Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems, methods, and appartatuses for bearer splitting in multi-radio HetNet
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Application No.: US14705669Application Date: 2015-05-06
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Publication No.: US09699800B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Nageen Himayat , Jing Zhu , Penny Efraim-Sagi , Jerome Parron , Shu-Ping Yeh , Martin Kolde , Alexander Sirotkin , Mo-Han Fong
- Applicant: Intel IP Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Stoel Rives LLP
- Main IPC: H04W36/22
- IPC: H04W36/22 ; H04W72/12 ; H04W28/08 ; H04W28/02 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W76/02 ; H04W84/12 ; H04W88/08

Abstract:
Systems and methods for bearer splitting among multiple radio links are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be communicatively coupled to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB) by multiple radio links (e.g., an LTE link and a WLAN link). A transmitter may dynamically determine a splitting policy for how to split traffic among each link (e.g., what proportion to send over each link). In some embodiments, the transmitter may determine the splitting policy explicitly based on lower layer metrics. Alternatively, or in addition, each radio access interface may request data when a transmission opportunity becomes available, and the splitting policy may be determined implicitly from the data requests. For a UE, the splitting policy may be determined with network assistance, which may include a resource allocation for an LTE link, a probability of successful transmission over a WLAN link, and/or the like.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160119939A1 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARTATUSES FOR BEARER SPLITTING IN MULTI-RADIO HETNET Public/Granted day:2016-04-28
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