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20080200178 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA AND CELLULAR SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A cellular system where, in each of a plurality of cells, a base station transmits the same data to a plurality of mobile stations at a predetermined transmission rate, comprises an adjusting portion for adjusting a resource used for data transmission to make a resource consumption level equal to a predetermined threshold when the resource consumption level in the cell exceeds the predetermined threshold due to the data transmission, and a transmitting portion for performing the data transmission by using the adjusted resource. | 08-21-2008 |
20080214199 | Dynamic frequency selection based on spectrum etiquette - The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for dynamic frequency selection based on spectrum etiquette. In one example, the method includes identifying multiple frequencies usable by a central subdivision in a wireless communication system that are not in use by neighboring subdivisions. The method may determine whether the frequencies include a frequency that cannot be used by the neighboring subdivisions and, if the frequency exists, may select the frequency for use by the central subdivision. If such a frequency does not exist, the method may identify a frequency that can be used by fewer of the neighboring subdivisions than other frequencies and select the identified frequency for use by the central subdivision. The frequency selection can be performed periodically, or can be triggered by a certain predefined events. | 09-04-2008 |
20080227460 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECONFIGURING PRIVATE CELLULAR NETWORKS FOR RESOLVING FREQUENCY BAND CONFLICTS WITH OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Disclosed herein is a system and method for achieving a government-imposed re-banding of communications frequencies within the cellular telecommunications industry that provides considerable advantages over options available in the prior art. Using a bi-directional amplifier means of the present invention, cellular service providers required to shift and otherwise adjust the frequency bands within which they are licensed to operate will be able to conform to government dictates in a manner that is cost effective and capable, without more, of implementing the government-imposed plan in multiple stages without resort to significant hardware upgrades or substitutions. | 09-18-2008 |
20080233966 | Resource allocation apparatus and method in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication system - A novel and useful method and system for resource allocation in OFDM communication systems. The mechanism reduces inter-cell interference by randomizing the inter-cell interference experienced in each cell. The mechanism effectively spreads the resource allocation in each cell in a random manner resulting in statistical-like inter-cell interference behavior. In many cases, use of the mechanism is sufficient to obviate the need for frequency planning between cells. A formula or hardware permutation machine is used to generate a random list of indices. The indices are then used to assign user data to the system resources. One or more parameters defining the random index generator at the transmitter are forwarded to the receiver to enable the local generation of an exact copy of the list of indices generated at the transmitter, thus enabling the DL and UL at the receiver while minimizing the required control channel signaling. | 09-25-2008 |
20080242309 | MIMO Communication System with User Scheduling Based on Reduced Channel State Information - A multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) communication system is configured to perform user scheduling with reduced channel station information. The system includes multiple terminals and at least one base station configured to communicate with the terminals. The base station is operative to obtain channel vector magnitudes for respective ones of the terminals, to identify a subset of the terminals based on the channel vector magnitudes, to obtain channel vector phase information for the identified subset of terminals, and to utilize the channel vector phase information to control transmission to the identified subset of terminals. The system may be, for example, a multi-user MIMO system in which the multiple terminals comprise autonomous single-antenna terminals. | 10-02-2008 |
20080248806 | Cellular Radiotelephone Signal Permitting Synchronization of a Supplementary Channel by Means of a Principal Channel and Corresponding Method, Terminal and Base Station - The disclosure relates to a cellular radiotelephone signal of the type comprising, a principal bidirectional symmetrical channel, comprising a principal uplink path and a principal downlink path, particularly to guarantee transmission of data at low or medium rate and of the signalling information and commands, at least one auxiliary channel working only in the downlink sense, particularly to guarantee the data transmission at high rates, using a multi-carrier technique which gives a distribution of data over time and frequency, with a sub-frame structure. The beginning of at least one sub-frame in the supplemental channel is offset by a time interval of fixed duration which is not zero (Δt) with relation to a determined time (t | 10-09-2008 |
20080261609 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A RADIO BASE STATION APPARATUS - A method of allocating resources in a radio base station apparatus is disclosed. A call processing controller, upon receipt of a call connection request from a mobile terminal, multicasts a resource allocation request to each signal processing card in a signal processor. Each signal processing card that has received the resource allocation request, searches resources in the respective card managed by each signal processing card for unused resources and transmits a resource allocation response message to the call processing controller that is indicative of whether the resources can be allocated or not. The call processing controller transmits a resource allocation message to the signal processing card that has transmitted the resource allocation response message which was first received by said call processing controller, and which indicates that the resource can be allocated, and causes the signal processing card to allocate the resources. | 10-23-2008 |
20080261610 | Resource Partitioning in a Cellular Communication System - A cellular communication system ( | 10-23-2008 |
20080268861 | Method for Configuring a Telecommunications Network, Telecommunications Network and Corresponding Managing Entities - In a telecommunications network that is able to manage cellular radio-mobile systems, base radio stations can be dynamically reconfigured through an exchange of messages from a configuration managing unit of radio resources adapted to be interfaced with many base radio stations and the affected base radio stations for dynamically reducing telecommunications network block conditions. | 10-30-2008 |
20080274749 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A resource allocation method and apparatus for downlink transmission of a base station in a mobile communication system. The base station compares the number Ntx of data transmissions with the number Nper of available persistent resource allocations, and allocates resources by at least one of a persistent resource allocation scheme and a dynamic resource allocation scheme according to the comparison result. | 11-06-2008 |
20080280622 | Smart Antenna Apparatus and Method with Automatic Gain Control - A smart antenna apparatus including a receiving system, one or more beam analysis modules, a control channel monitoring module, a processing system, and a receiving beam switch is provided. The receiving system is operable to receive a plurality of uplink beams, each including traffic signals transmitted by a mobile station. The beam analysis modules are operable to analyze the uplink beams to determine one or more characteristics of each uplink beam. The control channel monitoring module is operable to monitor control channel signals being communicated from a base station transceiver. The control channel signals include synchronization signals. The processing system is operable to synchronize the smart antenna apparatus with the base station transceiver using the synchronization signals received by the control channel monitoring module. The processing system is further operable to determine a selected beam from the plurality of uplink beams based at least in part on the one or more characteristics determined by the beam analysis modules. The receiving beam switch is operable to switch to the selected beam to allow the selected beam to be communicated to the base station transceiver. | 11-13-2008 |
20080293427 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE ORIGINATED OPTIMAL CALL ROUTING - A system and method is disclosed that provides dynamic and optimal call routing functionality for originating calls from a mobile to the callee party involving alternate network access points and call routing based on considerations such as caller and callee device type, type of available network connections, caller preference, callee presence, caller and callee international and national calling number prefix, and caller or callee service package plan. A significant advantage of this method is that the system can dynamically select the access point and route based on callee party disposition, route quality of service, network route availability, network route cost, and regulatory network tariff pricing structures. | 11-27-2008 |
20080311924 | Method for Allocating Communication Resources and Radiocommunication System Therefor - A method of allocating communications resources in a radio communications system comprising a first subsystem ( | 12-18-2008 |
20080311925 | BASE STATION, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT METHOD - A base station communicates with plural terminals with using plural frequency channels having different bandwidths. The base station includes: a carrier-sensing unit that carrier-senses the plurality of frequency channels; a first calculating unit that estimates whether the frequency channels are used or not, and calculates first priorities of respective frequency channels; a second calculating unit that calculates a plurality of second priorities of respective communication frequency channels having a bandwidth to be used in communication with a terminal based on the first priorities of the communication frequency channels and the first priorities of reference frequency channels having a bandwidth wider than the communication frequency channels have; a third calculating unit that calculates an assignment order of the communication frequency channels based on the plural second priorities; and a channel assigning unit that assigns a communication frequency channel to the communication in accordance with the assignment order. | 12-18-2008 |
20080311926 | NETWORK SIGNALING FOR POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT SERVICE OVER SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK MODE - The present invention relates to communicating between a network and a mobile terminal in a wireless communication system. The invention includes receiving a message from the network for announcing a service. The message includes an attribute for identifying whether the service is to be received according to a specific mode. The specific mode is a mode wherein information is communicated on a frequency having no associated uplink service. The attribute is included in the message according to a session description protocol describing the service. | 12-18-2008 |
20080318587 | Cellular Communication System, a Base Station and a Method of Resource Allocation - A cellular communication system ( | 12-25-2008 |
20080318588 | Resource Scheduling in a Cellular System - The invention relates to a method for scheduling resources for uplink transmissions in a radio access network comprising access points which own pre-assigned resources. The invention also relates to an access point ( | 12-25-2008 |
20090005058 | Dynamic Inter-Cell Channel Sharing - A mechanism to share channels between cells dynamically and without simultaneous allocation of the same channel by more than one access point achieved by a method for a dynamic inter-cell channel sharing for a first access point in a radio access network, the first access point being associated with a first cell of a number of cells within the radio access network, the first access point being adapted to connecting at least one first user equipment being situated in the first cell, to a network infrastructure, comprising the steps of: receiving from the at least one first user equipment a report indicating whether a specific channel is used in a second adjacent cell of said number of cells, the report being based on a first information sent from at least one second access point, the information indicating whether a specific channel is used in the second adjacent cell. | 01-01-2009 |
20090005059 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND MBMS SERVICE RELEVANT INFORMATION TRANSFER METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH - The present invention provides a mobile communication system in which a target Radio Network Controller can decide the PtP method or PtM method correctly, and notify that the contents data of an MBMS service starts to be transferred to the radio terminal. A source Radio Network Controller sets up the relevant information of the MBMS service joined by a radio terminal in a Relocation Required message, and transmits it to an SGSN4. The SGSN4 transmits a Relocation Request message to the target Radio Network Controller. The target Radio Network Controller sets up the radio resources to perform the communication with the radio terminal, and stores the relevant information of the MBMS service in the Relocation Required message in memory. | 01-01-2009 |
20090011770 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RESOURCES FOR PEER TO PEER COMMUNICATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for allocating frequency resources for peer to peer (P2P) communication between terminals without a base station are provided. The method determines resources used for a direct communication between two terminals in a communication system. The method includes determining uplink frequency resources of a cellular communication system for use in the direct communication between the two terminals, determining a primary maximum transmission power to minimize interference caused by the direct communication on the cellular communication system and performing the direct communication between the two terminals by using the uplink frequency resources and a transmission power less than the determined primary maximum transmission power. | 01-08-2009 |
20090017835 | SIGNAL COMBINING APPARATUS SATISFYING MAXIMUM TRANSMISSION CAPACITY IN CELLULAR SYSTEM EMPLOYING DISTRIBUTED ANTENNAS AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a signal combining apparatus and a resource allocation method using the same in a cellular system using distributed antennas. The resource allocation method includes detecting a channel transmission capacity when a signal is transmitted from a single Relay Station (RS) to a Mobile Station (MS), by a Base Station (BS), detecting a channel transmission capacity when transmitting a signal produced by using signal combining by two or more RSs to the MS, by the BS, selecting a channel transmission capacity with a larger gain between the detected channel transmission capacity of the single RS and the detected channel transmission capacity of the two or more RSs, by the BS; and selecting the signal transmitted by the single RS or the signal produced by using the signal combining by the two or more RSs having the selected channel transmission capacity with the larger gain, and then transmitting the selected signal to the MS. | 01-15-2009 |
20090023453 | OWA CONVERGED NETWORK ACCESS ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD - As no single wireless network can provide both broadband high-speed radio transmission and seamless full mobility for commercial wireless communications in terms of technology, cost, spectrum and performance, a new wireless converged network access infrastructure based on Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) has been disclosed, wherein the spectrum is separated into low spectrum band (LSB) for wide area seamless mobility networks and high spectrum band (HSB) for very high-speed broadband wireless access systems in order to maximize the spectrum utilization efficiency for the converged multiple wireless access networks of the fully service-oriented wireless communications including multimedia broadcast and multicast service. | 01-22-2009 |
20090061889 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FREQUENCY ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT IN AN AD HOC NETWORK - Disclosed is a method for frequency allocation management in an ad hoc network that includes a plurality of cognitive radio devices. The method comprises dynamically selecting a cognitive radio device from the plurality of cognitive radio devices based on a communication device criteria, assigning a role of a central resource manager to the selected cognitive radio device to assume responsibility of allocating frequency to other of the cognitive radio devices within the ad hoc network, selecting a backup cognitive radio device from other one of the cognitive radio devices within the ad hoc network by the central resource manager, and transferring the role of the central resource manager to the backup cognitive radio based on a second criteria by the central resource manager. | 03-05-2009 |
20090075667 | PERSISTENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION - Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of uplink resources are described herein. A base station can allocate persistent uplink resources to a client station, such that the resource allocation remains active for future uplink frames without the client station repeating a request for uplink resources or the base station expressly communicating the uplink resource allocation. A client station can request a persistent uplink resource allocation when wireless channel conditions are fairly consistent and not varying and the required uplink resources are predictably periodic and fixed in size. The base station can verify that the uplink resource request meets the criteria for persistent allocation and can allocate persistent uplink resources in a dedicated information element of an uplink resource map that is transmitted to the user. The resources allocated remain allocated to the client station in each frame satisfying a predetermined periodicity until deallocated. | 03-19-2009 |
20090082029 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR APPLICATION NETWORK-SERVER DETERMINATION FOR REMOVABLE MODULE-BASED WIRELESS DEVICES - Methods, apparatus and systems are presented that enable a network operator to control the source for network services in open market devices by provisioning the network operator-issued removable modules with network service provisioning information associated with the operator and configuring the open market wireless devices such that the device looks to the removable module first for the network service provisioning information before looking to device storage for any other provisioning information related to the network service. In this regard, the user of the open market wireless device is still provided access to the network service even if the network operator does not provide the service or provide access to the service. Additionally, the described aspects methods, systems and apparatus provide the network operator with an additional level of dynamic control over the source for network services by providing for a network-side proxying feature that allows the network operator to proxy network service requests sent from the open market wireless devices to a designated third party network service provider based on criteria defined by the network operator. | 03-26-2009 |
20090082030 | Wireless communication device and method of restraining dispersion of propagation environment index - A wireless communication device capable of restraining dispersion of a propagation environment index and thereby improving throughput. A reception controller receives a pilot signal, measures a propagation environment and detects a phase change of the pilot signal. A moving average processor obtains a moving average of propagation environment values. An index function setter generates a propagation environment index function indicative of the correspondence between the propagation environment value and a propagation environment index which is a propagation environment quality index. When the detected phase change is greater than a threshold, a slope corrector corrects the slope of the propagation environment index function by using the moving average as a reference point, and a propagation environment index transmitter obtains a propagation environment index corresponding to the measured propagation environment value by using the propagation environment index function whose slope has been corrected, and transmits the obtained index to a base station. | 03-26-2009 |
20090088176 | Method for Reducing Inter-Cell Interference in Wireless OFDMA Networks - Protocols for OFDM/OFDMA/SC-FDMA based wireless networks provide adaptive inter-cell interference management without explicit spectrum or frequency planning. Base stations and mobile stations acquire information about subcarrier allocation from a handoff protocol. The mobile stations can also acquire this information using cognitive sensing. Cognitive sensing can be rewarded by the base station. Using this information, subcarriers can be allocated randomly, with blind optimization, or by joint optimization. The stations can use game theory to select among the different optimization strategies. | 04-02-2009 |
20090093256 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND BASE STATION - The radio terminal | 04-09-2009 |
20090093257 | VARIABLE BANDWIDTH IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method, device, and system that use narrowband channels to provide higher re-use without multiplying the operator spectrum requirement. If a communication system supports variable carrier bandwidth channels, the narrow channel capacity can be divided among adjacent cells to provide higher re-use. | 04-09-2009 |
20090104914 | TRANSMISSION RATE CONTROL METHOD, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO BASE STATION - A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes: selecting, at the radio base station NodeB, increase-allowed mobile stations whose uplink user data transmission rate can be increased at a predetermined TTI; equally dividing, at the radio base station NodeB, an available radio resource at the predetermined TTI, based on the number of increase-allowed mobile stations or the number of E-AGCHs that can be transmitted in the cell; and adding, at the radio base station NodeB, the radio resource equally divided by a radio resource allocating unit | 04-23-2009 |
20090117913 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO CHANNEL CONTROLLER, MOBILE STATION, MOBILE SWITCHING CENTER, AND RADIO CHANNEL CONTROLLING METHOD - In a mobile communication system, definite resources in radio sectors are allocated to more users in an aspect that the users hardly feel stress during communication. When a call corresponds to an active call based on an active connection request that has been generated by a user's operation (that is, transmitting and obtaining delivery information of pull-type by means of arrows AC, DL or the like), as a trigger, more resources (communication rate is higher) are allocated to the call. When the call corresponds to a non-active call (that is, receiving and obtaining delivery information of push-type by means of an arrow SU or the like), fewer resources (communication rate is lower) are allocated to the call. | 05-07-2009 |
20090131064 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUBCARRIER DIVISION DUPLEXING - A wireless communication network comprising a plurality of base stations capable of wireless communication with a plurality of subscriber stations within a coverage area of the network, wherein at least one base station of the plurality of base stations is capable of assigning available subcarriers in a bandwidth to one of a set of transition guard sub-carriers and a set of communication subcarriers, wherein the set of transition guard sub-carriers are non-identical to and overlap a set of transition guard subcarriers of a neighboring base station. | 05-21-2009 |
20090131065 | TIME RESERVATION FOR A DOMINANT INTERFERENCE SCENARIO IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques for combating high interference in a dominant interference scenario are described. A terminal may observe high interference from an interfering base station in a dominant interference scenario. In an aspect, high interference may be combated by reserving time intervals for a serving base station. The terminal may communicate with the serving base station in the reserved time intervals and may avoid high interference that may desens a receiver at the terminal. In one design, the terminal may measure received power of base stations and may report its interference condition. The serving base station may receive a report from the terminal, determine that the terminal is observing high interference, and send a reservation request to the interfering base station to reserve time intervals. The interfering base station may grant the request and return a response. The serving base station may thereafter communicate with the terminal in the reserved time intervals. | 05-21-2009 |
20090137254 | TECHNIQUES FOR ALIGNING APPLICATION OUTPUT AND UPLINK RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A technique for reducing a time delay between an application output at a subscriber station and uplink resource allocation for the subscriber station includes scheduling, between periodic uplink resource allocations, one or more probe uplink resource allocations for the subscriber station. Next, respective information in at least one of the one or more probe uplink resource allocations is received at an access point. Finally, subsequent periodic uplink resource allocations are scheduled based on at least one of the one or more probe uplink resource allocations. | 05-28-2009 |
20090163220 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN RELAY ENHANCED CELLULAR SYSTEMS - A method and system for allocating resources for a relay enhanced cellular communication system including a base station, one or more mobile stations and one or more relay stations, is provided. Resource allocation involves allocating subcarriers to one or more access communication links between mobile stations and their serving stations, to meet proportional data rate constraints for the access communication links while improving subcarrier spectrum utilization, and allocating subcarriers to one or more relay communication links between the base station and relay stations to meet proportional data rate constraints for the relay communication links while improving subcarrier spectrum utilization. Further, communication periods are scheduled for access links in access zones and relay links in relay zones. Balancing of communication resources allocated to the access links and relay links may be performed by balancing both subcarrier allocation and scheduling periods. | 06-25-2009 |
20090163221 | Communication Systems - A spectrum-assignment method for use in a wireless communication system, the system comprising at least first and second communication apparatuses each having a portion of communication spectrum pre-assigned to it for communication, the method comprising: on a dynamic basis, controlling re-assignments of said spectrum between the first and second communication apparatuses in dependence upon spectrum requirements of those apparatuses and at least one indicator indicative of interference expected to result from such re-assignments, so as to tend to improve spectrum utilization between the first and second communication apparatuses. | 06-25-2009 |
20090170522 | Resource Restricted Allocation in Long-Term Evolution - A method, user equipment, network device, and software product enable allocation of a number of resource blocks over a downlink to the user equipment. The resource blocks are grouped into a number of groups of the blocks, the number of groups being no greater than a maximum number. The resource blocks are arranged in an adjacent manner within each of the groups. The resource blocks are allocated by operating on the groups, and the allocation is signalled using a group allocation indication. | 07-02-2009 |
