Patent ID: 9749880
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a base station in a network, the method comprising: detecting, by the base station, a malfunction associated with a backhaul link to the network; identifying, by the base station, a plurality of neighboring base stations located within a wireless transmission range of the base station; selecting, by the base station, multiple neighboring base stations of the identified plurality of neighboring base stations based on one or more parameters, in response to detecting the malfunction, wherein selecting the multiple neighboring base stations based on one or more parameters includes: distributing, by the base station, service for a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices to the selected multiple neighboring base stations; receiving, by the base station, a first signal from a UE device; and transmitting, by the base station, the first signal to a particular one of the selected multiple neighboring base stations based on the service distribution.