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Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2020
Applicant:

Parallel Wireless, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);

Inventors:

Yang Cao, Westford, MA (US);

Jitender Arora, Westford, MA (US);

Assignee:

Parallel Wireless, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 84/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0016 (2013.01); H04W 36/0022 (2013.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.02); H04W 36/0038 (2013.01); H04W 36/0044 (2013.01); H04W 36/14 (2013.01); H04W 84/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

The use of wireless backhaul poses special challenges for in-vehicle base stations. Users that are connected to an in-vehicle base station expect continuous service, even as the in-vehicle base station passes in and out of different wireless backhaul coverage zones, such as when a train passes from a train station with good coverage to a tunnel with poor coverage. The base station thus needs seamless backhaul handover. A system that enables an in-vehicle base station to receive continuous service across different backhaul coverage zones is needed. To solve this problem, a system enabling handover is described. The system involves double-tunneling mobile device data packets in an ESP-UDP IPsec tunnel encapsulated in a GTP-U tunnel. Traffic is transmitted from a mobile device to a specially configured base station that encapsulates mobile device data packets and sends them to the network via wireless backhaul using an LTE UE modem connection.


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