Invention Publication
- Patent Title: MAPPING SUBSCRIBERS TO OPERATORS IN SHARED RADIO UNIT ARCHITECTURE USING RAN SLICING
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Application No.: US17886344Application Date: 2022-08-11
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Publication No.: US20240056958A1Publication Date: 2024-02-15
- Inventor: Mehdi ALASTI , Siddhartha CHENUMOLU
- Applicant: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
- Applicant Address: US CO Englewood
- Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
- Current Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Englewood
- Main IPC: H04W48/18
- IPC: H04W48/18 ; H04W74/08

Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for mapping a subscriber to a mobile network operator in a fifth-generation New Radio (5G NR) cellular telecommunication radio access network (RAN). The method is performed by a Radio Unit (RU) device operated by a first network operator and includes: transmitting system information including first information indicating network slices and second information indicating Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) occasions mapped to the network slices, receiving a preamble of a Random Access Channel (RACH) during one of the PRACH occasions indicated by the second information, determining a second network operator based on the one of the PRACH occasions during which the preamble of the RACH is received, and transmitting the preamble of the RACH to a Distributed Unit (DU) device that is operated by the second network operator determined based on the one of the PRACH occasions during which the preamble of the RACH is received.
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