WO2016177128A1

WO2016177128A1 - Shutdown detection method, device and core network

Info

Publication number: WO2016177128A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/076643
Authority: WO
Inventors: 黄志强; 徐华
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2015-08-05
Filing date: 2016-03-17
Publication date: 2016-11-10
Also published as: CN106454875A

Abstract

Provided are a shutdown detection method, device and core network. The method comprises: determining whether a first message from a user equipment (UE) is received at a first predetermined time, wherein the first predetermined time starts from a time of receiving a final message of the UE; if not, then transmitting a second message to the UE; determining whether a second response from the UE is received at a second predetermined time after transmitting the second message; and if not, then determining that the UE has shut down. The present invention addresses the problem in which a network side cannot detect whether the UE has shut down as a result of a forced shutdown of the UE, and improves a shutdown detection accuracy.

Description

Shutdown detection method, device and core network

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a shutdown detection method, apparatus, and core network.

Background technique

The trunking communication system currently implements a second generation mobile communication technology (2G), a third generation mobile communication technology (3G), and a fourth generation mobile communication technology (4G) cluster system, and the cluster system includes: a core network, a base station, and a terminal ( Also known as user equipment), to implement cluster services, each network element entity needs to design its own implementation plan according to the cluster business process. The cluster services include registration, half-duplex single-call, group call, full-duplex single-call, call rights application, voice release, call queue, and group information update. The registration is the basis, and the terminal in the trunking communication system completes the initial interaction with the base station and the core network through the registration process, so that the base station and the core network establish the context of the terminal, and record various service states of the terminal.

In a 4G broadband trunking communication system, for a registered terminal, in a normal soft shutdown situation, the terminal interacts with the network side through a deregistration process, so that the network side records the shutdown state of the terminal; and in the case of a hard shutdown, such as direct disconnection As the terminal cannot complete the interaction with the deregistration process on the network side, the network side cannot know the shutdown status of the terminal, which affects subsequent service operations.

In view of the problem that the network side cannot detect the shutdown state of the user equipment due to the hard shutdown of the user equipment in the related art, an effective solution has not been proposed yet.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a shutdown detection method, a device and a core network, so as to solve at least the problem that the network side cannot detect the shutdown state of the user equipment due to the hard shutdown of the user equipment in the related art.

According to an aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a shutdown detection method is provided, including: determining whether a first message from a user equipment is received within a first predetermined time, wherein the first predetermined time is received last Determining, by the user equipment Whether a second response from the user equipment is received within a second predetermined time after the second message; and determining that the second response is not received within the second predetermined time, determining the user equipment Shut down.

Optionally, the first message is sent by the user equipment according to a predetermined period, wherein a duration of the predetermined period is less than a duration of the first predetermined time.

Optionally, before determining whether the first message is received in the first predetermined time, the method further includes: sending a third message to the user equipment, where the third message is used to indicate The user equipment sends the first a duration of the predetermined period of a message, and instructing the user equipment to start transmitting the first message upon receiving the third message.

Optionally, in a case that it is determined that the first message is received within the first predetermined time, the method further includes: performing an execution determination to determine whether the first is received in the first predetermined time a step of a message, wherein the first predetermined time is a timed starting point at a time when the first message is received.

Optionally, in a case that it is determined that the second message is received in the second predetermined time, the method further includes: performing an execution determining whether the first time is received in the first predetermined time a step of a message, wherein the first predetermined time is a timed starting point at which the second message is received.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a shutdown detection apparatus is provided, including: a first determining module, configured to determine whether a first message from a user equipment is received within a first predetermined time, wherein the first The predetermined time is the starting point of the time when the message of the user equipment is last received; the first sending module is configured to send the first message if it is determined that the first message is not received within the first predetermined time a second message to the user equipment; the second determining module is configured to determine whether a second response from the user equipment is received within a second predetermined time after the sending the second message; and the determining module is configured to determine In a case where the second response is not received within the second predetermined time, it is determined that the user equipment is powered off.

