Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Nokia Corporation

Petri Olavi Jappila

Troels Emil Kolding

Sabine Roessel

Seppo Ilmari Vesterinen

Uwe Schwarz

Matti Tapani Kiiski

Olli Salmela

Seppo Hamalainen

Miikka Huomo

Wolfgang Hahn

Ivan Ore

Martin Goldberg

Tuomas Niemela

Christian Mahr

Timo Harjunen

Joanna Pauliina Jokinen

Topi Tuomas Volkov

Reijo Koivula

Tapio Pehkonen

Carl Petter Engelbert Eklund

Henri Jonni Koskela

Heikki Pulkkinen

Markku Viitasuo

Esa Hintsala

Scaria Kurian

Disclosed is a method including receiving, from an application or function, information indicating at least one of: one or more actions performed or predicted to be performed by the application or function, or one or more key performance indicators indicating an impact or predicted impact of the one or more actions, the one or more actions causing a change in at least one of: communication traffic associated with the one or more base stations, or power consumption of the one or more base stations or one or more subcomponents of the one or more base stations; determine, based at least partly on the received information, one or more virtual power plant actions or one or more peak shaving actions associated with at least one base station; and initiate the one or more virtual power plant actions or the one or more peak shaving actions.

Virtual power plant interoperability

There is provided a method for configuring a communication channel between a base station and a user equipment within a cellular network system. The cellular network system includes at least one cooperation area. The base station is assigned to the at least one cooperation area, and the user equipment is served by the base station. The method includes applying, by the base station, a vertical sectorization and thereby creating the at least one cooperation area, determining, by the base station, the location of the user equipment in relation to the at least one cooperation area, and configuring, by the base station, the communication channel between the base station and the user equipment by using coordinated multipoint processing, if the determined location of the user equipment corresponds to a predetermined location.

Method and apparatuses for configuring a communication channel

The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing access via a cellular access network to a packet data net-work, wherein control plane functions of a gateway device of a core net-work are emulated to the core network, and the emulated control plane functions are used to provide to the core network a set of parameters for local breakout.

Local breakout with parameter access service

Method and system for optimization of a handoff of a user equipment between packet switched and circuit switched networks in response to a request for circuit switched network services on the user equipment while the user equipment is resident on a packet switched only network. The system includes a mobile device, a first network, and a second network. The first network includes a third network and an interworking unit. The second network communicates with the first network. The mobile device sends registration information to the first network. The third network sends the registration information to the interworking unit. The interworking unit sends the registration information to the second network to provide a communication link between the mobile device and the second network.

PS network with CS service enabling functionality

Management of a radio telecommunications network, in which a plurality of a radio network controllers (RNCs) are served with a gateway support node having a given configuration. An added RNC connected to the radio telecommunications network is detected and then it is detected the serving gateway support node if the added RNC is a flat radio access node. If the added RNC is detected as a flat radio access node, it is verified whether the configuration allows serving the added RNC and if yes, the added RNC is connected with the serving gateway support node and correspondingly the configuration is modified. Alternatively, if the added RNC is detected as not being a flat radio access node, connecting the added RNC with the serving gateway support node is refused.

Radio telecommunications network management

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Petri Olavi Jappila