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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2013
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Sergio Aguirre, Southlake, TX (US);
Raafat Edward Kamel, Little Falls, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An approach for providing application-aware load balancing is provided. A load balancing platform at a base station receives application information specifying an application or type of service utilized by a mobile device and determines allocation of a plurality of carriers based on the received application information to provide load balancing across the plurality of carriers. The platform generates mapping information indicating a mapping of a plurality of applications to one or more of the plurality of carriers, wherein the application information includes the generated mapping information.