Alcatel

Kristiaan Johan Venken

Rolf Sigle

José Diaz Cervera

Ignacio Gomez Vinagre

Christiaan H Sierens

Peter Michel Vandenabeele

Harry Franciscus VanHoof

Provided are a radio access network, a distributed radio network controlling structure and a network element, each providing mobile communications services, and each having controlling elements including at least one control plane server for providing control plane functions and at least one user plane server for providing user plane functions, and a network having a mapping function for interfacing the radio control elements with a core network. Using this solution, only the network element containing a mapping function interfaces with the core network.

Radio access network and network elements for providing mobile communications services

The invention relates to a method for routing a message from a Cell Control to a Mobile Control of a Radio Network Control equipment and vice versa. Such methods are substantially known in the art for Radio Network Controllers RNCs. The present invention proposes a communication between functional entities of a distributed RNC enabling the routing of the message by using known protocols and reusing identifiers already known for these protocols.

Method for routing messages between a mobile control and cell control functional entities of a distributed radio access network

The main station (MS) and possibly also the terminal stations (T1, T2, T3) of a telecommunication network is/are provided with memories wherein historical information (TT1, TT2, TT3, TT4, CT1, CT2, CT3), i.e. information with respect to log-in attempts of terminal stations (T1, T2, T3) in the past, is stored. This historical information is frequently updated and is used during a polled log-in method wherein terminals (T1, T2, T3) are polled either individually or in groups, executed for instance after a network crash or power-down, to limit the number of terminals that has to be polled by the main station (MS) so as to speed up the polled log-in procedure. The performance of the log-in of each single terminal further increases significantly if this terminal is located at a substantially fixed location in the network and if power- and delay information for transmitting upstream identification messages during log-in are also contained by the historical information.

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Schilde, Belgium

Kristiaan Johan Venken