METHOD TO CONTROL POWER CONSUMPTION IN A MOBILE NETWORK

摘要

The invention has for object a method to control power consumption in a mobile network (1), wherein the network comprises a plurality of base-stations (5, 7) and user equipments (3), comprising the steps : -computing a network state function (epsilon, epsilon u ) for at least one user equipment (u) taking into account neighbouring network elements (v,w) of the at least one user equipment (u), -computing a distribution for accessible network states (s) using the state function (epsilon, epsilon u ), in which low power consumption network states are favoured, -switching the state (s) of the at least one user equipment (u) to another state, according to the probability distribution. The invention also has for object the associated network node and user equipment (3).