US 11,968,658 B2
Partitioning radio resources to enable neutral host operation for a radio access network
Mark Grayson, Berkshire (GB); and Humberto Jose La Roche, Ocean, NJ (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/532,495.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/220,090, filed on Jul. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0021194 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 68/02 (2009.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01)
CPC H04W 72/12 (2013.01) [H04W 68/02 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
committing a first partitioning configuration for a first tenant or slice operator to a shared resource configured by a shared resource operator, wherein the shared resource operator confirmed the first partitioning configuration is in accordance to a resource partitioning policy;
receiving two or more sets of partitioned configuration information for a shared resource from two or more respective individual tenant or slice operators including the first tenant or slice operator;
receiving two or more sets of scheduling information from two or more respective schedulers operated by two or more respective individual tenant or slice operators including the first tenant or slice operator;
agreeing to a first set of physical random-access channels and a first set of common paging channels with the first tenant or slice operator and a second set of physical random-access channels and a second set of common paging channels with a second tenant or slice operator; and
broadcasting messages associated with the two or more sets of scheduling information to user equipments (UEs).