Patent ID: 8830968

Claim:
A method for mapping and communicating IQ data, between a source end and a destination end, comprising: configuring the source end as a radio equipment (RE) or a radio equipment controller (REC) and corresopondingly configuring the destination end as an REC or an RE; wherein the mapping of the IQ data comprises, mapping the IQ data of one or more different standards to a common public radio interface (CPRI) radio frame, wherein, the CPRI radio frame comprises multiple multi-frames, and boundaries of the multi-frames are aligned with a header of the CPRI radio frame; and each multi-frames comprises K basic frames, and each of the K basic frames comprises a plurality of IQ sub-containers; each of the plurality of the IQ sub-containers constitutes one time slot; the number K of the basic frames and bit widths Naxc of the plurality of the IQ sub-containers included in each of the multi-frames for the one or more different standards are identical; and a length of the CPRI radio frame is 10 ms; and transmitting the CPRI radio frame from the source end to the destination end.