Patent ID: 10098040

Abstract:
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of resource reservation. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a technique of reserving shared communication resources in a wireless communication network. The wireless communication network comprises a plurality of access nodes, each of the plurality of access nodes being connected to one or more of the plurality of access nodes via one or more links A method embodiment comprises the steps of: receiving, by an access node (100) of the plurality of access nodes, allocation information indicating one or more shared communication resources of available communication resources, the one or more shared communication resources are to be shared by a link of the access node (100) with one or more other links of the wireless communication network; and transmitting, by the access node (100), first reservation information to one or more other access nodes (100a) of the plurality of access nodes, the first reservation information comprising information indicating that at least one shared communication resource of the one or more shared communication resources is reserved, for at least one link of at least one of the plurality of access nodes, for usage by the at least one of the plurality of access nodes.