CONFIGURATION OF A RADIO EQUIPMENT OF AN ACCESS NODE
FIG8 is a schematic illustration of an Ethernet packet according to embodiments
According to an embodiment the messages are transmitted as payload in Ethernet packets. The payload in each Ethernet packet comprises a header field defined by the REC-RE interface 700 and a payload field comprising the configuring information. FIG8 schematically illustrates an Ethernet packet 800. The Ethernet packet 800 has an Ethernet header field 810, an Ethernet payload field 820 and an Ethernet tail field 830. The Ethernet payload field 820 comprises an REC-RE interface header field 840 and an REC-RE interface payload field 850. The REC-RE interface payload field 850 comprises the actual data transferred on the REC-RE interface 700. The REC-RE interface header field 840, among other things, indicates the message identifier as well as the destination address which represented by a tuple of {MAC address, VLAN ID, CEP}, where MAC is short for medium access control, VLAN ID is short for virtual local area network identity, and CEP is short for connection end point. Hence, in a low load situation where there are just a few active terminal devices 600, only a limited set of the hardware resources may be active. Then the RE 300a, 300b may allocate the CEPs to the active hardware resources only.
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['9. The method according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the messages are transmitted as payload in Ethernet packets (800), wherein the payload in each Ethernet packet comprises a header field defined by the REC-RE interface (700) and a payload field comprising the configuring information.']