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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2021
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Jonathan Hart, London, GB;
Milan Lalovic, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of operating a radio access point so as to provide network slicing functionality, the radio access point providing a radio access network for a telecommunications network and the radio access point comprising a plurality of antenna elements, the method comprising the steps of: reserving a portion of the plurality of antenna elements for use only by a given network slice, the reserved portion of the plurality of antenna elements forming a set of antenna elements; receiving, at each of the plurality of antenna elements, a wireless signal from a User Equipment of the telecommunications network identifying the UE from the received wireless signal; determining that the identified UE is allocated to the given network slice; in response to the determining, the radio access point processing only the wireless signal as received by the set of antenna elements.