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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2021
Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Jin Nakazato, Tokyo, JP;
Saki Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A management apparatus in a radio access network including RUs (Radio Units) and vDUs (virtual Distributed Units), the management apparatus comprising: a monitoring unit configured to acquire load states of the respective vDUs; and a control unit configured to determine, among the vDUs, based on the load states that have been acquired, a first vDU in which a load should be lowered and a second vDU for receiving part of the load from the first vDU, to determine, among RUs connected to the first vDU, an RU for which a connection destination is to be changed to the second vDU, and to change the connection destination of the determined RU from the first vDU to the second vDU.