Nokia Corporation

Vringo Infrastructure Inc.

Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Tuomas Niemela

Kari Pekka Kauranen

Miikka Huomo

Shavantha Kularatna

Shkumbin Hamiti

Devaki Chandramouli

Bruno Landais

Laurent Thiebaut

Basavaraj Patil

Peter Leis

Seppo Hamalainen

Olli Salmela

Thomas Theimer

Rayadurgam Ravikanth

Petri Olavi Jappila

Risto Mononen

Topi Tuomas Volkov

Henri Jonni Koskela

Scaria Kurian

Miika Huomo

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

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for data storage (DS) function selection are provided. One method includes obtaining, from a network node, an address of a DS function that contains user equipment (UE) context information for at least one UE. The method may further include accessing, by a client, the DS function to register for the UE context information.

Data storage function selection

The invention relates to a method and system for performing packet switched handover in a mobile communication network. The system comprises a mobile node, a first and a second packet switching node. The method enables the parallel sending of logical link layer frames from the first and the second packet switching node. This is achieved so that the mobile node does not reject incoming frames received from two logical link layer entities having different states. The benefits of the invention are related to improved quality of service and the avoiding of gaps in received data during handover.

Method for performing packet switched handover in a mobile communication system

The method and system provides a data packet encapsulated with protocol data according to an embodiment of the invention. A data packet for communication may be associated with a TLLI and a NSAPI identifying a communications path between a BSS and a SGSN. The method and system provides a BVC associated with the BSS and the SGSN and a NSE that provides communication service to the BVC over NS-VC. The BVC, NSE and NS-VC may be associated with the TLLI and NSAPI. The encapsulated protocol data comprises UDP and IP. UDP provides UDP ports associated with NS-VC. The UDP ports identified as data designated as either real time or non-real time services. IP provides an IP address identifying the NSE providing service to the BVC. The data packet encapsulated with UDP and IP provides for more efficient, flexible and reliable communications between a BSS and a SGSN.

Method and system for communicating data between a mobile communications architecture and a packet switched architecture

The invention provides a method and system for allowing communication between a BSS and SGSN, each having an NS-VC table and utilizing a different mode of communication. For example, a BSS may utilize associating UDP with NSE and IP with NS-VC and the SGSN may utilize associating UDP with NS-VC and IP with NSE. The method and system provides for the construction of an NS-VC table correlating the NS-VC table of the BSS and SGSN. Therefore, the method and system provides for the conversion of a data packet having UDP associated with NS-VC and IP associated with NSE to UDP having association with NSE and IP having association with NS-VC and vice versa. An NS-VC table may be constructed from information provided from a negotiations procedure or normal communications. The constructed NS-VC table allows for communications between the mobile communications architecture and the packet switched architecture, without requiring compatible utilization of UDP and IP.

Method and system for communicating data between a mobile communications architecture and a packet switched architecture, each utilizing a different mode of communication

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Tuomas Niemela