Patent ID: 9313684
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing power consumption of a radio access network, the method comprising: a) defining a cluster comprising at least two radio resource units of the radio access network, using circuitry in the radio access network; b) defining a parameter indicative of a performance of the cluster and of a power consumption of the cluster, the parameter being expressed as a ratio of a sum of traffic throughputs carried by the at least two radio resource units to a sum of power consumptions of the at least two radio resource units operating at said traffic throughputs, using the circuitry in the radio access network; c) calculating optimum traffic throughputs as values of the traffic throughputs that maximize the parameter, using the circuitry in the radio access network; and d) distributing traffic amongst the at least two radio resource units such that the at least two radio resource units carry the optimum traffic throughputs and controlling the at least two radio resource units to carry the traffic distributed amongst the at least two radio resource units, using the circuitry in the radio access network.