Communication information processing method and device, electronic equipment, and storage medium

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a communication information processing method, a communication information processing device, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of wireless communication. The method comprises: configuring an association relationship between tracking area information and mobility management function. The present disclosure can improve the accuracy and effectiveness of mobility management function switching by configuring the association relationship between the tracking area information and the mobility management function.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] This disclosure relates to the field of wireless communication technology, and in particular to a communication information processing method, a communication information processing device, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. Background Technology

[0002] Current 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) standards only support terminals connecting to terrestrial base stations via transparent mode satellites to achieve seamless coverage. However, due to geographical or political limitations, gateway stations are difficult to deploy in some areas, and communication services remain geographically restricted. Existing technologies propose integrating terrestrial base stations with regenerative mode satellites to address the geographical limitations of communication services and provide terminals with a range of value-added services, such as… Figure 1 As shown, this includes providing latency-sensitive services to areas lacking Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) gateways and reducing latency in the terminal and / or control planes. At the network operation level, it eliminates the strong dependence on NTN gateways, better addressing feeder link service availability issues.

[0003] However, under the current integrated air-space-ground communication architecture, existing technologies cannot promptly and accurately trigger the switching of mobility management functions when the tracking area changes due to the movement of user equipment.

[0004] It should be noted that the information disclosed in the background section above is only used to enhance the understanding of the background of this disclosure, and therefore may include information that does not constitute prior art known to those skilled in the art. Summary of the Invention

[0005] This disclosure provides a communication information processing method, communication information processing apparatus, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium, thereby overcoming, to at least a certain extent, the problem that user equipment in the prior art cannot accurately and effectively switch mobility management functions.

[0006] Other features and advantages of this disclosure will become apparent from the following detailed description, or may be learned in part from practice of this disclosure.

[0007] According to one aspect of this disclosure, a communication information processing method is provided, comprising: configuring the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0008] According to one aspect of this disclosure, a communication information processing apparatus is provided, comprising: an association configuration module for configuring the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0009] According to one aspect of this disclosure, an electronic device is provided, comprising: a processor; and a memory for storing executable instructions of the processor; wherein the processor is configured to perform the method described in any of the preceding methods by executing the executable instructions.

[0010] According to one aspect of this disclosure, a computer-readable storage medium is provided having a computer program stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, implements the method described in any of the preceding claims.

[0011] The exemplary embodiments disclosed herein have the following beneficial effects:

[0012] In this exemplary embodiment, the association between tracking area information and mobility management function is configured. By mining the association between tracking area information and mobility management function and configuring the association, the internal processing logic of access node and mobility management function is enhanced. This enables user equipment to effectively and accurately switch mobility management function when switching occurs while moving in a non-terrestrial network, thereby ensuring the continuity of satellite service link.

[0013] It should be understood that the above general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only, and are not intended to limit this disclosure. Attached Figure Description

[0014] The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and form part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with this disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of this disclosure. It is obvious that the drawings described below are merely some embodiments of this disclosure, and those skilled in the art can obtain other drawings based on these drawings without any inventive effort.

[0015] Figure 1 This schematic diagram illustrates a communication architecture in a related art within this exemplary embodiment.

[0016] Figure 2 This schematically illustrates a flowchart of a communication information processing method in this exemplary embodiment;

[0017] Figure 3 (a)- Figure 3 (b) shows a schematic diagram of the relationship between cells and tracking areas in a cellular network when a terrestrial base station accesses a network and a satellite base station accesses a network;

[0018] Figure 4 This schematic diagram illustrates the association between a wireless access node and a mobility management function information object class (IOC) and a newly created information object class (IOC) in this exemplary embodiment.

[0019] Figure 5 The diagram illustrates the interaction flowchart of a communication information processing method in this exemplary embodiment.

[0020] Figure 6 This schematic diagram illustrates a structural block diagram of a communication information processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

[0021] Figure 7 An electronic device for implementing the above method is illustrated in this exemplary embodiment. Detailed Implementation

[0022] Exemplary embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, these exemplary embodiments can be implemented in many forms and should not be construed as limited to the examples set forth herein; rather, they are provided so that this disclosure will be more comprehensive and complete, and will fully convey the concept of the exemplary embodiments to those skilled in the art. The described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.

[0023] An exemplary embodiment of this disclosure first provides a method for processing communication information.

