Patent ID: 8804502

Claim:
A method for routing backhaul traffic in a wireless telecommunications network, the method comprising: detecting, at a first radio base station, a backhaul link failure condition of a backhaul link of the first radio base station; in response to detecting the backhaul link failure condition of the backhaul link, establishing, at the first radio base station, an emergency backhaul link with a second radio base station over an air interface, the second radio base station selected from a plurality of radio base stations based on the second radio base station being associated with a priority higher than a priority associated with at least a portion of remaining radio base stations of the plurality of radio base stations; transmitting, at the first radio base station, outbound backhaul traffic to the second radio base station, and receiving, at the first radio base station, inbound backhaul traffic from the second radio base station via the emergency backhaul link established over the air interface.