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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
May. 27, 2010
Scott Tran, Plano, TX (US);
Michael Woodmansee, Plano, TX (US);
Gordon Edwards, Red Deer, CA;
Kashif Hussain, Murphy, TX (US);
Martin Kendall, Wylie, TX (US);
Miroslav Budic, Murphy, TX (US);
Abdennaceaur Lachtar, Plano, TX (US);
Yves Choiniere, Calgary, CA;
Scott Tran, Plano, TX (US);
Michael Woodmansee, Plano, TX (US);
Gordon Edwards, Red Deer, CA;
Kashif Hussain, Murphy, TX (US);
Martin Kendall, Wylie, TX (US);
Miroslav Budic, Murphy, TX (US);
Abdennaceaur Lachtar, Plano, TX (US);
Yves Choiniere, Calgary, CA;
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A radio network controller of a wireless telecommunications network having an umbrella cell base station for an umbrella cell and capacity cell base stations for capacity cells within the umbrella cell includes a network interface from which a message is sent to the umbrella base station of the umbrella cell to search for capacity cells within the umbrella cell to redirect traffic of an AT from the umbrella cell to at least one of the capacity cells, and at which eligible capacity cells to which traffic of the AT can be redirected is received. The controller includes a processing unit which selects target capacity cells from the eligible capacity cells to which traffic of the AT will be redirected. A method for a radio network controller of a wireless telecommunications network having an umbrella cell base station for an umbrella cell and capacity cell base stations for capacity cells within the umbrella cell.