Telecommunication networks
AssigneeVodafone IP Licensing Limited
InventorsDavid Andrew Fox, Youssef Chami, Neil Holmes
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Abstract
A mobile telecommunications network includes a core and a radio access network having a radio for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network. The radio access network includes a controller operable to control the use of network resources by the mobile terminals. The controller may include an application programming interface, API, which provides a consistent interface to a multiplicity of applications hosted on the control mean. The controller may be provided at an access node site and/or a gateway site.
Claims16
A mobile telecommunications network comprising:
- a core;
- and
- a radio access network having radio means for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network, the radio means including a plurality of radio frequency parts and a plurality of baseband parts, each of the baseband parts being operable to provide a plurality of baseband functions, wherein the network includes control means in the radio access network operable to control the use of the baseband parts, wherein the control means is operable to temporarily disable selected baseband functions of its associated baseband part that are underused and to enable equivalent baseband functions of the disabled baseband functions to be provided by alternative ones of the baseband parts that are associated with other control means.
A method of operating a mobile telecommunications network including a core and a radio access network having radio means for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network, the radio means including a plurality of radio frequency parts and a plurality of baseband parts, each of the baseband parts providing a plurality of baseband functions, the method comprising:
- using control means in the radio access network to control the use of the baseband parts, wherein the control means temporarily disables selected baseband functions of its associated baseband part that are underused and enables equivalent baseband functions of the disabled baseband functions to be provided by alternative ones of the baseband parts that are associated with other control means.
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