Patent 9998355 was granted and assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. on June, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
It is possible to improve backhaul resource utilization efficiency during dynamic point selection (DPS) transmissions by unicasting different portions of a traffic flow to different access points participating in the DPS transmission. Specifically, a traffic flow may be encoded to obtain forward error correction (FEC) packets, and different subsets of the FEC packets may be unicast to different access points participating in the DPS transmission. The subsets of FEC packets may have partial (or no) redundancy such that the amount of duplicative data communicated over the backhaul network is reduced when compared to multicasting the entire traffic flow to each access point participating in the DPS transmission. There may be different degrees of redundancy between subsets of FEC packets to achieve different traffic engineering (TE) objectives.