Bearer signalling management

A method for bearer management signalling in a communication network, the method comprising:

• forming a Union of Resource (UR) request message in an Evolved Packet Edge (EPE) network, wherein the EPE network comprises an user equipment (UE) and a relay node (RN);
• transporting the UR request message from the EPE network via donor based station (DeNB) to a managing entity of user equipment (UE) within a evolved packet core (EPC) network, wherein the managing entity of UE is a network node selected from a group consisting of:
• a mobility management entity serving the user equipment (MME_UE), a serving gate way, a packet gate way, a policy and charging rule function(PCRF), and a home subscriber server(HSS), wherein transporting the UR request message comprises:
• tagging the UR request message received at a relay node, wherein the tagging comprises adding a relay node identity (RN_ID) with the received UR request message in a control plane protocol layer, wherein the UR request message is received without a tag when coupled to the UE, and wherein the UR request message is received with the tag when coupled to another relay node;
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• forwarding the tagged UR request message to the managing entity of UE;
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• receiving a union of admission (UA) response from a donor base station (DeNB) for the transported UR request message, wherein the UA response is generated by the managing entity of UE.