Optionally, the device further includes: a second sending module, configured to send a third message to the user equipment, where the third message is used to indicate that the user equipment sends the first message And a duration of the predetermined period, and instructing the user equipment to start sending the first message when receiving the third message.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a core network is provided, including: a first timer, a second timer, a communication module, and a determining module, wherein the first timer is configured to The time when the communication module finally receives the message of the user equipment is the timing of the start time of the time counting for the first predetermined time; the communication module is connected with the first timer, and is set to timeout when the first timer expires. And sending a second message to the user equipment; the second timer is connected to the communication module, and is configured to use the time when the communication module sends the second message as a time start point, and the duration is a second predetermined The timing module is connected to the second timer and the communication module, and configured to determine whether the communication module receives the second response before the second timer expires, wherein The user equipment is determined to be shut down if the communication module does not receive the second response before the second timer expires.

Optionally, the communication module is further configured to send a third message to the user equipment, where the third message is used to indicate that the user equipment sends the first message in a predetermined period, and indicates the user equipment The first message is sent when the third message is received.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a computer storage medium is further provided, and the computer storage medium may store an execution instruction for executing the shutdown detection method in the above embodiment.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is determined whether the first message from the user equipment is received in the first predetermined time, wherein the first predetermined time is the starting time of the last received message of the user equipment; If the first message is not received within a predetermined time, the second message is sent to the user equipment; determining whether the second response from the user equipment is received within the second predetermined time after the second message is sent; In the case that the second response is not received within the second predetermined time, the manner in which the user equipment is turned off is determined, and the problem that the network side cannot detect the shutdown state of the user equipment due to the hard shutdown of the user equipment is solved, and the accuracy of the shutdown detection is improved. .

DRAWINGS

The drawings described herein are intended to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are intended to be a part of the invention. In the drawing:

1 is a flow chart of a shutdown detection method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a block diagram showing the structure of a shutdown detecting device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a block diagram showing an optional structure of a shutdown detecting device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a schematic structural diagram of a core network according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5 is a flow chart of a shutdown detection method in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in conjunction with the embodiments. It should be noted that the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

It is to be understood that the terms "first", "second" and the like in the specification and claims of the present invention are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a particular order or order.

In this embodiment, a shutdown detection method is provided. FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a shutdown detection method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the flow includes the following steps:

Step S102, determining whether a first message from the user equipment is received in the first predetermined time, wherein the first predetermined time is a time starting point of the last time the message of the user equipment is received;

Step S104, if it is determined that the first message is not received within the first predetermined time, sending the second message to the user equipment;

Step S106, determining whether a second response from the user equipment is received within a second predetermined time after the second message is sent;

Step S108, if it is determined that the second response is not received within the second predetermined time, it is determined that the user equipment is powered off.

Through the above steps, the state of the user equipment is detected by using a timeout detection method, in the first predetermined time and the first If the two predetermined times have timed out, the user equipment may be considered to be in a shutdown state. Because the related technology needs to detect the shutdown state of the user equipment through the deregistration process, the core network cannot detect the shutdown state of the user equipment when the user equipment cannot complete the deregistration process in the hard shutdown state. After the above method is adopted, the problem that the network side cannot detect the shutdown state of the user equipment due to the hard shutdown of the user equipment is solved, and the shutdown detection of the hard shutdown is realized, and the accuracy of the shutdown detection is improved.

Optionally, the foregoing steps are performed by the corresponding functional entity in the core network or the core network. In this embodiment, the core network is taken as an example for description and description.

Optionally, the foregoing first message is sent by the user equipment according to a predetermined period, wherein the duration of the predetermined period is less than the duration of the first predetermined time. The first message includes, but is not limited to, a message dedicated to advertising that the user equipment is powered on.

