CN116887443A

CN116887443A - Personal networking communication method, device, equipment and storage medium

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Publication number: CN116887443A
Application number: CN202310868600.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张钰滢
Original assignee: China Telecom Technology Innovation Center; China Telecom Corp Ltd
Current assignee: China Telecom Technology Innovation Center; China Telecom Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2023-07-14
Filing date: 2023-07-14
Publication date: 2023-10-13

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a personal internet of things communication method, device, equipment and storage medium, and relates to the field of communication.

Description

Personal networking communication method, device, equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the field of wireless communication, and in particular relates to a personal internet of things communication method, device, equipment and storage medium.

Background

With the development of society, the current era of intellectualization has been entered. In the intelligence era, personal intelligent devices are increasingly used. In order to associate personal intelligent devices, the related art adopts the internet of things technology to jointly form a plurality of personal intelligent devices into personal networking (Personal IoT Network, PIN). In the personal internet of things, a plurality of personal internet of things devices (PINs) can only access 5GS through a personal internet of things gateway (PIN Element with Gateway Capability, PEGC). But devices outside the personal networking gateway are not able to communicate with each other.

Disclosure of Invention

The disclosure provides a personal Internet of things communication method, a system, a device, equipment and a storage medium, which at least overcome the problem that the Internet of things equipment in the current personal Internet of things is difficult to communicate with each other to a certain extent.

Other features and advantages of the present disclosure will be apparent from the following detailed description, or may be learned in part by the practice of the disclosure.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a personal internet of things method applied to an SMF network element, including:

receiving a session management request sent by an AMF network element, wherein the session management request comprises DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to a PDU session, and the PDU session is established based on a PINE communication request of personal Internet of things equipment;

judging whether a plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU session to obtain a judging result;

and carrying out traffic route forwarding on the plurality of PDU sessions based on the judging result.

In one embodiment of the present disclosure, traffic routing forwarding a plurality of PDU sessions based on the determination result includes:

and if the judging result indicates that the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PSA UPF, carrying out local exchange on the plurality of PDU sessions based on the same PSA UPF.

and if the judging result indicates that the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by different PSA UPFs, determining PSA UPFs corresponding to the plurality of PDU sessions respectively, and forwarding the traffic of the plurality of PDU sessions by routing based on N19 tunnels among the plurality of PSA UPFs.

and if the judging result indicates that the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by different PSA UPFs, determining PSA UPFs corresponding to the plurality of PDU sessions respectively, and forwarding the flow of the plurality of PDU sessions by route based on N6 interfaces and DNs corresponding to the plurality of PSA UPFs respectively.

and providing the N4 session, the control parameters corresponding to the N4 session and the judging result for the UPF network element, so that the UPF network element carries out flow route forwarding on the PDU sessions based on the judging result.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a personal internet of things communication method applied to a personal internet of things gateway PEGC, including:

under the condition that the connection of the personal internet of things equipment PINE is detected, establishing a PDU session;

and sending a session management request to the SMF network element through the AMF network element so that the SMF network element judges whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF to obtain a judging result, and carrying out flow routing forwarding on the plurality of PDU sessions based on the judging result.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a personal internet of things communication apparatus applied to an SMF network element, including:

the receiving module is used for receiving a session management request sent by the AMF network element, wherein the session management request comprises DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to a PDU session, and the PDU session is established based on a PINE communication request of personal Internet of things equipment;

the judging module is used for judging whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU sessions to obtain a judging result;

and the association module is used for forwarding the traffic route of the plurality of PDU sessions based on the judgment result.

In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an association module includes:

and the switching unit is used for carrying out local switching on the plurality of PDU sessions based on the same PSA UPF when the judging result indicates that the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PSA UPF.

In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an association module includes:

and the first forwarding unit is used for determining the PSA UPFs corresponding to the PDU sessions respectively and forwarding the PDU session traffic by routing based on the N19 tunnels among the PSA UPFs when the judging result indicates that the PDU sessions are processed by different PSA UPFs.

