Mobility Management
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1. A method, comprising:
- obtaining mobility management properties for a plurality of terminals served by an access node, grouping the plurality of terminals into groups based on correlating the obtained mobility management properties of the plurality of terminals, and deciding on the necessity for a handover per group, and forwarding the decision to a target access node.
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Abstract
The present invention concerns mobility management. A method is proposed that involves obtaining mobility management properties for a plurality of terminals served by an access node, as well as grouping the plurality of terminals into groups based on correlating the obtained mobility management properties of the plurality of terminals. Decisions on the necessity for a handover are taken per group and then forwarded per group to a target access node. Also, a corresponding apparatus is proposed.
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1. A method, comprising:
- obtaining mobility management properties for a plurality of terminals served by an access node, grouping the plurality of terminals into groups based on correlating the obtained mobility management properties of the plurality of terminals, and deciding on the necessity for a handover per group, and forwarding the decision to a target access node.
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14. An apparatus, comprising:
- an obtaining means configured to obtain mobility management properties for a plurality of terminals served by an access node, a processing means configured to correlate the obtained mobility management properties of the plurality of terminals, group the plurality of terminals into groups based thereon, decide on the necessity for a handover per group, and a transmitting means configured to forward the decision to a target access node.
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