FACILITATION OF MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ACROSS VARIOUS RADIO TECHNOLOGIES

• US 20160095019A1
• Filed: 09/29/2014
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Cui, Zhi, Fung, Liza, Pandey, Vinod, Smith, Paul Edward Jr., Liu, Cheng
• Granted Patent: US 9,826,436 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/64 using an overlay routing layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0011 for data sessions of end-to-end connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems

Abstract

A more efficient network can be achieved using software-defined networking to configure routing tables to route data traffic to and from proper cells. User equipment address data and network device internet protocol address data can be utilized to define locators specific to a user equipment device in relation to various network devices. For instance, broadcasted network address data representative of a mobile device identifier address can be received by a first network device from the mobile device, wherein the mobile device identifier address comprises network address data related to an internet protocol address of a second network device, the first network device can determine a third network device capable of a communication with the mobile device, and the communication with the mobile device can be routed by the first network device to the third network device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a first network device comprising a processor from a mobile device, broadcasted network address data representative of a mobile device identifier address from the mobile device, wherein the mobile device identifier address comprises network address data related to an internet protocol address of a second network device;

determining, by the first network device, a third network device capable of a communication with the mobile device; and

routing, by the first network device, the communication with the mobile device to the third network device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

updating, by the first network device, location data representative of a location of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the updating comprises adding location data representative of another location of the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

updating, by the first network device, network address data associated with the third network device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

removing, by the first network device, network address data associated with the second network device in response to the mobile device communication being determined to have been routed to the third network device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the broadcasted network address data comprises receiving address data associated with network devices.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication with the mobile device comprises packet data representative of packets.

8. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

receiving broadcasted network address data representative of a mobile device identifier address from a mobile device, wherein the mobile device identifier address comprises network address data related to an internet protocol address of a network device;

receiving broadcasted network address data related to another internet protocol address of another network device;

determining a condition related to a handoff of a communication between the network device and the mobile device; and

terminating the communication between the network device and the mobile device in response to the condition being determined to have been satisfied.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

facilitating the communication between the other network device and the mobile device in response to the condition being determined to have been satisfied.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

updating the network address data associated with the network device.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the updating comprises deleting the network address data associated with the network device.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

updating the network address data associated with the other network device.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the updating comprises adding the network address data associated with the other network device.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

updating mobility status data associated with a speed of the mobile device in relation to network devices.

15. A computer readable storage device having executable instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

receiving first broadcasted network address data representative of a mobile device identifier address from a mobile device, wherein the mobile device identifier address comprises network address data related to an internet protocol address of a network device, and wherein the mobile device identifier address is representative of a communication between the mobile device and the network device;

receiving second broadcasted network address data related to another internet protocol address of another network device within a range of the mobile device;

generating a communication handoff condition associated with range data representative of a distance between the mobile device, the network device, and the other network device; and

initiating another communication between the other network device and the mobile device in response to the communication handoff condition being determined to have been satisfied.

16. The computer readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

updating mobile device address data associated with the other communication between the other network device and the mobile device.

17. The computer readable storage device of claim 16, wherein the updating comprises updating mobile device location data associated with a location of the mobile device.

18. The computer readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the mobile device location data comprises the range data.

19. The computer readable storage device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

terminating the communication between the mobile device and the network device in response to the communication handoff condition being determined to have been satisfied.

20. The computer readable storage device of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise:

deleting the network address data related to the internet protocol address of the network device in response to the communication handoff condition being determined to have been satisfied.