公开(公告)号：GB2498192A

公开(公告)日：2013-07-10

申请号：GB201200071

申请日：2012-01-04

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： NICHOLSON ROBERT ,  CILLIS CANIO ,  VERMA DINESH C ,  NAHUM ERICH ,  BILLAU RONALD ,  MOORE VICTOR ,  ANTHONY BRUCE JR ,  THORNE COLIN ,  BISDIKIAN CHATSCHIK

IPC: H04W8/08 ,  H04W76/02

Abstract: A method for moving OSI layer 4 connections (such as Transport Control Protocol TCP) seamlessly between wireless User Equipments (UE) connected to a series of cell towers in applications where the connection is extracted out of the underlying cellular protocols at the towers. On detecting that a UE with a broken-out layer 4 connection has moved from a first to a second cell tower, traffic for an existing connection from the UE is tunneled between the first cell-tower and the second cell-tower. On identifying a predetermined trigger event, which may be natural or forced quiescence at the terminal, an ongoing bidirectional flow of packets is migrated to the second cell-tower.