Communication method and communications apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US12058575B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-06

    申请号:US17323572

    申请日:2021-05-18

    摘要: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a communication method and a communications apparatus. The solution includes: sending, by a source access network device, a first data packet of a terminal to a target access network device; and when the source access network device determines that the target access network device has received the first data packet, sending, by the source access network device, a first message to the terminal, where the first message is used to indicate the terminal to hand over to the target access network device.

    COMMUNICATION METHOD
    4.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240179580A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18432719

    申请日:2024-02-05

    IPC分类号: H04W36/00 H04W36/02 H04W36/08

    摘要: In a first aspect, a communication method is used in a mobile communication system for supporting a multicast and broadcast service (MBS). The communication method includes: configuring, by a base station managing a first cell, a multicast radio bearer (MRB) including a Point-to-Multipoint (PTM) communication path for a user equipment in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state; switching, by the base station, from the PTM communication path to a Point-to-Point (PTP) communication path in response to determining handover of the user equipment from the first cell to a second cell; and executing, by the base station, the handover after the switching to the PTP communication path.

    Communication Method and Apparatus
    6.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240080729A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18262531

    申请日:2021-12-09

    发明人: Chuting Yao Ao Guo

    IPC分类号: H04W36/02 H04L69/04 H04W36/00

    摘要: A communication method includes a terminal device sending M compressed data packets. The M compressed data packets are obtained by compressing M data packets based on a first buffer. The terminal device reestablishes a PDCP layer without resetting the first buffer. The terminal device then sends N compressed data packets. The N compressed data packets are a part or all of the M compressed data packets. When reestablishing the PDCP layer, the terminal device does not reset the first buffer. In this case, if the terminal device needs to retransmit a data packet, the terminal device may retransmit a previously obtained compressed data packet, and does not need to compress the data packet again.

    HANDOVER
    7.
    发明公开
    HANDOVER 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240049079A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-08

    申请号:US18258069

    申请日:2021-10-22

    IPC分类号: H04W36/02 H04W36/08

    CPC分类号: H04W36/023 H04W36/08

    摘要: Various example embodiments relate to relate to network nodes (20A; 20B), methods and computer program products configured to hand over a communication link between a cell and user equipment (10) in a wireless communication network from a source cell (40A) to a target cell (40B; 40C). According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments of the invention there is provided a node (20A), comprising: means configured to establish a communication link between a source cell (40A) and user equipment (10); means configured to transmit a series of data packets to the user equipment (10), each data packet comprising an associated sequence identifier; means to receive an acknowledgement of successful receipt of a data packet of the series by user equipment (10), the acknowledgement comprising an indication of the successfully received data packet sequence identifier; means configured to receive an indication of an identified handover target cell (40B; 40C); means configured to request handover of the user equipment (10) to the identified handover target cell (40B; 40C); means configured to receive an acknowledgement of handover request from the identified handover target cell (40B; 40C); and means to forward data packets to be transmitted to user equipment (10) to the identified target cell (40B; 40C), the forwarded data packets comprising the indication of associated sequence identifier and the most recent successfully received data packet sequence identifier. Also provided is a node (20B), comprising: means configured to receive a request for handover of user equipment (10) from a source cell (40A) to a target cell (40B; 40C); means configured to transmit an acknowledgement of handover request to the source cell (40A); and means to receive forwarded data packets forming a series of data packets to be transmitted to user equipment (10), the forwarded data packets comprising an indication of a sequence identifier associated with each forwarded data packet and an indication of a most recent successfully received data packet sequence identifier. Arrangements recognise that one way to mitigate some of the negative effects associated with early data forwarding, for example, the increased use of network memory and the risk of duplicate transmissions, is by providing a mechanism supported by a source (20A) and target node (20B) to allow a target access node (20B) to perform efficient data discarding.