20090170523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTILEVEL SCHEDULING - A method and apparatus for determining multilevel scheduling of a reverse link communication. An embodiment includes estimating capacity on the reverse link based on the sector load. An embodiment includes estimating load contribution based on an estimated signal-to-noise ratio. An embodiment includes estimating capacity available to schedule based on a ratio of measured other-cell interference over thermal noise, and based on sector load. An embodiment includes a method of distributing sector capacity across a base station (BS) and a base station controller (BSC). An embodiment includes determining priority of a station based on the pilot energy over noise plus interference ratio, the soft handoff factor, the fairness value, and the fairness factor α. | 07-02-2009 |
20090181690 | DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF COMMUNICATION RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM - A method of receiving information by a wireless communication device is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of wireless subframes at a periodic interval, wherein an interval duration of the periodic interval is greater than a duration of each of the plurality of wireless subframes. The method further includes determining for each wireless subframe of the plurality whether the wireless subframe includes a grant resource that indicates that a resource unit pattern of a plurality of selectively assignable resource unit patterns of resource units of the subframe includes information for the communication device. A method of transmitting information by the wireless communication device is also provided. | 07-16-2009 |
20090181691 | Channel Rank Feedback in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Commnication Systems - Embodiments of a system and methodology are disclosed for aperiodic (i.e., non-periodic) feedback of channel-side information, such as channel rank information, to a base station by having the receiver/UE initiate the feedback instead of using a scheduled feedback approach. The autonomous feedback of channel-side information may use one of several different types of physical channel structures for uplink scheduling requests, such as those being discussed for inclusion in the emerging LTE platform standard. | 07-16-2009 |
20090191889 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A method of controlling spectrum use in a first wireless communications system which is operable to take part in a spectrum assignment process involving a plurality of wireless communications systems including the first wireless communications system, in which spectrum assignment process one of the said wireless communications systems assigns a portion of spectrum to at least one of the other said wireless communications systems. The method comprising effecting an instance of the spectrum assignment process in response to a trigger which is based on network conditions. | 07-30-2009 |
20090203385 | SECTOR INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT BASED ON INTER-SECTOR PERFORMANCE - Providing fairness-based metrics for managing inter-sector interference of a mobile AN is described herein. By way of example, accumulation of resource utilization messages (RUMs) at a sector of the mobile AN can be based at least in part on a performance metric of that sector as compared with one or more neighboring sectors. In at least one aspect, performance metrics of multiple sectors of the mobile AN can be aggregated and a RUM accumulation rate of each sector is determined based on the aggregated metric. Accumulation rates can further be updated periodically as sector and/or aggregated metrics of the mobile AN change. Accordingly, accumulation and utilization of RUMs is based on inter-sector fairness to optimize overall wireless communication quality of service for the mobile AN. | 08-13-2009 |
20090209264 | System and Method for Adaptively Controlling Feedback Information - A system and method for adaptively controlling feedback information according to a loading condition of a communications cell is provided. A method comprises receiving an indication from a base station, computing an amount of feedback information to transmit back to the base station using the indication, locating a feedback resource assigned to the mobile station using the amount of feedback information and an identity of the mobile station, computing a feedback information, and transmitting the feedback information using the located feedback resource. The indication is for a set of candidate transmission formats that is based on loading conditions in the cell. | 08-20-2009 |
20090221296 | Communication terminal, network server, and communication network system - Provided is a communication network system capable of effectively utilizing a telephone number and a terminal identity assigned to a communication terminal. The communication terminal transmits to a network server a communication start request including a temporary telephone number and a mobile station identity which are previously permitted to use. The network server verifies the communication terminal based on the mobile station identity. At this point, the network server informs the communication terminal of the telephone number necessary for the communication terminal to continue communication. The communication terminal originates a call by using the telephone number and the mobile station identity. | 09-03-2009 |
20090233615 | Method for enlarging the bandwidth of a group call - The present invention relates to a method of enlarging a bandwidth available for a group call in a GSM network, in which, within a telephony channel (1) of the GSM network subdivided into a plurality of timeslots (TN0, . . . , TN7), a first (TN2) and at least one second (TN1, TN3) timeslot is allocated to the group call (VGC), the first timeslot (TN2) being provided for transmitting useful data of the group call (VGC) and the at least one second timeslot (TN1, TN3) being provided in order to supply additional bandwidth. Moreover, the present invention relates to a corresponding computer program and a computer program product. | 09-17-2009 |
20090247177 | ADAPTING DECISION PARAMETER FOR REACTING TO RESOURCE UTILIZATION MESSAGES - An adaptable decision parameter is used to determine whether to react to resource utilization messages. The decision parameter may comprise a decision threshold that is adapted based on received resource utilization messages. The decision parameter may comprise a probability that is used to determine whether to react to a received resource utilization message. Such a probability may be based on, for example, one or more channel conditions, the number of interferers seen by a node, the number of received resource utilization messages, or some other form of resource utilization message-related information. | 10-01-2009 |
20090247178 | Apparatus and method for scheduling packets - An apparatus comprising a controller for controlling radio communication using communication resources for user data communication, and control resources for controlling communication on the communication resources, an allocator for allocating mobile stations to use at least one of a dynamic allocation and a persistent allocation, each allocation defining a different utilization of the control resources and communication resources, a monitor for monitoring one or more reallocation conditions associated with at least one of the dynamic allocation and the persistent allocation, and a reallocator configured to reallocate at least one mobile station if one of the one or more reallocation conditions is fulfilled. | 10-01-2009 |
20090247179 | Systems and Methods for Digital Processing of Satellite Communications Data - A digital payload for processing a sub-band spectrum received on an uplink beam at a communications satellite includes a digital channelizer, a digital switch matrix and a digital combiner. The digital channelizer divides the sub-band spectrum into a plurality of frequency slices that can be routed by the digital switch matrix to any of a number of receiving ports. A digital combiner receives the frequency slices and re-assembles them to form one or more output sub-bands for transmission on an output beam of the communications satellite. The digital payload may also include an embeddable digital regeneration module configured to demodulate some or all of the sub-band spectrum to extract a digital bitstream therefrom. The digital bitstream may be processed to implement code-based multiplexing, switching, access control, and other features. | 10-01-2009 |
20090258654 | RESOURCE SCHEDULING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING BEAM FORMING - A basic idea of the invention is to provide multi-user resource scheduling and distribution based on balancing the power resources used for the different narrow beams in order to smooth the interference levels over the whole cell, area and to reduce interference fluctuations. The resource scheduling principle according to the invention is especially useful when the available resources are not fully utilized. The idea is to select, for each antenna beam of at least a subset of the antenna beams, at least two mobile users for service using the respective antenna beam during a transmission time interval, and to distribute power resources to the antenna beams for use during the transmission time interval based on the guideline of balancing the power resources among different antenna. | 10-15-2009 |
20090275341 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING COMMUNICATION CELLS TO SERVERS IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and method for assigning communication cells to servers in a cellular communication system. The method includes determining an affinity between a communication cell and a plurality of servers and assigning the communication cell to one of the plurality of servers based on the determined affinity. | 11-05-2009 |
20090280821 | DYNAMIC MIMO RESOURCE ALLOCATION DURING A SINGLE COMMUNICATION - A system and method for providing dynamic allocation of MIMO communication resources during a single communication. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining a first set of MIMO communication resources to utilize for communicating a first portion of a unit of information. The first set of MIMO communication resources may be allocated for communicating the first portion of the unit of information. A second set of MIMO communication resources may be determined to utilize for communicating a second portion of the unit of information, where the second set of MIMO communication resources is different from the first set of MIMO communication resources. The second set of MIMO communication resources may be allocated for communicating the second portion of the unit of information. The first and second portions of the unit of information may, for example, be communicated consecutively or concurrently. | 11-12-2009 |
20090286545 | TRANSMIT POWER SELECTION FOR USER EQUIPMENT COMMUNICATING WITH FEMTO CELLS - Transmit power for a user equipment (UE) is set by a Home NodeB (HNB) in response to interference at a nearby macrocell. The HNB monitors an interference level to the macrocell from a UE communicating with the HNB. An acceptable transmit power for the UE is determined by the HNB in response to the interference level. A power change indicator is transmitted from the HNB to the UE to adjust the transmit power of the UE. In some cases, the interference may be estimated from a busy indicator from the macrocell and the HNB sends a modified version of the busy indicator to the UE to adjust the transmit power of the UE. In other cases, the HNB estimates a path loss for the UE based on received signal power from the macrocell and signals a transmit power change to the UE, if needed, based on the estimated path loss. | 11-19-2009 |
20090325588 | Data transmission in cellular phone network - The invention provides for a method of transmitting data in a mobile radio communications network cell, wherein at least one data block is transmitted, at a first transmission power level, for a user of the cell, the method including the step of monitoring radio resource occupancy within the cell and at least duplicating the said at least one data block within the cell responsive to a determination that the radio resource occupancy has reduced to a level below a threshold value, and whereby the duplicated data blocks are transmitted at a second transmission power level less than the said first transmission power level. | 12-31-2009 |
20100003998 | CELLULAR SYSTEM, CARRIER ALLOCATION METHOD THEREOF, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - In a method of allocating carriers of a cellular system comprising mobile stations and a wireless network of multiple base stations, multiple carriers being available for communication between base and mobile stations, the wireless network performs the following. Carriers are divided into first and second carriers, and allocated the same for each cell formed by the base stations. Each mobile station is classified as an intracell-inner-area or an intracell-outer-area mobile station. Communication is performed with the intracell-inner-area and intracell-outer-area mobile stations by the first and second carriers, respectively. A status of use of the first carriers in a first cell is measured based on communicated data, as is that of the second carriers in a second cell. The number of second carriers in the second cell is changed based on at least the status of use of the first carriers and the status of use of the second carriers. | 01-07-2010 |
20100009694 | CELL SITE POWER CONSERVATION - Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for conserving power in a communications system such as a communications service cell site. The methods include adjusting the RF coverage of the cell site antenna, selective control of the RF output transmit power, selective control of the communications bit rate, transfer of communications to other cell sites, adjustment of indicators such that mobile devices transfer communications to other cell sites, and reallocation of logical slots between radios in the cell site. | 01-14-2010 |
20100035626 | RADIO NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS - A radio network control apparatus includes a free channel counting unit to count the number of free channel identifiers in a range between a last-used channel identifier of the radio network control apparatus itself and that of its peer apparatus. A channel identifier acquiring unit then selects a free channel identifier, based on the number of free channels counted by the free channel counting unit, thus preventing the two radio network control apparatuses from selecting the same channel identifier. | 02-11-2010 |
20100056170 | Methods and Apparatus for Improving Cell-Edge Data Throughput in a Wireless Communications System - Methods and apparatus for adaptively transmitting data in a wireless communication network are disclosed, in which channel conditions between a mobile terminal and two or more base stations in an active set are evaluated and used to select a transmission mode from a set of available downlink transmission modes including a non-interference-coordinated point-to-point transmission mode as well as at least one of a multi-cell single-frequency-network transmission mode and an interference-coordinated point-to-point transmission mode. Using the dynamic transmission mode selection described herein, a higher cell-edge throughput in HSDPA systems may be achieved. | 03-04-2010 |
20100056171 | INTER-CELL APPROACH TO OPERATING WIRELESS BEAM-FORMING AND USER SELECTION/SCHEDULING IN MULTI-CELL ENVIRONMENTS BASED ON LIMITED SIGNALING BETWEEN PATTERNS OF SUBSETS OF CELLS - Methods, architectures and techniques of operating a joint beam-forming and user-selection system across multiple cells for downlink communication in a multi-cell environment. The system coordinates beamforming vector and user selection across multiple cells, but is cellular in the sense that users are served only from the transmission signals originating from one cell. There is provided methods, architectures and techniques to control the level and effect of inter-cell interference through a partially coordinated multi-cell process of user scheduling and beam selection based on the division of cells into different subsets. Multi-step techniques are utilized that can scale to large numbers of cells, specifying which operations remain as independent operations within a cell, and which operations, with what cells, require information exchange. | 03-04-2010 |
20100062784 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING A COMMUNICATION CELL TO A CLUSTER - A network element for supporting broadcast communications over a communication system comprises allocation logic operable to dynamically allocate at least one communication cell to a cluster of communication cells based on an identified geographical location of the at least one communication cell. | 03-11-2010 |
20100062785 | COGNITIVE RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BASED ON COOPERATION SIGNAL PROVIDED BY ANOTHER SYSTEM - An apparatus and method of facilitating cooperation within a cognitive radio communication system. The cooperation system facilitated in the communication system by another communication system. The apparatus include: a receiver to receive an uplink signal from a mobile station and a cooperation signal from a second communication system, wherein the cooperation signal is associated with the uplink signal; an evaluator to evaluate a contribution of the cooperation signal with respect to detection of the uplink signal; and a radio resource management unit to control an available radio resource for the second system according to the contribution of the cooperation signal. | 03-11-2010 |
20100062786 | Prioritized Display of Cell Broadcast Messages - Devices, systems, and methods for creating, procuring, and maintaining a priority scheme for cell broadcast messages. In an exemplary embodiment, the priority scheme includes a plurality of cell broadcast channels (CBCH) that are assigned logic groups, which in turn are assigned a priority level. Accordingly, cell broadcast (CB) messages with higher priority levels are displayed first on the receiving device. | 03-11-2010 |
20100075689 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - To improve throughput of the whole system while reducing power consumption. In a mobile communication system comprising a mobile station apparatus and a base station apparatus, the base station apparatus creates an interference information table based on channel quality of an uplink channel, and at the same time, transmitting the interference information indicator table to the mobile station apparatus, and the mobile station apparatus determines a state of interference in an uplink frequency band based on the interference information indicator table, determines a frequency band of a measurement pilot channel, which is a pilot channel used to determine received quality, and make a request to the base station apparatus for a transmission resource. For example, the mobile station apparatus determines a frequency band with lowest interference among the uplink frequency bands as a frequency band of the measurement pilot channel. | 03-25-2010 |
20100075690 | METHOD OF PERFORMING DATA TRANSMISSION CORRESPONDING TO SEMI-PERSISTENT RESOURCES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND RELATED DEVICE - A method of performing data transmission corresponding to semi-persistent resources for a user equipment of a wireless communication system includes performing a data transmission process corresponding to a communications link according to a semi-persistent grant in a transmission opportunity of the semi-persistent grant when no non-semi-persistent grant is found on a physical channel for the transmission opportunity of the semi-persistent grant, where the semi-persistent grant and the non-semi-persistent grant correspond to the communications link. | 03-25-2010 |
20100075691 | Transport Block Size Signaling for Semi-Persistent Scheduling - A method is provided for improving reliability in semi-persistent scheduling activation/reactivation is provided. The method includes a user agent receiving a first data element from an access device specifying at least one first transport block size. The method further includes the user agent deriving a second transport block size based on a second data element received from the access device. The method further includes the user agent comparing the first transport block size with the second transport block size. The method further includes, when the first transport block size differs from the second transport block size, the user agent ignoring the received semi-persistent scheduling activation/reactivation data. | 03-25-2010 |
20100081447 | DYNAMIC CHANNEL ALLOCATION - Embodiments of methods and apparatus for dynamic channel allocation are disclosed. In various embodiments, an access point (AP) of an infrastructure based wireless network may allocate one or more wireless channels to wireless devices of a non-infrastructure based wireless network. The allocated channels may be selected to reduce a likelihood of communications among the devices of the non-infrastructure based wireless network interfering with communications among the devices of the infrastructure based wireless network. Additional variants and embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed. | 04-01-2010 |
20100081448 | ENHANCED SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - An enhanced beamforming with interference nulling method is an improvement over prior art beamforming with interference nulling techniques. The enhanced method includes two scheduling schemes that allow all base stations to schedule their cell edge users independently and determine the information exchange among base stations over the backbone that is needed to support the scheduling activity. The method uses grouping information to perform distributed scheduling among base stations to schedule downlink transmission to cell edge users, while reducing interference to cell edge users served by neighboring base stations. The enhanced method demonstrates the base station-to-base station coordination and information exchange that is needed to enable independent base station scheduling of their cell edge users. | 04-01-2010 |
20100087202 | CONTROL CHANNEL GAIN FACTOR WITH DATA CHANNEL SCALING - There is provided a method and a program and an apparatus (e.g., a user equipment) that determines a data channel gain factor and a control channel gain factor; determines that total transmit power would exceed a maximum allowed value after applying the data and control channel gain factors; reduces the data channel gain factor so that the total transmit power does not exceed the maximum allowed value; and uses the control channel gain factor that is applied before the data channel factor is reduced when a boost mode is configured for the control channel (e.g., if TFCI | 04-08-2010 |
20100099428 | NULL PILOTS FOR INTERFERENCE ESTIMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques for transmitting null pilots to support interference estimation in a wireless network are described. A null pilot is non-transmission on designated time-frequency resources by a cell or a cluster of cells supporting cooperative transmission to a UE. The received power of the null pilot from the cell or cluster of cells may be indicative of interference from other cells. In one design, a cell in the cluster may determine resources for sending a null pilot by the cell. The cell may transmit the null pilot (i.e., send no transmissions) on the resources to allow UEs to estimate out-of-cluster interference. Some or all cells in the cluster may transmit null pilots on the same resources. The cell may receive interference and channel information from the UE and may send data transmission to the UE based on the interference and/or channel information. Remaining cells in the cluster may reduce interference to the UE. | 04-22-2010 |
20100099429 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using an uplink shared channel includes a radio resource allocation unit configured to decrease frequency resources allocated to the shared channel, when transmission power of the user equipment terminal is less than a predetermined threshold. | 04-22-2010 |
20100099430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PUSH-TO-TALK OVER CELLULAR (PoC) MEDIA BURST TIME - A method for controlling push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) media burst time includes receiving a burst request time from a PoC client, identifying a burst allocation time corresponding to the PoC client in a database, selecting a burst time for the PoC client based on the burst allocation time and the burst request time, and allowing a data burst from the PoC client at the burst time. A system to control PoC media burst time includes an information receiver to receive the burst request time, an information identifier to identify the burst allocation time for a database, a time selector to select the burst time, and a burst allowing unit to allow the data burst from the PoC client at the selected burst time. | 04-22-2010 |
20100105405 | METHODS AND PROCEDURES TO ALLOCATE UE DEDICATED SIGNATURES - A mobile terminal random access procedure is provided for obtaining uplink time synchronization and access to a network by optimizing the allocation of cyclic shifted Zadoff-Chu sequences with Zero Correlation Zone (ZC-ZCZ) as part of dedicated signatures for contention-free uplink radio access channels (RACH). | 04-29-2010 |
20100113053 | METHOD OF ACCESSING A PHYSICAL RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL, METHOD OF SIGNALLING ACCESS INFORMATION FOR ACCESSING A PHYSICAL RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND BASE STATION - A method of accessing a physical random access channel, a method of signaling access information for accessing a physical random access channel, a mobile communication terminal and a base station are provided. The method of accessing a physical random access channel comprises selecting a plurality of transmission time intervals from transmission time intervals being allowed for accessing a physical random access channel, randomly selecting one transmission time interval of the plurality of transmission time intervals, and accessing the physical random access channel in the randomly selected transmission time interval. A mobile communication terminal is configured to carry out the method. | 05-06-2010 |
20100113054 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROL METHOD, AND IC CHIP - A synchronization control method in a communication system including a mobile station and a base station includes generating a synchronization request at the base station when data addressed to the mobile station arrives, receiving the synchronization request from the base station at the mobile station, transmitting feedback information at the mobile station as a response to the synchronization request, receiving the feedback information at the base station, generating timing advance information at the base station based on a reception timing of the feedback information, transmitting the timing advance information from the base station to the mobile station, and adjusting a transmission timing of uplink data at the mobile station, based on the timing advance information. | 05-06-2010 |
20100113055 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, BASE STATION, AND USER TERMINAL - A communication control method used by a base station to allocate a radio resource to a user terminal which performs different-frequency measurement includes the steps of transmitting to the base station, by the user terminal, a request indicating whether a measurement gap for different-frequency measurement is needed, when a need for data communications between the user terminal and the base station arises while the user terminal is performing discontinuous reception; and controlling, by the base station, the radio resource allocated to the user terminal based on whether the measurement gap is needed. | 05-06-2010 |
20100113056 | SCHEDULING METHOD AND SCHEDULING DEVICE FOR MBMS, AND BASE STATION INCLUDING THIS SCHEDULING DEVICE - A scheduling method for multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) is provided according to the present invention, comprising steps of: configuring service specific information and service scheduling information separately from MBMS service data to form an MCCH control message of an MBMS control channel; and transmitting the MCCH control message and the MBMS service data to a receiving end, wherein the service specific information and the service scheduling information are applied with a single-frequency network combining scheme. | 05-06-2010 |
