AUTOMATED BACKHAUL NETWORK CONTROL FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLEXED CONTROL TRAFFIC AND BEARER TRAFFIC IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A wireless communication system (20) includes a wireless network (22) that communicates with a plurality of base stations (24) over a backhaul network (26). A disclosed example includes monitoring an amount of control traffic on the backhaul network (26) and dynamically and automatically adjusting an allocation of the backhaul resource for handling the control traffic. A disclosed example automatically allocates a remaining amount of the backhaul resource for handling bearer traffic.