CN103517415A - Method for triggering MTC user equipment, MTC IWF and MTC user equipment - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a method for triggering machine type communication (MTC) user equipment, a machine type communication interconnection working function (MTC IWF) and the MTC user equipment. The method includes the steps that the MTC IWF determines a system where a target MTC user equipment set needing to be triggered is located; if the system where the triggered MTC user equipment set is located is a global system for mobile communication (GSM) or a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS), the MTC IWF sends set triggering information to the target MTC user equipment set through a cell broadcasting service (CBS); if the system where the triggered MTC user equipment set is located is an evolved UMTS universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN), the MTC IWF sends the set triggering information to the target MTC user equipment through a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) or a public warning service. According to the method, multiple pieces of MTC user equipment can be triggered simultaneously in a 3GPP network.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to wireless communication technology field, relate in particular to a kind of method, MTC IWF, MTC subscriber equipment of the MTC of triggering subscriber equipment.
Background technology
Machine refers to machine (M2M, Machine to Machine) all technology and the means that between machine, connect.M2M theory just occurs in eighties of last century the nineties, but only rests on theory stage.After 2000, along with the development of mobile communication technology, make the networking that realizes machinery equipment with mobile communication technology become possibility.About 2002, M2M business occurs on market, and developing rapidly for several years subsequently, becomes the focus that numerous communication equipment Shang He telecom operators pay close attention to.
M2M business has proposed a lot of new requirements to system, in order to strengthen mobile network's competitiveness in this respect, is necessary existing mobile network to be optimized, with more effective support M2M communication.Existing mobile communications network designs mainly for person to person's communication, and machine is optimized to deficiency with machine, man-machine communication.In addition, how operator can provide M2M communication service with low cost, is also that successfully key is disposed in M2M communication.
Based on above situation, be necessary to study the solution that mobile network supports M2M communication, require to reuse to greatest extent existing network, reduce impact that a large amount of M2M communication causes network and the complexity of operation maintenance.
In order to effectively utilize mobile network resource, third generation partner program (3GPP, 3rd Generation Partnership Project) machine type communication (MTC has been proposed, Machine Type Communication), be that machine is to machine (Machine to Machine), the business that machine carries out communication to people (Machine to Man), its scope of business is far beyond Human To Human (H2H in the past, Human to Human) communication between, MTC is in access control, charging, fail safe, service quality (QoS, Quality of Service), all there is very large difference with H2H communication mode in the aspects such as business model.
Evolved packet system (EPS at 3GPP, Evolved Packet System) in framework, EPS comprises wireless access network and core net, wherein, wireless access network is as UMTS Terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN, Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network), the UTRAN (E-UTRAN, EvolvedUTRAN) of evolution, GSM EDGE Radio Access Network network (GERAN, GSM/EDGE Radio AccessNetwork) etc.For example: at evolution block core net (EPC, Evolved Packet Core) in, there are mobile management entity (MME), gateway (Serving Gateway), packet data network gateway (PGW, PDN Gateway) etc. network element, comprises the network elements such as Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) in GPRS core net; At E-UTRAN, comprise the Node B (eNB, evolved Node B) of evolution.
It is to one of basic demand of MTC system that MTC subscriber equipment triggers (Device Trigger), the problem that this requirement is paid close attention to is: in order to control the communication of MTC subscriber equipment, can adopt the mode by MTC server (Server) initiation poll (poll) to communicate, the communication of initiating for MTC subscriber equipment, also needs MTC Server from MTC subscriber equipment poll data sometimes; If the IP address of MTC server lookup failure or MTC subscriber equipment is unavailable, MTC server can trigger with MTC subscriber equipment with MTC subscriber equipment and set up and communicate by letter; If network can not trigger MTC subscriber equipment, network triggers unsuccessfully to MTC server report MTC subscriber equipment, and MTC subscriber equipment triggers and by chain of command signaling, realizes in 3GPP.
MTC subscriber equipment triggers and comprises mobile caller (MO, Mobile Originated) and Mobile terminating call (MT, Mobile Terminating) business, comprises that MTC subscriber equipment sends or reception information.
