Patent ID: 9538505
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A radio station that is capable of communicating with at least one of mobile stations, the radio station comprising: a first part; and at least one second part that can be arranged so as to be physically separated from the first part and is connected to the first part via a transmission line so as to be able to communicate with the first part, wherein the first part comprises a first scheduling unit configured to perform dynamic scheduling to allocate one or more radio resources to the one or more mobile stations or user data, and the second part comprises a layer-2 unit configured to perform layer-2 processing except for the dynamic scheduling, the layer-2 includes Radio Link Control (RLC) sublayer, Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer, and Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) sublayer, the second part further comprises a bearer termination unit configured to terminate one or more bearers established between an upper network and the radio station, and the layer-2 unit performs the layer-2 processing utilizing the bearer termination unit as an upper protocol layer.