20100113057 | USING AN UPLINK GRANT AS TRIGGER OF FIRST OR SECOND TYPE OF CQI REPORT - Channel state feedback is provided from a UE to a base station as a first, detailed or a second, less detailed type of channel state feedback information. Initially it is determined whether the UE has received an uplink grant from the base station or not. If the UE has received an uplink grant, a first type of channel state feedback information is transmitted to the base station on the granted resource. If, however, the UE has not received an uplink grant, a second type of channel state feedback information is transmitted to the base station. Different types of channel state feedback information enables a UE and an associated base station to use available resources more efficiently, when requesting for and delivering channel state feedback information. | 05-06-2010 |
20100113058 | METHOD OF IMPROVING SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING RESOURCES RECONFIGURATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RELATED COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of improving SPS reconfiguration for a user equipment in a wireless communication system includes receiving an RRC connection reconfiguration message and reconfiguring SPS resources in accordance with an SPS resources configuration IE when the SPS resources configuration IE is included in the RRC connection reconfiguration message and is set enable. | 05-06-2010 |
20100130221 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A terminal apparatus includes: a channel estimating unit that receives signals of pilot channels which are allocated to respective base station antennas and are orthogonal to each other and estimates channels with the respective base station antennas based on the signals of the pilot channels; an antenna selecting/phase amount calculating unit that performs selection of a base station antenna or calculation of phase rotation amounts of the base station antennas based on a result of channel estimation by the channel estimating unit; and a transmission unit that transmits an identification of the base station antenna selected by the antenna selecting/phase amount calculating unit or the phase rotation amounts calculated by the antenna selecting/phase amount calculating unit. | 05-27-2010 |
20100136995 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING OF CONTROLLING RADIO RESOURCES, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING STATUS REPORT, AND RECEIVER IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for improving radio resources, a method for transmitting a status report, and a receiving apparatus (receiver) in a mobile communication system are disclosed. In transmitting a status report by a receiving side RLC, although data that has not been received (missing PDU) is discovered, the receiving side does not immediately request its retransmission but transmits the status report after the lapse of a certain time (namely, a time point at which a timer expires), to thus reduce radio resources consumed for transmission of the status report. | 06-03-2010 |
20100136996 | Apparatus and method for selecting frequency allocation of femto base station - A wireless communication network includes an apparatus and method for dynamically allocating frequencies of a femto Base Station (BS). An operation of the femto BS includes measuring received signal strength on system Frequency Allocations (FAs) of a plurality of macro BSs, determining maximum received signal strengths for the respective FAs, and determining an available FA set by using a result obtained from comparison between the maximum received signal strengths for the respective FAs with a first threshold. | 06-03-2010 |
20100136997 | PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION USING A WIDE AREA NETWORK AIR INTERFACE - A method for peer-to-peer wireless communication by a first user equipment (UE) includes communicating with a second UE, and using a wireless area network air interface during the communication with the second UE. The communicating with the second UE comprises transmitting a downlink signal configured for downlink of the wireless area network air interface. | 06-03-2010 |
20100144362 | METHOD OF CONFIGURING A STATION FOR ACCESSING A SERVICE AND AN ASSOCIATED CONTROLLER, ACCESS NETWORK, ACCESS STATION, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The invention relates to a method for configuring an SAI parameter of a terminal for accessing a service supplied by a communication network ( | 06-10-2010 |
20100144363 | LOAD-BASED ADAPTIVE INACTIVITY TIMERS - System(s) and method(s) are provided to for optimizing cellular network resource utilization under variable load conditions. To optimize resource(s) reallocation, inactivity timers that regulate network resource utilization between activity periods are dynamically adjusted based at least in part on current cell load condition(s). Lookup table(s) or computation based on load-timer mapping(s) can enable, at least in part, configuration of an inactivity timer setting. Inactivity timer values and magnitude of adjustments effected as a function of changes in cell load condition(s) can provide an optimal balance of at least one of network resource utilization; battery life of a served device; or signaling load associated with operation of the device. Inactivity timer setting(s) can be based at least in part on load condition estimates, which mitigate signaling associated with current load condition(s) assessment. Inactivity timers can be autonomously determined. | 06-10-2010 |
20100144364 | RETRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD AND TRANSMITTING-SIDE APPARATUS - In a retransmission control method, each of a transmitting-side apparatus and a receiving-side apparatus includes a first layer and a second layer; and first retransmission control processing is performed between the first layer of the transmitting-side apparatus and the first layer of the receiving-side apparatus, and second retransmission control processing is performed between the second layer of the transmitting-side apparatus and the second layer of the receiving-side apparatus; the first layer of the transmitting-side apparatus determines whether or not specific user data is under the second retransmission control processing, when receiving a retransmission request for the specific user data from the first layer of the receiving-side apparatus, during the first retransmission control processing; and the first layer of the transmitting-side apparatus does not retransmit the specific user data, when determining that the specific user data is under the second retransmission control processing. | 06-10-2010 |
20100151873 | DYNAMIC CONTROL BLANKING IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate requesting blanking over control resources from one or more interfering eNBs or devices. An eNB, such as a macrocell, femtocell or picocell eNB, can transmit a downlink control blanking message to a UE directing the UE to perform blanking (e.g., for uplink control resources) or request the blanking from the interfering eNBs or devices (e.g., for downlink control resources). The downlink control blanking message can specify the desired control resources and/or information to determine the control resources. Thus, dynamic control blanking is provided such that blanking is requested to mitigate interference over control resources for the small scale eNB. The small scale eNB can subsequently communicate control data to the UE over the control resources; the control data can include a resource blanking message that similarly directs the UE to request blanking of general data resource from the interfering eNBs or devices. | 06-17-2010 |
20100151874 | SEMI-PERSISTENT RESOURCE RELEASE BY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method for causing a user agent to release at least one of uplink and downlink semi-persistent communication resources in a mobile communication system, the method comprising the steps of, at the user agent receiving a downlink communication via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), using a semi persistent scheduling radio temporary network identifier (SPS-RNTI) assigned to the device to decode a control message on physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) which may include downlink control information (DCI) in a plurality of DCI fields arranged in a DCI format and where the data from the at least one of the DCI fields is identical to a fixed SPS release value, releasing at least one of the uplink and down link semi-persistent communication resources. | 06-17-2010 |
20100173643 | Signalling MIMO Allocations - The present invention relates to demodulation of radio signals from a base station having collocated transmit antennas, and more particularly to signaling allocation information from a base station to a mobile terminal. The allocation information may include timeslot and code information of allocation to other mobile terminals. Some embodiments of the present invention facilitate a mobile terminal's ability to receive and demodulate a signal containing multiple interfering signals by communicating codes allocated to other mobile terminals. | 07-08-2010 |
20100184449 | Apparatus and method for 4-beamforming using radio units having two paths in wireless communication system - A base station is capable of performing 4-beamforming using Radio Units (RU), each having two paths in a wireless communication system. The base station includes a Digital Unit (DU), a first RU, and a second RU. The DU performs a mutual conversion function between an information bit line and a digital signal, calculates beamforming coefficients for 4-beamforming, and performs the 4-beamforming using the beamforming coefficients. The first RU has two Radio Frequency (RF) paths, extracts a clock signal from a digital signal from the DU, and provides the clock signal to the second RU. The second RU has two RF paths and operates according to the clock signal provided from the first RU. | 07-22-2010 |
20100190505 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION AT BASE STATION, METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION AT COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to priorities determined on the basis of a number of pieces of battery information which concern batteries of a number of communication terminals and each of which is received from the communication terminals, data communication with communication terminals are controlled. The priorities are varied, irrespective of a variation in the pieces of battery information, according to a rule predetermined. | 07-29-2010 |
20100190506 | SCHEDULING METHOD AND CONTROL STATION APPARATUS - Consecutive subcarriers are reserved, and the reserved consecutive subcarriers are properly allocated to a terminal. The invention is a scheduling method that allocates, within an available band, a block composed of one or more subcarriers and used for signal transmission by a communication terminal being a destination of communication, and the method includes the steps of selecting (S | 07-29-2010 |
20100190507 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS INCLUDING ADAPTIVE ANTENNA SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTER-SYSTEM AND INTRA-SYSTEM INTERFERENCE REDUCTION - Methods of forming a downlink beam in an adaptive antenna system of a communications system that may reduce inter-system and/or intra-system interference include receiving vectors of signals including signals transmitted by user terminals of the communications system and signals transmitted by transceivers of an independent communications system, obtaining spatial information for the user terminals of the communications system and the transceivers of the independent communications system, generating complex transmitting weights that form spatial nulls directed at the transceivers of the independent communications system, and transmitting a downlink communications signal using the complex transmitting weights. Related systems are also disclosed. | 07-29-2010 |
20100197316 | RADIO TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A radio communication terminal capable of efficiently performing DRX or DTX. The terminal comprises an on-period determining section ( | 08-05-2010 |
20100210277 | CARRIER SELECTION - First and second indicators of a first available amount of an air-interface resources associated with a first and second channel, respectively, is received. A request for an allocation of an amount of the air-interface resource is received. Based on the request for the allocation, first and second ranking values associated with the first and second channels, respectively are determined. The first and second ranking values are selected such that the efficient allocations receive higher ranks. Based on the first ranking value and the second ranking value, the first frequency band is selected to provide the allocation of the amount of the air-interface resource. | 08-19-2010 |
20100227622 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN CO-EXISTENCE MODE - Techniques are disclosed that allow for resource allocation during situations requiring co-existence in cognitive radios. Even under situations of bandwidth scarcity, the techniques allow various users to be guaranteed quality of service (QoS) by proper distribution and allocation of resources. The techniques allow wireless communication systems to operate in a normal mode and a co-existence mode. In the co-existence mode of operation, sub-frame creation, sharing and zone formation schemes are implemented that enable the existing underlying frame structure to remain intact and inter-operable with the legacy systems and at the same time, provide a guaranteed QoS. The zones effectively create partitions in space, time and frequency, which result in interference avoidance and allow various users in neighboring cells to communicate on the same frequencies. | 09-09-2010 |
20100227623 | METHOD AND NETWORK CONTROLLER FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN NETWORK SHARING ARCHITECTURES - In RAN sharing scenarios wherein radio spectrum allocated to multiple mobile network operators is split into at least one carrier, the steps for switching the configurations of carriers for RAN sharing are proposed here, defining:
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20100240383 | Enhanced UL rate violation detection - The present invention relates to a method for grant violation detection in an enhanced uplink (UL) telecommunication system. According to the method a radio network controller (RNC) establishes a first enhanced UL transport channel (E-DCH) which enables uplink data traffic with a certain data rate from a user terminal UE at least to a first base station. At least a first downlink transmission is performed to the user terminal UE including a first E-DCH. A Node B NB detects the scheduled data rate on which the user terminal UE transmits and further controls if the scheduled data rate detected is higher than the maximum data rate defined by the first E-DCH channel scheduled grant. If this is the case the Node B NB performs at least a second following downlink transmission including the first E-DCH channel scheduled grant. | 09-23-2010 |
20100240384 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RESOURCE ALLOCATION SYSTEM, AND BASE STATION USED FOR THE SAME - The present invention aims to provide a resource allocation method in a communication system that can effectively suppress a transmission delay. Provided is a resource allocation system in a communication system which includes a terminal | 09-23-2010 |
20100248733 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In the case that periodical transmission of transmission signal number-of-sequence quality indicative signal cannot be performed, the number of transmission signal sequences is clarified in association with reception quality information that is generated immediately after the case, and the base station apparatus performs appropriate communication resource allocation. A mobile station apparatus has a feedback information control section | 09-30-2010 |
20100279700 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND POWER CONTROL METHOD - A method for controlling transmission power in a mobile communication system is provided. According to the method, a serving base station arranges a plurality of terminals in ascending order according to Carrier-to-Interference-and-Noise-Ratios (CINRs) based on the CINR measured by the plurality of terminals, classifies the plurality of terminals in one of a first group and a second group according to the order, allocates a subchannel of a data region corresponding to the first group from among a plurality of data regions included in the uplink frame to a terminal classified as the first group, and allocates a subchannel of a data region corresponding to the second group from among the data regions to a terminal classified as the second group. | 11-04-2010 |
20100285811 | Communication Method and Radio Communication Terminal - Even when being located at cell edge in a multiband mobile communication system, a radio communication terminal, is allowed to stably execute cell search so as to easily establish a connection with a radio base station. The radio communication terminal according to the present invention includes: a first determination unit | 11-11-2010 |
20100285812 | CALL ADMISSION PRIORITY CONTROL DETERMINATION DEVICE AND MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A call admission priority control determination device is intended for determining, when a terminal is present in a femtocell and the terminal is to be admitted for call connection, whether it is to be connected to the femtocell or to a macro-cell. The number of remaining connections and a remaining rate in the femtocell if a new call is admitted are figured out. For a specified terminal so registered as to be given priority in connection to the femtocell, the call is admitted if the number of remaining connections and the remaining rate are equal to or greater than 0, but for other terminals than the specified ones in the pertinent femtocell, the call is not admitted if the number of remaining connections and the remaining rate are below certain thresholds. | 11-11-2010 |
20100291944 | COGNITIVE NETWORK - A cellular network including means for sensing the presence of Microphones and Broadcastings and for adjusting resources usage for not interfering the transmissions of the Microphones and Broadcastings. A cellular network including means for sensing the presence of Microphones and Broadcastings and for adjusting resources usage for not interfering with the transmissions of the Microphones and Broadcastings over a certain level. | 11-18-2010 |
20100317362 | NETWORK ENGINEERING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Various types of information from a wireless communications network, including E911 location information, Hand Off (HO) information, and Power information, as well as other Measurements and System Parameters, are collected and analyzed by a Data Collection and Filtering system, and the results of this analysis are provided to a Network Control system to dynamically control the operation of the wireless communications network. The various optimizations that can be performed by the Network Control system include: (1) dynamically allocating radio frequency (RF) signal power, (2) setting dynamic dedicated handoff (HO) thresholds for individual mobile transceivers; and (3) intelligently forming or steering radio frequency (RF) signal beams. | 12-16-2010 |
20110003598 | System and Method for Semi-Static Downlink Inter-Cell Interference Coordination for Wireless Communications - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a base station in a wireless system, includes partitioning a frequency band into at least one band of a first type and at least one band of a second type, and coordinating the partitioning with at least one further base station. The at least one band of the first type includes a band on which the base station transmits power proportional to a distance of a user device from the base station, and the at least one band of the second type comprises a band on which base station transmits a data rate inversely proportional to a distance of a user device from the base station. | 01-06-2011 |
20110009125 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, AND OPERATION METHOD OF MOBILE STATION - Provided are a mobile station that may determine a Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) of a serving channel, generate Channel State Information (CSI) based on only interference channels, and feed back the PMI and the CSI to a serving base station, a base station that may design a precoding vector based on the PMI and the CSI, and an operation of the mobile station. Also, provided are a mobile station that may determine a PMI based on only interference channels, generate CSI of a serving channel, and feed back the PMI and the CSI to a serving base station, a base station that may design a precoding vector based on the PMI and the CSI, and an operation method of the mobile station. | 01-13-2011 |
20110014924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOPERATIVE INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE CONTROL - A system to cooperatively control inter-cell interference is provided. A first frequency allocated to a central area of a serving cell associated with a serving base station may be allocated to a central area of a neighboring cell associated with a neighboring base station. A second frequency allocated to an edge area of the serving cell may be allocated to an edge area of the neighboring cell. Where a terminal is located in the edge of the neighboring cell, scheduling information, channel information, and data may be exchanged between the terminal and the serving base station. | 01-20-2011 |
20110039568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENTION-BASED UPLINK DATA TRANSMISSION - A method and apparatus for a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) to use a contention-based uplink communications channel, applies a rule-based restriction of access to the contention-based uplink channel that attempts to use at least one contention-free uplink channel allocation for uplink transmissions on a condition that at least one contention-free uplink channel allocation has been granted. | 02-17-2011 |
20110045837 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING DOWNLINK MESSAGE RESPONSIVE TO RANDOM ACCESS PREAMBLES TRANSMITTED IN DIFFERENT UPLINK CHANNELS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - An apparatus and method for determining an uplink channel used for a random access procedure are provided. An exemplary method by a User Equipment (UE) includes transmitting a preamble to a Base Station (BS) on at least one channel of a plurality of channels, receiving a response from the BS, and distinguishing the response based on an identifier unique to a channel resource to identify the channel in which the preamble is transmitted. | 02-24-2011 |
20110065443 | BLOCK ENCODING WITH A VARIABLE RATE BLOCK CODE - A control channel encoder includes a determiner to determine a current value of K for encoding control signals of a length M, wherein K is a function of a code rate for a data channel. A table generator generates first and second block encoding matrices, each of the first and second block encoding matrices having a variable length, from a fixed block encoding matrix by variably repeating rows from the fixed block encoding matrix to produce a repeated matrix of length K, puncturing the repeated matrix a first time to generate the first block encoding matrix, and puncturing the first block encoding matrix a second time to generate the second block encoding matrix. A block encoder utilizes the block encoding matrix to encode M input control bits as K encoded control bits. | 03-17-2011 |
20110065444 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In the case that periodical transmission of transmission signal number-of-sequence quality indicative signal cannot be performed, the number of transmission signal sequences is clarified in association with reception quality information that is generated immediately after the case, and the base station apparatus performs appropriate communication resource allocation. A mobile station apparatus has a feedback information control section | 03-17-2011 |
20110065445 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING TRANSMISSION RESOURCES IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for allocating resources for transmissions from a secondary station to a primary station, wherein the primary station transmits to the secondary station a first indication of a transmission resource for use by the secondary station for transmitting data to the primary station, wherein the indication of the transmission resource indicates at least one selected transmission resource out of a set of transmission resources and further comprises a second indication which may request that the secondary station sends a report of the downlink channel quality using at least part of the selected transmission resource and that a time offset of the selected transmission resource from the first indication depends on whether the second indication requests a channel quality report. | 03-17-2011 |
20110077017 | CAPACITY INCREASING DEVICES AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - The present patent application improves DARP by allowing multiple users on one time slot (MUROS). It comprises means and instructions for sharing signals on a single channel, comprising setting up a new connection, allocating a new time slot if there is an unused time slot on a channel frequency, selecting an used time slot for the new connection to share with an existing connection if there is not an unused time slot on the channel frequency, and selecting a different training sequence code for the new connection if the used time slot on the channel frequency has been selected for the new connection to share with an existing connection. | 03-31-2011 |
20110077018 | RATE ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A rate adjustment apparatus includes a first calculating section that calculates a first parameter for calculating judgment values used for judging whether puncturing or repetition is to be performed with respect to individual bits of input data, a second calculating section that sequentially calculates a second parameter for each of a plurality of processing units into which input data is divided, by computation using a recurrence equation obtained from a relationship between the judgment values corresponding to two processing units of the plurality of processing units, and an executing section that obtains the judgment values with respect to individual bits forming each of the processing units by using the first parameter and the second parameter respectively calculated by the first calculating section and the second calculating section, and executes deletion or addition of bits based on the obtained judgment values. | 03-31-2011 |
20110081916 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE - There are disclosed a random access method for establishing an individual channel between a radio communication terminal device and a base station device in a short time and a radio communication terminal device executing the random access method. In this device, in step ST | 04-07-2011 |
20110086645 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING PREAMBLE SEQUENCE SUBBLOCK FOR SUPPORTING IRREGULAR SYSTEM BANDWIDTH IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND AN APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method for transmitting a secondary advanced-preamble (SA-preamble) from a base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed, wherein the SA-preamble supporting an irregular system bandwidth. The method comprises allocating a plurality of sequence subblocks corresponding to a regular system bandwidth; configuring the SA-preamble by dropping one or more sequence subblock pairs among the plurality of sequence subblocks symmetrically in base of a DC component; and transmitting the SA-preamble to a mobile station, wherein a bandwidth of the SA-preamble is same as or narrower than the irregular system bandwidth. | 04-14-2011 |
20110098054 | SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR COORDINATED MULTI-POINT OPERATION - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate configuring a sounding reference signal transmission in a wireless communication environment. A UE can employ coordinated multi-point transmission and/or reception such that multiple cells collaborate to transmit data to the UE and/or receive data from the UE. To support the coordinated multi-point transmission and/or reception, the UE can transmit a sounding reference signal that is configured to enable reliable reception of the sounding reference signal by members of a cooperating set. In addition, configuration of the sounding reference signal can be coordinated to enable more efficient transmission and utilization of the sounding reference signal. Configuration of the sounding reference signal can be based upon information exchanged between the multiple cells. Moreover, the multiple cells can coordinate to set and control a transmit power of the sounding reference signal. | 04-28-2011 |
