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20160128030 | NEW CARRIER TYPE ALLOCATION IN UPLINK/DOWNLINK SUBFRAME CONFIGURATION FOR TIME DIVISION COMMUNICATION - Certain embodiments relate to wireless communication systems, such as long term evolution advanced (LTE-A), which may be part of third generation partnership project (3GPP) LTE release 12 (Rel-12). More specifically, certain embodiments may provide an arrangement related to new carrier type for time division long term evolution (TD-LTE), which may also be related to Enhanced Interference Management and Traffic Adaptation. According to certain embodiments, a method can include determining that a split configuration is to be followed, in which at least one system information block configured up-link subframe is reconfigured as a new carrier type downlink subframe, whereas at least one other system information block configured subframe is as indicated by system information block configuration. The method can also include applying the determined split configuration to communications with an access point. | 05-05-2016 |
20160112911 | Small Cell Mobility Enhancement - There is provided a method, an apparatus and a computer program product, wherein the method comprises applying at least one procedure for inter-frequency measurements of at least one carrier, wherein a first procedure is applied when a carrier having at least one cell deployed for providing non-continuous coverage radio access is to be measured and a second procedure is applied when a carrier having at least one cell deployed for providing continuous coverage radio access is to be measured, and performing the inter-frequency measurements according to the applied procedure, when the procedure for the inter-frequency measurements is on. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112847 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PUSH SERVICES IN CLOUD BASED MOBILE NETWORKS USING A SOFTWARE API DRIVEN APPROACH - A system and method for optimizing push services in mobile networks using a software API driven approach is provided. More particularly, an MME service is provided which includes a software API for controlling a subscriber's network and bearer states. The software API is called to trigger a paging procedure in the MME service without the interaction of the PGW and SGW, in order to move a subscriber's user equipment (UE) from an idle state to an active state. The MME service and/or the push service may be part of a cloud computing environment. | 04-21-2016 |
20160105834 | Interference and Load Aware Dynamic Point Selection - Apparatuses, methods, computer programs, computer program products and computer-readable media regarding connection establishment robustness optimization are disclosed. Some example versions include calculating, at a base station, a switching metric for a user equipment served by the base station, the switching metric indicating whether the user equipment is to switch from a source cell to one of multiple target cells. The switching metric is calculated for a combination of the user equipment with a source cell and one of the multiple target cells. The base station determines whether to switch the user equipment from the source cell to one of the multiple target cells based on the switching metric, which includes spectral efficiencies of the user equipment for both the source cell and one of the multiple target cells, current cell load values for both the source cell and one of the multiple target cells and a correction factor. | 04-14-2016 |
20160100423 | Cooperative Uplink Reception Suitable for Non-Ideal Backhaul - A first cell determines that UE(s) should have HARQ cycle(s) skipped, where each of the UE(s) is to take part in a CoMP transmission. Skipping is to be performed to enable the first cell to receive information from second cell(s) over backhaul link(s) for the HARQ transmission(s). A first HARQ cycle is scheduled and participated in for the UE(s) in order to receive a transmission at the first cell from the UE(s). The HARQ cycle(s) is/are skipped for the UE(s) by sending, prior to decoding information from the uplink CoMP transmissions, an acknowledgement to the UE(s) and not scheduling the UE(s) for a PDCCH grant for the HARQ cycle(s). The skipping depends on one or more of: a backhaul latency, a load in the first cell, a type of UE, or a request to the second cell(s). Apparatus and program products are also disclosed. | 04-07-2016 |
20160087948 | Secure Radio Information Transfer Over Mobile Radio Bearer - Providing secure radio information transfer over a mobile radio bearer by generating one or more secret keys, applying symmetric encryption to unencrypted radio information to generate encrypted radio information, applying a keyed hash operation to the unencrypted radio information using the generated one or more secret keys to generate a message digest, and transmitting both the encrypted radio information and the message digest over a network. | 03-24-2016 |
20160080130 | Channelization Procedure for Implementing Persistent ACK/NACK and Scheduling Request - In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: configuring a common resource space having a plurality of time-frequency resources and code resources, where the common resource space includes a first portion for a first type of signaling and a second portion for a second type of signaling, where the first type of signaling includes at least one of persistent acknowledgement signaling and scheduling request signaling, where the second type of signaling includes dynamic acknowledgement signaling; and allocating, based on the configured common resource space, resources of the common resource space for the at least one of persistent acknowledgement signaling and scheduling request signaling. | 03-17-2016 |
20160073401 | Component Carrier Configuration - A method of configuring a component carrier comprises determining how timings of receiving and/or sending data for at least two aggregated component carriers in at least one time period are related; and setting the timing of receiving and/or sending data for the at least two aggregated component carriers based on the determining. | 03-10-2016 |
20160066172 | Charging Mechanism for Communication Network - There is provided a charging control mechanism allowing flexible charging in specified communication areas of a communication network, for example of a WLAN. When it is detected that a UE tries to access in a specified communication network area, a charging setting to be used for a communication in the specified communication network area is determined and a rating information in the form of a rating attribute is included in each CDR for indicating the charging setting to be used for charging a communication of the UE in the specified communication network area. A rating/charging engine uses the rating attribute for determining the charging amount for the communication. | 03-03-2016 |
20160057783 | Mechanism for Providing Communication Resources for Random Access of a User - In an LTE-A mobile communications system, provision of additional random access resources, called “shadow” PRACH, that are available to User Equipments, UEs, for a contention-free access procedure during handover. eNBs provide information on PRACH resources, broadcasting a first set of resources available for contention-based and contention-free random access and indicating via the X2 interface to neighbouring eNBs such additional PRACH resources, together with corresponding preambles, which are in turn indicated via dedicated signalling to UEs during a handover procedure. | 02-25-2016 |
20160044713 | Signalling Procedures for Data Transmissions - A technique including deciding at a communication device between different types of signalling procedure for a data transmission to a network, based on one or more rules outside the control of the communication device; wherein said different types of signalling procedure have different signalling overhead profiles. | 02-11-2016 |
20160043883 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Channel estimation where at least two sets of multipath components for a reception range are formed by applying spatial filtering to reference signal information measured by a communication device. Each set of multipath components comprises a number of multipath components that is less than the number of multipath components for the range. Separate parameter estimations are performed on the at least two sets of multipath components. The communication device may be a mobile device, and measurements may be provided by the mobile device in multiple of locations. | 02-11-2016 |
20160007338 | Resource Allocation For Direct Terminal-To-Terminal Communication In A Cellular System - There are provided measures for resource allocation for direct terminal-to-terminal communication in a cellular system, said measures exemplarily comprising configuration of common resources for supporting direct communication between terminals across a predefined registration area comprising one or more cells of a cellular system, and control of an allocation of common resources for enabling direct communication between terminals across the predefined registration area. Said measures may exemplarily be applied for establishing terminal-to-terminal communication in LTE or LTE-Advanced cellular networks. | 01-07-2016 |
20160007276 | Wi-Fi Support Awareness - There are provided measures for Wi-Fi support awareness. Such measures exemplarily include dynamically determining capability for a radio access technology while being connected to a communication network, and transmitting, via the connection to the communication network, a message comprising an information element indicative of the capability for the radio access technology. | 01-07-2016 |
20160007235 | Support of Legacy Network Elements in Small Cell System - The present invention addresses apparatuses, methods and computer program product for enabling support of legacy user equipment and legacy network elements in small cell system for LTE and beyond systems. Each small cell uses a unique pair of Physical Cell Identifier and E-UTRAN Cell Global Identifier {PCI, ECGI} in the small cell system. In a handover preparation phase, when an enhanced eNB initiates the handover request procedure, the source eNB includes the pair of {PCI, ECGI} in the handover request message. Upon the reception of the {PCI, ECGI} from the handover request message, the associated eNB determines the target small cell based on the received pair of {PCI, ECGI}. | 01-07-2016 |
20150382270 | Determination of Whether a Handover was necessary Based on Quality of Service - Methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided, wherein an indication is provided to a second network entity from a first network entity to monitor a quality of service provided to a user equipment handed over from the first network entity to the second network entity. The second network entity monitors the quality of service provided to the user equipment and generates a corresponding indication. The indication of the quality of service provided to the user equipment by the second network entity is then provided by the second network entity to the first network entity. Based on the received indication of the quality of service, a determination as to whether a handover was necessary is made by the first network entity. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381388 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Transmission of reference symbols for multiple carriers is coordinated to cause coherent transmission of the reference symbols for facilitating a channel estimation procedure for the multiple carriers on a bandwidth extending over the multiple carriers. At a receiving device the coordinated transmission of the reference symbols for multiple carriers is received on the extended bandwidth and a channel estimation procedure is provided based on the reference symbols received on the bandwidth extending over the multiple carriers. | 12-31-2015 |
20150359028 | Inter-eNB Carrier Aggregation - In a communication system where a primary cell is controlled by a first base station and a secondary cell is controlled by a second, different base station, flow control is performed between the primary cell and the secondary cell for data for a radio link control layer. According to the flow control, the data for the radio link control layer is communicated between the first and second base stations using a link between the first and second base stations. Flow control may be performed between the primary cell and the secondary cell by dynamically controlling a depth of queued radio link control data in the secondary cell for one or more UEs based on one or more factors, e.g., current/future loading of secondary cell, peak theoretical throughput for a UE in the secondary cell, and/or a UE's current channel quality information. Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed. | 12-10-2015 |
20150341948 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK BACKHAUL SCHEDULING - A method and apparatus can be configured to receive a first scheduling request. The first scheduling request corresponds to a request for a first access point to process data. The method can also include transmitting a second scheduling request. The second scheduling request corresponds to a request to transmit data to a second access point. The transmitting the second scheduling request comprises transmitting the second scheduling request before the data is processed at the first access point. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341920 | Change of Rate Matching Modes in Presence of Channel State Information Reference Signal Transmission - In one aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes, prior to confirmation that a network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of a user equipment, operating a user equipment with the network access node in accordance with a first rate matching mode and, only after confirmation to the user equipment that the network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of the user equipment, changing the rate matching mode to a second rate matching mode. In an embodiment the first rate matching mode comprises puncturing a downlink shared channel transmission with a set of resource elements, which may be at least one of reference symbols and muted resource elements, and the second rate matching mode comprises rate matching the downlink shared channel around those resource elements that are members of the set of resource elements. Also described are apparatus and computer readable storage medium storing program code that operate in accordance with the method. | 11-26-2015 |
20150334645 | TRACING INTER-RAT EVENTS - It is provided an apparatus, comprising selecting means adapted to select one set of parameters/values out of a first set of parameters/values and a second set of parameters/values received in an activation message related to a trace session of a subscriber or a terminal, wherein the selected set of parameters/values corresponds to the trace session in a first domain of the apparatus and the other set of parameters/values corresponds to the trace session in a second domain different from the first domain; providing means adapted to provide the selected set of parameters/values and an identifier to a tracing device for performing the trace session in the first domain, wherein the identifier is received in the activation message and related to the trace session. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334596 | NETWORK-SIDE BUFFER MANAGEMENT - Various communication systems may benefit from buffer management. For example, systems employing a packet data convergence protocol may be enhanced with network-side buffer management that is configured to manipulate transmission control protocol packet senders. A method can include receiving a plurality of packets at a buffer of a buffer manager. The method can also include manipulating, by the buffer manager, pacing of transmission control protocol senders of the packets. The method can further optionally include fair queuing the packets and/or performing flow incubation on the packets. | 11-19-2015 |
