Determining packet loss in a fronthaul link
US11509556B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 6, 2017 |
| Grant date | Nov 22, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 25, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L41/16
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
It is presented a method for determining packet loss in a fronthaul link of a radio access network. The method being performed in a packet loss determiner and comprising the steps of: obtaining a set of user equipments, UEs, that are all scheduled to communicate over a radio interface in a scheduling interval; creating a subset of UEs, comprising a number of UEs, from the set of UEs, that are the UEs in the set being most vulnerable to fronthaul packet loss; determining, for each UE in the subset of UEs, whether the communication in the scheduling interval was unsuccessful; and determining a packet loss in the fronthaul link depending on to what extent each one of the UEs in the subset of UEs is determined to have had unsuccessful use of the radio interface.
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