Patent ID: 9642146
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W,Y04S

Claim:
1. A method for agile radio access network management comprising: obtaining, by the network controller, information about backhaul network infrastructure for a radio access network, including information about capabilities, locations, and neighborhood relations of the radio nodes in the radio access network, information about multi-hop backhaul connections among the radio nodes, and information about wireline backhaul connections between the radio nodes and a core backhaul network; determining, by the network controller, network resource utilization information, the network resource utilization information comprising utilization information of hard spectral resources for the wireline backhaul connections and soft spectral resources for the radio nodes; adapting, by the network controller, the wireline backhaul connections and the multi-hop backhaul connections for the radio nodes in accordance with the capabilities and the neighborhood relations of the radio nodes, the network resource utilization information, and the locations of the radio nodes; updating, by the network controller, the backhaul network infrastructure and the network resource utilization information in response to adapting the wireline backhaul connections and the multi-hop backhaul connections; and storing, by the network controller, the updated backhaul network infrastructure and the updated network resource utilization information in a database accessible to the network controller.