Patent ID: 9622143
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a wireless access gateway having an upstream interface for a mobility tunnel with a mobile gateway of a mobile service provider network and having a downstream interface for a wireless local area network (WLAN) access network, a packet from the mobile gateway by the upstream interface for the mobility tunnel, wherein the mobility tunnel conforms to a mobility tunneling protocol and transports, between the wireless access gateway and the mobile gateway, subscriber data traffic associated with an Access Point Name (APN); determining, by the wireless access gateway and based at least on the mobility tunnel, a virtual local area network (VLAN) of the WLAN access network that is uniquely associated, in the wireless access gateway, with a combination of the APN and the mobile gateway; forwarding, by the wireless access gateway to a wireless endpoint device, the packet on the VLAN of the WLAN access network; prior to receiving the packet, establishing a subscriber session for the wireless endpoint device; allocating, by the wireless access gateway, a VLAN identifier for the VLAN from a plurality of VLAN identifiers for the wireless access gateway to associate the VLAN with the combination of the APN and the mobile gateway; receiving, by the wireless access gateway from an Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) server using an AAA protocol, a suggested VLAN identifier for the subscriber session that is different than the VLAN identifier assigned by the wireless access gateway; and assigning, by the wireless access gateway in place of the suggested VLAN identifier, the VLAN identifier to the subscriber session for use by the wireless access gateway for forwarding downstream subscriber data traffic associated with the subscriber session on the WLAN access network.