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Multicell area paging for cellular telecommunications system

  • US 20020086685A1
  • Filed: 09/17/2001
  • Published: 07/04/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/05/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A radio access network portion of a telecommunications network, the radio access network being connecting to a core network and serving a mobile station, the radio access network portion comprising:

  • plural base stations serving respective plural cells;

    plural control nodes including a first control node for controlling a first group of the plural base stations and a second control node for controlling a second group of the plural base stations;

    wherein a multicell area includes cells served by at least some of the first group of base stations and cells served by at least some of the second group of base stations;

    a paging control node which stores information regarding the multicell area whereby, when the mobile station is paged in the multicell area, the paging control node sends a paging message to at least one of the control nodes which controls base stations serving cells in the multicell area.

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