GROUP COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR USE IN GROUP COMMUNICATION

摘要

A group communication method is provided, including: receiving, from a network application, a group access request that requests access to a group, where the group access request includes a group identifier of the group; obtaining group member information of all group members in the group according to the group identifier; according to the group member information, determining members of a first group that are connected to a service function entity through a same gateway in the group; and sending, to the gateway, a first group member access request that requests access to the members of the first group. In addition, a service function entity for group communication and a gateway for group communication are provided. The present invention is capable of reducing signaling overhead during group communication and thereby improving group communication efficiency.