Communication system
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsSuresh Ganapathy, Jagdeep Singh Ahluwalia, Neeraj Gupta, Kenji Kawaguchi
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Abstract
A communication system in which an availability of communication resources to be used by a first base station module and a second base station module of a communications apparatus is managed. In one embodiment, the communication resources are shared between first and second base station modules such that communication resources that are not being used by the first base station module are available to be used by the second base station module and vice versa.
Claims25
A communications apparatus comprising:
- a first base station module for providing wireless communication to a communications network to at least one mobile communications device within range of the first base station module;
- a second base station module for providing wireless communication to a communications network to at least one mobile communications device within range of the second base station module;
- a network interface to a communications network, for providing communication resources of the communications network to the first and second base station modules over a communication link;
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- means for managing an availability of the communication resources, over the communication link, to be used by said first base station module and said second base station module for providing said wireless communication to the communications network to the at least one mobile communications device.
A mobile communications device for use with a communications apparatus comprising:
- a first base station module for providing wireless communication to a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices within range of the first base station module;
- a second base station module for providing wireless communication to a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices within range of the second base station module;
- an interface for coupling the first base station module and the second base station module;
- wherein at least one of the first and second base station modules is configured to exchange at least one information element with the other one of the first and second base station modules via said interface, and
- wherein the mobile communications device is arranged to communicate a communications network via one of the first and second base station modules of the communications apparatus.
A method, performed in a telecommunications network, for facilitating the share of communication resources over a communication link to a communications network to first and second base station modules of a telecommunications apparatus, the method comprising managing the communication resources of at least one of the first and the second base station modules.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.