20150327244 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for reference signal transmission is disclosed, wherein a demodulation reference signal DMRS and a sounding reference signal SRS is transmitted in a same time domain resource from a user terminal to an LTE base station. A single reference signal sequence is used both for demodulation and detection of a data channel, and for channel sounding, such that a reference signal sequence part used for the demodulation and detection of the data channel is in a power offset compared to a reference signal sequence part used for the channel sounding. Code division multiplexing is applied on a reference signal sequence by using a cyclic shift of a whole length of the sequence. The cyclic shift is selected such that reference signal sequences allocated to the different user terminals are orthogonal over a minimum allocation granularity of the data channel. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327241 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - There is provided an improved solution for performing beacon broadcasting in a device-to-device communication network. The solution comprises selecting, by a node capable of entering a device-to-device communication network, a channel for broadcasting wherein the selection is based on at least one of the following: the characteristics of the node and the state of the node; and causing a broadcast of information related to at least part of the properties of the node on the selected channel. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327153 | NON-CONFLICTING TRAFFIC CONTROL WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF NETWORK SELECTION INFORMATION - There are provided measures for non-conflicting traffic control with different types of network selection information. Such measures exemplarily comprise performing traffic control based on a combination of (e.g. cellular type) access-related network selection information with respect to a network or a network technology type with (e.g. non-/cellular type) routing-related network selection information with respect to traffic type based routing information. Such measures are exemplarily, but not exclusively, applicable in the context of coexisting cellular and non-cellular networks or network technology types providing connectivity to a transport network. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327063 | Device to machine communications - Methods and apparatuses for providing services for a mobile device with access to a cellular system are disclosed. In accordance with a method a mobile device sends to a cellular system a request for a service by a machine type device. The request includes information identifying the machine type device for use by the cellular system that is then used in exchange of information in relation to at least one of authentication, authorisation and configuration. Information associated with configuration of a device-to-machine connection to the machine type device is then sent to the mobile device. The device-to-machine connection for use of the service is then established between the machine type device and the mobile device based on the received information. In another embodiment the mobile device contact the machine type device first and provides the machine type device with information assigned by the cellular system. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326332 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DYNAMICALLY REDISTRIBUTE TIMING AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN A PACKET SWITCHED NETWORK - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamically redistributing timing and synchronization in a packet switched network are provided. One method includes creating, by a slave node, a peer list comprising an identifier of at least one peer slave node that shares a same master node as the slave node or that has a certain predefined affinity with the slave node. The method may also include announcing a holdover time of the slave node to the at least one peer slave node, and, when a predefined event occurs, announcing to the at least one peer slave node that the slave node is taking on a mini-master role for at least the announced holdover time. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326285 | Low Effort Massive MIMO Antenna Arrays and Their Use - An apparatus includes a number of first RF chains configured to be able to be coupled to a plurality of first antennas from an antenna array and a number of second RF chains configured to be able to be coupled to a plurality of second antennas from the antenna array. The first and second antennas are different. The first and second RF chains are configured to create RF signals from baseband signals. The first RF chains have a certain functionality, and the second RF chains have a reduced functionality relative to the certain functionality. The apparatus may include the antenna array. The first and second antennas may have the same or different characteristics. A base station may include the apparatus. Sets of antennas for the second RF chains may be use to create signals used for over-the-air signal combining at a receiver. Methods and program products are also described. | 11-12-2015 |
20150319621 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Allocation of a Shared Resource - A method including receiving information at a first network node operating with a shared resource; wherein said first network node is enabled to receive said information from one or at least two network nodes; wherein said information includes information enabling said first network node to determine that use of at least a part of said shared resource is one of permitted at said first network node; to be continued at said first network node; to be discontinued at said first network node. | 11-05-2015 |
20150311986 | Phase Noise Tracking and Reduction - A group of data symbols for a current block of data symbols in multiple blocks received over a communication channel is equalized, based on a pilot block, to generate a group of equalized symbols. The group of equalized symbols is de-rotated as a function of a current phase estimate to determine initial de-rotated equalized symbols. The phase estimate is an estimate of phase caused by noise for blocks previous to the current block. Additionally, a phase metric is calculated from real and imaginary parts of the initial de-rotated equalized symbols, wherein the phase metric estimates phase caused by noise for the current block. The current phase estimate is updated with the phase metric. The initial de-rotated equalized symbols are de-rotated by the phase metric to determine final equalized and de-rotated symbol estimates. The final equalized and de-rotated symbol estimates are output. Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed. | 10-29-2015 |
20150305043 | Power Control - There is provided a method, including detecting, by a network node of a first cell, whether or not there is any output power unused in a second cell during a predefined time period, wherein the un-used output power is originally reserved for a transmission on a specific channel in the second cell; upon detecting that there is at least some of the output power unused, determining the amount of the unused output power in the second cell; and applying at least part of the unused output power to boost a predetermined transmission in the first cell. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304902 | Configuration of Handovers in Communication Systems - Apparatus and method for communication are provided. The solution includes obtaining information of handovers to be performed regarding more than one user equipment connected to the apparatus; requesting the user equipment to form one or more device-to-device clusters; and controlling handovers to be performed utilising information on the formed device-to-device clusters. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304071 | Interruptions in Wireless Communications - Method and apparatus for reception of data units in a device by means of a first protocol and a second protocol are disclosed. A control function of the second protocol is informed of interruption in a control function of the first protocol. In response thereto a reordering timer of the second protocol is considered as having expired, and a state variable of the second protocol is updated to equal with a highest received state variable. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304015 | Relaying Communications In Advanced LTE Systems - There is a method including receiving, at a first network node, information from a relay node associated with the first network node. The information includes an indication of at least one second network node neighboring the first network node. Parameter information of the at least one second network node is determined on the basis of the indication. The parameter information is uniquely mapped to the relay node and indicates current available resources of the at least one second network node for the relay node. Apparatus and computer program products are also disclosed. | 10-22-2015 |
20150296521 | JOINT ASSIGNMENT AND SCHEDULING FOR OVERLAPPING CoMP CLUSTERS - The present invention provides methods, apparatuses and a computer program product related to joint assignment and scheduling for overlapping coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) clusters. The present invention includes acquiring, at a network entity, for each of a plurality of user equipments connected to a resource of a cooperation area, a connectivity ratio of each user equipment to the resource, selecting, at the network entity, among the plurality of user equipments connected to the resource of a cooperation area, a first user equipment having a lowest current connectivity ratio, and determining whether the current connectivity ratio of the selected user equipment is equal to or smaller than a stored connectivity ratio of the selected user equipment to another resource available for the user equipment. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296442 | Cell-Selective Network Access - The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for providing selective network access, wherein a cell type indication is provided based on at least one of a preamble and a header portion of a broadcast signal. At the receiving end, it is checked based on at least one of the preamble and the header portion, whether broadcast signals are received from different first and second cell types. The first cell type is selected for network access, if both broadcast signals from the first and second cell types are received with sufficient strength. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296424 | Method for Handing Over a Mobile Relay Node - A UE is adapted to communicate with a further UE using a communication path via a mobile relay node and a source base station by using a first gateway functionality of the source base station. A management unit manages the communication path. The management unit prepares a handover of the mobile relay node from the source base station to the target base station. The management unit allocates resources in the target base station for providing a second gateway functionality for a further communication path for the UE via the mobile relay node and the target base station to the further UE. The management unit establishes the second gateway functionality for the further communication path for the UE via the mobile relay node and the target base station to the further UE. The management unit hands over the mobile relay node from the source base station to the target base station. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296418 | Methods and Apparatus for Handover Management of Transfer Control Protocol Proxy Communications - Systems and techniques for transport control protocol proxy mangement during handover of a user device from one base station to another. One or embodiments of the invention provide mechanisms to create a transport control protocol (TCP) proxy during establishment of a new data bearer establishment at an eNodeB, wherein the TCP proxy is integrated with a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) buffer of the new bearer. The TCP proxy is configured so as to manage delivery of pre-fetched data to a user device so as to prevent TCP connection collapse during handover of the user device from a source eNodeB to a target eNodeB. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296393 | Signature Enabler for Multi-Vendor SON Coordination - A method is disclosed that includes communicating an indication of a signature via one or more links in a wireless network, wherein the signature has been computed by a base station of the wireless network over a plurality of configuration parameters of the base station and identifies at least a portion of a current configuration state of the base station. Another method is disclosed that includes assigning, at a base station in a wireless network, a signature using a context of the base station, wherein the assigning is performed so that the signature identifies at least a portion of a current configuration state of the base station. The method includes sending an indication of the signature to one or more entities in the wireless network. Apparatus and computer program products are also disclosed. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295552 | Input Amplitude Modulated Outphasing with an Unmatched Combiner - An amplifier system is disclosed, configured to apply a signal component separator algorithm such that the first phase modulated signal and the second phase modulated signal are allowed to take on several continuous amplitude levels in order to achieve a maximum efficiency at each desired output signal power level, without restricting the input signal power fed to the power amplifiers to a constant level, wherein for each desired output signal power level, the digital signal component separator assigns an amplitude and phases of input signals that result in a maximum instantaneous power efficiency at the amplified output signal combined with an unmatched/non-isolating combiner (e.g. Chireix combiner). | 10-15-2015 |
20150289212 | Transmission Power Control of User Equipment Communicating with Low Power Base Station and High Power Base Station - There is provided improved interference control of uplink transmissions, when user equipment is communicating with at least two base stations in a communications network. A threshold is defined for a difference of the determined allowed transmission power to an allowed transmission power for the user equipment to a second base station of the at least two base stations. It is determined whether the determined allowed transmission power to the first base station meets the defined threshold. Transmission rate of relative power control commands from at least one of the base stations is changed, when the threshold is met. | 10-08-2015 |
20150288495 | CONTENTION BASED ACCESS IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - There is provided receiving a message by a reception point of a communications system, wherein the received message comprises a message of a contention based access procedure indicating channel state information measured at user equipment from a transmission point of a plurality of transmission points. | 10-08-2015 |
20150280976 | COUNTERMEASURES TO A NETWORK MANAGEMENT LINK FAILURE - The present invention addresses apparatuses, methods and computer program product for providing enhanced improved network management. When a communication failure between an Element Management System and a super-ordinate Network Management System occurs, the Element Management System is switched over to forward event reports to a pre-defined peer Element Management System. In case the communication is re-established, the usual functionality is restored and the re-routing of event reports to the peer Element Management System is stopped. | 10-01-2015 |
20150280945 | Low PAPR Modulation for Coverage Enhancement - A method includes receiving a two-bit information stream comprising first and second bits and performing precoding using the two-bit information stream to determine multiple output signals. The precoding is performed to create a finite multiple of states for the output signals. The output signals comprise a first output signal based on a version of the first input bit and on a version of a second input bit, a second output signal based on a delayed version of the first input bit and the version of the second input bit, and a third output signal based on the version of first input bit and a delayed version of the second input bit. The method includes performing pulse shaping of each of the output signals to create pulse-shaped signals, combining the pulse-shaped signals to create a transmission waveform, and outputting the transmission waveform. Apparatus, computer programs, and computer program products are disclosed. | 10-01-2015 |
20150271743 | Small Cell Discovery - There is provided a method, including detecting, by a network node of a local area cell whether or not there is at least one user terminal connected to a macro cell present in a coverage area of the local area cell; upon detecting the presence of the at least one user terminal, causing a transmission of a request message to an associated cell, wherein the request message includes a resource allocation request for a discovery signal transmission on an operating frequency of the macro cell causing a reception of a response message from the associated cell, wherein the response message includes an indication of allocated resources for the discovery signal transmission; and causing a transmission of the discovery signal on the indicated resources in order to allow the at least one user terminal in the cover-age area of the local area cell to detect the discovery signal transmission. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271736 | Methods and Apparatus for Wireless Network Access - Improved mechanisms for wireless cellular access using coverage extension techniques are described. A UE needing to use coverage extension to request access to a prospective serving cell detects cells (other than the prospective serving cell) on its frequency, and then investigates each such cell (for example, by attempting to read its system information block and, if the system information block can be read, determining if the cell supports access using coverage extension. If detected cells do not support coverage extension, the UE does not use coverage extension techniques to request access, but if all detected cells support coverage extension, the UE requests access using coverage extension techniques. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271077 | Method, Apparatus and System - There is provided a method including estimating bit rate information for first traffic if the first traffic were to be routed between a user equipment which is attached to a first network and a network access point of a second network and determining if the first traffic is to be routed between the user equipment and the network access point in dependence on the estimated bit rate information. | 09-24-2015 |
20150264703 | Method for Interference Management and Mitigation for LTE-M - A network element of a first radio access technology system receives scheduling information for using resources in a second radio access technology system. Based on the scheduling information for using the resources in the second radio access technology system, the network element of the first radio access technology system is scheduled to use the resources in the second radio access technology system. The network element of the first radio access technology system transmits utilizing the resources in the second radio access technology system. Further aspects provide for scheduling based on building an interference profile map of the second radio access technology system created from the scheduling information. Other aspects detail additional attributes to determine the scheduling and/or go into or augment the interference profile map so as to determine the scheduling. | 09-17-2015 |
