公开(公告)号：US20250113283A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-03

申请号：US18478741

申请日：2023-09-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Panagiotis Botsinis ,  Alperen Gundogan ,  Amr Abdelrahman Yousef A. Mostafa ,  Christian Hofmann ,  Sameh M. Eldessoki ,  Tarik Tabet ,  Xipeng Zhu

IPC: H04W40/02 ,  H04W40/24

Abstract: Techniques described herein include solutions for wireless local area network (WLAN) cellular aggregation (WCA). A user equipment (UE) may be configured to communicate with one or more base stations using both a direct cellular link and a multi-hop WLAN link. The multi-hop WLAN link may utilize a WLAN terminal as a relay. The WLAN terminal may communicate with the UE via a WLAN connection, and communicate with a base station via a cellular connection. The WLAN terminal may utilize endpoint mapping information when forwarding packets from the base station to the UE in downlink (DL), or from the UE to the base station in uplink (UL). The endpoint mapping information may be configured before the WCA transmissions and stored in a memory of the WLAN terminal, or may be indicated dynamically in a packet header of each WCA transmission.