User equipment reallocation between nodes

A user equipment (UE) operable in an anchor-booster architecture of a multiple radio access technology (multi-RAT) heterogeneous network (HetNet), the UE having computer circuitry configured to:

• transmit, from a wireless wide area network (WWAN) node in the multi-RAT UE, control information to an anchor cell;
• select data packets of the multi-RAT UE for transmission via one of the WWAN node and a wireless local area network (WLAN) node in the multi-RAT UE using a multi-RAT coordination function (MRCF) module;
• transmit each data packet from one of the WWAN node and the WLAN cell to a multi-RAT small cell evolved node B (SC-eNode B) based on the selection by the MRCF module;
• receive, from the anchor cell, control information at the WWAN node in the multi-RAT UE;
• receive, at the WWAN node, data packets from the multi-RAT SC-eNode B selected by a MRCF module of the multi-RAT SC-eNode B;
• and
• receive, at the WLAN cell, data packets from the WLAN cell of the multi-RAT node selected by the MRCF module of the multi-RAT SC-eNode B.

A product including a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions that are adapted to be executed to implement a method of communicating information in an anchor-booster architecture of a multiple radio access technology (multi-RAT) heterogeneous network (HetNet), the method comprising:

• receiving, at a wireless local area network (WLAN) small cell access point (SC-AP), data packets from a user equipment (UE) selected by a multi-RAT coordination function (MRCF) module for transmission by a WLAN cell;
• communicating control information from a wireless wide area network (WWAN) interface (I/F) integrated in the WLAN SC-AP to an anchor cell macro evolved node B (M-eNode B);
• transmitting the data packets from the WLAN SC-AP to the WWAN;
• and
• transmitting data packets from the WLAN SC-AP to the anchor cell macro eNode B;
• transmitting the data packets from the WWAN I/F in the WLAN SC-AP to the anchor cell M-eNode B;
• transmitting the data packets from the WLAN cell in the WLAN SC-AP.