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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for distributed unit handover
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Application No.: US16578820Application Date: 2019-09-23
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Publication No.: US11546812B2Publication Date: 2023-01-03
- Inventor: Vishwanath Ramamurthi , Arda Aksu , Jin Yang , Lalit R. Kotecha
- Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Applicant Address: US VA Arlington
- Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Arlington
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W24/08 ; H04W24/10 ; H04W36/08 ; H04W60/00 ; H04W36/02 ; H04W88/08

Abstract:
A system described herein may provide a technique for the handover of a User Equipment (“UE”) from a first Distributed Unit (“DU”) of a wireless network to a second DU in a manner that minimizes or interruption of the delivery of traffic to the UE. When the UE is attached to a first DU, one or more second DUs may be identified as candidates for attachment to the UE. The one or more second DUs may be pre-loaded with context information and/or traffic for the UE. In some embodiments, a third mesh DU (“MDU”) may be identified as a candidate for attachment to a first MDU that is attached to a second MDU. The third MDU may be pre-loaded with context information and/or traffic for the first MDU.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210092650A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED UNIT HANDOVER Public/Granted day:2021-03-25
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