公开(公告)号：US20200187067A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-11

申请号：US16637734

申请日：2018-07-17

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Guillaume Decarreau ,  Irina-Mihaela Balan ,  Ahmad Awada ,  Stephen Mwanje ,  Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam ,  Ingo Viering

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A user equipment transmits a measurement report to a serving base station. The measurement report includes a physical cell identifier (PCI) that is allocated to multiple neighbor base stations. The user equipment is configured to monitor a signal that is to be transmitted from at least one neighbor base station for cell-specific measurement by the user equipment. The user equipment is selectively handed over from the serving base station to one of the neighbor base stations dependent upon whether the user equipment detects its corresponding cell-specific measurement.

公开(公告)号：US12282828B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-22

申请号：US17377662

申请日：2021-07-16

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Anubhab Banerjee ,  Stephen Mwanje

IPC: G06N20/00 ,  G06F9/445

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for determining and/or applying optimal configurations in cognitive autonomous networks (CANs) are provided.

公开(公告)号：US11589302B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-21

申请号：US16973685

申请日：2018-06-13

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Stephen Mwanje ,  Janne Tapio Ali-Tolppa

IPC: H04W52/02

Abstract: There are provided measures for configuration of power saving groups. Such measures, for determining, in a network including a plurality of radio cells, at least one power saving group comprising at least two radio cells of said plurality of radio cells, exemplarily comprise retrieving neighboring data including a plurality of entries corresponding to a plurality of combinations of respective two radio cells of said plurality of radio cells, wherein each of said plurality of entries represents overlapping amount information in relation to said respective two radio cells, identifying radio cells of said plurality of radio cells as power saving group reference cells based on said neighboring data, identifying radio cells of said plurality of radio cells as power saving group helping cells respectively for at least one identified power saving group reference cell based on said neighboring data, and assigning each of said identified power saving group helping cells to one of said identified power saving group reference cells based on said neighboring data, wherein each of said at least one power saving group comprises one of said identified power saving group reference cells and at least one identified power saving group helping cell assigned to said one of said identified power saving group reference cells.

公开(公告)号：US12185175B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-31

申请号：US17764923

申请日：2020-09-22

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Stephen Mwanje ,  Janne Tapio Ali-Tolppa ,  Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/22 ,  H04W36/30

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a service-centric mobility-based traffic steering.

公开(公告)号：US11197212B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-07

申请号：US16763054

申请日：2017-11-17

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Stephen Mwanje ,  Janne Tapio Ali-Tolppa ,  Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: There are provided measures for cell relations optimization. Such measures exemplarily comprise maintaining a table including a plurality of entries, each of said plurality of entries being assigned to a respective one of a plurality of neighboring cells, and each of said plurality of entries comprises overlapping amount information in relation to a source cell and said respective one of said plurality of neighboring cells and overlapping location information in relation to said source cell and said respective one of said plurality of neighboring cells, and utilizing said table for assessment of a suitability of each of said plurality of said neighboring cells for an inter-cell capability.

公开(公告)号：US20210258873A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-19

申请号：US16973685

申请日：2018-06-13

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Stephen Mwanje ,  Janne Tapio Ali-Tolppa

IPC: H04W52/02

Abstract: There are provided measures for configuration of power saving groups. Such measures, for determining, in a network including a plurality of radio cells, at least one power saving group comprising at least two radio cells of said plurality of radio cells, exemplarily comprise retrieving neighboring data including a plurality of entries corresponding to a plurality of combinations of respective two radio cells of said plurality of radio cells, wherein each of said plurality of entries represents overlapping amount information in relation to said respective two radio cells, identifying radio cells of said plurality of radio cells as power saving group reference cells based on said neighboring data, identifying radio cells of said plurality of radio cells as power saving group helping cells respectively for at least one identified power saving group reference cell based on said neighboring data, and assigning each of said identified assigning power saving group helping cells to one of said identified power saving group reference cells based on said neighboring data, wherein each of said at least one power saving group comprises one of said identified power saving group reference cells and at least one identified power saving group helping cell assigned to said one of said identified power saving group reference cells.

公开(公告)号：US12267218B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US18557677

申请日：2021-06-15

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Stephen Mwanje ,  Joao Antonio Pereira Rodrigues

IPC: H04L41/5006

Abstract: An apparatus comprising means configured to: receive a set of service offer descriptors, the service offer descriptor set defining one or more attributes, at least one of the attributes being associated with a plurality of different options, the set of service offer descriptors being associated with a service provider; receive a set of service requirements for a service to be provided, said set of service requirements defining one or more attributes for the service and for one or more of the attributes an associated option; and provide a set of service order descriptors for the service to be provided, said set of service order descriptors based on said set of service offer descriptors and comprising for at least one attribute of the set of service offer descriptors information indicating a selected option of the plurality of different options, in dependence on the service to be provided.

公开(公告)号：US11979289B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-07

申请号：US17916673

申请日：2020-04-03

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Stephen Mwanje ,  Janne Tapio Ali-Tolppa

IPC: H04L41/08 ,  H04L41/042 ,  H04L41/0873 ,  H04L43/091

CPC classification number: H04L41/0886 ,  H04L41/042 ,  H04L41/0873 ,  H04L43/091

Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising monitoring if a generic objective for a network is received; translating the generic objective into specific objectives based on a behavioral matrix if the generic objective is received, wherein each of the specific objectives is specific for a respective network element; requesting, for each of the specific objectives, an automation function of the respective network element to achieve the specific objective, identifying, for each of the specific objectives, based on a stored association table, a distributed control function controlling the automation function of the respective network element; informing, for each of the specific objectives, the identified distributed control function on the specific objective for the respective network element; supervising if a feedback is received from one of the distributed control functions, wherein the feedback indicates to which degree one of the specific objectives is achieved; adapting the behavioral matrix based on the feedback.

公开(公告)号：US11349725B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-31

申请号：US16329783

申请日：2016-09-02

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Stephen Mwanje ,  Christian Mannweiler ,  Lars Christoph Schmelz

IPC: H04L41/16 ,  H04L41/0823 ,  H04L41/14 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: Various methods are provided for enabling the application of machine learning to network management and in particular to enabling cognitive network management in radio access networks. One example method may comprise interpreting one or more operator goals for the CNM or for a specific CF to ensure that the specific CF adjusts its behavior in order to fulfil the operator goals, abstracting an environment into states configured for use in subsequent decision making, wherein the abstracted environment represent are built from one or more of a combination of quantitative KPIs, abstract state labels, and operational contexts, defining legal candidate network configurations for different contexts of the CF based on the abstracted environments and operational contexts as inferred by the EMA engine, and matching a current abstract state, abstracted environment, or operational context as derived by the EMA engine to an appropriate network configuration selected from the set of legal candidate network configurations.