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US 10,383,022 B2Granted
Directed handover of elephant flows
AssigneeOpanga Networks, Inc.
InventorsBen Hadorn, Jeffrey P. Harrang, John Burnette, David Gibbons
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Abstract
A method includes identifying one or more elephant flows operated by a plurality of user equipment (UE) terminals located in a first coverage area, comparing the one or more elephant flows to threshold characteristics, determining whether the coverage area is congested, causing handover of the plurality of UE terminals from the first coverage area when the one or more elephant flows exceed the threshold characteristics and the first coverage area is congested.
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A method, comprising:
- identifying one or more elephant flows operated by a plurality of user equipment (UE) terminals located in a first coverage area;
- comparing the one or more elephant flows to threshold characteristics;
- determining whether the first coverage area is congested;
- selecting, using the identified one or more elephant flows, a UE terminal generating an elephant flow from among the plurality of UE terminals;
- and
- causing handover of the selected UE terminal from the first coverage area when the one or more elephant flows exceed the threshold characteristics and the first coverage area is congested.
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A system, comprising:
- a memory storing non-transitory program commands;
- and
- a processor,
- wherein, when the processor executes the program commands, the processor:
- identifies one or more elephant flows generated by a plurality of user equipment (UE) terminals operating in a first coverage area;
- compares the one or more elephant flows to threshold characteristics;
- determines whether the first coverage area is congested;
- selects, using the identified one or more elephant flows, a UE terminal generating an elephant flow from among the plurality of UE terminals;
- and
- causes handover of the selected UE terminal from the first coverage area when the one or more elephant flows exceed the threshold characteristics and the first coverage area is congested.
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A transport manager, comprising:
- a memory storing non-transitory program commands;
- and
- one or more processors,
- wherein, when the one or more processors execute the program commands, the one or more processors:
- identify one or more first elephant flows operated by one or more of a plurality of first UE terminals in a first coverage area;
- determine a number of the first elephant flows exceeds a number of second elephant flows operated by second UE terminals in a second coverage area, the second coverage area overlapping the first coverage area;
- determine the first coverage area is congested;
- determine the second coverage area is uncongested;
- selecting, using the identified one or more first elephant flows, a UE terminal generating a first elephant flow from among the plurality of first UE terminals;
- and
- transmit a message to a base station serving the first coverage area, the message requesting selective handover of the selected UE terminal from the first coverage area to the second coverage area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.