LOCAL OFFLOAD AND SMALL CELL ARCHITECTURE (SCA)

摘要

Small cell enhancement for dual connectivity operation and/or the impact of such enhancement for the support of the example LIPA/SIPTO architecture may be useful. The L- GW shown could be a collocated L-GW (e.g., with S-GW not shown) and/or a standalone L-GW with S-GW capabilities. Embodiments recognize the scenario of the SIPTO above RAN and/or SIPTO at local network, perhaps with standalone combined gateway. Embodiments contemplate that it may be useful to provide support of/for LIPA/SIPTO at a local network with a collocated gateway in a dual connectivity mode, among other scenarios. Embodiments also contemplate the usefulness for providing the capability of supporting the dual connectivity operation in multiple scenarios.