A method and an apparatus for terminating a cellular network connection of a terminal that is connected without authentication are provided. The disclosure relates to a communication technique and a system for fusing a 4th generation (4G) system and a 5th generation (5G) communication system to support higher data rates, which is subsequent to the 4G system, with Internet-of-things (IoT) technology. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safe-related services, or the like) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.

The present disclosure provides a measurement method, user equipment, and a network side device. The method includes receiving first measurement configuration information sent by a network side device, and performing measurement in an inactive mode based on the first measurement configuration information, to obtain a measurement result, where the first measurement configuration information is used at least in the inactive mode.

A location management device function is provided in an access network, and a base station identifies and authenticates a terminal device permitted to perform base station loopback communication on the basis of identification information on the terminal device received from the terminal device. With this configuration, provided is a communication control method and the like for the base station device that has lost connectivity to a core network, to permit only specific terminals to perform base station loopback communication.

A method for setting a value of an inactivity timer for transitioning between states of a data session in a network comprising a first entity and a second entity providing network analytics is provided. The method includes obtaining, by the second entity, input data comprising communication description information for at least one user equipment (UE), and providing, by the second entity to the first entity, output analytics generated based on the input data, the output analytics comprising UE communications analytics for each data session where the output analytics are used to determining whether to update a value of an inactivity timer for a data session.

Protocol Data Unit (PDU) sessions in a communication network (10) provide logical interconnections between Data Networks (DNs) (16) and respective User Equipments (UEs) (12) that access the DNs (16) via the communication network (10), and the communication network (10) establishes one or more affiliated sessions in conjunction with each PDU session, such as an affiliated charging or policy control session. Rather than requiring the high signaling overhead associated with mass terminations of these affiliated sessions on a per session basis, the Network Functions (NFs) (32, 34, 36) contemplated herein provide for batch termination of a potentially large plurality affiliated sessions, based on the exchange of a corresponding batch termination message. Disclosed batch termination techniques include the exchange of information during session establishment, for later determination of which affiliated sessions are subject to batch termination.

Embodiments of this application provide a multicast/broadcast service communication method and an apparatus, and relate to the communication field, to reduce network resource overheads. The method is as follows: A terminal device determines a first multicast/broadcast service, where the first multicast/broadcast service is a multicast/broadcast service that the terminal device is to leave. The terminal device sends a first message, where the first message carries identification information of the first multicast/broadcast service. Embodiments of this application are applied to a mobile communication system such as 5G.

Embodiments of this application provide a multicast/broadcast service communication method and an apparatus, and relate to the communication field, to reduce network resource overheads. The method is as follows: A terminal device determines a first multicast/broadcast service, where the first multicast/broadcast service is a multicast/broadcast service that the terminal device is to leave. The terminal device sends a first message, where the first message carries identification information of the first multicast/broadcast service. Embodiments of this application are applied to a mobile communication system such as 5G.

Provided by embodiments of the present application are a session processing method and device, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining, by a MB-SMF network element, to deactivate a MBS session, and sending, via an AMF network element, an MBS session suspend request to an access network device; and receiving, by the MB-SMF network element, an MBS session suspend response from the access network device.

Provided by embodiments of the present application are a session processing method and device, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining, by a MB-SMF network element, to deactivate a MBS session, and sending, via an AMF network element, an MBS session suspend request to an access network device; and receiving, by the MB-SMF network element, an MBS session suspend response from the access network device.

In some embodiments, a network regulator device protects a local network of client systems (e.g. Internet-of-things devices such as smartphones, home appliances, wearables, etc.) against computer security threats. When introduced to the local network, some embodiments of network regulator take over some network services from a router, and automatically install the network regulator as gateway to the local network. The network regulator then carries out an automatic device discovery procedure and distribute device-specific utility agents to the protected client systems. An exemplary utility agent detects when its host device has left the local network, and in response, sets up a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel with a security server to maintain protection of the respective device.