Method for carrying out group management on terminal, and device therefor

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for carrying out group management on a terminal, and a device for carrying out the group management on the terminal. The method comprises the following steps of: using a mobility management entity (MME) to confirm the group which the terminal belongs to; and using the MME to send the mapping relationship information between the terminal and the group which the terminal belongs to into a service base station of the terminal. The method also comprises the steps of: using the MME to send a revocation message to the base station, wherein the information of the group which the terminal belongs to can be carried by the revocation message; and according to the received revocation message, using the base station to cancel the group which the terminal belongs to and corresponds to the information of the group. The method and device disclosed by the invention are capable of realizing the group management for the terminal.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of communications, and in particular to a method and device for group management of terminals. Background technique [0002] 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project, Third Generation Partnership Project) 22.368 defines the communication architecture of the Internet of Things or M2M (Machine-to-Machine, machine-to-machine), such as figure 1 As shown, the IoT terminal (MTC Device) communicates with the service platform (MTCSever) through the operator's network. Usually, one MTC Server corresponds to one IoT application, and in a certain area, one IoT application can correspond to multiple MTC Servers. For example, the smart meter reading of the electric power company is an application of the Internet of Things. There may be multiple MTCSever for electric meter reading in the city; while the number of MME (Mobility Management Entity, mobility management entity) in the city is very small, the MME Ther...

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Problems solved by technology

With the development of the Internet of Things business, especially after the introduction of a large number of Internet of Things communications, if the existing communication methods are applied to a large number of Internet of Things terminals, it will have a great impact on the operator's network and cause a large network resource overhead

For example, when the network configures the parameters of IoT terminals, if a one-to-one configuration method similar to ordinary mobile phone terminals is adopted, it will cause a lot of signaling overhead; in addition, the data packets of M2M services are relatively small, and one-to-one The transmission method will lead to very low efficiency of data transmission

In addition, when the network side needs to pull up some terminals to start communication or notify certain types of terminals of certain information, if the one-to-one paging method is adopted, the overhead of paging signaling is also very large

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