POWER SAVING MECHANISM IN A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK

The present invention relates to providing methods and apparatus for determining whether a cell in a radio access network could have been powered down during at least one time slot in a predetermined period of time. Measurement data relating to the cell is used to determine whether the neighbouring...

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Hauptverfasser: POLLANEN, OSSI KYOSTI ANTERO, SALMINEN, LASSE MIKKO JUHANI
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:The present invention relates to providing methods and apparatus for determining whether a cell in a radio access network could have been powered down during at least one time slot in a predetermined period of time. Measurement data relating to the cell is used to determine whether the neighbouring cells had sufficient spare capacity to handle the network traffic originating from cell during the time slots in the predetermined period of time.