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A flow tagging technique includes tagging a data flow at a plurality of points in the data flow. For example, the data flow can be tagged at a socket and at a proxy manager API. By tagging the data flow at multiple points, it becomes possible to map network service usage activities to the appropriate initiating applications.

The invention relates to a service awareness method of a user terminal, communication equipment, the user terminal and a storage medium. The service awareness method is applied to a user plane function network element UPF in a core network. The method comprises the following steps: monitoring a plurality of service flow events forwarded by a local machine under the condition of receiving a service flow subscription message sent by a policy and charging function network element PCF; the service flow subscription information comprises a user terminal ID and an application program ID; if a target service flow event indicated by the user terminal ID and the application program ID is monitored, a service flow event occurrence notification message is sent to the PCF, and the service flow event occurrence notification message comprises the user terminal ID, the application program ID and an occurrence identifier of the target service flow event. By adopting the method, the perception of the user terminal at the user level and the service level can be realized.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, an indication that the UE is to perform a mobile-terminated (MT) small data transmission (SDT) (MT-SDT) operation. The UE may transmit, to the network node, a communication in response to the indication using: a first uplink resource associated with a mobile originated (MO) SDT (MO-SDT) configuration based at least in part on one or more conditions being satisfied, or a second uplink resource associated with a random access configuration based at least in part on the one or more conditions not being satisfied or based at least in part on no MO-SDT configurations being configured for the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.

A flow tagging technique includes tagging a data flow at a plurality of points in the data flow. For example, the data flow can be tagged at a socket and at a proxy manager API. By tagging the data flow at multiple points, it becomes possible to map network service usage activities to the appropriate initiating applications.

An intermediary system between an access network and a target may receive a communication originating from a client and directed to the target. The intermediary system may generate, based a subscriber identification module (SIM) security service, a secure communication. The intermediary system may provide the secure communication to the target.

A roaming application in a core network receives a request to create a temporary roaming profile for a roaming user in the mobility management entity (MME) in response to a roaming pass being purchased by the roaming user for a user equipment (UE), stores, in the MME, the temporary roaming profile for the roaming user, wherein the temporary roaming profile includes an identity of the UE and an access point name (APN) associated with the roaming network, receives an attach message from the UE when the UE is located within a coverage area of the roaming network, wherein the attach message includes the identity of the UE, and creates a bearer between the UE and a packet network data gateway (PGW) of the roaming network based on the APN associated with the roaming network indicated in the temporary roaming profile for the roaming user.

A service processing method and a related product is applied to the charging field. A policy control device generates a first policy of a user service, and sends the first policy to a session management function device to indicate the session management function device to perform a first quota management mode on the user service. The policy control device receives related information of a second quota management mode of a user or the user service, and determines the second quota management mode. The policy control device generates a second policy of the user service based on the second quota management mode, where the second policy is for updating or replacing the first policy. According to this method, the quota management mode of the user service is time-effective, ensuring a balance between a latency condition and credit control risks.

In an embodiment, a method implemented in a first network function (NF) node, comprises transmitting, to a network repository function (NRF) node, a discovery request message comprising first information indicating one or more service operations related to NFs to be discovered; receiving, from the NRF node, a discovery response message comprising second information indicating one or more discovered NFs, and energy consumption information respectively associated with the one or more service operations of each of the one or more discovered NFs; determining a discovered NF among the one or more discovered NFs based on the energy consumption information respectively associated with the one or more service operations of each of the one or more discovered NFs; and transmitting, to a second NF node of the determined discovered NF, a first request message for the one or more service operations.

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein related to providing information about multi-modal services to a radio access network (RAN). In examples, a first network node may receive information associated with an application layer session and a multi-modal service identifier (MMSID) that may be associated with the application layer session. The first network node may generate a policy and charging control (PCC) rule for a wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU) using the received information. The MMSID may be used to generate an association ID. The PCC rule may be sent to a second network node. The PCC rule may include the association ID.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether a bandwidth deficit exists in association with communications of a device, resulting in a first determination; responsive to the first determination being that the bandwidth deficit exists, communicating with a server to determine whether the device can participate in a link aggregation group (LAG), resulting in a second determination, wherein the communicating with the server comprises sending to the server a unique identifier, and wherein the second determination is based at least in part upon the unique identifier; responsive to the second determination being that the device can participate in the LAG, identifying a source of available bandwidth; and using the unique identifier to track bandwidth provided to the device via the source of available bandwidth. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a multi-mode capability for communications by the UE within a frequency band, such that that UE may be capable of operating in any one of a half duplex time division duplex (TDD) mode and a full duplex frequency division duplex (FDD) mode within the frequency band. The UE may then transmit an indication of the multi-mode capability to a base station. The UE may receive, from the base station and responsive to the transmission of the indication, a communication format configuration that includes a partitioning between TDD mode communications and FDD mode communications for the frequency band.

