Clustering of Point-to-Point Ethernet Transmission Wireless Backhaul Links

Clustering is bundling physical links to construct a single logical link between peers to increase bandwidth and overcome failover issues. While this definition holds true, it is imperative to know that its implementation is hard with certain key factors to maintain those links along with a single control and data plane. With 5G becomes more ubiquitous, Point-to-Point (P2P) wireless Ethernet transmission backhaul links play a vital role in backbone networks, it is essential to make data rates capability of Ethernet transmission links as high as possible. Presently, backhaul links suffers from poor resiliency, performance, scalability, maintainability, and manageability. This paper proposed a stateful clustering algorithm, which improves the failover mechanism, increase bandwidth, and maintains a single control and data plane for upstream and downstream devices for the aggregated links. According to our best knowledge this is the first comprehensive, stateful, and failover resilience protocol for clustering wireless backhaul links.