| CPC H04W 76/18 (2018.02) [H04W 84/042 (2013.01)] | 3 Claims |

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1. A User Equipment (UE) comprising:
transmission and reception circuitry configured to receive, from a control device, a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session establishment reject message in a PDU session establishment procedure; and
a controller configured to start a back-off timer with a back-off timer value in a case that first information and the back-off timer value are included in the PDU session establishment reject message, and in a case that no Single Network Slice Selection Assistance information (S-NSSAI) and no Data Network Name (DNN) combination was provided during the PDU session establishment procedure,
wherein
the first information is a cause value indicating insufficient resources for specific slice and DNN,
the back-off timer is a timer for S-NSSAI based congestion control, and
in a case that the first information and second information indicating whether the back-off timer being associated with the no S-NSSAI and no DNN combination that the UE provided during the PDU session establishment procedure is applied in a registered Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) or all PLMNs are included in the PDU session establishment reject message, another PDU session establishment request message or a PDU session modification request message for the same no S-NSSAI and no DNN combination is not sent in the registered PLMN or in the all PLMNs while the back-off timer is running, and
in a case that the back-off timer is deactivated and is associated with the no S-NSSAI and no DNN combination, neither a PDU session establishment procedure nor a PDU session modification procedure is allowed to be initiated.
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