Data routing method and device

#Embodiments of the present application relate to communications technologies, and in particular, to a data routing signal processing method and device.

#Application of machine type communication (MTC) refers to application, such as traffic control and management, remote meter reading, remote monitoring, mobile payment, locating and tracing, or medical monitoring of network communication performed by one network element or between multiple network elements in a case in which human participation is not required.

#An application service platform (Machine Type Communications Server, MTC Server) sends a data packet (such as information reporting or information delivery with a data amount of only several bytes) with a small data amount to user equipment (UE) by using an established service interaction functional entity (Machine Type Communications-Interworking Function, MTC-IWF) and a mobile communications network. A specific transmission procedure is: The MTC-IWF obtains, from the MTC Server, a data packet that needs to be sent to the UE, selects a proper transmission path for the data packet according to a size of the data packet, and transmits the data packet to the UE by using a mobile network.

#To describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application more clearly, the following briefly introduces the accompanying drawings required for describing the embodiments. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following description show merely some embodiments of the present application, and a person of ordinary skill in the art may still derive other drawings from these accompanying drawings without creative efforts.

#FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of an embodiment of a data routing method according to the present application;

#FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of another embodiment of a data routing method according to the present application;

#To make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of the present application clearer, the following further describes the present application in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Apparently, the described embodiments are merely some but not all of the embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present application without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

#In the embodiments of the present application, a data packet that is with a small data amount and that is transmitted in an LTE system is used as an example. For transmission of information in a small data format in another mobile communications network, as long as a method of routing in an information transmission manner in the present application is used, the transmission falls within the protection scope of the present application.

#It should be specially noted that, in the embodiments of the present application, the data packet with the small data amount is described by using reporting or delivery of information with a data amount of only several bytes as an example. However, the protection scope of the present application includes but is not limited to this.