In order to realize effective transmission of MTC subscriber equipment trigger request, the scheme having proposed at present comprises: by T4 interface, send MTC subscriber equipment trigger message, or by T5 interface control plane signaling, send MTC subscriber equipment trigger message, or send MTC trigger message by Gi/SGi interface user plane signaling.For send the mode of MTC subscriber equipment trigger message by chain of command signaling, MTC server sends the chain of command signaling that comprises MTC subscriber equipment trigger message and arrives network node, MTC subscriber equipment trigger message dissection process in network node chain of command signaling, then send MTC subscriber equipment trigger message to subscriber equipment (UE, User Equipment).MTC framework in 3GPP as shown in Figure 1, dotted line in figure represents chain of command, solid line represents user's face, at user's face, connect MTC user's (User) MTC application apparatus (Application) by api interface and MTC server communication, or the communication of Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN, Gateway GPRS the SupportNode)/PGW/ evolution packet data gateway (EPDG) by Gi/SGi interface directly and in 3GPP network, MTC server is communicated by letter with GGSN/PGW/EPDG by MTCi interface, GGSN/PGW/EPDG communicates by letter with UE by wireless access network (RAN), at chain of command, MTC server passes through MTCsp interface to MTC interconnection functional entity (MTC-IWF, MTC InterWorking Function) send the chain of command signaling that comprises MTC subscriber equipment trigger message or pass through MTCsms interface to short message service-service center (SMS-SC, Short MessageService-Service Centre)/IP Short Message Service Gateway (IP-SM-GW, IP-Short-Message-Gateway) send the chain of command signaling that comprises MTC subscriber equipment trigger message, MTC-IWF or SMS-SC/IP-SM-GW send to MME/SGSN or short message service-mobile services switching centre gateway (SMS-GMSC by chain of command signaling, Gateway MSC For Short Message Service) or short message service router (SMS Router) or mobile services switching centre (MSC, Mobile-services SwitchingCentre) or VLR Visitor Location Register (VLR), and then send to UE by RAN, wherein, MME/SGSN can also obtain described chain of command signaling from home subscriber server (HSS, Home Subscriber Server) or attaching position register (HLR, Home Location Register) by Gr/S6a/S6d interface.
The demand of MTC subscriber equipment grouping has been proposed in 3GPP TS22.368, the state information of wanting to collect a plurality of MTC subscriber equipmenies as MTC server.The demand of MTC subscriber equipment grouping comprises: system is divided into groups a MTC user device association to single MTC; Each MTC function based on group is applicable to each member in MTC group; The sign of MTC group in 3GPP network is unique.
In actual applications, exist 3GPP network to trigger the demand of one group of MTC subscriber equipment, yet for how triggering one group of MTC subscriber equipment, prior art does not also provide corresponding solution at present simultaneously.
Summary of the invention
In view of this, main purpose of the present invention is to provide a kind of method, MTC IWF, MTC subscriber equipment of the MTC of triggering subscriber equipment, to realize, triggers a plurality of MTC subscriber equipmenies in 3GPP network simultaneously.
For achieving the above object, technical scheme of the present invention is achieved in that
A kind of method that the invention provides the MTC of triggering subscriber equipment, the method comprises:
Machine type communication interconnected functional blocks MTC IWF, according to group trigger message, determines the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered;
If the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is global system for mobile communications GSM or universal mobile telecommunications system UMTS, described MTC IWF sends described group of trigger message by cell broadcast service CBS to described target MTC group of user equipments;
If the UMTS Terrestrial radio access network E-UTRAN that the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is evolution, described MTC IWF sends described group of trigger message by multimedia broadcast multi-broadcasting business MBMS or public alerting service PWS to described target MTC group of user equipments.
The group sign that at least comprises the target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered in described group of trigger message,
Described MTC IWF, according to described group of sign, searches the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of target MTC group of user equipments, and determines the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered according to this.
