Invention Grant
- Patent Title: WLAN termination U-plane relocation without C-plane relocation
-
Application No.: US15779184Application Date: 2016-01-15
-
Publication No.: US11265777B2Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- Inventor: Jari Pekka Mustajarvi , Janne Petteri Tervonen
- Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- Agency: Harrington & Smith
- International Application: PCT/US2016/013601 WO 20160115
- International Announcement: WO2017/123244 WO 20170720
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W72/12 ; H04W92/10 ; H04W92/18 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
A control-plane interface is established between a cellular radio access node and an anchor for at least first and second non-cellular radio access nodes (such as API and AP2); and thereafter during mobility of a user equipment (UE) from API to AP2, the anchor relocates a user-plane interface for a radio link allocated to the UE from API to AP2 while maintaining the established control-plane interface for the radio link. When implemented for LTE-WLAN Aggregation (LWA), the control-plane interface is Xw-C with a corresponding control plane wireless termination (WT-C), the user-plane interface is Xw-U with a corresponding user plane wireless terminations (WT-U); the cellular radio access node is an eNB, the APs belong to the anchor and have BSSs that belong to a same mobility set that is configured for the UE by the eNB; the anchor is the WT-C, and the APs are WT-Us.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210204179A1 WLAN Termination U-Plane relocation without C-Plane Relocation Public/Granted day:2021-07-01
Information query