Alcatel Canada Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Jeffrey Furry

Joël R Calippe

Murali K Velamati

Rehan M Ali

Denise Ching Yee Chang

Mircea Trofin

Meena Selvam

Angelo Buonicore

A system, method and apparatus for policy-driven load balancing of MMEs and MME pools by migrating eNodeBs service responsibilities among MMEs and/or MME processing components or modules.

System and method for load balancing MMEs and MME pools

A system and method of tracking an error condition detectable in a communication network is provided. The method includes generating first derived communication attributes from collected statistics from the communication network in a first time interval and retaining the first derived communication attributes. The method further includes generating second derived communication attributes from collected statistics from the communication network in a second time interval, comparing values for the first and the second derived communication attributes to generate a comparison result and utilizing the comparison result as a factor in determining a status of the error condition.

System and method for collecting statistics for a communication network

A method and apparatus for statistics collection in a data communications network is presented that utilizes a lower level protocol to locally verify the status of the nodes included in each of the various segments within the network. Indications as to the functional status of each of the nodes included in each of the segments are maintained based on periodic status checks. This set of indications can then be referenced to determine whether or not statistics requests should be issued to particular nodes such that those nodes that are not properly functioning are not be polled. By ensuring that any statistics requests that are issued are being issued to functional nodes, statistics polling bandwidth which may have been wasted on non-functioning nodes is conserved, thus improving the likelihood that the statistics for the various portions of the network can be retrieved in a timely and loss-less manner.

Method and apparatus for statistics collection in a data communication network

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Jeffrey Furry