Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for reducing fronthaul load in centralized radio access networks (C-RAN)
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Application No.: US15321647Application Date: 2014-06-23
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Publication No.: US10334478B2Publication Date: 2019-06-25
- Inventor: Mauro Boldi , Paolo Gianola , Bruno Melis
- Applicant: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
- Applicant Address: IT Milan
- Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
- Current Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Milan
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- International Application: PCT/EP2014/063137 WO 20140623
- International Announcement: WO2015/197104 WO 20151230
- Main IPC: H04W28/08
- IPC: H04W28/08 ; H04B10/2575 ; H04W88/08 ; H04L27/26 ; H03M7/30

Abstract:
A method is proposed of arranging, in a mobile communication network, transmission of data between user equipment and at least one base station including a central unit and at least one remote unit associated therewith. The method includes at a transmitting side including the remote unit or the central unit, quantizing the data according to a quantization bit number, and transmitting, over a fronthaul link between the transmitting side and a receiving side including the central unit or the remote unit, respectively, the quantized data to the receiving side. The method further includes, at the central unit: determining the quantization bit number, wherein the determining including varying in time the quantization bit number according to network information available at the central unit, and communicating to the at least one remote unit the determined quantization bit number.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170164236A1 METHOD FOR REDUCING FRONTHAUL LOAD IN CENTRALIZED RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS (C-RAN) Public/Granted day:2017-06-08
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