APPARATUSES METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO REDUCE HANDOVER LATENCY IN AN INTEGRATED WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND CELLULAR NETWORK

摘要

Embodiments include devices, methods, and systems for reducing handover latency in an integrated wireless local area network (WLAN) and wireless cellular network. In embodiments, a user equipment (UE) may communicate with a packet data network (PDN) gateway (P-GW) via a WLAN and / or a wireless cellular network. Various embodiments may provide monitoring circuitry that monitors one or more PDN connections between the P-GW and the UE via the WLAN and may include a radio resource control (RRC) based on one or more monitored PDN connections, Determines that it should be in connected mode, and sends an inactivity timer reconfiguration (ITR) message to request the interruption of the inactivity timer associated with the UE. A supervisory circuit may be included in the P-GW, the WLAN gateway, the UE, and / or other components of the network.