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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2012
Afef Feki, Nozay, FR;
Chung Shue Chen, Nozay, FR;
Francois Baccelli, Meudon, FR;
Laurent Thomas, Nozay, FR;
Afef Feki, Nozay, FR;
Chung Shue Chen, Nozay, FR;
Francois Baccelli, Meudon, FR;
Laurent Thomas, Nozay, FR;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method for attaching a user terminal to a base station of a network is disclosed, said network comprising base stations. The method including defining a global cost function which is a weighted sum of the user terminal transmission delays, over all the user terminals in the network, using a user terminal's context weighting factor representing a user terminal's characteristic; defining a local cost function for each user terminal from said global cost function, said local cost function taking into account said user terminal's context weighting factor for each user terminal, and being a function of the base station to which this user terminal is associated; running a Gibbs sampler with said local cost function for producing user-base station association probabilities; choosing the user-base station association probability which favors low local cost; and attaching said user terminal to a base station according to the user-base station association probability chosen.