Method and a network element for providing a handover in a communications system
OwnerArto Kangas, Uwe Schwarzinventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for providing a group communication handover in a communications system supporting group communication. In the invention communications terminals are detected that belong to a communications group; a load of the communications group is monitored in a first resource; and if the load exceeds a preset load level in the first resource, to at least one of the communications terminals of the group the group communication handover is performed from the first resource to a second resource.
Claims17
A method for providing a handover in a communications system supporting group communication, the method comprising:
- detecting communications terminals that belong to a communications group;
- monitoring a load of the communications group in a first resource;
- and
- performing, to at least one of the communications terminals of the communications group, a handover from the first resource to a second resource, when the load exceeds a predetermined load level in the first resource.
A network element for providing a handover in a communications system supporting group communication, wherein the element comprises:
- an admission control block configured to
- detect communications terminals that belong to a communications group;
- monitor a group communication load;
- and
- indicate a need for handover for at least one communications terminal of the communications group from a first resource to a second resource in response to the group communication load exceeding a predetermined threshold level set for the group communication load.
A network element for providing a handover in a communications system supporting group communication, wherein the element comprises a handover control block having memory for at least one parameter relating to group communication load, the handover control block being configured, at least partly based on said at least one parameter, to perform the handover for at least one recipient of the group from a first resource to a second resource in response to the group communication load exceeding a predetermined threshold level set for the group communication load.
A group call indicator usable in signals of a communications system supporting group communication, said communications system comprising an access network element, wherein the indicator indicates to the access network element communications terminals that belong to a communications group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.