Mobile backhaul dynamic QoS bandwidth harmonization

An apparatus, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and one or more memories including computer program code, wherein the one or more memories and the computer program code are configured, with the one or more processors, to cause the apparatus to perform or control at least the following:
• receiving, at a mobile backhaul node, from a base station, one or more indications of one or more estimates of bandwidth for one or more classes of quality of service to be implemented in one or more base stations for one or more services provided to a plurality of user equipment by the one or more base stations and one or more indications of expiration times for corresponding ones of the one or more estimates of bandwidth for the one or more classes of quality of service to be implemented in the one or more base stations, wherein the backhaul node provides connectivity between said base station and a core network, wherein determining the one or more expiration times further comprises fetching the one or more expiration times as being a timestamp and a delta for corresponding ones of the one or more estimates of bandwidth for the one or more classes of quality of service to be implemented in the one or more base stations;
• and
• modifying, based on the received indications, downstream bandwidth for user equipment of different quality of service classes, wherein the one or more indications enable modification of downstream bandwidth for user equipment of different quality of service classes, and wherein the downstream bandwidth passes through the mobile backhaul node toward the one or more base stations.

A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium in which a computer program is stored that, when being executed by a computer, is configured to provide instructions to control or carry out:

• determining, by a radio access network node, for one or more base stations capable of providing radio frequency communication with a plurality of user equipment, one or more estimates of bandwidth for one or more classes of quality of service to be implemented in the one or more base stations for one or more services provided to the plurality of user equipment by the one or more base stations;
• determining, by the radio access network node, one or more expiration times for corresponding ones of the one or more estimates of bandwidth for the one or more classes of quality of service to be implemented in the one or more base stations, wherein determining the one or more expiration times further comprises setting the one or more expiration times as being a timestamp and a delta for corresponding ones of the one or more estimates of bandwidth for the one or more classes of quality of service to be implemented in the one or more base stations;
• and
• communicating, toward one or more mobile backhaul nodes by the radio access node, one or more indications of the one or more estimates of the bandwidth for the one or more classes of quality of service to be implemented in the one or more base stations and one or more indications of the one or more expiration times, wherein the one or more indications enable modification of downstream bandwidth for user equipment of different quality of service classes, wherein the one or more mobile backhaul nodes provide connectivity between the one or more base stations and a core network, and wherein the downstream bandwidth passes through the mobile backhaul node toward the one or more base stations.