SEPARATION OF CONTROL PLANE AND USER PLANE IN NEW RADIO (NR) SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:EP4346332A2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-03

    申请号:EP24158242.8

    申请日:2018-06-19

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node B (gNB) are described herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes, including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-OU). The gNB-CU may comprise a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. The gNB may initiate an E1 interface setup procedure, a bearer context setup procedure, and a UE context setup procedure to establish a UE context that includes a signaling radio bearer (SRB) and a data radio bearer (DRB) configuration. The UE context setup request message may be configured to include quality-of-service parameters for the DRB configuration.

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