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US 10,834,650 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 operating in a first coverage area;
- comparing the identified one or more elephant flows to one or more threshold characteristics;
- identifying one or more user equipment (UE) terminals in the first coverage area which are each an endpoint of at least one of the one or more elephant flows;
- determining whether the coverage area is congested;
- and
- in response to the one or more elephant flows exceeding the one or more threshold characteristics and the coverage area being congested, causing handover of the one or more UE terminals from the first coverage area.
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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 operating in a first coverage area;
- compares the identified one or more elephant flows to one or more threshold characteristics;
- identifies one or more user equipment (UE) terminals in the first coverage area which are each an endpoint of at least one of the one or more elephant flows;
- determines whether the first coverage area is congested;
- and
- in response to the one or more elephant flows exceeding the one or more threshold characteristics and the coverage area being congested, causes handover of the one or more UE terminals from the first coverage area.
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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 operating in a first coverage area;
- determine that a number of the one or more first elephant flows exceeds a number of one or more second elephant flows operating 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;
- identify at least one user equipment (UE) terminal in the first coverage area which is an endpoint of at least one of the one or more first elephant flows;
- and
- transmit a message to a base station serving the first coverage area, the message requesting handover of the at least one UE terminal from the first coverage area to the second coverage area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.