Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Sandeep Akhouri

Ankur Dauneria

Sumit Singhal

Ivo Sedlacek

Angel Navas Cornejo

Kirti Girdhar

A method, in a node of a communication network, for managing effects of a scheduled outage of mains power is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a notification of a scheduled outage of mains power (A), the notification comprising a location to be affected by the scheduled outage and a time period during which the scheduled outage is scheduled. The method further comprises identifying mains powered devices registered on the communication network and situated in the notified location (B), discovering an entity affected by an outage of at least one of the identified devices (D), and informing the discovered entity that the identified devices are scheduled to be without power during the notified time period (F). Also disclosed area computer program product for carrying out the above method and a communication network node () configured to carry out the above method.

Managing effects of a scheduled outage of mains power

The invention is directed towards a communication policy control device (), method, computer program and computer program product for determining type of communication to be used by a client entity reporting data to a server entity in a machine-to-machine communication system, where the client entity and server entity have at least two different available communication types between each other. The communication policy control devicemonitors the connection state of communication according to a current communication type over a current communication medium, identifies system parameters affected by the connection state, selects a communication policy (P, P, P) based on the affected system parameters, said communication policy setting out rules for the use of one or more communication types, and activates communication over a communication medium according to a communication type specified by the selected communication policy, if not already in place.

Communication policy control in a machine-to-machine communication system

A method, in a monitoring function, for monitoring resource usage in a communication network comprising a plurality of M2M devices is disclosed. The method comprises detecting issuance of a user instruction (), the user instruction specifying an action to be carried out by at least one of the M2M devices, identifying M2M devices subject to the user instruction (), calculating an impact upon the communication network of completion of the action by the identified M2M devices (), and sending the calculated impact to a resource management function (). Also disclosed is a method, in a resource management function, for managing resources in a communication network comprising a plurality of M2M devices. The method comprises receiving, from a monitoring function, a calculated impact upon the communication network of completion of an action by M2M devices subject to a user instruction specifying the action (), and adjusting resource allocation within the network according to the calculated impact (). Also disclosed are a monitoring element, a resource management element and a computer program product.

Methods and apparatus for monitoring and managing resource usage in a communication network

A method performed in a network operator server in communication with a utility server over a communication network, includes the network operator server receiving, from the utility server over the communication network, a utility message including an identification of at least one network device. The method further includes the network operator determining at least one network impact characteristic using the utility message. The method further includes the network operator server changing, in accordance with the at least one determined network impact characteristic, at least one network policy associated with the at least one network device.

Methods, network nodes, and computer program products for price signal feedback for network optimization

A control apparatus initiates, in response to a predetermined condition being satisfied, a provisioning, to a communications terminal, of information of a portion of a management object. The control apparatus generates, and transmits to the communications terminal, one or more commands comprising information of the portion including information of a reference node which is a leaf node of the management object and which contains reference information specifying a sub-tree comprising specific access network related information. The communications terminal receives the one or more commands, stores the information of the portion comprised in the one or more commands in accordance with the one or more commands, and acquires the specific access network related information of the sub-tree using the reference information of the reference node included in the information of the portion.

Access network related information provisioning system, control apparatus, method of controlling the same, communications terminal, method of controlling the same, program, and storage medium

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Sandeep Akhouri