SERVICE-BASED HOSTING NETWORK DISCOVERY AND SELECTION

Abstract: there is provided a method performed by a user equipment, ue, for allowing the ue to use a localized service in a hosting network, the method comprising: receiving, via a first network connection with a serving network, configuration information, the configuration information specifying the serving network and including a traffic routing policy rule comprising a traffic descriptor for identifying traffic of the localized service to be routed via the hosting network; detecting that a traffic flow matches the traffic routing policy rule; responsive to detecting that the traffic flow matches the traffic routing policy rule, selecting the hosting network; and establishing a second network connection with the hosting network.

Inventor(s): Genadi Vasilev Velev, Apostolis Salkintzis, Dimitrios Karampatsis

CPC Classification: H04W48/18 (Selecting a network or a communication service)

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