Patent ID: 11877151
Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising a processor and a memory configured to:
send a session management (SM) message to a second network node for forwarding to a first network node, wherein the second network node is configured to implement a control plane (CP) Mobility Management (MM) function, wherein the first network node is configured to implement a CP SM function associated with a network slice, wherein the SM message indicates a request from the WTRU, and wherein the request from the WTRU is associated with establishment of a protocol data unit (PDU) session corresponding to the network slice; and
receive a SM response message from the first network node via a message received from the second network node, the SM response message indicating that the PDU session has been established for the WTRU for a user plane service associated with the network slice.