Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for enabling load steering in heterogeneous radio access networks
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Application No.: US14421803Application Date: 2012-08-15
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Publication No.: US09681334B2Publication Date: 2017-06-13
- Inventor: Tomas Nylander , Per-Daniel Stalnacke
- Applicant: Tomas Nylander , Per-Daniel Stalnacke
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Patent Portfolio Builders, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/EP2012/065969 WO 20120815
- International Announcement: WO2014/026714 WO 20140220
- Main IPC: H04W28/08
- IPC: H04W28/08 ; H04W48/06 ; H04W72/04

Abstract:
According to a first aspect there is provided a method of enabling load steering between a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Radio Access Network (RAN) and a Wi-Fi RAN. The method comprises, at a server, generating overlap information associating one or more cells of the 3GPP RAN with one or more Access Points (AP) of the Wi-Fi RAN, wherein a cell of the 3GPP RAN is associated with an AP of the Wi-Fi RAN if it is determined that the cell overlaps with an area covered by the AP. The server then determines an off-load schedule for a cell of the 3GPP RAN, the off-load schedule indicating when an overlapping AP of the Wi-Fi RAN can reject an attempt by a user terminal to attach to the AP of the Wi-Fi RAN, and sends the off-load schedule to the Wi-Fi RAN.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150237529A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING LOAD STEERING IN HETEROGENEOUS RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS Public/Granted day:2015-08-20
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