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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2007
Zhihong Chen, Nepean, CA;
Randy Kuang, Kanata, CA;
Zhihong Chen, Nepean, CA;
Randy Kuang, Kanata, CA;
Nortel Networks Limited, Mississauga, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
Within an access services network (ASN) operable for providing wireless access services to an access terminal and including a base station communicatively coupled to an ASN gateway, a new management protocol is provided for managing the R6 communications. The protocol includes a common set of message types that may be used for data plane, control plane, and individual peer applications communicating over the control plane. In one embodiment, a keepalive procedure or process is used to manage the R6 interface between the ASN gateway and the base station by sending keepalive messages through an established data path tunnel and maintaining one or more keepalive timers.