US 12,149,939 B2
Communication system
Priya Darshini, Surrey (GB); Chadi Khirallah, Surrey (GB); Sadafuku Hayashi, Tokyo (JP); Jagdeep Ahluwalia Singh, Surrey (GB); and Neeraj Gupta, Surrey (GB)
Assigned to NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/442,841
Filed by NEC Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 24, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/012918
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/203446, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1904883 (GB), filed on Apr. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0353687 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 12/106 (2021.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 12/106 (2021.01) [H04L 5/0071 (2013.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a base station comprising a central unit (CU), and one or more distributed units (DUs) for handling a user-plane transmission for a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
obtaining, for a Data Radio Bearer (DRB), an integrity protected data rate for a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session associated with the UE; and
sending information identifying the integrity protected data rate, from the CU to at least one DU, when setting up or modifying a user context associated with the UE,
wherein the information identifying the integrity protected data rate comprises an information element identifying a bit rate at a DRB level for a uplink integrity protected data transmission.