Traffic routing method, apparatus, and system
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsYongcui Li, Ao Lei, Hui Ni
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides example traffic routing methods, apparatuses, and systems. One example method includes determining, by a session management network element, a routing rule, where the routing rule indicates a first traffic steering entity to send a first traffic to a first function entity, or send a second traffic to a second function entity or an access device, where the first traffic is a traffic on which first traffic steering control is to be performed, and the second traffic is a traffic on which the first traffic steering control has been performed. The routing rule is sent by the session management network element to the first traffic steering entity in a session management process.
Claims20
A traffic routing method, comprising:
- determining, by a session management network element, a routing rule, wherein the routing rule indicates a first traffic steering entity to send a first traffic to a first function entity, or send a second traffic to a second function entity or an access device, wherein the first traffic is a traffic on which first traffic steering control is to be performed, and the traffic on which first traffic steering control is to be performed is a traffic that has not been processed by a service function on a mobile edge computing (MEC) platform, and the second traffic is a traffic on which the first traffic steering control has been performed, and the traffic on which the first traffic steering control has been performed is a traffic that has been processed by the service function on the MEC platform, the first function entity is for communicating with the MEC platform, the second function entity is for communicating with a central data network, wherein the first traffic is a downlink traffic that is in a session and that is from the central data network, or the second traffic is an uplink traffic that is in the session;
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- sending, by the session management network element, the routing rule to the first traffic steering entity in a session management process.
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor, wherein the programming instructions, when executed, cause the apparatus to perform operations comprising:
- determining a routing rule, wherein the routing rule indicates a first traffic steering entity to send a first traffic to a first function entity, or send a second traffic to a second function entity or an access device, wherein the first traffic is a traffic on which first traffic steering control is to be performed, and the traffic on which first traffic steering control is to be performed is a traffic that has not been processed by a service function on a mobile edge computing (MEC) platform, and the second traffic is a traffic on which the first traffic steering control has been performed, and the traffic on which the first traffic steering control has been performed is a traffic that has been processed by the service function on the MEC platform, the first function entity is for communicating with the MEC platform, the second function entity is for communicating with a central data network, wherein the first traffic is a downlink traffic that is in a session and that is from the central data network, or the second traffic is an uplink traffic that is in the session;
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- sending the routing rule to the first traffic steering entity in a session management process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.