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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
May. 06, 2022
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Thomas Walldeen, Linköping, SE;
Filip Barac, Huddinge, SE;
Jose Luis Pradas, Stockholm, CA;
Marco Belleschi, Solna, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
There is provided a method performed by a first donor distributed unit (DU) for routing traffic to a second donor DU in an Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) network. The method may comprise: receiving an uplink (UL) packet, destined to the second donor DU, from an IAB node, which has a communication path to the second donor DU that is unavailable; appending a header pertaining to a tunnel to the UL packet; and sending the UL packet through the tunnel to the second donor DU, the tunnel being established between the first donor DU and the second donor DU.