Patent ID: 9332582
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method by a proxy node for wireless communication in a peer-to-peer network comprising a macro-cellular environment and a small-scale network environment, comprising: providing, by the proxy node, a first peer connection with a first node in the small-scale environment via an X2 Proxy; receiving, by the proxy node, a request from the first node for a network address of a second node; forwarding, by the proxy node, the request from the first node to a Mobility Management Entity (MME), wherein the MME is configured to forward the request from the first node to the second node; acquiring, by the proxy node, from the second node via the MME the network address of the second node based on the request; providing, by the proxy node, a second peer connection in the macro-cellular environment with the second node via the X2 Proxy; sending, by the proxy node, a response message to the first node, the response message including a network address of the proxy node as the network address of the second node; and coordinating, by the proxy node, X2 communication between the first and second nodes via the first and second peer connections based on the network address of the proxy node and the acquired network address of the second node; and wherein the providing the second peer connection with the second node comprises: wherein the selectively performing the nested X2 setup comprises: