Patent ID: 8085716

Claim:
A method for determining, in a wireless cellular telecommunication network, whether a base station can handle a half-duplex terminal, the base station transferring signals in a cell of the base station, and the half-duplex terminal, when being handled by the base station, not transferring and not receiving signals during a period of time, called idle period of the cell of the base station, the method being executed by the base station and comprising: transferring a signal to the half-duplex terminal in the cell of the base station; receiving a signal transferred by the half-duplex terminal in response to the signal transferred by the base station; determining from the received signal, a characteristic of the half-duplex terminal in the cell; comparing the characteristic of the half-duplex terminal to the idle period and determining whether the characteristic of the half-duplex terminal is compatible with the idle period based on a result of the comparing; and determining that the base station is unable to handle the half-duplex terminal in response to the characteristic of the half-duplex terminal in the cell not being compatible with the idle period.