Systems and Methods For Regulating User Data Traffic in a Wireless Network

摘要

Various embodiments described herein aim to ensure that user data transmissions (e.g., small data transmissions that are sent using control plane messages) do not become excessive and stay infrequent, thereby reducing the likelihood of a network overload situation. In one embodiment, an admission control function (ACF) for regulating the transmission of uplink user data is implemented in a wireless communication device (WCD) (e.g., a CIoT device). Such a WCD device may receive from a core serving node (CSN) admittance information (AI) (e.g., parameters, such as thresholds, used by the ACF to regulate the uplink traffic) that is used in performing the admittance control.

主权项

1. A method for regulating user data traffic in a wireless network, the method comprising:
a wireless communication device (WCD) obtaining admittance information (AI) indicating at least one condition under which the WCD is admitted to transmit user data to a radio access network (RAN) node; the WCD initiating the uplink (UL) transmission of user data via the wireless network; the WCD performing admittance control with respect to said user data based on the obtained AI.