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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2015
Vodafone Ip Licensing Limited, Newbury, Berkshire, GB;
Federico Boccardi, London, GB;
Ilaria Thibault, London, GB;
Hisham Elshaer, London, GB;
Eric Albert Bouton, London, GB;
Vodafone IP Licensing Limited, Newbury, Berkshire, GB;
Abstract
A mobile telecommunications network includes a mobile telecommunications device (), a plurality of transceiver nodes (), and control means () operable to choose at least one of the transceiver nodes for use by the mobile telecommunications device for uplink communications and to choose at least one of the transceiver nodes for use by the mobile telecommunications device for downlink communications. The control means is operable to choose the at least one of the transceiver nodes for use by the mobile telecommunications device for uplink communications based upon at least one criterion that is independent of received signal power/path loss, such as: the number of the transceiver node antennas; the antenna gain of the or each of the transceiver node antennas; the maximum uplink transmit power allowed by the transceiver node from the mobile telecommunications device; the load of the transceiver node; the backhaul capacity of the transceiver node; and/or the interference level in the uplink to the transceiver node from the mobile telecommunications device. Arrangement for reducing interference is situations where mobile telecommunications devices engage in Device-to-Device (D2D) communication are also described.