Patent ID: 11917039
Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of facilitating communications between a radio and a virtual baseband unit, comprising:
at least one of: determining characteristics of the radio and receiving the characteristics of the radio, wherein the radio uses a first input/output (I/O) data protocol and a first message protocol;
selecting at least one translation library corresponding to at least one of determined characteristics of the radio and the received characteristics of the radio, wherein a base station comprises the radio and the virtual baseband unit;
generating configuration parameters that describe capabilities of the radio, and transmitting such configuration parameters to the virtual baseband unit using a second I/O data protocol and a second message protocol, wherein the first I/O data protocol and the second I/O data protocol are incompatible;
converting at least one of: (a) baseband data, in an uplink path, in at least one of a user plane, a control plane, a synchronization plane, and a management plane into the second I/O data protocol used by the virtual baseband unit, and (b) baseband data, in a downlink path, in the second I/O data protocol into data,. in at least one of; the user plane, the control plane, the synchronization plane, and the management plane, in the first I/O protocol; and
converting using the selected at least one translation library at least one of: a message in the first message protocol, transmitted from the radio to the virtual baseband unit, to the second message protocol, and a message in the second message protocol, transmitted from the virtual baseband unit to the radio, to the first message protocol, wherein the first message protocol and the second message protocol are incompatible.