20110105136 | RADIO BASE STATIONS, RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICES, METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A RADIO BASE STATION AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - In an embodiment, a radio base station is provided. The radio base station may include a transceiver configured to transmit data to a radio communication device and receive data from the radio communication device using a plurality of component carriers, each component carrier including a pre defined frequency band including a plurality of resource elements; a component carrier determiner configured to determine a subset comprising at least one component carrier of the plurality of component carriers, wherein as the at least one component carrier of the subset may be used by the radio communication device for a pre-defined communication mode; and a message generator configured to generate a message including information specifying that the at least one component carrier of the subset may be used by the radio communication device for the pre-defined communication mode. | 05-05-2011 |
20110105137 | RANK AND PRECODING INDICATION FOR MIMO OPERATION - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for signaling rank and precoding indications in uplink and downlink MIMO operations using codebook and non-codebook based precoding. | 05-05-2011 |
20110111764 | RADIO DEVICES AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING RADIO DEVICES - In an embodiment, a radio device is provided. The radio device may include a signal transmitter configured to transmit a plurality of signals, the signals being transmitted with different intensities; a response receiver configured to receive a response message to one of the transmitted signals from a radio communication device having received the respective transmitted signal of the plurality of transmitted signals, the response message identifying the received message; and a assessment circuit configured to assess the reachability of the radio communication device from the radio device based on the intensity of the signal to which the radio communication device has responded. | 05-12-2011 |
20110111765 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TRAFFIC VOLUME REPORTING DURING RADIO ACCESS NETWORK CONNECTION SETUP - Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for traffic volume reporting during radio access network (RAN) connection setup. In one aspect, the RAN broadcasts an indicator that it accepts traffic volume measurements (TVM) from access terminals (ATs) and an associated TVM threshold. An AT measures its traffic volume before requesting a connection with the RAN. If the traffic volume is above the threshold, AT transmits to the RAN a connection request containing a TVM indicator that the measured traffic volume from the AT is above the threshold. If the traffic volume is below the threshold, AT transmits to the RAN a connection request containing a TVM indicator that the traffic volume is below the threshold. | 05-12-2011 |
20110136496 | DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF RADIO RESOURCES - Radio resources are allocated to communication between a mobile station and a base station. The available set of radio resources may comprise radio resources primarily assigned to a neighboring cell if the 5 mobile station experience an instantaneous low level of co-channel interference from such neighboring cells. The existence of interference is preferably deduced from signal quality measurements of pilot signals. The allocation may concern uplink and/or downlink communication. Devices for performing the measurements are located in the mobile station, while devices for performing the evaluation, selection and actual allocation can be placed in different parts of the communications system-in the mobile station, in a base station or in a core network node, or as a distributed means. | 06-09-2011 |
20110151884 | TECHNIQUES TO PROVIDE ENHANCED MESSAGE MANAGEMENT SERVICES - Techniques to provide enhanced message management services are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile computing device having a radio module operative to establish a wireless communication channel with a wireless resource, and a message manager communicatively coupled to the radio module. The message manager may be operative to receive a message size parameter for a message, determine a first time parameter representing a length of time needed to communicate the message based on an available bandwidth parameter, determine a second time parameter representing a length of time available to communicate the message based on an available power parameter, and send a transmit control directive to the radio module indicating whether to communicate the message over the wireless communication channel based on the first and second time parameters. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-23-2011 |
20110151885 | EMERGENCY AND PRIORITIZED ACCESS TO WIRELESS RESOURCES - A radio resources management algorithm, through a process of function evaluation and optimization, determines and assigns resource priority values to wireless resource requests. Resource requests may be arranged within a priority queue in accordance with the priority values. The priority queue may control access to wireless resources that are typically reserved for handing off ongoing calls between cells. The algorithm may supplement or replace an existing CAC algorithm. The algorithm may also determine whether sufficient spare handoff resources are available to fulfill a resource request. If sufficient resources are not available, the disclosed algorithm may implement one or more congestion control mechanism designed to free up handoff resources. If sufficient resources are not available to fulfill a resource request, the resource request may be accepted and arranged in the priority queue if it is of sufficiently high priority, or may be rejected if the request is of low priority. | 06-23-2011 |
20110151886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - An example method includes receiving data from a femto access point; evaluating resources being used by a macro network in which the femto access point resides; determining whether the femto access point is operating in a constrained bandwidth mode; and reserving particular resources for the femto access point to use for its communications, where the particular resource is allocated from available resources within the macro network. In a more particular embodiment, where those resources refer to spectrum resources, the method includes allocating spectrum resources between femto and macrocellular systems. In other embodiments, the method includes identifying a total throughput associated with the femto access point and one or more macro network cells, where a change in reserving particular frequencies is executed based on determining the total throughput being higher than a current throughput. The data from the femto access point can include path loss data and geolocation data. | 06-23-2011 |
20110171967 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method and an apparatus for requesting resource allocation in a mobile communication terminal are provided. In the method, a priority of each logical channel when there is transmission data to be transmitted is determined. A weight is applied to a size of transmission data for each logical channel according to the priority. A Buffer Status Report (BSR) message representing the size of the transmission data for each logical channel to which the weight has been applied is generated. The BSR message is transmitted to a base station. | 07-14-2011 |
20110190003 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE BETWEEN A MACRO BASE STATION AND A FEMTO BASE STATION - Systems and methods for reducing macro-femto bas station interference are disclosed. In one aspect, macro-femto interference is reduced by configuring t macro bases station to avoid using resources allocat to the femto base station. | 08-04-2011 |
20110223928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SCHEDULING IN MULTI-CELL COOPERATIVE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus of scheduling in a multi-cell cooperative wireless communication system is provided. Scheduling is performed, and scheduling results are transmitted to a neighbor base station (BS). The scheduling results comprise certain information for scheduling to be sequentially performed among base stations. Inter-cell interference can be reduced and scheduling can be performed simply by exchanging signals without a central scheduler. | 09-15-2011 |
20110223929 | SCHEDULING TRANSMISSION OF DATA AT A BASE STATION BASED ON AN INTERFERENCE INDICATOR MESSAGE FROM ANOTHER BASE STATION - A system includes a first base station of a first vendor configuration and a second base station of a second vendor configuration. A link is between the first and second base stations. The first base station is configured to receive at least one interference indicator message from the second base station, and schedule transmission of data based on the at least one interference indicator message. Scheduling the transmission of data includes determining whether to transmit the data using a current resource or to delay transmission of the data. | 09-15-2011 |
20110237272 | Multi-point equalization framework for coordinated multi-point transmission - Providing for a multipoint equalization (MPE) framework for coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission in wireless communication is described herein. The disclosed MPE framework involves distributed scheduling decisions for CoMP transmission, reducing complexity of scheduling coordination as compared with centralized scheduling techniques that coordinate scheduling decisions for multiple network base stations. Further, the MPE framework involves distributed computation of CoMP transmission coefficients, relying on a maximum of two backhaul hops to obtain information for the computation, and disseminate the transmission coefficients. The disclosed MPE framework shows substantial gains in various network deployments over conventional CoMP techniques. | 09-29-2011 |
20110287774 | Method, System and Terminal for State Transition - The present invention relates to a method, system and UE for state transition. The method includes: after a transition from the CELL-PCH state to the CELL-FACH state, a UB receives the scheduling control channel continuously, or receives simultaneously the scheduling control channel according to the receiving time corresponding to the DRX mechanism when the UE is in the CELL-FACH state and the receiving time corresponding to the DRX mechanism when the UE is in the CELL-PCH state; after obtaining an indication of normal reception, the UE receives the scheduling control channel according to the receiving time corresponding to the DRX mechanism when the UE is in the CELL-FACH state; the radio network controller has be informed that the has transited from the CELL-PCH state to the CELL-FACH state simultaneously When the UE obtains the indication of normal reception, so as to avoid data loss in a certain period after the state transition of the UE. | 11-24-2011 |
20110287775 | METHOD FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION FOR FEMTOCELL BASE STATIONS OF A WIMAX NETWORK - A method for interference mitigation for femtocell base stations of a WiMAX network, wherein the femtocell base station is located within the transmission range of at least one macrocell base station and/or at least one other femtocell base station, is characterized in that the femtocell base station performs downlink measurements to detect neighboring macrocell and/or femtocell base stations and reports results of the downlink measurements to at least one higher layer network controller, wherein the network controller allocates transmission parameters to the WiMAX femtocell base stations on the basis of at least the reported measurement results and the current resource occupation in the network. | 11-24-2011 |
20110287776 | DETERMINATION OF USER EQUIPMENT ANTENNA CAPABILITY - The present invention provides a method of determining capability of a UE, the method comprising: receiving an indication from a UE during a random access procedure, the indication enabling antennae capability of the UE to be determined; processing the indication in order to determine the number of antennae of the UE; and allocating resources to the UE according the antennae capability of the UE. The invention further relates to a user equipment and a network entity operable to implement such a method. | 11-24-2011 |
20110287777 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, NETWORK DEVICE, USER EQUIPMENT, AND SYSTEM - In the field of communications, a resource management method, a network device, a User Equipment (UE), and a system are provided. The method includes the following steps: the network side set information about a set of virtual cells; and sends the set information about the set of virtual cells to a UE. The network device includes a first setting unit and a sender unit. The UE includes a receiver unit and a processor unit. The system includes a network device. The technical solution brings the following beneficial effects: a set of virtual cells is introduced so that high-level resources are shared efficiently. Compared with the existing multi-cell setting method, information about multiple cells does not need to be set additionally, so that the resource management at the time when a UE communicates with multiple cells is greatly simplified. | 11-24-2011 |
20110306352 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STATE/MODE TRANSITIONING - A method and network element for sending a transition indication to transition a user equipment to a different state or mode, the method receiving a configuration message from a network; and transmitting a transition indication from the user equipment, the transition indication only includes a cause if the configuration message contains an inhibit transition indication. Also, a method and user equipment for processing a transitioning indication from a user equipment indicating the user equipment desires a transition to a different state or mode, the method comprising: receiving the transition indication from the user equipment; if the transition indication contains a cause: releasing a signaling connection of the user equipment or transitioning the user equipment to a different state or mode; and if the transition indication does not contain the cause: releasing the signaling connection. | 12-15-2011 |
20110319092 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TRANSMITTING DATA IN COORDINATED MULTI-CELL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of transmitting data in a coordinated multi-cell wireless communication system is provided. A base station receives information about beam-forming vectors, aligned with a channel to a user equipment placed in a neighbor cell, and about nulling beam-forming vectors for the channel to the user equipment from the neighbor cell, determines a transmission beam-forming vector based on the information, and transmits data to the user equipment using the transmission beam-forming vector. | 12-29-2011 |
20120015664 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING INTERFERENCE IN FEMTO CELL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for mitigating interference by a femto Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system including a macro BS is provided. The method includes receiving information about resources allocated for a channel measurement signal from the macro BS, measuring an UpLink (UL) power by detecting a channel measurement signal transmitted from at least one Mobile Station (MS) to the macro BS based on the received information, determining MSs whose UL powers are greater than or equal to a threshold, and transmitting identification information for the MSs to the macro BS. | 01-19-2012 |
20120028647 | METHOD OF ASSIGNING A MOBILE UNIT TO A TRACKING AREA BASED ON A LOCATION UPDATE FREQUENCY - The present invention provides a method for assigning a mobile unit to a tracking area based upon a location update frequency. The method includes selecting one of a technology-specific tracking area and a shared tracking area based on a location update frequency associated with a mobile unit. | 02-02-2012 |
20120058773 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING A DEMOTION IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for performing a demotion in a cellular communications network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a packet indicating that a batching transfer is completed, determines if a background packet was received after receiving the packet indicating that the batching transfer is completed and demotes a state of a state machine implemented by a radio network controller to a lower state if the background packet was not received. | 03-08-2012 |
20120064907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE POWER OF TERMINAL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING A FEMTOCELL AND A MACRO BASE STATION - The present invention relates to a method for allocating a radio resource of a base station for controlling the power of a terminal in a mobile communication system including a plurality of femtocells in the service coverage of a macro base station, said method comprising: a radio resource-grouping step of dividing the radio resources shared by the macro base station and the femtocells into groups in accordance with a preset criterion; a radio resource-allocating step of randomly allocating each of the grouped radio resources to base stations such that the terminal uses maximum transmitting power in different resource areas for the plurality of base stations; and a transmitting step of transmitting the allocated radio resource information to the terminal. The method of the present invention effectively controls interferences between the terminal in communication with the macro base station and the terminal in communication with the femtocell. | 03-15-2012 |
20120077510 | AUTONOMOUS UNLICENSED BAND REUSE IN MIXED CELLULAR AND DEVICE-TO-DEVICE NETWORK - Methods, apparatuses, a system and computer program products are provided for autonomously reusing an unlicensed band in a hybrid cellular and device-to-device network. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus receives a request for resources from a terminal, and identifies available resources on an unlicensed band based on the request. The apparatus further reserves the identified available resources for use by the terminal, and transmits a reservation response to the terminal, wherein the reservation response comprises information relating to the reserved available resources. Further, the apparatus transmits data to the terminal over a licensed band and the available resources reserved on the unlicensed band. | 03-29-2012 |
20120077511 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALIGNING INTERFERENCE USING A FEED FORWARD INDEX IN A HIERARCHICAL CELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is an interference aligning method and apparatus that does not perform full feed-forwarding in a hierarchical cell communication. A macro base station may generate respective transmission beamforming vectors of macro terminals to null interference channels to pico terminals and to remove interference among the macro terminals. The effective interference channels are based on reception beamforming vectors of the pico terminals. The macro base station may transmit, to a macro terminal, a feed-forward indicator (FFI) indicating a method of transmitting information associated with a reception beamforming vector of the macro terminal. The macro terminal may obtain information associated with the reception beamforming vector based on the FFI. | 03-29-2012 |
20120077512 | ALLOCATING RADIO RESOURCES IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Transmitting information using a preamble of a Random Access Channel (RACH) in an Evolved Universal mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) is provided. A preamble transmission is used to inform a base station of specific information when a terminal uses a RACH and the base station efficiently allocates radio resources for data transmission to the terminal according to the specific information. Delay time before the terminal transmits data is reduced and unnecessary consumption of radio resources is minimized. | 03-29-2012 |
20120088516 | HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNET) USER EQUIPMENT (UE) RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (RRM) MEASUREMENTS - Methods and apparatus for performing radio resource management (RRM) measurements in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) are provided in an effort to prevent failure of RRM measurement procedures in a dominant interference scenario. Several alternatives are provided for determining particular resources (e.g., subframes) to use for performing the RRM measurements, wherein the particular resources are based on cooperative resource partitioning between cells of the HetNet, wherein the cells may be of different types (e.g., macro, pico, or femto cells). These alternatives include, for example: (1) intra-frequency or intra-RAT (radio access technology) alternatives, which may involve transmitting resource partitioning information (RPI) in or deriving non-serving cell RPI based on the serving cell's RPI, as well as (2) inter-frequency or inter-RAT alternatives, where the RRM measurements may be performed during a measurement gap. | 04-12-2012 |
20120088517 | AUTONOMOUS FRACTIONAL TIME REUSE - Autonomous fractional time reuse is provided. In some embodiments, autonomous fractional time reuse includes determining a number of neighboring base stations of a base station in a heterogeneous network; and pseudo randomly selecting one or more Fractional Time Reuse (FTR) slots for transmission by the base station. In some embodiments, the one or more FTR slots are autonomously selected by the base station without coordinating the selection of the one or more FTR slots with one or more of the neighboring base stations. | 04-12-2012 |
20120094680 | COMMUNICATION SCHEDULING - A method and device for network communication request scheduling is presented. Example embodiments are directed towards the dynamic scheduling of communications based on real time network resource utilization and associated stored statistics. | 04-19-2012 |
20120094681 | SERVICE-BASED APPROACH TO CHANNEL SELECTION AND NETWORK CONFIGURATION FOR TELEVISION WHITE SPACE NETWORKS - A method for managing channel selection in a dynamic spectrum management network includes receiving a spectrum allocation request; based on the source of the spectrum allocation request, checking for available channels; based on the source of the spectrum allocation request, collecting sensing and usage data for the available channels; providing the channel usage data to an entity that transmitted the spectrum allocation request. | 04-19-2012 |
20120094682 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, RELAY STATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system including: a base station; a terminal; and a relay station, wherein the base station and the terminal perform radio communication via the relay station, the base station includes: a change unit which changes at least any of a radio resource allocation method for the relay station and the terminal, the radio resource allocation method and a scheduling method, or the radio resource allocation method, the scheduling method and a relay method in the relay station; and a transmission unit which transmits a change notice for notifying the relay station of the change by the change unit, the relay station includes a reception unit which receives the change notice, and the base station, the relay station, and the terminal perform radio communication using at least the radio resources allocating or allocated by the radio resource allocation method after the change. | 04-19-2012 |
20120108257 | COMMUNICATION METHOD OF BASE STATION AND TARGET TERMINAL - Provided is a communication method of a base station and a target terminal. Resources used for a channel feedback may be reduced by determining a wireless resource based on information about a channel and information about a mobility of the target terminal in each of at least one route, and by feeding back channel state information. | 05-03-2012 |
20120115496 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING FEMTOCELLS USING INTERCELL UPLINK SIGNALS - A system and method provides accurate and timely updates to timing and/or frequency information for a femtocell utilizing information gathered from user equipment camped on a neighboring macrocell. In one example, user equipment camped on the neighboring macrocell actively gathers aiding information such as timing and frequency information related to the macrocell on which it is camped. The user equipment then transmits the aiding information to the femtocell utilizing a different link other than that used for communicating with the macrocell. In another example, the femtocell sniffs uplink transmissions from the user equipment that are not directed at the femtocell, but rather are normal communications between the user equipment and its serving macrocell. Here, the femtocell utilizes information it gathers about the macrocell and utilizes its WWAN interface to sniff the uplink transmissions from the user equipment and extracts timing and/or frequency information based on those transmissions. | 05-10-2012 |
20120122466 | Method and Arrangement in a Communications Network - A method for enhancing Random Access Channel, RACH, performance is provided. First timing settings to be used by a first set of user equipments for a first Acquisition Indicator Channel, AICH, response timing is explicitly or implicitly signalled ( | 05-17-2012 |
20120122467 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNING FREQUENCY SUBBANDS TO A PLURALITY OF INTERFERING NODES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK, CONTROLLER FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method assigns frequency subbands to a plurality of interfering nodes in a wireless communication network, wherein the number of subbands assigned to a node depends on the interference condition of the node, wherein as the node faces less interference it is assigned more subbands. | 05-17-2012 |
20120122468 | Method and Device for Coordinated Scheduling - Disclosed in the present invention is a coordinated scheduling method which includes that: a base station establishes the correspondences between sub-bands and spatial information, and communicates the correspondences between sub-bands and spatial information with the base station of a cooperative cell ( | 05-17-2012 |
20120129541 | Apparatuses, Method and Computer Program for Adapting a Telecommunication Service to Traffic Load in the Network - There is disclosed improvements of the access stratum layer for adapting a telecommunication service to traffic load on the network. | 05-24-2012 |
20120135742 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a mobile communication system, a mobile switching center | 05-31-2012 |
20120142365 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTNG HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - A method and apparatus for mitigating interference in a wireless communication system supporting heterogeneous networks are disclosed. When the wireless communication system includes a first network and a second network, the method includes generating information indicating whether each of uplink component carriers is used for transmission of control information in the first network, and transmitting the information to a UE. A component carrier used for transmission of control information in the first network is different from a component carrier used for transmission of control information in the second network. | 06-07-2012 |
20120157111 | Dynamic Mimo Resource Allocation During a Single Communication - A system and method is provided for dynamic allocation of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication resources during a single communication. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise communicating information using a first set of MIMO communication resources. While communicating the information, the system can determine, based on a monitored energy supply, to continue communicating the information using a second set of MIMO communication resources different from the first set. The communication continues using the second set of MIMO communication resources. Another aspect of the present invention may comprise determining to continue communicating the information using a second set of MIMO communication resources based on availability of communication resources of a second MIMO communication system receiving the communicated information. | 06-21-2012 |
