Network Slice Quota Management
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230037244A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17963056

    申请日:2022-10-10

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing network slice quota management. A network slice quota management function may store capacity information for one or more network slices. The network slice quota management function may receive a request for an indication of whether a network slice has additional capacity. The network slice quota management function may provide an indication of whether the network slice has additional capacity in response to the request. The capacity information may relate to the capacity of the network slice with respect to the number of wireless devices registered for the network slice, or to the capacity of the network slice with respect to the number of packet sessions established with the network slice, or both, among various possibilities.

    Radio Access Technology Prioritization

    公开(公告)号:US20220386230A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-01

    申请号:US17737603

    申请日:2022-05-05

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for determining a radio access technology to prioritize when obtaining cellular service in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may determine whether to deprioritize obtaining cellular service using a radio access technology. Whether to deprioritize obtaining cellular service using the RAT may be determined based at least in part on one or more cellular network characteristics. The wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular base station. The wireless link may be established with the cellular base station based at least in part on the determination of whether to deprioritize obtaining cellular service using the radio access technology.

    Enhancements for Handling Network Slice Quota

    公开(公告)号:US20210368421A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-25

    申请号:US17313702

    申请日:2021-05-06

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A Public Land Mobile Network includes a network slice quota (NSQ) node to implement a quota on the number of user equipments (UEs) or (UE, PDU_Session) pairs that may be registered on a network slice. An access and mobility management function (AMF) queries the NSQ on whether quota is available for registration of a UE on a network slice in response to a notification of successful authorization and/or authentication (AAA) of the UE. Alternatively, the AMF may preemptively capture one or more units of network slice quota for the UE prior to initiation of the AAA procedure. The AMF may start a timer after UE deregistration is initiated, and not relinquish the quota unit held by the UE until after the timer's expiration. The network may also include a session management function (SMF) that provides UE identification as well as PDU Session ID when requesting registration of a UE.

    SCANNING OPTIMIZATION IN 5G NR MULTI-RAT ENVIRONMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20210345204A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US17239160

    申请日:2021-04-23

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to improve candidate search and measurement in non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) 5G new radio (NR) multi-radio access technology (RAT) environments. For Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) NR-dual connectivity (EN-DC), a user equipment (UE) skips 5G band measurements for an initial search or an out-of-service (OOS) search. For SA dual connectivity, the UE avoids 5G remaining band (RBS) scans and limits 5G deviated band search (DBS) scans to bands configured for the carrier.

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