PROVISIONING OF A FEMTO ACCESS POINT WITH PARAMETER PROFILES OF A NEARBY FEMTO ACCESS POINT

摘要

Th application relates to the provisioning of a femto access point FAP (102) when it is powered-up for the first time. Certain parameters, such as femtocell uplink/downlink power, pilot power, maximum radio frequency (RF) power, etc. have to be configured. Traditionally, the operating parameters are derived by employing a set of location and network listen measurements collected when the FAP is first powered up. However, these parameters have been optimized over a significant period of time and therefore can not be reproduced by onetime initial measurements. Consequently, traditional provisioning suffers from either delay and/or a lack of accuracy. This problem is solved in that a FAP (106) with radio conditions similar to the FAP (102) to be provisioned is identified and the operating parameter values of this FAP are transferred and reutilised by the newly deployed FAP.