20150264619 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE MONITORING - Systems and techniques for detecting movement of machine type communication devices. An allowed location area is configured for one or more machine type communication devices, and a machine type communication device, upon detecting movement between an area outside its allowed location area and an area inside its allowed location area, notifies a network of the movement. | 09-17-2015 |
20150264553 | HANDLING OF SIMULTANEOUS CALL SESSION SIDE REGISTRATIONS FOR VOICE OVER LONG TERM EVOLUTION IN A VISITED NETWORK - Various devices may benefit from simultaneous call session side registrations for voice over long term evolution in a visited network. A method can include receiving a request for a roaming number request at a first enhanced network node, wherein the request comprises a first identifier of a user equipment. The method can also include interrogating a first network node to determine address information of a second enhanced network node associated with the user equipment and relaying the request for the roaming number to the second enhanced network node using the address information. The method can also include receiving the request for the roaming number at the second enhanced network node and allocating a roaming number associated with the first identifier of the user equipment. The method can further include returning the roaming number to the first enhanced network node and providing the roaming number to a second network node. | 09-17-2015 |
20150263844 | Scheduling Improvement - In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform operations including receiving information including indications of frequency and time of resource usages for a cell of a neighboring cell, wherein the frequency and time resource usages for the cell of the neighboring cell are for a predetermined amount of next frequency and time resource usages scheduled; and processing the received frequency and time resource usages to create a mapping of frequency and time pair usage specific to the neighboring cell. | 09-17-2015 |
20150257145 | CONFIGURING WIRELESS SERVICE - Methods and apparatus for controlling a wireless service provided for a communication device by a network is disclosed. A communication device served by at least one node of a network determines at least one desired characteristic of the wireless service and thereafter triggers configuration of the wireless service by sending from the communication device to the network a message containing information that is based on the at least one determined desired characteristic. A node of the network receives the message, and in response thereto, causes configuration of the wireless service based on the received information. | 09-10-2015 |
20150256236 | Method Of Scheduling Transmissions In A Communication System - In a telecommunication system, a method of controlling and implementing uplink transmission schemes specifically for user equipment having multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) capability, comprising: initialising said scheme at a network element; forwarding a message from said network element to said terminal indicating said scheme; transmitting uplink signals according to said scheme. It may comprises selecting a precoding arrangement such as a Transmitted Precoding Matrix Indicator or other scheduling grant information. | 09-10-2015 |
20150245333 | CONFIGURATION OF A SHARED FREQUENCY BAND BETWEEN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A receiving node of a first wireless communications system is co-located with a node of a second wireless communications system, said first and second wireless communications systems are configured with frequencies on a shared frequency band. Information identifying a node of the first wireless communications system transmitting on the shared frequency band is received. The received information identifying the transmitting node as an interfering node to the co-located node of the second wireless communications system is transmitted to an entity controlling configuration of the shared frequency band. | 08-27-2015 |
20150244329 | Technique for Extremely High Order IM Correction - A method for correcting high order IM products is described. The method includes creating a modified input signal by increasing one or more portions of an input signal (such as the whole time domain signal for example). The input signal consists of a desired signal and other non-linear products. Each of the one or more portions includes high order IM products. A pre-distorted signal is created by pre-distorting the modified input signal in accordance with a finite signal plan. An output signal is generated by amplifying the pre-distorted signal. Apparatus and computer-readable media are also described. | 08-27-2015 |
20150237645 | TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-RAT (RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY) COORDINATED RESOURCE SHARING - A technique is provided for receiving a resource request by a first base station (BS) of a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) from one or more user devices, selecting resources, from a group of resources shared by BSs of a plurality of different RATs, to be scheduled for the one or more requesting user devices, scheduling, by the first BS, the selected resources for the one or more user devices, and sending, from the first BS, a resource scheduling announcement identifying the scheduled resources to one or more other BSs including at least a second BS of a second RAT. Another example technique may include receiving a resource scheduling request from a first base station (BS) implementing a first RAT, confirming an availability of the requested resources, and sending a first resource scheduling announcement to one or more BSs implementing other RATs. | 08-20-2015 |
20150236985 | Optimizations for Frequent Small Data Transmission - Communication systems, such as an evolved packet system, may benefit from optimizations for frequent small data transmissions. In particular, certain communication systems in which mobile applications require numerous keep-alive messages or presence information may benefit from optimizations to state transitions between active and idle states. A method may include detesting a plurality of small packets that are mobile terminated. The method may also include indicating an inactivity time based on the detecting of the small packets and providing this indication in user plane packets or control signaling to the radio access network. | 08-20-2015 |
20150236956 | Traffic flow mobility with single host connection - There are provided measures for traffic flow mobility with a single host connection. Such measures exemplarily comprise the definition of a first binding between a set of home addresses of a host and an address of a first interface of a mobile access gateway to a local mobility anchor, the definition of at least one second binding between the same set of home addresses of the host and an address of at least one second interface of the mobile access gateway to the local mobility anchor, and the recording of a mapping between any one of the first and second bindings and traffic flows between the host and the local mobility anchor via a host connection to the mobile access gateway. | 08-20-2015 |
20150236891 | USAGE CONTROL FOR SUBSCRIBER GROUP - A method for use by an apparatus of a communication network comprises detecting (S | 08-20-2015 |
20150236829 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COORDINATION OF WIRELESS TRANSMISSION IN A FREQUENCY BAND - A method and apparatus can be configured to perform steps comprising receiving channel-state information of at least one channel in a frequency band from at least a subset of a plurality of transmission nodes. The method may further comprise coordinating reserving of the at least one channel for a set of transmission nodes within the plurality of transmission nodes. The coordinating may be based on the received channel-state information to allow simultaneous transmission on the at least one channel by the set of transmission nodes. The method may further comprise communicating reservation information for the at least one channel to the set of transmission nodes. | 08-20-2015 |
20150230160 | Uniform UE Initialization Procedure for Both In-coverage and Out-of-coverage D2D Communications - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing uniform user equipment initialization procedure for both in-coverage and out-of-coverage device-to device communications are disclosed herein, incorporating a novel tri-timer design: an initial timer, a search timer, and an active timer. In a method a determination is made regarding a user equipment as being a clusterhead candidate which can act as a clusterhead of a cluster. The user equipment searches for a suitable cell or cluster to join. If a suitable cell or a cluster is not found, the user equipment is selected to be a clusterhead which will act as the clusterhead of its own cluster. After selecting the user equipment to be a clusterhead and establishing its cluster, the user equipment transmits a discovery signal which alerting other user equipment to the clusterhead, to which the other user equipment can join. The user equipment as clusterhead then maintains the cluster. | 08-13-2015 |
20150230134 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING HANDOVER AND RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF CONNECTIONS - A method and apparatus can be configured to detect that a signaling strength of a first network entity has dropped below a threshold. The method can also include transmitting a measurement report to the first network entity. The method can also include receiving radio-resource-control reconfiguration information from the first network entity. The method can also include transmitting a scheduling request to a second network entity, wherein a random-access-channel procedure is avoided. | 08-13-2015 |
20150230107 | PARTIAL FAILURE HANDLING OF BEARER MAPPING IN DUAL CONNECTIVITY - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for partial failure handling of bearer mapping in dual connectivity are provided. One method includes, during a secondary evolved node B (SeNB) addition procedure, providing a target SeNB with an indication of SeNB change together with information on bearers that were served by a source SeNB. The method may further include receiving, by a master evolved node B (MeNB), bearer mapping for failed bearers from the target SeNB, and providing the source SeNB with the bearer mapping for the failed bearers. | 08-13-2015 |
20150229457 | Channel Quality Indicator Reporting - A method, computer program and apparatus operate when resuming data transmission/reception upon activiation of a serving cell, or after a long in-device coexistence interference avoidance gap, to determine whether to report to a network access node an in-device coexistence interference indicator value and send the in-device coexistence interference indicator value to the network access node, The in-device coexistence interference indicator value is reported to the network access node for a certain period if any periodic channel quality indication resource is configured for the cell, or if an aperiodic channel quality indication for the cell is requested from the network access node. | 08-13-2015 |
20150223274 | NETWORK ASSISTED PROXIMITY SERVICE SESSION MANAGEMENT - There are provided measures for network assisted proximity service session management. Such measures exemplarily comprise discovering a proximity service target, said proximity service target providing proximity service, and setting up, via uplink and downlink signaling, proximity service communication with said proximity service target. | 08-06-2015 |
20150223261 | SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR MUTING MANAGEMENT IN MULTI-CELL COORDINATION - Systems and techniques for negotiated control of multipoint coordination. A first device (such as a central entity or base station) signals a second device regarding its desire to assert control over, or readiness to accept control by, the second device, with respect to coordinated radio transmission. The negotiation may include, for example, acceptance of control, rejection of control, specification of resources subject to or exempt from control, and priority-based decisions to override or refrain from overriding rejections. Coordinated transmission is then conducted based on the outcome of the negotiation. | 08-06-2015 |
20150223198 | Managing an Active Timer in a Power Save State - A method includes determining at a network node whether paging to be sent from the network node toward an intermediate node for further forwarding to a user equipment will arrive at the user equipment before the user equipment transitions from an idle state to a power save state. The method includes sending or not sending the paging toward the intermediate node based on the determining. Another method includes performing an estimation at a network access node providing wireless network access to a user equipment of how long it will take before a next paging frame or paging occasion occurs for the user equipment, and sending to a network node a value indicative of the estimation. Apparatus, computer programs, and computer program products are also disclosed corresponding to the methods. | 08-06-2015 |
20150223135 | Interference Reduction Through Cell Activation Methods in Heterogeneous Networks - Apparatus, methods, computer program products, and software are disclosed providing reduction of interference occurring sometime after a capacity booster cell activates, where a coverage area of a capacity booster cell is at least partially within a coverage area of a coverage cell. Techniques include handing off user equipment from the coverage cell to the capacity booster cell, creating by the capacity booster cell scheduling gaps in subframes of radio frames and scheduling user equipment connected to the capacity booster cell in the subframes not in the gaps, scheduling communications for user equipment connected to the coverage cell in the gaps, and performing one or more operations to reduce interference with the capacity booster cell for uplink transmissions from user equipment to the coverage cell. | 08-06-2015 |
20150223122 | Systems and Techniques for Handover Control - Systems and techniques for packet switched connection management. Upon a handover/cell change request with change of routing area code, an examination is made of parameters associated with a user equipment affected by the request for indications that the user equipment is engaged in a packet switched connection. Conditions associated with the handover/cell change request to determine if the packet switched connection should be released. If conditions associated with the handover/cell change request do not indicate that the packet switched connection should be released, release of the packet switched connection is inhibited. | 08-06-2015 |
20150223106 | Handling Radio Link Failure - This document discloses transmission of a radio link failure control message in a situation where a control plane connection is established directly between a first access point of a cellular communication system and a terminal device of the cellular communication system and, additionally, a user plane connection is established between the first access point and the terminal device through a second access point. The radio link failure control message is transferred over the user plane connection during the radio link failure or proactively in an attempt to prevent the radio link failure. | 08-06-2015 |
20150222488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method comprising: determining within a measurement interval at least one effective network control function instance; selecting a subsequent measurement interval measurement data for at least one succeeding function; and executing the at least one succeeding function dependent on the subsequent measurement interval measurement data. | 08-06-2015 |
20150222396 | Enhanced TDD UL HARQ timeline for UL-DL coexistence scenario - The present invention provides a method, apparatus and a program relating to an enhanced TDD UL HARQ timeline for UL-DL coexistence scenario. The present invention includes transmitting data in a first transmission, receiving acknowledgement information for Hybrid Automatic Repeat-Request pursuant to uplink-downlink configurations 0 or 6 in Time-Division-Duplex mode for LTE, determining the timing of a second transmission associated with a process for HARQ and transmitting data in a second transmission in the subframe according to the determined timing, wherein a second transmission associated with a process for Hybrid Automatic Repeat-Request is performed in a protected subframe if the first transmission associated with said process is performed in a protected subframe. | 08-06-2015 |
