Supporting multiaccess traffic steering in a wireless communication system
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorApostolis Salkintzis
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Abstract
There is provided a user equipment apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled with the processor, the processor configured to cause the user equipment apparatus to: receive a data flow for transmission over a multiaccess protocol data unit ‘MA PDU’ session; determine at least a first traffic category of the data flow; determine at least a first steering rule that matches the at least a first traffic category; and determine, based on the at least a first steering rule, how uplink traffic of the data flow is to be routed over one or more accesses of the MA PDU session.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
- at least one memory;
- and
- at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and operable to cause the UE to:
- receive a data flow for transmission over a multiaccess protocol data unit (MA PDU) session;
- determine at least one traffic category of the data flow;
- determine at least one steering rule that matches the at least one traffic category;
- and
- determine, based on the at least one steering rule, a rule for routing uplink traffic of the data flow over one or more accesses of the MA PDU session.
A first apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
- at least one memory;
- and
- at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and operable to cause the first apparatus to:
- generate a steering policy for a data flow of a multiaccess protocol data unit (MA PDU) session, wherein the steering policy indicates at least one rule for routing uplink traffic and downlink traffic of the data flow belonging to at least a one traffic category across one or more accesses of the MA PDU session;
- and
- transmit, to a session management function (SMF), the steering policy.
A second apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
- at least one memory;
- and
- at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and operable to cause the second apparatus to:
- receive a data flow for transmission over one or more accesses of a multiaccess protocol data unit (MA PDU) session;
- determine at least one traffic category of the data flow;
- determine at least one steering rule that matches the at least one traffic category;
- and
- determine, based on the at least one steering rule, a rule for routing downlink traffic of the data flow over the one or more accesses of the MA PDU session.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.