Optionally, the period in which the user equipment sends the first message may be preset, or may be configured by the core network, for example, before determining whether the first message is received in the first predetermined time, the core network sends the third. The message is sent to the user equipment, where the third message is used to indicate the duration of the predetermined period in which the user equipment sends the first message, and indicates that the user equipment starts to send the first message when receiving the third message.

Optionally, in step S102, if it is determined that the first message is received within the first predetermined time, the core network may return to perform the step of determining whether the first message is received within the first predetermined time, where The time at which the first message is received is a predetermined time starting point.

Optionally, in step S106, in a case that it is determined that the second message is received within the second predetermined time, the core network may return to perform the step of determining whether the first message is received within the first predetermined time, where The first predetermined time is the timing start point at the time when the second message is received.

Optionally, the second message includes, but is not limited to, a message dedicated to querying a user equipment shutdown state.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the method according to the above embodiment can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and of course, by hardware, but in many cases, the former is A better implementation. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention, which is essential or contributes to the prior art, may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, disk, The optical disc includes a number of instructions for causing a terminal device (which may be a cell phone, a computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform the methods described in various embodiments of the present invention.

In the embodiment, a shutdown detection device is also provided, which is used to implement the above-mentioned embodiments and preferred embodiments, and has not been described again. As used below, the term "module" may implement a combination of software and/or hardware of a predetermined function. Although the apparatus described in the following embodiments is preferably implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware, is also possible and contemplated.

2 is a structural block diagram of a shutdown detection apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the apparatus includes: a first determination module 22, a first transmission module 24, a second determination module 26, and a determination module 28, where The first determining module 22 is configured to determine whether a first message from the user equipment is received within a first predetermined time, wherein the first predetermined time is The time when the message of the user equipment is received is the starting point of the timing; the first sending module 24 is coupled to the first determining module 22, and is configured to send the first message if it is determined that the first message is not received within the first predetermined time. a second message to the user equipment; the second determining module 26 is coupled to the first sending module 24, configured to determine whether a second response from the user equipment is received within a second predetermined time after the second message is sent; the determining module 28, Coupled to the second determining module 26, it is configured to determine that the user equipment is shut down if it is determined that the second response is not received within the second predetermined time.

Optionally, the foregoing first message is sent by the user equipment according to a predetermined period, wherein the duration of the predetermined period is less than the duration of the first predetermined time.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an optional structure of a shutdown detection apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the apparatus further includes: a second sending module 32 coupled to the first determining module 22 and configured to transmit The third message is sent to the user equipment, where the third message is used to indicate the duration of the predetermined period in which the user equipment sends the first message, and indicates that the user equipment starts to send the first message when receiving the third message.

Optionally, the first determining module 22 is further configured to: when it is determined that the first message is received within the first predetermined time, returning to the execution determining whether the first message is received within the first predetermined time, where The time at which the first message is received is a predetermined time starting point.

Optionally, the first determining module 22 is coupled to the second determining module 26, and is further configured to: when it is determined that the second message is received within the second predetermined time, returning to the execution determining whether to receive in the first predetermined time Go to the first message, wherein the first predetermined time is the timed starting point of the time when the second message is received.

It should be noted that each of the above modules may be implemented by software or hardware. For the latter, the foregoing may be implemented by, but not limited to, the foregoing modules are all located in the same processor; or, the modules are located in multiple In the processor.

This embodiment further provides a core network, which is configured to implement the foregoing shutdown detection method.

4 is a schematic structural diagram of a core network according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the core network includes: a first timer 42, a second timer 44, a communication module 46, and a judging module 48, where The timer 42 is configured to set the time of the first predetermined time to the time when the communication module 46 finally receives the message of the user equipment, and the communication module 46 is connected to the first timer 42 to be set to the first time. When the device 42 times out, the second message is sent to the user equipment; the second timer 44 is connected to the communication module 46, and is set to use the time when the communication module 46 sends the second message as the starting point of the time for the second predetermined time. The timing module is connected to the second timer 44 and the communication module 46, and is configured to determine whether the communication module 46 receives the second response before the second timer 44 times out, wherein the second timer 44 is determined. In case the communication module 46 does not receive the second response before the timeout, it is determined that the user equipment is powered off.

