Methods, Apparatus and Systems for Managing Converged Gateway Communications

摘要

Systems and methods for providing a converged gateway (CGW) may be disclosed. A policy may be by the CGW to make routing decisions (e.g. segregation and/or aggregation of flows or traffic associated with data) for various interfaces and/or radio access technologies (RATs) that may be included in a LAN, device, and/or communication system. The policy may be locally stored within the CGW. Dynamic flow management, load balancing, offloading, PDF context establishment, prioritization, detection of devices, and the like may also be provided and/or implemented in the CG W and may be used to route flows and/or traffic associated with data.

主权项

1. A method for segregating data, the method comprising:
storing a policy for a device on a converged gateway (CGW), the device comprising a first interface and a second interface; receiving a flow addressed to the device at the CGW, the flow comprising a packet; identifying a flow type of the packet at the CGW; and transmitting the packet from the CGW to the device via one of the first and second interfaces identified in a policy associated the flow type when the device is reachable via the first and second interfaces.