A mechanism is provided to monitor and control the number of terminals (100) or number of PDU sessions for a network slice, or both. A new network function called the Network Slice Control Function (NSCF) (85) is defined that interacts with an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) (40) and/or Session Management Function (SMF) (45) to monitor and control a number of users for a network slice, a number of PDU sessions for a network slice, or both. The NSCF (85) determines per slice quotas for the number of users and/or number of session for network slices and interacts with the AMF (40) and/or SMF (45) to enforce the quotas.

A mechanism is provided to monitor and control the number of terminals (100) or number of PDU sessions for a network slice, or both. A new network function called the Network Slice Control Function (NSCF) (85) is defined that interacts with an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) (40) and/or Session Management Function (SMF) (45) to monitor and control a number of users for a network slice, a number of PDU sessions for a network slice, or both. The NSCF (85) determines per slice quotas for the number of users and/or number of session for network slices and interacts with the AMF (40) and/or SMF (45) to enforce the quotas.

Various techniques and approaches described herein may be applied to control congestion at a session management (SM) function (SMF) based on at least one back-off timer maintained at a user equipment (UE). In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE may be configured to establish a protocol data unit (PDU) session with a SMF. The UE may be configured to determine whether a back-off timer associated with the PDU session is terminated. The UE may refrain from sending, to the SMF, data over a control plane associated with the PDU session when the back-off timer is unterminated. The UE may send, to the SMF, the data over the control plane associated with the PDU session when the back-off timer is terminated.

Various techniques and approaches described herein may be applied to control congestion at a session management (SM) function (SMF) based on at least one back-off timer maintained at a user equipment (UE). In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE may be configured to establish a protocol data unit (PDU) session with a SMF. The UE may be configured to determine whether a back-off timer associated with the PDU session is terminated. The UE may refrain from sending, to the SMF, data over a control plane associated with the PDU session when the back-off timer is unterminated. The UE may send, to the SMF, the data over the control plane associated with the PDU session when the back-off timer is terminated.

Provided are procedures for initial UE registration and periodic or movement-based registration, and a communication unit to achieve management of the maximum number of UEs connected to each slice in 5GS. Furthermore, a method for managing a timer running after completion of the registration procedure, and a method of registration procedure and a communication unit for both a UE in which the timer is running and a UE in which the timer is not running are provided, thus providing a communication unit to implement functions related to the management of the maximum number of UEs connected to each slice in 5GS.

Provided are procedures for initial UE registration and periodic or movement-based registration, and a communication unit to achieve management of the maximum number of UEs connected to each slice in 5GS. Furthermore, a method for managing a timer running after completion of the registration procedure, and a method of registration procedure and a communication unit for both a UE in which the timer is running and a UE in which the timer is not running are provided, thus providing a communication unit to implement functions related to the management of the maximum number of UEs connected to each slice in 5GS.

In a 5G network, a slice controller is arranged to dynamically configure a radio access network (RAN) by allocating physical radio resources into RAN slices by making predictions of channel state information (CSI) for user equipment (UE) executing applications that make connectivity requests for admission to particular identified slices. The slice controller grants or denies admission requests based on the predicted CSI to ensure that applicable service level agreement (SLA) guarantees are satisfied for traffic across all the RAN slices. Each time new admission requests are received from applications, the slice controller determines whether a suitable RAN configuration exists that will enable SLA guarantees for the slices to continue to be satisfied for the current traffic while also meeting the SLA guarantees applicable to the new admission request.

In one embodiment, a method is provided for customization of a mobile communications device's data session retry mechanism in a wireless packet data service network. The mobile communication device requests activation of a data session with a node via the wireless network and receives a reject message via the wireless network in response to the request for activation of the data session, the reject message including a cause code. If the cause code corresponds to a no-retry behavior of the data session retry mechanism of the mobile communication device, the mobile communications device no longer requesting activation of a data session with the node.

In one embodiment, a method is provided for customization of a mobile communications device's data session retry mechanism in a wireless packet data service network. The mobile communication device requests activation of a data session with a node via the wireless network and receives a reject message via the wireless network in response to the request for activation of the data session, the reject message including a cause code. If the cause code corresponds to a no-retry behavior of the data session retry mechanism of the mobile communication device, the mobile communications device no longer requesting activation of a data session with the node.

There are provided measures for enabling/realizing efficient connection control for MUSIM devices, which are communication elements or functions involving multiple universal subscriber identity modules. Such measures exemplarily include obtaining a connection rejection and a connection request inhibition time information in response to a connection request for a first universal subscriber identity module, and applying at least part of the connection request inhibition time information for a second universal subscriber identity module for inhibiting (issuance of) a connection request for the second universal subscriber identity module.