Patent ID: 8515429

Claim:
A method of controlling operation of a wireless telecommunications network comprising plural radio base stations serving plural mobile stations, the method comprising: determining location and a number of mobile stations in a predefined area and, if the number of said mobile stations exceeds a first threshold, performing acts (1)-(3) as follows: (1) monitoring velocity and direction of travel of said mobile stations; (2) maintaining a counter of mobile stations in a group of said travelling mobile stations; (3) periodically checking the counter and stopping said monitoring if said counter decreases below a second threshold and, if said counter is above the second threshold, performing acts (a)-(b) as follows: (a) combining information about the mobile stations travelling as a group in substantially a same direction with information about other groups of travelling mobile stations in order to make a determination if the two or more groups of mobile stations are travelling in respective directions to cause the two or more groups to meet in a cell served by a new radio base station; and (b) in accordance with the determination, adjusting transmission parameters of said new radio base station, based on the results of said combination, in order to accommodate the network traffic caused by said groups of mobile stations.