Method and apparatus for identifying user equipment, and method for transmitting and allocating a temporary identifier
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsXiaolong Guo, Ming Li
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for identifying a UE in an SAE network, and an MME are provided herein. The method includes: receiving an SAE-TMSI which is allocated to a UE that accesses an SAE network and includes at least: a pool-ID, an MME-ID, and a UE temporary identifier; using the SAE-TMSI to temporarily identify the UE in the SAE network. The apparatus includes: a receiving unit and a temporary identifying unit. The MME includes a temporary identifier allocating unit. Moreover, a method for transmitting and allocating a temporary identifier, and a method for receiving and transmitting information according to the temporary identifier are disclosed herein.
Claims10
A user equipment (UE), comprising:
- a receiver that receives a track area update (TAU) accept message from a mobility management entity (MME) of a system architecture evolved (SAE) network, the TAU accept message comprising an identifier, wherein the identifier is constructed at least from a resource pool identifier (pool-ID), a mobility management entity identifier (MME-ID) and a UE temporary identifier, and
- a transmitter that sends a TAU complete message to the MME,
- wherein the identifier uniquely identifies the UE in a public land mobile network (PLMN);
- wherein the pool-ID identifies a resource pool in the PLMN, the MME-ID uniquely identifies within the resource pool the MME, and the UE temporary identifier uniquely identifies the UE within the MME.
A communication method, comprising:
- receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a track area update (TAU) accept message from a mobility management entity (MME) of a system architecture evolved (SAE) network, the TAU accept message comprising an identifier, wherein the identifier is constructed at least from a resource pool identifier (pool-ID), a mobility management entity identifier (MME-ID) and a UE temporary identifier;
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- sending, by the UE, a TAU complete message to the MME;
- wherein the identifier uniquely identifies the UE in a public land mobile network (PLMN);
- wherein the pool-ID identifies a resource pool in the PLMN, the MME-ID uniquely identifies within the resource pool the MME, and the UE temporary identifier uniquely identifies the UE within the MME.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.