When the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is GSM, described MTC IWF, comprising to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message by CBS:
MTC-IWF sends described group of trigger message by the CBC CBC in GSM to the residing base station controller BSC of target MTC subscriber equipment in group;
Described BSC passes through base transceiver station BTS to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message.
When the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is UMTS, described MTC IWF, comprising to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message by CBS:
MTC-IWF sends described group of trigger message by the CBC in GSM to the residing radio network controller (RNC) of target MTC subscriber equipment in group;
Described RNC by Node B to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message.
Described MTC IWF, comprising to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message by MBMS:
MTC-IWF sends described group of trigger message to the BM-SC of broadcast multi-broadcasting-service centre;
Described BM-SC by MBMS flow process to the target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group.
Described MTC IWF, comprising to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message by public alerting service:
MTC-IWF by CBC to mobile management entity MME transmission group trigger message;
The Node B of MME by evolution is to the target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group.
The present invention also provides a kind of MTC IWF, comprising:
System determining unit, for according to group trigger message, determines the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered;
Information transmitting unit, for when determining that the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is global system for mobile communications GSM or universal mobile telecommunications system UMTS, by cell broadcast service CBS, to described target MTC group of user equipments, send described group of trigger message; During the UMTS Terrestrial radio access network E-UTRAN that is evolution in definite residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered, by multimedia broadcast multi-broadcasting business MBMS or public alerting service, to described target MTC group of user equipments, send described group of trigger message.
The group sign that at least comprises the target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered in described group of trigger message,
Described system determining unit is further used for, and according to described group of sign, searches the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of target MTC group of user equipments, and determines the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered according to this.
When the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is GSM, described information transmitting unit is used for, and by the CBC CBC in GSM, to the residing base station controller BSC of target MTC subscriber equipment in group, sends described group of trigger message;
Accordingly, described BSC passes through base transceiver station BTS to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message.
When the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is UMTS, described information transmitting unit is used for, and by the CBC in GSM, to the residing radio network controller (RNC) of target MTC subscriber equipment in group, sends described group of trigger message;
Accordingly, described RNC by Node B to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message.
Describedly by MBMS, to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message, comprise:
Described information transmitting unit sends described group of trigger message to the BM-SC of broadcast multi-broadcasting-service centre;
Described BM-SC by MBMS flow process to the target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group.
Describedly by public alerting service, to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message, comprise:
Described information transmitting unit by CBC to mobile management entity MME transmission group trigger message;
The Node B of MME by evolution is to the target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group.
The present invention also provides a kind of MTC subscriber equipment, comprising:
Judge module, for receiving group trigger message, and whether the group trigger message receiving according to the group sign judgement in described group of trigger message is the required trigger message of described machine type communication MTC subscriber equipment;
Processing module, when at the group trigger message that receives of judgement being the required trigger message of MTC subscriber equipment, sending response and communicates according to content and the MTC application server AS of group trigger message to network side; When the group trigger message that receives of judgement is not the required trigger message of MTC subscriber equipment, ignore the group trigger message receiving.
Described judge module is further used for, and according to the group sign in described group of trigger message, judges that whether described MTC subscriber equipment belongs to MTC equipment group corresponding to group sign, if so, judges that described group of trigger message is that described MTC subscriber equipment is required; Otherwise, judge that described group of trigger message is not that described MTC subscriber equipment is required.
A kind of method, MTC IWF, MTC subscriber equipment that triggers MTC subscriber equipment provided by the present invention, can realize and in 3GPP network, trigger a plurality of MTC subscriber equipmenies simultaneously, and optimize triggering flow process, has reduced the shared Internet resources of trigger process.