In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an association module includes:

and the second forwarding unit is used for determining the PSA UPFs corresponding to the PDU sessions respectively when the judging result indicates that the PDU sessions are processed by different PSA UPFs, and forwarding the PDU session traffic by routing based on the N6 interfaces and DN corresponding to the PSA UPFs respectively.

In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an association module includes:

and the sending unit is used for providing the N4 session, the control parameters corresponding to the N4 session and the judging result for the UPF network element so that the UPF network element carries out traffic route forwarding on the PDU sessions based on the judging result.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a personal internet of things communication apparatus applied to a personal internet of things gateway PEGC, including:

the establishing module is used for establishing a PDU session under the condition that the establishment of connection of the personal Internet of things equipment PINE is detected;

and the sending module is used for sending a session management request to the SMF network element through the AMF network element so that the SMF network element judges whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF to obtain a judging result, and carrying out traffic route forwarding on the plurality of PDU sessions based on the judging result.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an electronic apparatus including: a processor; and a memory for storing executable instructions of the processor; wherein the processor is configured to perform the personal internet of things communication method described above via execution of the executable instructions.

According to yet another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the person networking communication method described above.

According to the character networking communication method provided by the embodiment of the disclosure, the session management request sent by the AMF network element is received, whether a plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF is judged based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU sessions, a judgment result is obtained, the PDU sessions are forwarded in a flow route based on the judgment result, and communication among different personal Internet of things devices is realized by establishing the PDU session flow route forwarding.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the disclosure and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure. It will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that the drawings in the following description are merely examples of the disclosure and that other drawings may be derived from them without undue effort.

FIG. 1 illustrates a personal Internet of things communication system architecture diagram in an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 illustrates a flowchart of a communication method of a personal internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of another method for communication of the personal Internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic flow chart of another method for communication of the personal Internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a schematic flow chart of a communication method of the personal Internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a flow chart illustrating a further method of personal Internet of things communication in an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a schematic flow chart of a communication method of the personal Internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a flow chart illustrating a method of communication for a personal Internet of things in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 9 illustrates a schematic diagram of a personal internet of things communication device in an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 10 illustrates another personal Internet of things communication device schematic diagram in an embodiment of the present disclosure; and

fig. 11 shows a block diagram of an electronic device in an embodiment of the disclosure.

Detailed Description

Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the exemplary embodiments may be embodied in many forms and should not be construed as limited to the examples set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of the example embodiments to those skilled in the art. The described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.

Furthermore, the drawings are merely schematic illustrations of the present disclosure and are not necessarily drawn to scale. The same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same or similar parts, and thus a repetitive description thereof will be omitted. Some of the block diagrams shown in the figures are functional entities and do not necessarily correspond to physically or logically separate entities. These functional entities may be implemented in software or in one or more hardware modules or integrated circuits or in different networks and/or processor devices and/or microcontroller devices.

It should be understood that the various steps recited in the method embodiments of the present disclosure may be performed in a different order and/or performed in parallel. Furthermore, method embodiments may include additional steps and/or omit performing the illustrated steps. The scope of the present disclosure is not limited in this respect.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in this disclosure are merely used to distinguish between different devices, modules, or units and are not used to define an order or interdependence of functions performed by the devices, modules, or units.

It should be noted that references to "one", "a plurality" and "a plurality" in this disclosure are intended to be illustrative rather than limiting, and those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that "one or more" is intended to be understood as "one or more" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

In order to solve the above problems, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium for personal internet of things communication.

For ease of understanding, the embodiments of the present disclosure will first be described with respect to a personal internet of things communication system.

Fig. 1 illustrates a personal internet of things communication system architecture diagram in an embodiment of the present disclosure.

