Patent ID: 11943304
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A communication apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the at least one processor and storing one or more instructions, in response to being executed by the at least one processor, cause the processor to perform operations including:
receiving a tunnel establishment request from an application function entity, wherein the tunnel establishment request is used to request establishment of a shared tunnel for transmitting data by a terminal device;
determining a tunnel configuration policy corresponding to the tunnel establishment request and a group configuration policy;
selecting a session management network element from a plurality of session management network elements based on the tunnel establishment request and the group configuration policy; and
sending the tunnel configuration policy to the session management network element, wherein the tunnel configuration policy triggers the session management network element selected from the plurality of session management network elements to establish the shared tunnel between an access network node and a user plane function network element.