VARIOUS ROUTING ARCHITECTURES FOR DYNAMIC MULTI-HOP BACKHAULING CELLULAR NETWORK AND VARIOUS METHODS USEFUL IN CONJUNCTION THEREWITH
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Abstract
A hierarchical cellular network administration system operative to administrate for a hierarchical cellular network having a core, the hierarchical cellular network administration system comprising a link establishment initiator operative to generate link establishment commands; and relay manager functionality operative to establish at least one link between at least one relay in the hierarchical cellular network and all nodes in said cellular network desired to be served by said at least one relay, as per said link establishment commands generated by the link establishment initiator; and to control operation of links thus established.
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72 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. Relay apparatus including:
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a relay manager operative to activate at least one link thereby to cause the relay apparatus to function as a node in a hierarchical cellular network; and a set of radio interfaces operative, when said relay apparatus is disposed at a level n of a hierarchical cellular network having a core, to provide; a corresponding set of uplinks to said relay apparatus from at least one node disposed at least one level in said network which is further from the core than level n; and a corresponding set of downlinks from said relay to said at least one node. - View Dependent Claims (3)
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4. A data relay manager providing method including:
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providing a relay manager, operative to activate at least one link thereby to cause a relay to function as a node in a hierarchical cellular network, and a first set of radio interfaces operative, when said relay apparatus is disposed at a level n of a hierarchical cellular network having a core, to provide; a corresponding first set of uplinks from said relay apparatus to at least one node disposed at least one level in said network which is closer to the core than level n and a corresponding first set of downlinks from said at least one node to said relay. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6)
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12. A mobile communication management system serving a hierarchical cellular network having linked nodes, the nodes including a core, base stations and mobile communication devices, thereby to define a topology of communication links between said nodes, the system comprising:
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a topology server including; a topology learner which dynamically learns the topology and a topology storing functionality which stores the topology learned by the topology learner as at least one topology map structured as a hierarchy having more than 2 levels. - View Dependent Claims (13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 24, 26, 31, 32, 53, 59, 65, 71)
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