“Radio access station, radio access network, and method for administering a part of a mobile communication network”

摘要

"radio access station, and method for administering a part of a mobile communication network". A virtual network (24) is created by providing antennas (14) controlled by the same base station (8) with control signals from different virtual base stations. a virtual network controller (20) included in the base station (8) is arranged to perform pass-through transfers between physical channel sets of the different virtual base stations. the passthrough transfer is preferably performed transparently to the main communication network. This transparency is preferably provided by associating physical channels of virtual base stations with communication channels of the main communication network. preferably position estimates of a mobile terminal (6) connected to the base station (8) are performed by the virtual network controller (20) whereby such estimates may be kept secret within the virtual network (24).