Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising binding, for a terminal, at least one of an uplink and a downlink bearer to an IP address based on a gateway context, wherein the gateway context is controlled by a control device; and at least one of buffering and idle mode handling; wherein the buffering is adapted to buffer data for the terminal during hard handover of the terminal and to forward the data to the terminal after the hard handover is completed; the idle mode handling is adapted to forward a packet received for the terminal to a control device if the gateway context does not comprise an identification of a base station to which the terminal is attached.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided. Channel estimation related parameters of a network entity of a communication system are configured based on a current configuration of the communication system. The channel estimation related parameters are parameters associated with the estimation of channel information of a channel between the network entity and a further network entity.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided by which a second network is associated to or disassociated from a network element (e.g., an eNB) which is connected to a first network, and an association configuration information is sent to the network element, the association configuration information comprising a combination of a first network identification identifying the first network and a second network identification identifying the second network. Based on this association configuration, for example load balancing using both the first and the second network may be carried out.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus is provided by which a transmission is received on a transmission channel, wherein the transmission channel includes a plurality of channel units via which transmission is carried out; channel prediction values for at least one of the plurality of channel units are obtained; it is determined whether the channel prediction value of the at least one channel unit is correct or not, and, in case the channel prediction value is not correct, an error of the at least one channel unit is reported.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided by which an apparatus (e.g., an MME) establishes a connection session in a network which involves a network resource (e.g., SGW) to be selected, and selects at least one of a control plane (e.g., SGW-C) and a user plane (e.g., SGW-U) of the network resource.

Abstract: A resource controller for managing resources in a network and arranged at a site of a first network entity is provided, wherein the resource controller comprises: a database, adapted to store resource managing related information; an interface adapted to receive a resource managing message from a second network entity at the first network entity; and a resource managing unit, wherein the resource managing unit is adapted to grant access to the stored resource managing related information on the database based on the received resource managing message.