An exemplary communication method and system is disclosed. The system may be configured to create a mesh network of nodes for routing and/or rerouting data communications depending on the integrity of or demands on the system to improve efficiency and transmission confidence. The system may be configured to redundantly, simultaneously send data transmissions on different transmission interfaces using different transmission protocols.

An exemplary communication method and system is disclosed. The system may be configured to create a mesh network of nodes for routing and/or rerouting data communications depending on the integrity of or demands on the system to improve efficiency and transmission confidence. The system may be configured to redundantly, simultaneously send data transmissions on different transmission interfaces using different transmission protocols.

A user equipment (UE) reduces power consumption by selectively disconnecting from a radio access network (RAN) while in a non-standalone (NSA) mode in response to detecting a threshold number of communication failures associated with the RAN. The UE connects to a core network in the NSA mode via both a 4G RAN and a 5G RAN. The UE monitors the connection with the 5G RAN for communication failures, such as Random Access Channel (RACH) failures, radio link failures (RLFs), and the like. In response to the number of detected failures exceeding a threshold, the UE can determine that the quality of the connection with the 5G RAN is providing relatively little benefit and can terminate the connection with the 5G RAN.

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5.sup.th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5.sup.th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.

The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and to a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.), based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method for a user equipment in a first communication system according to the present invention comprises a user equipment in an inactive state: transmits a paging area update request message; checks whether a timer associated with a paging area update has expired; and transitions into an idle state if a response message for the paging area update request message has not been received until the timer expired.

This application discloses a service data transmission method and apparatus, a terminal, and a base station. The service data transmission method includes: performing sending and/or receiving of service data according to SL and WLAN interworking configuration information.

An aggregation configuration method and apparatus, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: sending first aggregation configuration information to a second terminal, where the first aggregation configuration information is used for configuring an aggregation operation aggregating a sidelink (SL) between the first terminal and the second terminal with another access technology.

A method for session method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, first information to a first network device, wherein the first indication is used for requesting for establishing a packet data network (PDN) connection; receiving, by the terminal device, second information from the network device, wherein the second information indicates that the request, initiated by the terminal device, for establishing the PDN connection is accepted, the second information includes first indication information for indicating whether a protocol data unit (PDU) session corresponding to the PDN connection supports multi-access (MA) after the terminal devices moves from a 4.sup.th-generation (4G) network to a 5.sup.th-generation (5G) network, and the PDU session, if supporting the MA, is able to implement data transmission with a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) network and a non-3GPP network simultaneously.

A method of handling interworking from 5G system (5GS) to 2/3G for an PDU session with a 3GPP EPS PDN leg is proposed. Upon intersystem change from S1 mode to A/Gb mode or Iu mode, for a PDN connection which was established as a user plane resource of an MA PDU session: if the SM activates a PDP context using parameters from the default EPS bearer context of the PDN connection, then the SMF can initiate a network-requested PDU session release procedure over non-3GPP access or perform a local release of the MA PDU session; the UE can perform a local release of the MA PDU session. Otherwise, the SMF can initiate a network-requested PDU session modification procedure over 5G non-3GPP access to move traffic of the MA PDU session to 5G non-3GPP access, or initiate a network-requested PDU session release procedure over non-3GPP access.