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Fig. 1 is the MTC configuration diagram in 3GPP in prior art;
Fig. 2 is a kind of method flow diagram that triggers MTC subscriber equipment of the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 3 triggers the system configuration schematic diagram of one group of MTC subscriber equipment by CBS in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the MBMS system framework schematic diagram in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 5 triggers the system configuration schematic diagram of one group of MTC subscriber equipment by MBMS in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 6 triggers the system configuration schematic diagram of one group of MTC subscriber equipment by PWS in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 7 is the method flow diagram that the realization of the embodiment of the present invention one triggers one group of MTC subscriber equipment;
Fig. 8 is the method flow diagram that the realization of the embodiment of the present invention two triggers one group of MTC subscriber equipment;
Fig. 9 is the method flow diagram that the realization of the embodiment of the present invention three triggers one group of MTC subscriber equipment;
Figure 10 is a kind of system configuration schematic diagram that triggers MTC subscriber equipment of the embodiment of the present invention.
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Below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments, the technical solution of the present invention is further elaborated.
The method of the triggering MTC subscriber equipment that the embodiment of the present invention provides, according to group trigger message, determines the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered by MTC IWF; If the residing system GSM of MTC group of user equipments or the UMTS that are triggered, MTC IWF passes through cell broadcast service (CBS) to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message; If the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is E-UTRAN, MTC IWF by multimedia broadcast multi-broadcasting business (MBMS) or public alerting service to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message.
Concrete, a kind of method that triggers MTC subscriber equipment of the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in Figure 2, mainly comprises:
Concrete, application server (AS, Application Server) arranges the content of group trigger message, and group trigger message is sent to service capability server (SCS, Services Capability Server).SCS is arranged in outside 3GPP network or is positioned at 3GPP network; The content of described group of trigger message at least comprises: MTC group of user equipments sign (Group ID), the group that need to trigger for unique identification.
SCS is to MTC-IWF transmission group trigger message, MTC-IWF authenticates the group trigger message of receiving, and after authentication success, by HSS/HLR, inquire about the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of the MTC subscriber equipment that need to be triggered, above-mentioned CAMEL-Subscription-Information comprises the system of the MTC user equipment registration that need to be triggered, as GSM/UMTS or E-UTRAN; MTC-IWF carries out above-mentioned decision operation according to the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of inquiry.MTC group of user equipments is generally all located at identical system.
CBS refers to that Cell Broadcast Entity (CBE, Cell Broadcast Entity) sends broadcast by CBC (CBC, Cell Broadcast Centre) to the UE in one or more communities, and CBS is unidirectional messaging services.
Concrete, the shown in Figure 3 system framework schematic diagram that sends trigger message by CBS, MTC-IWF by CBC to one group of MTC subscriber equipment (also claiming target MTC subscriber equipment) transmission group trigger message, wherein, MTC-IWF is connected to CBC, in GSM, CBC by BSC to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message, in UMTS, CBC by UTRAN to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message;
Described group of trigger message sends to all subscriber equipmenies in related cell in the mode of Cell Broadcast CB; Receive the non-target MTC subscriber equipment of this group trigger message, ignore or abandon received group trigger message; Receive the target MTC subscriber equipment of this group trigger message, to network side, send response message and communicate according to content and the MTC application server (AS) of group trigger message.
Step 103, MTC-IWF judges whether to pass through multimedia broadcast multi-broadcasting business (MBMS, Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) transmission group trigger message, if so, performs step 104; Otherwise perform step 105.
Concrete, in this step, target MTC subscriber equipment is in E-UTRAN, and MTC-IWF judges whether to have disposed MBMS service, and described judgement can be according to the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of target MTC subscriber equipment or the contextual information of this locality/other network nodes or CAMEL-Subscription-Information etc.
Step 104, MTC-IWF by MBMS to MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group corresponding to Group ID.
MBMS is a kind of technology from a data source to a plurality of targets transmission data, has realized sharing of network (comprising core net and Access Network) resource, has improved the utilance of Internet resources (especially air interface resource).Fig. 4 shows the system framework schematic diagram of MBMS.
