Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nokia of America Corporation

Binh Quang Nguyen

Bozidar Radunovic

Christos Gkantsidis

Thomas Karagiannis

Matthew John Balkwill

Parisa Jalili Marandi

Marina Thottan

Nakjung Choi

In various examples there is a telecommunications network access point of a telecommunications network in which the control plane is implemented using a data center comprising a plurality of interconnected computation nodes. The access point comprises a memory holding a log of encapsulated control messages the control messages being messages of a control protocol of the telecommunications network. The access point has a processor configured, for a control message to be sent by the access point to a node in the data center, to: generate a message identifier; encapsulate the control message in a packet of a communications protocol of the data center, add the message identifier to a header of the encapsulated control message; send the encapsulated control message to the node of the data center; and store a record of the encapsulated control message and node of the control plane in the log.

Telecommunications network with data centre deployment

In one example embodiment, a distributed platform includes at least one node for performing baseband processing of signals, the at least one node including a memory and a processor. The memory has computer-readable instructions stored therein. The processor is configured to the execute computer-readable instructions to enable independent operations of a plurality of radio protocol stacks and a plurality of backhaul protocol stacks for performing the base band processing functions of a plurality of base stations, each of the plurality of base stations being configured to serve one or more user devices. The processor is further configured to manage data packet flows between the plurality of radio protocol stacks and the plurality of backhaul protocol stacks.

Programmable system architecture for routing data packets in virtual base stations

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Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

Binh Quang Nguyen