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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Daisuke Ogura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/12 (2009.01); H04W 92/12 (2009.01); H04W 92/14 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0061 (2013.01); H04W 88/12 (2013.01); H04W 92/12 (2013.01); H04W 92/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
In radio access network (RAN)of the present invention, the configuration of radio network controller (RNC)is physically separated into control plane controllers (CPE)-for controlling signalling and user plane controllers (UPE)-for controlling user data. User plane controllers-report their own status information (traffic information/used channel bandwidth information/alarm information) to control plane controllers to which they belong, and control plane controllers-manage the status information of the user plane controllers for each of user plane controllers subordinate thereto.