20150215932 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MUTING COORDINATION AND FOR TESTING OF COORDINATING COMMUNICATION - A method and apparatus can be configured to transmit a physical-resource-block muting request to a neighboring network entity. The method can also include transmitting at least one muting priority level for at least one physical-resource-block of the physical-resource-block muting request. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215800 | Inter-Operability Test Indication for Uplink-Downlink Configuration Combinations for Primary Cell and Secondary Cell for Wireless Networks Using Carrier Aggregation - A technique is provided to control transmitting, by a mobile station (MS) that uses carrier aggregation, a message including an interoperability test (IOT) indication for one or more uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration combinations of time-division-duplex (TDD) radio frames for use by a primary cell and a secondary cell. In one example implementation, an IOT indication may be provided for one or more (or each) uplink-downlink configuration combinations (e.g., one IOT indication per UL-DL configuration combination). In another example implementation, an IOT indication may be provided for one or more sets of uplink-downlink configuration combinations, where each set may include a plurality of UL-DL configuration combinations. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215179 | Exchange of Throughput Profile Information for Supporting Coordinated Scheduling - Various communication systems may benefit from information related to coordinated scheduling. For example, certain base stations may benefit from exchange of throughput profile information. A method can include determining a throughput profile for a group of user equipment in a cell. The method can also include reporting the throughput profile to a neighbor cell or central node. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215077 | METHOD, APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND SYSTEM FOR FAST FEEDBACK AND RESPONSE HANDLING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Communication systems may employ transmission of feedback information and responses thereto, on a wireless connection such as a millimeter wave connection. The feedback information itself may be used to influence the beamforming or beam direction used for the transmission of the feedback information. A method can comprise determining a feedback indicator regarding reception of a transmitted waveform. The method can also comprise tailoring, for example beamforming, a signal for transmitting the feedback indicator based on a content of the feedback indicator. | 07-30-2015 |
20150208232 | MACHINE-TYPE COMMUNICATION PROXY FUNCTION - One embodiment includes a method and apparatus for routing messages in a machine-type communication (MTC) architecture. The method includes receiving a request at a MTC-proxy residing at an egress of a network. The request includes an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) for which a destination is outside the network. The method further includes replacing, by the MTC-proxy, the IMSI in the request with an external identifier. | 07-23-2015 |
20150207596 | Fast Load Balancing by Cooperative Scheduling for Heterogeneous Networks with eICIC - Scheduling decisions between a first base station and a second base station are coordinated with respect to using subframes overlapping almost blank subframes for transmission, wherein the almost blank subframes include mandatory almost blank subframes which are predefined and are not to be used by the first base station and may be used by the second base station for transmission, and optional almost blank subframes which may be used by the first base station and the second base station. The almost blank subframes may be used for transmission according to the coordinated scheduling, and the transmission may be received by a user equipment. | 07-23-2015 |
20150201401 | RADIO RESOURCE RESERVATION IN FRAMED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - This document discloses a solution for carrying out radio resource reservation in a framed wireless network. A network node is synchronized to a frame structure of the wireless network, wherein the frame structure comprises a continuous flow of consecutive frames, wherein at least one frame comprises a downlink part and an uplink part, and wherein lengths of the downlink part and the uplink part in each frame are adjustable. A radio resource for use in data transmission between two network nodes is reserved through a radio resource reservation request-response procedure between the network nodes. | 07-16-2015 |
20150201337 | OBTAINING ADDITIONAL SUPPORTED BANDS OF NEIGHBOR CELLS VIA AUTOMATIC NEIGHBOR RELATION (ANR) - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for obtaining additional supported bands of neighbor cell(s) are provided. One method includes reading, by a user equipment, a frequency band list broadcast by at least one neighbor cell, and reporting the frequency band list to a cell serving the user equipment. | 07-16-2015 |
20150200965 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING COMMUNICATION SECURITY - A method and apparatus can be configured to transmit indicators to a network entity. The indicators indicate whether security will be applied to a media data, whether security will be applied by an application layer, and whether security will be applied by an evolved-packet-system layer. The method can also include transmitting the media data to the network entity. | 07-16-2015 |
20150195831 | Data Transmission - A method and apparatus is provided wherein a request for data is received. It is determined if the request is associated with a relatively small data transmission. The requested data is transmitted in accordance with a first transmission method when it is determined that the request is associated with a relatively small data transmission. | 07-09-2015 |
20150195771 | ADDING SERVICE SET IDENTIFIER OR ACCESS POINT NAME TO WLAN TO CELLULAR SIGNALLING MESSAGES - The application relates to the integration of WLAN access networks into cellular communication networks, often referred to as “Non-3GPP Access” in 3GPP standardisation, in particular TS 23.402. Location information, such as SSID, WLAN access point name, WLAN access point identifier, WLAN access point MAC address is currently not available for GTP based S | 07-09-2015 |
20150195071 | Method and Apparatus Providing Inter-Transmission Point Phase Relationship Feed-Back for Joint Transmission CoMP - Systems and techniques for joint transmission cooperative multi-point. A set of n CSI reference signal resources are to be measured by a user device. The n CSI reference signal resources include at least one CSI reference signal resource spanning over at least two transmission points. Channel state information feedback corresponding to each CSI reference signal resource is configured. Upon receiving CSI from the user device, at least one precoder is selected for coherent joint cooperative multipoint transmission based on inter-transmission point phase relationship information. A co-phasing factor is derived from transmitted precoders over a cross-cell CSI reference signal resource, the derivation including transmission of reference signals using first and second precoding vectors on two ports, computation of a third vector using feedback based on the precoded reference signals, and computation of the co-phasing factor based on the first, second, and third vectors. | 07-09-2015 |
20150195057 | Cell-Specific Reference Signal Interference Cancellation Improvement - A method includes receiving, at a user equipment, a signal including cell-specific reference signals from a number of cells. Cell-specific reference signal(s) are measured from one of the cells to determine measured result(s). The user equipment, based on the measured result(s) meeting first criteria, performs interference cancelation to cancel the cell-specific reference signal(s) corresponding to the one cell from the signal. The user equipment performs the measuring and the performing the interference cancelation for additional ones of the cells until second criteria are met. The user equipment uses measured cell-specific reference signals having their interference canceled to reduce an effect of interference from corresponding cells on communications between the user equipment and a base station. A base station may store cell search information that can be sent to the user equipment to help the user equipment perform the previous method. Apparatus, systems, computer programs, and program products are also disclosed. | 07-09-2015 |
20150189624 | DECIDING TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS - A technique including: making at a communication device a provisional decision about one or more transmission parameters for a transmission from the communication device to an access network or another communication device via radio resources managed by an access network; communicating the provisional decision to the network or the another communication device; and receiving from the access network or the another communication device an indication of a final decision about the transmission parameters for the transmission from the communication device to the access network or another communication device. | 07-02-2015 |
20150189598 | Radio Link Failure Information - A technique, including in a radio link failure report from a communication device information about the power saving state of the communication device. | 07-02-2015 |
20150189547 | DYNAMIC HOTSPOT ACCESS CONTROL - A method including modifying access rights for a Wi-Fi network in response to a condition, wherein modifying the access rights for the Wi-Fi network allows users without Wi-Fi subscriptions to access the Wi-Fi network. The method may further include returning the access rights back to their prior state when the condition is no longer met. | 07-02-2015 |
20150181608 | Apparatus and Method for Resource Allocation - Apparatus and method for resource allocation are provided. An apparatus includes a controller which is configured to utilize a tree structure with more than one branch in the resource allocation of physical resource blocks, each branch including one or more legal starting positions for resource allocation. Each starting position is associated with a cluster of physical resource blocks, the number of starting positions being different on each branch. The size of the resource clusters of each branch is different. The controller is configured to denote each resource cluster with a predefined index, and allocate one or more clusters to user equipment uplink connection. | 06-25-2015 |
20150181494 | Methods, Computer Program Products and Apparatuses Enabling to Improve Handovers in Mobile Communication Networks - A memory includes a number of partitions, each assigned to a respective terminal, each including a first number of subpartitions of a first type, each assigned to a respective cell visited by the respective terminal. The memory includes second number of subpartitions of a second type, each assigned to a respective transition of a terminal between respective cells Upon each transition of a respective terminal between respective cells, data is received pertaining to the respective terminal from a network entity(les) representing a respective cell. Responsive thereto, in each subpartition of the first type, statistical information is stored that pertains to the terminal in relation to that cell In each subpartition of the second type, information is stored that pertains to the respective transition of the terminal. It Apparatuses as well as respective related methods, and computer program products are disclosed. | 06-25-2015 |
20150181480 | SIGNALING A NEW INFORMATION ELEMENT FOR THE MOBILITY STATE ESTIMATE OF MOVING RELAY USER EQUIPMENTS - An apparatus is provided which includes a first connection unit configured to provide connection to a user equipment, and a processor configured to detect whether a handover of the user equipment is required, and, if a handover is required, to establish mobility information regarding the mobility state of the apparatus as mobility information of the user equipment, and to send the mobility information to at least one network element involved in the handover of the user equipment. | 06-25-2015 |
20150163815 | METHOD FOR UPLINK-DOWNLINK INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - Communication systems, such as the long term evolution (LTE) advanced (LTE-A) of the third generation partnership project (3 GPP) may benefit from various enhancements. These enhancements can include LTE time division duplex (TDD) enhancements for traffic adaptation and uplink (UL)-downlink (DL) interference management. A method can include determining whether a first cell, in a network including the first cell and a second cell, autonomously selects a time division duplex uplink-downlink configuration. The method can also include sending an authority indicator to a base station of the first cell regarding a determination of whether the first cell is to autonomously select the configuration. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163812 | System Performance - A technique for improving system performance, including sending from a first access node to one more other access nodes neighbouring said first access node a communication about a change in configuration for at least one set radio resources between a plurality of configurations including a first configuration accessible to a first category of communication devices and a second configuration accessible to both said first category and a second category of communication devices. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163805 | OPERATIONS ON SHARED BANDS - A technique comprising: controlling a radio device to make on a first band a radio transmission including information for a plurality of other radio devices about operations at said plurality of other radio devices on a second band more widely shared than said first band. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163036 | High Resolution Channel Sounding for FDD Communications - A method includes scheduling a selected UE operating in a FDD mode to transmit sounding information on a downlink carrier frequency using selected resource(s) from a downlink radio frame, and communicating using the downlink radio frame by transmitting to UEs in resources other than at least the selected resource(s) and by receiving the sounding information on the downlink carrier frequency from the selected UE in the selected resource(s). Another method includes scheduling a selected UE operating in a FDD mode to receive sounding information on an uplink carrier frequency using selected resource(s) from an uplink radio frame, and communicating using the uplink radio frame by receiving from UEs in resources in the uplink radio frame other than at least the selected resource(s) and by transmitting the sounding information on the uplink carrier frequency to the selected UE in the selected resource(s). Apparatus and computer program products are also disclosed. | 06-11-2015 |
20150156658 | Service Performance Feedback in a Radio Access Network - A technique, including transmitting from an access node of an access network an instruction to transmit one or more decoding performance reports relating exclusively to a specific type of service, which decoding performance report includes information about the result of one or more attempts to decode at a communication device one or more transmissions via which said specific type of service is provided. | 06-04-2015 |
20150155996 | Self-organized Distributed Assignment, Optimization, and Use of Physical Cell IDs - At a base station in a wireless network, interference is determined for a plurality of pairs of cells. Each pair of cells is between an individual one of one or more serving cells formed by the base station and an individual one of other cells that surround the one or more serving cells. At the base station, values for physical cell identifications are allocated for the one or more serving cells based on the interference for the plurality of pairs of cells. Systems, methods, apparatus, programs, and program products are disclosed. The examples may also take into account modulo 30, modulo 3, and modulo 6 collisions. | 06-04-2015 |
20150148074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROXIMITY-BASED SERVICE - A method and apparatus may be configured to monitor a first channel allocated to proximity-based services within a cluster. The method may also include transmitting, if the user device is not receiving transmissions on the first channel, an indication that the receiving user device is not receiving transmissions on the first channel allocated to the proximity-based services within the cluster. The method may also include receiving an indication of a second channel allocated to the proximity-based services within the cluster. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146635 | Timing Advance Management in the Presence of Repeaters and Remote Radio Heads - A method for performing time advance (TA) management is described. An assignment of a first TA group is transmitted to a mobile device. The mobile device measures a strength of a signal from a first access point (AP). The mobile device determines whether to send a random access preamble based at least in part on the strength of the signal from the first AP and a strength of a signal from a second AP. A current downlink (DL) path includes the second AP. The method includes, in response to determining to send a random access preamble, transmitting the random access preamble, the random access preamble is received from the mobile device. In response to the random access preamble, the method includes determining a second TA group for the mobile device. The method also includes transmitting an assignment of the second TA group. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146578 | MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF APPLICATION BASED CHARGING - It is provided an apparatus, comprising generating means adapted to generate detection charging information related to an application; informing means adapted to inform a rules function device about a detection charging capability, wherein the detection charging capability indicates that the apparatus comprises the generating means; detecting means adapted to detect a start of the application; indicating means adapted to indicate the start of the application to the rules function device. | 05-28-2015 |
20150145602 | Broadband RF Power Amplifier with Active Load Modulation - An apparatus includes a main amplifier core and auxiliary amplifier core(s), an input signal splitter connected to inputs of the main amplifier core and the auxiliary amplifier core(s), and an output combiner connected to outputs of the main amplifier core and an the auxiliary amplifier core(s). The input signal splitter is configured to split an input signal into a first signal for the main amplifier core and at second signal(s) for the auxiliary amplifier core(s) according to frequency dependent nonlinear input drive functions. The output combiner is configured to combine output signals of the main amplifier core and the auxiliary amplifier core(s), and to provide a continuum of optimum termination impedances of the main amplifier core for the fundamental frequency and at least one harmonic frequency over a predetermined bandwidth of operation, in a low power region. The low power region is defined by the auxiliary amplifier core(s) being inactive. | 05-28-2015 |
