Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Daniel Jannok

Staffan E Johansson

Jonas Ohlsson

Christoffer Andersson

A method and arrangement in a distributed system for synchronizing configuring data at a receiving unit with corresponding source configuring data. The configuring data and the source configuring data are arranged in one or preferably several groups of data. Reference checksums are calculated () for each data group. The receiving unit determines () whether the content in each data group of the configuring data at the receiving unit matches the corresponding reference checksum. The receiving unit requests () the source unit to transfer copies to the receiving unit of the source configuring data in those data groups for which a mismatch is detected. The requested data is downloaded () from the source unit to the receiving unit.

Method and arrangement in a distributed system

A telecommunications system has a source base station (BS) and a destination base station (BS), and a handover unit () having a dynamic offset threshold determination unit () which establishes a dynamic offset threshold for starting soft handover. When the dynamic offset threshold for soft handover is exceeded, a preliminary portion of a handover sequence is initiated at the destination base station. The preliminary portion of the handover sequence is initiated so that a time-critical handover sequence activity (such as Luplink synchronization) is well underway, if not completed, by the time the soft handover is actually needed. The dynamic offset threshold for starting handover is based on a probability that the mobile station will engage in the handover. The probability is a statistical probability that handover will actually occur based on handover history of other mobile stations previously and similarly traveling and of the same signal strength. Another portion of the soft handover sequence (e.g., a remaining portion of the soft handover sequence) is initiated when the signal strength from the destination base station as received at the specified mobile station has a predetermined relationship to a fixed offset threshold.

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