System and method for radio access virtualization
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsJianglei Ma, Wen Tong, Peiying Zhu
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Abstract
A method embodiment includes defining, by a network controller, one or more operation modes for a radio node in a network. The one or more operation modes includes a hyper transceiver mode, where the hyper transceiver mode configures a virtual transmission point to cooperatively communicate with a virtual reception point in accordance with neighborhood relations of a target radio node. The method further includes selecting one of the one or more operation modes for the radio node and signaling a selected operation mode to the radio node.
Claims18
A method for radio access virtualization in a network, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a target radio node from a network controller, a first configuration for the target radio node to operate as part of a first virtual reception point, the first virtual reception point comprising the target radio node and at least one first neighboring radio node;
- communicating, by the target radio node with a network device, the network device being a virtual transmission point comprising at least two transmission point radio nodes, the communicating comprising the target radio node jointly performing, with the at least one first neighboring radio node, receive communications as the first virtual reception point;
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- receiving, by the target radio node from the network controller, a second configuration for the target radio node to operate as part of a second virtual reception point, the second virtual reception point comprising the target radio node and at least one second neighboring radio node.
A target radio node comprising:
- a receiver;
- a transmitter;
- a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
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- one or more processors in communication with the receiver, the transmitter and the memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
- receive, from a network controller in a network, a first configuration for the target radio node to operate as part of a first virtual reception point, the first virtual reception point comprising the target radio node and at least one first neighboring radio node;
- communicate, with a network device, the network device being a virtual transmission point comprising at least two transmission point radio nodes, the one or more processors executing the instructions to communicate comprising the one or more processors executing the instructions to jointly perform, with the at least one first neighboring radio node, receive communications as the first virtual reception point;
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- receive, from the network controller, a second configuration for the target radio node to operate as part of a second virtual reception point, the second virtual reception point comprising the target radio node and at least one second neighboring radio node.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.