Network management
AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorsFarhad MEHRAN, Richard MACKENZIE
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Abstract
A method of controlling a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network having a first node, a second node, and a third node, and the method including identifying a first schedule for a frame for facilitating communication between the first node and the second node; identifying a second schedule for a frame for facilitating communication between the second node and the third node, wherein the frames each have an uplink subframe and a downlink subframe; comparing the first and second schedules so as to identify a misalignment in the frames; and applying an adjustment to the first schedule relative to the second schedule so as to reduce the identified misalignment in the frames, thereby to reduce a delay in communication.
Claims26
A method of controlling a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network having a first node, a second node, and a third node, and the method comprising:
- identifying a first schedule for a first frame for facilitating communication between the first node and the second node;
- identifying a second schedule for a second frame for facilitating communication between the second node and the third node, wherein each of the first frame and the second frame comprises an uplink subframe and a downlink subframe;
- comparing the first schedule and the second schedule so as to identify a misalignment in the first frame and the second frame;
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- applying an adjustment to the first schedule relative to the second schedule so as to reduce the identified misalignment in the first frame and the second frame, thereby to reduce a delay in communication.
A telecommunications network system comprising:
- a first node;
- a second node configured to communicate with the first node and for communicating with a third node;
- a processor configured to:
- identify a first schedule for a first frame for facilitating communication between the first node and the second node;
- identify a second schedule for a second frame for facilitating communication between the second node and the third node, wherein each of the first and second frames comprises an uplink subframe and a downlink subframe;
- and
- compare the first and second schedules so as to identify a misalignment in the first and second frames;
- and
- a controller configured to apply an adjustment to the first schedule relative to the second schedule so as to reduce the identified misalignment in the frames, thereby to reduce a delay in communication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.