Abstract:
A method, system and computer program for inter-working between different wireless technologies. The method including connecting a base station wirelessly connected to a mobile terminal, both complying with standardized wireless radio access technology, with a MME and/or a SGW of the EPC of the 3GPP standard by a NAS function included in the base station. The NAS function collecting a MAC address of the mobile terminal and generating an IMSI identity based on the collecting; providing the generated IMSI to the MME and storing it together with a set of parameters and algorithms; performing, with the MME or with a HSS an authentication and ciphering procedure of the mobile terminal using the stored set of parameters and algorithms, and performing the termination of the NAS protocol messages with the MME for management procedures related with the mobile terminal, the wireless radio access technology and the 3GPP standard being different technologies.
Abstract:
A method to optimize almost blank subframe usage in a wireless network including generating, an interfering base station, in order to minimize interference caused to a serving base station, an almost blank subframe pattern and sending the latter to the serving base station. The serving base station generating a set of preferred almost blank subframes, from said received almost blank subframe pattern, that their knows will be of use for providing a wireless connectivity to a user terminal, and sending the preferred almost blank subframes ordered by a priority of usage to said interfering base station. And the interfering base station, using, in the case of requiring the use of additional subframes for serving its own user terminals, the almost blank subframes indicated as low priority in said received set of preferred almost blank subframes from the serving base station.