Concrete, the shown in Figure 5 system framework schematic diagram that sends trigger message by MBMS, MTC-IWF by BM-SC to one group of MTC subscriber equipment (also claiming target MTC subscriber equipment) transmission group trigger message; Wherein, MTC-IWF is connected to BM-SC, then according to MBMS service procedure to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message;
Described group of trigger message sends to all subscriber equipmenies in related cell in the mode of MBMS; Receive the non-target MTC subscriber equipment of this group trigger message, ignore or abandon received group trigger message; Receive the target MTC subscriber equipment of this group trigger message, to network side, send response message and communicate according to content and the AS of group trigger message.
PWS refers to, by cell broadcast messages, to UE, send a warning message, as earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS, Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System), business move alerting service (CMAS, Commercial Mobile Alert Service) etc.
Concrete, the shown in Figure 6 system framework schematic diagram that sends trigger message by PWS, MTC-IWF by CBC to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message, wherein, MTC-IWF is connected to CBC, and sending CBS group trigger message to MME by CBC, MME transmission group trigger message is to target MTC subscriber equipment.
Subscriber equipment in MTC group of user equipments is generally signed in to a MTC group of user equipments, at home subscriber server (HSS, Home Subscriber Server)/attaching position register (HLR, HomeLocation Register) in, preserved the associated of MTC subscriber equipment and MTC group of user equipments, wherein MTC group of user equipments represents by group sign.MTC subscriber equipment is signed in to after group, and MTC subscriber equipment is preserved corresponding group sign.Receive the MTC subscriber equipment of group trigger message, according to the group sign in group trigger message, can judge and self whether belong to MTC equipment group corresponding to group sign, and then whether the group trigger message that judgement is received is according to this self required group trigger message.
Described group of trigger message sends to all subscriber equipmenies in related cell in the mode of broadcasting; Receive the non-target MTC subscriber equipment of this group trigger message, ignore or abandon received group trigger message; Receive the target MTC subscriber equipment of this group trigger message, to network side, send response message and communicate according to content and the AS of group trigger message.
Below in conjunction with concrete application scenarios, the method for the triggering MTC subscriber equipment of the embodiment of the present invention is further elaborated.
Embodiments of the invention one are positioned at the scene of GSM/UMTS for target MTC subscriber equipment, realize the method that triggers one group of MTC subscriber equipment, and as shown in Figure 7, the method mainly comprises:
Step 201, AS arranges group trigger message, and by SCS transmission group trigger message to MTC-IWF.
In this step, AS is positioned at outside 3GPP carrier network, within SCS is positioned at 3GPP carrier network or outside; Within MTC-IWF is positioned at 3GPP network.
Described group of triggering refers to that target MTC customer equipment identification is for group sign (Group ID), and MTC-IWF authenticates the group trigger message of receiving.
MTC-IWF is by the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of target MTC subscriber equipment or the contextual information of this locality/other network side nodes or CAMEL-Subscription-Information etc., and judgement target MTC subscriber equipment is positioned at GSM or UMTS.
Concrete, between MTC-IWF and CBC, there is interface, MTC-IWF is to CBC transmission group trigger message, and CBC is packaged into the group trigger message of receiving CBS information format and sends to described BSC.
Wherein, described BSC is the residing BSC of target MTC subscriber equipment, can be one or more.
In this step, BSC is to BTS transmission group trigger message, the group trigger message that BTS receives at target MTC subscriber equipment place Cell Broadcast CB.
MTC subscriber equipment determines whether by the Group ID of group trigger message the trigger message needing, if described MTC subscriber equipment belongs to the group of Group ID, judgement is required trigger message; Otherwise judgement is not required trigger message.
Described target MTC subscriber equipment sends response message to network side, and connects and carry out data transmit-receive according to the content of trigger message and network side.
Described MTC subscriber equipment does not belong to the group of trigger message, and described MTC subscriber equipment abandons or ignores the group trigger message of receiving.
Concrete, between MTC-IWF and CBC, there is interface, MTC-IWF is to CBC transmission group trigger message, and CBC is packaged into the group trigger message of receiving CBS information format and sends to RNC.
Wherein, described RNC is the residing RNC of target MTC subscriber equipment, can be one or more.
In this step, RNC is to Node B transmission group trigger message, the group trigger message that Node B receives at target MTC subscriber equipment place Cell Broadcast CB.