20120165032 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING INTEFERENCE FROM FEMTO CELLS IN CONSIDERATION OF MACROCELL - A method of controlling femtocell interference considering a macrocell is provided. The method of controlling the interference includes a method of setting transmission power of the femtocell and methods of avoiding the interference of the femtocell. The methods of avoiding the interference include a PRB rotation method, a PRB transmission power restriction method, a hybrid method and a UB rotation method. The method of setting the transmission power and the methods of avoiding the interference may be implemented independently or implemented in combination with each other. Hence, according to the present invention, the femtocell itself can control the interference without affecting an interface of an existing macrocell base station and without signaling through the interface with the macrocell. | 06-28-2012 |
20120165033 | DYNAMICALLY SPLITTING JOBS ACROSS MULTIPLE AGNOSTIC PROCESSORS IN WIRELESS SYSTEM - Dynamically splitting jobs in wireless system between agnostic processor may comprise evaluating a job that a wireless mobile communication device may be requested to perform. The wireless mobile communication (WMC) device may evaluate a requested job to determine if one or more tasks may be sent to a remote device. The WMC device may consider such factors as information pertaining to the WMC device itself, information relating to the connection between the devices, and/or information pertaining to the remote device. This information may comprise such data as power availability in the wireless mobile communication device, processing load in the WMC device, processing and/or storage capabilities of the remote device, and characteristics of the connectivity between the two devices. | 06-28-2012 |
20120172049 | BANDWIDTH AND POWER ALLOCATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS WITH IMPERFECT SPECTRUM SENSING - Systems, methods, and apparatus for optimizing a use, by a secondary terminal, of an idle wireless communication channel that is associated with a primary terminal are presented herein. A mapping component can receive: information including an indication that a communication channel assigned to a wireless device is idle; and one or more requests, from respective other wireless devices, to transmit information via the communication channel. Further, an allocation component can compute power allocations of the one or more requests; and grant a request of the one or more requests based on the power allocations. The allocation component can further be configured to iteratively compute a power allocation of the power allocations based on a bandwidth allocation of the bandwidth allocations; and iteratively compute a bandwidth allocation of the bandwidth allocations based on a power allocation of the power allocations. | 07-05-2012 |
20120178467 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO BASE STATION - When a frequency band is shared between a large cell system having a large cell base station and a small cell system having a small cell base station, the large cell base station dynamically controls dedicated resources for the large cell base station and shared resources for both the large cell base station and the small cell base station based on predetermined information, broadcasts allocation information of dedicated resources for the large cell base station and shared resources for both the large cell base station and the small cell base station, to the small cell base station belonging to the own cell, and the small cell base station belongs to at least one large cell base station and determines resource assignment in the own cell based on the resource allocation information broadcast from the large cell base station. | 07-12-2012 |
20120178468 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING HIGH-SPEED MOBILE TERMINALS IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for supporting a high-speed mobile terminal in a distributed antenna system. The method includes acquiring information on a position and a speed of each terminal of a plurality of terminals, mapping the plurality of terminals to at least one or more terminal groups based on at least one or more of the position or the speed of the terminal, determining a service end time point at a serving antenna node and a service start time point at a target antenna node, using position and speed information associated with the terminal group, and switching an antenna node for the terminal group, according to the service end time point at the serving antenna node and the service start time point at the target antenna node. | 07-12-2012 |
20120184283 | LTE Operation in White Spaces - One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for efficient reassignment of a secondary communication channel (having a first priority) within a white space, upon arrival of a conflicting primary user signal (having a second priority higher than the first priority). In particular, the method comprises reassigning a secondary communication channel to unused portions of one or more white spaces remaining after the arrival of one or more primary users. For example, in one embodiment wherein one or more secondary communication channels are operated at contiguous secondary frequency ranges within a white space, a primary/incumbent user may arrive at a frequency range that conflicts with the secondary frequency range and that generates unused frequency portions of the white space(s). The secondary communication channel may be reassigned to the unused frequency portions of the white space (e.g., forming a non-contiguous secondary communication channel, forming a secondary communication channel having a reduced bandwidth). | 07-19-2012 |
20120184284 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO A LOCAL AREA NETWORK - An apparatus, system and method for providing access to a local area network for a mobile station operable in a wide area network such as a Global System for Mobile Communications (“GSM”) network. In one embodiment, the apparatus ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120190377 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Method and arrangement in a user equipment ( | 07-26-2012 |
20120196612 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RANK ADAPTATION - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for rank self-adaptation. The method comprises: a base station receiving ranks reported by a user equipment via a rank receiving window, determining a rank at the current moment based on a distribution state of each rank in the rank receiving window at the current moment, and determining the number of independent channels used for sending downstream data to the user equipment based on the rank at the current moment. The present invention can reasonably forecast change of ranks of MIMO channels so as to better use MIMO channel resources to perform data transmission and improve the throughput rate of the MIMO channels. | 08-02-2012 |
20120202510 | METHOD AND SYSTEM ENABLING USE OF WHITE SPACE RADIO SPECTRUM USING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNALS | 08-09-2012 |
20120202511 | System and Method for Resolving Contention Among Applications Requiring Data Connections Between a Mobile Communications Device and a Wireless Network - A mobile communications device includes a communication subsystem operable to conduct a plurality of wireless data connections between the mobile communications device and a wireless network wherein each of the data connections is associated with a connected application operating on the mobile communications device. A processor, coupled to the communication subsystem, is configured to process requests for new wireless data connections for a plurality of applications, releasing existing data connections and establishing new wireless data connections between the mobile communications device and a wireless network. The mobile communications device also includes means for prompting a user of the mobile communications device for releasing at least one application having an existing wireless data connection upon determining that a further wireless data connection cannot be effected when a request for a new wireless data connection for an application is received. | 08-09-2012 |
20120208546 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio base station ( | 08-16-2012 |
20120214501 | Cell Selection in a Cellular Communication System - A method in a user equipment for handling cell selection is provided. While in dedicated mode the user equipment receives from a radio network node a measurement information message which indicates at least two frequencies associated with a respective cell in a respective radio access technology. While it is in dedicated mode, the user equipment performs measurements on the frequencies to obtain a respective measurement value for each one of them, and receives a selection indicator message comprising a respective priority for each one of the frequencies. The user equipment obtains a respective threshold value for each of the frequencies and successively evaluates the frequencies in descending priority order until a frequency is determined for which the measurement value exceeds its respective threshold value. When entering idle mode, the user equipment selects cell based on the evaluation. | 08-23-2012 |
20120231804 | System and Method for Sequencing Radio Items for a Multi Downlink Multi Carrier Receiver - A system and method are provided for sequencing radio events in a mobile device with a multi downlink multi carrier receiver. In the mobile device, there is a processor in communication with a timing control unit (TCU), whereby the TCU is in communication with two or more radios. The processor collects one or more radio events corresponding to the two or more radios and then sorts the radio events from highest priority to lowest priority to form a sorted list. The processor then loads the sorted list, beginning with a highest priority radio event, onto the TCU. | 09-13-2012 |
20120231805 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING CELL-ID BETWEEN SITES AND DETERMINING CELL-ID FOR SITE IN COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION - A method and an apparatus for sharing a cell-ID between sites and determining a cell-ID of a site in cooperative communication includes: obtaining a synchronization sequence set, where the synchronization sequence set is used to determine a cell-ID (Cell-ID); and allocating synchronization sequences in the same synchronization sequence set to multiple sites, where the synchronization sequences in the same synchronization sequence set are used to determine antenna unit IDs (AU-ID) of respective sites. Through the embodiments, a system overhead may be decreased. | 09-13-2012 |
20120238283 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATED SCHEDULING BASED ON CELL PRIORITY - The present invention discloses a method and system for coordinated scheduling based on cell priority, which is applied to the system using coordinated multiple point (CoMP) transmission technology. The method includes: performing priority sequencing on each coordinated cell according to the historical and/or current information of each coordinated cell and finishing scheduling of each coordinated cell in an order according to priority from high to low. By adopting the coordinated scheduling scheme in the present invention, the network can be made in a reasonable working status, and then, the performance of the entire system can be improved. | 09-20-2012 |
20120244871 | Base station for implementing inter-cell interference coordination and method for inter-cell interference coordination - The present disclosure discloses a method for inter-cell interference coordination, which includes: classifying users in a cell into cell-edge users and cell-center users and allocating frequency resources to the cell-edge users and the cell-center users; acquiring the interference level of the frequency resources in the cell according to inter-cell interference and recording the changing trend of the interference caused by a neighboring cell on the cell; and coordinating the inter-cell interference according to the interference level of the frequency resources in the cell and the changing trend of the interference caused by the neighboring cell on the cell. The present disclosure further discloses a base station for implementing inter-cell interference coordination. The present disclosure can effectively lower the level of inter-cell interference to an ideal balanced state and improve the service capability of a base station. | 09-27-2012 |
20120244872 | Transport Block Size Signaling for Semi-Persistent Scheduling - A method is provided for improving reliability in semi-persistent scheduling activation/reactivation is provided. The method includes a user agent receiving a first data element from an access device specifying at least one first transport block size. The method further includes the user agent deriving a second transport block size based on a second data element received from the access device. The method further includes the user agent comparing the first transport block size with the second transport block size. The method further includes, when the first transport block size differs from the second transport block size, the user agent ignoring the received semi-persistent scheduling activation/reactivation data. | 09-27-2012 |
20120252477 | Method And Apparatus For Carrier Selection And Scheduling In Wireless Systems - Various methods and devices are provided to address the need for improved multicarrier system operation. In one method, an indication of a received signal power level at a UE (user equipment) is received ( | 10-04-2012 |
20120252478 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A base station apparatus is obtained that reduces, by a software process, delay time occurring in a call connection procedure. A base station apparatus | 10-04-2012 |
20120258723 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS IN MULTI-NODE SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - In a multi-node system including a user equipment and a plurality of nodes connected to each other, a plurality of the nodes includes a 1 | 10-11-2012 |
20120264445 | CONTROLLING FEMTOCELL OPERATION BANDWIDTH BASED ON INTERFERENCE TO MACROCELL - The disclosure is related to controlling an operation bandwidth for a femtocell based on femtocell interference to a macrocell in order to minimize femtocell interference. A femtocell base station may include a measurement unit, a transmitting unit, and a control unit. The measurement unit may be configured to measure an interference amount of a macrocell adjacent to the femtocell base station. The transmitting unit may be configured to transmit the measured interference amount to a system. The control unit may be configured to i) accept an allocated operation bandwidth by the system and ii) control transmission and reception of signals with the allocated operation bandwidth. The operation bandwidth may be adjustable by the system based on the measured interference amount. | 10-18-2012 |
20120276915 | Signaling To Establish Multipoint Communications - A user equipment UE sends to a network an indication that a neighbor cell is suitable for data communications with the UE. The UE is in a state with a serving cell in which no dedicated physical channel is allocated to the UE. In response to the indication the network and UE conduct multipoint communications between the UE and the serving cell and the neighbor cell using a common channel configuration the UE receives from at least one of the serving cell and the neighbor cell. In a UTRAN embodiment the state is a CELL-FACH state. Various embodiments details specific RRC messages for various signaling, and in one embodiment there are different procedures depending on whether the serving cell and the neighbor cell belong to the same or different NodeB groups. Further embodiments address when the neighbor cell is no longer suitable for multipoint data communications with the UE. | 11-01-2012 |
20120276916 | Configuration of Reference Signal Transmission Bandwidth - Processing implemented by a method and apparatus herein advantageously addresses degradations to the quality of reference signal measurements and/or to the quality of serving cell data reception that would otherwise result from a wireless device ( | 11-01-2012 |
20120282940 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, HOME RADIO BASE STATION, AND OPERATIONAL FREQUENCY DETERMINATION METHOD - A home radio base station according to the present invention includes a receiving unit | 11-08-2012 |
20120282941 | Method and system for synchronizing user data - A method for synchronizing user data is provided, which includes: when a User Equipment (UE) moves into a coverage area of a new mobility management unit, an old mobility management unit sends an indication of whether a bearer modification procedure is to be triggered to the new mobility management unit, and the new mobility management unit determines whether to trigger the bearer modification procedure according to the indication. A system for synchronizing user data is further provided. By means of the technical solution of the method and the system, the situation that a Quality of Service (QoS) used by a bearer in the new mobility management unit does not match with a bearer QoS of an updated subscription data when a user equipment moves into a coverage area of a new mobility management unit can be avoided. | 11-08-2012 |
20120289239 | DEVICE RESOURCES SHARING FOR NETWORK RESOURCE CONSERVATION - Systems and methods for device resource sharing for network resource conservation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method can include, for example: detecting that multiple devices are attempting to access a same content source over a mobile network. The same content source can then be polled once in a single poll event and the content received in response to the single poll event of the one same content source is transmitted to one device of the multiple devices. The other devices of the multiple devices can receive the content from the one device, over a non-cellular connection. | 11-15-2012 |
20120289240 | Method and Device for Determining a Cooperation Area - A method and a device for determining a cooperation area for a mobile terminal in a cellular network, wherein the mobile terminal determines its n strongest interferers; wherein the cooperation area is selected for the mobile terminal regarding the n strongest interferers; and wherein the cooperation area includes m base stations and wherein the number m of base stations is larger than the number n of strongest interferers. Furthermore, a communication system is suggested including said device. | 11-15-2012 |
20120295630 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY/FREQUENCY OF SELECTION PRIORITY - An informing method and equipment for index parameter of access type/frequency of selection priority are provided. Said method includes that a Mobility Management Entity (MME) receives the voice capabilities and settings reported by User Equipment (UE) ( | 11-22-2012 |
20120295631 | Method of Bringing a Wireless Telecommunication Cell Into DTX Mode - In a method and system for automatically bringing a cell into DTX mode, a time period is introduced during which the outcome of bringing a cell into DTX mode is observed. The cell can return to a transmission mode if the outcome is non-satisfactory as determined by some criteria. Hereby an improved automated DTX method can be implemented which helps save energy in a cellular radio system. | 11-22-2012 |
20120309405 | INDEPENDENT CONFIGURATION IDENTITIES IN A HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Systems and methods are disclosed for using multiple configuration groups having corresponding configuration identity (CID) parameters to configure a transmission channel and a reception channel for a user equipment device in a cellular communication network. In one embodiment, a user equipment device in a cellular communication network obtains CID values for CID parameters for a number of configuration groups. Each of the configuration groups includes one or more transmission channel or reception channel parameters. For each of the configuration groups, the user equipment device configures the parameters in the configuration group based on the CID value obtained for the CID parameter for the configuration group. In this manner, the transmission channel and the reception channel for the user equipment device are configured based on multiple CID values rather than a single physical layer cell identifier for a cell in which the user equipment device is located. | 12-06-2012 |
20120309406 | METHOD FOR INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION - An interference suppression method is provided. A method includes the following steps: determining, by a Femtocell, a set of Femtocells which generate interference with said Femtocell based on information measured by and feedbacked from subscribers which are served by said Femtocell, and delivering the cell IDs of all Femtocells in said set to a Femtocell gateway; establishing, by the Femtocell gateway, a relationship graph on interference among Femtocells according to information delivered from the Femtocells, and clustering the Femtocells based on said relationship graph; determining the range influenced by each Femtocell cluster; allocating resources to the Femtocells in each isolated cluster or in the range influenced by each cluster. It may ensure liable communications of Femtocell subscribers as possible, and/or may maximize spectrum efficiency and system capacity of the Femtocell layer as possible. | 12-06-2012 |
20120322457 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system is provided. A machine-to-machine (M2M) device transmits a first ranging request message including a M2M short message service (SMS) request indicating that the M2M device has a M2M SMS to transmit, and receives a first ranging response message including a M2M SMS response, a basic connection identifier (CID) and a temporary CID timer. If the M2M SMS request is accepted by a base station, the M2M device transmits a second ranging request message including the M2M SMS based on the basic CID, and receives a second ranging response message including a M2M SMS confirmation indicating whether the reception of the M2M SMS is successful or not by the base station. | 12-20-2012 |
20120329470 | LOW POWER BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - In the case where the disclosed low-power base station ( | 12-27-2012 |
20120329471 | Method for Energy Control in a Cellular Radio System - Methods and devices enabling improved switch-on procedures during the reactivation of base stations already switched off to save power are provided. In accordance with one embodiment a method of activating a de-activated cell in a cellular radio system is provided. First measurements are collected from a number of user equipments connected to the cellular radio system. Based on the collected measurements a model for mapping a cell, the best cell, providing the least power increase in the cellular radio system when activated is constructed. When the traffic demand of the cellular radio system cannot be served using already activated cells it is determined to activate the cell that is mapped as the best cell to be activated. Hereby, the cells of a cellular radio system can be managed to maximally utilize the energy used in the system. | 12-27-2012 |
20130012221 | EVOLVED NODE B CONTROLLED CENTRALIZED RESOURCE REUSE FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE AND CELLULAR USERS - Device-to-device (D2D) communication is one alternative to communication between devices through a radio access network. One interesting D2D communication method is reuse-mode D2D, where D2D nodes communicate with each other using the same uplink (UL) radio resource that is being used by some other cellular user equipment(s) (UEs). In other words, the UL cellular resources occupied by cellular UEs are reused by D2D nodes in their short-range communications. Centralized control of D2D communication can be performed by appropriate signaling between a D2D-capable UE and an evolved Node B (eNB). | 01-10-2013 |
20130012222 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING USER EQUIPMENT CONNECTION UNDER A MIXED MODE AND FEMTOCELL SYSTEM - A method for processing user equipment (UE) connection under a mixed mode and a femtocell system are provided. The method for processing UE connection is used in a femtocell for processing the connection of a UE. The method includes the following steps. A connection request is received from a low priority UE under a mixed mode. Whether the measurement results corresponding to the femtocell satisfy threshold settings is determined in response to the connection request, wherein the measurement results include a path loss corresponding to the femtocell. If the measurement results satisfy the threshold settings, then the low priority UE is allowed to be connected to the femtocell. In one embodiment, suitable resource allocation, such as the allocation of power and code resource, is provided after the low priority UE is connected to the femtocell under the mixed mode. | 01-10-2013 |
20130012223 | Location-Determining System for Radio Clients within Local-Area Spaces - Systems, devices, features, and/or methods for determining a location of a mobile device are disclosed. A method may include (a) receiving, into a mobile device, a common RF signal on a common carrier frequency, wherein the common RF signal includes a respective RF signal output by each of three or more transmitters on a common time basis in a round-robin manner, and wherein each of the three or more transmitters is positioned at a known location, (b) capturing data representing the common RF signal, (c) based on the captured data, discriminating between each respective RF signal that forms the received common RF signal, (d) determining a relative phase shift of each respective RF signal, and (e) determining the location of the mobile device based on the determined relative phase shifts and the known locations of the three or more transmitters. | 01-10-2013 |
20130012224 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE AMONG FEMTOCELLS IN AN ACCESS DEVICE OF A FEMTOCELL - The present invention provides a method for reducing interference among Femtocells in a first access device of a first Femtocell, comprising the following steps: a receiving step, wherein said first access device receives a first wireless signal periodically transmitted by a second access device of a second Femtocell, and said first wireless signal comprises characteristic information of said second access device; a judging step, wherein said first access device judges whether the level of said first wireless signal exceeds a first pre-determined threshold and interferes at least one user terminal in said first Femtocell; a first executing step, wherein if the level of said first wireless signal exceeds said pre-determined threshold and interferes said at least one user terminal in said first Femtocell, said first access device creates a cooperative working mode between said first access device and said second access device by interacting with said second access device, so as to reduce interference between said first Femtocell and said second Femtocell. | 01-10-2013 |
20130017836 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BEAM LOCKING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMAANM Chang; Young-BinAACI Anyang-siAACO KRAAGP Chang; Young-Bin Anyang-si KRAANM Taori; RakeshAACI Suwon-siAACO KRAAGP Taori; Rakesh Suwon-si KR - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for beamforming includes a detector for measuring at least one change of movement and rotation of an apparatus; and a calculator for determining a beamforming parameter for aligning a beam direction with another apparatus by compensating for the change of the beam direction according to at least one of the movement and the rotation. | 01-17-2013 |
20130023275 | MOBILE DEVICE TUNE AWAY PERIODS - A particular method includes receiving first data via a first network at a device that is configured to receive the first data via the first network based on a first wireless communication subscription and is configured to receive second data via a second network based on a second wireless communication subscription. The method also includes while receiving the first data, determining that a tuneaway period associated with the second network has passed, where the tuneaway period is longer than a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle length associated with the second network. The method further includes tuning a receiver of the device to a paging channel of the second network in response to passing of the tuneaway period. | 01-24-2013 |
