US 11,856,431 B2
Methods for obtaining cell status information from a cell site aggregation fronthaul router
Sounak Mukherjee, Bangalore (IN); S Sachin Kumar, Bangalore (IN); Muhammad Waris Sagheer, San Ramon, CA (US); and Daniel Lucas Clark, Victoria (AU)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/075,988.
Application 18/075,988 is a continuation of application No. 17/240,261, filed on Apr. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,576,063.
Prior Publication US 2023/0104204 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04L 45/50 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 24/08 (2013.01) [H04L 45/50 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by a network device, a first request for a status of one or more radio cells of a radio access network, wherein the network device is configured to transmit radio traffic of the radio access network in a fronthaul packet network and is in communication with a radio controller that manages the one or more radio cells;
providing, by the network device to the radio controller, a second request for operational data related to the one or more radio cells;
obtaining, by the network device from the radio controller, the operational data; and
determining, by the network device, the status of the one or more radio cells based on the operational data by parsing the operational data into a defined structure using one or more data models; and
determining whether one or more network problems exist in either one of the fronthaul packet network or the radio access network based at least in part on the status of the one or more radio cells.