Mobility management method, source base station, target base station, and terminal device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12414016-B2
Application number	US-202217944674-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2022
Priority date	Apr 3, 2020
Publication date	Sep 9, 2025
Grant date	Sep 9, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a mobility management method, a source base station, a target base station, and a terminal device. The method includes: receiving a report message from a terminal device, where the terminal device is a terminal device that receives data of a first multicast service, and the report message includes a measurement result; and transmitting a handover command to the terminal device, where the handover command is used to instruct the terminal device to switch to a target base station, and the target base station is determined based on the measurement result.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobility management method performed by a source base station, comprising:
receiving a report message from a terminal device, wherein the terminal device is a terminal device that receives data of a first multicast service, and the report message comprises a measurement result; and
transmitting a handover command to the terminal device, wherein the handover command is used to instruct the terminal device to switch to a target base station, and the target base station is determined based on the measurement result;
wherein the method further comprises:
receiving forwarding tunnel information from the target base station; and
forwarding, through a first forwarding tunnel, multicast service data received from a first shared tunnel, wherein the first forwarding tunnel is a forwarding tunnel established based on the forwarding tunnel information, and the first shared tunnel is a tunnel between the source base station and a core network side device.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting identifier information of a second multicast service to the target base station, wherein
the transmitting a handover command to the terminal device comprises:
transmitting the handover command to the terminal device in a case that air interface resource information from the target base station has been received, wherein the handover command comprises the air interface resource information.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
receiving identifier information of a third multicast service from the target base station; and
forwarding data of the third multicast service to the target base station.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises at least one of the following:
transmitting a quality of service profile of the second multicast service to the target base station;
transmitting core network element information of the second multicast service to the target base station;
transmitting a quality of service flow identifier (QFI) of the second multicast service to the target base station; or
prohibiting transmitting a user identity or device identity of the terminal device to the target base station.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting a forwarding tunnel release indication to the target base station, or receiving a forwarding tunnel release indication from the target base station, where the release indication is used to indicate stopping data forwarding or releasing resources of the forwarding tunnel.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the report message further comprises identifier information of a fourth multicast service,
wherein the target base station is determined based on the measurement result and the identifier information of the fourth multicast service, or
wherein the handover command comprises identifier information of a fifth multicast service.

7. A source base station, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing a computer program that is capable of running on the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the source bases station to perform the steps of the mobility management method according to claim 1 .

8. A mobility management method performed by a target base station and comprising:
receiving identifier information of a second multicast service from a source base station;
transmitting air interface resource information to the source base station; and
receiving an access complete message from a terminal device;
wherein after the receiving identifier information of a second multicast service from a source base station, the method further comprises:
transmitting forwarding tunnel information to the source base station, wherein a forwarding tunnel established based on the forwarding tunnel information is used to forward multicast service data received by the source base station;
wherein after the receiving identifier information of a second multicast service from a source base station, the method further comprises:
transmitting identifier information of a sixth multicast service to a core network side device.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein after the receiving identifier information of a second multicast service from a source base station, the method further comprises:
transmitting identifier information of a third multicast service to the source base station.

10. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
transmitting shared tunnel information to the core network side device, wherein the shared tunnel information is used for establishing a shared tunnel between the target base station and the core network side device.

11. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the transmitting identifier information of a sixth multicast service to a core network side device comprises one of the following:
in a case that the access complete message has been received from the terminal device, transmitting the identifier information of the sixth multicast service to the core network side device; and
in a case that the air interface resource information has been transmitted to the source base station, transmitting the identifier information of the sixth multicast service to the core network side device.

12. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises at least one of the following:
receiving a quality of service profile of the second multicast service from the source base station;
receiving a quality of service flow identifier (QFI) of the second multicast service from the source base station; or
receiving core network element information of the second multicast service from the source base station and transmitting the core network element information to a core network side device.

13. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
transmitting a forwarding tunnel release indication to the source base station, or receiving a forwarding tunnel release indication from the source base station, where the release indication is used to indicate stopping data forwarding or releasing resources of the forwarding tunnel.

14. The method according to claim 8 , wherein after the receiving an access complete message from a terminal device, the method further comprises:
instructing the terminal device to receive multicast service data in a point to multipoint (PTM) mode.

15. A target base station, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing a computer program that is capable of running on the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the target base station to perform the steps of the mobility management method according to claim 8 .

Assignees

• Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhong Tingting
• Xie Zhenhua

Classifications

• H04W36/249

  according to timing information · CPC title

• H04W4/06

  Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services · CPC title

• H04W36/0007 Primary

  for multicast or broadcast services, e.g. MBMS (multicast or broadcast application services H04W4/06; resource management for broadcast services H04W72/30; connection management for selective distribution or broadcast H04W76/40) · CPC title