20130023276 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention provides a data transmission method and system, where the method is used in a system architecture adopting a virtual heterogeneous network, where a macro base station covering a macro-cell and a pico base station covering a pico-cell share the same station address. The method includes the following step: sending control information and data information to user terminals in the macro-cell and the pico-cell according to location information of the user terminals so that the user terminals obtain the data information according to the control information. The system includes a sending module. The present invention implements joint scheduling of resources between a macro base station and a pico base station, reduces interference between cells, and maximally improves an overall data rate. | 01-24-2013 |
20130035106 | Method for Operating a Mobile Wireless Network - A method of operating a mobile wireless network ensures proper function of protocol entities during the transmission of data units between two wireless stations. User data is assembled by a first convergence protocol layer of the first wireless station into at least one first data unit, particularly a packet data unit, before transmission to a second convergence protocol layer of a second wireless station, particularly on the same protocol level, with the user data being supplied to the first convergence protocol layer by at least one user in a network layer. At least one protocol entity of the first convergence protocol layer is configured as a function of a configuration request received by the second wireless station, in order to form the at least one first data unit from the data received from the at least one user and to transmit it through a carrier to a link control layer. | 02-07-2013 |
20130040649 | Mobile Device Location Estimation Using Operational Data of a Wireless Network - A method for location estimation of a mobile device using operational data of a wireless network includes creating a geospatial model of a wireless network. The geospatial model may include a geometry representative of coverage area of each antenna in the wireless network. The geometry may be created, by the modeling module, based on a tower data of the wireless network and an operational data from the wireless network. The geospatial model may further include range bands for each antenna, created based on the operational data. In addition, the method includes generating, by the modeling module, a geospatial model of geospatial features for an area of the wireless network. Further, the method includes determining, by a location module, the location of the mobile device in the wireless network based on the geospatial model of a wireless network, the geospatial model of geospatial features and real-time operational data. | 02-14-2013 |
20130040650 | CONTROL APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A control apparatus (e.g., a radio base station) for controlling radio communication includes a communication unit for transferring data, an RLC processor for performing radio link control, an RLC parameter adaptive controller for setting a parameter to be used for the radio link control, a broadcast information generator for generating broadcast information including the parameter, and a pseudo incoming call controller for performing pseudo incoming call to a communication terminal (e.g., a mobile terminal) for a plurality of times after the broadcast information is broadcasted to the communication terminal through the communication unit, to measure a success rate of the pseudo incoming calls using responses to the pseudo incoming calls. The RLC parameter adaptive controller updates the parameter according to the success rate measured by the pseudo incoming call controller. | 02-14-2013 |
20130040651 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM NODE WITH IMPROVED INTERFERENCE SITUATION - A node in a wireless communication system comprising at least a first cell region and a second cell region, where cell borders delimit between different cell regions. The node comprises at least a first antenna function with a first antenna radiation lobe and a second antenna function with a second antenna radiation lobe, the radiation lobes being arranged to cover the first cell region at the same time. For each cell region, only one of the antenna radiation lobes is intended for communication at each cell border. Furthermore, the first antenna radiation lobe is arranged for signals at a first frequency band, and the second antenna radiation lobe is arranged for signals at least a second frequency band. | 02-14-2013 |
20130040652 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING STANDARD CANCELLATION SIGNALSTANDARD CANCELLATION SIGNAL - A method and an apparatus for generating a standard cancellation signal includes: setting weight values according to frequency points of a current cell and its neighboring cells; according to the frequency points of the current cell and neighboring cells and the weight values of the frequency points, performing Fourier transform to obtain a corresponding time-domain signal; and performing highest amplitude normalization on the time-domain signal and performing a cyclic shift to obtain a standard cancellation signal. The embodiments generate a standard cancellation signal according to frequency points of the current cell and its neighboring cells, so that the current cell and its neighboring cells share the peak clipping noise, and therefore helping improve the peak clipping performance of the current cell or reduce the EVM distortion. | 02-14-2013 |
20130053049 | METHOD AND BASE STATION FOR AUTOMATIC CARRIER SELECTION - A femtocell basestation selects its carrier frequency by detecting a carrier used by at least one other basestation in its network, and selecting its own carrier frequency such that it partially overlaps with the detected carrier. The downlink power of the femtocell basestation is set based on the degree of overlap between the selected carrier and the detected carrier, so that a user equipment having a connection to the other basestation is forced to search for the selected carrier. | 02-28-2013 |
20130053050 | METHOD IN WHICH USER EQUIPMENT TRANSMITS A SIGNAL IN A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM, AND USER EQUIPMENT USING SAME - A method in which user equipment transmits a signal in a distributed antenna system in which a plurality of antennas is distributed in a cell, comprises the following steps: receiving uplink antenna information from a base station; controlling uplink power on the basis of the uplink antenna information; and transmitting an uplink signal on the basis of the uplink power control, wherein the uplink antenna information indicates a receiving antenna of the base station that receives the uplink signal. | 02-28-2013 |
20130053051 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING CELL SLEEPING - The present invention provides a method and a system for processing cell sleeping. The method comprises: a cell sending a sleeping request message to a neighbor cell (S | 02-28-2013 |
20130053052 | Implementation Method for Improving Service Call Completion Ratio and Radio Network Controller - The present invention provides an implementation method for improving a service call completion ratio and a radio network controller, wherein the method comprises: a radio network controller sending a radio bearer establishment message to a user equipment ( | 02-28-2013 |
20130059593 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED INTERFERENCE COORDINATION IN A FEMTOCELL ENVIRONMENT - Distributed inter-cell interference coordination in a communications system can include: at one other femtocell system, sending channel quality information of a subordinate device communicating with the other femtocell system to the first femtocell system; receiving the channel quality information of the at least one other femtocell system at the first femtocell system; estimating an influence of a use of a resource on the communications system at the first femtocell system according to the channel quality information received by one or more of the at least one other femtocell system; and determining at the first femtocell system whether to use the resource. | 03-07-2013 |
20130059594 | BASE STATION WITH COORDINATED MULTIPLE AIR-INTERFACE OPERATIONS - Base stations with coordinated multiple air-interface operations are provided. In some embodiments, multi-mode base station (BTS) systems operate with different air-interfaces, functionality, or configurations in a coordinated manner. For example, typical applications of such systems can include Macrocell BTS, Picocell BTS, Femtocell BTS, or Access Point (AP), Set Top Box (STB), or Home Gateway, Hot Spot Devices, User Terminal with the capability to perform required base station operations. In some embodiments, various techniques are provided for system improvements and optimizations via radio resource management, including user and system throughput optimization, QoS improvement, interference management, and various other improvements and optimizations. In some embodiments, a system (e.g., a multi-mode device, such as a base station, a repeater, and/or a terminal) includes a multi-mode communication unit, in which the multi-mode communication unit allocates access for communication using at least two modes; and a processor configured to implement at least in part the multi-mode communications unit. In some embodiments, the at least two modes include one or more of the following: frequency band, protocol standard, duplexing format, broadcast mode (e.g., television broadcast and/or a radio broadcast), and one-way communication mode. | 03-07-2013 |
20130059595 | BASE STATION AND METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station allocates a radio resource to a scheduling-target user based on a scheduling metric which is calculated for each of scheduling-target users and calculates the amount of available data for each user. When the radio resource is allocated to the scheduling-target user, the amount of data (D | 03-07-2013 |
20130059596 | ASYMMETRICAL FEEDBACK FOR COORDINATED TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS - A method includes, in a mobile communication terminal, receiving from at least first and second base stations, which cooperate in a coordinated transmission scheme, signals that are transmitted over respective first and second communication channels. Respective channel measures are calculated for the communication channels based on the received signals. First and second feedback data, which are indicative of the respective channel measures of the first and second communication channels, are formulated such that the first feedback data has a first data size and the second feedback data has a second data size, different from the first data size. The first and second feedback data are transmitted from the mobile communication terminal to at least one of the base stations. | 03-07-2013 |
20130065601 | DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF THE UPLINK AND DOWNLINK BANDWIDTHS BASED ON CALENDAR DATA - A communications system can be adapted to perform a method for optimizing bandwidth by analyzing calendar data. Such as method can include: receiving an indication of an event via a calendaring system; identifying a property of the event, event time, and a duration of the event; determining an estimation of bandwidth usage of the mobile device based on the identified property and duration of the event; and allocating bandwidth to the mobile device at the event time and during the duration of the event based on the estimation of the bandwidth usage of the mobile device. | 03-14-2013 |
20130072209 | Mobile Assisted Channel Selection in Devices Having Multiple Radio Transceivers - A wireless communication device includes a first radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to transmit/receive RF signals in a first frequency band, a second RF transceiver configured to transmit/receive RF signals in a second frequency band that may be different from the first frequency band, and a connection manager that is coupled to the first and second RF transceivers and that assists with channel selection by the first and second RF transceivers to reduce mutual interference between the first and second RF transceivers. Related methods are also disclosed. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072210 | LTE and LTE-Advanced UL Power Control - A method for LTE and LTE-A uplink power control includes open loop power control where user equipment UE measures downlink pathloss which is sent to an eNodeB that determines uplink UL transmit power based on the downlink pathloss. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072211 | Method and Equipment of Communication - A method of parameter setting of a base station for providing communications services to user equipment in a radio communications network that includes the base station. The method includes determining a parameter value of at least partially distributed control. The determining is initiated upon communication between the base station and an entity of central control. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072212 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio base station eNB | 03-21-2013 |
20130084877 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING HIDDEN COMMON ENHANCED DEDICATED CHANNEL RESOURCES - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for communicating hidden common channel resources to a communication device(s). In this regard, a method is provided that includes sending a message, to a device of a cell, including data indicating items of system information relating to a number of communication channel resources of a first type of resource and receiving a response message from the device indicating that the device supports communication channel resources of a second type of resource. The method may further include determining a set of communication channel resources associated with the second type supportable by a network device to send the set of resources to the device in a reply message responsive to the indication that the device supports the communication channel resources of the second type. The method may also include receiving a selection, by the device, of a communication channel resource(s) of the set. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084878 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE RANKED NETWORK PRIORITY - Methods, systems and apparatus are disclosed to facilitate ranked network priority. An example method includes obtaining a bid value associated with a first wireless device, calculating a rank of the first wireless device with a plurality of wireless devices based on the bid value, operating characteristics of the first wireless device, and a scheduling model, and allocating a first portion of wireless network resources to the first wireless device based on the rank of the first wireless device. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084879 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - To provide a base station apparatus, mobile terminal apparatus and communication control method for enabling control adapted to interference inside a Heterogeneous network to be performed to support the next-generation mobile communication system, a base station apparatus ( | 04-04-2013 |
20130084880 | RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD FOR SCALABLE BANDWITH - Provided are a receiver and a receiving method for a scalable bandwidth in a mobile station of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. The receiving method includes the steps of: (a) filtering a received RF signal; (b) oscillating a frequency according to a center frequency control signal to output a local oscillation frequency; (c) down-converting the filtered RF signal by using the local oscillation frequency; (d) scalable-filtering the down-converted signal while adjusting a bandwidth according to a bandwidth control signal; (e) controlling gain of the scalable-filtered signal; (f) converting the gain-controlled analog signal into a digital signal by using a sampling frequency matching with a corresponding bandwidth according to an ADC control signal; and (g) demodulating the converted digital signal, outputting the center frequency control signal, the bandwidth control signal, and the ADC control signal according to control information received from an upper layer. | 04-04-2013 |
20130090124 | Dynamic Resource Sharing Among Cellular Networks - According to a disclosed method, an MME in a network analyzes KPIs from the cells it serves and based on the KPIs, it decides to engage in sharing. The MME then contacts a sharing entity (SE) to announce that it wants to borrow or to supply resources. The MME obtains terms of a sharing agreement from the SE and the MME obtains the identity of the other network. In response to this information, the MME configures its network elements to share. The MME's own network may be a supplier or a borrower. If the network is a supplier, the MME configures its base stations to support UEs subscribing to the other network. If the network is a borrower, the MME configures its UEs to accept service from the other network's base stations. The SE applies knowledge of network topology and of services offered. This knowledge is obtained from a sharing database. At the expiration of the sharing agreement, the SE tells the MMEs to deactivate the sharing agreement. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090125 | LTE FREQUENCY CHANNEL AVOIDANCE - A method of reducing interference to reception of streams of television content received at a television receiver in which each of the streams of television content are transmitted on one of a plurality of frequency channels in accordance with a channel map which defines on which of the plurality of frequency channels each stream of television content is transmitted and the interference being caused by a base station transmitting data to or receiving data from one or more mobile devices via radio communication signals in a vicinity of the television receiver. The method includes identifying the channel map and adapting a transmission of the radio communication signals between the base station and the one or more of mobile devices in accordance with the identified channel map to reduce interference at the television receiver. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090126 | System and Methods for Beam Shaping in a Self-Organizing network (SON) - Methods are components are included herein for implementing beam shaping algorithms to optimize antenna beam patterns. An embodiment method includes dividing a geographical area into a plurality of geographical bins, setting up a plurality of zones for a cell based on a plurality of boundary thresholds, receiving a plurality of signal measurements from a plurality of user equipments across the geographical bins, classifying the geographical bins into the different zones by comparing the signal measurements to the boundary thresholds of the zones, calculating a plurality of gain adjustments for the corresponding geographical bins in at least some of the zones, and generating a beam shaping pattern based on the gain adjustments. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090127 | TELECOMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND BASE STATION APPARATUS - A telecommunication control method for a heterogeneous network is provided. Uplink interference created by first user equipment (MUE) connected to a first-type cell (MeNB) is detected at the second-type cell (HeNB). The second-type cell reports the interference pattern of the detected interference to the first-type cell. The first-type cell identifies the interfering first user equipment based upon the interference pattern. The first-type cell notifies the second-type cell of the scheduling information of the interfering first user equipment. The second-type cell determines scheduling for second user equipment (HeUE) connected to the second-type cell based upon the scheduling information of the first user equipment. | 04-11-2013 |
20130095842 | METHOD AND EQUIPMENT FOR SAVING ENERGY - The present invention discloses a method and equipment for saving energy. The method comprises the following steps: the first network node acquires load information of the second network node next to the first and modifies energy saving state according to its own load information and that of said second network node; said first and second network nodes send information on indication for saving energy state to the adjacent third network node and inform the information of modifying energy saving state to said third network node based on said information on indication for saving energy state. Embodiments of the present invention optimize resource utilization rate of the whole network. | 04-18-2013 |
20130095843 | Methods and Systems for Dynamic Spectrum Arbitrage - Methods and system are provided for managing and monitoring allocation of RF spectrum resources based on time, space and frequency. A network may be enabled to allocate excess spectrum resources for use by other network providers on a real-time basis. Allocated resources may be transferred from one provider with excess resources to another in need of additional resources based on contractual terms or on a real-time purchase negotiations and settlements. A network may be enabled to monitor the use of allocated resources on real-time basis and off-load or allow additional users depending on the spectrum resources availability. Public safety networks may be enabled to make spectrum resources available to general public by allocating spectrum resources and monitoring the use of those resources. During an emergency, when traffic increases on a public safety network, the public safety networks may off-load bandwidth traffic to make available necessary resources for public safety users. | 04-18-2013 |
20130102320 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND CIRCUIT DEVICE - Contention based uplink transmission is efficiently performed. A scheduling unit selects, when uplink grant includes C-RNTI allocated to its device, the whole of radio resources indicated by this uplink grant. When uplink grant includes CB-RNTI, the scheduling unit randomly selects one radio resource from multiple radio resources indicated by this uplink grant. The scheduling unit generates control information for controlling a transmission unit so that PUSCH is multiplexed on the selected radio resource, and outputs it to a control unit. When blind decoding of multiple uplink grants including CB-RNTI has successfully been performed, the scheduling unit randomly selects one radio resource from the whole of multiple radio resources indicated by multiple uplink grants. The scheduling unit generates control information for controlling the transmission unit so that PUSCH is multiplexed on the selected radio resource, and outputs it to the control unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130109399 | Relay Node Operable with Different Spatial Characteristic Antenna Patterns | 05-02-2013 |
20130109400 | MICROCELL CREATING METHOD AND BASE STATION | 05-02-2013 |
20130109401 | System and Method for Semi-Static Downlink Inter-Cell Interference Coordination for Wireless Communications | 05-02-2013 |
20130115967 | ADAPTIVE FLEXIBLE BANDWIDTH WIRELESS SYSTEMS - Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing flexible bandwidth waveforms and channels for wireless communication. Embodiments may utilize portions of spectrum that may not be large enough to fit a standard or normal waveform. Chip rates may be adapted dynamically to generate and/or to receive flexible bandwidth waveforms to fit these portions of spectrum. Scaling factors and/or center frequencies may also be utilized to generate flexible waveforms. A mobile device may receive adjustment information from a base station so that the mobile device may dynamically adjust its chip rate to utilize a flexible bandwidth channel. A base station may simultaneously transmit on a normal bandwidth channel and a flexible bandwidth channel in some cases. Some flexible bandwidth waveforms may be utilized that are larger, or take more bandwidth, than a normal waveform. Flexible bandwidth may also be utilized to split and/or combine frequency channels. | 05-09-2013 |
20130115968 | Coordinating Radio Resource Partitioning in a Relay Enhanced Telecommunication Network - A method includes acquiring an information from a second base station by a first base station, wherein the information is indicative for a relative timing displacement between (a) a first time pattern of a first radio resource partitioning scheme and (b) a second time pattern of a second radio resource partitioning scheme. The method further includes adapting the first time pattern of the first radio resource partitioning scheme, used by the first relay node, to the second time pattern of the second radio resource partitioning scheme, used by the second relay node, in such a manner that Time Transmission Intervals (TTIs) of the first time pattern which one used for uplink radio transmissions coincide with TTIs of the second time pattern which one used for uplink radio transmissions. A corresponding first base station is adapted for controlling and/or for carrying out the above described method. | 05-09-2013 |
20130122923 | Method and System for Customizable Flow Management in a Cellular Basestation - A method for customizable flow management in a cellular basestation is disclosed. The method includes configuring a framework on a cellular basestation; and executing customized flow management functions through the framework by an external entity. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 05-16-2013 |
20130130707 | Method and System for Dynamic, Joint Assignment of Power and Scheduling of Users for Wireless Systems - A method for dynamically determining power and scheduling assignments in a communications network includes selecting, by a controller, a mobile station in each cell to define a mobile station set, determining, by the controller, a power allocation for each of the mobile stations in the mobile station set, calculating, by the controller, a global utility function by evaluating a contribution from each of the mobile stations in the mobile station set in accordance with the power allocation, repeating, by the controller, the selecting, the determining, and the calculating steps a predetermined number of times to generate additional ones of the global utility function, and choosing, by the controller, the mobile station set corresponding to the global utility function having a particular value for a resource block of a frame. The method may also include repeatedly dividing a user set into clusters to obtain a best power allocation. | 05-23-2013 |
20130137446 | DYNAMIC REORGANIZATION OF CELL STRUCTURES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Dynamic reorganization of cell structures in wireless networks. The present invention relates to wireless communications and, more particularly, to energy usage of wireless equipments in wireless communications. Currently there are mechanisms in use that can selectively turn of carriers in a BTS depending on the traffic load. But due to the fixed costs of operating the base station even when there are no active users, turning off entire BTS will give more energy savings than simply reducing capacity by turning off carriers at low load. Embodiments herein detect a change in demand on the network and re-organize the cellular network by selectively turning off BTSs and appropriately increasing the coverage area of other BTSs, and arrive at a configuration that optimizes the energy consumption of the cellular network as a whole. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137447 | INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROL CHANNEL AND DATA CHANNEL - An inter-cell interference coordination for a control channel where a base station of a first cell receives information, that is needed during allocating control channel resources to each user of a second cell that needs interference coordination, from a base station of the second cell, determines the control channel resources which will be allocated to the users of the second cell that need interference coordination, allocates the control channel resources used by the users of the first cell, judges whether search spaces of the control channel resources that are allocated to the users of the first cell and second cell satisfy an orthogonal requirement, and if not, forbids the users of the first cell to use the control channel resources that are allocated to the users of the first cell. | 05-30-2013 |
20130150065 | MONITORING SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS - A distributed antenna system (DAS) provides a plurality of DAS coverage areas for a wireless network. A plurality of statically deployed monitoring devices, each of which includes at least one radio frequency (RF) transmitter/receiver, are configured to run application tests, for example, for voice, messaging, or locations-based services, to provide testing of the wireless network to thereby generate test information related to the wireless network. An evaluation component and a control component respectively analyze the test information and adjust one or more parameters of the wireless network based on the test information. | 06-13-2013 |
