VIRTUALIZED RADIO ACCESS POINT, VRAP, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

In an embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method of operating a virtualized radio access point (vRAP), the method comprising: providing a digital signal processor (DSP) pipeline including a number of DSP workers for execution of a plurality of threads of a physical layer (PHY) of the vRAP, wherein a thread of the plurality of threads comprises a sequence of processing tasks, including at least one of processing an uplink, UL, subframe, performing UL and downlink, DL, resource scheduling and processing a DL subframe; and interlinking at least three dedicated DSP workers of the DSP pipeline in such a way that different processing tasks of the thread are executed in parallel.