As shown in fig. 1, the personal internet of things communication system may include: an SMF network element 102 and a person networking gateway PEGC 104;

the PEGC 104 is configured to establish a PDU session when detecting that the personal internet of things device pin establishes a connection; the session management request is sent to the SMF network element 102 by the AMF network element.

The SMF network element 102 is configured to receive a session management request sent by the AMF network element, where the session management request includes DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to a PDU session, and the PDU session is a session established based on a PINE communication request of the personal Internet of things device; judging whether a plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU session to obtain a judging result; and carrying out traffic route forwarding on the plurality of PDU sessions based on the judging result.

In some embodiments, the personal internet of things communication system may further include:

the AMF network element is configured to receive a session management request sent by the PEGC 104. And sends the session management request to the SMF network element 102.

In some embodiments, the personal internet of things communication system may further include: the UPF network element is configured to receive the N4 session and the control parameters and the judgment result corresponding to the N4 session sent by the SMF network element 102, establish the N4 session based on the received N4 session and the control parameters and the judgment result corresponding to the N4 session sent by the SMF network element 102, and perform N4 session configuration based on the N4 session.

According to the character networking communication system provided by the embodiment of the disclosure, through receiving a session management request sent by an AMF network element, judging whether a plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU sessions, obtaining a judgment result, then carrying out flow routing forwarding on the plurality of PDU sessions based on the judgment result, and realizing communication among different personal Internet of things equipment by establishing PDU session flow routing forwarding.

The following describes a communication method applied to the personal area communication system.

Fig. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a communication method of a personal internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure.

It should be noted that, the personal internet of things communication method in the embodiment of the disclosure is applied to an SMF network element.

As shown in fig. 2, the personal internet of things communication method may include:

s210, receiving a session management request sent by an AMF network element, wherein the session management request comprises DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to a PDU session, and the PDU session is established based on a PINE communication request of personal Internet of things equipment.

In some embodiments, the session management request sent by the AMF network element is established by the PEGC upon detecting that the pin establishes a connection.

In some embodiments, there may be multiple session management requests.

S220, judging whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU sessions, and obtaining a judging result.

And S230, carrying out traffic route forwarding on the plurality of PDU sessions based on the judging result.

Fig. 3 illustrates another schematic diagram of a communication method of the personal internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in fig. 3, the personal internet of things communication method may include:

s310, receiving a session management request sent by an AMF network element, wherein the session management request comprises DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to a PDU session, and the PDU session is established based on a PINE communication request of personal Internet of things equipment.

S320, judging whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU sessions, and obtaining a judging result.

And S330, if the judging result indicates that the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PSA UPF, the plurality of PDU sessions are subjected to local exchange based on the same PSA UPF.

In some embodiments, the local exchange may include local switching.

Fig. 4 illustrates a schematic diagram of still another communication method of the personal internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in fig. 4, the personal internet of things communication method may include:

s410, receiving a session management request sent by an AMF network element, wherein the session management request comprises DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to a PDU session, and the PDU session is established based on a PINE communication request of personal Internet of things equipment.

S420, judging whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU sessions, and obtaining a judging result.

And S430, determining PSA UPFs corresponding to the PDU sessions respectively when the judging result indicates that the PDU sessions are processed by different PSA UPFs, and forwarding the PDU session traffic by routing based on N19 tunnels among the PSA UPFs.

Fig. 5 shows a schematic diagram of still another communication method of the personal internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in fig. 5, the personal internet of things communication method may include:

s510, receiving a session management request sent by an AMF network element, wherein the session management request comprises DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to a PDU session, and the PDU session is established based on a PINE communication request of personal Internet of things equipment.

S520, judging whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU sessions, and obtaining a judging result.

And S530, when the judging result indicates that the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by different PSA UPFs, determining the PSA UPFs corresponding to the plurality of PDU sessions respectively, and forwarding the plurality of PDU session traffic routes based on N19 tunnels among the plurality of PSA UPFs.

