POWER SAVING AND DEVICE TRAFFIC OFFLOAD

摘要

Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and techniques that can offload UE traffic to a WLAN. According to an example a base station can include a transceiver configured to (1) transmit, to a UE, a first control packet to move U-Plane traffic of the UE to a WLAN or (2) receive, from the UE, a second control packet acknowledging that the U-Plane traffic of the UE is to be moved to the WLAN, or (3) transmit Control Plane (C-Plane) traffic to the UE while no U-Plane traffic of the UE is being transmitted to the UE by the transceiver. The base station can include circuitry to route U-Plane traffic of the UE to the WLAN in response to the transceiver receiving the second control packet.

主权项

1. An enhanced Node B (eNodeB) comprising:
a transceiver configured to:
transmit, to a User Equipment (UE), a first control packet to move User Plane (U-Plane) traffic of the UE to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), andreceive, from the UE, a second control packet acknowledging that the U-Plane traffic of the UE is to be moved to the WLAN; andtransmit Control Plane (C-Plane) traffic to the UE while no U-Plane traffic of the UE is being transmitted to the UE by the eNodeB; and circuitry to route U-Plane traffic of the UE to the WLAN in response to the transceiver receiving the second control packet.