| 摘要 |
The invention facilitates the implementation of clusters of small cells or radio heads or Home Node Bs (HNB) (102, 103, 104) managed by a local standard-Iuh enterprise gateway, connected to a standard release 8/9 HNB-GW. The enterprise gateway sends an HNB Registration Request corresponding to each small cell or radio head that it manages to a Home Node B Gateway over the standard Iuh interface, thereby presenting a single logical interface to the Home Node B Gateway (HNB-GW) that appears to the HNB-GW as a collection of Iuh-standard HNBs. This provides the enterprise gateway with a set of call processing and radio resources that it can implement as it wishes, but using standard messaging to control the HNBGW's view of those resources. A further advantage of the invention is the ability to permit hand-in of a user equipment from a macrocell to a small cell. |
