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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2013
Applicant:

Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Rajesh Mahindra, Highland Park, NJ (US);

Mohammad A. Khojastepour, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);

Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Honghai Zhang, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 16/10 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 16/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method implemented in an apparatus used in a radio access network (RAN) sharing system including a plurality of basestations is disclosed. The method includes estimating resource requirement or demand of one or more entities in each base station according to feedback from the plurality of basestations, computing resource allocation for said one or more entities, and enforcing the computed resource allocation using basestation-level virtualization. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed.


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