公开(公告)号：US20160119939A1

公开(公告)日：2016-04-28

申请号：US14705669

申请日：2015-05-06

Applicant: Intel IP Corporation

Inventor： NAGEEN HIMAYAT ,  JING ZHU ,  PENNY EFRAIM-SAGI ,  JEROME PARRON ,  SHU-PING YEH ,  MARTIN KOLDE ,  ALEXANDER SIROTKIN ,  MO-HAN FONG

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W76/02 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W72/04

CPC classification number: H04W72/12 ,  H04W28/0278 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/1215 ,  H04W72/1252 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Systems and methods for bearer splitting among multiple radio links are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be communicatively coupled to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB) by multiple radio links (e.g., an LTE link and a WLAN link). A transmitter may dynamically determine a splitting policy for how to split traffic among each link (e.g., what proportion to send over each link). In some embodiments, the transmitter may determine the splitting policy explicitly based on lower layer metrics. Alternatively, or in addition, each radio access interface may request data when a transmission opportunity becomes available, and the splitting policy may be determined implicitly from the data requests. For a UE, the splitting policy may be determined with network assistance, which may include a resource allocation for an LTE link, a probability of successful transmission over a WLAN link, and/or the like.

Abstract translation: 这里公开了用于多个无线电链路之间承载分割的系统和方法。 用户设备（UE）可以通过多个无线电链路（例如，LTE链路和WLAN链路）通信地耦合到演进的通用陆地无线电接入网络（E-UTRAN）节点B（eNB）。 发射机可以动态地确定如何在每个链路之间分流流量的分割策略（例如，通过每个链路发送的比例）。 在一些实施例中，发射机可以基于较低层度量明确地确定分裂策略。 或者或另外，每个无线电接入接口可以在传输机会变得可用时请求数据，并且可以从数据请求中隐式确定分裂策略。 对于UE，可以通过网络协助来确定分割策略，网络协助可以包括用于LTE链路的资源分配，通过WLAN链路成功发送的概率等。