- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for virtual base station migration in BBU pool
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Application No.: US15307527Application Date: 2015-04-10
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Publication No.: US10554763B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Cheng Wang , Yun Deng , Liyu Cai
- Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
- Applicant Address: FR Nozay
- Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
- Current Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
- Current Assignee Address: FR Nozay
- Agency: Fay Sharpe LLP
- Priority: CN201410177997 20140429; CN201410605357 20141030
- International Application: PCT/IB2015/000634 WO 20150410
- International Announcement: WO2015/166336 WO 20151105
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04W76/28 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W74/08 ; H04W88/08

Abstract:
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for a virtual base station migration in a BBU pool which has multiple baseband units. The migration method comprises the following steps performed by a first virtual base station: measuring an available bandwidth between the first virtual base station and a second virtual base station, wherein the first virtual base station and the second virtual base station belong to different baseband units in the BBU pool; estimating a service interruption time of the first virtual base station; selecting a migration mechanism of the first virtual base station according to the estimated service interruption time. The migration mechanism comprises configuring a common measurement gap for user devices of the first virtual base station, or configuring random access time slots for user devices of the first virtual base station, or configuring a discontinuous receiving cycle for user devices of the first virtual base station. The solution of the present invention enables user devices in a connected state not to be influenced by a migration during the service interruption and achieve a lossless migration between virtual base stations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170054817A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIRTUAL BASE STATION MIGRATION IN BBU POOL Public/Granted day:2017-02-23
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