FIELD: communications.
SUBSTANCE: method includes receiving by the network device of support information associated with the terminal device and sent from the terminal device, determining by the network device a target state of the terminal device to transition to according to the support information, the target state being a radio resource control (RRC) idle state, or RRC inactive state and allowing the network device to enter the target state, in which the support information contains information about the mobility state of the terminal device and / or information about the time interval of the current service of the terminal device, while determining the target state of the terminal device by the network device into which the transition is supposed to happen in accordance with support information, contains the network device determining the target state in accordance with the mobility state information and / or receival time span information.
EFFECT: provided possibility of transition of the terminal device to the target state, improved performance of the system.
9 cl, 8 dwg
