Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling sleep mode in a terminal comprising at least two network interfaces. According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of: Switching off one of the two interfaces; Activating the switched off interface for a predefined time window upon reception of a predefined signaling message on the other interface.

Abstract: To reduce the overhead induced by transmitting data between a mobile client and a cellular network via an ad-hoc network extension, the cellular network transmits data dedicated to the mobile relay and dedicated to the mobile client within the same data stream, the mobile relay detects whether data received by the mobile relay contains data that are dedicated to the mobile relay itself and terminates the part of the received data that is dedicated to the mobile relay itself, the mobile relay detects whether data received by the mobile relay contains data that are dedicated to the mobile client and forwards the part that is dedicated to the mobile client to the mobile client, and the mobile relay detects whether data received by the mobile relay contains data that are dedicated to the cellular network and forwards the part that is dedicated to the cellular network to the cellular network.

Abstract: Provided are a radio access network, a distributed radio network controlling structure and a network element, each providing mobile communications services, and each having controlling elements including at least one control plane server for providing control plane functions and at least one user plane server for providing user plane functions, and a network having a mapping function for interfacing the radio control elements with a core network. Using this solution, only the network element containing a mapping function interfaces with the core network.

Abstract: Data transmission between a mobile client (1) and a cellular network (4) can be performed via an ad-hoc network (2) extension of the cellular network and a mobile relay (3). To reduce the overhead induced by the ad-hoc network (2) extension and still reap the benefits of extending the cellular network (4) by the ad-hoc network (2) it is suggested that a first part of the data that are transmitted from the mobile client (1) towards the cellular network (4) are transmitted directly via the air interface (8) and a second part of the data that are transmitted from the mobile client (1) towards the cellular network (4) are transmitted via the ad-hoc network (2) and the mobile relay (3).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for routing a message from a Cell Control to a Mobile Control of a Radio Network Control equipment and vice versa. Such methods are substantially known in the art for Radio Network Controllers RNCs. The present invention proposes a communication between functional entities of a distributed RNC enabling the routing of the message by using known protocols and reusing identifiers already known for these protocols.

Abstract: To reduce the overhead induced by transmitting data between a mobile client (1) and a cellular network (4) via an ad-hoc network (2) extension it is suggested, that the cellular network (4) transmits data dedicated to the mobile relay (3) and dedicated to the mobile client (1) within the same data stream; the mobile relay (3) detects whether data received by the mobile relay (3) contains data that are dedicated to the mobile relay (3) itself and terminates the part of the received data that is dedicated to the mobile relay (3) itself; the mobile relay (3) detects whether data received by the mobile relay (3) contains data that are dedicated to the mobile client (1) and forwards the part that is dedicated to the mobile client (1) to the mobile client (1); and the mobile relay (3) detects whether data received by the mobile relay (3) contains data that are dedicated to the cellular network (4) and forwards the part that is dedicated to the cellular network (4) to the cellular network (4).

Abstract: Data transmission between a mobile client (1) and a cellular network (4) can be performed via an ad-hoc network (2) extension of the cellular network and a mobile relay (3). To reduce the overhead induced by the ad-hoc network (2) extension and still reap the benefits of extending the cellular network (4) by the ad-hoc network (2) it is suggested that a first part of the data that are transmitted from the mobile client (1) towards the cellular network (4) are transmitted directly via the air interface (8) and a second part of the data that are transmitted from the mobile client (1) towards the cellular network (4) are transmitted via the ad-hoc network (2) and the mobile relay (3).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for routing a message from a Cell Control to a Mobile Control of a Radio Network Control equipment and vice versa. Such methods are substantially known in the art for Radio Network Controllers RNCs. The present invention proposes a communication between functional entities of a distributed RNC enabling the routing of the message by using known protocols and reusing identifiers already known for these protocols.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of performing a handover or reselection procedure for a wireless telecommunication device from a wireless cellular telecommunication source system to a wireless cellular telecommunication target system. The method comprises the steps of determining of a number of potential handover or reselection target cells of the target system by the source system, providing of first data being indicative of the target cells from the source system to the target system, selecting of one of the target cells by the target system, providing of second data being indicative of the selected one of the target cells from the target system to the source system, performing a handover or reselection for the wireless telecommunication device from the source system to the selected target cell of the target system.

Abstract: In an evolved radio access network (RAN) architecture user planes (UP) and the control planes (CP) are separated into different network elements. This concept is improved by further splitting the control plane (CP) in mobile specific control functions and area specific (cell and multi-cell) control functions, the proposed method comprising the steps of processing paging and broadcast functional tasks on the control plane of at least one of the radio network controlling elements resulting from this split, processing mobile control functional tasks on the control plane of at least one other radio network controlling element resulting from the split, processing the paging and broadcast functional tasks in a first and a second logical block, the first logical block performing paging tasks which are related to core network defined areas and the second logical block performing paging tasks for radio access network defined areas.

Abstract: In evolved radio access network architectures the user and the control planes are separated into different network elements. This implies that the core network must exchange control and user information related to a particular user terminal with these two different network elements. Moreover, information not linked to a particular user but to a certain cell or area must also be directed to the appropriate control plane server or user plane server.