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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2018
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Michelle Perras, Montréal, CA;
Alexander Reznik, Pennington, NJ (US);
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Embodiments contemplate that the transfer of an Internet Protocol (IP) address from one (e.g. a first) Gateway (GW) to another (e.g. a second) Gateway (GW) may improve the Dynamic Mobility Management (DMM) handling in any network environment, including a dense network environment. Embodiments contemplate a dense network may enable a User Equipment (UE or wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)) to be connected to the closest GW while the IP address transfer may enable the usage of a relatively short data path (e.g. perhaps a 'shortest' data path), which may be useful in the context of DMM, perhaps even for existing flows. Using the contemplated capability of moving IP addresses may minimize the number of IP addresses allocated and/or the number of tunnels to be maintained.