Fig. 6 shows a schematic diagram of still another communication method of the personal internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in fig. 6, the personal internet of things communication method may include:

s610, receiving a session management request sent by an AMF network element, wherein the session management request comprises DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to a PDU session, and the PDU session is established based on a PINE communication request of personal Internet of things equipment.

S620, judging whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU session, and obtaining a judging result.

And S630, when the judging result indicates that the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by different PSA UPFs, determining PSA UPFs corresponding to the plurality of PDU sessions respectively, and forwarding the flow routes of the plurality of PDU sessions based on N6 interfaces and DNs corresponding to the plurality of PSA UPFs respectively.

Fig. 7 shows a schematic diagram of still another communication method of the personal internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in fig. 7, the personal internet of things communication method may include:

s710, receiving a session management request sent by an AMF network element, wherein the session management request comprises DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to a PDU session, and the PDU session is established based on a PINE communication request of personal Internet of things equipment.

S720, judging whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU sessions, and obtaining a judging result.

And S730, providing the N4 session, the control parameters corresponding to the N4 session and the judging result for the UPF network element, so that the UPF network element carries out flow route forwarding on the PDU sessions based on the judging result.

In some embodiments, the SMF may perform user plane management of the PIN for personal internet of things PIN traffic forwarding through N4 session management.

In some embodiments, the control parameters corresponding to the N4 session may include a packet detection rule (Packet Detection Rules, PDR) and a forwarding behavior rule (Forwarding Action Rules, FAR), where it is to be noted that a packet forwarding network instance in the packet detection rule and the forwarding behavior rule needs to be set to a PIN value.

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the disclosure also provides a personal internet of things communication method, such as the following embodiment. Since the principle of solving the problem of this method embodiment is similar to that of the above method embodiment, the implementation of this method embodiment may refer to the implementation of the above method embodiment, and the repetition is not repeated.

Fig. 8 illustrates a schematic diagram of yet another method for communication of the personal internet of things in an embodiment of the disclosure.

It should be noted that, the personal internet of things communication method in the embodiment of the present disclosure is applied to PEGC.

As shown in fig. 8, the personal internet of things communication method may include:

s810, establishing a PDU session under the condition that the establishment of connection of personal Internet of things equipment PINE is detected;

s820, sending a session management request to the SMF network element through the AMF network element so that the SMF network element judges whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF to obtain a judging result, and forwarding the plurality of PDU sessions in a flow route based on the judging result.

Based on the same inventive concept, a communication device is also provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, such as the following embodiments. Since the principle of solving the problem of the embodiment of the device is similar to that of the embodiment of the method, the implementation of the embodiment of the device can be referred to the implementation of the embodiment of the method, and the repetition is omitted.

Fig. 9 shows a schematic diagram of a personal internet of things communication device in an embodiment of the disclosure.

It should be noted that, the personal internet of things communication device in the embodiment of the disclosure is applied to an SMF network element

As shown in fig. 9, the personal internet of things communication apparatus 900 may include:

a receiving module 910, configured to receive a session management request sent by an AMF network element, where the session management request includes DNN/S-nsai corresponding to a PDU session, where the PDU session is a session established based on a pin communication request of a personal internet of things device;

a judging module 920, configured to judge whether the multiple PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on the DNN/S-nsai corresponding to the PDU session, to obtain a judging result;

and the association module 930 is configured to forward traffic routes for the multiple PDU sessions based on the determination result.

According to the character networking communication device provided by the embodiment of the disclosure, the session management request sent by the AMF network element is received, whether a plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF is judged based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU sessions, a judgment result is obtained, the PDU sessions are forwarded in a flow route based on the judgment result, and communication among different personal Internet of things devices is realized by establishing the PDU session flow route forwarding.

In some embodiments, the association module comprises:

Fig. 10 shows a schematic diagram of a personal internet of things communication device in an embodiment of the disclosure.

