Telecom Italia S.p.a.

Telecom Italia

Mma-marconi Moblie Access S.p.a.

Mma-marconi Mobile Access S.p.a.

Guglielmo Tomaselli

Antonio Bernini

Stefano Macagno

Paola Bertotto

Carlo Eynard

Salvatore Riccobono

Valerio Di Claudio

A method, and a related system, for estimating coverage of a selected geographic area by a cellular radio mobile communications network including a plurality of radio base stations, includes: dividing the selected area into a plurality of area elements and determining expected serving radio base stations expected to serve the area elements based on an estimation of the strength of the radio electromagnetic field of the radio base stations in the area element. The expected serving radio stations are determined by: estimating probabilistic distributions of the strength of the radio electromagnetic fields irradiated by the radio base stations and perceived in the area element; and calculating probabilities that the area elements are served by the radio base stations based on said probabilistic distributions. The method can be exploited in the planning of a network, for example, in the estimation of the distribution of traffic.

Method for estimating a radio coverage of a geographic area in a cellular mobile radio communication network

A method for estimating a territorial distribution of traffic in a selected area of a cellular radio mobile communications network, includes: dividing the selected area into a plurality of traffic-generating area elements; determining overall traffic in respect of said selected network area; and distributing the overall traffic across the plurality of traffic-generating area elements. For distributing the traffic, a respective network traffic generation propension is calculated for each traffic-generating area element, wherein said network traffic generation propension is adapted to provide an indication of a forecasted population of users of the network in respect of the traffic generating area element; and a distribution of a radio electromagnetic field associated with a current network configuration across said selected area is also estimated, obtaining an indication of the radio electromagnetic field strength in each of said traffic-generating area elements, each of said traffic-generating area elements being assigned a respective overall traffic portion based on the respective network traffic generation propension and on the respective indication of the radio electromagnetic field strength.

Method and system for estimating traffic distribution in a cellular mobile radio communications network

A supranational and inter-PLMN physical private mobile telecommunications network includes at least one first (1) and one second (2) physical node that can cooperate with the respective different public mobile networks (PLMN, PLMN), , , ) referably located in different countries. These physical nodes have respective: functionalities selected from the group consisting of: masking functionality (M, M) to handle the interworking with the respective public mobile network (PLMN, PLMN), filtering functionality (F, F) to analyze the numbering of the internal call d/calling customer in relation to the identity of the calling/called party, a functionality managing the coordination and intelligent services (INCI, INC), which can control the call between the physical node of origin and the physical node visited, and thus permits the management of the virtual user mobility between the physical nodes as they are involved as well as the: invocation of the intelligent services provided inside the different physical nodes, and an interworking functionality (ITW, ITW) configured so as to permit the interworking between signalling on Internet Protocol network (IP) and a circuit-switching signalling.

Physical private mobile telecommunications network

System for managing the identities of mobile stations roaming between mobile radio networks, operating within a private mobile radio network, constituted by one or more base transceiver stations (BTS; Node B) and by a reference base station controller (BSC; RNC), which realize a normal base station subsystem (BSS; RNS) within the public mobile radio network, characterised in that upon registration of the roaming mobile station (MS), authorized to access the private mobile radio network, the system (VIM) simulates, from the base station subsystem (BSS; RNS) towards the mobile switching center (MSC) of the competent network switching subsystem (NSS), the behaviour of the mobile station, whereto it has associated the identity profile selected from a group of identity profiles held by the operator of the visited network, and in wholly similar form, from the mobile switching center (MSC) towards the base station subsystem (BSS), the system (VIM) simulates the behaviour of the competent network switching subsystem (NSS) during the salient steps of the registration of the roaming mobile station, in such a way as to assure the correct execution of the procedure itself.

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Guglielmo Tomaselli