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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2014
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Peter J. McCann, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment method of routing network traffic includes configuring flow tables of a virtual switch using an OpenFlow protocol. The virtual switch is disposed at a network radio node. The method includes receiving network traffic destined for a user equipment (UE) at the virtual switch and establishing, by a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, a data radio bearer (DRB) for the network traffic between a virtual port on the virtual switch and the UE. The method also includes routing the network traffic over the DRB from the virtual port, through the PDCP layer, and toward the UE according to the flow tables.