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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1999
Juhani Jaamies, Espoo, FI;
Nokia Telecommunications Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
The invention relates to a implementing signalling in a telecommunications network, particularly in a mobile network. In the method, one network element (BSC) serves as a master element and several other network elements serve as slave elements (BTS1 . . . BTS4) sending a transmission request for signalling information to the master element which assigns transmission turns in accordance with received transmission requests. The signalling is implemented on a signalling channel common to the slave network elements, comprising at least one time slot of the transmission frame, or part of such a time slot. In order that the transmission requests might be forwarded to destination rapidly without unnecessarily occupying transmission capacity, in the transmission from the slave elements to the master element (a) the capacity of the signalling channel used is divided into a first subchannel on which transmission requests are sent and to a second subchannel on which actual signalling information is sent, and (b) the subchannel allocated to transmission requests is further divided between several different base stations in such a way that a predetermined bit from the same time slot of the transmission frame is assigned for the use of transmission requests of each base station, and thus several different slave elements can send a transmission request simultaneously to the master element.