US 12,004,181 B2
RAN user-plane scheduling strategy steering
Patrik Karlsson, Sollentuna (SE); Paul Stjernholm, Lidingö (SE); Erik Westerberg, Enskede (SE); Mathias Sintorn, Sollentuna (SE); and Ulf Eric Andretzky, Huddinge (SE)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolagget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/432,844
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Feb. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/051203
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/170087, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/808,653, filed on Feb. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0159699 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/1268 (2023.01); H04W 92/10 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04W 72/1268 (2013.01); H04W 92/10 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
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.