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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Sridhar Bhaskaran, Coimbatore, IN;
Nirav Salot, Pune, IN;
Maulik Vijay Vaidya, Atlanta, GA (US);
Sebastian Speicher, Wallisellen, CH;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include determining a location for a user equipment (UE); determining whether at least one user data plane entity servicing at least one packet data network (PDN) flow for the UE is to be changed based, at least in part, on the location of the UE; if at least one user data plane entity is to be changed, selecting at least one new user data plane entity to service the at least one PDN flow for the UE; allocating a new PDN Internet Protocol (IP) address for the at least one PDN flow for which the user data plane entity is changed; and communicating the new PDN IP address to the UE.