Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for providing periodic location updates to a MSC-S in a CS core network providing CS services for a terminal attached to a PS cell of a radio access network such as an LTE radio access network. The method comprises sending periodic location updates from a PCSC in the core network to the MSC-S for as long as the terminal is registered with the PCSC or the PCSC receives location updates from the terminal.
Abstract:
The present invention proposes a solution for providing packet-switched services to a user, even in case the user is accessibly only via a circuit-switched access. For this purpose it is proposed to force the user to report changes in the reachability status and to keep the user's registration alive in a packet-switched domain as long as the user is reachable. A packet-switched adapter located between the circuit-switched domain and a packet-switched domain aligns the registration status of the user in the packet-switched domain to the reachability status and performs a registration procedure depending on the outcome of the alignments. The registration procedure might be in detail either a registration or a re-registration or a de-registration procedure.
Abstract:
The invention is related to a method for transmitting data in a telecommunications network and a device, e.g. a network node, utilizing that method, where said data transfer requires the application of algorithms for coding and/or decoding (“codec”) on said data, where at least one of said network nodes provides a list (25) of available codecs and transmits it to a further network node, where said further network node chooses from the received list (25) and from a corresponding set of codecs available to the further network node a combination of codecs to be used when transferring said data, and where the received list (25) not only comprises direct codecs (28) but transcoding codecs (29), i.e. codecs requiring transcoding, as well.
Abstract:
A system and method for allowing IMS subscribers to perform service and session control of IMS services via a CS access. A User Equipment, UE, that is registered with an IMS network but is not in a position to access the IMS network using IP can still access the IMS network and control the IMS sessions by sending Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, USSD, messages via an available Circuit Switched network that is connected to the IMS network.
Abstract:
The invention is related to a method for transmitting data in a telecommunications network and a device, e.g. a network node, utilising that method, where said data transfer requires the application of algorithms for coding and/or decoding (“codec”) on said data, where at least one of said network nodes provides a list (25) of available codecs and transmits it to a further network node, where said further network node chooses from the received list (25) and from a corresponding set of codecs available to the further network node a combination of codecs to be used when transferring said data, and where the received list (25) not only comprises direct codecs (28) but transcoding codecs (29), i.e. codecs requiring transcoding, as well.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for operating a switching node of a communications network, wherein the communications network comprises a layered architectural environment and a non-layered achitectural environment. The switching node provides processing capabilities for the processing of communications services both within the layered and the non-layered architectural environment The method comprises the steps of receiving a communication service request, determining according to at least one predetermined rule as an operation mode, whether the switching node is going to act for a processing of the requested communication service as a switching node of the layered architectural environment or as a switching node of the non-layered architectural environment, and processing the requested communications service in accordance with the determined operation mode of the switching node. The invention relates further to a corresponding network node, communications system and computer program
Abstract:
The invention relates to a central control entity (100) configured to control a data plane flow of a stream of data packages in an access network part of a mobile communications network, the central control entity comprising:—a detecting unit (140), configured to detect a presence of data plane applications (300) linked to forwarding elements (200) of the access network part, configured to detect information about a type of data plane application that is to be applied to said data plane flow, and configured to detect flow information reports from forwarding elements (200) which are directly linked to one network node containing the determined type of data plane application, each flow information report from one of the forwarding elements (200) containing information about a data packet volume transmitted from said one forwarding element to said one data plane application,—a flow control unit (110) configured to determine a path of the data plane flow through the forwarding elements (200) of the access network part to one of the network nodes containing the determined type of data plane application (300), wherein the flow control unit (110) is configured to determine a load of said one data plane application provided on said one network node, taking into account the flow information reports from the forwarding elements (200) which are directly linked to said one data plane application, wherein the flow control unit (110) determines the path of the data plane flow, taking into account the determined load of said one data plane application.
Abstract:
A technique for providing circuit-switched call services for a call stretching between a packet-switched domain and circuit-switched domain is provided. A possible server implementation of this technique includes a first interface adapted to receive packet-switched protocol messages requesting circuit-switched call services, a service component providing the requested call services, and a second interface adapted to pass call control towards the circuit-switched domain after the call services have been provided.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for controlling, by a central control entity (200), a topology change in a network having a ring topology with a plurality of ring nodes (110-150) via which data packets of various data transfers are transmitted to their corresponding destination nodes. The method comprising the steps of receiving information about a topology change of the ring topology of the network, determining which of the data transfers are affected by the topology change, determining, for each of the affected data transfers, a new path through the network, determining new switching instructions for ring nodes (110-150) that are affected by the new paths determined for the affected data transfers, and transmitting the new switching instructions to the affected ring nodes (110-150).
Abstract:
A method for initiating handover of a circuit switched service using a circuit switched bearer of a mobile station from a circuit switched to a packet switched domain in a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network comprising a radio network and a core network, the radio network comprising a controlling node, the mobile station being o allocated an IP address and access port, said method comprising the controlling node communicating to the core network a relocation/handover required message; said relocation/handover required message comprising an indication of the IP address and access port allocated to the mobile station.