Microwave backhaul arrangements
View Patent ↗Described herein are techniques related to wireless communication systems that may implement microwave backhaul for connectivity between network elements deployed by the wireless communication systems. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
1. A system comprising:
a plurality of carrier networks;
a base station cluster coupled to at least one of the carrier networks of the plurality of carrier networks; and
a device associated with the system, the device including at least a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to:
select, from a plurality of traffic routing schemes, a traffic routing scheme usable to enable routing of traffic in the system, one of the plurality of traffic routing schemes being a hybrid routing scheme that uses IEEE 802.1QinQ to identify a unique ID associated with a base station and MPLS (multi protocol label switching protocol) to enable routing of traffic to at least one base station of the base station cluster.
2. A system as recited in claim 1 , wherein one of the plurality of traffic routing schemes uses strictly IP routing to enable routing of traffic to the plurality of carrier networks and base stations of the base station cluster.
3. A system as recited in claim 1 , wherein one of the plurality of traffic routing schemes is a hybrid routing scheme that uses an IP subnet methodology to identify unique IDs associated with base stations and MPLS (multi protocol label switching protocol) to enable routing of traffic to the base stations of the base station cluster and the plurality of carrier networks.
4. A system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the selected traffic routing scheme generates a frame that includes a plurality of MPLS (multi protocol label switching protocol) headers, each header identifying a carrier network in the system.
5. A system as recited in claim 4 , wherein the selected traffic routing scheme generates the frame to include at least one tag identifying a base station in the system.
6. A system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the selected traffic routing scheme generates a frame that includes a plurality of MPLS (multi protocol label switching protocol) headers, each header identifying a carrier network in the system, and at least one tag identifying a base station in the system.
7. A system as recited in claim 6 , wherein the frame is generated to further include payload data for delivery to the base station identified by the tag.
8. A system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the selected traffic routing scheme generates a frame that includes a plurality of MPLS (multi protocol label switching protocol) headers, each header identifying a carrier network in the system.
9. A system as recited in claim 8 , wherein the selected traffic routing scheme generates the frame to include at least one unique ID identifying a base station in the system, the unique ID included in a subnet address field of the frame.
10. A method comprising:
identifying at least a plurality of carrier networks implemented in a backhaul system;
identifying at least a plurality of base stations coupled to one of the plurality of carrier networks; and
generating a frame to include overhead information to route the frame to one of the at least a plurality of base stations, the frame being generated by one of at least a plurality of schemes usable to generate the frame, one of the plurality of traffic routing schemes being a hybrid routing scheme that uses IEEE 802.1QinQ to identify a unique ID associated with a base station and MPLS (multi protocol label switching protocol) to enable routing of traffic to at least one base station of the plurality of base stations.
11. A method as recited in claim 10 , wherein the one of at least a plurality of schemes is selected based on comparing system performance of evaluation data generated by each of the plurality of schemes for generating the frame.
12. A method as recited in claim 10 , wherein the one of at least a plurality of schemes uses strictly IP routing to enable routing of traffic to the plurality of carrier networks and the base stations.
13. A method as recited in claim 10 , wherein the one of at least a plurality of schemes is a hybrid routing scheme that uses an IP subnet methodology to identify unique IDs associated with base stations and MPLS (multi protocol label switching protocol) to enable routing of traffic to the base stations and the plurality of carrier networks.
14. A system comprising:
a plurality of carrier networks;
a base station cluster coupled to at least one of the carrier networks of the plurality of carrier networks; and
A switching center associated with the system, the switching center including at least a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to:
select, from a plurality of traffic routing schemes, a traffic routing scheme to route traffic in the system, the traffic routing schemes including at least:
a strictly IP based scheme usable to enable routing of traffic via the carrier networks to a destination base station associated with the base station cluster,
a first hybrid scheme usable to enable routing of traffic via the carrier networks to a base station associated with the base station cluster, the first hybrid scheme to use at least MPLS (multi protocol label switching protocol) to generate headers that include carrier network information, and
a second hybrid routing scheme that uses IEEE 802.1QinQ to identify a unique ID associated with a base station and the MPLS to enable routing of traffic to a base station associated with the base station cluster.
15. A method comprising:
identifying at least a plurality of carrier networks implemented in a backhaul system;
identifying at least a plurality of base stations coupled to one of the plurality of carrier networks; and
generating a frame to include overhead information to route the frame to one of the at least a plurality of base stations, the frame being generated by one of at least a plurality of schemes usable to generate the frame, the one of at least a plurality of schemes being a hybrid routing scheme that uses an IP subnet methodology to identify unique IDs associated with base stations and MPLS (multi protocol label switching protocol) to enable routing of traffic to the base stations and the plurality of carrier networks.