Methods and apparatus for associating energy use with a data-stream passing through a device, or system or service center are provided, enabling reporting and control of energy from data centers or content delivery networks. In one embodiment, information is transmitted from a data center, comprising a number of customers associated with the data center, corresponding data rates for each of the number of customers and an energy for each of the number of customers. A total energy can be determined for all customers and for individual users. In another embodiment, an energy corresponding to an individual user within a set time interval can be determined and transmitted using the determined energy corresponding to the data center.

There is provided a wireless end-user device that includes a wireless wide area network (WWAN) modem to communicate Internet data with a WWAN, and one or more processors configured to pass, using an operating system packet network stack, Internet data packet traffic, including Internet data, between the WWAN modem and one or more applications being executed by the one or more processors, classify, using the application identification agent, each of individual flows of the Internet data packet traffic passing through the operating system packet network stack according to the one or more applications associated with each of the individual flows, measure, using a service measurement agent, for each of the classified individual flows, an amount of the Internet data packet traffic associated with each of the one or more applications, and apply, using a policy control agent, application-specific traffic policy controls to each of the classified individual flows.

Provided in the present disclosure are rights management methods and apparatuses, and a storage medium. A rights management method comprises: a first network element acquires rights information data; and the first network element generates a rights policy rule on the basis of the rights information data.

This application provides a charging method, an apparatus, and a system, and is applied to the field of converged charging. The method includes: After receiving a charging request message from a charging trigger function network element, a charging function network element charges a terminal device based on charging data of the terminal device, where the charging request message is for requesting to charge the terminal device, the charging data is received by the charging function network element from a dedicated charging function network element, and the dedicated charging function network element is a charging system that persistently stores user data of the terminal device. According to the foregoing solution, cross-area transmission of a large amount of charging information generated in a charging process can be reduced, to reduce signaling network load and improve cyber resilience.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for charging. A method performed by a user plane function entity comprises receiving a first message from a control plane function entity. The first message comprises one or more information elements referencing one or more pre-defined packet detection rules (PDRs) configured in the user plane function entity. The one or more pre-defined PDRs specify one or more predefined usage reporting rules (URRs). The method further comprises activating the one or more predefined PDRs. The method further comprises generating a usage report for at least one of the one or more predefined URRs. The usage report comprises information for describing received user traffic which is related to the at least one of the one or more predefined URRs. The method further comprises sending a second message comprising the usage report to the control plane function entity.

There is provided a management system in a mobile network, the management system comprising one or more processors arranged to: receive a request to provide an Edge Service, the request indicating a geography in which the Edge Service is to be provided; identify at least one Edge Data Network, EDN, to use to provide the requested Edge Service based on at least a part of the indicated geography; and request deployment of an Edge Application Server, EAS, in the identified EDN to provide the requested Edge Service in the specified geography.

Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for binding support function (BSF) capacity expansion. In some examples, a method may comprise operating a binding support function (BSF) of a mobile network, including determining whether an internet protocol (IP) address of a received message corresponds to a local IP address range, and when the IP address of the received message does not correspond to the local IP address range, accessing a first network function (NF) profile at a network repository function (NRF) to determine a second BSF corresponding to the IP address, and forwarding the received message to the second BSF.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle assisted cellular network communication method and device, and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of communication management. The method comprises the following steps: randomly initializing alliance allocation of unmanned aerial vehicles, and obtaining an initial alliance grouping set; the individual income of each unmanned aerial vehicle in the current unmanned aerial vehicle alliance group is calculated; each unmanned aerial vehicle takes a non-current unmanned aerial vehicle alliance group as a target unmanned aerial vehicle alliance group, and the expected income of the unmanned aerial vehicle in the target unmanned aerial vehicle alliance group is calculated; when it is judged that the expected income meets a preset group switching condition, the unmanned aerial vehicle is allocated to a target unmanned aerial vehicle alliance group; and when no unmanned aerial vehicle meets the preset grouping switching condition, a stable unmanned aerial vehicle alliance grouping set is obtained. According to the invention, by balancing individual interests and overall interests, the stable unmanned aerial vehicle alliance grouping set is obtained, the fairness of the transaction market and the maximization of the network throughput can be considered, and the transaction efficiency is effectively improved.

The invention discloses an optimization strategy determination method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method comprises the steps that multiple performance indexes of a target cluster are acquired, the target cluster is used for processing ticket data of multiple service types, and different service types correspond to different service priorities; target scores are determined according to the service priorities and the performance indexes, and the target scores at least comprise one of partition scores used for reflecting the performance state of partitions in the target cluster, theme scores used for reflecting the performance state of themes in the target cluster and cluster scores used for reflecting the overall performance state of the target cluster; and determining an optimization strategy corresponding to the target score, the optimization strategy being used for adjusting resource configuration of the target cluster. The technical problem that the overall performance and reliability of a system are affected due to the fact that cluster resource configuration cannot be dynamically adjusted according to requirements of different services in the prior art is solved.

