WiFi boost with uplink offload to LTE with independent IP addresses
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsSatish Kanugovi, Subramanian Vasudevan, Michael Scharf
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Abstract
A local gateway and router device is configured to route uplink IP packets from a base station to a network element of a wireless local area network (WLAN) by configuring an IP route for the uplink IP packets based on a source IP address of the uplink IP packets. The source IP address is obtained from the WLAN; the uplink IP packets originate from a user equipment application having the source IP address; and the uplink IP packets have an indicator indicating that the uplink IP packets were received at the base station over a cellular link between the user equipment and the base station.
Claims8
A radio access network element comprising:
- a local gateway and router device configured to route uplink IP packets from a base station to a network element of a wireless local area network (WLAN) by configuring an IP route for the uplink IP packets based on a source IP address of the uplink IP packets, wherein
- the source IP address is obtained from the WLAN,
- the uplink IP packets originate from a user equipment application having the source IP address, and
- the uplink IP packets have an indicator indicating that the uplink IP packets were received at the base station over a cellular link between the user equipment and the base station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.