Method for determining the number of user equipments in a geographic area of an access network, user equipment for use in a geographic area of an access network, base transceiver station for determining the number of user equipments in a geographic area of an access network, program and computer program product

摘要

The invention relates to a method for determining the number of user equipments in a geographic area of an access network of a public land mobile network, wherein the access network comprises at least one base transceiver station, wherein a plurality of user equipments in the geographic area receive control signals from the base transceiver station, wherein the method comprises the following steps: -- in a first step, a pool paging information element is sent from the base transceiver station to the plurality of user equipments, -- in a second step, an identity information element is sent to the base transceiver station by at least a part of the user equipments of the plurality of user equipments.