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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2014
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Atul Jha, Bangalore, IN;
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method for handover in a wireless telecommunication network environment is provided and includes receiving a handover request from a first Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) nodeB (eNB) for an application executing at a user equipment (UE) in a long term evolution (LTE) wireless network environment, the handover request being sent by the first eNB to a second eNB, determining, at the second eNB, whether substantially all mandatory bearers required by the application can be accepted at the second eNB, and responding by the second eNB to the first eNB with a handover preparation failure message when substantially all mandatory bearers required by the application cannot be accepted at the second eNB. In specific embodiments, the handover request includes a list of substantially all mandatory bearers required by the application.