[0024] The following is in conjunction with the appendix Figure 2 The exemplary embodiments will be further described as follows: Figure 2 As shown, the communication information processing method may include the following step S210:

[0025] Step S210: Configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0026] The Tracking Area (TA) is an important concept in mobile communication systems such as LTE (Long Term Evolution) and is used to define the mobility management range of mobile devices. Tracking area information includes TA-related information such as tracking area identifiers and tracking area codes.

[0027] The Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) is a key component in 5G networks, responsible for handling user access and mobility management tasks. For example, the AMF can be used for registration and connection management, mobility management, session management, and so on.

[0028] Figure 3 This diagram illustrates the relationship between a cell (in a cellular network) and a tracking area when a terrestrial base station accesses a network and a satellite base station accesses a network. Figure 3(a) is a schematic diagram showing the relationship between the cell and the tracking area when the ground base station 310 accesses the network. Figure 3 (b) is a schematic diagram of the relationship between the cell and the tracking area when the satellite base station 320 accesses the network. It can be determined that, compared with the terrestrial base station accessing the network, the tracking area changes when the user equipment moves in the cell when the satellite base station accesses the network.

[0029] Considering the wide coverage of satellites in regeneration mode, NTN (Non-Terrestrial Network) cells often cover multiple TAs. This means that when a user equipment (UE) moves within an NTN cell, even without crossing cell boundaries, it will experience TA changes, triggering a TA update process. Multiple TAs covered by a single NTN cell may belong to different mobility management functions, such as different AMFs or different MMEs (Mobility Management Entities). This could lead to a UE handover of mobility management functions even without an access node (gNB / eNB) handover. Therefore, based on the above issues, this exemplary embodiment proposes configuring the correlation between tracking area information and mobility management functions. This allows for timely, accurate, and effective AMF handover when a UE handover is detected, based on the correlation between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0030] In this exemplary embodiment, configuring the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions can be done through a network management system, configuring the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions for wireless access nodes and mobility management functions, and the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions can be configured in the form of an information list.

[0031] Based on the above description, in this exemplary embodiment, the correlation between tracking area information and mobility management function is configured. By mining the correlation between tracking area information and mobility management function and configuring the correlation, the internal processing logic of access node and mobility management function is enhanced. This enables user equipment to effectively and accurately switch mobility management functions when switching occurs while moving in a non-terrestrial network, thereby ensuring the continuity of satellite service links.

[0032] In an exemplary embodiment, the association between the above-described configuration tracking area information and mobility management function may include:

[0033] Configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions at the wireless access node.

[0034] This exemplary embodiment can configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions at the wireless access node through a network management system.

[0035] In an exemplary embodiment, the association between the above-described configuration tracking area information and mobility management function may include:

[0036] Configure the relationship between the mobility management function and the tracking area information.

[0037] Configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions in the AMF. Specifically, this association can be configured in the AMF before the AMF handover, and / or in the AMF after the AMF handover. For example, the association can be configured in all or part of the AMF.

[0038] In an exemplary embodiment, the association between the above-described configuration tracking area information and mobility management function may include:

[0039] Configure an information list describing the relationship between the tracking area information and mobility management functions, and configure one or more of the following information in the corresponding data type: public land mobile network information, mobility management function information, or tracking area information.

[0040] A PLMN (Public Land Mobile Network) is a wireless communication system primarily designed for mobile users on land, such as those in vehicles or on foot. It typically connects to fixed-line telephone systems like the PSTN, providing telephone communication, data transmission, and internet services. Public Land Mobile Network information refers to information related to the PLMN.

[0041] Mobility management function information refers to information related to AMF. In an exemplary embodiment, mobility management function information may include one or more of the following: mobility management function identifier, mobility management function global identifier, and mobility management function service area information.

[0042] Tracking area information refers to information related to the Tracking Area (TA). In an exemplary embodiment, tracking area information includes: tracking area code information and / or tracking area identification information.

[0043] This exemplary embodiment can configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management function by configuring an information list describing the relationship between the tracking area information and mobility management function, and configuring one or more of the following information in the corresponding data type: public land mobile network information, mobility management function information, or tracking area information. In other words, one or more of the following information are used as the data type in the information list describing the relationship between tracking area information and mobility management function.

[0044] In an exemplary embodiment, the association between configuring tracking area information and mobility management functions may include:

[0045] Configure an information list describing the relationship between the tracking area information and the mobility management function, and configure one or more of the following information in the information list: public land mobile network information, mobility management function information, or tracking area information.

[0046] That is, this exemplary embodiment can also directly configure one or more of the following information in the information list: public land mobile network information, mobility management function information, or tracking area information.

