay base station first decapsulates the information, encapsulates the information again, and then sends the encapsulated information to a host device, thus ensuring that the information has only a layer of encapsulation in the transport procedure, so as to avoid a case that a high overhead caused by two layers of encapsulation occurs in the transport procedure. Compared with the prior art, the overhead in the transport procedure may be reduced, and the transport efficiency may be increased.

Claims

1. A relay method of a transport bearer, comprising:

receiving information encapsulated by a source device and sent by the source device;

decapsulating the received information encapsulated by the source device;

encapsulating the decapsulated information; and

sending the encapsulated information to a host device;

wherein the receiving the information encapsulated by the source device and sent by the source device comprises;

receiving a signaling message or data, wherein the signaling message or data is encapsulated by the source device and sent by the source device;

the decapsulating the received information encapsulated by the source device comprises;

parsing the received signaling message or data, wherein the received signaling message or data is encapsulated by the source device;

the encapsulating the decapsulated information comprises;

performing signaling bearer address replacement on the parsed signaling message, or performing data bearer address replacement on the parsed data; and

the sending the encapsulated information to the host device comprises;

sending the signaling message after the signaling bearer address replacement to the host device, or sending the data after the data bearer address replacement to the host device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the source device is a self-backhauling base station, and the host device is a gateway;

or the source device is a gateway, and the host device is a self-backhauling base station.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the source device is a self-backhauling base station, and the host device is a gateway, after the parsing the received signaling message encapsulated by the source device, the method further comprises:

selecting a gateway for the self-backhauling base station; and

the performing the address replacement on the parsed signaling message comprises;

performing the signaling bearer address replacement on the parsed signaling message according to the selected gateway.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the encapsulating the decapsulated information further comprises:

performing signaling identity replacement on the parsed signaling message;

or

performing data tunnel identity replacement on the parsed data.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the performing the signaling identity replacement on the parsed signaling message comprises:

setting up a signaling identity pair mapping table, and performing the signaling identity replacement on the parsed signaling message according to the signaling identity pair mapping table; and

the performing the data tunnel identity replacement on the parsed data packet comprises;

setting up a tunnel mapping table, and performing tunnel identity replacement on the parsed data according to the tunnel mapping table.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein when the relay base station needs to be handed over, the setting up the tunnel mapping table comprises:

in handover, setting up a tunnel mapping table between the self-backhauling base station and a source relay base station; and

after the handover, setting up a tunnel mapping table between the self-backhauling base station and a gateway.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the source device is a self-backhauling base station, and the host device is a gateway, after the parsing the received information encapsulated by the source device, the method further comprises:

adding an identity denoting that relay processing is performed, and/or adding a self-backhauling base station identity to the parsed signaling message, so that the gateway processes the received information according to the identity denoting that the relay processing is performed and/or the self-backhauling base station identity.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the source device is a gateway, and the host device is a self-backhauling base station, the receiving the information encapsulated by the source device and sent by the source device comprises:

receiving a signaling message encapsulated by the gateway and sent by the gateway, wherein the signaling message encapsulated by the gateway carries a self-backhauling base station identity; and

the encapsulating the decapsulated information comprises;

encapsulating the parsed signaling message according to the self-backhauling base station identity.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the parsing the received signaling message encapsulated by the source device, the method further comprises:

adding content of the parsed signaling message to stored context information of the self-backhauling base station or the gateway.

10. A relay base station, comprising:

a receiving unit, configured to receive information encapsulated by a source device and sent by the source device;

a decapsulating unit, configured to decapsulate the information encapsulated by the source device and received by the receiving unit;

an encapsulating unit, configured to encapsulate the information decapsulated by the decapsulating unit;

a sending unit, configured to send the information encapsulated by the encapsulating unit to a host device; and

a selecting unit, wherein the selecting unit is configured to select a gateway for a self-backhauling base station; and

the signaling encapsulating subunit is configured to perform, according to the gateway selected by the selecting unit, address replacement on the signaling message decapsulated by the signaling decapsulating subunit.

11. The relay base station according to claim 10, wherein the receiving unit comprises a signaling receiving subunit and a data receiving subunit;

the signaling receiving subunit is configured to receive a signaling message encapsulated by a source device and sent by the source device;

the data receiving subunit is configured to receive data encapsulated by a source device and sent by the source device;

the decapsulating unit comprises a signaling decapsulating subunit and a data decapsulating subunit;

the signaling decapsulating subunit is configured to parse the signaling message encapsulated by the source device and received by the signaling receiving subunit;

the data decapsulating subunit is configured to parse the data encapsulated by the source device and received by the data receiving subunit;

the encapsulating unit comprises a signaling encapsulating subunit and a data encapsulating subunit;

the signaling encapsulating subunit is configured to perform address replacement on the signaling message parsed by the signaling decapsulating subunit;

the data encapsulating subunit is configured to perform address replacement on the data parsed by the data decapsulating subunit;

the sending unit comprises a signaling sending subunit and a data sending subunit;

the signaling sending subunit is configured to send the signaling message replaced by the signaling encapsulating subunit to the host device; and

the data sending subunit is configured to send the data replaced by the data encapsulating subunit to the host device.

12. A relay base station, comprising:

a receiving unit, configured to receive information encapsulated by a source device and sent by the source device;

a decapsulating unit, configured to decapsulate the information encapsulated by the source device and received by the receiving unit;

an encapsulating unit, configured to encapsulate the information decapsulated by the decapsulating unit;

a sending unit, configured to send the information encapsulated by the encapsulating unit to a host device; and

a signaling identity processing unit, wherein

the signaling identity processing unit is configured to perform signaling identity replacement on the signaling message parsed by the signaling decapsulating subunit.

13. A relay base station, comprising:

a receiving unit, configured to receive information encapsulated by a source device and sent by the source device;

a decapsulating unit, configured to decapsulate the information encapsulated by the source device and received by the receiving unit;

an encapsulating unit, configured to encapsulate the information decapsulated by the decapsulating unit;

a sending unit, configured to send the information encapsulated by the encapsulating unit to a host device; and

an identity adding unit, wherein

the identity adding unit is configured to add an identity denoting that relay processing is performed, and/or add a self-backhauling base station identity to the signaling message parsed by the signaling decapsulating subunit, so that the gateway processes the received information according to the identity denoting that the relay processing is performed and/or the self-backhauling base station identity.

14. A relay base station, comprising:

a receiving unit, configured to receive information encapsulated by a source device and sent by the source device;

a decapsulating unit, configured to decapsulate the information encapsulated by the source device and received by the receiving unit;

an encapsulating unit, configured to encapsulate the information decapsulated by the decapsulating unit;

a sending unit, configured to send the information encapsulated by the encapsulating unit to a host device; and

a tunnel identity processing unit, wherein

the tunnel identity processing unit is configured to perform data tunnel identity replacement on the data parsed by the data decapsulating subunit.