US 2020/0267622 A1 · SIGNALING PORT INFORMATION OF USER EQUIPMENT PORTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK

Abstract

Certain aspects of the disclosure provide techniques for signaling port information of user equipment (UE) ports in a wireless communication system including a radio access network. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication. The method includes receiving, at a network node, port information of one or more ports of one or more UEs. The method further includes deriving a network topology indicating connectivity between devices comprising the one or more UEs based on the port information of the one or more ports.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A method for wireless communication, comprising:

receiving, at a network node, port information of one or more ports of one or more user equipments (UEs);
and
deriving, by the network node, a network topology indicating connectivity between devices comprising the one or more UEs based on the port information of the one or more ports.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/790,374Filed 13 Feb 2020

Priority

15 Feb 2019

Published

20 Aug 2020

Term ends

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Classification12 codes

H04L 41/12
Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks: discovery or management…
H04L 45/26
Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks: route discovery packet
H04L 69/18
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass:…
H04W 8/005
Network data management: discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Signaling port information of user equipment ports in a wireless communication system including a radio access network

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Signaling port information of user equipment ports in a wireless communication system including a radio access network

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Abstract

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