[0047] In an exemplary embodiment, the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions includes an information list: the information list includes a first indicator corresponding to the information and a first indicator value; the first indicator includes one or more of the following: readable, writable, variable, or notifiable; when the first indicator is readable, writable, variable, or notifiable, the first indicator value of the first indicator is yes or no.

[0048] Specifically, when the first indicator is readable, writable, mutable, or notifyable, its value is either yes or no. For example, the values ​​for readable, writable, mutable, or notifyable correspond to readable or unreadable, writable or non-writable, mutable or immutable, and notifyable or not notifyable, respectively. When the first indicator is other, such as status, its value can be set according to actual needs.

[0049] Specifically, the relationship between tracking area information and mobility management functions can be shown in Table 1 below:

[0050] Table 1

[0051] Attribute name S isReadable isWritable isInvariant isNotifyable aMFIdentifier M T T F T nRTAClist M T T F T taiList M T T F T

[0052] In this context, Attribute name represents the attribute name, aMFIdentifier represents the AMF identifier, nRTAClist represents the New Radio Tracking Area Code List, and taiList represents the Tracking Area Identifier List. The AMF identifier is Mobility Management Function information, and nRTAClist and taiList are the tracking area information. S represents the status, indicating whether the corresponding attribute is a necessary or unnecessary parameter / attribute. The index value under the S indicator can be a necessary or unnecessary parameter. For example, M can represent a required or optional parameter / attribute. isReadable indicates whether it is readable, isWritable indicates whether it is writable, isInvariant indicates whether it is variable, and isNotifyable indicates whether it can be notified. The index values ​​under isReadable, isWritable, isInvariant, and isNotifyable can be yes or no, or true or false. T represents true or yes, and F represents false or no. The specific meaning needs to be determined in conjunction with the first index value. For example, when the first index is isReadable, the first index value T indicates readable; when the first index is Invariant, the first index value F indicates immutable, etc.

[0053] In one exemplary embodiment, the association management between tracking area information and mobility management functions may further include the contents of Table 2 below:

[0054] Table 2

[0055]

[0056]

[0057] The attribute names include aMFIdentifier, nRTACList, and taiList. Under the Documentation and allowedValues ​​metric, aMFIdentifier's value is an explanation of aMFIdentifier. Under the Properties metric, its values ​​are type, multiplicity, isOrdered, isUnique, defaultValue, and isNullable, along with their corresponding data, for example, type as integer. Similarly, under the Documentation and allowedValues ​​metric, nRTACList's value is an explanation of nRTACList and its allowed values. Under the Properties metric, its values ​​are type, multiplicity, isOrdered, isUnique, defaultValue, and isNullable, along with their corresponding data, for example, type as string. The taiList metrics under the Documentation and allowedValues ​​metric provide an explanation of taiList. The taiList metrics under the Properties metric provide type, multiplicity, isOrdered, isUnique, defaultValue, isNullable, and the corresponding data for each. For example, the type is TAI (Tracking AreaIdentity).

[0058] In an exemplary embodiment, the association between the above-described configuration tracking area information and mobility management function may include:

[0059] Create a new Information Object Class (IOC) and configure an information list within the new IOC; the information list represents the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0060] This exemplary embodiment can represent the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions by creating a new Information Object Class (IOC). This association is a type of association information, which can be a list attribute, such as Tables 1 and 2 above. The data type of each element in the list can be the association method described above. This configuration method allows the radio access node and mobility management functions to obtain the association information between tracking area information and mobility management functions by calling this IOC, reducing redundant configuration. Figure 4This diagram illustrates the association between the Information Object Class (IOC) for wireless access nodes and mobility management functions and the newly created Information Object Class (IOC). GNBCUCPFunction and AMFFunction are Information Object Class (IOC) and MappingTACInfos can include the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0061] In this exemplary embodiment, the network management system can configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management function in the wireless access node, or the network management system can configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management function in the mobility management function by creating a new information object class (IOC) and configuring an information list in the new information object class (IOC).

[0062] In one exemplary embodiment, the above-described communication information processing method may further include:

[0063] Configure the identifier name DN of the new information object class IOC as its associated attribute in one or more of the information object classes IOCs, such as GNBCUCPFunction, NRCellCU, NTNFunction, and AMFFunction.

