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Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2014
Applicant:

Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Sindhu K. Mohandas, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Abhishek Sinha, Woodland Hills, CA (US);

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/021 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

WLAN controllers in a same mobility domain are able to dynamically discover other WLAN controllers in the same mobility domain across one or more layer 2 or layer 3 network boundaries. A WLAN controller in the mobility domain determines an address of at least one seed WLAN controller in the mobility domain from a configuration server. The WLAN controller registers with the at least one seed WLAN controller in the mobility domain and receives information for other WLAN controllers in the mobility domain from the at least one seed WLAN controller. The WLAN controller also receives synchronized wireless device information that allows a wireless device to roam from one AP adopted by the WLAN controller in a first access network to another AP adopted by another WLAN controller in a second different access network in the same mobility domain.


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