System and method for an agile wireless access network
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1. A method for dynamically configuring a radio access network (RAN) associated with a wireless network, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a network infrastructure controller, an indication of a change in traffic load in a part of the RAN;
selecting, by the network infrastructure controller, a node from nodes associated with a private network in accordance with the part of the RAN associated with the indication, in accordance with information associated with the indication, and in accordance with characteristics of the nodes stored in a private radio node database, the characteristics of the nodes comprising energy consumption information associated with the nodes;
dynamically reconfiguring, by the network infrastructure controller, a backhaul network infrastructure of the RAN, wherein the dynamically reconfiguring comprises;
transmitting an instruction, from the network infrastructure controller to the selected node, to add the selected node to the RAN or to remove the selected node from the RAN to change a topology of the RAN for serving a plurality of UEs in accordance with the change in traffic load in the part of the RAN; and
transmitting, from the network infrastructure controller to a traffic engineering controller, a notification of a change in the topology of the RAN caused by the instruction to add or remove the selected node from the RAN.
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Abstract
A method for agile wireless access network includes determining, by a network controller, capabilities and neighborhood relations of radio nodes in the radio access network. The network controller then configures a backhaul network infrastructure for the radio access network in accordance with the capabilities and the neighborhood relations of the radio nodes.
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1. A method for dynamically configuring a radio access network (RAN) associated with a wireless network, the method comprising:
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receiving, at a network infrastructure controller, an indication of a change in traffic load in a part of the RAN; selecting, by the network infrastructure controller, a node from nodes associated with a private network in accordance with the part of the RAN associated with the indication, in accordance with information associated with the indication, and in accordance with characteristics of the nodes stored in a private radio node database, the characteristics of the nodes comprising energy consumption information associated with the nodes; dynamically reconfiguring, by the network infrastructure controller, a backhaul network infrastructure of the RAN, wherein the dynamically reconfiguring comprises; transmitting an instruction, from the network infrastructure controller to the selected node, to add the selected node to the RAN or to remove the selected node from the RAN to change a topology of the RAN for serving a plurality of UEs in accordance with the change in traffic load in the part of the RAN; and transmitting, from the network infrastructure controller to a traffic engineering controller, a notification of a change in the topology of the RAN caused by the instruction to add or remove the selected node from the RAN. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A network controller comprising:
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a processor; and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions to; receive an indication of a change in traffic load in a part of a radio access network (RAN) associated with a wireless network; select a node from nodes associated with a private network in accordance with the part of the RAN associated with the indication, in accordance with information associated with the indication, and in accordance with characteristics of the nodes stored in a private radio node database, the characteristics of the nodes comprising energy consumption information associated with the nodes; dynamically reconfigure a backhaul network infrastructure of the RAN, wherein the instructions to dynamically reconfigure the backhaul network infrastructure comprise instructions to; transmit an instruction to the selected node to add the selected node to the RAN or to remove the selected node from the RAN to change a topology of the RAN for serving a plurality of UEs in accordance with the change in traffic load in the part of the RAN; and transmit to a traffic engineering controller a notification of a change in the topology of the RAN caused by the instruction to add or remove the selected node from the RAN. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A non-transitory computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations for dynamically configuring a radio access network (RAN) associated with a wireless network, the operations comprising:
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receiving an indication of a change in traffic load in a part of the RAN; selecting a node from nodes associated with a private network in accordance with the part of the RAN associated with the indication, in accordance with information associated with the indication, and in accordance with characteristics of the nodes stored in a private radio node database, the characteristics of the nodes comprising energy consumption information associated with the nodes; dynamically reconfiguring a backhaul network infrastructure of the RAN, wherein the dynamically reconfiguring comprises; transmitting an instruction, to the selected node, to add the selected node to the RAN or to remove the selected node from the RAN to change a topology of the RAN for serving a plurality of UEs in accordance with the change in traffic load in the part of the RAN; and transmitting, to a traffic engineering controller, a notification of a change in the topology of the RAN caused by the instruction to add or remove the selected node from the RAN.
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