20130150066 | ACCESS POINT, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING A PATH LOSS VALUE THEREFOR - A method for estimating a path loss value for a femto cell. The method comprises, at the femto access point of the femto cell, receiving at least one indication of signal strength for at least one neighbor cell from at least one wireless communication unit, analyzing the received at least one indication of signal strength for the at least one neighbo cell to determine at least one location characteristic, and estimating a path loss value for the femto cell based at least partly on the determined at least one location characteristic | 06-13-2013 |
20130150067 | CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NON-REAL TIME SUBSCRIPTION DATA AND RELATED METHODS - A cellular communications system may include a plurality of mobile cellular communications devices each associated with a respective user, and at least one cellular base station for wirelessly communicating with the mobile cellular communications devices. The at least one cellular base station may have a capacity associated therewith. The system may also include a central station for determining available capacity of the at least one cellular base station based upon active wireless communications with the mobile cellular communications devices. Moreover, the system may also include a subscription server for cooperating with the central station to provide non-real time subscription data to users on respective mobile cellular communications devices via the at least one cellular base station when the determined available capacity thereof is greater than a threshold. | 06-13-2013 |
20130157675 | BASE STATION DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THEREOF - A base station device, a method thereof and a communication system thereof are disclosed. The base station comprises: a covariance matrix obtaining unit that forms a covariance matrix of an interference vector and a noise vector from received signals from multiple user equipments; a ratio calculation and comparison unit that calculates a relative ratio between the interference and the noise in the received signals based on the covariance matrix and compares the ratio with a predetermined threshold; an adjusting unit that reduces values of non-diagonal elements in the covariance matrix when the ratio is less than the predetermined threshold; an equalizer unit that performs equalization based on the covariance matrix by utilizing an Interference Rejection Combining algorithm when the ratio is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold, and equalizes the received signals based on the adjusted covariance matrix by utilizing a Minimum Mean Square Error algorithm when the ratio is less than the predetermined threshold. By using the uniform receiver architecture, the advantages of the two algorithms are achieved in a simple structure, and further, its performance is superior to a MMSE receiver and an IRC receiver. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157676 | CONTROL METHOD FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - Provided is a control method for device-to-device (D2D) communication. A base station measures a load of a cell, receives location information about each piece of user equipment (UE) from a plurality of pieces of UE, selects any one of an overlay-based resource allocation method and an underlay-based resource allocation method on the basis of the measured cell load and the location information about the respective pieces of UE, allocates resources for D2D communication on the basis of the selected resource allocation method, and controls power according to the locations of the pieces of UE and a density of pieces of cellular communication UE. Accordingly, it is possible to improve resource use efficiency and efficiently remove interference. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157677 | Energy-saving control method and system for wireless network - The disclosure provides an energy-saving control method for a wireless network, which includes: a network manager sets energy-saving control parameters and sends the parameters to a network element participating in energy-saving control; after receiving the energy-saving control parameters, the network element compares a cell performance index value of a base station controlled by the network element itself with a cell performance index threshold value contained in the energy-saving control parameters periodically, and reports a message to the network manager when the cell performance index value of the base station exceeds the cell performance index threshold value; after receiving the message, the network manager constitutes an energy-saving strategy and notifies the network element to perform energy-saving operation. The disclosure also provides an energy-saving control system for a wireless network. The method and system of the disclosure can rapidly respond to the load change of the base station, thereby effectively realizing energy-saving management of is the entire wireless network. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157678 | SCHEDULING IN CONSIDERATION OF TERMINAL GROUPS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Specifically, according to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for operating a base station that assigns frequency resources to terminals in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises the steps of calculating a first metric using information relating to the transmission rate of each terminal; calculating a second metric using information relating to a proportion of a group to which each of the terminals belongs; determining a terminal to which a frequency resource is assigned on the basis of the calculated first and second metrics; assigning the resource to the determined terminal; and updating the information relating to the transmission rate for each terminal and the information relating to proportion of a group. | 06-20-2013 |
20130165134 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ALLOCATION - Systems and methods are described generally related to the creation of a spectrum allocator (SA) function that can be used to dynamically assign/reassign the frequency of operation of a node operating in a wireless communication network. To permit LTE operation in license exempt (LE) bands, the radio resource management (RRM) system is enhanced to include an interface, which allows it to communicate with modules external to the RRM, such as a coexistence manager, policy engine and sensing toolbox. | 06-27-2013 |
20130172002 | BEAMFORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING TRANSMISSION BEAM DIVERSITY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A data transmission method for a base station to acquire transmission beam diversity in a wireless communication system is provided. The data transmission method includes selecting at least two transmission beams to be used for data transmission from among multiple transmission beams corresponding to transmission beam information, if receiving the transmission beam information regarding the multiple transmission beams from a terminal, and transmitting data encoded with a predetermined orthogonalization code to the terminal via the selected at least two transmission beams. | 07-04-2013 |
20130172003 | METHOD OF ALLEVIATING INTERFERENCE BETWEEN CELLS IN A MULTICELL SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR THE METHOD - The present invention discloses a method of a terminal to reduce interference between cells in a multicell system. In more detail, the method includes: receiving information on at least one adjacent base station from a serving base station; receiving a reference signal from the at least one adjacent base station on the basis of the information on the at least one adjacent base station; measuring interference for each transmitting antenna of the at least one adjacent base station by using the reference signal; and transmitting interference information on the each transmitting antenna to the serving base station. | 07-04-2013 |
20130178223 | DOWNLINK AND UPLINK ARRAY AND BEAMFORMING ARRANGEMENT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - System and methods of cellular communications network are described herein. In one system, an antenna array is described. The antenna array has a first beamforming arrangement for producing uplink beams and a second beamforming arrangement for producing downlink beams. The first and second beamforming arrangements are different from one another. The wireless communication network communicates with a mobile station by use of the uplink and downlink beamforming arrangements. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178224 | RADIO MEASUREMENT COLLECTION METHOD AND RADIO TERMINAL - A radio measurement collection method according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: sending IdleMDTConfiguration message for setting a plurality of measurement triggers from E-UTRAN including a radio base station eNB to a radio terminal UE; setting the plurality of measurement triggers in the radio terminal UE by the radio terminal itself according to the IdleMDTConfiguration message from the E-UTRAN; measuring a radio environment for each of the plurality of measurement triggers by the radio terminal UE in an idle mode; and storing, by the radio terminal UE, each measurement result obtained at the measuring step in association with the measurement trigger corresponding to the measurement result. | 07-11-2013 |
20130183992 | METHODS AND APPARATUS OF ENHANCING PERFORMANCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus for supporting and using multiple communications channels corresponding to different transmit technologies and/or access technologies in parallel within a cell of a wireless communications system are described. Mobile nodes support multiple technologies and can switch between the technology being used at a particular point in time, from a first channel corresponding to a first technology to a second channel corresponding to a different technology which provides better transmission characteristics, e.g., a better perceived channel quality. Mobiles maintain at least two sets of channel quality information at any one point in time. Mobiles select the better channel and communicate the channel selection to the base station or communicate channel quality information for multiple channels to the base station and allow the base station to select the channel corresponding to the technology providing the better conditions for the mobile. Different mobiles in the same cell may support different technologies. | 07-18-2013 |
20130183993 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A mobile station includes, where the mobile station supports a first frequency band and a second frequency band, an information element generating unit configured to generate an information element indicating at least one of whether a receiver sensitivity is degraded in the second frequency band, whether a certificate has been obtained for communications in the second frequency band, and whether transmission and reception bands of the mobile station correspond to a portion of a bandwidth of the second frequency band, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the generated information element. | 07-18-2013 |
20130183994 | Reducing Interference in a Radio Access Network - A method and apparatus for reducing an effect of user interference on other users in an uplink of a radio access network using interference suppression. A user, for example, the user experiencing the highest interference, is selected from a plurality of users using the radio access cell. A perceived Rise over Thermal value for the user after interference suppression is predicted in the event that scheduling grants to an interfering user in the radio access network are altered. On the basis of the prediction, scheduling grants to the interfering user are altered, thereby reducing the interference for the selected user. | 07-18-2013 |
20130190002 | OPTIMIZING BANDWIDTH USAGE IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus is provided for improving bandwidth usage in a cellular communication network serving at least one mobile terminal, the network being arranged to use a predefined bandwidth range. The apparatus includes a base band unit for capable of supporting at least a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology, a counting means for determining the number of mobile terminals within a cell of the first radio access technology supporting the second radio access technology and a measuring means for determining the level of traffic carried by the first radio access technology cell. Bandwidth assignment means are also provided so that the bandwidth assigned to GSM and LTE can be configured to take account of changes in the traffic levels and device capabilities in either RAT. | 07-25-2013 |
20130190003 | Methods and Systems for MutiRAN Dynamic Spectrum Arbitrage - Methods and system are provided for managing and monitoring allocation of RF spectrum resources based on time, space and frequency. A network may be enabled to allocate excess spectrum resources for use by other network providers on a real-time basis. Allocated resources may be transferred from one provider with excess resources to another in need of additional resources based on contractual terms or on a real-time purchase negotiations and settlements. A network may be enabled to monitor the use of allocated resources on real-time basis and off-load or allow additional users depending on the spectrum resources availability. Public safety networks may be enabled to make spectrum resources available to general public by allocating spectrum resources and monitoring the use of those resources. During an emergency, when traffic increases on a public safety network, the public safety networks may off-load bandwidth traffic to make available necessary resources for public safety users. | 07-25-2013 |
20130196675 | System and Method for Wireless Communications Measurements and CSI Feedback - Measurements and Channel State Information (CSI) feedback are configured using communications between a network and user equipment (UE). The communications includes a first signaling from a network component to the UE indicating one or more reference signal (RS) resource configurations, a second signaling indicating one or more interference measurement (IM) resource configurations, and a third signaling indicating a CSI report configuration, wherein the CSI report configuration indicates a subset of the one or more RS resource configurations and a subset of the one or more IM resource configurations. The UE establishes a RS based measurement according to the subset of the one or more RS resource configurations and an IM according to the subset of the one or more IM resource configurations. The UE then generates and sends to the network a CSI report in accordance with the CSI report configuration and using the RS based measurement and the IM. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196676 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF COMMUNICATIONS - Channel resource allocation is disclosed. Embodiments of channel resource allocation allocate channel resources to plural cells or cell sections according to a classification depending on distribution statistics. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196677 | Methods and Systems for Dynamic Spectrum Arbitrage - Methods and system are provided for managing and monitoring allocation of RF spectrum resources based on time, space and frequency. A network may be enabled to allocate excess spectrum resources for use by other network providers on a real-time basis. Allocated resources may be transferred from one provider with excess resources to another in need of additional resources based on contractual terms or on a real-time purchase negotiations and settlements. A network may be enabled to monitor the use of allocated resources on real-time basis and off-load or allow additional users depending on the spectrum resources availability. Public safety networks may be enabled to make spectrum resources available to general public by allocating spectrum resources and monitoring the use of those resources. During an emergency, when traffic increases on a public safety network, the public safety networks may off-load bandwidth traffic to make available necessary resources for public safety users. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196678 | SCHEDULING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATED MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION - A scheduling system for coordinated user equipments (UEs) in a network including a plurality of communicating points which can communicate with each other, wherein the coordinated UEs are supported by a serving point and are coordinated with a neighbor point, is characterized in that the serving point and the neighbor point share information related to an available or desired amount of resources for coordinated UEs of the serving point; and the serving point adjusts at least one predetermined parameter related to the coordinated UEs based on the shared information so that the amount of resources for the coordinated UEs at the serving point approaches the available or desired amount of resources for the coordinated UEs at the neighbor point. | 08-01-2013 |
20130203431 | PRESERVING CELL PHONE BATTERY LIFE - A method of operating a mobile electronic device includes connecting, by an electronic device, to a network and transmitting, by the electronic device, at least one communication to the network. The method also includes identifying, by a processor of the electronic device, at least one communication parameter of the at least one communication and determining, by the processor of the electronic device, a first disconnect time as which to disconnect from the network based on the at least one communication parameter identified by the processor. The method further includes disconnecting from the network at the first disconnect time. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203432 | MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - Frequency bands for Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) communications are selected to avoid interference with the cellular communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, the frequency bands for Bluetooth/WLAN communication are selected to avoid channels that are within a predetermined distance of a harmonic of a cellular (e.g., wireless wide area network) receive frequency band. That is, a frequency band is selected that is at least a predetermined distance from the cellular receive frequency bands. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203433 | USER AS AN END POINT FOR PROFILING AND OPTIMIZING THE DELIVERY OF CONTENT AND DATA IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - System and method of using user as an end point for profiling and optimizing delivery of content and/or data in a wireless network are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method of content consumption based resource allocation to a user in a wireless network. The method, which may be implemented on a system includes, tracking content consumption in sessions of mobile usage for a user, aggregating or computing statistical data related to the content consumption in the sessions of the mobile usage, and/or facilitating control of the resource allocated to the user in the wireless network based on the statistical data of the content consumption of the user's mobile usage. The sessions of mobile usage for the user can be tracked across multiple mobile devices. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203434 | OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A BASE STATION - The invention relates to a method comprising the following steps:—measuring (S | 08-08-2013 |
20130217404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting/receiving signals at a terminal in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining at least one first reception path with a lowest path loss from among first reception paths that receive a first reference signal from a base station, receiving a second reference signal through second paths set up based on the at least one first reception path, and transmitting an uplink access signal with a second uplink transmitting beam that corresponds to a second downlink receiving beam corresponding to a second path having a lowest path loss. | 08-22-2013 |
20130217405 | PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING THE TRANSMISSION POWER IN THE UPLINK COMMUNICATION CHANNEL, AND UE FOR DOING THE SAME - A process for controlling the power transmission in the uplink of the User Equipment communicating with a Base Station in a GSM wireless communication system, said process including the steps of:
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20130217406 | WIRELESS DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless device and a communication method, which enable a position of the wireless device to be known and enable a frequency which does not interfere with that of another wireless station to be selected, are provided. A wireless device belonging to a second wireless system in which a frequency band to be used overlaps with that of a first wireless system, and a priority with which the overlapping frequency band is used is lower than that of the first wireless system, the wireless device includes: a location receiving unit receiving location information formed of a place name and indicating a location of the wireless device; a geographic coordinate acquiring unit acquiring, based on the location information, geographic coordinates including latitude and longitude corresponding to the location information; and a frequency setting unit accessing a frequency server in which a frequency assigned to a wireless device belonging to the first wireless system and geographic coordinates including latitude and longitude related to a position of the wireless device are stored by being corresponded to each other, by using the geographic coordinates acquired by the geographic coordinate acquiring unit, and acquiring at least one of a frequency that is not assigned to the wireless device belonging to the first wireless system and a frequency which is not at risk of interfering with that of the wireless device, to set the frequency as a transmission/reception frequency. | 08-22-2013 |
20130225189 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for transmitting and receiving a reference signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes determining a cluster-specific reference signal configuration according a cluster configuration, transmitting information about the cluster-specific reference signal configuration, and transmitting cluster-specific reference signals of at least one cluster according to the cluster-specific reference signal configuration. | 08-29-2013 |
20130225190 | MOBILE DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A mobile device ( | 08-29-2013 |
20130225191 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES - The present invention relates to a method for allocating resources to a plurality of secondary stations for enabling communication between a primary station and the plurality of secondary stations, comprising the steps of
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20130225192 | BASE STATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND METHODS RELATING TO THE SAME - New technical means for setting a position of a blank radio resource is provided. A base station device includes: a setting unit | 08-29-2013 |
20130231124 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPECTRUM SENSING AND LOW OVERHEAD FEEDBACK - A method at a network node for obtaining spectrum sensing information, the method communicating to at least one of a user equipment and a sensing node at least one event condition for spectrum sensing; providing to the at least one of the user equipment and the sensing node channel descriptors for reporting; and receiving a report from the at least one of the user equipment and the sensing node utilizing the channel descriptors, the report indicating the at least one event condition has been met. | 09-05-2013 |
20130231125 | COORDINATED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and an apparatus of a coordinator forming a coordinated communication system for enhancing cell edge terminal throughput are provided. The method includes receiving information on Sound Reference Signal (SRS) reception power at a terminal for respective cells of a scheduler belonging to the coordinator from the scheduler, generating terminal distinction information for indicating whether a terminal is a cell edge terminal based on the SRS reception power information or Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) estimated from the SRS reception power information, generating interference relationship information between terminals and cells based on the SRS reception power information or estimated SINR, and transmitting the terminal distinction information and interference relationship information to the scheduler. | 09-05-2013 |
20130231126 | Channel Allocation System for Protected Service Areas - In described embodiments, a channel allocation system, such as a white space channel allocation system, employs a server processor and database to record communication characteristics of incumbent service providers licensed or otherwise registered to operate within certain frequency spectrum. The channel allocation system allows registration of licensed service providers, or access to existing licensed service provider databases, to obtain required information of communication characteristics to form protected service contours. Based on the protected service contours, the availability of channels in areas is pre-computed. In addition, unlicensed or unregistered users, such as TV band devices (TVBDs), register with the channel allocation system and request channel lists of channels to operate on with a query. The system performs an iterative search of areas with successively finer resolution and identifies channels that might be included in a channel list in response to the query. | 09-05-2013 |
20130237236 | Method and System for Mitigating Interference Among Femtocells Via Intelligent Channel Selection - Aspects of a method and system for mitigating interference among femtocells via intelligent channel selection are provided. In this regard, signals which may interfere with cellular communications between a femtocell and a cellular communication device may be detected via the femtocell. Based on the detection, the femtocell may be configured to transmit and/or receive signals on one or more frequencies and/or channels. The one or more frequencies and/or channels may be determined in the femtocell and/or in a network management entity. Detecting interfering signals and configuring the one or more femtocells may occur periodically, upon installation of a femtocell, upon power-up of a femtocell, and/or upon command from a network administrator. The results of the detection may be communicated to one or more other femtocells and/or to a network management entity. | 09-12-2013 |
20130237237 | Dynamic Bandwidth and Access Management - A method includes, in response to determining that a data communication measure for a plurality of mobile devices served by a base station exceeds a first data communication threshold for a first data communication path between the base station and a network providing data for the plurality of mobile devices, establishing, at the base station, a second data communication path between the base station and the network via a wireless access point based on an access control list. The method includes receiving, at the base station, a portion of the data from the network via the second data communication path. | 09-12-2013 |
20130237238 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR INTERSYSTEM QUIET PERIOD SYNCHRONIZATION - The present invention relates to the technical field of dynamic spectrum access. Synchronization of quiet periods for spectrum sensing can significantly benefit sharing of available secondary access spectrum between two or more wireless communication systems in the same geographic region. The object of the present invention is to provide a methodology by which quiet periods can be synchronized in time between different secondary access wireless communication systems. Quiet Period Clients (QPC) of secondary access wireless communication systems are adapted to send requests to a Quiet Period Server (QPS) to obtain a quiet period rule set. The QPC receives from the QPS an answer specifying the quiet period rule set, and optional quiet period synchronization information. The systems perform their transmissions in accordance with the received rules. | 09-12-2013 |
