Reconfiguring diversity legs during CN-RNC interface streamlining

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention involves a technique for effectively accomplishing CN-RNC interface streamlining in a mobile communications network, such as a cellular radio access network.
The present invention accomplishes this, in part, by providing an efficient method for reconfiguring the various network diversity legs and for establishing the transport level connections which support them.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a technique for relocating the diversity handover unit (DHO) from one radio network controller to another.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an efficient technique for reconfiguring the various network diversity legs, if necessary, during the relocation of a DHO in a radio telecommunications network that employs diversity combining.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide an efficient technique for releasing and reestablishing the transport level connections needed to support the reconfigured network diversity legs, during the relocation of a DHO.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, the above-identified and other objects are achieved by a method for reconfiguring network diversity legs during CN-RNC interface streamlining.
The method involves transferring destination address and binding information from a first radio network controller to a second radio network controller.
A number of transport level connections are then released, wherein each of the transport level connections were utilized to support a corresponding network diversity leg, and a new transport level connection between the second radio network controller and each of a plurality of destination nodes is established by dispatching a destination address and binding information from the second radio network controller to each of the destination nodes.
One or more resources at each destination node are then bound to support a corresponding network diversity leg between each destination node and the second radio network controller, based on the binding information dispatched to each destination node