Patent ID: 8023439
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: in response to being informed by a controller of a flow for transmission to at least one access terminal in a wireless network, a master base station router, assigning the flow to one of a plurality of slave base station routers to process the flow for transmission to the access terminal absent the flow being provided to the master base station router, wherein the assigned slave base station router operates as a radio node controller and assigning the flow includes the master base station router negotiating flow parameters with the controller, and in response to a monitoring message being sent to the master base station router from a backup base station router, transferring flow operations from the master base station router to the backup base station router, wherein in transferring flow operations is based, at least in part, upon the absence of a message acknowledgement response being sent from the master base station router.