Patent ID: 7561883
Filing Date: 2009-07-14
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of management of the resources of a broadband mobile network including at least prolonged fixed accesses by an array of wireless local area network radio access terminals and a broadband access server, characterised in that upon transmission of a request for access to an application transmitted by a prospective user mobile terminal to a specific radio access terminal for the purpose of connection of this prospective user mobile terminal to this specific radio access terminal, this method consists at least of: discriminating on the one hand the level of radioelectric power of the signal emitted by the said access terminal received by the prospective user mobile terminal and on the other hand the network identifiers of the prospective user mobile terminal and of the requested application, based on the said request for access; comparing the discriminated network identifiers with reference identifiers in order to ensure control of access to the said broadband mobile network; and, upon positive response to the comparison operation; discriminating from a reference list including the said specific radio access terminal and at least one radio access terminal adjacent to this specific radio access terminal, chosen from amongst the said array of radio access terminals, as a function of the location of the said prospective user mobile terminal relative to the said specific radio access terminal, of the traffic load of each radio access terminal of the said array of radio access terminals and of the type of application required, a prospective radio access terminal for the execution of the said application, to the advantage of the said prospective user mobile terminal, by means of the said broadband access server; and in that, for a sub-array of unavailable radio access terminals using the criterion of traffic throughput load thereof, the said sub-array being formed by the said specific radio access terminal and by a plurality of unavailable adjacent radio access terminals, a plurality of user mobile terminals being connected to each of the radio access terminals which constitute the said sub-array of unavailable radio access terminals, the said method further consists of: recalculating the traffic throughputs assigned to each user mobile terminal connected for at least one of the radio access terminals of the said sub-array of unavailable access terminals, as a function of the conditions of access and executed application by each user mobile terminal connected, in such a way as to define a weighted traffic throughput capable of being assigned to each mobile user terminal connected; assigning the weighted traffic throughput to each connected user terminal in such a way as to release, for the said radio access terminal of the said sub-array of unavailable radio access terminals, resources of transmission in terms of traffic throughput permitting the transmission of the request for access and the execution of the requested application RA