POWER SAVING MECHANISM IN A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK

摘要

The present invention relates to providing methods and apparatus for determining whether a cell 204 in a radio access network 206 could have been powered down during at least one time slot in a predetermined period of time. Measurement data relating to the cell is used to determine whether the neighbouring cells 201, 202 and/or 203 had sufficient spare capacity to handle the network traffic originating from cell 204 during the time slots in the predetermined period of time.