Patent ID: 8649341

Claim:
A system for managing radio access resources, comprising: a joint radio resource management/transport resource management unit configured to communicate with a plurality of radio units over a transport network, to jointly allocate radio resources at the radio unit and transport resources on the transport network in response to requests from wireless terminals requesting access to radio resources from the radio units, to send a radio resource allocation schedule to the plurality of radio units that defines radio resource allocations for the wireless terminals, and to generate a transport resource allocation schedule that defines transport resource allocations for the wireless terminals; and a transport resource controller configured to receive the transport resource allocation schedule and to map user data to physical transport resources on the transport network in response to the transport resource allocation schedule, wherein the transport network comprises an optical network, and wherein the transport resource controller is configured to map the user data to the physical transport resources using a dynamic wavelength division multiplexing/time division multiplexing transport scheme.