USING A WLAN INTERWORKING GATEWAY (WIG) FOR OFFLOADING UE TRAFFIC FROM CELLULAR NETWORK TO WLAN
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Abstract
There is provided a method comprising receiving, at a control node associated with a plurality of access points of a first network (e.g. a WLAN Interworking Gateway-WIG), information from an access point of a second network (e.g. an eNB of a LTE network), wherein the received information is useable by the control node to perform at least one association procedure (e.g. AP selection, local IP and MAC address assignment, admission control, authentication) with an access point of the first network (e.g. WLAN) on behalf of a user equipment, said user equipment being associated with the second network, performing said at least one association procedure and providing association procedure information to the access point of the second network.
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50 Claims
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1-30. -30. (canceled)
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31. An apparatus comprising:
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at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause a control node associated with a plurality of access points of a first network at least to; receive information from an access point of a second network, wherein the received information is useable by the control node to perform at least one association procedure with an access point of the first network on behalf of a user equipment, said user equipment being associated with the second network; and perform said at least one association procedure. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a control node associated with a plurality of access points of a first network, information from an access point of a second network, wherein the received information is useable by the control node to perform at least one association procedure with an access point of the first network on behalf of a user equipment, said user equipment being associated with the second network; performing said at least one association procedure.
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45. An apparatus comprising:
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at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to; cause information to be sent to a control node associated with a plurality of access points of a first network from an access point of a second network, wherein the information to be sent is useable by the control node to perform at least one association procedure with an access point of the first network on behalf of a user equipment, said user equipment being associated with the second network. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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