Nokia Corporation

Qualcomm Incorporated

Gabriel Ramos

Harri Holma

Fabio Longoni

Juan Melero

Arto Kangas

Matti Salmenkaita

Timo Halonen

Jose Antonio Cortes

Antti Tolli

Petter Hakalin

Shavantha Kularatna

Atte Länsisalmi

François D'Argence

Sanna Mäenpää

Raquel Sanchez

Pekka Korja

Syed Hossain

Francois D'argence

Timo c/o Nokia Corporation Halonen

François D'ARGENCE

Arto c/o Nokia Corporation Kangas

A communication system covering an area, including a plurality of first units. Each of the first units being configured to control the allocation of channels in a part of the area. At least one of the first units being configured to send information relating to channel allocation in the part of the area associated with the at least one first unit to at least one other of the first units. The at least one other of the first means units being configured to take into account the received information when controlling the allocation of channels in the part of the area associated with the at least one other first units.

Channel allocation for communication system

The present invention relates to a relocation method, system and network element for changing a serving radio resource control entity After an initial operating state in which a user equipment () has radio links with a serving network element () and a drift network element () supporting said serving network element () with a wireless connection, the serving network element () transmits a relocation-specific information to a target network element (). Based on the relocation-specific information, the target network element () establishes a link to the drift network element (), such that the drift network element () can receive user traffic from both the serving network element () and the target network element (). Then, the radio resource control is relocated to the target network element (). The relocation-specific information may comprise an identifier or a list of identifiers of drift network elements. Thus, existing soft handover techniques can be enhanced by allowing a user plane connection to be maintained with drift network elements. Thereby, any amount of drift network elements can be kept, with improved radio performance as a consequence.

Relocation method, system and network element

A method for use in a network covering a region, said region comprising a plurality of areas, a user being assigned to at least oen of said area and having associated therewith a plurality of candidate areas to which the user may be assigned, said method comprising the steps of receiving information identifying said plurality of candidate areas; estimating for each candidate area a parameter, said parameter assuming that said user is assigned to said candidate area; and prioritising said plurality of candidate areas which takes into account the estimated value of said parameter.

Radio resource management

Growing community of inventors

Málaga, Spain

Gabriel Ramos