RESERVING COMMUNICATION CAPACITY IN CELLULAR NETWORKS

摘要

To achieve an increased access to subscribers in a mobile cellular network with a plurality of service areas each covered by a related switching center , in each such switching center (10) there is provided an interface means (12) to establish a plurality of communication channels between the switching center (10) and a mobile station (MS) roaming in the service area of switchi ng center (10). Further, the communication channel assignment at the interface (12) is changed through an assignement means (14) processing assignment requests submitted thereto. Further, reservation requests are used to indica te to the switching center (10) that a specific subscriber wants to reserve communication channel capacity for a specific cell in a mobile cellular network during a specific time period according to a specific bandwidth. If this bandwidth is available at the specified cell during the specified perio d of time, it will be reserved for the requesting subscriber which then may easily initiate calls-services or receive calls-services by the reserved communication channel capacity at the start time (ts) of the prespecified period of time.