US 12,494,945 B2
Systems and methods for virtualized wireless base station networking solutions
Sriram Dharwadkar, Bangalore (IN); Devaraj Sambandan, Bengaluru (IN); Shanthakumar Ramakrishnan, Westford, MA (US); Irfaan Ahamed Salahuddeen, Acton, MA (US); and James J Ni, Medford, MA (US)
Assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC, Richardson, TX (US)
Filed by Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC, Richardson, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/056,602.
Claims priority of application No. 202141052808 (IN), filed on Nov. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0155862 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 12/46 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 12/4641 (2013.01) 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A controller for a telecommunications wireless base station, the controller comprising:
one or more physical network interfaces; and
at least one processor programmed to execute code on the controller to implement:
one or more virtual network functions, each virtual network function in the one or more virtual network functions implementing a virtualized entity of a telecommunications base station, wherein at least a first virtual network function in the one or more virtual network functions comprises a plurality of functional applications that each includes a respective network interface for connecting to a data network; and
a virtual network interface dedicated stack associated with each of the respective network interfaces, wherein a respective virtual network interface dedicated stack defines for each of the plurality of network interfaces a virtual media access control (VMAC) address, a virtual network interface (VF), a virtual local area network (VLAN), and a logical subnetwork internet protocol (IP) address;
wherein each of the plurality of functional applications are bound to the one or more physical network interfaces by their respective virtual network interface dedicated stack.