Patent ID: 9137641
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication system comprising: a first wireless communication apparatus wirelessly coupled to a terminal via a first wireless interface and being able to perform link aggregation with the terminal; the terminal including the first wireless interface and a second wireless interface; a second wireless communication apparatus wirelessly coupled to the terminal via the second wireless interface and being unable to perform link aggregation with the terminal; a hub apparatus coupled to the first wireless communication apparatus via a first network, the second wireless communication apparatus via a second network, and a third communication apparatus via a third network respectively; and the third communication apparatus configured to communicate with the terminal via the hub apparatus and via at least one of the first wireless communication apparatus and the second wireless communication apparatus, wherein the first wireless interface and the second wireless interface belong to same multicast domain, the third communication apparatus multicasts a first packet to the same multicast domain, the hub apparatus forwards the first packet to the first wireless communication apparatus and the second wireless communication apparatus, and the terminal is configured to transmit a first second packet to the third communication apparatus in response to the first packet, the second packet requesting the third communication apparatus to transmit a traffic flow to the terminal, the second packet being transmitted from the terminal via one of the first wireless interface and the second wireless interface that is selected based on whether to request to apply link aggregation to the requested traffic flow regardless of which of the first wireless interface and the second wireless interface has been used for receiving the first packet.