The system described herein can automatically match, link, or otherwise associate electronic activities with one or more record objects. For an electronic activity that is eligible or qualifies to be matched with one or more record objects, the system can identify one or more set of rules or rule sets. Using the rule sets, the system can identify candidate record objects. The system can then rank the identified candidate record objects to select one or more record objects with which to associate the electronic activity. The system can then store an association between the electronic activity and the selected one or more record objects.

The invention provides a double-section type parking navigation service fee real-time counting and collecting system and method, and belongs to the technical field of intelligent parking navigage.According to the method, a parking navigation path is divided into an off-site navigation section (S1) and an in-site precise guide section (S2), and when a vehicle passes through a parking lot gate, the S2 section of service fee real-time counting and collecting are triggered through license plate recognition and geo-fence positioning dual verification; and based on the vehicle type coefficient, the time period coefficient and the parking space gap rate, calculating the dynamic service fee through a formula Fee = Base * (1 + alpha) * (1 + beta) * (1 + gamma). The system comprises a vehicle owner terminal system, a gate recognition system and a cloud management system. According to the method, the problems of fuzzy service and charging boundary, lack of dynamic adjustment of a charging mechanism, vulnerability of a charging trigger mechanism and the like in a traditional scheme are solved, and clear service boundary, accurate charging trigger, dynamic pricing strategy and arrearage recovery automation are realized.

Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an information transmission method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium. A method executed by a first core network element comprises: sending first information to a radio access network (RAN), wherein the first information is information provided by an application function (AF), and the first information is configured to indicate a time interval between end time of a first data burst and start time of a second data burst in two adjacent data bursts.

Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products for reporting of measurements. A wireless transmit-receive unit (WTRU) may initiate a multi-access packet data unit (MA PDU) session establishment request, incorporating energy-aware access traffic steering, switching and splitting (ATSSS) capabilities and an indication of preferred energy-based user plane optimization. The session management function (SMF) receives the request and sends a session management (SM) policy association create to the policy control function (PCF). The PCF obtains an energy estimate report for traffic flows and QoS flows, for both access legs of the MA PDU session, uses the report to generate policy and charging control (PCC) rules, and sends these rules to the SMF, which derives ATSSS rules for the WTRU and N4 rules for the user plane function (UPF), that include energy aware traffic steering policies.

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: testing a software application having instances that run on (a) a test computing environment and (b) a target computing environment, wherein each of the test computing environment and the target computing environment is provided by a mobile access edge computing (MEC) environment, wherein the testing includes varying a software application performance impacting parameter value impacting performance of an instance of the software application running on the test computing environment, and examining metrics data resulting from the varying the software application performance impacting parameter value; providing, in dependence on the metrics data, an action decision to adjust a software application performance impacting parameter value impacting performance of a software application instance of the software application running on the target computing environment; and adjusting the software application performance impacting parameter value impacting performance of the software application instance of the software application running on the target computing in accordance with the action decision.

This network node comprises: a reception unit that receives, from a first network node, information related to sensing service quality, including a list of sensing ranges; and a transmission unit that transmits, to a second network node that accommodates a base station supporting the sensing ranges, a first message including a sensing measurement start request addressed to the base station. The reception unit receives, from the second network node, a second message including a sensing measurement report by the base station. The network node further comprises a control unit that generates a sensing result on the basis of a plurality of sensing measurement reports received from a plurality of base stations. The transmission unit transmits, to a third network node, a third message including the sensing result, and the transmission unit transmits, to a fourth network node, a fourth message including charging data related to sensing.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for policy and charging control for a computing power network. In one aspect, a first apparatus receives, from a second apparatus or a third apparatus, a first request for a policy for management of a computing service. The first apparatus generates the policy for management of the computing service based at least on subscription information related to a consumer of the computing service. In turn, the first apparatus transmits, to the second apparatus or the third apparatus, the policy for management of the computing service.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for file delivery feedback and / or application feedback for certain application services. An example method generally includes communicating files with a user equipment (UE), each of the files having a plurality of packets, determining that a delivery failure occurred for at least one of the files, and sending, to a server entity, a notification of the delivery failure.

A user equipment (UE) device may include a processor configured to receive a request associated with a user equipment (UE) device and obtain subscription information associated with the UE device from a subscription management device, wherein the subscription information includes a charging function (CHF) group identifier associated with the UE device, in response to receiving the request. The processor may be further configured to select a CHF for the UE device based on the CHF group identifier and send a message associated with the request to the selected CHF.