Patent ID: 11968564
Assignee: ASSIA SPE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium or media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors to perform scheduling operations within a small cell base station comprising:
measuring first performance parameter information of a first backhaul connection between a first base station and a small cell base station associated with the small cell, the first backhaul operating in accordance with a first cellular standard;
measuring second performance parameter information of a second backhaul connection between the first base station and the small cell base station, the second backhaul operating in accordance with a second cellular standard that is different than the first cellular standard;
receiving uplink traffic at the small cell base station from at least one cellular device within the small cell; and
scheduling a first portion of the uplink traffic to be transmitted on the first backhaul and a second portion of the uplink traffic to be transmitted on the second backhaul based at least in part on the first and second performance parameter information.