Background technology
In existing protocol, propose based on APN(Access Point Name, APN) congestion control (APN based Congestion control) mechanism, and it can be divided into the mobile management based on APN to control (APN based Mobility Management control) and the conversation management control (APN based Session Management control) based on APN.
In the mobile management based on APN controls, network side needs the UE(User Equipment contracting special APN, subscriber equipment) carry out congestion control, and when the UE contracting special APN sends mobile management request to network side, network side judges whether this special APN occurs congested, if so, then network side refuses this mobile management request, and in the refuse information returned to UE, carry mobile management back off timer (back-off timer); And UE is after receiving mobile management back off timer, need no longer to initiate any mobile management process before this mobile management back off timer time-out.
Based in the conversation management control of APN, congestion state is in when network side determines certain APN, then network side needs refusal for the PDN(Packet Data Network of this APN, packet data network) connection request (Connectivity Request), and session management back off timer is carried in the refuse information returned to UE; And UE is after receiving session management back off timer, need no longer to initiate any session management procedure for this APN before this mobile management back off timer time-out.
In addition, except the congestion control based on APN, currently also proposed NAS(Non Access Stratum, Non-Access Stratum) the mobile management congestion control mechanism of layer; Concrete, under the condition of network over loading, network side can refuse any mobile management request of UE, and carries mobile management back off timer in the refuse information returned to UE; And UE is after receiving mobile management back off timer, need no longer to initiate any mobile management process before this mobile management back off timer time-out.
Realizing in process of the present invention, inventor finds at least there is following problem in prior art:
Due to the hierarchical design of NAS, mobility management layer and session management layer are independently maintained, UE, receiving after for the refuse information of mobile management request and mobile management back off timer, can not initiate mobile management request again; But for session management procedure, its congestion control is based on APN, and after UE enters connected state, during network over loading, permission is also sent session management messages by UE, thus increases offered load.
Embodiment
Below in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in the present invention, be clearly and completely described the technical scheme in the present invention, obviously, described embodiment is only a part of embodiment of the present invention, instead of whole embodiments.Based on the embodiment in the present invention, those of ordinary skill in the art, not making the every other embodiment obtained under creative work prerequisite, belong to the scope of protection of the invention.
Embodiment one
The embodiment of the present invention one provides a kind of method of congestion control, and as shown in Figure 1, the method comprises:
Step 101, network equipment receives the session management request message from UE; Wherein, this network equipment can be SGSN(Serving GPRS Supporting Node, Serving GPRS Support Node) or MME(Mobility Management Entity, Mobility Management Entity).
In the embodiment of the present invention, this session management request message includes but not limited to: Packet Data Network connection request PDN CONNECTIVITY REQUEST; BEARER RESOURCE ALLOCATION REQUEST(bearing resource distributes request) message; BEARER RESOURCE MODIFICATION REQUEST(bearing resource amendment request) message etc.
In the embodiment of the present invention, if current network is in overload, then:
When the PDN connection that session management request message is to ask to set up emergency business, or session management request message be not that PDN in order to ask to set up emergency business connects and the PDN of current built vertical emergency business connects time, perform step 102;
When session management request message is not the PDN connection in order to ask to set up emergency business and the current PDN not setting up emergency business connects, perform step 103.
It should be noted that whether network equipment (i.e. core net controlled entity) is when starting general NAS level congestion control mechanism, can be in overload (overload) state according to configuration guidelines decision network (i.e. core net); Concrete, if when the load of current network has exceeded pre-configured overload threshold, then this network equipment can determine network and be in overload.
Step 102, network equipment deletes the non-emergency business in UE context PDN by initiating PDN disconnection process connects, and makes UE enter emergency attach(and adheres to) state.
Step 103, network equipment is by initiating Detach(attachment removal) process makes UE enter Detach state; Or, initiate interface Release(release) and process (as S1/Iu interface Release process) makes UE enter the Idle(free time) state.
In the embodiment of the present invention, when session management request message is the PDN connection in order to ask to set up emergency business, this network equipment can also accept this session management request message, and completes the PDN establishment of connection process of emergency business.
In the embodiment of the present invention, when session management request message is not the PDN connection in order to ask to set up emergency business, and when the PDN of current built vertical emergency business connects, then this network equipment can also refuse this session management request message.
In the embodiment of the present invention, when session management request message is not the PDN connection in order to ask to set up emergency business, and when the current PDN not setting up emergency business connects, then this network equipment can also refuse this session management request message.
In sum, in the embodiment of the present invention, after receiving session management request message,
(1) if this session management request message is the PDN connection in order to ask to set up emergency business, then this network equipment accepts this session management request message (PDN namely setting up emergency business connects), and initiate the PDN connection that PDN disconnection process deletes all non-emergency business, make UE enter Emergency Attach state.
