CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04W 72/1268 (2013.01); H04W 92/10 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A method performed by a Central Unit-Control Plane (CU-CP) of a radio access network (RAN) node operating in a communication network to dynamically schedule user-plane (UP) communications, the CU-CP communicatively coupled to a Distributed Unit (DU) and a CU-UP of the RAN node, the method comprising:
providing indication of one or more available UP paths to at least one network element, the at least one network element comprising one or more of: a user equipment, UE; the CU-UP of the RAN node; and/or the DU of the RAN node, and providing the indication of the one or more UP paths comprising providing a mapping of one or more data flows to one or more radio bearers; and
providing indication of a scheduling strategy for data transmissions to the at least one network element.
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