Femtocell base station
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsNick Whinnett, Fiona Somerville, Christopher Smart
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Abstract
There is provided a method of operating a femtocell base station comprising, following a hand-in or reselection of the femtocell base station by a mobile device, determining a reason for the hand-in or reselection by the mobile device and adjusting a maximum permitted transmission power of the femtocell base station according to the determined reason. A femtocell base station for use in a communication network is also provided that comprises a processor configured to perform the above method following hand-in or reselection of the femtocell base station.
Claims18
A method of operating a femtocell base station comprising:
- following a hand-in or reselection of the femtocell base station by a mobile device, determining a reason for the hand-in or reselection by the mobile device;
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- adjusting a maximum permitted transmission power of the femtocell base station following or in response to the hand-in or reselection according to the determined reason such that the reason for the adjusting of the maximum permitted transmission power is the reason for the hand-in or reselection.
A method of operating a femtocell base station, the femtocell base station being configured to operate in a closed mode in which only a predefined set of mobile devices can hand-in or reselect the femtocell base station, the method comprising:
- temporarily configuring the femtocell base station to operate in an open or hybrid mode in which any mobile device may hand-in or reselect the femtocell base station;
- following a hand-in or reselection of the femtocell base station by a mobile device, determining a reason for the hand-in or reselection by the mobile device;
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- adjusting a maximum permitted transmission power of the femtocell base station according to the determined reason wherein the mobile device handing-in or reselecting the femtocell base station is not a mobile device in the predefined set;
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- reconfiguring the femtocell base station to operate in the closed mode.
A femtocell base station for use in a communication network, the femtocell base station comprising:
- an antenna configured to transmit and receive signals;
- a memory configured to store machine readable code;
- a processor coupled to the memory and configured to, in response to a hand-in or reselection of the femtocell base station by a mobile device, execute the machine readable code to:
- temporarily configuring the femtocell base station to operate in an open or hybrid mode in which any mobile device may hand-in or reselect the femtocell base station;
- following a hand-in or reselection of the femtocell base station by a mobile device, determining a reason for the hand-in or reselection by the mobile device;
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- adjusting a maximum permitted transmission power of the femtocell base station according to the determined reason wherein the mobile device handing-in or reselecting the femtocell base station is not a mobile device in the predefined set;
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- reconfiguring the femtocell base station to operate in the closed mode.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product performs the following steps:
- temporarily configuring the femtocell base station to operate in an open or hybrid mode in which any mobile device may hand-in or reselect the femtocell base station;
- following a hand-in or reselection of the femtocell base station by a mobile device, determining a reason for the hand-in or reselection by the mobile device;
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- adjusting a maximum permitted transmission power of the femtocell base station according to the determined reason wherein the mobile device handing-in or reselecting the femtocell base station is not a mobile device in the predefined set;
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- reconfiguring the femtocell base station to operate in the closed mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.