EPS BEARER SPLITTING FOR DUAL CONNECTIVITY DEVICES

A User Equipment (UE) may be connected to multiple Enhanced Node Bs (eNBs). The multiple connection allows a UE to have an EPS bearer with multiple bearer paths, one routed through each of the eNBs. One eNB may implement a decision module to switch the bearer path to route incoming packets along a selected bearer path in order to achieve objectives such as maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) for the EPS bearer and/or maximizing overall network throughput. The eNB may gather information and metrics influencing these objectives from the other eNB and UE in order to make better bearer path decisions. The split bearer allows the UE to implement reduced protocol layers and reconfigure the protocol layers to match the bearer path selected by the eNB.