Patent ID: 8976690
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A femto-relay system, comprising: a relay-radio in communication with a macro-cell base-station; a femto-radio in direct communication with the relay-radio and configured to route signals between at least one femto-cell user equipment and a core network via a first communication path comprising a wired IP-backhaul link; an IP-backhaul QoS monitoring module continuously monitoring a quality of service delivered by the wired IP-backhaul link for current communications between the at least one femto-cell user equipment and the core network and to notify the relay-radio to route signals between the at least one femto-cell user equipment and the core network via a second communication path comprising the macro-cell base-station when the quality of service is below a predetermined threshold, and a femto-relay resource management module comprising a processor and a memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: