Patent ID: 9603104
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. An evolved node B (eNB), comprising: a processor circuit; a detection component for execution by the processor circuit to detect user plane congestion between an evolved universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) and a serving gateway (S-GW) of an evolved packet core (EPC); and a configuration component for execution by the processor circuit to, in response to the detection of the user plane congestion, select a set of user equipment (UEs) served by the E-UTRAN and the S-GW and send a request to utilize an alternate S-GW of the EPC to serve the set of UEs while maintaining a current packet data network (PDN) gateway (P-GW) for the set of UEs.