Optionally, the communication module 46 is further configured to send a third message to the user equipment, where the third message is used to indicate that the user equipment sends the first message in a predetermined period, and instruct the user equipment to start sending when receiving the third message. The first message.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a software for performing the technical solutions described in the above embodiments and preferred embodiments.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a storage medium. In this embodiment, the above storage medium may be configured to store program code for performing the following steps:

Optionally, in the embodiment, the foregoing storage medium may include, but is not limited to, a USB flash drive, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), and a Random Access Memory (RAM). A variety of media that can store program code, such as a hard disk, a disk, or an optical disk.

For example, the specific examples in this embodiment may refer to the examples described in the foregoing embodiments and the optional embodiments, and details are not described herein again.

In order to make the description of the embodiments of the present invention more clear, the following description and description are given in conjunction with the preferred embodiments.

Taking the cluster system as an example, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, based on the cluster communication protocol, a cluster system shutdown detection method and device are proposed, so that the cluster system can quickly detect the terminal hard shutdown, so that the network side can quickly grasp the shutdown of the terminal. Status, and then corresponding rendering and next processing.

5 is a flow chart of a shutdown detection method in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes the following steps:

Step 1, the operation and maintenance module sets the shutdown fast detection timer T1, the duration is L1; the periodic handshake timer T2, the duration is L2; the shutdown query timer T3, the duration is L3. Where L1 is greater than L2.

Step 2: The terminal initiates a registration process, and the core network notifies the terminal of the configured periodic handshake timer and its duration.

Step 3: After the registration is successful, the terminal starts the periodic handshake timer, and the core network starts the shutdown fast detection timer.

Step 4: After the terminal works normally, and the periodic handshake timer expires, the handshake request message is sent to the core network.

Step 5: The core network receives the periodic handshake request message sent by the terminal, sends a periodic handshake confirmation message to the terminal, and restarts the shutdown fast detection timer, records the terminal status as a normal state, and displays the operation and maintenance interface.

Step 6. The terminal suddenly shuts down and shuts down.

Step 7. The core gateway machine quickly detects that the timer expires, records the terminal status as a false shutdown state, and displays the operation and maintenance interface.

Step 8: The core network sends a shutdown query request message to the terminal, and starts a shutdown query timer to wait for the terminal to respond to the shutdown query response message.

Step 9. The core gateway machine queries the timer timeout, records the terminal status as the shutdown state, and displays the operation and maintenance interface.

In the above preferred embodiment, by introducing a cluster system shutdown detection method and device, the cluster system can quickly detect the terminal hard shutdown, so that the network side can quickly grasp the shutdown state of the terminal, and then perform corresponding user presentation and One step.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described and illustrated by way of examples.

In this example, the terminal works normally and remains powered on. The shutdown detection in this example includes the following steps:

Step 1. The operation and maintenance module sets the shutdown detection timer for 30 seconds, the periodic handshake timer for 15 seconds, and the shutdown query timer for 10 seconds.

Step 2: The radio station initiates a registration process, and obtains a periodic handshake timer of 15 seconds.

Step 3: The terminal of the vehicle station periodically times out, sends a handshake request to the core network, and the core network responds with a handshake response message to the terminal.

Step 4: The handshake successfully restarts the periodic handshake timer, and the core network restarts the critical detection timer.

Through the above examples, periodic detection of the state of the terminal is achieved.

In another example, the terminal is hard shut down after normal operation. This is the shutdown detection in the example includes the following steps:

Step 4: The handshake successfully restarts the periodic handshake timer, and the core network restarts the shutdown detection timer.

Step 5: The terminal of the vehicle station suddenly shuts down and shuts down.

Step 6: The core gateway machine quickly detects that the timer expires, sets the terminal state to false shutdown, starts the shutdown query timer, and sends a shutdown query request message to the target terminal.

Step 7. The shutdown query timer expires, and the terminal state is turned off, and is displayed to the operation and maintenance interface.

In the above manner, by setting the duration of each timer reasonably, the fast detection of the shutdown state of the terminal can be achieved.

Obviously, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the various modules or steps of the present invention described above can be used with general calculations. The devices are implemented, they may be centralized on a single computing device, or distributed over a network of multiple computing devices, optionally they may be implemented in program code executable by the computing device, such that they may be stored Executed by the computing device in a storage device, and in some cases, the steps shown or described may be performed in an order different than that herein, or separately fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or Multiple modules or steps are made into a single integrated circuit module. Thus, the invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes can be made to the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and scope of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Industrial applicability

Claims

A shutdown detection method includes:

Determining whether a first message from the user equipment is received in the first predetermined time, wherein the first predetermined time is a timed start point of the last time the message of the user equipment is received;

After determining that the first message is not received within the first predetermined time, sending a second message to the user equipment;

Determining whether a second response from the user equipment is received within a second predetermined time after the sending of the second message;

When it is determined that the second response is not received within the second predetermined time, it is determined that the user equipment is powered off.
The method of claim 1, wherein the first message is transmitted by the user equipment according to a predetermined period, wherein a duration of the predetermined period is less than a duration of the first predetermined time.
The method of claim 2, wherein the method further comprises: before determining whether the first message is received within the first predetermined time, the method further comprising:

Sending a third message to the user equipment, where the third message is used to indicate a duration of the predetermined period of the first message sent by the user equipment, and instructing the user equipment to receive the The first message is sent when the three messages are started.
The method of claim 1, wherein, in the case that it is determined that the first message is received within the first predetermined time, the method further comprises:

Returning to the step of performing a determination as to whether the first message is received within the first predetermined time, wherein the first predetermined time is a timed starting point at which the first message is received.
The method of claim 1, wherein, in the case that it is determined that the second message is received within the second predetermined time, the method further comprises:

Returning to the step of performing a determination as to whether the first message is received within the first predetermined time, wherein the first predetermined time is a timed starting point at which the second message is received.
A shutdown detection device includes:

The first judging module is configured to determine whether the first message from the user equipment is received in the first predetermined time, where the first predetermined time is the starting time of the last receiving the message of the user equipment;

The first sending module is configured to send a second message to the user equipment if it is determined that the first message is not received within the first predetermined time;

a second determining module, configured to determine whether a second response from the user equipment is received within a second predetermined time after the sending the second message;

And a determining module, configured to determine that the user equipment is powered off if it is determined that the second response is not received within the second predetermined time.
The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the first message is transmitted by the user equipment according to a predetermined period, wherein a duration of the predetermined period is less than a duration of the first predetermined time.
The apparatus of claim 7 wherein said apparatus further comprises:

a second sending module, configured to send a third message to the user equipment, where the third message is used to instruct the user equipment to send the duration of the predetermined period of the first message, and indicate the user The device starts transmitting the first message when receiving the third message.
A core network includes: a first timer, a second timer, a communication module, and a judging module, wherein

The first timer is configured to perform a time period of a first predetermined time when a time when the communication module last receives the message of the user equipment is a time starting point;

The communication module is connected to the first timer, and is configured to send a second message to the user equipment if the first timer expires;

The second timer is connected to the communication module, and is configured to use a timing at which the communication module sends the second message is a timing start time and a duration of a second predetermined time;

The determining module is connected to the second timer and the communication module, and configured to determine whether the communication module receives the second response before the second timer expires, wherein the determining is in the The user equipment is determined to be shut down if the communication module does not receive the second response before the second timer expires.
The core network according to claim 9, wherein

The communication module is further configured to send a third message to the user equipment, where the third message is used to instruct the user equipment to send the first message in a predetermined period, and instruct the user equipment to receive the The first message is sent when the third message is described.