CPC H04W 8/087 (2013.01) [H04W 76/10 (2018.02)] | 9 Claims |
1. A method comprising:
providing a Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) session at a User Equipment (UE) level, wherein the UE level is different from a Packet Data Network (PDN) level, for a Serving Gateway (SGW);
anchoring, by the SGW, the UE session at a session manager at the SGW, the session manager instantiating a data structure including information about the UE and about UE sessions for the UE with multiple PDNs;
handling, by the SGW, buffering of Idle UE and UE Active-to-Idle transitions for the UE sessions;
using, by the SGW, a single PFCP session for the UE sessions across the multiple PDNs; and
using, by the SGW, a same Buffering Action Rule (BAR) for all PDNs associated with the UE sessions.
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