(2) if this session management request message is not the PDN connection in order to ask to set up emergency business, and the PDN that this UE has set up emergency business connects, then this network equipment refuses this session management request message, and initiate the PDN connection that PDN disconnection process deletes all non-emergency business, make UE enter Emergency Attach state.
(3) if this session management request message is not the PDN connection in order to ask to set up emergency business, and the PDN that this UE does not set up emergency business yet connects, then this network equipment refuses this session management request message, and initiates Detach process and make UE enter Detach state; Or, initiate S1/Iu Release process and make UE enter Idle state.
It should be noted that in the embodiment of the present invention, above-mentioned UE is the UE needing to carry out congestion control, and this UE is specially the UE being in connected state.
Below in conjunction with concrete application scenarios, the embodiment of the present invention is described in detail.
Embodiment two
The embodiment of the present invention two provides a kind of method of congestion control, and as shown in Figure 2, the method comprises:
Step 201, SGSN/MME receives the PDN Connectivity Request message from UE, and in this PDN Connectivity Request message, Request Type(type)=Emergency.
Step 202, SGSN/MME, after determining that network transships (overload), accepts this PDN Connectivity Request message, and the PDN setting up emergency business connects.
Step 203, SGSN/MME initiates all non-emergency business PDN of PDN disconnection process deletion and connects.
Embodiment three
The embodiment of the present invention three provides a kind of method of congestion control, and as shown in Figure 3, the method comprises:
Step 301, SGSN/MME receives the PDN Connectivity Request message from UE, in this PDN Connectivity Request message, Request Type is not Emergency, or UE Requested Bearer(carries) Resource(resource) Modification(amendment) Request etc.
Step 302, SGSN/MME, after determining that network transships (overload), refuses this PDN Connectivity Request message.
Step 303, SGSN/MME sends PDN connection refused message to UE, and checks whether this UE exists the PDN connection of emergency business.
Step 304, if the PDN that there is emergency business connects, then SGSN/MME initiates the PDN connection that PDN disconnection process deletes all non-emergency business; If there is no the PDN of emergency business connects, then SGSN/MME initiation Detach process makes UE enter Detach state, or initiation S1/Iu Release process makes UE enter Idle state.
Embodiment four
Based on the inventive concept same with said method, additionally provide a kind of network equipment in the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in Figure 4, this network equipment comprises:
Receiver module 11, for receiving the session management request message from user equipment (UE);
Processing module 12, if be in overload for current network, then: when described session management request message is to ask the packet data network PDN setting up urgent emergency business to connect, or described session management request message be not that PDN in order to ask to set up emergency business connects and the PDN of current built vertical emergency business connects time
Going to connect the PDN connection that disconnection process deletes the non-emergency business in described UE context by by initiating PDN, making described UE enter emergency attached emergency attach state.
When described session management request message is the PDN connection in order to ask to set up urgent emergency business, described processing module 12, also for accepting described session management request message, and completes the PDN establishment of connection process of emergency business.
Described processing module 12, also for when described session management request message be not that PDN in order to ask to set up emergency business connects and the current PDN not setting up emergency business connects time,
Described UE is made to enter Detach state by initiating attachment removal Detach process; Or, initiate interface release Release process and make described UE enter idle Idle state.
When described session management request message is not the PDN connection in order to ask to set up emergency business, described processing module 12, also for refusing described session management request message.
In the embodiment of the present invention, described session management request message comprises: Packet Data Network connection request PDN CONNECTIVITY REQUEST; Bearing resource distributes request BEARER RESOURCE ALLOCATION REQUEST message; Bearing resource amendment request BEARER RESOURCE MODIFICATION REQUEST message.
In the embodiment of the present invention, described UE is specially the UE being in connected state.
Wherein, the modules of apparatus of the present invention can be integrated in one, and also can be separated deployment.Above-mentioned module can merge into a module, also can split into multiple submodule further.
Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can be well understood to the mode that the present invention can add required general hardware platform by software and realize, and can certainly pass through hardware, but in a lot of situation, the former is better execution mode.Based on such understanding, technical scheme of the present invention can embody with the form of software product the part that prior art contributes in essence in other words, this computer software product is stored in a storage medium, comprising some instructions in order to make a computer equipment (can be personal computer, server, or the network equipment etc.) perform method described in each embodiment of the present invention.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that accompanying drawing is the schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment, the module in accompanying drawing or flow process might not be that enforcement the present invention is necessary.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the module in the device in embodiment can carry out being distributed in the device of embodiment according to embodiment description, also can carry out respective change and be arranged in the one or more devices being different from the present embodiment.The module of above-described embodiment can merge into a module, also can split into multiple submodule further.
The invention described above embodiment sequence number, just to describing, does not represent the quality of embodiment.
Be only several specific embodiment of the present invention above, but the present invention is not limited thereto, the changes that any person skilled in the art can think of all should fall into protection scope of the present invention.