INTEGRATED RADIO NETWORK WITH MULTI OPERATOR AND MULTI SIGNAL FORMAT FRONTHAUL CAPABILITY

• Main Authors: FORESTA, Francesco, BRIZZI, Gilberto, DURANTE, Davide, NOTARGIACOMO, Massimo, TIERNEY, Michael, GABELLI, Giulio, WARK, Richard, CHIURCO, Giovanni, PAGANI, Alessandro, MARCHESE, Fabrizio
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 12.06.2024
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

Disclosed is an integrated radio network that can host a plurality of network operators, each of which may be transmitting and receiving packetized signals over a fronthaul network. Each of the network operators may have one or more prioritized packet streams whereby a given network operator may have a plurality of prioritized packet streams having a different allocated priority, and the plurality of network operators may have a differentiated priority among each other. The integrated radio network has a switch/monitor that (1) identifies one or more network operators exceeding their respective allocations and mitigates the violation; and (2) identifies fronthaul network bottlenecks and takes action to mitigate the bottleneck by reducing or impeding low priority packet streams.