Patent ID: 8774109

Claim:
A mobile communications network comprising: a plurality of radio heads for transceiving radio signals and for converting the radio signals between baseband representations of the radio signals and radio frequency representation of the radio signals; a cloud processing architecture with localized timing references for processing the baseband representations of the radio signals and ad hoc allocating on demand between different ones of the plurality of radio heads a share of non-dedicated cloud processing resources, from among the plurality of the sharable cloud processing resources, for processing the baseband representations of the radio signals belonging to different ones of the plurality of radio heads by using the localized timing references in the allocated share of the cloud processing resources and a plurality of radio head links between the plurality of radio heads and the cloud processing architecture with localized timing references; wherein the plurality of radio heads have a radio head timing reference to compensate for delays introduced by the plurality of radio head links when the delays are time varying and/or random.