MULTI-RADIO GATEWAY WITH WIDE AREA NETWORK TUNNELING

摘要

Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication. A device (215) with multiple radios (R1, R2) may establish a wireless local area network (WLAN) connection (204) with a multi-radio gateway (210, i.e., a multiPHY gateway) and a wide area network (WAN) connection (202) with a base station (105-a). The multi-radio device (215) may receive a proxy capability indication from the multi-radio gateway (210) and may transmit connection information relating to the second wireless connection (202). The multi-radio device (215) may then establish a tunnel to the base station utilizing a proxy entity within the multi-radio gateway (210) and close a physical (PHY) connection of the second wireless connection (202) in order to save power. The multi-radio gateway (210) may receive messages (e.g., paging, broadcast, or multicast messages) from the base station (105-a) on behalf of the multi-radio device (215) using the proxy entity, and tunnel the messages through to the multi-radio device (215) using the WLAN wireless connection (204).