METHODS OF RECONFIGURING A CELL IN A CELLULAR MOBILE RADIO SYSTEM

摘要

This invention relates to methods of reconfigurating a cell. Each signalling channel (SDCCH/8) contains a number of dedicated control channels (SDCCH). The invention can be divided into two parts, an increase condition in which a traffic channel (TCH) is converted to a signalling channel (SDCCH/8) and a decrease condition in which a signalling channel is reconverted to a traffic channel. The increase condition comprises the step of increasing the basic configuration by configure a traffic channel (TCH) to a dedicated control channel (SDCCH/8) if the channel utilization indicates that the basic configuration would have given a certain congestion level. The decrease condition comprises the step of decreasing the basic configuration by configure a dedicated control channel (SDCCH/8) to a traffic channel (TCH) if the channel utilization indicates that the basic configuration woul d have given a certain congestion level.