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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2015
Vodafone Group Plc, Berkshire, GB;
Andrea De Pasquale, Madrid, ES;
Francisco Javier Dominguez Romero, Madrid, ES;
Yannick Le Pezennec, Madrid, ES;
VODAFONE GROUP PLC, Newbury, Berkshire, GB;
Abstract
In order to transmit data packets in multi-RAT networks, a method and system of network controllers are provided including simultaneous establishment of radio connections over multiple different Radio Access Technologies or RATs, with User Equipment or UE, being one radio connection firstly established over one primary RAT under a single PDP context and one or more radio connections established over at least one secondary RAT, different from the primary RAT, and under the same single PDP context; simultaneous transmission of data packets over the different RATs towards the UEand combination of the transmitted data by higher layer protocols at the UE. In the present method/system, a connection is established for user plane transmission on the same PDP context between a primary network controllerof the primary RAT and the secondary network controllerof a secondary RAT. More than one secondary RAT may be involved.