Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ)

Rikard Thid

Thomas Nilsson

Patrizia Testa

Patrik Nordensky

Anders Hagstrom

Zabihullah Bayat

Johan Fridh

Alma Lukacevic

Ali Muhammad Chaudhry

Embodiments of the invention provides methods, apparatus, and media to allocate resources in a network. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying a request to route a traffic flow based on a policy, and for the identified request, selecting a source and destination node from a plurality of alternatives, and a path between the source and destination nodes for the traffic flow. The source and destination nodes and the path are selected based on a gain function, where the selection comprises generating values of the gain function, each value being generated based on bandwidth availability for future bandwidth requests as well as aggregability of the traffic flow and other traffic flows determined using candidates from the plurality of node pair alternatives and the plurality of path alternatives. The method also includes routing the traffic flow between the selected source and destination nodes along the selected path in the network.

Resource allocation using traffic aggregability and future bandwidth availability in a network

The present disclosure relates to a method of a first radio equipment device () of configuring a fronthaul communication link () established with a second radio equipment device (), and a first radio equipment device () performing the method. In an aspect, a method of a first radio equipment device () of configuring a fronthaul communication link () established with a second radio equipment device () is provided. The method comprises configuring (Sa) the first radio equipment device () to receive data over the fronthaul communication link () at a selected bitrate with a selected communication protocol type, detecting (S) if bitrate of, and communication protocol type used for, data received over the fronthaul communication link () match the selected bitrate and the selected communication protocol type for which the first radio equipment device () is configured to receive data, wherein at least one of the selected bitrate and the selected communication protocol type for which the first radio equipment device () is configured (Sb-Se) to receive data is adjusted (Sb-Se) until a match is detected, and selecting (S) the bitrate and communication protocol type for which there is a match as the bitrate and communication protocol type with which data is communicated over the fronthaul communication link ().

Configuring fronthaul link

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