It should be noted that the personal internet of things communication device in the embodiment of the present disclosure is applied to PEGC.

As shown in fig. 10, the personal internet of things communication apparatus 1000 may include:

an establishing module 1010, configured to establish a PDU session when it is detected that the personal internet of things device pin establishes a connection;

and a sending module 1020, configured to send a session management request to the SMF network element through the AMF network element, so that the SMF network element determines whether the multiple PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF, obtains a determination result, and forwards the multiple PDU sessions in a traffic route based on the determination result.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the various aspects of the present disclosure may be implemented as a system, method, or program product. Accordingly, various aspects of the disclosure may be embodied in the following forms, namely: an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, micro-code, etc.) or an embodiment combining hardware and software aspects may be referred to herein as a "circuit," module "or" system.

An electronic device 1100 according to such an embodiment of the present disclosure is described below with reference to fig. 11. The electronic device 1100 shown in fig. 11 is merely an example and should not be construed as limiting the functionality and scope of use of the disclosed embodiments.

As shown in fig. 11, the electronic device 1100 is embodied in the form of a general purpose computing device. Components of electronic device 1100 may include, but are not limited to: the at least one processing unit 1110, the at least one memory unit 1120, a bus 1130 connecting the different system components, including the memory unit 1120 and the processing unit 1110.

Wherein the storage unit stores program code that is executable by the processing unit 1110 such that the processing unit 1110 performs steps according to various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure described in the above-described "exemplary methods" section of the present specification. For example, the processing unit 1110 may perform the following steps of the method embodiment described above:

and carrying out traffic route forwarding on the plurality of PDU sessions based on the judging result. The method comprises the steps of,

The storage unit 1120 may include a readable medium in the form of a volatile storage unit, such as a Random Access Memory (RAM) 11201 and/or a cache memory 11202, and may further include a Read Only Memory (ROM) 11203.

The storage unit 1120 may also include a program/utility 11204 having a set (at least one) of program modules 11205, such program modules 11205 including, but not limited to: an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, and program data, each or some combination of which may include an implementation of a network environment.

The bus 1130 may be a local bus representing one or more of several types of bus structures, including a memory unit bus or memory unit controller, a peripheral bus, an accelerated graphics port, a processing unit, or a bus using any of a variety of bus architectures.

The electronic device 1100 may also communicate with one or more external devices 1140 (e.g., keyboard, pointing device, bluetooth device, etc.), one or more devices that enable a user to interact with the electronic device 1100, and/or any devices (e.g., routers, modems, etc.) that enable the electronic device 1100 to communicate with one or more other computing devices. Such communication may occur through an input/output (I/O) interface 1150. Also, electronic device 1100 can communicate with one or more networks such as a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or a public network, such as the Internet, through network adapter 1160. As shown, network adapter 1160 communicates with other modules of electronic device 1100 via bus 1130. It should be appreciated that although not shown, other hardware and/or software modules may be used in connection with electronic device 1100, including, but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, data backup storage systems, and the like.

From the above description of embodiments, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that the example embodiments described herein may be implemented in software, or may be implemented in software in combination with the necessary hardware. Thus, the technical solution according to the embodiments of the present disclosure may be embodied in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a non-volatile storage medium (may be a CD-ROM, a U-disk, a mobile hard disk, etc.) or on a network, including several instructions to cause a computing device (may be a personal computer, a server, a terminal device, or a network device, etc.) to perform the method according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a computer-readable storage medium, which may be a readable signal medium or a readable storage medium, is also provided. On which a program product is stored which enables the implementation of the method described above of the present disclosure. In some possible implementations, various aspects of the disclosure may also be implemented in the form of a program product comprising program code for causing a terminal device to carry out the steps according to the various exemplary embodiments of the disclosure as described in the "exemplary methods" section of this specification, when the program product is run on the terminal device.

