Patent ID: 8687613

Claim:
A method of operation of a first peer within a distributed peer to peer wide area network, the wide area network comprising a plurality of network locations, each network location consisting of at least one peer and at least one base station, the method comprising: identifying, by a first peer in the wide area network, an intermediary peer in the wide area network; requesting, by the first peer and from the intermediary peer, an IP address and port number of each other peer in the wide area network; receiving at the first peer, in response to the request and from the intermediary peer, the IP address and port number of each of a plurality of other peers in the wide area network; assigning, by the first peer, a socket and wide area network jitter buffer for each IP address and port number of each other peer in the wide area network; receiving, at the first peer from a mobile radio within coverage of a base station coupled to the first peer, one or more media, with one or more associated control signaling embedded therein, from any one of a plurality of Logical Channels, wherein each Logical Channel is associated with a Transport Resource at the base station; extracting the associated control signalling from the one or more media; concatenating, by the first peer, the media with the control signaling to form a Concatenated Packet; packet duplicating, by the first peer, the Concatenated Packet, thereby forming a plurality of duplicated Concatenated Packets; and unicast transmitting, by the first peer, the plurality of duplicated Concatenated Packets, each to a respective other peer via the respective assigned socket and wide area network jitter buffer of the first peer and the wide area network.