Multimode Base Station
OwnerNicholas William Whinnett, Fiona Clare Angharad Somervilleinventors
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Abstract
A method of controlling admission of a user equipment to a cell of a multi-mode base station, being a base station arranged to operate as a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells comprising at least a first cell and a second cell, and the method comprising: determining information relating to the first cell, and controlling admission of a user equipment to the second cell in dependence on the information relating to the first cell.
Claims20
A method of controlling admission of a user equipment to a cell of a multi-mode base station, being a base station arranged to operate as a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells comprising at least a first cell and a second cell, and the method comprising:
- determining information relating to the first cell, and
- controlling admission of a user equipment to the second cell in dependence on the information relating to the first cell.
A multi-mode base station arranged to operate as a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells comprising at least a first cell and a second cell, and the base station comprising:
- a radio resource manager for controlling admission of a user equipment to the cells, the radio resource manager being configured to:
- determine information relating to the first cell, and
- control admission of a user equipment to the second cell based on the information relating to the first cell.
A computer program product for controlling access to a cell of a multi-mode base station, the a base station arranged to operate as a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells comprising at least a first cell and a second cell, and the computer program product being embodied on a non-transient computer-readable medium and configured such that when executed on a processor of the base station it determines information relating to the first cell, and controls admission of a user equipment to the second cell based on the information relating to the first cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.