MTC subscriber equipment determines whether by the group sign of trigger message the trigger message needing.
Embodiments of the invention two are positioned at the scene of E-UTRAN for target MTC subscriber equipment, use MBMS to realize the method that triggers one group of MTC subscriber equipment trigger message, and as shown in Figure 8, the method mainly comprises:
Step 301, AS arranges group trigger message, and by SCS transmission group trigger message to MTC-IWF.
This step is identical with step 201, repeats no more here.
Described judgement is to carry out according to the contextual information of the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of target MTC subscriber equipment or this locality/other network nodes or CAMEL-Subscription-Information etc.; If MBMS service has been disposed in target MTC subscriber equipment region, MTC-IWF can pass through MBMS system transmission group trigger message.
Between MTC-IWF and BM-SC, have interface, BM-SC is packaged into MBMS data by the group trigger message of receiving and sends to BM-SC.
In this step, BM-SC passes through MBMS service procedure to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message, as shown in Figure 5 system.
MTC subscriber equipment determines whether by the group sign of group trigger message the trigger message needing.
Target MTC subscriber equipment sends response message to network side, and connects and carry out data transmit-receive according to the group content of trigger message and network side.
MTC subscriber equipment does not belong to the group of trigger message, and MTC subscriber equipment abandons or ignores the group trigger message of receiving.
Described other modes refer to the mode except MBMS service, as passed through T4 interface by short message service (SMS) transmission group trigger message.
Embodiments of the invention three are positioned at the scene of E-UTRAN for target MTC subscriber equipment, use PWS to realize the method that triggers one group of MTC subscriber equipment trigger message, and as shown in Figure 9, the method mainly comprises:
Step 401, AS arranges group trigger message, and by SCS transmission group trigger message to MTC-IWF.
This step is identical with step 201, repeats no more here.
Described judgement is to carry out according to the contextual information of the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of target MTC subscriber equipment or this locality/other network nodes or CAMEL-Subscription-Information etc.
Concrete, between MTC-IWF and CBC, there is interface, MTC-IWF is to CBC transmission group trigger message, and CBC is packaged into the group trigger message of receiving CBS information format and sends to MME by SBC interface.
Wherein, MME is the serving MME of target MTC subscriber equipment, can be one or more.
In this step, MME is to eNB transmission group trigger message, the group trigger message that eNB receives at target MTC subscriber equipment place Cell Broadcast CB.
MTC subscriber equipment determines whether by the group sign of trigger message the trigger message needing.
Target MTC subscriber equipment sends response message to network side, and connects and carry out data transmit-receive according to the group content of trigger message and network side.
MTC subscriber equipment does not belong to the group of trigger message, and MTC subscriber equipment abandons or ignores the group trigger message of receiving.
Described other modes refer to the mode except PWS, as passed through T4 interface by SMS transmission group trigger message.
In order to realize said method, the embodiment of the present invention also provides a kind of system of the MTC of triggering subscriber equipment, and as shown in figure 10, this system comprises: MTC-IWF, CBC, BM-SC, wireless access network equipment/MME, MTC subscriber equipment; Wherein,
MTC-IWF, for SCS is authenticated, also for selecting triggering mode, sends to CBC or BM-SC by the group MTC subscriber equipment trigger message receiving;
CBC, the group trigger message sending for receiving MTC-IWF, is packaged into CBS information by the group trigger message of receiving, and sends to wireless access network equipment or MME;
BM-SC, the group trigger message sending for receiving MTC-IWF, is packaged into MBMS information by the group trigger message of receiving, and sends to wireless access network equipment or MME;
Wireless access network equipment or MME, for receiving group trigger message, and send described group of trigger message by paging or broadcast mode to community, target MTC subscriber equipment place; Described wireless access network equipment comprise following at least one: BSC, BTS, RNC, NodeB, eNodeB.
