US 11,729,858 B2
Unique IP address in ad-hoc base station
Azeem Hashmani, Newton, MA (US); and Arun Seshadri, Nashua, NH (US)
Assigned to Parallel Wireless, Inc., Nashua, NH (US)
Filed by Parallel Wireless, Inc., Nashua, NH (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/908,731.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/864,568, filed on Jun. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0404742 A1, Dec. 24, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 80/04 (2009.01); H04W 80/06 (2009.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 80/04 (2013.01) [H04W 80/02 (2013.01); H04W 80/06 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for providing Internet Protocol (IP) address allocation in a wireless network, comprising:
sending, by a mesh base station in the wireless network, an IP request to neighbor base stations;
saving, by a gateway node (GW) in the wireless network, the request from the mesh base station;
proxying, by the GW, the mesh request to a HetNet Gateway (HNG) by providing a transient IPSec tunnel;
replying, by the HNG, to the GW with a response;
forwarding, by the GW, the response to the mesh base station, the response including a dummy IP address; and
starting, by the mesh base station, a Self Optimizing Network (SON) tunnel with the GW using the dummy IP address.