Session management method, entity, network device, and storage medium
AssigneeZte Corporation
InventorsLin CHEN, Xiaoying FENG
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Abstract
The present application provides a session management method, an entity, a network device, and a storage medium. The method includes: sending, on the basis of a service requirement, a group-level session management request to a control plane entity, where the group-level session management request carries group information for representing a virtual network group that requires group-level session management; receiving a response message returned by the control plane entity in response to the group-level session management request; and performing, according to content carried in the response message, corresponding session service management on the virtual network group. (FIG. 6)
Claims19
A session management method applicable to a session management function (SMF) entity, comprising:
- sending, on the basis of a service requirement, a group-level session management request to a control plane entity, wherein the group-level session management request carries group information for representing a virtual network group that requires group-level session management;
- receiving a response message returned by the control plane entity in response to the group-level session management request;
- and
- performing, according to content carried in the response message, corresponding session service management on the virtual network group.
A session management method applicable to a group management function (GMF) entity, comprising:
- receiving a registration request from a session management function (SMF) entity, wherein the registration request carries a supported data network name and supported virtual network group information;
- storing the data network name and the virtual network group information;
- and
- returning a registration response to the SMF entity.
A session management method applicable to a policy control function (PCF) entity, comprising:
- receiving a group-level session establishment request from a session management function (SMF) entity, wherein the group-level session establishment request carries group information of a virtual network group;
- and
- performing session authorization for the virtual network group according to the group information, wherein
- in a case where the authorization is successful, a group-level session establishment success response is returned;
- and
- in a case where the authorization fails, a group-level session establishment failure response is returned and a cause value is carried in in the session establishment failure response.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.