Patent ID: 8654771

Claim:
A method of operating a wireless network control system that communicates with a wireless access node over a plurality of backhaul links, the method comprising: in the wireless network control system, monitoring individual transmission delays for the backhaul links; in the wireless network control system, obtaining a data packet for transfer to the wireless access node; in the wireless network control system, identifying a consecutive sequence of packet fragments that comprise the data packet and separating the data packet into the consecutive sequence of packet fragments; in the wireless network control system, selecting an individual one of the backhaul links for each of the packet fragments based on correlating relative positions of the packet fragments in the consecutive sequence to the individual transmission delays of the backhaul links; and transferring simultaneously each of the packet fragments over the selected individual one of the backhaul links for delivery to the wireless access node so the packet fragments are received by the wireless access node in the consecutive sequence.