Session establishment method and system, and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12108289-B2
Application number	US-202318159275-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 25, 2023
Priority date	Oct 16, 2017
Publication date	Oct 1, 2024
Grant date	Oct 1, 2024

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to session establishment methods, systems, and devices. One example method includes obtaining, by a first mobility management entity, information about a packet data network (PDN) connection that has been established when a terminal accesses an evolved packet core (EPC) network, and obtaining, by the first mobility management entity, single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) of a network slice corresponding to the PDN connection.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A session establishment method, comprising:
obtaining, by a first mobility management entity in a network supporting network slice, information about a first connection that has been established when a terminal accesses a first network, wherein the information about the first connection comprises information about a control plane function entity corresponding to the first connection;
sending, by the first mobility management entity to the control plane function entity, a request message requesting an identification information of a network slice corresponding to the first connection based on the information about the control plane function entity;
in response to the request message, determining, by the control plane function entity, the identification information of the network slice and sending the identification information of the network slice to the first mobility management entity, wherein the determining the identification information of the network slice comprises:
determining a piece of S-NSSAI supported by the control plane function entity as the identification information of the network slice; or
determining, based on at least one of subscription information of the terminal or a local policy, the identification information of the network slice; and

receiving, by the first mobility management entity from the control plane function entity, the identification information of the network slice.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the identification information of the network slice indicates a network slice for establishing a protocol data unit (PDU) session.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the information about the control plane function entity comprises at least one of an internet protocol (IP) address or a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the control plane function entity.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining, by the first mobility management entity, information about a second mobility management entity.

5. The method according to claim 4 , further comprising:
sending, by the first mobility management entity to the second mobility management entity, the identification information of the network slice; and
receiving, by the second mobility management entity from the first mobility management entity, the identification information of the network slice.

6. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the obtaining, by the first mobility management entity, information about a second mobility management entity comprises:
obtaining, by the first mobility management entity, the information about the second mobility management entity based on the identification information of the network slice.

7. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the method further comprises:
sending, by the first mobility management entity to the second mobility management entity, the identification information of the network slice.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the sending, by the first mobility management entity to the second mobility management entity, the identification information of the network slice comprises:
sending, by the first mobility management entity to the second mobility management entity through an access device, the identification information of the network slice.

9. The method according to claim 1 , the first network is an evolved packet core (EPC), the first connection is a packet data network (PDN) connection, and the identification information of the network slice is a single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI).

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first mobility management entity includes an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the network supporting network slice includes a fifth generation (5G) network.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the network supporting network slice is not an EPC network.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the control plane function entity comprises a PDN gateway control plane function (PGW-C) entity and a session management function (SMF) entity.

14. A session establishment system, comprising a first mobility management entity in a network supporting network slice and a control plane function entity, wherein
the first mobility management entity comprises at least one processor and one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor to cause the first mobility management entity to:
obtain information about a first connection that has been established when a terminal accesses a first network, wherein the information about the first connection comprises information about a control plane function entity corresponding to the first connection;
send, to the control plane function entity, a request message requesting an identification information of a network slice corresponding to the first connection based on the information about the control plane function entity; and
receive, from the control plane function entity, identification information of the network slice; and

the control plane function entity comprises at least one processor and one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor to cause the control plane function entity to:
in response to the request message, determine the identification information of the network slice, and send the identification information of the network slice to the first mobility management entity, wherein the determine the identification information of the network slice comprises:
determining a piece of S-NSSAI supported by the control plane function entity as the identification information of the network slice; or
determining, based on at least one of subscription information of the terminal or a local policy, the identification information of the network slice.

15. The session establishment system according to claim 14 , wherein the identification information of the network slice indicates a network slice for establishing a protocol data unit (PDU) session.

16. The session establishment system according to claim 14 , wherein the information about the control plane function entity comprises at least one of an internet protocol (IP) address or a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the control plane function entity.

17. The session establishment system according to claim 14 , wherein the first mobility management entity is further caused to:
obtain information about a second mobility management entity.

18. The session establishment system according to claim 17 , wherein the first mobility management entity is further caused to:
send, to the second mobility management entity, the identification information of the network slice; and
wherein the second mobility management entity is further configured to: receive, from the first mobility management entity, the identification information of the network slice.

19. The session establishment system according to claim 17 , wherein the first mobility management entity is further caused to:
obtain the information about the second mobility management entity based on the identification information of the network slice.

20. The session establishment system according to claim 17 , wherein the first mobility management entity is further configured to:
send, to the second mobility management entity, the identifica

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jing Hao
• Zong Zaifeng

Classifications

• H04W36/0022 Primary

  for transferring data sessions between adjacent core network technologies · CPC title

• H04W36/00222 Primary

  between different packet switched [PS] network technologies, e.g. transferring data sessions between LTE and WLAN or LTE and 5G · CPC title

• H04W36/0066 Primary

  of control information between different types of networks in order to establish a new radio link in the target network · CPC title

• H04W76/10 Primary

  Connection setup · CPC title

• H04W76/12

  Setup of transport tunnels · CPC title