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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2015
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshio Ueda, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A base station apparatus () is configured to send a first information element to an inter-base-station gateway (). The first information element explicitly or implicitly indicates whether a relay operation is necessary. The relay operation is an operation in which the inter-base-station gateway () relays a data packet destined for or sent from a radio terminal between the base station apparatus () and another base station (). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to enabling a base station or an inter-base-station gateway to select whether a relay operation by the inter-base-station gateway should be performed at the time of an inter-base-station handover.