Patent ID: 9680958
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A base station comprising: a layer 1-3 protocol stack to control and process incoming/outgoing flows with user equipment (UE); a Random Access Network (RAN) hypervisor virtualizing one or more instances, each instance corresponding to an active profile associated with the base station, where a mobile network operator (MNO) serves users/flows differently as defined in each active profile, each instance associated with a given profile comprising: (1) admission control module implementing an admissions control algorithm determining whether to admit a flow request for the given profile, (2) handoff control module implementing a handoff algorithm as defined in the given profile and (3) scheduling module implementing a scheduling algorithm as defined in the given profile, with each profile's scheduling module mapping flows associated with its users to available virtual radio resources according to the scheduling algorithm defined in the given profile; and a wireless resources hypervisor mapping virtual resources from all active virtualized instances to one or more physical radio resources.