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AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsCarine Balageas, Vinod Kumar
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A method manages the state of a plurality of micro base stations inside a mobile communication network. The network comprises at least a macro cell containing at least one Tracking Area covering a plurality of micro cells each one associated with a micro base station. The method to manage the states of micro cells comprises the steps of: switching on of all the micro base stations contained in said Tracking Area of the macro cell, counting of the messages of paging to determine the number of portable devices in Idle mode inside said Tracking Area, and switching off at least one micro base station in the Tracking Area when the number of portable devices in Idle mode in the said Tracking Area is lower than a first determined value. According to an improvement, the switching on of all the micro base stations contained in a Tracking Area is triggered when the current load of the macro cell exceeds a second determined value.
Method to manage the energy mode of a plurality of micro base station inside a mobile communication network, the network comprising at least one macro cell containing at least one Tracking Area covering a plurality of micro cells each one associated with a micro base station, wherein it comprises:
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Controller of mobile communication network controlling the traffic inside a macro cell comprising means of communication with a plurality of micro base stations associated with a micro cell, the macro cell containing at least a Tracking Area covering a plurality of micro cells, wherein said controller comprises:
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