Patent ID: 9049608
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A device for managing Wireless Wide Area Network and Wireless Local Area Network interworking, comprising: a measurement module, residing at an interworking element, the measurement module configured to perform at least one performance measurement at the interworking element providing information about the performance of at least one Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Access Point (AP) and at least one Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) node, in a combined system comprising a WWAN interworking with at least one WLAN; and a communication module, in communication with the measurement module, and configured to send the at least one performance measurement to a Network Management (NM) server configured to collect performance measurements from multiple interworking elements, wherein the NM server collects the performance measurements in order to determine at least one monitoring result for the WLAN AP and the WWAN node, wherein the at least one monitoring result comprises one or more of: a percentage of data throughput being offloaded from a selected WWAN node to a selected WLAN AP; a number of active wireless mobile devices associated with the selected WWAN node and connected to the selected WLAN AP; a percentage of data throughput being offloaded from the selected WWAN node to a set of WLAN APs in a coverage area of the selected WWAN node; or a number of wireless mobile devices associated with the selected WWAN node and involuntarily disconnected from the selected WLAN AP within the coverage area of the selected WWAN node.