Patent ID: 8867358

Claim:
A method of energy control in a mobile communication network, comprising: forwarding data traffic of at least one quality of service class in accordance with a traffic forwarding policy associated with the at least one quality of service class, wherein the traffic forwarding policy comprises at least one quality of service class identifier for identifying the at least one quality of service class; receiving control information with respect to an energy control attribute from an operations and maintenance system; limiting a data throughput for the forwarding of the data traffic to a maximum limit based on the energy control attribute assigned to the at least one quality of service class; wherein the control information defines a value of the maximum limit and a type of the maximum limit; and wherein the maximum limit is defined by at least one of: a maximum fraction of a total data throughput capacity; an absolute maximum data throughput value; a maximum fraction of a total maximum power consumption; a maximum data throughput that depends on a number of mobile terminals communicating the data traffic of the at least one quality of service class with an access node of the mobile communication network.