US 11,818,793 B2
Devices and methods for UE-specific RAN-CN associations
Alexander Sirotkin, Tel-Aviv (IL); and Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Paris (FR)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 16/615,054
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 12, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/037108
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 19, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/236624, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 27, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/521,954, filed on Jun. 19, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0169865 A1, May 28, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 8/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 8/26 (2009.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01); H04L 101/663 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 8/08 (2013.01) [H04L 67/34 (2013.01); H04W 8/26 (2013.01); H04W 60/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 80/02 (2013.01); H04L 2101/663 (2022.05)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
16. A method, comprising:
a core network device,
generating an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) configuration update message including a plurality of Transport Network Link (TNL) associations, the AMF configuration update message comprising at least one of a list of TNL associations to add and a list of TNL associations to remove, wherein the list of TNL associations to add includes one or more information elements (IEs) with Internet Protocol (IP) address information; and
initiating transmission of the AMF configuration update message indicating address information to a Next Generation (NG) Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) node via the list of TNL associations to add.