Network troubleshooting method and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10142883-B2
Application number	US-201615242174-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2016
Priority date	Feb 21, 2014
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field, and provide a network troubleshooting method and device, which can determine a service recovery policy according to a power saving state of user equipment after a mobility management entity is faulty, and can reduce unnecessary consumption of network resources. A specific solution is: obtaining a power saving state of user equipment; and if it is detected that a mobility management entity MME managing the user equipment is faulty, selecting a service recovery policy for the user equipment according to the power saving state, where the service recovery policy includes: not initiating service recovery or initiating service recovery. The present invention is used to process a fault of an MME.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for network troubleshooting comprising:
obtaining, by a network device, a power saving state and a discontinuous reception cycle value of a mobile device;
selecting, by the network device, a service recovery policy for the mobile device according to the power saving state when a mobility management entity (MME) managing the mobile device is faulty; and
initiating service recovery for the mobile device by the MME paging the mobile device using a downlink data notification message according to the discontinuous reception cycle value.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the power saving state comprises:
a) the mobile device activates a power saving mode; or
b) the mobile device activates a discontinuous reception mode and a discontinuous reception cycle value is unknown; or
c) the mobile device activates the discontinuous reception mode and the discontinuous reception cycle value is known.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the process of the obtaining the power saving state of the mobile device comprises:
receiving, in an attach procedure or a routing area update procedure, an indication message delivered by the MME and comprising the power saving state and at least one of a create session request message or a modify bearer request message.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the process of the obtaining a power saving state of the mobile device comprises:
receiving, in an attach procedure or a routing area update procedure, an indication message delivered by the MME and comprising the power saving state and at least one of a create session request message or a modify bearer request message.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein selecting the service recovery policy according to the power saving state comprises:
a) in case that the power saving state of the mobile device activates the power saving mode, or activates the discontinuous reception mode and the discontinuous reception cycle value is unknown, skipping initiating the service recovery for the mobile device, and skipping paging the mobile device; or
b) in case that the power saving state of the mobile device activates the discontinuous reception mode and the discontinuous reception cycle value is known, initiating the service recovery for the mobile device, so that the MME pages the mobile device according to the discontinuous reception cycle value.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein selecting the service recovery policy according to the power saving state further comprises:
in case that the power saving state of the mobile device activates the power saving mode, or the mobile device activates the discontinuous reception mode and the discontinuous reception cycle value is unknown, skipping initiating service recovery for another mobile device except the mobile device, wherein the another mobile device is managed by the faulty MME and whose power saving state is the same as the power saving state of the mobile device.

7. A network device comprising:
a communications interface configured to communicate with a network element;
a memory configured to store computer code; and
a processor for executing the computer code to configure the processor to perform the following:
obtain a power saving state and a discontinuous reception cycle value of a mobile device;

select a service recovery policy for the mobile device according to the power saving state in case that a mobility management entity (MME) managing the mobile device is faulty; and
initiating service recovery for the mobile device by the MME paging the mobile device using a downlink data notification message according to the discontinuous reception cycle value.

8. The network device according to claim 7 , wherein the power saving state comprises:
a) the mobile device activates a power saving mode; or
b) the mobile device activates a discontinuous reception mode and a discontinuous reception cycle value is unknown; or
c) the mobile device activates a discontinuous reception mode and a discontinuous reception cycle value is known.

9. The network device according to claim 7 , wherein the processor executes the computer code to cause the network device to perform further:
in an attach procedure or a routing area update procedure, receive an indication message that is delivered by the MME and that comprises the power saving state, wherein the indication message comprises at least one of a create session request message or a modify bearer request message.

10. The network device according to claim 8 , wherein the processor executes the computer code to cause the network device to perform further:
in an attach procedure or a routing area update procedure, receive an indication message that is delivered by the MME and that comprises the power saving state, wherein the indication message comprises at least one of a create session request message or a modify bearer request message.

11. The network device according to claim 8 , wherein the processor executes the computer code to cause the network device to perform further:
a) in case that the power saving state of the mobile device is that the mobile device activates the power saving mode, or the mobile device activates the discontinuous reception mode and the discontinuous reception cycle value is unknown, skip initiating service recovery for the mobile device, and skip paging the mobile device; or
b) in case that the power saving state of the mobile device is that the mobile device activates the discontinuous reception mode and the discontinuous reception cycle value is known, initiate service recovery for the mobile device, so that the MME pages the mobile device according to the discontinuous reception cycle value.

12. The network device according to claim 11 , wherein the processor executes the computer code to cause the network device to perform further:
in case that the power saving state of the mobile device is that the mobile device activates the power saving mode, or the mobile device activates the discontinuous reception mode and the discontinuous reception cycle value is unknown, skip initiating service recovery for another mobile device except the mobile device, wherein the another mobile device is managed by the faulty MME and whose power saving state is the same as the power saving state of the mobile device.

13. A non-transitory, computer readable medium in a network device including the following instructions for execution by a processor:
instructions for obtaining a power saving state and a discontinuous reception cycle value of a mobile device;
instructions for selecting a service recovery policy for the mobile device according to the power saving state when a mobility management entity (MME) managing the mobile device is faulty; and
initiating service recovery for the mobile device by the MME paging the mobile device using a downlink data notification message according to the discontinuous reception cycle value.

14. The non-transitory, computer readable medium according to claim 13 , wherein the power saving state comprises:
a) activating a power saving mode; or
b) activating a discontinuous reception mode and a discontinuous reception cycle value is unknown; or
c) activating a discontinuous reception mode and a discontinuous reception cycle value is known.

15. The non-transitory, computer readable medium according to claim 13 , wherein the instructions for obtaining the power saving state of the mobile device comprises:
receiving, in an attach procedure or a routing area update procedure, an indication message delivered by the MME

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shi Xiaoyan
• Zhang Wanqiang

Classifications

• Y02D70/00

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H04W52/0212 Primary

  managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is leader and terminal is follower · CPC title

• H04W28/04 Primary

  Error control · CPC title

• Y02D70/24

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H04W76/28

  Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX] · CPC title