[0064] This exemplary embodiment can achieve the creation of a new information object class (IOC) and the configuration of the information list within that new IOC by configuring the Distinguished Name (DN) of the information list as its associated attribute in one or more information object classes (IOCs) among GNBCUCPFunction, NRCellCU, NTNFunction, and AMFFunction. Here, GNBCUCPFunction (control plane function of gnb-CU), NRCellCU (NR cell centralization unit), NTNFunction (non-terrestrial network function), and AMFFunction (mobility management function) are the information object classes (IOCs), and DN is the configured attribute.

[0065] In an exemplary embodiment, the association between the above-described configuration tracking area information and mobility management function may include:

[0066] Configure a new attribute in the existing Information Object Class (IOC); the new attribute is the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0067] In addition to creating a new Information Object Class (IOC) to implement the association between the tracking area information and mobility management functions, this exemplary embodiment can also configure new attributes in an existing Information Object Class (IOC) and use the new attributes as the association between the tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0068] In an exemplary embodiment, when configuring the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions in a wireless access node, existing information object classes (IOCs) include: GNBCUCPFunction, NRCellCU, or NTNFunction.

[0069] Taking 5G networks as an example, new attributes can be configured in existing information object classes (IOCs): GNBCUCPFunction, NRCellCU, or NTNFunction.

[0070] In one exemplary embodiment, configuring a new attribute in an existing information object class (IOC) may include:

[0071] When wireless access nodes are deployed on non-terrestrial networks, the new attribute will be a required parameter.

[0072] In this exemplary embodiment, the network management system can configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions in the wireless access node. When configuring a new attribute in an existing Information Object Class (IOC), the new attribute is a mandatory parameter only when the wireless access node is deployed in a non-terrestrial network. The new attribute can be a list, with each attribute in the list representing the aforementioned association method. This configuration method has minimal impact on existing base stations and is highly implementable.

[0073] In an exemplary embodiment, when configuring the association between the mobility management function and the tracking area information, the existing information object class IOC includes: AMFFunction.

[0074] Taking 5G networks as an example, the existing information object class IOC can be AMFFunction.

[0075] In one exemplary embodiment, configuring a new attribute in an existing information object class (IOC) includes:

[0076] When the mobility management function has the ability to connect to wireless access nodes deployed on the ground, the new attribute will be a required parameter.

[0077] In this exemplary embodiment, the network management system can configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions within the mobility management function. When configuring new attributes in an existing Information Object Class (IOC), the new attribute is a mandatory parameter only if the mobility management function requires the ability to connect to wireless access nodes deployed on non-terrestrial networks. The new attribute can be a list, with each attribute in the list representing the aforementioned association method. This configuration method has minimal impact on existing mobility management functions and is highly implementable.

[0078] In one exemplary embodiment, the above-described communication information processing method may further include:

[0079] The wireless access node determines that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed, and based on the correlation between the tracking area information and the mobility management function, determines that the mobility management function has changed and performs a switchover.

[0080] This exemplary embodiment takes into account the problem that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment may change in regeneration mode, and the mobility management function may not be able to switch accurately. Therefore, this exemplary embodiment proposes that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment can be detected by the wireless access node. When it is determined that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed, the mobility management function can be determined to have changed based on the association between the configured tracking area information and the mobility management function, and a switch can be performed. For example, based on the tracking area information of the changed user equipment and the association between the configured tracking area information and the mobility management function, the mobility management function can be determined to have changed, and a switch to the target mobility management function can be performed. The target mobility management function refers to the mobility management function that needs to be switched to.

[0081] Specifically, in an exemplary embodiment, after determining that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed, the above-mentioned communication information processing method may further include:

[0082] Determine the information of the target tracking area after the tracking area change;

[0083] The above-mentioned determination of changes to the mobility management function based on the correlation between tracking area information and mobility management function may include:

[0084] Based on the information of the target tracking area and the correlation between the tracking area information and the mobility management function, the target mobility management function is determined.

[0085] The target tracking area can be the new tracking area where the user equipment is located after a change in its tracking area. In this exemplary embodiment, after the user equipment's tracking area changes, the target tracking area where the user equipment is located after the change, as well as the corresponding target tracking area information, such as the target tracking area's TAC (Tracking Area Code) or TAI, can be determined first. Then, based on the target tracking area information, a search or match is performed between the configured tracking area information and mobility management functions to determine the mobility management function corresponding to the target tracking area information, and then the switching of the mobility management function is performed.

[0086] In an exemplary embodiment, determining that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed may include:

[0087] The system identifies user equipment (UE) moving on non-terrestrial networks and changes in the tracking area of ​​UE by using wireless access nodes.

