Patent ID: 8331276
Filing Date: 2012-12-11
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for energy saving in a telecommunication system having at least one first base station for enabling communication within a cell, a signal having a frame structure being transmitted and received in the cell by the first base station, the structure of the frame comprising a downlink frame part and an uplink frame part, each frame part having the ability of carrying at least one data region allocated to at least one user terminal or broadcasted for traffic flow between the telecommunication system and the user terminal via the first base station, the downlink frame part having an overhead part with at least synchronization or system information, the frame structured signal being transmitted periodically (Frame N, Frame N+1, Frame N+2, Frame N+3, wherein N is an integer) with a normal interval defined by the system, the method comprising the steps of: increasing, by the telecommunication system while in a power saving mode, the interval between at least a first and the next following second frame structured signal to a power saving interval; enabling the power saving mode by interrupting at least one third frame structured signal; and including at least the data region or regions of the interrupted signal in the frame of the next signal transmitted.