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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
John L. Tomici, Southold, NY (US);
Prabhakar R. Chitrapu, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Ayaskant Rath, San Jose, CA (US);
Angelo A. Cuffaro, Laval, CA;
Brian G. Kiernan, Downingtown, PA (US);
Joseph M. Murray, Schwenksville, PA (US);
Ravikumar V. Pragada, Collegeville, PA (US);
Alexander Reznik, Titusville, NJ (US);
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for offloading backhaul traffic are disclosed. A first base station may detect a condition triggering backhaul traffic offloading for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The first base station may establish a wireless connection with a second base station, and offload at least one bearer of the WTRU onto the second base station via the wireless connection. The first base station may be a macro-cell base station and the second base station may be a femto-cell base station having a wired connection to Internet and a mobile operator core network. The first or second base station may include a relay functionality and act as a relay between the WTRU and the other base station. The backhaul link may be established using a Uu, Un, X2 interface or any other interface over a licensed or license-exempt frequency, a TV white space frequency, etc.