Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110122779 | SELF-MANAGEMENT OF MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ENTITY (MME) POOLS - A device estimates a load on the device based on static and dynamic load information associated with the device, provides the estimated load to the other devices in a pool of devices, and estimates, based on the estimated load, a weight of the device in the pool. The device also detects a load imbalance in the pool based on the estimated weight and weights associated with the other devices in the pool, and determines, based on the estimated load, a number of subscribers to offload from the device. The device further determines, based on the estimated weight and the weights associated with the other devices, to which of the other devices to offload the determined number of subscribers, and offloads, to address the load imbalance, the determined number of subscribers to the determined other devices in the pool. | 05-26-2011 |
20110122845 | MOVING USER EQUIPMENT WITHOUT SERVICE INTERRUPTION - A device determines a user equipment, associated with the device, to move to a target device provided in a pool of other devices, where the user equipment has an ongoing session. The device also moves the user equipment to the target device, via a handover procedure and without interrupting the ongoing session, when the user equipment cannot be moved to the target device via direct signaling to the user equipment. The device further moves the user equipment to the target device, via direct signaling to the user equipment and without interrupting the ongoing session, when the user equipment can be moved to the target device via direct signaling to the user equipment. | 05-26-2011 |
20120147768 | Method and Apparatus For Reducing Power Consumption in a Telecommunication Network - A method that reduces the power consumption on network nodes by taking into account the services that need to be supported by the network and the power saving capabilities of the nodes. | 06-14-2012 |
20120290790 | METHOD, SERVER, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CACHING - It presented a method comprising the steps of: determining, in a caching server of a telecommunication network, a user profile to analyse; obtaining, in the caching server, a group of user profiles; obtaining correlation measurements for each user profile in the group of user profiles in relation to the user profile to analyse; and calculating a content caching priority for at least one piece of content of a content history associated with the group of user profiles, taking the correlation measurement into account. A corresponding server, computer program and computer program product are also provided. | 11-15-2012 |
20130080633 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING OF CONNECTIVITY SERVICES - An apparatus ( | 03-28-2013 |
20130100847 | Method And An Apparatus For Evaluating Network Performance - The present invention relates to methods and node entities for enabling active measurement for evaluating network performance in a network comprising a logical tree structure | 04-25-2013 |
20130136032 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS OF A PHYSICAL NETWORK ENTITY - The invention relates to a method for managing communications of a physical network entity in an arrangement of physical network entities. The method comprises managing ( | 05-30-2013 |
20130150015 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CACHING - A method and caching server for enabling caching of a portion of a media file in a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile telecommunications network. The caching server selects the media file and determines a size of the portion to be cached in the UE. The size may be determined depending on radio network conditions for the UE and/or characteristics of the media file. The caching server sends an instruction to the UE to cache the determined size of the portion of the media file in the UE. | 06-13-2013 |
20130205013 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method and an apparatus discover a node in a communications network. The method and apparatus deploy a first crawler program in the network, where the first crawler program encounters a first node of the network. Network management information is collected from the first node using the first crawler program. An identity of a second node in communication with the first node is determined from the network management information using the first crawler program. The method and apparatus avoid or reduce the need for human operator involvement when the communications network is configured for the first time, or when there has been a change in the communications network such as the addition of a new node. | 08-08-2013 |
20130215939 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SETTING A SIZE OF AN EVENT CORRELATION TIME WINDOW - Transmitting and receiving arrangements and methods in a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) system having a plurality of modems and vectored transmission capability. A first part of an available frequency band is reserved for vectored DSL transmission and reception using modems operating in the first part of the frequency band. The remaining, second, part of the available frequency band is reserved for both vectored and non-vectored transmission using modems operating in the second part of the frequency band. | 08-22-2013 |
20130310052 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SUPPORTING BACKHAUL SELECTION - Methods and devices are disclosed for backhaul selection in a wireless communication network. A first radio base station has access to a first backhaul path through an out-of-band interface and to a second backhaul path, via a second radio base station, through an in-band interface. According to a method, a network entity sends, to the second radio base station, a request for available capacity on the second backhaul path for backhauling of the first radio base station. The second radio base station derives a total available capacity from an estimate of available capacity for backhauling on a backhaul path from the second radio base station to a core network and from an estimate of available capacity for backhauling on the in-band interface and signals the total available capacity to the network entity. The network entity selects backhaul path based on the received information on the total available capacity. | 11-21-2013 |
20130332762 | NETWORK NODE HAVING A POWER SAVING MODE - A network node has an interface which has different modes of operation, including at least a power saving mode and a normal operating mode. The node has a power saving mode management module for maintaining information about whether the interface is in the power saving mode of operation. The power saving mode management module is able to make available to one or more layers higher than the physical layer of the interface information about whether the interface is in the power saving mode of operation. | 12-12-2013 |
20130340012 | Media Switching Unit and Method - A user terminal, media application and method for selectively downloading media content through a communication network and selectively displaying the media content at a user terminal connected to the communication network. The method includes receiving main media content at the user terminal; determining at the user terminal level whether there are streaming resources available to maintain a predetermined quality of streaming the main media content; receiving secondary media content when the streaming resources are above a predetermined level; and displaying the main media content when the streaming resources are above the predetermined level and automatically displaying the secondary media content when the streaming resources are below the predetermined level. A switching functionality of the user terminal is configured to select which media content to be displayed as a function of the streaming resources. | 12-19-2013 |
20140071832 | NETWORK FAULT LOCALIZATION - Mechanisms for monitoring communication links in a network are disclosed. A device receives a plurality of path performance indicators over a period of time. It is determined that at least some of the path performance indicators identify a path violation in a corresponding path of a plurality of paths in the network. For each path performance indicator that identifies a path violation, a communication link value associated with each communication link in the corresponding path is updated based on a path violation value. The device identifies at least one particular communication link as a problematic communication link based on a comparison between a problematic link criterion and the communication link value associated with the at least one particular communication link. | 03-13-2014 |
20140298052 | ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS - Mechanism for implementing energy efficiency (EE) policies on flows in a software defined network are disclosed. A controller node receives from each of a plurality of datapath nodes, a corresponding set of EE actions that the respective datapath node is capable of implementing. A flow is identified, and a group of datapath nodes through which the flow is routed is identified. Based on an attribute of the flow, an EE policy is determined. Based on the EE policy, a datapath node in the group of datapath nodes is directed to perform an EE action on packets associated with the flow. | 10-02-2014 |
20140355453 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR FAULT ANALYSIS IN A MULTI-LAYER NETWORK - The invention relates to a method for fault analysis in a multi-layer network. The method includes receiving a first set of performance measurements occurring in response to the fault and representing at least a first and a second layer in a multi-layer communications network. A probable set of network elements affected by the fault are localized. The type of fault is inferred from one or more symptoms in the performance measurements. The root cause of the failure is determined from a combination of information on probable set of network elements and inferred type of fault. | 12-04-2014 |