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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1997
Bo S. P. Wallentin, Ljungsbro, SE;
Pär I. Gustavsson, Linköping, SE;
Anders V. H. Fredén, Huddinge, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
The present invention reduces signaling between a mobile control node and one or more base stations. A common controller at each base station controls allocation of communication resources related to communications with mobile communication units. A single message is sent from the mobile control node to at least one of the base stations including information that identifies plural communication resources at the one base station, e.g., channel units corresponding to plural sector cells supported by the base station. The common controller at the one base station distributes the single message to the plural communication resources to be communicated ultimately by one of those communications resources to the mobile communication units. Signaling between a control node and plural base stations is therefore reduced by sending a single message from the control node to the base station that identifies plural communication resources at the base station rather than sending a separate message to each of the communications resources.