Abstract: A discontinuous transmission method for a base station of a small cell in a heterogeneous network. Depending on the filling state of the buffer or the lifetime of the data, the base station decides to send the data in an element frame or, on the contrary, to enter standby during that frame. In the event it decides to send the data, it ensures beforehand that no base station of an adjacent small cell is in the process of transmitting. Otherwise, it goes into standby for a pseudorandom duration before trying a new transmission of said data.

Abstract: A method of allocating resources in a cellular radio communication network including user equipments and a cluster composed of local access points to the network covering a microcell. For each local access point, the presence of user equipments in a coverage zone of the microcell associated with the local access point is determined. A local coverage message specifying equipments determined as present in the microcell coverage zone is generated. A global coverage message by aggregation of the local coverage message of each local access point in the cluster is generated. At least one operating parameter of a local access point in the cluster is modified as a function of the global coverage message. For each local access point in the cluster, an activity state of the user equipment is determined and a field in the local coverage message is entered accordingly with data representing the activity of the equipment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication network located in a geographic area in which at least one terminal is located that receives or transmits traffic relative to a service, the method including: acquiring information relative to the traffic received or transmitted by said at least one terminal, said information including a duration of the service requested or received by said terminal; determining, from the acquired data, a criterion that is characteristic of a possibility of delaying in time said requested or received service; estimating, from the acquired information and from said determined criterion, at least one profile of future traffic requests in said geographic area for a period of time following the acquisition; determining, from the estimated profile of traffic requests, a configuration of the network defining a profile of offers that is the closest to the profile of traffic requests; and configuring the network according to the configuration thus determined.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for managing a network of a plurality of small cell base stations arranged in a macro-cell and linked to a base station of the macro-cell, each small cell base station being adapted to cover a small cell of the macro-cell and to be linked via radio to at least one mobile terminal present in the small cell.

Abstract: A method of allocating resources in a cellular radio communication network including user equipments and a cluster composed of local access points to the network covering a microcell. For each local access point, the presence of user equipments in a coverage zone of the microcell associated with the local access point is determined. A local coverage message specifying equipments determined as present in the microcell coverage zone is generated. A global coverage message by aggregation of the local coverage message of each local access point in the cluster is generated. At least one operating parameter of a local access point in the cluster is modified as a function of the global coverage message. For each local access point in the cluster, an activity state of the user equipment is determined and a field in the local coverage message is entered accordingly with data representing the activity of the equipment.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for managing a network of a plurality of small cell base stations arranged in a macro-cell and linked to a base station of the macro-cell, each small cell base station being adapted to cover a small cell of the macro-cell and to be linked via radio to at least one mobile terminal present in the small cell.

Abstract: A cooperative communications system comprising a source terminal, at least one relay terminal and a destination terminal. The system also comprises a distributed turbocoder over the source terminal and at least the relay terminal. The first part of the turbocoder residing on the source terminal and/or the second part of the turbocoder residing on the relay terminal is(are) equipped with a frequency scheduler (FSr,FSs) allocating the deeper-fading carriers to the systematic information data and the weaker-fading carriers to the parity data.

Abstract: A cooperative communications system comprising a source terminal, at least one relay terminal and a destination terminal. The system also comprises a distributed turbocoder over the source terminal and at least the relay terminal. The first part of the turbocoder residing on the source terminal and/or the second part of the turbocoder residing on the relay terminal is(are) equipped with a frequency scheduler (FSr,FSs) allocating the deeper-fading carriers to the systematic information data and the weaker-fading carriers to the parity data.