Patent ID: 9578564
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. In a cellular telecommunications network, a mobile station to receive offloaded data from multiple small-node devices, comprising: at least one macro-base-station-to-the-user-equipment (BS2UE) communication section 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 section to receive second user-plane data from a server through a plurality of small-node devices using a wireless D2UE communication link, wherein the BS2UE communication section receives a first control-plane message from the base station over the wireless BS2UE communication link, wherein the D2UE communication section establishes the wireless D2UE communication link responsive to the first control-plane message; and wherein the second user-plane data is scrambled by a sequence specific to the mobile station in the wireless D2UE communication link.