Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Here Global B.v.

Motorola Mobility LLC

Nokia Technologies Oy

Paul Stephens

John McFarland Harris

Anand Bedekar

Leo Modica

Brian Moore

Anatoly Andrianov

Omar Salvador

Alistair Urie

Padmavathi Sudarsan

Reza Mohammad Rokui

Charles Filiatrault

William Macleod

Anatoly Adrianov

Direct conflict mitigation in near real-time radio access network intelligent controllers is provided. A method for direct conflict mitigation in near real-time radio access network intelligent controllers may include determining a potential conflict between subsets of services that are requested for two or more applications among an available set of services of an intelligent controller. The apparatus may transmit conflict negotiation requests to each of the two or more applications requesting that the two or more applications perform conflict negotiation between each other to allocate the subsets of services among the available set of services, and process responses from each of the two or more applications indicating results of the conflict negotiation.

Direct conflict mitigation in near real-time radio access network intelligent controllers

According to an aspect there is provided a method comprising receiving a definition for determining a key performance indicator of a cellular communication network based on raw metrics data, receiving a request for executing an action of determining the key performance indicator according to the definition received, as a response to receiving the request, obtaining the raw metric data and determining the key performance indicator according to the definition and transmitting the key performance indicator using an interface.

Remote definition of metrics

There is provided a method and an apparatus performing the method, the method comprising monitoring one or more user equipment via a first interface; receiving network information from a transport layer element via a second interface between a network layer and a transport layer; determining, based at least on the monitoring of the one or more user equipment and the network information, congestion or degradation associated with the one or more user equipment; identifying a cause of the congestion or degradation associated with the one or more user equipment; and performing one or more action to mitigate or remove the cause of the congestion or degradation.

Congestion control in a wireless communication network

A traffic adjustment or a traffic command, for example, is based on data congestion on a cellular network. Position data is received from a mobile device. A portion of a cellular network that corresponds to the position data is selected. The portion of the cellular network may be the geographic area covered by a cell. The network state of the portion of the cellular network is identified. A traffic device is also identified. The traffic device may be a traffic light or a variable speed sign. The traffic adjustment or traffic command for the traffic device is calculated based on the network state.

Traffic adjustment for variable network state

A method is disclosed that includes communicating an indication of a signature via one or more links in a wireless network, wherein the signature has been computed by a base station of the wireless network over a plurality of configuration parameters of the base station and identifies at least a portion of a current configuration state of the base station. Another method is disclosed that includes assigning, at a base station in a wireless network, a signature using a context of the base station, wherein the assigning is performed so that the signature identifies at least a portion of a current configuration state of the base station. The method includes sending an indication of the signature to one or more entities in the wireless network. Apparatus and computer program products are also disclosed.

Signature enabler for multi-vendor SON coordination

A base station () for a cellular communication system comprises a transceiver () which receives measurement reports from a plurality of user equipments () served by the base station (). The measurement reports comprise receive signal quality indications (such as receive signal levels for pilot signals) for neighbor cells (A-F) of the base station (). An overlap processor () determines a cell overlap indication for each of a set of neighbor cells in response to the receive signal quality indications and a handover control processor () performs handover control in response to the cell overlap indications. The invention may allow improved handover performance and may increase the likelihood that the target handover cell can continue to support the user equipment () following handover. Particularly advantageous performance can be achieved when used for congestion relief of cells.

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Paul Stephens