More specific examples of the computer readable storage medium in the present disclosure may include, but are not limited to: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

In this disclosure, a computer readable storage medium may include a data signal propagated in baseband or as part of a carrier wave, with readable program code embodied therein. Such a propagated data signal may take any of a variety of forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. A readable signal medium may also be any readable medium that is not a readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

Alternatively, the program code embodied on a computer readable storage medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to wireless, wireline, optical fiber cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

In particular implementations, the program code for carrying out operations of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, C++ or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computing device, partly on the user's device, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computing device, partly on a remote computing device, or entirely on the remote computing device or server. In the case of remote computing devices, the remote computing device may be connected to the user computing device through any kind of network, including a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN), or may be connected to an external computing device (e.g., connected via the Internet using an Internet service provider).

It should be noted that although in the above detailed description several modules or units of a device for action execution are mentioned, such a division is not mandatory. Indeed, the features and functionality of two or more modules or units described above may be embodied in one module or unit in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. Conversely, the features and functions of one module or unit described above may be further divided into a plurality of modules or units to be embodied.

Furthermore, although the steps of the methods in the present disclosure are depicted in a particular order in the drawings, this does not require or imply that the steps must be performed in that particular order or that all illustrated steps be performed in order to achieve desirable results. Additionally or alternatively, certain steps may be omitted, multiple steps combined into one step to perform, and/or one step decomposed into multiple steps to perform, etc.

From the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that the example embodiments described herein may be implemented in software, or may be implemented in software in combination with the necessary hardware. Thus, the technical solution according to the embodiments of the present disclosure may be embodied in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a non-volatile storage medium (may be a CD-ROM, a U-disk, a mobile hard disk, etc.) or on a network, including several instructions to cause a computing device (may be a personal computer, a server, a mobile terminal, or a network device, etc.) to perform the method according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure disclosed herein. This disclosure is intended to cover any adaptations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following the general principles of the disclosure and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

Claims

1. The communication method of the personal Internet of things is characterized by being applied to an SMF network element and comprising the following steps:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the forwarding traffic routes for the plurality of PDU sessions based on the determination result comprises:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the forwarding traffic routes for the plurality of PDU sessions based on the determination result comprises:

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the forwarding traffic routes for the plurality of PDU sessions based on the determination result comprises:

and when the judging result indicates that the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by different PSA UPFs, determining PSA UPFs corresponding to the plurality of PDU sessions respectively, and forwarding the flow of the plurality of PDU sessions by route based on N6 interfaces and DNs corresponding to the plurality of PSA UPFs respectively.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the forwarding traffic routes for the plurality of PDU sessions based on the determination result comprises:

and providing the N4 session, the control parameters corresponding to the N4 session and the judging result for the UPF network element, so that the UPF network element carries out flow route forwarding on a plurality of PDU sessions based on the judging result.

6. The personal Internet of things communication method is characterized by being applied to a personal Internet of things gateway PEGC and comprising the following steps:

7. A personal internet of things communication device, applied to an SMF network element, comprising:

the receiving module is used for receiving a session management request sent by an AMF network element, wherein the session management request comprises DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to a PDU session, and the PDU session is established based on a PINE communication request of personal Internet of things equipment;

the judging module is used for judging whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF based on DNN/S-NSSAI corresponding to the PDU session to obtain a judging result;

8. The utility model provides a personal internet of things communication device which is characterized in that is applied to personal networking gateway PEGC, includes:

and the sending module is used for sending a session management request to the SMF network element through the AMF network element so that the SMF network element judges whether the plurality of PDU sessions are processed by the same PDU session anchor PSA UPF to obtain a judging result, and carries out traffic routing forwarding on the plurality of PDU sessions based on the judging result.

9. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory for storing executable instructions of the processor;

wherein the processor is configured to perform the personal internet of things communication method of any of claims 1-6 via execution of the executable instructions.

10. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program, characterized in that the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the personal internet of things communication method of any of claims 1-6.