PDN connection management method and network entity

1. A method for managing a packet data network (PDN) connection, the method performed by a packet data network gateway (P-GW) and comprising:

establishing, by the P-GW, a first-type PDN connection with a user equipment; (UE),

wherein the first-type PDN connection is established based on internet protocol (IP) version six (6) and is established with an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS);

after establishing the first-type PDN connection, receiving, by the P-GW, dummy data from a proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF) in the IMS,

recognizing, by the P-GW, that a failure occurred in the first-type PDN connection of the IP version six (6) with the IMS, based on the dummy data;

determining, by the P-GW, whether normal data is received through the first-type PDN connection or IMS signaling is received through the first-type PDN connection; and

transmitting, by the P-GW, a delete bearer request message to a mobility management entity (MME) to perform a bearer deactivation procedure, based on (i) the recognition of the failure that occurred in the first-type PDN connection of IP version six (6) and (ii) that the IMS signaling is received through the first-type PDN connection of IP version six (6),

wherein the delete bearer request message comprises information representing the occurrence of the failure in the first-type PDN connection of IP version six (6).

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the recognition of a failure is based on a configuration, changed and set by an operator.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether the normal data is received or the IMS signaling is received is performed based on a specific access point name (APN) and a quality of service class identifier (QCI) of a default bearer.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving information representing the occurrence of the failure in the first-type PDN connection from a P-CSCF via a policy and a charging rule function (PCRF),

wherein the recognition of the failure is based on a reception of the information.

5. A management method performed by an entity in charge of a control plane in an evolved packet system (EPS), the method comprising:

receiving information representing an occurrence of a failure in a first-type network;

detecting the occurrence of the failure in the first-type network based on the information;

transmitting a modify bearer request message to a PDN-gateway (P-GW) which has established a packet data network (PDN) connection with a user equipment (UE), based on the occurrence of the failure in the first-type network,

wherein the first-type PDN connection is established based on internet protocol (IP) version six (6) and is established via the first-type network with an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS);

receiving a modify bearer response message, based on (i) the the detection of the failure and (ii) that IMS signaling needs to be transceived in the first-type network,

wherein the response message, from the P-GW, includes address information of a second-type network; and

transmitting the address information of the second-type network to the UE.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the modify bearer response message comprises updated PDN context information.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the address information of the second-type network comprises a second-type address allocated for the UE and a second-type address of a P-CSCF.