Systems and methods for managing radio resources unsing extended management information bases in wireless networks
View Patent ↗A networked computing system, including multiple radio access nodes (RANs), multiple radio communications controllers (RCCs), and a data communications network facilitating communications amongst the RANs and the RCCs of the system. A regional RAN receives a default eMIB associated with a first type of RAN (e.g., a macrocell, microcell, picocells, or femtocell RAN types) from a RCC, in response to a registration event of a RAN initialization process. The regional RAN maintains a dynamic eMIB comprising network operating parameters determined by various self-optimization processes. The network operating parameters of the dynamic eMIB are selected to fall within a range designated by the default eMIB. During a network failure condition, the regional RAN is configured to use a temporary eMIB comprising failure level operating parameters in order to mitigate network deficiencies caused by the network failure condition.
1. A networked computing system that utilizes extended management information base (eMIB) data to optimize network resources, comprising:
a plurality of radio access nodes (RANs);
a plurality of radio communications controllers (RCCs); and
a data communications network facilitating data communications amongst the plurality of RAN s and the plurality of RCCs,
wherein a first RAN receives a default eMIB associated with a cell type of the first RAN from a first RCC in response to a registration event of a RAN initialization process, and
wherein in response to a network failure condition, the first RAN is instructed by a second RCC to save a copy of its dynamic eMIB, such that it can revert back to using the saved copy during a failure recovery process.
2. The networked computing system of claim 1 , wherein a second RAN receives a default eMIB associated with a cell type of the second RAN from the first RCC in response to a registration event of a RAN initialization process.
3. The networked computing system of claim 1 , wherein the first RCC maintains default eMIBs associated with macrocell, microcell, picocells, and femtocell RANs.
4. The networked computing system of claim 1 , wherein the first RAN maintains a dynamic eMIB comprising network operating parameters determined by at least one self-optimization process.
5. The networked computing system of claim 4 , wherein a first network operating parameter of the dynamic eMIB is selected to fall within a range designated by the default eMIB associated with a cell type of the first RAN.
6. The networked computing system of claim 1 , wherein during a network failure condition, the first RAN is configured to use a temporary eMIB comprising failure level operating parameters, to mitigate network deficiencies caused by the network failure condition.
7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions that utilize extended management information base (eMIB) data to optimize network resources, which when executed, performs the method comprising:
registering a first radio access node (RAN) with a radio communications controller (RCC) during a RAN initialization process; and
receiving a default eMIB associated with a cell type of the first RAN at the first RAN, in response to the registration,
wherein in response to a network failure condition, the first RAN is instructed by a second RCC to save a copy of its dynamic eMIB, such that it can revert back to using the saved copy during a failure recovery process.
8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving a default eMIB associated with a cell type of a second RAN at the second RAN, in response to the registering the second RAN with the RCC.
9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the RCC maintains default eMIBs associated with macrocell, microcell, picocells, and femtocell RANs.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the first RAN maintains a dynamic eMIB comprising network operating parameters determined by at least one self-optimization process.
11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10 , wherein a first network operating parameter of the dynamic eMIB is selected to fall within a range designated by the default eMIB associated with the cell type of the first RAN.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein during a network failure condition, the first RAN is configured to use a temporary eMIB comprising failure level operating parameters, to mitigate network deficiencies caused by the network failure condition.
13. A computer-implemented method that utilizes extended management information base (eMIB) data to optimize network resources, the method comprising:
registering a first radio access node (RAN) with a radio communications controller (RCC) during a RAN initialization process; and
receiving a default eMIB associated with a cell type of the first RAN at the first RAN, in response to the registration,
wherein in response to a network failure condition, the first RAN is instructed by a second RCC to save a copy of its dynamic eMIB, such that it can revert back to using the saved copy during a failure recovery process.
14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving a default eMIB associated with a cell type of a second RAN at the second RAN, in response to the registering the second RAN with the RCC.
15. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 , wherein the first RCC maintains default eMIBs associated with macrocell, micro cell, picocells, and femtocell RANs.
16. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 , wherein the first RAN maintains a dynamic eMIB comprising network operating parameters determined by at least one self-optimization process.
17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 , wherein a first network operating parameter of the dynamic eMIB is selected to fall within a range designated by the default eMIB associated with the cell type of the first RAN.