Patent ID: 11910453
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
in response to determining to setup a mesh connection with a first distributed unit node of a first integrated access and backhaul node device serving a first group of user equipment, establishing a wireless connection directly between the first distributed unit node of the first integrated access and backhaul node device and a second distributed unit node of a second integrated access and backhaul node device serving a second group of user equipment; and
transmitting a user plane message between the first distributed unit node and the second distributed unit node via the wireless connection to exchange connection information;
wherein the wireless connection is a first wireless connection, and
wherein the operations further comprise:
establishing a second wireless connection between a first intermediate unit and
a second intermediate unit,
wherein the second wireless connection employs a short-range wireless technology, and
the first intermediate unit is communicatively connected to the first distributed unit node.