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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Humberto Jose La Roche, Ocean, NJ (US);
John T. Chapman, Orange, CA (US);
Desmond Joseph O'Connor, London, GB;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present technology is directed to providing enhanced capacity for tenants in a neutral host network (NHN) via multi-connectivity such as dual connectivity or carrier aggregation. The present technology can identify, at a small cell gateway, signaling traffic passing from an access network to a respective core network of an NHN operating at mid-band frequencies and add an interface between the small cell gateway of the NHN and a base station of a tenant network operating at low-band frequencies to establish dual connectivity. Furthermore, the present technology can establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection in a primary cell residing in a macro network operating at low-band frequencies and add, at a fronthaul gateway, one or more secondary cells in a small cell network operating at mid-band frequencies to enable carrier aggregation of the one or more secondary cells with the primary cell the small cell network.