Communication method, access network device, and terminal
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorHongping Zhang
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Abstract
A communication method, an access network device, and a terminal, the method comprising sending, by a first access network device, in a cell of the first access network device and corresponding to a radio network area of a terminal in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, and in response to the terminal in the RRC inactive state needing to be paged, a first paging message paging the terminal and sending, by the first access network device to a second access network device, a paging request message requesting to page the terminal, where the second access network device is an access network device other than the first access network device, and where the second access network device corresponds to the radio network area.
Claims19
A communication method, comprising:
- sending, by a first access network device, in a cell of the first access network device and corresponding to a radio network area of a terminal in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, and in response to the terminal in the RRC inactive state needing to be paged, a first paging message paging the terminal;
- and
- sending, by the first access network device to a second access network device, a first message comprising a cell list associated with the radio network area and requesting to page the terminal only in one or more cells listed in the cell list, wherein the second access network device is an access network device other than the first access network device, and wherein the second access network device corresponds to the radio network area.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a transceiver;
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions to:
- cause the transceiver to send, in a cell of the apparatus and corresponding to a radio network area of a terminal in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, and in response to the terminal in the RRC inactive state needing to be paged, a first paging message paging the terminal;
- and
- send, to a second access network device, a first message comprising a cell list associated with the radio network area and requesting to page the terminal only in one or more cells listed in the cell list, wherein the second access network device is an access network device other than the apparatus, and wherein the second access network device corresponds to the radio network area.
A communications method, comprising:
- sending, by a first access network device, in a cell of the first access network device and corresponding to a radio network area of a terminal in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, and in response to the terminal in the RRC inactive state needing to be paged, a first paging message paging the terminal;
- sending, by the first access network device to a second access network device, a first message comprising a cell list associated with the radio network area and requesting to page the terminal only in one or more cells listed in the cell list, wherein the second access network device is an access network device other than the first access network device, and wherein the second access network device corresponds to the radio network area;
- and
- sending, by the second access network device, a paging message to the terminal in response to the first message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.