[0088] Information regarding the target tracking area after the tracking area change may include:

[0089] The wireless access node determines the target tracking area information, and based on the correlation between the target tracking area information, tracking area information, and mobility management functions, determines the target mobility management function corresponding to the target tracking area information, and sends a tracking area handover request to the source mobility management function before the tracking area change; the tracking area handover request includes the target tracking area information;

[0090] The source movement management function determines the target tracking area information based on the tracking area switching request;

[0091] Based on information about the target tracking area and the correlation between the tracking area information and mobility management functions, the target mobility management functions are determined, which may include:

[0092] The source mobility management function determines the target mobility management function corresponding to the target tracking area information based on the correlation between the tracking area information and the mobility management function.

[0093] Figure 5 This embodiment illustrates an interactive flowchart of a communication information processing method, which may specifically include the following steps:

[0094] In step S510, the network management system can first configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management function in the wireless access node and mobility management function; the mobility management function can be source mobility management function and destination mobility management function.

[0095] Specifically, when an operator deploys a wireless access node on a non-terrestrial network, it needs to request the network management system to create a relevant instance so that the wireless access node has the required functions. The method for associating tracking area information with mobility management functions proposed in this exemplary embodiment will be provided to the wireless access node as a new instance or as a new attribute in an existing instance. When an operator deploys a mobility management function that can connect to a wireless access node on a non-terrestrial network, it needs to request the network management system to create a relevant instance so that the mobility management function has the required functions. The method for associating tracking area information with mobility management functions proposed in this exemplary embodiment will be provided to the wireless access node as a new instance or as a new attribute in an existing instance.

[0096] Step S520: The user equipment accesses a wireless access node deployed on a non-terrestrial network. The wireless access node identifies that the user equipment is moving on the non-terrestrial network and that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed, for example, the tracking area of ​​the user equipment moves from the first tracking area to the second tracking area. The changed tracking area is then determined, i.e., the target tracking area.

[0097] In step S530, after the wireless access node identifies that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed, it can determine the information of the target tracking area and determine the mobility management function corresponding to the target tracking area based on the association between the configured tracking area information and the mobility management function.

[0098] Step S540: When the radio access node determines that the target tracking area corresponds to a new mobility management function, namely the target mobility management function, the radio access node can send a tracking area switching request (HANDOVER REQUIRED) to the source mobility management function to pass the target tracking area information to the source mobility management function. The source mobility management function refers to the mobility management function before the switching is performed.

[0099] In step S550, the source mobility management function can determine the target mobility management function corresponding to the target tracking area information based on the pre-configured association between tracking area information and mobility management function.

[0100] In step S560, the source mobility management function can establish a route with the target mobility management function to complete the handover process.

[0101] It should be noted that both the radio access node and the source mobility management function need to determine the target mobility management function corresponding to the target tracking area based on the configured tracking area information and the association between the mobility management function. The radio access node is for sending relevant information to the source mobility management function, such as tracking area handover requests, while the source mobility management function is for performing route establishment.

[0102] An exemplary embodiment of this disclosure also provides a communication information processing apparatus. (Refer to...) Figure 6 The device 600 may include an association configuration module 610 for configuring the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0103] In one exemplary embodiment, the association configuration module 610 includes: a first configuration unit, configured to configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions in a wireless access node.

[0104] In one exemplary embodiment, the association configuration module 610 includes: a second configuration unit, configured to configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management function in the mobility management function.

[0105] In one exemplary embodiment, the association configuration module 610 includes: an information configuration unit, configured to configure an information list describing the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions, and to configure one or more types of information, such as public land mobile network information, mobility management function information, or tracking area information, in the corresponding data type.

[0106] In one exemplary embodiment, the association configuration module 610 includes: an information configuration unit, configured to configure an information list describing the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions, and to configure one or more of the following information in the information list: public land mobile network information, mobility management function information, or tracking area information.

[0107] In one exemplary embodiment, the mobility management function information includes one or more of the following: mobility management function identifier, mobility management function global identifier, and mobility management function service area information.

[0108] In one exemplary embodiment, the tracking area information includes: tracking area code information and / or tracking area identification information.

[0109] In an exemplary embodiment, the association between tracking area information and mobility management function includes an information list: the information list includes a first indicator and a first indicator value corresponding to the information; the first indicator includes one or more of the following: readable, writable, variable, or notifiable; the first indicator value that is readable or unreadable, writable or unwritable, variable or immutable, notifiable or not notifiable, respectively.

