Patent ID: 8638663

Claim:
A wireless communication system comprising: terminals; a base station that performs wireless communication with the terminals; a gateway apparatus that manages the terminals and the base station; and a server apparatus that authenticates the terminals, wherein the gateway apparatus includes: at least one C (Control)-plane processing unit that processes a C-plane; and N (N is an integer of 2 or more) U (User)-plane processing units that process a U plane, each of the N U-plane processing units notifies the C-plane processing unit of its own load status, the server apparatus notifies the C-plane processing unit of service levels of target terminals that try to perform entry to a network in which the base station and the gateway apparatus are located, and the C-plane processing unit allocates, based on the load status of each of the N U-plane processing units and the service levels of the target terminals, one of the N U-plane processing units as an entry destination to the target terminals, wherein the C-plane processing unit classifies a level of the load status as “High” or “Low”, classifies the service level as “High” or “Low”, and allocates a U-plane processing unit having a high load status level as an entry destination to a terminal having a low service level from among the target terminals, and a U-plane processing unit having a low load status level as an ent destination to a terminal having a high service level.