Terminal device and pcrf
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYudai KAWASAKI, Masafumi ARAMOTO
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Abstract
Communication control for establishing a multi-access PDN connection is performed based on a response to a PDN connectivity establishment request from a terminal device. Communication control for transmitting and/or receiving user data using one or more default bearers for a multi-access PDN connection is performed. This provides a communication control method and the like along with a multi-access PDN connectivity establishment request from the terminal device.
Claims11
1-6. (canceled)
A User Equipment (UE) establishing a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection over a WLAN, the UE comprising:
- LTE interface circuitry configured to:
- transmit a PDN connectivity request message to a Mobility Management Entity (MME), in a case where an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) is added to the PDN connection, and
- receive an Activate default EPS bearer context request message from the MME;
- and
- a controller,
- wherein in a case that a Network-based IP flow mobility (NBIFOM) mode of the PDN connection is a UE-initiated NBIFOM mode, the PDN connectivity request message includes first information indicating a default access selected by the UE,
- the Activate default EPS bearer context request message includes second information indicating a default access determined by a Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF), and
- in a case that a routing filter matching with a packet does not exist, the controller is configured to route the packet to the default access indicated by the second information.
A communication method performed by a User Equipment (UE) establishing a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection over a WLAN, the communication method comprising:
- transmitting a PDN connectivity request message to a Mobility Management Entity (MME), in a case where an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) is added to the PDN connection, and
- receiving an Activate default EPS bearer context request message from the MME, wherein
- in a case that a Network-based IP flow mobility (NBIFOM) mode of the PDN connection is a UE-initiated NBIFOM mode, the PDN connectivity request message includes first information indicating a default access selected by the UE,
- the Activate default EPS bearer context request message includes second information indicating a default access determined by a Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF), and
- the communication method further comprising, in a case that a routing filter matching with a packet does not exist, routing the packet to the default access indicated by the second information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.