[0110] In one exemplary embodiment, the association configuration module 610 includes: an information list configuration unit, used to create a new information object class IOC and configure an information list in the new information object class IOC; wherein, the information list is the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0111] In one exemplary embodiment, the communication information processing apparatus further includes: an attribute configuration unit, configured to configure the identification name DN of a new information object class IOC as its associated attribute in one or more information object classes IOC among GNBCUCPFunction, NRCellCU, NTNFunction, and AMFFunction.

[0112] In one exemplary embodiment, the association configuration module 610 includes: an attribute configuration unit, used to configure a new attribute in an existing information object class IOC; wherein the new attribute is the association between tracking area information and mobility management function.

[0113] In an exemplary embodiment, when configuring the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions in a wireless access node, existing information object classes (IOCs) include: GNBCUCPFunction, NRCellCU, or NTNFunction.

[0114] In one exemplary embodiment, the attribute configuration unit includes a parameter determination subunit, configured to use a new attribute as a mandatory parameter when the wireless access node is deployed in a non-terrestrial network.

[0115] In an exemplary embodiment, when configuring the association between the mobility management function and the tracking area information, the existing information object class IOC includes: AMFFunction.

[0116] In one exemplary embodiment, the attribute configuration unit includes a parameter determination subunit, configured to use a new attribute as a mandatory parameter when the mobility management function has the capability to connect to a wireless access node deployed on a non-terrestrial surface.

[0117] In one exemplary embodiment, the communication information processing apparatus further includes: a switching module, configured to: determine that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed, determine that the mobility management function has changed based on the correlation between the tracking area information and the mobility management function, and perform a switching operation.

[0118] In an exemplary embodiment, after determining that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed, the communication information processing apparatus further includes: an information determination unit, configured to determine information about the target tracking area after the tracking area change; and a switching module, including: a target mobility management function determination unit, configured to determine the target mobility management function based on the information about the target tracking area and the correlation between the tracking area information and the mobility management function.

[0119] In one exemplary embodiment, the handover module includes: a mobility identification unit, configured to identify, via a wireless access node, that a user equipment (UE) is moving in a non-terrestrial network and that the tracking area of ​​the UE has changed; and an information determination unit, including: a request sending unit, configured to: the wireless access node determine information about the target tracking area; determine the target mobility management function corresponding to the information about the target tracking area based on the association between the information about the target tracking area and the tracking area information and mobility management functions; and send a tracking area handover request to the source mobility management function before the tracking area change; the tracking area handover request includes information about the target tracking area; and the source mobility management function determines the information about the target tracking area based on the tracking area handover request; and a target mobility management function determination unit, configured to: the source mobility management function determine the target mobility management function corresponding to the information about the target tracking area based on the association between the tracking area information and mobility management functions.

[0120] The specific details of each module / unit in the above-mentioned device have been described in detail in the embodiments of the method section. For any undisclosed details, please refer to the embodiments of the method section, and therefore will not be repeated here.

[0121] An exemplary embodiment of this disclosure also provides an electronic device capable of implementing the above-described method.

[0122] Those skilled in the art will understand that various aspects of this disclosure can be implemented as a system, method, or program product. Therefore, various aspects of this disclosure can be specifically implemented in the following forms: a completely hardware implementation, a completely software implementation (including firmware, microcode, etc.), or a combination of hardware and software aspects, collectively referred to herein as a "circuit," "module," or "system."

[0123] The following reference Figure 7 To describe an electronic device 700 according to such an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. Figure 7 The electronic device 700 shown is merely an example and should not impose any limitation on the functionality and scope of use of the embodiments disclosed herein.

[0124] like Figure 7As shown, the electronic device 700 is manifested in the form of a general-purpose computing device. The components of the electronic device 700 may include, but are not limited to: at least one processing unit 710, at least one storage unit 720, a bus 730 connecting different system components (including storage unit 720 and processing unit 710), and a display unit 740.

[0125] The storage unit stores program code, which can be executed by the processing unit 710 to perform the steps described in the "Exemplary Methods" section of this specification according to various exemplary embodiments of this disclosure. For example, the processing unit 710 can execute... Figure 1 The steps shown are as follows.

[0126] Storage unit 720 may include a readable medium in the form of a volatile storage unit, such as random access memory (RAM) 721 and / or cache memory 722, and may further include a read-only memory (ROM) 723.

[0127] The storage unit 720 may also include a program / utility 724 having a set (at least one) of program modules 725, including but not limited to: an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, and program data, each or some combination of these examples may include an implementation of a network environment.

