Virtualization of the evolved packet core to create a local EPC

    公开(公告)号:US10575173B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-25

    申请号:US15334270

    申请日:2016-10-25

    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a local evolved packet core (EPC) that interoperates with an eNodeB and a remote EPC. If it is determined that it is possible or likely that the eNodeBs may lose the connection to the remote EPC, or if a connection has been lost, the local EPC may serve as a transparent proxy between the eNodeBs and the remote EPC, identify active sessions and transparently proxy those sessions, destroy or de-allocate unneeded sessions or bearers, and download and synchronize application data and authentication credentials, such as HSS or AAA data, to provide authentication to mobile devices once offline. The use of the local EPC and/or the remote EPC may be toggled, or switched, preemptively or reactively, based on various network conditions. The remote EPC may be disconnected proactively when the local EPC determines that there is no connectivity.

    Enhanced Mobile Base Station
    212.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190387361A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-19

    申请号:US16506624

    申请日:2019-07-09

    Abstract: Systems and methods for an in-vehicle base station are described. In one embodiment, a mobile base station is disclosed comprising a first access radio for providing an access network inside and outside a vehicle; a second backhaul radio for providing a backhaul connection to a macro cell; and a global positioning system (GPS) module for determining a location of the mobile base station, and for transmitting the location of the mobile base station to a core network, wherein a transmit power of the first access radio is configured to increase or decrease based on a speed of the vehicle.

    Convergence Proxy for Core Network Virtualization

    公开(公告)号:US20190215910A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-11

    申请号:US16357385

    申请日:2019-03-19

    Abstract: A gateway situated between the RAN and the core network may provide 2G/3G/4G/Wi-Fi convergence for nodes in a network on a plurality of radio access technologies. In some embodiments, a convergence gateway is described that allows for legacy radio access network functions to be provided by all-IP core network nodes. A multi-RAT gateway provides 2G/3G Iuh to IuPS interworking, IuCS to VoLTE interworking via a VoLTE proxy, IuPS and 4G data local breakout or S1-U interworking, and 2G A/IP and Gb/IP to VoLTE and S1-U/local breakout interworking. The multi-RAT gateway may thereby support all voice calls via VoLTE, and all data over S1 or local breakout, including VoLTE. The multi-RAT gateway may provide self-organizing network (SON) capabilities for all RATs. A multi-RAT base station may provide 2G and 3G front-end interworking to Iuh.

    Enhanced mobile base station
    215.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10349218B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-09

    申请号:US15913618

    申请日:2018-03-06

    Abstract: Systems and methods for an in-vehicle base station are described. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: broadcasting, using the first access radio, the cellular access network at a first power; transmitting the location of the mobile base station to the cellular network; detecting, at the processor, a transition of the mobile base station from a stationary state to a moving state; reducing, at the first access radio, a transmit power of the cellular access network while in the moving state for disabling the cellular access network outside the vehicle; and increasing, at the first access radio, the transmit power of the mobile base station when exiting the moving state.

    Hand-In with Topology Hiding
    217.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180332513A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-15

    申请号:US16028069

    申请日:2018-07-05

    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing handover coordination between base stations are disclosed. In a first embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: receiving, at a base station, a first serving cell signal measurement and a first neighbor cell signal measurement from a particular user equipment (UE); sending an adjustment message, from the base station to the UE, containing a cell-specific offset of the serving cell and a cell-specific offset of the neighbor cell in a reporting threshold based on at least one handover adjustment factor received from a coordinating node; receiving, at the base station and subsequent to adjusting the cell-specific offsets, a second serving cell signal measurement and a second neighbor cell signal measurement; and deciding whether to trigger a handover event based on the first and the second serving cell signal measurement and the first and the second neighbor cell signal measurement and the cell-specific offsets.

    X2 Protocol Programmability
    218.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180183903A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-28

    申请号:US15900439

    申请日:2018-02-20

    Abstract: A method for X2 interface communication is disclosed, comprising: at an X2 gateway for communicating with, and coupled to, a first and a second radio access network (RAN), receiving messages from the first RAN according to a first X2 protocol and mapping the received messages to a second X2 protocol for transmission to the second RAN; maintaining state of one of the first RAN or the second RAN at the X2 gateway; executing executable code received at an interpreter at the X2 gateway as part of the received messages; altering the maintained state based on the executed executable code; and receiving and decoding an initial X2 message from the first RAN; identifying specific strings in the initial X2 message; matching the identified specific strings in a database of stored scripts; and performing a transformation on the initial X2 message, the transformation being retrieved from the database for stored scripts, the stored scripts being transformations.

    X2 protocol programmability
    219.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09900407B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-20

    申请号:US15299459

    申请日:2016-10-20

    Abstract: A gateway for X2 interface communication is disclosed, comprising: an X2 internal interface for communicating with, and coupled to, a first and a second radio access network (RAN); an X2 language processing module for receiving messages from the first RAN according to a first X2 protocol and mapping the received messages to a second X2 protocol for transmission to the second RAN; and an X2 external interface for communicating with, and coupled to, a gateway in a wireless telecommunications core network. The gateway may further comprise a database for storing a plurality of rules for performing mapping at the X2 language processing module, and a state machine for maintaining state of one of the first RAN or the second RAN, and an interpreter for executing executable code received as part of the received messages and altering the state machine based on the executed executable code, and a regular expression pattern matcher for identifying patterns in the received messages that are present in the first X2 protocol but not present in the second X2 protocol.

    S2 Proxy for Multi-Architecture Virtualization
    220.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180049275A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-15

    申请号:US15678104

    申请日:2017-08-15

    Abstract: A gateway situated between the RAN and the core network may provide 2G/3G/4G/Wi-Fi convergence for nodes in a network on a plurality of radio access technologies. In some embodiments, a convergence gateway is described that allows for legacy radio access network functions to be provided by all-IP core network nodes. A multi-RAT gateway provides 2G/3G Iuh to IuPS interworking, IuCS to VoLTE interworking via a VoLTE proxy, IuPS and 4G data local breakout or S1-U interworking, and 2G A/IP and Gb/IP to VoLTE and S1-U/local breakout interworking. The multi-RAT gateway may thereby support all voice calls via VoLTE, and all data over S1 or local breakout, including VoLTE. The multi-RAT gateway may provide self-organizing network (SON) capabilities for all RATs. A multi-RAT base station may provide 2G and 3G front-end interworking to Iuh.

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