Patent ID: 9204313
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method in a first communication node for enabling central processing of local information from each of a plurality of second communication nodes, wherein the first communication node and each second communication node are comprised in a wireless communications network, wherein the method comprises: establishing an internode connection in a radio access network of the wireless communications network to a second communication node, wherein in establishing the internode connection the first communication node sends to the second communication node information about a virtual cell of the first communication node, said virtual cell does not carry any user traffic, wherein the radio access network comprises an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Access Network (E-UTRAN) or an Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) and the internode connection comprises an X2 connection or an lur connection. requesting local information from the second communication node via the internode connection, receiving local information from the second communication node via the internode connection responsive to said requesting, and processing the received local information into processed data that is to be used to centrally process the local information from the second communication node with local information from other second communication nodes.