[0128] Bus 730 can represent one or more of several types of bus structures, including a memory cell bus or memory cell controller, a peripheral bus, a graphics acceleration port, a processing unit, or a local bus using any of the various bus structures.

[0129] Electronic device 700 can also communicate with one or more external devices 800 (e.g., keyboard, pointing device, Bluetooth device, etc.), and with one or more devices that enable a user to interact with electronic device 700, and / or with any device that enables electronic device 700 to communicate with one or more other computing devices (e.g., router, modem, etc.). This communication can be performed via input / output (I / O) interface 750. Furthermore, electronic device 700 can also communicate with one or more networks (e.g., local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and / or public networks, such as the Internet) via network adapter 760. As shown, network adapter 760 communicates with other modules of electronic device 700 via bus 730. It should be understood that, although not shown in the figures, other hardware and / or software modules can be used in conjunction with electronic device 700, including but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, and data backup storage systems.

[0130] From the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will readily understand that the exemplary embodiments described herein can be implemented by software or by combining software with necessary hardware. Therefore, the technical solutions according to the embodiments of this disclosure can be embodied in the form of a software product, which can be stored in a non-volatile storage medium (such as a CD-ROM, USB flash drive, external hard drive, etc.) or on a network, including several instructions to cause a computing device (such as a personal computer, server, terminal device, or network device, etc.) to execute the method according to the exemplary embodiments of this disclosure.

[0131] Exemplary embodiments of this disclosure also provide a computer-readable storage medium having a program product stored thereon capable of implementing the methods described above in this specification. In some possible implementations, various aspects of this disclosure may also be implemented as a program product including program code that, when the program product is run on a terminal device, causes the terminal device to perform the steps described in the "Exemplary Methods" section of this specification according to various exemplary embodiments of this disclosure.

[0132] Exemplary embodiments of this disclosure also provide a program product for implementing the above-described method, which may employ a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) and include program code, and may run on a terminal device, such as a personal computer. However, the program product of this disclosure is not limited thereto. In this document, a readable storage medium may be any tangible medium containing or storing a program that may be used by or in conjunction with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

[0133] The program product may employ any combination of one or more readable media. A readable medium may be a readable signal medium or a readable storage medium. A readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electrical, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any combination thereof. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of readable storage media include: electrical connections having one or more wires, portable disks, hard disks, random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), optical fiber, portable compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM), optical storage devices, magnetic storage devices, or any suitable combination thereof.

[0134] Computer-readable signal media may include data signals propagated in baseband or as part of a carrier wave, carrying readable program code. Such propagated data signals may take various forms, including but not limited to electromagnetic signals, optical signals, or any suitable combination thereof. A readable signal medium may also be any readable medium other than a readable storage medium, capable of sending, propagating, or transmitting programs for use by or in conjunction with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

[0135] The program code contained on the readable medium may be transmitted using any suitable medium, including but not limited to wireless, wired, optical fiber, RF, etc., or any suitable combination thereof.

[0136] Program code for performing the operations of this disclosure can be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including object-oriented programming languages ​​such as Java and C++, and conventional procedural programming languages ​​such as C or similar languages. The program code can execute entirely on the user's computing device, partially on the user's computing device, as a standalone software package, partially on the user's computing device and partially on a remote computing device, or entirely on a remote computing device or server. In cases involving remote computing devices, the remote computing devices can be connected to the user's computing device via any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or can be connected to an external computing device (e.g., via the Internet using an Internet service provider).

[0137] Furthermore, the above figures are merely illustrative of the processes included in the method according to exemplary embodiments of this disclosure and are not intended to be limiting. It is readily understood that the processes shown in the above figures do not indicate or limit the temporal order of these processes. Additionally, it is readily understood that these processes may be executed synchronously or asynchronously, for example, in multiple modules.

[0138] It should be noted that although several modules or units for the device used to perform actions have been mentioned in the detailed description above, this division is not mandatory. In fact, according to exemplary embodiments of this disclosure, the features and functions of two or more modules or units described above can be embodied in one module or unit. Conversely, the features and functions of one module or unit described above can be further divided and embodied by multiple modules or units.

[0139] Other embodiments of this disclosure will readily occur to those skilled in the art upon consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of this disclosure that follow the general principles of this disclosure and include common knowledge or customary techniques in the art not disclosed herein. The specification and embodiments are to be considered exemplary only, and the true scope and spirit of this disclosure are indicated by the claims.

