Method of operating telecommunications network

• Main Authors: CUEVAS RAMIREZ MARIA, JOHNSON SIMON
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 10.11.2023
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A method of operating a telecommunications network (100) accessible by a user equipment (UE) (102) and comprising a cellular telecommunications network (104-2) and a fixed access telecommunications network (104-1), the method comprising the steps of: providing a set of user plane functions for handling user traffic of the UE, the set comprising at least two user plane functions; providing a combined user plane function (210) for handling user traffic of the UE according to the set of user plane functions; after establishing a network connection (510) between the UE and the cellular telecommunications network via the fixed access telecommunications network, identifying an inefficient route (520) of user traffic associated with the UE, the inefficient route comprising routing the user traffic to at least a set of user plane functions; in response to identifying the inefficient routing, user traffic associated with the UE is re-routed to the combined user plane function in order to process the user traffic at th