MTC subscriber equipment, for receiving described group of trigger message, whether the group trigger message that judgement is received is required trigger message, when being judged as YES, to network side, sending and triggers response message; When being judged as NO, abandoning or ignore the group trigger message of receiving.
Wherein, MTC IWF comprises: system determining unit and information transmitting unit.
System determining unit, for according to group trigger message, determines the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered;
Information transmitting unit, for when determining that the residing system of MTC group of user equipments be triggered is GSM or UMTS, by CBS to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message; When determining that the residing system of MTC group of user equipments be triggered is E-UTRAN, by MBMS or public alerting service to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message.
The group sign that at least comprises the target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered in described group of trigger message, described system determining unit is further used for, according to described group of sign, search the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of target MTC group of user equipments, and determine the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered according to this.
When the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is GSM, described information transmitting unit is used for, and by the CBC CBC in GSM, to the residing base station controller BSC of target MTC subscriber equipment in group, sends described group of trigger message;
Accordingly, described BSC passes through base transceiver station BTS to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message.
When the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is UMTS, described information transmitting unit is used for, and by the CBC in GSM, to the residing radio network controller (RNC) of target MTC subscriber equipment in group, sends described group of trigger message;
Accordingly, described RNC by Node B to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message.
Describedly by MBMS, to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message, comprise:
Described information transmitting unit sends described group of trigger message to the BM-SC of broadcast multi-broadcasting-service centre;
Described BM-SC by MBMS flow process to the target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group.
Describedly by public alerting service, to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message, comprise:
Described information transmitting unit by CBC to mobile management entity MME transmission group trigger message;
The Node B of MME by evolution is to the target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group.
Based on said system, the MTC subscriber equipment that the embodiment of the present invention provides comprises: judge module and processing module.
Wherein, judge module, for receiving group trigger message, and whether the group trigger message receiving according to the group sign judgement in described group of trigger message is the required trigger message of described MTC subscriber equipment;
Processing module, when at the group trigger message that receives of judgement being the required trigger message of MTC subscriber equipment, sending response and communicates according to content and the MTC application server AS of group trigger message to network side; When the group trigger message that receives of judgement is not the required trigger message of MTC subscriber equipment, ignore the group trigger message receiving.
Preferably, judge module is further used for, and according to the group sign in described group of trigger message, judges that whether described MTC subscriber equipment belongs to MTC equipment group corresponding to group sign, if so, judges that described group of trigger message is that described MTC subscriber equipment is required; Otherwise, judge that described group of trigger message is not that described MTC subscriber equipment is required.
In sum, the embodiment of the present invention can realize and in 3GPP network, trigger a plurality of MTC subscriber equipmenies simultaneously, and has optimized triggering flow process, has reduced the shared Internet resources of trigger process.
The above, be only preferred embodiment of the present invention, is not intended to limit protection scope of the present invention.
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1. a method that triggers MTC subscriber equipment, is characterized in that, the method comprises:
Machine type communication interconnected functional blocks MTC IWF, according to group trigger message, determines the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered;
If the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is global system for mobile communications GSM or universal mobile telecommunications system UMTS, described MTC IWF sends described group of trigger message by cell broadcast service CBS to described target MTC group of user equipments;
If the UMTS Terrestrial radio access network E-UTRAN that the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is evolution, described MTC IWF sends described group of trigger message by multimedia broadcast multi-broadcasting business MBMS or public alerting service PWS to described target MTC group of user equipments.
2. trigger according to claim 1 the method for MTC subscriber equipment, it is characterized in that, in described group of trigger message, at least comprise the group sign of the target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered,
Described MTC IWF, according to described group of sign, searches the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of target MTC group of user equipments, and determines the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered according to this.
3. according to the method that triggers MTC subscriber equipment described in claim 1 or 2, it is characterized in that, when the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is GSM, described MTC IWF, comprising to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message by CBS:
MTC-IWF sends described group of trigger message by the CBC CBC in GSM to the residing base station controller BSC of target MTC subscriber equipment in group;
Described BSC passes through base transceiver station BTS to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message.
