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US 12,114,162 B2Granted
Master base station, secondary base station, user equipment (UE), and method
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsSander De Kievit, Takahito Yoshizawa
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Abstract
This disclosure introduces methods and mechanisms of integrity protection in 4G and 5G system, especially in the context of Dual Connectivity (DC) involving both 4G and 5G base stations.
Claims2
A method of a Next Generation Evolved Node-B (ng-eNB) that acts as a secondary node in dual connectivity, the method comprising:
- receiving, from an NR Node B (gNB) that acts as a master node, a request message;
- sending, to the gNB, an acknowledgement message with an indication, the indication relating to User Plane (UP) integrity protection of traffic between the ng-eNB and a User Equipment (UE);
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- activating the UP integrity protection, wherein the ng-eNB provides an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) UP protocol termination toward the UE and connects to a 5G Core Network (5GC), and the gNB provides an NR Radio Access (NR) UP protocol termination toward the UE and connects to the 5GC.
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A Next Generation Evolved Node-B (ng-eNB) that acts as a secondary node in dual connectivity, the ng-eNB comprising:
- at least one processor;
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- at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to:
- receive, from an NR Node B (gNB) that acts as a master node, a request message;
- send, to the gNB, an acknowledgement message with an indication, the indication relating to User Plane (UP) integrity protection of traffic between the ng-eNB and a User Equipment (UE);
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- activate the UP integrity protection, wherein the ng-eNB provides an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) UP protocol termination toward the UE and connects to a 5G Core Network (5GC), and the gNB provides an NR Radio Access (NR) UP protocol termination toward the UE and connects to the 5GC.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.