Infrastructure equipment and method

摘要

An infrastructure equipment forming part of a mobile communications network to communicate data to/from mobile communications devices. The infrastructure equipment receives an indication of a relative type of data packets for communication via a communications bearer supporting a communications session of a mobile communications device, the indication to configure the communications bearer, to provide the communications bearer from the mobile communications device based on the indication, and to control communication of the data packets via the communications bearer based on the indication. By providing the indication, such as an indication the data packets are of low priority or are generated or received by a machine type communication application, the mobile communications network can control communication of the data packets from the communications bearer differently to data packets communicated via other communications bearer having a higher priority.

主权项

1. An infrastructure equipment for forming part of a mobile communications network for communicating data to and/or from a mobile communications device, the infrastructure equipment comprising:
circuitry configured to receive, from the mobile communications device, an indication of a relative access type of data packets to access a communications bearer configured to support a communication session of the mobile communications device, the indication of the relative access type of the data packets being used to configure the communications bearer, and the indication of the relative access type of the data packets including a device type indication and an application type indication of a relative priority of the data packets with respect to communication of data packets via one or more other communication bearers of the mobile communications network, dynamically configure the communications bearers based on the received indication, provide the dynamically configured communications bearer for communication of data with the mobile communications device in accordance with the indication of the relative access type of the data packets, and control communication of the data packets via the dynamically configured communications bearer in accordance with the relative access type of data packets communicated via the communications bearer, wherein the device type indication includes a machine-type communications (MTC) capable device indication, wherein the application type indication includes an MTC application indication, and wherein the indication of the relative access type of the data packets that includes the device type indication and the application type indication of the relative priority of the data packets is provided in an access stratum (AS) access message and a non-access stratum (NAS) access message.