20150141007 | Extended access barring for CSG cells - It is provided an apparatus, comprising CSG (closed subscriber group) determining means adapted to determine one of plural CSG types to which the apparatus belongs, based on a CSG entry stored by the apparatus, wherein the plural CSG types are related to a closed subscriber group advertisement received from a cell of a base station; selecting means adapted to select one of plural EAB (extended access barring) parameter sets based on the determined one of the plural CSG types, wherein the plural EAB parameter sets are received from the cell and wherein each of the plural EAB parameter sets is related to one of the plural CSG types; applying means adapted to apply extended access barring to an access of the apparatus to the cell based on the selected EAB parameter set. | 05-21-2015 |
20150139095 | METHOD TO ADDRESS INFREQUENT TRANSMISSION - Communication systems, such as an evolved packet system, may benefit from methods for addressing infrequent transmissions. In particular, certain communication systems in which machine type communication devices are deployed may benefit from a machine type communication feature for infrequent transmission. A method for providing such a feature can include negotiating at least one characteristic of a bearer. The method can also include deactivating the bearer based on the at least one characteristic. | 05-21-2015 |
20150139094 | METHOD OF REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION - A method of reporting channel state information from a network element to a further network element of a communication network is provided, wherein the method includes decomposing the channel state information into different portions wherein the different portions correspond to channel state information varying on different time scales, and reporting at least one portion of the decomposed channel state information to a further network element. | 05-21-2015 |
20150133083 | FACILITATING PROXIMITY SERVICES - There is provided a method, comprising: establishing, by a first network node, a communication connection to at least one advertising device located in a geographically limited service area; establishing a communication connection to at least one advertisement-receiving device; generating at least one security key for encrypting and decrypting at least part of the data which is to be transmitted in D2D communication links, wherein each security key is valid for a predetermined validity period, and common to those at least one advertising device and at least one advertisement-receiving device within the service area which fulfill predetermined criteria; causing transmission of information indicating the generated at least one security key to those at least one advertising device which fulfill the predetermined criteria; and causing transmission of information indicating at least one of the generated at least one security key to those at least one advertisement-receiving device which fulfill the predetermined criteria. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131569 | Uplink Control Information Signaling in Inter-Site Downlink Carrier Aggregation Scenarios - There are provided measures for uplink control information signaling in inter-site downlink carrier aggregation scenarios. Such measures exemplarily include obtaining uplink transmission resources for an uplink control information transmission on said primary carrier, deriving a receiving timing for said uplink control information transmission, detecting said uplink control information transmission on said primary carrier based on said uplink transmission resources and said receiving timing, and decoding uplink control information from said uplink control information transmission. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131475 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE TRANSMISSION IN COMMUNICATIONS - A method for providing an ad-hoc network provided, wherein at least one group of mobile devices operate as a device-to-device cluster having a currently elected cluster head device. The method comprises configuring, in a network apparatus for the device-to-device cluster, a cluster-specific cell-level radio network temporary identifier C-RNTI on the basis of a content-sharing service requested within the device-to-device cluster. C-RNTI is used to act as a cluster-specific virtual radio access user responsible for transmission between a serving base station and the currently elected cluster head device on behalf of the device-to-device cluster. | 05-14-2015 |
20150129189 | Method and Apparatus for Reducing the Mechanical Stress when Mounting Assemblies with Thermal Pads - It is provided a device and method for mounting of a heat sink on a printed circuit board with one or more electronic components to be cooled reducing the mechanical stress on the electronic components and the printed circuit board. The thermal contact between the heat sink and the electronic components to be cooled is formed by a thermal pad. The surface of the heat sink which is in contact with the thermal pad has at least one cavity into which the thermal pad can spread when the electronic component and the heat sink are pressed against each other thereby compressing the thermal pad. | 05-14-2015 |
20150127771 | Method and Apparatus - A method includes causing a first request to be sent; receiving a response to said request including a script; causing a second request to be sent including parameter information; running said script to determine type information associated with said parameter information; and causing said type information to be sent. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124959 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE BETWEEN A FIRST AND A SECOND DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE - The invention relates to a method and to a device for reducing interference between a first and a second digital subscriber line, DSL. A corresponding communication system is also provided. The invention provides a method wherein interference between a first and a second digital subscriber line is reduced, the method comprising the steps of determining line characteristics of the second DSL and reducing a transmission power of the first DSL based on the line characteristics of the second DSL. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124770 | Blind Decoding - A method includes selecting, in a system in which a communication device searches for unscheduled transmissions of downlink control information for said communication device, a combination of search spaces for unscheduled transmissions of downlink control information for a communication device by a number of transmission techniques. The method includes transmitting an indication of the result of the selected combination to said communication device. Apparatus and program products are also disclosed. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124727 | ACK/NAK BIT BUNDLING IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SCENARIOS - Techniques are disclosed for ACK/NAK bit bundling in carrier aggregation scenarios. Such measures exemplarily comprise generating a set of acknowledgement bits confirming receipt of payload data of a radio frame in a carrier aggregation mode aggregating a primary and at least one secondary carrier, said radio frame being divided into a plurality of downlink subframes and uplink subframes, each of said downlink subframes comprising at least one codeword per carrier, each of said acknowledgement bits is allocated to one of said codewords of one of said downlink subframes, and applying spatial domain bundling and/or time domain bundling on said set of acknowledgement bits distinctive for each of said primary and said at least one secondary carrier, wherein said spatial domain bundling is an AND operation of all acknowledgement bits allocated to each codeword of one carrier of said primary and said at least one secondary carrier and one downlink subframe. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124613 | DISTRIBUTED ANCHOR DENB SOLUTION FOR MOBILE RELAY - It is provided an apparatus, comprising storing means adapted to store a group identifier of a cooperative group of one or more network nodes and related one or more node identifiers, wherein each node identifier is related to a network node in the cooperative group; selecting means adapted to select at least one of the network nodes in the cooperative group to provide a gateway function for a relay node upon a request received from the relay node, wherein the request comprises the group identifier of the cooperative group; providing means adapted to provide the respective node identifiers of the at least one selected network node to an access network node for which the providing means is aware that the relay node is connected to the access network node via a radio interface, and to provide an identification of the access network node to each of the at least one selected network node. | 05-07-2015 |
20150121123 | FAILOVER FUNCTIONALITY FOR CLIENT-RELATED SECURITY ASSOCIATION - There are provided measures for a failover functionality for a client-related security association. Such measures exemplarily comprise providing a failover functionality at a proxy function and/or facilitating provision of a failover functionality at a servicing call state control function, wherein the respective failover functionality relates to a first proxy function, the serving function is for servicing the first proxy function and a second proxy function, the first proxy function has a security association with a client, and the first proxy function and the second proxy function are reachable with the same network address. | 04-30-2015 |
20150119072 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE LOCALIZATION USING FAKE LOCATION UPDATES - A method including defining mappings between coordinates of interest and fake location areas. The method may further include providing an application to a terminal, and distributing the mappings to the terminal. The method may further include receiving a location update generated from the terminal, wherein the location update is based upon a fake location area, and determining location information of the terminal based upon the location update. | 04-30-2015 |
20150117204 | METHOD AND NETWORK ELEMENT FOR TRAFFIC FLOW TREATMENT IN A CORE NETWORK OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method for traffic flow treatment in a core network of a communication network. The method may comprise receiving cell information from an access network of the communication network, wherein the received cell information comprises an indication of a congested cell of the communication network. Furthermore, the method may comprise receiving subscriber specific information comprising real-time information of a subscriber in a cell of the communication network. The method may further comprise analyzing the received subscriber specific information and controlling the traffic flow in the core network according to the analysis of the subscriber specific information. | 04-30-2015 |
20150111576 | Pico Cell-Selection/Handover for TDM EICIC Heterogenous Networks - It is checked if a first CRE from a first cell is larger than 0; and if a second CRE from a second cell is larger than 0. If both the first and the second CRE are larger than 0, a first modified CRE is set based on the first CRE and a second modified CRE is set based on the second CRE. If the first CRE and/or the second CRE is equal to 0, the first modified CRE is set to the first CRE and the second modified CRE is set to the second CRE. One of the first and second cell is selected for cell selection and/or handover based on a comparison of a sum of a signal strength indicator from the first cell and the first modified CRE and a sum of a signal strength indicator from the second cell and the second modified CRE. | 04-23-2015 |
20150111533 | MONITORING SUSPICIOUS EVENTS IN A CELLULAR NETWORK - Communication systems, including cellular networks, and the devices that are connected to them, can have both legitimate and illegitimate uses. Such communication systems, including systems that utilize, permit, or leverage machine-type-communications, may benefit from monitoring for suspicious events. A method can include receiving a monitoring request regarding a user equipment or a category of devices. The method can also include performing a monitoring activity regarding the user equipment or the category of devices with respect to at least one suspicious event. The method can further include responding to the monitoring request indicating whether monitoring will be performed for the user equipment or the category of devices. | 04-23-2015 |
20150110001 | Communication Method and System - A method of co-ordinating communication between a plurality of base stations in a communication system, comprising designating timeslots where said base stations receive and/or transit co-ordination messages to each other. The system may be an autonomous cellular system and the timeslots may be regularly spaced. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109973 | Channel State Information (CSI) Report Subsets Under Flexible Time Division Duplex (TDD) UL/DL Configuration - A method for flexible time division duplex (TDD) UL/DL configuration is provided. The method includes designating all subframes in a time division duplex configuration as downlink subframes, with the exception of any subframes scheduled for uplink data and control transmission. The method then includes monitoring downlink control channels in the subframes designated as downlink subframes, and defining at least two different channel state information (CSI) report subframe subsets according to interference levels. | 04-23-2015 |
20150103702 | FRAME FORMAT IN COMMUNICATIONS - A method for selecting a frame format in a communications system is disclosed. A network apparatus (AP) predefines a TDD data frame structure such that a TDD frame has a predefined frame duration defining an uplink-downlink switching point periodicity. The frame duration defines a maximum time in which a half-duplex apparatus performs a cycle transmit-receive-transmit and/or a cycle receive-transmit-receive. An uplink-downlink ratio is adjustable on a symbol level in the TDD frame. The TDD frame is partitioned into one or more of a guard period, a downlink portion and an uplink portion. | 04-16-2015 |
20150103650 | CONGESTION CONTROL ON A CELLULAR FREQUENCY PROVIDING BROADCAST SERVICES - There are provided measures for congestion control on a cellular frequency providing broadcast services. Such measures exemplarily include removing an entry of a first system information block from a list included in a second system information block to be broadcasted, said first system information block includinq information related to multimedia broadcast and multicast services, said list including information related to broadcasted system information elements; prohibiting modification of an information tag included in said second system information block to be broadcasted, said information tag being indicative of a change of system information including at least said list; and prohibiting inclusion of a modification indicator in any paging messages to be transmitted, said modification indicator being indicative of said change of said system information. | 04-16-2015 |
20150098406 | PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL OPTIMIZATION - Communication systems, such as the long tem evolution (LTE) of the third generation partnership project (3GPP) may benefit from various optimizations, such as optimizations related to smart phone technology. More particularly, diverse data applications may benefit from enhancements such as physical uplink control channel optimization. According to certain embodiments, a method can include configuring, with radio resource control signaling, a physical uplink control channel resource to one or more devices. The method can also include indicating to each device of the one or more devices, which part of the resource to use. | 04-09-2015 |
20150092679 | Enhancement of the Implementation of the High Speed Cell FACH/RACH Feature - A method includes adapting a high speed Cell_FACH feature to a load of a cell. The adapting is performed at least by changing a value of a data volume threshold so delay experienced by a user equipment in a Cell_FACH state is kept lower than a delay the user equipment would experience if moved to a Cell_DCH state. The value of the data volume threshold determines a data volume that, if not exceeded, causes a user equipment to be kept in the Cell_FACH state. The method includes deciding for each user equipment in the Cell_FACh state whether to keep the user equipment in the Cell_FACH state or move the user equipment to the Cell_DCH state. The deciding for each user equipment is based at least on the changed value for the data volume threshold and a data volume for the user equipment. Apparatus and computer program products are also disclosed. | 04-02-2015 |
20150091643 | Using Fractional Delay Computations to Improve Intermodulation Performance - Enhancing the intermodulation performance of an RF power amplifier by determining a coarse time delay represented by an integer T1; determining a reference point for a transmitted signal waveform of the RF power amplifier; shifting the waveform by a set of offsets comprising a plurality of non-integer fractional steps from (T1−Xd) to (T1+Xd) where T1 is the integer and Xd is a non-integer fractional step size value for defining fractional steps about the integer T1 such that the non-integer fractional steps progress in a positive direction as well as a negative direction; correlating the transmitted signal waveform with a feedback signal waveform to obtain a respective correlation value for each of corresponding fractional steps; obtaining an accurate fractional delay value by selecting a fractional step having a highest respective correlation value; applying the obtained correct fractional delay value to the transmitted signal waveform to provide a compensated transmitted signal waveform, and combining the compensated transmitted signal waveform with the feedback signal waveform to reduce at least one intermodulation product of the RF power amplifier. | 04-02-2015 |
