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AssigneeSpiderCloud Wireless, Inc.
InventorsHithesh Nama, Pete Worters
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A radio access network, such as an LTE E-RAN, employs a hierarchical architecture and includes a services node that provides connectivity between the radio nodes in the RAN and a core network. The RAN employs a hybrid coordinated scheduling scheme in which independent schedulers are running on the services node and the radio nodes. In this way the services node can allocate scheduling resources for some of the UEs in the RAN while the radio nodes can allocate scheduling resources for the remaining UEs in their respective serving cells. In some cases a prioritization approach is used in which the radio nodes do not schedule any radio resources that have already been scheduled by the services node.
A method of allocating radio resources in a radio access network (RAN) that includes a plurality of radio nodes each associated with a cell and a services node operatively coupled to the radio nodes, the services node providing connectivity to a core network, comprising:
One or more computer-readable media containing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors disposed in an electronic device, implement a method of operating a radio node in a radio access network (RAN) that includes a plurality of radio nodes and a services node operatively coupled to the radio nodes, the services nodes providing connectivity to a core network, the method comprising:
A radio node operable in a cell in a small cell radio access network (RAN), comprising:
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