Protection switching method, system and a node in an lte network

An eNodeB or a relay node or a BTS, comprising:

• at least one antenna attached to the BTS, wherein the antenna includes at least two transmitter to transmit a beam signal and a plurality of receiver to receive a plurality of beam signal in a communication network;
• a processor including a memory;
• and
• a control unit communicatively coupled the processor, wherein the control circuit is configured for switching the traffic in a network, wherein the configuration includes:
• communicating with a plurality of base transceiver station (BTS) linked by a communication network over which the base transceiver stations communicate, wherein the network includes at least one primary BTS and at least two secondary BTS, and wherein each BTS includes at least two bidirectional antennas;
• provisioning traffic to at least one secondary BTS as work BTS for backhauling the traffic, wherein the traffic includes user data traffic, control and signaling data traffic from the primary BTS;
• checking periodically for control signal by all the BTS, wherein the control signals are periodically transmitted and received by all the BTS directly or indirectly via another secondary BTS to check the status of wireless link, transparently;
• and
• steering, upon failure of the work wireless X2 link between the primary BTS and the secondary BTS, the beam of the transmission by the primary BTS to the next available BTS as protect BTS, wherein the steering is based on the computed pre-coder vector value at the primary BTS.