MAINTAINING A LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE IN A MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

摘要

In a mobile telecommunications system, the continued operation of a device experiencing a problem is undesirable as the user may experience sub-standard performance of the problematic device, and the system may be adversely affected in such a way that the services a network operator is able to offer its customers may be compromised. A method and apparatus whereby a required level of performance in the system is maintained by means of identifying the presence of a problematic device in the system and subsequently taking action in respect of such a problematic device is disclosed. The method and apparatus are described in use in a UMTS mobile telecommunications system, but may be applied to any other suitable system such as a GSM mobile telecommunications system or a wireless LAN.