Systems, methods and devices for traffic offloading

User equipment (UE) configured to:

• receive offload configuration data from radio resource control (RRC) signaling;
• receive WLAN identifiers describing available wireless local area network access points (WLAN APs) for offload of packet data network (PDN) connections;
• obtain WLAN information for the WLAN identifiers;
• and
• evaluate RAN rules based at least in part on the offload configuration and the WLAN information to:
• determine to connect to a WLAN AP;
• and
• determine a set of PDN connections to offload to the WLAN AP.

A wireless mobile device comprising:

• a cellular network interface for connecting to 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) networks;
• a wireless network interface for connecting to non-3GPP networks;
• and
• a processor configured to execute instructions that cause the wireless mobile device to:
• obtain cellular network information comprising offload configuration data;
• obtain access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) rules;
• evaluate the ANDSF rules to determine a set of access networks available for use, the set of access networks including a set of 3GPP networks and a set of non-3GPP networks;
• obtain non-3GPP access network identifiers describing available non-3GPP networks for offload of packet data network (PDN) connections;
• obtain non-3GPP information for received non-3GPP identifiers;
• and
• evaluate offload rules based on the offload configuration, cellular network information and non-3GPP information to:
• determine a subset of the set of access networks to remove from the set of access networks available for use;
• determine whether to connect to a non-3GPP network in the set of access networks available for use;
• and
• when determined to connect to the non-3GPP network, determine which PDN connections to offload to the non-3GPP network.

A method for offloading cellular traffic to wireless local area network (WLAN) traffic, the method comprising:

• receiving WLAN offload configuration data;
• receiving WLAN identifiers describing available wireless local area network access points (WLAN APs) for offload of data connections;
• determining WLAN parameters for received WLAN identifiers;
• receiving network provider rules that reference cellular parameters and the WLAN parameters;
• evaluating the network provider rules based on the cellular parameters and WLAN parameters to:
• determine a set of access networks available for use;
• determine whether to connect to a WLAN AP in the set of access networks available for use;
• and
• when connecting to a WLAN AP, determine which data connections to offload to the WLAN AP.