LIGHTWEIGHT FRAGMENTATION AND RELIABILITY FOR FIXED MOBILE CONVERGENCE ACCESS STRATUM AND NON-ACCESS STRATUM SIGNALING

摘要

A method is provided to implement a fragmentation mechanism for a session between a 5G-RG and access gateway function (AGF) communicating over point to point protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) that encapsulates control messages, where the 5G-RG or the AGF is a sender of a message. The method includes receiving the message to be sent that does not fit within a maximum transmission unit for the session, generating a first fragment of the message and a second fragment of the message, and sending the first fragment of the message and the second fragment of the message to a receiver, the second fragment including metadata with a length, and cyclic redundancy check.