公开(公告)号：US20220345938A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-27

申请号：US17596618

申请日：2020-06-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Binita GUPTA ,  Qian LI ,  Jing ZHU ,  Sangeetha L. BANGOLAE ,  Youn Hyoung HEO ,  Puneet JAIN ,  Necati CANPOLAT ,  Carlos CORDEIRO ,  Alexander SIROTKIN

IPC: H04W28/06 ,  H04W28/08

Abstract: A next generation NodeB (gNB) implements a radio access network (RAN) convergence functionality for new radio (NR) and wireless local area network (WLAN) access, the gNB further implementing a split architecture comprising a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU) for each of the NR access and WLAN access. The gNB receives a data packet for transmission to a user equipment (UE) implementing the RAN convergence functionality, the data packet comprising one of a control plane (CP) packet or a user plane (UP) packet. The gNB splits the data packet via a convergence layer residing on the NR CU or a convergence layer residing on the WLAN CU and transmits the split data packet over the NR access and the WLAN access.