Vodafone IP Licensing Limited

Vodafone Group Plc.

Eric Murray

Francisco Javier Dominguez Romero

Andrea De Pasquale

Yannick Le Pezennec

Peter Cosimini

Walter Gottfried Bindrim

Tarek Elbasyouny

Maria Vazquez

Marco Angelo Pietro Del Bo

John Turk

Mai Tran Le

Javier Monedero

Antonio Oliver

Arul Arulkkumaran

Marco Del Bo

Iñigo GÜEMES Cabrejas

Arulalingam Arulkkumaran

Mabel Pous-Fenollar

Santiago Tenorio

A cellular telecommunications network architecture is described where certain UEs are configured to assist the network to improve coverage in regions of poor radio conditions. In certain embodiments, appropriate UEs are selected to act as a dynamic, out-of-band coverage extensions. Network performance can thereby be improved when serving users at the cell edge (or in other poor radio condition regions of a cell). Data from UEs connected to those assisting UEs is encrypted to allow secure transit of data without requiring modification to the RAN or Core Network.

Telecommunication system for relaying cellular coverage

A method of reducing the load on a first node in a cellular telecommunications network, which network includes a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes serving a plurality of telecommunications devices by providing communication resources thereto is disclosed. The method includes selecting a target telecommunications device for handover from the first node to a second of said nodes; handing over the target device to the second node; allocating communication resources to the target device to enable the second node to serve the target device; selecting a matched telecommunications device that is served by the first node; and adjusting the communication resources allocated to the matched device, which resources enable the first node to serve the matched device, so that they correspond to the resources allocated to the target device, which resources enable the second node to serve the target device.

Telecommunications systems

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London, United Kingdom

Eric Murray