COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATIONS NODE, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF

摘要

A communications system is described in which a core network apparatus provides WLAN configuration for a communications device for establishing a communication link over a WLAN network. Also disclosed are the signalling messages used to control the setting up of the device to device communication link, as sent between a device in the core network and the base station(s) servicing the relevant communications devices.