US Patent Issued to Outdoor Wireless Networks on Sept. 9 for "Discovering a radio controller in a cloud radio access network" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,009, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Discovering a radio controller in a cloud radio access network" was invented by Shanthakumar Ramakrishnan (Westford, Mass.), Irfaan Ahamed Salahuddeen (Acton, Mass.), Sunit Kumar Sharma (Groton, Mass.), Vishwas Patodia (Nashua, N.H.) and Selvamuthukumar Senthilvelan (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed radio access network (RAN) includes a new radio unit (RU) being connected to a front-haul network. The new RU determines its own Internet Protocol (IP) address based on its MAC address; and send a discovery message to all ...