Secondary base station bearer change
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsChandrika Worrall, Sudeep Palat, Philippe Godin
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Abstract
A secondary base station method, secondary base station, master base station method, master base station and computer program products are disclosed. The secondary base station method comprises: upon it being determined that the secondary base station is to perform a protocol layer re-establishment, permitting continued transmission of data packets to user equipment over the secondary base station bearer. In this way, service interruption can be minimized since pending data packets may continue to be transmitted while the re-establishment takes, which minimizes service interruption and reduces the number of data packets which will need to be retransmitted.
Claims16
A secondary base station method, comprising:
- upon it being determined that said secondary base station is to perform a protocol layer re-establishment, permitting continued transmission of pending data packets to user equipment over a secondary base station bearer.
A secondary base station, comprising:
- logic operable, upon it being determined that said secondary base station is to perform a protocol layer re-establishment, to permit continued transmission of pending data packets to user equipment over said secondary base station bearer.
A master base station method, comprising:
- upon it being determined that a secondary base station is to perform a protocol layer re-establishment, awaiting an indication of data packets successfully delivered to user equipment over a secondary base station bearer until transmission ceased.
A master base station, comprising:
- logic operable, upon it being determined that a secondary base station is to perform a protocol layer re-establishment, to await an indication of data packets successfully delivered to user equipment over a secondary base station bearer until transmission ceased.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.