4. according to the method that triggers MTC subscriber equipment described in claim 1 or 2, it is characterized in that, when the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is UMTS, described MTC IWF, comprising to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message by CBS:
MTC-IWF sends described group of trigger message by the CBC in GSM to the residing radio network controller (RNC) of target MTC subscriber equipment in group;
Described RNC by Node B to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message.
5. according to the method that triggers MTC subscriber equipment described in claim 1 or 2, it is characterized in that, described MTC IWF, comprising to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message by MBMS:
MTC-IWF sends described group of trigger message to the BM-SC of broadcast multi-broadcasting-service centre;
Described BM-SC by MBMS flow process to the target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group.
6. according to the method that triggers MTC subscriber equipment described in claim 1 or 2, it is characterized in that, described MTC IWF, comprising to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message by public alerting service:
MTC-IWF by CBC to mobile management entity MME transmission group trigger message;
The Node B of MME by evolution is to the target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group.
7. a machine type communication interconnected functional blocks MTC IWF, is characterized in that, comprising:
System determining unit, for according to group trigger message, determines the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered;
Information transmitting unit, for when determining that the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is global system for mobile communications GSM or universal mobile telecommunications system UMTS, by cell broadcast service CBS, to described target MTC group of user equipments, send described group of trigger message; During the UMTS Terrestrial radio access network E-UTRAN that is evolution in definite residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered, by multimedia broadcast multi-broadcasting business MBMS or public alerting service, to described target MTC group of user equipments, send described group of trigger message.
8. MTC IWF according to claim 7, is characterized in that, at least comprises the group sign of the target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered in described group of trigger message,
Described system determining unit is further used for, and according to described group of sign, searches the CAMEL-Subscription-Information of target MTC group of user equipments, and determines the residing system of target MTC group of user equipments that need to be triggered according to this.
9. according to MTC IWF described in claim 7 or 8, it is characterized in that, when the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is GSM, described information transmitting unit is used for, and by the CBC CBC in GSM, to the residing base station controller BSC of target MTC subscriber equipment in group, sends described group of trigger message;
Accordingly, described BSC passes through base transceiver station BTS to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message.
10. according to MTC IWF described in claim 7 or 8, it is characterized in that, when the residing system of MTC group of user equipments being triggered is UMTS, described information transmitting unit is used for, and by the CBC in GSM, to the residing radio network controller (RNC) of target MTC subscriber equipment in group, sends described group of trigger message;
Accordingly, described RNC by Node B to target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message.
11. according to MTC IWF described in claim 7 or 8, it is characterized in that, describedly by MBMS, to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message, comprises:
Described information transmitting unit sends described group of trigger message to the BM-SC of broadcast multi-broadcasting-service centre;
Described BM-SC by MBMS flow process to the target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group.
12. according to MTC IWF described in claim 7 or 8, it is characterized in that, describedly by public alerting service, to target MTC group of user equipments transmission group trigger message, comprises:
Described information transmitting unit by CBC to mobile management entity MME transmission group trigger message;
The Node B of MME by evolution is to the target MTC subscriber equipment transmission group trigger message in group.
13. 1 kinds of MTC subscriber equipmenies, is characterized in that, comprising:
Judge module, for receiving group trigger message, and whether the group trigger message receiving according to the group sign judgement in described group of trigger message is the required trigger message of described machine type communication MTC subscriber equipment;
Processing module, when at the group trigger message that receives of judgement being the required trigger message of MTC subscriber equipment, sending response and communicates according to content and the MTC application server AS of group trigger message to network side; When the group trigger message that receives of judgement is not the required trigger message of MTC subscriber equipment, ignore the group trigger message receiving.
14. according to MTC subscriber equipment described in claim 13, it is characterized in that, described judge module is further used for, according to the group sign in described group of trigger message, judge whether described MTC subscriber equipment belongs to MTC equipment group corresponding to group sign, if so, judge that described group of trigger message is that described MTC subscriber equipment is required; Otherwise, judge that described group of trigger message is not that described MTC subscriber equipment is required.
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