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Method and apparatus at the physical and link layer for mobile communications

  • US 9,949,184 B2
  • Filed: 01/06/2017
  • Issued: 04/17/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a cellular telecommunications network, a mobile station to receive offloaded data from a small-node device, the mobile station comprising:

  • at least one macro-base-station-to-the-user-equipment (BS2UE) communication transmitter/receiver to receive both control-plane data and first user-plane data from a base station over a wireless BS2UE communication link; and

    a small-node-device-to-the-user-equipment (D2UE) communication transmitter/receiver to receive second user-plane data from a server through the small-node device using a wireless D2UE communication link,wherein the BS2UE communication transmitter/receiver receives a first control-plane message from the base station over the wireless BS2UE communication link,wherein the D2UE communication transmitter/receiver establishes the wireless D2UE communication link in response to the first control-plane message, andwherein the D2UE communication transmitter/receiver releases the wireless D2UE communication link when a radio link failure of the wireless BS2UE communication link is detected by the BS2D communication transmitter/receiver.

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