APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CORE NETWORK CONFIGURATION OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

An apparatus (100) for determining a core network configuration (112) of a wireless communication system comprises cluster determiner (110). A core network of a wireless communication system comprises a plurality of base stations, a plurality of wireline links between the base stations and at least one control unit for controlling a cluster of base stations of the plurality of base stations. The cluster determiner (1 10) determines as the core network configuration (112) at least one cluster of base stations linked by wireline links and controlled by a same control unit based on a predefined basic network configuration (102), so that latencies between each base station of the cluster and the control unit of the cluster are below a maximal allowable latency. The predefined basic network configuration (102) represents information about all base stations of a core network to be configured and about possible wireline links between the base stations.