FEDERATED X2 GATEWAY

摘要

A gateway for X2 interface communication is provided, including: an X2 internal interface for communicating with, and coupled to, a plurality of radio access network, RAN, nodes; an X2 external interface for communicating with, and coupled to, a destination node outside of the plurality of RAN nodes, the X2 external interface further including a single X2 endpoint for the plurality of RAN nodes, such that the X2 external interface provides a single interface for an external macro cell; and an S1 interface for the core network to interact with the plurality of RAN nodes through a single endpoint. The gateway may further include a handover module for maintaining X2 signaling associations and transactions for incoming and outbound handovers, including X2 to S and S to X2 translation.