Patent ID: 11963242
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A communication method, comprising:
receiving, by a first user plane network element, a first packet from a first device, wherein the first device is a first terminal;
determining, by the first user plane network element, a user plane local area network (LAN) identifier corresponding to the first packet, wherein the user plane LAN identifier is a user plane identifier of a LAN group, wherein determining the user plane LAN identifier comprises:
determining, by the first user plane network element, flow characteristic information of the first packet, wherein the flow characteristic information comprises at least one of a session identifier, a quality of service flow identifier (QFI), or a tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID); and
determining, by the first user plane network element according to a LAN identification rule, the user plane LAN identifier corresponding to the first packet, wherein the LAN identification rule comprises a correspondence between the flow characteristic information and the user plane LAN identifier; and

sending, by the first user plane network element, the first packet to a second device based on the user plane LAN identifier and a destination address in the first packet.