20150089587 | ACCESS NETWORK TRUSTWORTHINESS DETECTION IN CORE NETWORK - There are provided measures for access network trustworthiness detection in core network. Such measures exemplarily comprise signaling of a trustworthiness indication of an access network with respect to a core network together with an access technology type of the access network from the access network, acquisition of the trustworthiness indication in the core network, detection of a trusted or untrusted property of the access network of the access technology type based on the acquired trustworthiness indication and access technology type in the core network, and operation according to the detected trusted or untrusted property of the access network in the core network. Such measures are exemplarily, but not exclusively, applicable in the context of a non-3GPP access network providing IP connectivity to a 3GPP core network. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085771 | Interference Coordination by Means of Directional Antenna Beams in a Wireless System - The disclosure relate to interference coordination in wireless communications. A first level station can obtain information for interference coordination with a second level station to protect the second level station from interference in arrangement where the second level station provides a smaller coverage area than the first level station and is at least partially located in the area of the first level station. Use of directional antenna beams by the first level station and/or communications by the second level station can then be controlled accordingly. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085660 | LINK SPEED FLUCTUATION REDUCTION - Link speed fluctuation reduction can be useful in a variety of communication systems. Such smoothing may have various benefits and may be achieved in various ways. For example, a policy and charging rules function can be leveraged to avoid repeated transfers of a same section of over-the-top video. A method can include detecting, for a link, a link traffic condition above a predetermined threshold. The method can also include estimating link speed to obtain an initial link speed value. When the detected link traffic condition is above a predetermined threshold, the method can further include limiting fluctuation of the link speed to within a threshold amount of the initial link speed value. The method can additionally include periodically re-estimating the recently achieved link speed as an updated link speed value and limiting the fluctuation based on the updated link speed value. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085657 | Data Transmission Mechanism with Improved Robustness Using Multiflow Connection - There is provided a mechanism for conducting data transmission from a network management entity of communication network control element to a terminal or UE with improved robustness. After a multiflow connection for data units via at least one network transceiver device and via at least two different paths is set up towards a terminal, selection criteria are applied so as to decide which data units are sent on which transmission path. Specifically, dependent on the applied selection criteria, data units of specific data are selected to be subjected either to bicasting each selected data unit using the at least two paths, or to dynamic flow switching so as to transmit each selected data unit using one of the at least two paths and wherein each selected data unit can be in dependently chosen to be transmitted over either of the at least two paths. | 03-26-2015 |
20150080046 | Three-Dimensional Beamforming in a Mobile Communications Network - Radio conditions of a user equipment in a sector of a mobile communications network are detected and the user equipment is allocated to a group of several groups of user equipments based on the radio conditions of the user equipment. The several groups include a first group of user equipments applying user equipment-specific horizontal beamforming and sector-specific vertical beamforming, a second group of user equipments applying user equipment-specific vertical beamforming and sector-specific horizontal beamforming, and a third group of user equipments applying user equipment-specific vertical beamforming and user equipment-specific horizontal beamforming. When the user equipment acquires a signaling message including a measurement set of reference signal ports for obtaining channel state information from the user equipment, it identifies an allocation scheme of the reference signal ports in the measurement set and generates the channel state information based on the measurement set using the allocation scheme. | 03-19-2015 |
20150079980 | Transmision Point Selection - This disclosure relates to selection of transmission points in a communication system. Information of potential reference signals is sent from a network element to a mobile device to configure the mobile device for measurement of at least one received signal characteristic of the indicated potential reference signals. The mobile device then performs measurement on the indicated potential reference signals and sends to the network element information of at least one port selected by the mobile device based on the measurement. | 03-19-2015 |
20150078241 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MULTICAST DELIVERY - A method and apparatus can be configured to determine an indicator based on a received request. The method can also include transmitting the indicator towards a base station. The indicator affects the coverage of a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network transmission. | 03-19-2015 |
20150072706 | DETERMINING A MOBILITY STATE OF A USER EQUIPMENT - It is described a method for determining a mobility state of a user equipment within a cellular network system, the cellular network system comprising a plurality of cells. The method comprises performing, by the user equipment, measurements for a predefined time period for detecting cells being within a range of the user equipment, determining a number of cells being detected during the predefined time period, and determining the mobility state of the user equipment based on the number of cells, wherein the mobility state of the user equipment is indicative for a velocity of the user equipment relatively to the plurality of cells. | 03-12-2015 |
20150071118 | NETWORK COORDINATION APPARATUS - A method comprising determining at least one event criteria from a received event function request; determining an event impact from the at least one event criteria and a general function impact; determining whether the event impact interferes with at least one implemented function instance; and generating a coordination output based on the determination whether the event impact interferes. | 03-12-2015 |
20150065179 | PRE-PAGING INDICATION IN ATI AND PSI - It is provided an apparatus, comprising checking means adapted to check, upon receipt of a detection point of a service for a subscriber, if a pre-paging support is related to the service; interrogating means adapted to interrogate a location of the subscriber, wherein the interrogation comprises an indication of the pre-paging support if the result of the checking by the checking means is affirmative. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063814 | Network Management System - Services are transmittable via a transport network by using container(s), wherein each container is adapted to transmit data with a specific bandwidth and is multiplexable, according to a dynamic multiplexing structure, to at least another container adapted to transmit data with a higher bandwidth. The network management system selects a container being adapted to transmit data with a first bandwidth out of the number of containers, determines all containers of the number of containers being adapted to transmit data with a bandwidth lower than the first bandwidth, and defines all possible termination points for each determined container. All possible termination points are defined before a service to be transmitted is selected by a user. A number of the possible termination points for each determined container is selected based on a selection scheme in order to provide the selected number of the possible termination points to the user. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063250 | Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request in Communications - A method for hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ signalling in a communications system is disclosed. The method includes defining, in a communications apparatus, a link-independent HARQ entity for one link direction, wherein the defined entity includes a resource allocation for one or more of forward link and reverse link data, the resource allocation including at least one HARQ process having a process identification, each HARQ process having a unique HARQ identification, a data allocation having a predetermined timing offset with respect to the resource allocation, and a HARQ acknowledgement allocation having a predetermined timing offset with respect to the data allocation, wherein the timing offset of the HARQ acknowledgement with respect to the data allocation is determined in terms of time division duplexing TDD frames and independently of a forward link-reverse link ratio. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063222 | COORDINATED SCHEDULING WITH ADAPTIVE MUTING - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products relating to coordinated scheduling with adaptive muting are provided. One method comprises transmitting, by a network element, calculated impact information for a cell of the network element when taking an action related to a cell of the network element and/or taking an action related to a cell of a second network element. The method may also comprise transmitting a request for taking the action related to the cell of the second network element under certain circumstances | 03-05-2015 |
20150055621 | Devices, Methods and Computer Program Products for an Improved Handover in Inter-Site Carrier Aggregation Scenarios - A handover process is proposed in a carrier aggregation scenario, in which there is encompassed a device communicating with a terminal in association with at least another device, using at least two carriers. At least a first carrier towards the terminal is established from the at least one another device and at least a second carrier is established towards the terminal from the device. A control module of the device is configured to suspend ongoing traffic between the device and the terminal on the second carrier, perform re-establishment of one or more protocol entities communicating over bearers between the device and the terminal on the second carrier, and resume traffic between the device and the terminal on the second carrier. The suspending is triggered by a first instruction received from a first one of the at least one another device, and the resuming is triggered by a second instruction received. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055583 | Method and Apparatus for Signaling Reference Signals to a UE in an LTE System - A method is provided. Amount information is determined. The amount information relates to an amount of reference information a user equipment is to provide. The amount information is caused to be provided to the user equipment. Reference information from the user equipment is used to process data from said user equipment. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055571 | LINK MODEL FOR MULTI-PREFIX PACKET SYSTEM BEARER - A second internet protocol network is logically connected to a packet data network connection provided between a user equipment and a first internet protocol network over a radio access network, the second internet protocol network located on a data path from the first internet protocol network to the user equipment. The first internet protocol network represents the highest level internet protocol point of attachment to the packet data network connection. Router advertisements are sent from the second internet protocol network to the user equipment over the radio access network via the packet data network connection. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055461 | Gateway Selection for Mobile Communications Network Architecture Optimization - A gateway control apparatus of a mobile communications network system, which is a termination point of signaling messages according to a first protocol, detects a first selection request via an interface of a first network technology from a mobility management entity, of selecting the gateway control apparatus for communicating user data in the mobile communications network system between an entity of the first protocol and a network of a second protocol. Based on the detected first selection request, the gateway control apparatus selects a distributed gateway device from plural distributed gateway devices for communicating the user data, and provides a second selection request of selecting the distributed gateway device via an interface of a second network technology independent from the first network technology. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055459 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING OVERLOAD CONTROL FOR HSS RECOVERY - A method and apparatus can transmit communications traffic to a home subscriber server on a network. An overload indicator is received from the home subscriber server, with the overload indicator including a severity indicator. Traffic volume transmitted to the home subscriber server can be adjusted based upon the severity indicator. | 02-26-2015 |
20150050935 | Controlling a Radio Resource Control Connection Between a Base Station and a User Equipment - It is described a method for controlling a radio resource control connection between a base station and a user equipment, wherein a radio resource control connection between the base station and the user equipment is established for exchanging control messages between the base station and the user equipment the control messages being required for an application running on the user equipment. The method includes determining a first value being indicative for a mobility characteristic of the user equipment and a second value being indicative for a data traffic characteristic of the user equipment, comparing the first value and the second value, setting a release timer based on the comparison, and controlling the radio resource control connection based on the release timer, wherein the radio resource control connection will end upon expiry of the release timer. | 02-19-2015 |
20150049749 | TRUST INDICATION FOR WLAN ACCESS NETWORKS - It is provided a method, comprising providing a non 3GPP network access to a user equipment (S | 02-19-2015 |
20150049647 | NETWORK INTERFACE UTILIZATION DEPENDENT CHARGING DETERMINATION - There are provided measures for network interface utilization dependent charging determination. Such measures exemplarily comprise establishing a connection between a network and a neighboring network for transiting a transmission session, obtaining connection state parameters based on at least one of said connection, said network, and said neighboring network, and generating a charging information message based on said connection state parameters at a network interface side, and receiving a charging information message related to a connection between a network and a neighboring network for transiting a transmission session, storing connection state parameters based on said charging information message, and generating an account for said transmission session based on said connection state parameters at a charging evaluation side. | 02-19-2015 |
20150049615 | Received Signal Quality Measurement Triggering and Reporting - An apparatus and method provide received signal quality measurement management triggering and reporting. Specifically, a received signal quality range is defined including a best received signal quality as upper border, which is the best received signal quality in a radio resource management measurement among all received signal qualities measured in a received signal quality measurement procedure. The, a report is processed which includes a predetermined number of signal originating points providing a received signal quality at a reference location within the defined received signal quality range. | 02-19-2015 |
20150036687 | MAPPING SELECTIVE DSCP VALUES TO GTP-U - An apparatus and a method are provided by which a packet is received, a service identification in the packet is detected, it is decided based on the detected service identification whether a tunnel protocol extension header is to be generated or not, and, when the tunnel protocol extension header is to be generated, the tunnel protocol extension header is generated, the received packet is encapsulated with the generated tunnel protocol extension header and the encapsulated packet is forwarded. | 02-05-2015 |
20150031383 | Managing a Radio Transmission Between a Base Station and a User Equipment - It is described a method for managing a radio transmission between a base station and a user equipment, wherein a communication channel is used for the radio transmission, wherein the communication channel includes a plurality of channel resources and is based on a MIMO transmission scheme. The method includes dividing the plurality of channel resources into a set of channel resource regions, assigning a MIMO rank to each channel resource region, wherein the MIMO rank is indicative for a number of channel resources to be used for a radio transmission within a corresponding channel resource region, selecting a channel resource region for the radio transmission between the base station and the user equipment, and managing the radio transmission between the base station and the user equipment based on the selected channel resource region and the corresponding assigned MIMO rank. | 01-29-2015 |
