IP Library Granted Patent US 12,289,648
Granted Patent B2
US 12,289,648 · App. 17/922,616 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Network slice reselection method and device, electronic device and storage medium

Inventor: Haicheng Yang (Guangdong, CN)
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
H04W36/14H04W36/24H04W36/38
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Patent No.
US 12,289,648
App. No.
17/922,616
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a network slice reselection method, including: receiving a message sent from a network side for a currently selected network slice, and reselecting a network slice; and a reason carried by the message is insufficient resource. The present disclosure further provides a network slice reselection device, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium.

Claims (35)

1. A network slice reselection method, comprising:

receiving a message sent from a network side for a currently selected network slice;

identifying a User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP) rule corresponding to the currently selected network slice as unavailable; and

reselecting a network slice, wherein a reason carried by the message is insufficient resource,

wherein identifying the URSP rule corresponding to the currently selected network slice as unavailable comprises:

identifying the URSP rule corresponding to the currently selected network slice as unavailable within a preset period of time; and

after the preset period of time ends, removing identification of unavailable of the URSP rule; or, after the preset period of time ends, identifying the URSP rule as available.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein reselecting the network slice comprises: finding a matched URSP rule which is not identified as unavailable in a first list of URSP rules or finding a matched URSP rule which is identified as available in the first list of URSP rules, and reselecting a network slice corresponding to the matched available URSP rule.

3. The method of claim 2 , after reselecting the network slice corresponding to the matched available URSP rule, further comprising:

detecting whether network congestion happens to a network slice corresponding to the URSP rule identified as unavailable; and

removing identification of unavailable of the URSP rule or identifying the URSP rule as available when it is detected that no network congestion happens to the network slice corresponding to the URSP rule identified as unavailable.

4. An electronic device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory having at least one program stored thereon, wherein, when the at least one program is executed by the at least one processor, the at least one processor is caused to implement the network slice reselection method of claim 2 .

5. An electronic device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory having at least one program stored thereon, wherein, when the at least one program is executed by the at least one processor, the at least one processor is caused to implement the network slice reselection method of claim 3 .

6. The method of claim 1 , when a matched available URSP rule is not found in a first list of URSP rules, reselecting the network slice further comprises:

reselecting a network slice corresponding to an available URSP rule in a second list of URSP rules;

wherein the first list of URSP rules is a list of URSP rules corresponding to a card which currently performs service processing, and the second list of URSP rules is a list of URSP rules corresponding to a card which does not currently perform service processing.

7. An electronic device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory having at least one program stored thereon, wherein, when the at least one program is executed by the at least one processor, the at least one processor is caused to implement the network slice reselection method of claim 6 .

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message comprises any one of:

a Protocol Data Unit Session Establishment Reject message, a Protocol Data Unit Session Modification Reject message, and a Protocol Data Unit Session Release message.

9. An electronic device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory having at least one program stored thereon, wherein, when the at least one program is executed by the at least one processor, the at least one processor is caused to implement the network slice reselection method of claim 1 .

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to implement the network slice reselection method of claim 1 .

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reselection of the network slice is achieved by finding a matched available User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP) rule in a list of URSP rules.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the list of URSP rules comprises: a pre-configured list of URSP rules, and a list of URSP rules updated by a network side.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein a priority level of the list of URSP rules updated by the network side is higher than that of the pre-configured list of URSP rules.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the matched available URSP rule is found in the list of URSP rules according to a network slice parameter of an application, so as to obtain Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI) of the network slice.

15. The method of claim 14 , the network slice parameter comprises at least one of: Data Network Name (DNN), application identifier or Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN).

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the S-NSSAI comprises: Slice/Service Type (SST) and Slice Differentiator (SD).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 1, 2022
From: YANG, HAICHENG
To: ZTE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061606/0843 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202010487424.0 · Jun 1, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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