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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Binita Gupta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Qian Li, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jing Zhu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sangeetha L Bangolae, Cupertino, CA (US);
Youn Hyoung Heo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Puneet Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Necati Canpolat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Carlos Cordeiro, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alexander Sirotkin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A next generation NodeB (gNB) implements a radio access network (RAN) convergence functionality for new radio (NR) and wireless local area network (WLAN) access, the gNB further implementing a split architecture comprising a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU) for each of the NR access and WLAN access. The gNB receives a data packet for transmission to a user equipment (UE) implementing the RAN convergence functionality, the data packet comprising one of a control plane (CP) packet or a user plane (UP) packet. The gNB splits the data packet via a convergence layer residing on the NR CU or a convergence layer residing on the WLAN CU and transmits the split data packet over the NR access and the WLAN access.