METHOD AND NETWORK ELEMENT FOR CONTROLLING UE'S STATE TRANSITION IN PROXIMITY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

摘要

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for controlling state transition of a user equipment UE in proximity wireless communication. A method can comprise: learning about an associated agent's context of a connected UE and said UE's capability; deciding to put the connected UE into virtual associated state; sending to said UE a message with indication of putting said UE into said virtual associated state as well as the UE's context; and maintaining said associated agent's context of the UE.