Abstract:
The exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses (800, 900) for facilitating reduction of interference in a network. According to exemplary embodiments, an apparatus acting as a first radio base station (macro or femto) (800, 900) is configured to acquire information including a scheduling scheme indicating information on how radio resources are allocated in second radio base station (femto or macro). The information is then used by a scheduler to allocate radio resources which are disjoint the radio resources already allocated by the scheduler of second radio base station.
Abstract:
The basic idea of the present invention is to let the base station enter a low- power, low-radiation cycle, the so called "sleep mode", when there are no UEs using it and to introduce methods to "wake up" the base station from this state when there is a UE in the vicinity which is allowed to access the base station and which may need it on short notice.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a wireless communication system that enable a load balancing procedure in a network with HeNB GWs. The problem of the ineffective conventional load balancing procedure when used in a network with HeNB GWs, is addressed by a solution where the HeNB includes (510) an explicit indication of the reason for radio link establishment (load balancing establishment cause) in the S1AP INITIAL UE MESSAGE message (511 ) used to establish the S1 signaling connection associated with a user equipment to an MME, so that the HeNB GW (550) can perform an accurate MME selection based on the knowledge that the establishment is due to load balancing, i.e. an MME selection that realizes the required inter-MME load balancing.
Abstract:
A method and various devices (e.g., MME (1200), GANCs (1204, 1216, 1218), UE (1208)) are described herein for preventing a CS domain call (1214) from being dropped during a CSoLTEvGAN towards GERAN/UTRAN handover procedure.
Abstract:
A method of operating a communications network comprises determining that an interface needs to be established between a femto radio base station gateway (40) and a macro radio base station (28), and when establishing the interface between the macro radio base station (28) and the femto radio base station gateway (40), including abbreviated femtocell information in a message of an interface setup procedure sent between the femto radio base station gateway (40) and the macro radio base station (28).
Abstract:
Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for communications systems which use closed subscriber groups (CSG). More particularly, systems and methods for CSG roaming as well as transmitting information associated with CSG Whitelists are described herein.
Abstract:
A method of establishing a peer-to-peer IPSec security association between a pair of base stations located within the same or different radio access networks. The base stations communicate with a core network via the same or different security gateways of the core network using respective pre-established IPSec security associations. The method comprises exchanging peer-to-peer IKE security association initiation request and initiation response messages between the base stations using said pre-established security associations.
Abstract:
There is provided a method of determining the topology of a base station in a communications network. The base stations sends a configuration request message to a configuration node, and subsequently receives from the configuration node a configuration response message, the configuration response message including topology information relating to the base station. This topology information can be used in allowing the base station to most efficiently set up a communication with another base station.
Abstract:
The teachings herein provide authorization control enabling the co-existence of legacy mobile terminals (20) that do not support Closed Subscriber Groups (CSGs), and non-legacy mobile terminals (20) that do. New behaviors are defined for a CSG femtocell base station (10) (referred to as a Home NodeB or HNB), and for a base station gateway (14) (referred to as a HNB Gateway or HNB GW) that couples the HNB (10) to a Core Network (CN) (22). The HNB (10) and/or the HNB GW (14) determine whether a terminal (20) attempting to gain connection through the HNB (10) supports CSGs. If not, the HNB GW (14) performs access control and rejects the connection attempt if authorization fails. If the terminal (20) is recognized as supporting CSGs, the HNB GW (14) defers access control to the CN (22) by automatically accepting registration/connection requests from the HNB (10) for CSG-capable terminals (20). In such cases, the CN (22) is relied upon for access control, including any CSG authorization of the terminal (20). The HNB GW (14) indicates to the CN (22) whether or not access control was performed for the terminal (20).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method in a target radio base station (14) for enabling a handover of a connection to a user equipment (13) from a source cell (12) to a target cell (11) associated with a target cell identity. The source cell (12) is served by a source radio base station (15) and the target cell (11) is served by the target radio base station (14). The target radio base station (14) and the source radio base station (15) are comprised in a radio communications network (100) and the target radio base station (14) is adapted to be connected to a gateway node (16) associated with a network node identity. The gateway node (16) is acting as a proxy for the target radio base station (14) towards a core network (17) and towards the source radio base station (15). The target radio base station broadcasts, periodically within the target cell (11) on a radio channel to the user equipment (13), the target cell identity and a mask. The target cell identity comprises the network node identity of the gateway node (16) embedded in the target cell identity and the mask is to be used to derive the network node identity from the target cell identity.