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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2018
Telecom Italia S.p.a., Milan, IT;
Danilo Dolfini, Turin, IT;
TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
A method of sharing of network resources between at least two access gateways, each of the at least two access gateways providing network connectivity to user equipment, includes assessing whether a first access gateway can to share a portion of available network resources, assessing whether a second access gateway requires additional network resources to provide network connectivity to user equipment, and establishing a wireless connection between the first access gateway and the second access gateway. The first access gateway provides the portion of available network resource as additional network resources for the second access gateway. The method also includes collecting information regarding operation of the two access gateways, processing information for identifying assessment rules regarding availability of network resources, exploiting the assessment rules for determining availability of network resources, and providing available network resources from the first access gateway to the second access gateway according to the availability of network resources.