Patent ID: 9432938
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A telecommunication network control method, comprising: calculating a total electric energy available for use by each communication apparatus of one or more communication apparatuses in a period, wherein the one or more communication apparatuses each comprises a network node in the telecommunication network; calculating electric energy available for use by each communication apparatus of the one or more communication apparatuses in a specified time zone based on the calculated total electric energy and on a distribution function that defines an amount of electric energy of the total electric energy available for use in one or more time zones in the period; determining, for each of the one or more communication apparatuses located on a communication path, based on a request to accommodate traffic in the specified time zone, whether an expected power consumption to accommodate the traffic in the specified time zone exceeds the electric energy available for use in the specified time zone; and searching for communication paths through a subset of the one or more communication apparatuses; determining whether an expected power consumption of each apparatus in the subset to accommodate the traffic exceeds the calculated total electric energy; based on a determination that the expected power consumption for each apparatus in the subset to accommodate the traffic exceeds the calculated total electric energy, calculating an empty communication band for which an expected power consumption increase of a link along a path is less than expected power consumption increases for other links; and dividing a communication band of the paths based on the calculated empty band.