Patent ID: 7313626
Filing Date: 2007-12-25
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a first tenant base station operated by a first wireless communication service provider; a second tenant base station operated by a second wireless communication service provider, and co-located with the first base station; a transport medium interface for converting radio frequency signals transmitted by the first and second base stations and control messages relating thereto to a common transport medium; a plurality of remotely located radio access nodes, each radio access node associated with a predetermined portion of a total system coverage area, and each radio access node coupled to receive signals from the common transport medium, with each radio access node containing at least a first and second tenant slice module associated with the respective first and second tenant base stations; and a first tenant network management system operated by the first wireless communication service provider; a second tenant network management system operated by the second wireless communication service provider; a common network management system that forwards control messages from the respective tenant network management system to the intended tenant slice modules associated with respective ones of the radio access nodes using the common transport medium.