Patent ID: 8891440
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A remote transmission station for a transmission infrastructure of a radio communication network comprising at least one equipment managing transmission station operating under an administration protocol, said remote transmission station comprising: managed equipments and being situated in a portion of the network separated from said equipment managing transmission station and operatively connected to said equipment managing transmission station by a transmission link of said infrastructure; a management module adapted to obtain management information states relating to said managed equipments from managed equipment memories that are each associated with one of the managed equipments; and a processing module adapted i) to store states previously obtained by said management module, ii) to compare newly obtained states with states previously stored, in order to determine state variations of each managed equipment and to update said memories with the newly obtained states, and iii) to generate messages including said state variations that have been determined in order for the messages to be sent to said equipment managing transmission station via said link; wherein at least certain of said managed equipments comprise a memory in which their current management information states are stored and a controller coupled to said memory and adapted to be consulted via a specific management protocol, and in that said management module comprises a mediation module adapted to dialog with each of said controllers according to the specific management protocol in order to obtain the states stored in the memories to which they are coupled.