Alcatel Lucent

Nokia of America Corporation

Alistair Urie

Colin Leon Kahn

Harish Viswanathan

Sarvar M Patel

Peter Bosch

Venkatesh Rao

Satish Kanugovi

Zhengxiang Ma

Subramanian Vasudevan

Denis Rouffet

Shahid Akhtar

Vasudevan Subramanian

Suresh Leroy

A gateway network element includes a memory and at least one processor. The memory is configured to store a program routine or module. The at least one processor is configured, by executing the program routine or module, to: map a first multi-path transport control protocol (MPTCP) flow to a first evolved packet system (EPS) bearer associated with a first serving base station for the user; map a second MPTCP flow to a second EPS bearer associated with a WiFi access point for the user, each of the first and second MPTCP flows corresponding to a same MPTCP connection for an application; output the first MPTCP flow on the first EPS bearer for delivery to the user through the first serving base station; and output the second MPTCP flow on the second EPS bearer for delivery to the user through the WiFi access point.

Methods and devices for providing application services to users in communications network

In a method for providing application services to a user in a communications network, a first multi-path transport control protocol (MPTCP) flow is mapped to a first evolved packet system (EPS) bearer associated with a first serving base station for the user, and a second MPTCP flow is mapped to a second EPS bearer associated with a second serving base station for the user. The first MPTCP flow is output on the first EPS bearer for delivery to the user through the first serving base station, and the second MPTCP flow is output on the second EPS bearer for delivery to the user through the second serving base station. Each of the first and second MPTCP flows correspond to a same multipath transport control protocol MPTCP connection for an application.

A method and system for selecting at a terminal at least one of a plurality of available access networks for use with a wireless application invoked at the terminal according preferences associated with the wireless application, the network service provider, the subscriber, the subscriber subscription and application content provider. The selection may be constrained by an Application Policy received from a network service provider.

Method and apparatus for controlling access technology selection

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, apparatus and method for address management in a distributed mobile core network. The apparatus includes a user equipment for managing multiple addresses for connecting at least one application client of the user equipment to a respective application server via at least one network. The user equipment includes a mobile address unit configured to manage a principal address, a local macro network (LMN) address, and a local area network (LAN) address. The principal address is used for data transmissions of a first type, the LMN address is used for data transmissions of a second type, and the LAN address is used for data transmission of a third type.

System, apparatus and method for address management in a distributed mobile core network

A method for managing handover of a mobile station from a macro cell to a femto cell comprises selecting a candidate set of target femto cells from a plurality of femto cells by applying a plurality of different filters, each filter filtering by at least one femto cell attribute. The filters may be applied successively and arranged to remove all but the most likely candidate target femto cells from further consideration.

Method and apparatus for managing handover of a mobile station from a macro cell to a femto cell

A method and system for detecting and communicating access network capability information to an application server such that the application server may adapt its service offerings in response to changes in the access network associated with one or more user terminals. The service adaptations may comprise increases or decreases in service level, depending upon whether the access network capability has increased or decreased.

Method and apparatus providing access network aware presence to applications

Methods and systems are provided for securing integrated base stations, such as base station routers (BSRs), in which a SIM card is operatively coupled with a secured portion of a base station and a secure association is established therebetween to facilitate encryption key exchange between the secured portion of the base station and a core network.

System and method for securing a base station using SIM cards

A local gateway assignment capability is depicted and described herein. In a wireless service provider network, the local gateway assignment capability enables a local gateway, rather than a core gateway, to be selected to serve a user request for an APN. The local gateway and core gateway may be a Local-GGSN (L-GGSN) and a GGSN, respectively, where the L-GGSN is associated with an SGSN and provides local traffic offloading for the GGSN and where the GGSN provides a gateway for the core network portion of the wireless service provider network. A DNS element or other device is configured to determine an SGSN-specific APN in response to receiving a DNS Request from an SGSN. A DNS element is configured to identify, using an SGSN-specific APN associated with an SGSN, an L-GGSN associated with the SGSN, and to provide an indication of the L-GGSN to the SGSN from which the DNS Request is received, thereby enabling the user associated with the DNS Request to use the L-GGSN rather than the GGSN.

Method and apparatus for local gateway assignment in wireless networks

The method of location of a mobile station within a radio coverage zone of a cell of a radio cellular network, comprises: building () a first time sequence indicating during which time intervals the mobile station has been allocated uplink transmission resources, for each remote antenna, building () a second time sequence indicating the total power strength of the uplink transmissions simultaneously received by this remote antenna, and correlating the first time sequence and at least one of the second time sequences, the first and second time sequences being synchronized in time, locating () the mobile station from the result of the correlation.

Determining location of a mobile station in a cellular communication coverage zone using time sequence correlation

The present invention is related to a network device for serving a local network being in connection with a mobile network. The network device comprises interfaces for exchanging a data packet and further comprises a packet filter arranged for being connected to a local anchor point replicating the data connection context of an anchor point in the mobile network and arranged for determining, based on at least a destination address contained in the data packet, whether the data packet has a destination within the local network.

Network device and method for local routing of data traffic

The present invention comprises a method for communicating in a wireless communication network () comprising a number of cells () served by respective base stations (). According to the proposed method, the following steps are performed: splitting up one at least one of a frequency bandwidth and a time interval allocated to the communication in at least a first part and a second part; using said first part for communication according to a first reuse scheme; and using said second part for communication according to a second reuse scheme.

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Alistair Urie