20150030019 | MOBILE SWITCHING CENTER ACTING AS A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE GATEWAY - Communications systems, such as the evolved packet system, may benefit from configurations and methods for a mobile switching center. For example, a mobile switching center may be configured to act as a short message service gateway. A method can include communicating, by a mobility management entity, regarding a user equipment with a home subscriber server of the user equipment. The method can also include determining whether a mobility management entity communicates with a short message service gateway mobile switching center regarding the user equipment based on communication with the home subscriber server. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029998 | Inter-Node B Handover in HSDPA or Multi-Flow HSPA Including Packet Retransmission - The application relates to the removal of one of the links in multi-flow HSPA but the proposed method is also applicable to normal HSDPA operation during handover. In particular the application aims at minimizing the negative impact of a removed radio link, i.e. drop of packets and/or delays. According to the proposed method, in which the radio link to be removed is via a first Node B NB | 01-29-2015 |
20150026327 | MULTI-LEVEL SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORK COORDINATION - There are provided measures for realizing multi-level self-organizing network coordination, including self-organizing network coordination procedures. Such measures exemplarily comprise communication of a notification for self-organizing network coordination, which notifies an action of at least one self-organizing network function at a lower management level, from the lower management level of a self-organizing network to a higher management level of the self-organizing network, either before the action is actually performed or after the action has actually been performed, and coordination of the notified action in terms of self-organizing network coordination at the higher management level. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024776 | OPTIMIZING COOPERATION AREAS AND COVER SHIFTS IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SYSTEMS - In a cellular communications network system comprising a plurality of cells including a first cell and second cells different from and present in the neighborhood of the first cell, measurement reports are repeatedly received from user equipments, each including a first signal strength value corresponding to a signal strength measured from the first cell over a short time period and n second signal strength values corresponding to signal strengths measured over the short time period from n second cells, which correspond to the n strongest signal strengths measured from the second cells, n being an integer greater than one. A value of a counter is incremented which corresponds to a potential cooperation area formed by the first cell corresponding to the first signal strength value and the n second cells corresponding to the n second signal strength values. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024757 | MEASURES IN CASE OF HANDOVER PROBLEMS IN CASE OF RELAYING - An apparatus and a method are described, by which communication from at least one network control node is relayed to at least one user equipment and vice versa, it is detected whether a connection to a network control node or a handover of the apparatus from a serving network control node to a target network control node for maintaining a network connection of the at least one user equipment is required but not possible, and, in case the connection or the handover is not possible, the at least one user equipment is instructed to perform a handover to a network control node. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024751 | HANDLING HANDOVER REQUESTS IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A scenario may arise in which a circuit switched (CS) bearer reservation is successful but a voice media switching from packet switched (PS) to CS performed by a mobile switching center (MSC) server fails. Certain embodiments provides systems, apparatuses, and methods for recovery from such a scenario. A method, for example, can include determining whether session transfer of a user equipment is possible in response to a request from a network element to initiate session transfer of the user equipment and reporting to the requesting network element either a generic or specific indication that the transfer is not possible, when it is determined that the session transfer is not possible. | 01-22-2015 |
20150023176 | DATA FORWARDING IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SYSTEM WITH CENTRALIZED GATEWAY APPARATUS CONTROLLING DISTRIBUTED GATEWAY ELEMENTS - A gateway apparatus ( | 01-22-2015 |
20150019339 | DELIVERY OF COMMERCIAL INFORMATION - The invention relates to an apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: configure an apparatus capable to device-to-device communications to operate as a local proximity services advertising agent device, and/or configure a proximity services advertising source device to operate as a local proximity services advertising agent device or associate the proximity services advertising source device with an existing local proximity services advertising agent device, and provide commercial information to the local proximity services advertising agent device for local delivery. | 01-15-2015 |
20150017975 | SUB-CELL LEVEL, MULTI-LAYER DEGRADATION DETECTION, DIAGNOSIS AND RECOVERY - Outage detection and recovery in heterogeneous networks may benefit from sub-cell level, multi-layer degradation detection, diagnosis, and recovery. For example, cell outage detection and cell outage compensation may benefit from appropriate use of sub-cell level and multi-layer diagnosis and recovery techniques applied to degradation and outage scenarios. A method can include self-healing at least one first cell in a network or at least one second cell in the network. The network includes the at least one first cell and the at least one second cell. The at least one first cell and the at least one second cell have at least partially overlapping coverage. The self-healing can include a network device, such as a network management device, applying at least one of multi-layer reasoning to integrate information of different cell layers or sub-cell level reasoning to consider fine-granular location information. The self-healing can be based on location information. | 01-15-2015 |
20150016367 | Providing a Radio Bearer on a Plurality of Component Carriers - There is provided a radio bearer to user equipment on a first component carrier by a first network node and on a second component carrier via a second network node connecting to the first network node; and receiving data units of the radio bearer on the first component carrier on the basis of the first network node terminating a protocol bearer of the radio bearer. | 01-15-2015 |
20150016365 | Carrier Aggregation Optimization - The present invention provides a method, apparatus and a computer program product for carrier aggregation optimization. The present invention includes receiving, at a base station, information from another base station regarding usage of PCell and SCell per carrier at the another base station, analyzing, at the base station, the received information, configuring, at the base station, PCells and SCells for user equipment served by the base station based on the analysis of the received information. | 01-15-2015 |
20150012744 | GROUP BASED BOOTSTRAPPING IN MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION - A group key is computed based on unique identifications of each member device of a group of machine type communication devices, wherein communication with a network application function is performed by using a session identification of the group, and/or by using a session identification of a member device of the group, generated based on the session identification of the group and the unique identification of the member device. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009933 | CONFIGURING A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL BETWEEN A BASE STATION AND A USER EQUIPMENT - A method is provided wherein a base station and at least one further base station are assigned to a cooperation area, wherein a user equipment is served by the base station. The method comprises determining, by the base station), whether all user data of the user equipment being required for a precoding coordinated multipoint transmission is received by each of the base station and the at least one further base station, selecting a transmission mode, wherein the transmission mode is based, if all user data of the user equipment being required for a precoding coordinated multipoint transmission is received by each of the base station and the at least one further base station, on precoding coordinated multipoint transmission, or else, on an interference reducing transmission, and configuring, by the base station, the communication channel between the base station and the user equipment based on the selected transmission mode. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009896 | SESSION TERMINATION IN A MOBILE PACKET CORE NETWORK - A gateway device of a mobile packet core network matches (S | 01-08-2015 |
20140379872 | CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT INTERACTION WITH CACHING - One embodiment includes a method and apparatus for allocating resources for the streaming of multimedia content in a network. The method includes analyzing multimedia content to determine media characteristics of the multimedia content, receiving a request to access the multimedia content from a user, and sending a request for resources for the multimedia content to a traffic management node. The request for resources includes the determined media characteristics of the multimedia content. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376488 | Power Control - The invention relates to an apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine usable power for a physical downlink control channel information unit based on resource consumption and available power resources, and adjust the usable power orthogonal frequency division multiplexed symbol-wise in such a manner that the available power resources are not exceeded or that exceeding is given to physical downlink control channel information units according to hierarchy of needs or that the exceeding is evenly distributed over the physical downlink control channel information units. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376460 | Methods, Apparatuses and Computer Program Products for Providing Dynamic Uplink-Downlink Reconfiguration Information to User Equipments - A method provides information to a UE specifying a UL-DL configuration to be applied to the UE. The information is indicative of: (a) a signaling time at which a UL-DL configuration signaling for a new UL-DL configuration is to take place, and (b) an application time at which the new UL-DL configuration is to be applied. This method complements UL-DL configuration signaling by providing more reliable reception of UL-DL configuration information. This indication is performed with smaller signaling overhead compared to conventional schemes and with reasonable complexity on both the UE side and an eNB side. | 12-25-2014 |
20140370897 | Providing Mobility Control for Local Area Networks - Provided are methods, corresponding apparatuses, and computer program products for providing mobility control for local area networks. A method includes connecting a user equipment to a first base station, wherein the first base station and the use equipment are connected with a second base station; and disconnecting the first base station from the second base station and connecting the first base station to a third base station during a handover of the user equipment from the second base station to the third base station. With the claimed inventions, mobility of a user equipment in local area networks can be well controlled and thus service continuity would be maintained, resulting in a robust user experience. | 12-18-2014 |
20140363163 | Conveying Traffic in a Communications Network System - Traffic is conveyed in a communications network by a homogeneous transport network from edge nodes located at edges of the homogeneous transport network to at least one processing center (D-center, C-center) located at an edge of the homogeneous transport network. The at least one processing center processes the traffic and controls and forwards traffic to be further conveyed to the edge nodes. | 12-11-2014 |
20140357274 | CELL HANDOVERS - A technique includes: comparing (a) measurements made at the first access node of transmissions made by a plurality of other access nodes against (b) measurements made at the communication device of transmissions made by said plurality of other access nodes; and deciding whether or not to select said first access node as a handover candidate for said communication device based at least partly on the result of said comparison. | 12-04-2014 |
20140357273 | MOBILITY CONTROL IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The disclosure relates to generation of mobility information. A mobile device can determine, based on measurements, at least one parameter relating to its movement relative to a cell. A weighting of a counter output for use in estimation of a mobility state of the mobile device is determined. The determining includes comparison of the at least one parameter to at least one threshold. Information about the weighting can be provided by a network element. When the network element obtains the weighted estimation it can take it into account in mobility control of the mobile device. | 12-04-2014 |
20140357259 | Cell Outage Management - The invention relates to an apparatus comprising: at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: obtain information on a need for at least partial compensation of a radio cell outage, and reconfigure a decreased channel bandwidth for at least temporal usage. | 12-04-2014 |
20140357232 | DETECTION OF NON-ENTITLEMENT OF A SUBSCRIBER TO A SERVICE IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Detection of non-entitlement of a subscriber to a service in communication networks An apparatus and a method is proposed which are configured to store information about a certain status of a subscriber, to receive an authentication request for the subscriber via the interface, and to reject the authentication request for the subscriber in case the certain status of the subscriber is valid. Furthermore, an apparatus and a method are proposed which are configured to detect a certain status of a subscriber and to establish a notification including information about the certain status of the subscriber, and to send the notification to a network control element of the subscriber. | 12-04-2014 |
20140351903 | AUTHENTICATION MECHANISM - A method is provided in which both device application and service capability portions of a machine-to-machine (M2M) device can be authenticated to the M2M platform. First, the service capability portion of the M2M device is authenticated at an M2M platform; at this stage, the M2M device enters a partially authenticated state. Next, the device application portion is authenticated at a network application of a M2M system. The M2M platform is informed of the authentication of the device application in order for the M2M device to move from the partially authenticated state to a fully authenticated state. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351451 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AND SELECTING CANDIDATE NODES FOR LIVE STREAMING SERVICES - Candidate nodes for live streaming services are provided and selected. A candidate nodes list for live streaming services is provided. The method includes collecting information of each node involved in the live streaming services; based on the collected information, calculating progress factors of each node; comparing the collected information of each node with load thresholds; sorting the nodes, the collected information of which are below the load thresholds, on the basis of the calculated progress factors; and forming the candidate nodes list by a number N of first N nodes of the sorted nodes. The candidate node for live streaming services may also be selected by: based on information involved in the live streaming services, calculating progress factors; reporting the calculated progress factors and requesting for candidate nodes list; selecting a candidate node from the candidate nodes list according to delay requirements and overlay policies of the live streaming services. | 11-27-2014 |
20140349583 | MINIMIZATION OF DRIVE TESTS DATA AND RADIO LINK FAILURE INFORMATION CORRELATION - A method, apparatus, system, and computer-readable medium is provided for performing RLF functionality within a trace functionality. As part of trace functionality, RLF information, in the form of one or more RLF reports, is collected. When MDT information is also collected as part of trace functionality, the RLF information and the MDT information is correlated. | 11-27-2014 |