[0140] It should be understood that this disclosure is not limited to the precise structures described above and shown in the accompanying drawings, and various modifications and changes can be made without departing from its scope. The scope of this disclosure is defined only by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A communication information processing method, characterized in that, include: Configure the relationship between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The relationship between the configuration tracking area information and mobility management functions includes: Configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions at the wireless access node.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The relationship between the configuration tracking area information and mobility management functions includes: Configure the relationship between the mobility management function and the tracking area information.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The relationship between the configuration tracking area information and mobility management functions includes: Configure an information list describing the relationship between the tracking area information and mobility management functions, and configure one or more of the following information in the corresponding data type: public land mobile network information, mobility management function information, or tracking area information.

5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The relationship between the configuration tracking area information and mobility management functions includes: Configure an information list describing the relationship between the tracking area information and the mobility management function, and configure one or more of the following information in the information list: public land mobile network information, mobility management function information, or tracking area information.

6. The method according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that, The mobility management function information includes one or more of the following: mobility management function identifier, mobility management function global identifier, and mobility management function service area information.

7. The method according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that, The tracking area information includes: tracking area code information and / or tracking area identifier information.

8. The method according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that, The association between the tracking area information and the mobility management function includes an information list: the information list includes a first indicator and a first indicator value corresponding to the information; the first indicator includes one or more of the following: readable, writable, variable, or notifiable; when the first indicator is readable, writable, variable, or notifiable, the first indicator value of the first indicator is yes or no.

9. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The relationship between the configuration tracking area information and mobility management functions includes: Create a new Information Object Class (IOC) and configure an information list in the new Information Object Class (IOC); wherein the information list represents the association between the tracking area information and the mobility management function.

10. The method according to claim 9, characterized in that, The method further includes: Configure the identifier name DN of the new information object class IOC as its associated attribute in one or more of the information object classes IOCs such as GNBCUCPFunction, NRCellCU, NTNFunction, and AMFFunction.

11. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The relationship between the configuration tracking area information and mobility management functions includes: Configure a new attribute in the existing Information Object Class (IOC); wherein the new attribute is the association between the tracking area information and the mobility management function.

12. The method according to claim 11, characterized in that, When configuring the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions in a wireless access node, the existing information object class (IOC) includes: GNBCUCPFunction, NRCellCU, or NTNFunction.

13. The method according to claim 11, characterized in that, Configuring new properties in an existing Information Object Class (IOC) includes: When wireless access nodes are deployed on non-terrestrial networks, the new attribute is a required parameter.

14. The method according to claim 11, characterized in that, When configuring the relationship between tracking area information and mobility management functions, the existing information object class (IOC) includes: AMFFunction.

15. The method according to claim 11, characterized in that, Configuring new properties in an existing Information Object Class (IOC) includes: When the mobility management function has the ability to connect to wireless access nodes deployed on the non-terrestrial side, the new attribute will be a required parameter.

16. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The method further includes: The wireless access node determines that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed, and based on the correlation between the tracking area information and the mobility management function, determines that the mobility management function has changed and performs a switch.

17. The method according to claim 16, characterized in that, After determining that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed, the method further includes: Determine the information of the target tracking area after the tracking area change; The step of determining a change in the mobility management function based on the correlation between the tracking area information and the mobility management function includes: The target mobility management function is determined based on the information of the target tracking area and the correlation between the tracking area information and the mobility management function.

18. The method according to claim 17, characterized in that, The determination that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed includes: The wireless access node identifies that the user equipment is moving in a non-terrestrial network and that the tracking area of ​​the user equipment has changed. The information regarding the target tracking area after the tracking area change includes: The wireless access node determines the target tracking area information, and based on the association between the target tracking area information and the tracking area information and the mobility management function, determines the target mobility management function corresponding to the target tracking area information, and sends a tracking area switching request to the source mobility management function before the tracking area change; the tracking area switching request includes the target tracking area information; The source movement management function determines the target tracking area information based on the tracking area switching request; The step of determining the target mobility management function based on the information of the target tracking area and the correlation between the tracking area information and the mobility management function includes: The source mobility management function determines the target mobility management function corresponding to the information of the target tracking area based on the correlation between the tracking area information and the mobility management function.

19. A communication information processing device, characterized in that, include: The association configuration module is used to configure the association between tracking area information and mobility management functions.

20. An electronic device, characterized in that, include: processor; as well as Memory for storing the executable instructions of the processor; The processor is configured to execute the method of any one of claims 1-18 by executing the executable instructions.

21. A computer-readable storage medium comprising a computer program, characterized in that, When the computer program is executed by a processor, it implements the method described in any one of claims 1-18.

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