ALLOCATING AN IP SUBNET ADDRESS IN A LOCAL NETWORK COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF DEVICES AND CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET

摘要

A local network is provided comprising a plurality of devices and connected to the Internet. The network is configured as a local IP subnet in which the devices each have a corresponding IP subnet address. One of the devices is a femtocell base station. A user terminal connected to the femtocell base station is allocated an IP subnet address so as to be able to initiate communications with another of the devices in the local network.