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System and method for load balancing MMEs and MME pools

  • US 8,948,014 B2
  • Filed: 09/28/2012
  • Issued: 02/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2011
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for managing mobility management entities (MME) loading, comprising:

  • monitoring indicia of eNodeB loading at a source MME and individually at each of a plurality of processing elements in said source MME; and

    in response to said loading indicia exceeding one or more of policy-defined threshold levels for said source MME and said plurality of processing elements in the source MME, migrating responsibility for one or more eNodeBs to one or more of;

    a target MME and a target processing element of the source MME.

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