Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Roke Manor Research Limited

Alan Ford

Angelo Centonza

Seppo Ilmari Vesterinen

Juergen Michel

Matti Einari Laitila

Matti Tapani Kiiski

Jürgen Michel

Thomas Malcolm Chapman

Benedict Toner

Abigail West

Robert Zakrzewski

The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for providing network access, wherein a connection to a core network is established via a wireless access device and a gateway device. Connectivity of the wireless access device is restricted to a pre-defined group of core network address of a pool of gateway devices with multi-node connectivity to the core network, and a single address is selected to establish the connection to a one of the gateway devices. The gateway device is provided with a relay function for mapping a single input address to a plurality of core network addresses based on a location information of the wireless access device and with at least one co-located decentralized core network functionality.

Decentralizing core network functionalities

The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for providing network access, wherein a connection to a core network is established via a wireless access device () and a gateway device (). Connectivity of the wireless access device () is restricted to a pre-defined group of core network address of a pool of gateway devices () with multi-node connectivity to the core network, and a single address is selected to establish the connection to a one of the gateway devices (). The gateway device () is provided with a relay function for mapping a single input address to a plurality of core network addresses based on a location information of the wireless access device () and with at least one co-located decentralized core network functionality.

A power manager for a mobile device comprises a traffic shaping unit () and a management unit (). The traffic shaping unit is incorporated into a networking layer () of a mobile device architecture. The traffic management unit spans application layer () and networking layer () of the mobile device architecture. The traffic shaping unit and management unit are connected via a feed path (). The management unit () is provided with inputs () to receive measurements of external parameters (to). The management unit further comprises a processor () to process the received measurements and a traffic shaping function generator () to receive the processed measurements and generate a traffic shaping function. The management unit () inputs the generated traffic shaping function to the traffic shaping unit () via the feed path (), whereby the traffic management unit controls transmissions from the mobile device.

Power manager and method

Decentrallizing core network functionalities

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Alan Ford