20140349568 | Detection of Intentional Radio Jamming - There is provided a method, an apparatus, and a computer program for acquiring, in a radio communication network infrastructure, a message from a terminal device indicating communication quality below a determined threshold in a radio connection between the radio communication network infrastructure and the terminal device; detecting presence of an intentional radio interference source, wherein the detection is based on at least one measurement report received from the terminal device; and upon a result of said detection of the intentional radio interference source, causing transmission of a notification message to a determined target entity. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348068 | Multiplexing Core Networks in RAN Sharing - An apparatus, includes core interface means adapted to provide an eastbound interface to a first core network element and to a second core network element different from the first core network element; radio interface means adapted to provide a westbound interface to a first radio access network element and to a second radio access network element different from the first radio access network element; multiplex detecting means adapted to detect if a first request received at one of the eastbound and westbound interfaces is directed to the first and/or the second of the network elements of the respective other interface; adapting means adapted to adapt the first request according to the network element to which it is directed; multiplexing means adapted to multiplex the adapted first request to the first and/or the second of the network elements of the respective other interface according to detection by the multiplex detecting means. | 11-27-2014 |
20140342721 | MANAGING A NETWORK ELEMENT - A method for managing a network element involves receiving via a first interface field data from a communication network. The field data is compared with available network status data such, that a difference between network status data and field data can be determined. A configuration data is generated such that the configuration data are adapted to align the network status data and the field data. Then, a corresponding network element for receiving the configuration data is determined and the configuration data is distributed via a first interface to a corresponding network element. | 11-20-2014 |
20140342716 | APPLICATION BASED NETWORK INFORMATION MAINTENANCE - Various communication systems may benefit from notifications of network information. For example, cellular optimization may be accomplished by selective use of a data technique by applications on network devices, which may further benefit from notifications that may reduce the need for external data requests, used in coordination with application observations of current network conditions. According to certain embodiments, a method can include monitoring network service viability for a user or application. The method can also include sending a push message to a user equipment when network service viability is detected for the user or the application. The push message can indicate at least one threshold associated with network service viability. | 11-20-2014 |
20140328246 | Mobile Relay Support in Relay-Enhanced Access Networks - Measures are provided for mobile relay support in relay-enhanced access networks. Such measures include setting up a first packet data connection for traffic in a relay-enhanced access network, which relates to first-type user terminals using the same access technology as a base station, from a mobile relay towards a packet data network via a first packet gateway functionality collocated with the base station currently serving the mobile relay, and setting up a second packet data connection for traffic in the relay-enhanced access network, which relates to second-type user terminals using another access technologies as the base station and the mobile relay, from the mobile relay towards the packet data network via a second packet gateway functionality external to the base station currently serving the mobile relay. | 11-06-2014 |
20140321410 | Configuring a Communication Channel within a Cell of a Cellular Network Comprising Another Cell which Uses Muting Patterns - A method for configuring a first communication channel within a first cell of a cellular network. The method includes determining a first plurality of the subframes of the first communication channel being related in time with the unscheduled subframes of a second communication channel and a second plurality of the subframes of the first communication channel being related in time with the scheduled subframes of the second communication channel, specifying a transmission scheme, by a first base station, for the first communication channel based on the determined first plurality of the subframes and based on the determined second plurality of the subframes, the transmission scheme including a first type of transmission for the first plurality of the subframes and a second type of transmission for the second plurality of the subframes, and configuring, by the first base station, the first communication channel according to the specified transmission scheme. | 10-30-2014 |
20140315538 | Method of Improving Coverage and Optimisation in Communication Networks - A method and apparatus for detecting and determining the location of a coverage hole in a communications network such as a cellular communication system wherein the location is determined from operational parameters and/or by network elements themselves. Additionally is a method to reduce a hole by adjusting antennae parameters preferably remotely and automatically and this can be done in conjunction with hole location to optimise the system. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313995 | Transmission And Reception Of A Wideband Signal With Narrowband Interference - It is disclosed a method comprising accommodating, in frequency domain, a first bandwidth of a first carrier signal with respect to a second bandwidth of a second carrier signal such that the first bandwidth adjoins to or overlaps the second bandwidth, the first bandwidth being greater than the second bandwidth. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313982 | Method of Management in a Communications Network - A method including maintaining a database of unique radio network identifiers within a home node B gateway, wherein the unique radio network identifier uniquely identifies the radio network termination point of user equipment attached to a radio node controlled by the home node B gateway. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313974 | MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST/MULTIMEDIA SERVICE (MBMS) SESSION UPDATE - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for multimedia broadcast/multimedia service (MBMS) session update are provided. One method includes receiving a session update request which may include a TGMI pointing to the current active MBMS session and new QoS requirement. The method may then include updating the MBMS bearer context with the new QoS. | 10-23-2014 |
20140307701 | COORDINATED SPECTRUM ALLOCATION AND DE-ALLOCATION TO MINIMIZE SPECTRUM FRAGMENTATION IN A COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORK - An apparatus and a method are described, by which a fragmentation probability is determined which indicates a probability of fragmentation of frequency resources in at least one network section for at least one network operating entity. Moreover, an apparatus and a method are described, by which frequency resources in at least one network section are allocated and/or de-allocated, priorities of frequency resources are defined for at least one network operating entity individually, and allocating and/or de-allocating of the frequency resources for the at least one network operating entity is performed based on the priorities. For allocating and/or de-allocating of the frequency resources, also the fragmentation probability may be taken into account. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307631 | Feedback Messaging - The disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for feedback messaging in a communication system. A station can include into a scheduling information entity an indication of aperiodic feedback messaging on a physical uplink control channel and dynamically send the scheduling information entity with the indication to a communication device configured for periodic feedback messaging to trigger aperiodic feedback messaging by the communication device on the physical uplink control channel. Upon receiving the scheduling information entity the device can determine that it includes the indication and in response to the determining send at least one aperiodic feedback message on the physical uplink control channel. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307617 | Bearer Service in Communications - A method for providing a bearer service in a communications system is disclosed. The method includes establishing a radio bearer service between a network apparatus and a user terminal, for transmitting messages over an air interface, such that a point-to-point radio bearer is to be used for transmitting unicast messages and its associated shared point-to-multipoint broadcast radio bearer in downlink is to be used for transmitting one or more of broadcast and multicast messages from a local IP network via the network apparatus to user terminals. Messages received from the point-to-point radio bearer and its associated point-to-multipoint broadcast radio bearer in downlink are combinable in the user terminal to a single connection emulating one or more of a broadcast and multicast capable media respectively over the air interface. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307586 | MECHANISMS ADDRESSING DYNAMIC COMPONENT CARRIER CHANGE IN RELAY SYSTEMS - The present invention proposes methods and devices to further improve relay systems operating on the basis of carrier aggregation on the access as well as on the backhaul link Under an aspect of such approach, there is proposed a relay node as a device, comprising a transceiver device, configured to communicate via a first interface with a terminal and via a second interface with a remote network device, wherein communication via the first and/or second interface is configured to operate based on aggregation of plural individual component carriers, and a control device, configured to perform, per component carrier: detection of a change concerning a component carrier on the first interface, sending, responsive thereto, of update information pertaining to at least the first interface towards the remote network device, reception of reconfiguration instructions, implied by the detected change, to be applied on the first interface, and initiation of reconfiguration of the first interface based on the received instructions. Similar approach is applied to a donor eNB as well as to corresponding methods and computer program products. | 10-16-2014 |
20140302873 | LOCATION VERIFICATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method of verifying the location of a home base station ( | 10-09-2014 |
20140302821 | SECURITY HANDLING FOR MULTI FREQUENCY BAND - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for security handling in, for example, cells that support multiple frequency band indication are provided. One method includes receiving, for example by a source evolved node B (eNB) configured to communicate with a user equipment, a multiple frequency band indicator (MFBI) list, the multiple frequency band indicator (MFBI) list comprising at least one frequency band number listed in the same order of priority as broadcast by a target eNB. The method may further include selecting one of the at least one frequency band number for use by the source eNB, calculating a security key (KeNB*) using the DL EARFCN belonging to the selected frequency band number with the highest priority that is also supported by the user equipment, and signaling the calculated security key to the target eNB. | 10-09-2014 |
20140301256 | Uplink Power Control Enhancement for Dynamic Time Division Duplex Uplink-Downlink Reconfiguration - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for power control enhancement are provided. One method includes retrieving, by an eNB, subframe type information in connection with uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration. The method then includes simultaneously indicating, using physical layer signaling, at least one of the subframe type information and/or corresponding power control parameter set to a user equipment. In one example, the subframe type information and/or the corresponding power control parameter set may be indicated in reused bits of a transmit power command (TPC). | 10-09-2014 |
20140298080 | INTRA-REALM AAA FALLBACK MECHANISM - There is provided an intra-realm AAA (authentication, authorization and accounting) fallback mechanism, wherein the single global realm may be divided in one or more sub-realms. The thus presented mechanism exemplarily comprises detecting a failure of an authentication server serving at least one authentication client within a first sub-realm of a single-realm authentication system, and routing authentication messages of the at least one authentication client to a fallback authentication server within a second sub-realm of the single-realm authentication system, wherein routing may exemplarily comprise sub-realm based source routing. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293889 | Controlling Retransmissions - A method and apparatus for controlling retransmissions in multipoint reception is disclosed. In the method it is determined that additional information is needed for decoding of at least one received information block. A procedure is selected for obtaining the additional information from a plurality of options to proceed based on information about predicted result of at least one of the options. In accordance with an aspect an indication of one of a positive according knowledgement of the information block, a negative acknowledgement of the information block and suspension of retransmission of the information block is generated and communicated on a retransmission control channel. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292406 | Signal Predistortion for Non-Linear Amplifier - A method, apparatus, and computer program for modeling mathematically an effect of a plurality of factors on signal distortion caused by a non-linear amplifier are provided. First, there is computed a global model which incorporates a combined effect of the plurality of factors on signal distortion caused by the non-linear amplifier. Before applying the pre-distorted transmission signal to the non-linear amplifier, a transmission signal is pre-distorted with coefficients derived from the global model thus compensating for the signal distortion caused by the non-linear amplifier. | 10-02-2014 |
20140286296 | Physical Uplink Control Channel Resource Allocation for Multiple Channel State Indicators Colliding in Same Subframe - Disclosed are a method and a corresponding apparatus relating to wireless telecommunication systems and more particularly to efficient resource allocation schemes supporting transmission of multiple periodic channel state information (CSI) reports on the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) during the same subframe while maintaining single carrier properties of the transmitted signal. The method includes determining that at least two reports to be transmitted on an uplink resource collide with respect to the uplink resource, applying at least one resource selection policy to the at least two reports and selecting a resource to be used for transmitting a plurality of the at least two reports. | 09-25-2014 |
20140274061 | ANR ESTABLISHMENT RESOLUTION - The present invention provides a method, apparatus and a computer program product for ANR establishment resolution. The present invention includes receiving, at a base station, a measurement report from a user equipment including a signal strength from each of a plurality of cells, evaluating, at the base station, the signal strength from each of the cells, setting, at the base station, the cells with the signal strength exceeding a predetermined threshold, as neighbours for the cell serving the user equipment. | 09-18-2014 |
20140269570 | Random Access Preamble Transmission Design With Multiple Available Random Access Channel Resources - A method for use of a RA preamble with multiple available RACH resources is described. The method includes allocating resources including a plurality of RACH resources for a UE. Information that indicates a dedicated preamble and the allocated resources is sent to the UE. The UE receives the information. A response including the dedicated preamble is generated at the UE. The method also includes the UE sending the response over at least two of the allocated resources. In response to receiving at least one response, a message is transmitted to the UE. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 09-18-2014 |
20140253343 | METHOD, METERING EQUIPMENT, USER DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OF METERING INFORMATION - A method, metering equipment, a user device, and a system provide metering information. In particular, the method for providing metering information of the metering equipment, includes detecting a communication request input at the metering equipment, activating a communication interface of the metering equipment responsive to the detected communication request input, receiving instruction information via the activated communication interface, and providing via the activated communication interface the metering information responsive to the received instruction information. The communication interface is deactivated at the latest after a time period since the activating of the communication interface. | 09-11-2014 |
20140248915 | Radio Impacts Due To Group Triggering And Paging And Solutions For Group Triggering And Paging - A method includes transmitting a paging indicator indicating to user equipment assigned to one or more groups that the user equipment are to attempt to receive paging messages including paging information targeted to at least one of the one or more groups; and transmitting in a channel the paging information in the paging messages. Another method includes receiving a paging indicator indicating a user equipment is to attempt to receive paging messages including paging information targeted to at least one of one or more groups; and receiving from a channel the paging information in the paging messages. A method includes sending a request message to user equipment assigned to one or more groups, the request message comprising an indication to cause the user equipment to read device trigger information in a system broadcast message; and sending the device trigger information in the system broadcast message. | 09-04-2014 |