Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Nokia Corporation

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Nokia Technologies Oy

Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.

Seppo Hamalainen

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Haitao Tang

Hannu Hakkinen

Seppo Granlund

Achim Franz Wacker

Henrik Martikainen

Petri Eskelinen

Tero Henttonen

Esa Mikael Malkamaki

Elena Virtej

Jian Ma

Oscar Salonaho

Antti Lappeteläinen

Bernhard Wegmann

Krzysztof Kordybach

Olli Salmela

Jyri Kalervo Hamalainen

Tuomas Niemela

Petri Olavi Jappila

Zhu Yan Zhao

Niina Laaksonen

Jere Keurulainen

Topi Tuomas Volkov

Henri Jonni Koskela

Jukka Kalevi Jokinen

Scaria Kurian

Jens Benner

Povl Koch

Rong Rong Shang

Antti Lehtonen

Kari Aho

Aku Vuoti

Jens-Ulrik Petersen

Raymond Kwan

Veli-Matti Teittinen

Eeva Poutiainen

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

A network apparatus may include a memory and processing circuitry configured to receive first connection metrics of a connection with a user equipment that is using a first configuration during a first connected state; receive second connection metrics of the connection with the user equipment during a transition to a second connected state; choose a selected configuration as (i) the first configuration or (ii) a second configuration for the second connection state based on the first connection metrics and the second connection metrics; and send the selected configuration to the user equipment.

User equipment configuration

The present invention relates to methods, apparatuses, a system and a computer program product for reducing interference and energy consumption of wireless devices. An apparatus, namely a femto base station or home (e) NodeB, can include a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, a determining unit, a disabling unit, a disabling handshaking unit, and a reassigning unit. If the determining unit determines that there is no active communication between the apparatus and a user device, the disabling unit may disable the transmitting unit and the receiving unit while maintaining a connection between the apparatus and a network. A disabling handshaking can be performed by the disabling handshaking unit to achieve this, wherein the re-assigning unit may re-assign one or more user device(s) to a network apparatus, namely a macro (e) NodeB.

Reducing interference and energy consumption for FEMTO base stations

There is provided a method and an apparatus for determining an adjustment of a tilt angle (&#x3b1;) for a beam emitted from an antenna () of a base station () which is serving a vertically sectorized cell () of a cellular radio telecommunication network. The method comprises (a) configuring user equipments () being located in the vertically sectorized cell () with dedicated measurements, (b) collecting the dedicated measurements for a specific time interval, (c) obtaining a spatial user equipment distribution among a first sector () of the cell () and a second sector () of the cell () based on the collected dedicated measurements, (d) ascertaining an optimized spatial overlap region between the first sector () and the second sector () based on the obtained spatial user equipment distribution, and (e) determining the adjustment of the tilt angle (&#x3b1;) based on the ascertained optimized spatial overlap region.

Determining an adjustment of a tilt angle for an antenna serving a vertically sectorized cell of a radio network

Systems and techniques for antenna optimization are described. Information such as statistics relating to conditions are collected, and evaluated against specified criteria in an iterative process. An antenna tilt decision is made based on the evaluation and validated to determine if it should be retained or repeated, or if the tilt should be returned to a previous state.

Methods and apparatus for antenna tilt optimization

A method for policy management in a network comprises collecting data relating to one or more active user equipment in the network, processing said data, and responsive to said processing determining if policy management provided by a policy function of the network with respect to a respective user equipment is to be changed.

Adapting PCC rules to user experience

A method and apparatus for detecting and determining the location of a coverage hole in a communications network such as a cellular communication system wherein the location is determined from operational parameters and/or by network elements themselves. Additionally is a method to reduce a hole by adjusting antennae parameters preferably remotely and automatically and this can be done in conjunction with hole location to optimize the system.

Method of improving coverage and optimisation in communication networks

An electronic device having a cellular communication mode and a radio communication mode, the electronic device including first transceiver means, operable in the cellular communication mode, for transmitting a message via a cellular network, the message including information for enabling a radio communication mode of a further electronic device; and second transceiver means, operable in the radio communication mode, for communicating with the further electronic device when in the radio communication mode.

Electronic device having a cellular communication mode and a radio communication mode

A method of controlling an antenna system in which performance indicators relating to capacity and coverage are used to generate an instruction to adjust the order of MIMO provided by the antenna system and at least one of the level of beam forming and transmission power. The instruction may not be followed in case a decision-making entity decides that it is not appropriate.

Arrangements for controlling antennas

A method comprises receiving from a plurality of user equipment signal information for at least one cell, and using said information to determine if a candidate cell is to enter a reduced power mode.

Method and apparatus

The present invention refers to operating of power amplifiers of base stations in a communications network, wherein each power amplifier is assigned to a corresponding antenna of a base station and enables receiving and/or transmitting of information signals in an area of the communications network covered by the corresponding antenna. The operating includes switching off of a number of power amplifiers of a base station so that at least one power amplifier of the base station is left on, if level of load in the communications network is detected as being low; and switching of a signal of the at least one power amplifier to antennas, to which power amplifiers of the number of power amplifiers are assigned.

Energy saving operating of power amplifiers in communications networks

A method and apparatus for detecting and determining the location of a coverage hole in a communications network such as a cellular communication system wherein the location is determined from operational parameters and/or by network elements themselves. Additionally is a method to reduce a hole by adjusting antennae parameters preferably remotely and automatically and this can be done in conjunction with hole location to optimise the system.

A device and method including a plurality of transmitters and/or receiver units and antennae therefore, and wherein each of said units are arranged radially to cover a plurality of sectors; and including at least one component necessary for the operation of said units, and arranged such that said component is shared between two or more units and/or their respective antennae. The device and method has application to MIMO systems.

MIMO communication system

A method and a mobile station for controlling interfrequency handovers of the mobile station is provided. The target value for a quality factor of the received downlink signal is used in determining a need for an interfrequency handover. The target value of the handover control method may be equal to the target value of the downlink outer loop power control, or target value of handover control may depend on the target value of the downlink outer loop power control. As the target value of the downlink outer loop power control is updated, the target value of the handover control is typically updated, too. The same target values, or values that depend on the downlink outer loop power control target values, for example, via a known function, are used in controlling interfrequency handovers. A method according to the preferred embodiments of the invention detects this situation and preparations for an interfrequency handover are typically initiated.

Control of interfrequency handovers

A connection establishment method for establishing a random access type connection using a random access channel, which is used in a radio system having several subscriber terminal equipments (to) and base stations (to) where one or more transceiver units (to) operate, and in which system connection establishment between one of the subscriber terminal equipments (to) and the base station (to) is possible when the one subscriber terminal equip nt (to) is situated in the coverage area of one or more transceiver units (to) of the base station, where the one subscriber terminal equipment (to) evaluates the quality of the connections to be established. Starting from a condition in which no connection is established with the one subscriber terminal equipment, the one subscriber terminal equipment (to) forms a random access type connection to more than one base station transceiver unit (to) included in one or more base stations (to).m

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