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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2021
Commscope Technologies Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Irfaan Ahamed Salahuddeen, Acton, MA (US);
Balaji B Raghothaman, Chester Springs, PA (US);
Calogero Armao, Saronno, IT;
CommScope Technologies LLC, Claremont, NC (US);
Abstract
One embodiment is directed to a system comprising a distributed unit (DU) and a plurality of remote units (RUs) to wirelessly transmit and receive radio frequency signals to and from the user equipment using a wireless interface. The DU and RUs are communicatively coupled to each other over a fronthaul and are configured to communicate over the fronthaul using an O-RAN fronthaul interface. Management-plane functionality in the system is configured to define a respective transport flow for one or more processing elements using an RU interface that specifies one or more multicast addresses in order to support multicast transmission from the DU to multiple RUs. In another embodiment, each RU is configured to advertise, during a capability discovery process, capabilities related to implementing a switched network shared cell configuration.