20130244676 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR CONFIGURING USER EQUIPMENT - Examples are described relating to methods, apparatus and computer programs for configuring a user equipment in a cellular wireless network. Certain exemplary methods involve receiving ( | 09-19-2013 |
20130244677 | MOBILE RADIO DEVICE AND DETERMINING METHOD - A mobile radio device capable of receiving a radio signal whose frequency band switches, includes a setting unit that when the frequency band of the radio signal is a first frequency band, sets a first threshold corresponding to the first frequency band, and that when the frequency band switches from the first frequency band to a second frequency band different from the first frequency band, sets for a given period, a third threshold that is between the first threshold and a second threshold corresponding to the second frequency band and subsequently sets the second threshold; and a determining unit that determines a travel speed of the mobile radio device, based on a comparison of a moving average obtained by temporally accumulating variations of estimates of propagation characteristics of the radio signal and averaging the accumulated variations by a moving average method using a threshold set by the setting unit. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244678 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION VIA OVER THE AIR LOAD INDICATOR AND RELATIVE NARROWBAND TRANSMIT POWER - Systems and methods for facilitating inter-cell interference coordination using resource partitioning are described. A UE may receive or determine information related to received interference and/or future scheduling. The information may be communicated to a serving base station, which may use the information to allocate uplink or downlink resources between cells. The uplink and/or downlink resource may be partitioned in subbands to mitigate interference from adjacent network nodes. The eNBs may communicate, such as directly, via a backhaul connection, and/or between UEs to configure interference coordination and signaling. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244679 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A first terminal device transmits a first preamble signal representing a first value to the base station. A second terminal device transmits a second preamble signal representing a second value to the base station. The base station identifies the first and second value when the base station has received the first and second preamble signal. The base station compares a threshold with the first value, and compares the threshold with the second value. The base station gives priority to establishment of a connection with the first terminal device over establishment of a connection with the second terminal device when the first value is greater than the threshold and the second value is equal to or smaller than the threshold. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244680 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MITIGATING INTERFERENCE IN HIERARCHICAL CELL STRUCTURE - A method for mitigating interference at a small base station in a hierarchical cell structure is provided. In the method, the small base station checks a sub-frame allocated to macro user equipment by using a downlink signal received from a macro base station when an interference candidate user equipment list is received. The interference candidate user equipment list contains information on the macro user equipment adjacent to a femto cell controlled by the small base station. Then the small base station allocates other sub-frame to femto user equipment located in the femto cell by avoiding the sub-frame allocated to the macro user equipment. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244681 | BASE STATION AND METHOD - A base station that performs radio communication with a mobile station includes an index calculation unit that calculates an index representing interference in a frequency band, wherein the frequency band is to be utilized by a different base station; a frequency band selection unit that selects the frequency band based on the index calculated by the index calculation unit, wherein, in the frequency band, the interference is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and a communication unit that performs the radio communication with the mobile station in the frequency band selected by the frequency band selection unit. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244682 | DYNAMIC MULTIPLE INPUT AND MULTIPLE OUTPUT CELL CLUSTER - The invention relates to a method of grouping a first plurality of cells contained in a subset of cells of a wireless telecommunication network ( | 09-19-2013 |
20130252624 | CONTROLLING OF CODE BLOCK TO PHYSICAL LAYER MAPPING - A method, apparatus, and computer program for interference cancellation in communication systems is provided. The method includes controlling of code block to physical layer mapping. The controlling includes mapping code blocks to the physical layer such that interfering signals become self-decodable at a receiving bandwidth of the user equipment. | 09-26-2013 |
20130252625 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND SCHEDULING METHOD - To provide a base station apparatus, mobile terminal apparatus and scheduling method for enabling fairness of user throughput to be improved, a scheduling method is characterized by having the steps of notifying a mobile terminal apparatus of allocation information of radio resources to each cluster pattern with a plurality of cluster patterns comprised of clusters formed of a plurality of adjacent sectors predefined and with different radio resources allocated for each of the cluster patterns, receiving channel information•channel quality information corresponding to each of the cluster patterns for each of the radio resources from the mobile terminal apparatus, and controlling allocation of the radio resources to the mobile terminal apparatus, based on the channel information•channel quality information, where at least one of the cluster patterns is a coordinated cluster pattern to perform coordinated transmission between adjacent sectors in a cluster. | 09-26-2013 |
20130252626 | Method and Device for Resolving Interference Between Cells - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for a terminal to measure a signal in a wireless communication system and a device therefor, and comprises: a step for receiving information on a first specific time interval from a first cell after having set the connection with the first cell; a step for receiving a second cell signal through the first specific time interval on the basis of the information; a step for informing the first cell the proximity of a second cell in case the terminal is a member of the second cell; and a step for receiving the second cell signal without basing on the information on the first specific time interval, after informing the first cell of the proximity of the second cell. | 09-26-2013 |
20130260777 | WIRELESS MULTI-SITE CAPACITY COORDINATION - Wireless multi-site capacity coordination includes calculating a total interference impact metric for a reference cell, determining a distribution of power resources for the reference cell and a plurality of neighboring cell is, and allocating the power resources: to sub-bands for the reference cell and the plurality of neighboring cells. Calculating the total interference impact metric may include determining a number of resources assigned to a reference cell within time period T, and calculating user equipment (UE) interference metrics for each UE attached to each of a plurality of neighboring cells which have UE which experiences interference from the reference cell attached. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260778 | MULTI SIM MODEM MANAGEMENT - Multiple subscriber identity modem ( | 10-03-2013 |
20130260779 | METHOD FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present application relates to a method for enabling a terminal to transmit channel status information in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method for enabling the terminal to transmit the channel status information in the wireless communication system includes the steps of: receiving a reference signal from a serving cell or an adjacent cell; determining the priority of the predetermined precoding matrix index (PMI) based on the reference signal; and transmitting the PMI together with a stacking flag to the serving cell according to the priority, wherein the number of PMI to be transmitted to the serving cell is determined based on a size of a buffer commonly set in the serving cell and the terminal, and the stacking flag indicates storing the PMI into the buffer or initializing the buffer. | 10-03-2013 |
20130267239 | Dynamic Clustering for Coordinated Transmission in Wireless Communication Systems - Systems and methods provide for applying a clustering based assignment algorithm (CbAA) in a telecommunication system. A method includes: receiving strength information for transmission points belonging to an associated Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP)-cell; determining the clustering subsets, wherein the step of determining the clustering subsets includes: applying a k-means algorithm to the strength information to form K clusters; identifying the cluster associated with each UE; associating a cluster to each transmission point in accordance to a pre-defined rule; and selecting the UEs to be serviced; and reporting the clustering formations. | 10-10-2013 |
20130273928 | Dynamic Frequency Band Allocation between Radio Communication Networks - Methods and apparatus relate to cellular communications and in particular to a frequency spectrum shared by two cellular networks. An object is flexible utilization of the spectrum. This is achieved by a method where a first of the networks occupies part of the shared spectrum in relation to the traffic load in the first network. The first network informs a second of the networks on the extent the shared spectrum is occupied, for the second network to be free to use the shared spectrum outside the occupied part. A radio resource management unit, a base station controller, and a radio base station are also disclosed. An advantage is that spectrum can be lent from an old system when a new system is introduced. | 10-17-2013 |
20130273929 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Frequencies Used by Devices - The illustrative embodiments described herein are directed to a method and apparatus for managing frequencies used by devices. In one embodiment, the process detects a set of frequencies from a set of devices to form a set of assigned frequencies. The process may also detect a first frequency used by a first device. The process may determine whether the first frequency interferes with the set of assigned frequencies. The process may also identify an unassigned frequency for use by the first device in response to determining whether the first frequency interferes with the set of assigned frequencies. | 10-17-2013 |
20130273930 | COMPUTATION OF CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK IN SYSTEMS USING COMMON INTERFERENCE SIGNAL INTERFERENCE CANCELATION - When enabled with common reference signal interference cancelation, a user equipment (UE) may still compute a channel state feedback value with consideration of any canceled interfering neighboring signals. When the neighboring cells are determined to be transmitting data during the time for which the channel state feedback value is being computed, the UE is able to derive the channel state feedback value considering those canceled interfering signals. The UE determines whether each neighboring cell is transmitting during the designated time either by obtaining signals that indicate the transmission schedule of the neighboring cells or by detecting the transmission schedule, such as based on the power class of the neighboring cells. If the UE determines that the neighboring cells are transmitting data during this time period, the UE will compute the channel state feedback value including consideration of the canceled interfering signals. | 10-17-2013 |
20130281105 | FAST EFFICIENT RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION IN LONG TERM EVOLUTION COMMUNICATION NETWORK SCHEDULING - A method and system for determining, for a transmission time interval (TTI), an amount of resource units to be allocated to each cell served by at least one module in a wireless communication network are disclosed. The allocation is based on an estimated resource consumption of each cell, a resource limit of each cell and resource limits of the at least one module. For each TTI, a prioritized list of queues having information to be transmitted is determined, where each queue belongs to a cell of the plurality of cells. Also, for each TTI, in an order of priority of the queues, a number of resource units to be consumed by a queue is determined based at least in part on a number of resource units required to empty the queue. | 10-24-2013 |
20130281106 | AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM SELECTIVELY ALLOCATING DATA COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL CAPACITY AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least one person having a personal electronic device (PED) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a communications network, at least one access point in the aircraft for providing a wireless local area network (WLAN) for data communications with the PEDs, and a transceiver in the aircraft cooperating with the at least one access point for data communications with the communications network. A data traffic controller is for selectively allocating data communications channel capacity between the PEDs and the communications network based on a data communications channel capacity usage of the PEDs. The data communications channel capacity usage corresponds to bandwidth of the data communications with the PEDs, and when the bandwidth of the data communications for a given PED exceeds a predetermined portion of the data communications channel capacity, then appropriate action is taken. | 10-24-2013 |
20130281107 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD TO REDUCE INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE FOR SAME - To improve throughput of the whole system while reducing power consumption. In a mobile communication system comprising a mobile station apparatus and a base station apparatus, the base station apparatus creates an interference information table based on channel quality of an uplink channel, and at the same time, transmitting the interference information indicator table to the mobile station apparatus, and the mobile station apparatus determines a state of interference in an uplink frequency band based on the interference information indicator table, determines a frequency band of a measurement pilot channel, which is a pilot channel used to determine received quality, and make a request to the base station apparatus for a transmission resource. For example, the mobile station apparatus determines a frequency band with lowest interference among the uplink frequency bands as a frequency band of the measurement pilot channel. | 10-24-2013 |
20130288696 | SERVER APPARATUS, SMALL BASE-STATION APPARATUS, AND INTERFERENCE CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a server apparatus and an interference control method, wherein interference between cells is inhibited, and a drop in throughput of the entire network is also inhibited. An ABS configuration determining unit ( | 10-31-2013 |
20130288697 | Method and Apparatus for Allocating Radio Resources in Cellular Communications Network - The invention relates to a method and apparatuses for allocating radio resources in a cellular communications network including the steps of: dynamically allocating a set of radio resources for a transmission taking place at a transmission time instance and for a further transmission taking place at a further transmission time instance, the further transmission relating to a response to the transmission taking place at the transmission time instance, and broadcasting both sets of allocated radio resources in the cellular communications network. | 10-31-2013 |
20130288698 | Method and Arrangement for Adapting Guard Time Based on Timing Advance - A method in a base station for selecting a set of transport format schemes for a cell is provided. The set of transport format schemes shall be used for a radio transmission from a communication device to the base station. The base station is serving the eel! comprising the communication device. The communication device is unsynchronized for transmission to the base station. The base station specifies ( | 10-31-2013 |
20130295946 | Method And Apparatus Of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing In Cellular Networks - According to a disclosed method, an MME in a network analyzes KPIs from the cells it serves and based on the KPIs, it decides to engage in sharing. The MME then contacts a sharing entity (SE) to announce that it wants to supply spectrum for sharing. The MME obtains terms of a sharing agreement from the SE and the MME obtains the identity of the other network. In response to this information, the MME configures its base stations to support the supplying of spectrum to the other network. The SE applies knowledge of network topology and of services offered. This knowledge is obtained from a sharing database. At the expiration of the sharing agreement, the SE tells the MMEs to deactivate the sharing agreement. | 11-07-2013 |
20130295947 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A NETWORK OR DEVICE AND A NEIGHBOR THEREOF - Provided is a method for detecting a network or device and a neighbor thereof, in order to detect networks or devices which substantially interfere with each other and to manage resources in consideration of the substantial interfering relationships so that the networks or devices can efficiently coexist. To this end, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for detecting a neighbor of a television band device (TVBD) network or device comprises the steps of: transmitting a request to a coexistence manager which serves the TVBD network or device; and receiving neighbor information on the TVBD network or device in response to the request, wherein the neighbor information includes an identifier of a neighbor TVBD network or device which interferes with the TVBD network or device, and the neighbor information is based on operating channels of the TVBD network or device and the neighbor TVBD network or device. | 11-07-2013 |
20130295948 | COEXISTENCE MANAGEMENT SERVICE FOR SPECTRUM SHARING - Systems and methods are provided for coexistence management service for licensed and unlicensed spectrum sharing. A coexistence system may include a coexistence manager (CM) that may provide resource allocation services for a coexistence enabler (CE). CMs may negotiate with each other to resolve coexistence issues via directly or indirectly through a coexistence discovery and information server (CDIS). A channel may be exclusively used by a CE network. The networks may mitigate interference by avoiding use of the same channels. A channel may be shared by multiple CE networks. In co-channel sharing, the networks may mitigate interference via power management. Bidding processes may be implemented directly via competing CMs, for example via open or silent token auction. Bidding processes among competing CMs may be managed by a third party entity, for example a CDIS, for example via open or silent token auction. | 11-07-2013 |
20130295949 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for performing inter-cell interference coordination in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, a method is provided in which, when ICIC information exists both in a time resource and a frequency resource, the determination of whether or not to apply frequency resource ICIC information is carried out on the basis of time resource ICIC information in an ICIC-related cell, and the location of a resource to which ICIC is applied is accurately determined, to thereby enable an ICIC operation to be performed in an accurate and effective manner. | 11-07-2013 |
20130295950 | Method and Apparatus for Reporting Channel Information - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, apparatus including a transmitter configured to output information, a processing core configured to obtain information concerning in-device multiradio interference, the processing core being configured to assign at least one priority to at least one channel of a first radio access technology in dependence of the information concerning in-device multiradio interference, and the processing core being configured to cause the transmitter to output channel information including an indication of the at least one priority for transmission to a base station of the first radio access technology. | 11-07-2013 |
20130303181 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DATA THROUGHPUT OPTIMIZATION IN DSDS SCENARIOS - Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for improved throughput for network subscriptions in multi-SIM, multi-standby wireless devices by altering a tune away frequency to another network subscription based on throughput level or communication link parameters. For example, the present application provides a method of tune away in a wireless system, which includes initiating a data session via a first subscription in a multi-subscriber identity module, multi-standby user equipment, determining that a data rate associated with the data session is less than a threshold data rate value, establishing a modified tune away frequency based on the determining, and tuning a radio resource away to a second subscription based on the modified tune away frequency. Through such operation, throughput on an active subscription in such user equipment can be dynamically maximized. | 11-14-2013 |
20130310058 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - Disclosed systems and methods mitigate interference in heterogeneous networks. Embodiments include adaptive or selective inter-cell interference coordination, adaptive multi-user zero forcing, adaptive power, and/or combinations of the foregoing. Techniques may be used to favor one group of users (e.g., femto users or macro users) over another. Certain embodiments focus quality of service (QoS) improvements on a first group of users, while using constraint processes to provide a threshold QoS for a second group of users. | 11-21-2013 |
20130310059 | Soft Cell Inter-Layer Interference Handling - In a heterogeneous cell deployment a mobile terminal may need to receive control data transmissions from a macro node at the same time as a pico node is transmitting user data for the mobile terminal, using the same frequency or set of frequencies. This can result in a problematic interference situation. According to several embodiments of the present invention, at least one of two general approaches is used to mitigate the interference situation described above. In a first approach, the pico node's transmission power is reduced in some time intervals, thereby reducing the interference to a level where reception from the macro node is possible. In a second approach, which may be combined with the first approach in some cases, the data transmitted from the macro node is provided by the pico node, either alone or in combination with the macro node. | 11-21-2013 |
20130310060 | FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY REUSE IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - A base station node (BS) of a heterogeneous radio access network comprises a terminal locator ( | 11-21-2013 |
20130316721 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING UPLINK CHANNEL RESOURCE OF COOPERATIVE MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION - A method, device, system, User Equipment (UE), computer readable medium and programme product for allocating uplink channel resource of cooperative multi-point transmission/reception are disclosed. The method includes receiving involved information for allocating uplink control channel resource or uplink detection reference signal resource in at least one of other cells; according to the information for allocating the uplink control channel resource or the uplink detection reference signal resource in the involved main cell and at least one of other cells, determining the uplink channel resource which does not overlap the uplink control channel resource or the uplink channel resource allocated for an uplink communication in the main cell and at least one of other cells; and allocating the determined uplink channel resource for the uplink cooperative multi-point transmission/reception in the involved main cell and at least one of other cells. | 11-28-2013 |
20130324142 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRIORITIZING RRC SIGNALING MESSAGES - Apparatus and methods of communicating in a communication network include the actions of and components for receiving one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages in a radio link control (RLC) queue, determining a RRC message type of the one or more RRC messages located in the RLC queue, prioritizing the one or more RRC messages located in the RLC queue according to the corresponding RRC message type, and transmitting the prioritized one or more of RRC messages in order of priority. | 12-05-2013 |
20130324143 | WIRELESS CONTROL APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - In SORM (Spectrum-Overlapped Resource Allocation), interference to other cells caused by an increase in transmit power of mobile station apparatuses is suppressed. A wireless control apparatus allows a plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses to locate transmit signals at part of frequencies in a system band in an overlapping manner, and determines frequencies at which the individual wireless terminal apparatuses locate transmit signals, so that an interference level of the entire system band is suppressed to be lower than or equal to a certain value. Also, the wireless control apparatus determines frequencies at which the individual wireless terminal apparatuses locate transmit signals, so that a total sum of frequency bands allocated to the individual wireless terminal apparatuses is smaller than or equal to the system band. | 12-05-2013 |
20130324144 | Apparatus and Method for Controlling Wireless Downlink and Uplink Transmission - Apparatus and method for communication are provided. The method includes controlling transmission to user equipment in downlink direction by monitoring the amount of data to be transmitted to the user equipment and monitoring the time elapsed since the previous downlink transmission of the user equipment and allowing data transmission only when either result of monitoring exceeds a predetermined threshold; and controlling transmission from user equipment in uplink direction by allowing the user equipment to start uplink transmission only when a given predetermined time interval has elapsed since the previous uplink transmission from the user equipment | 12-05-2013 |
20130331113 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TILE-BASED REDUCTION OF ACCESS POINT LOCATION INFORMATION - Embodiments of a system and method for tile-based reduction of access point location information are described. Embodiments may reduce a set of network access points and respective locations to generate a reduced set. For instance, embodiments may include parsing a representation of a geographic region into multiple tiles. Embodiments may also include, for each sub-area or “bucket” of multiple buckets that make up a given tile, evaluating the set of network access points and respective locations to identify network access points residing in that bucket, and based on a ranking of the network access points in that bucket, eliminating at least some network access points of that sub-area from the reduced set. Embodiments may also include, for each sub-tile of multiple sub-tiles of the given tile, assigning within the reduced set a common location to multiple access points residing within different locations of that sub-tile. | 12-12-2013 |
20130331114 | ADJACENT NETWORK AWARE SELF ORGANIZING NETWORK SYSTEM - A network resource device is associated with a first wireless network that is configured to provide wireless services in a first geographic area. The network resource device comprises a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium with computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, perform the following method: obtaining performance metrics data of a second wireless network, the second wireless network being configured to provide wireless communication services in a second geographic area that overlaps with the first geographic area; and changing a configuration parameter associated with the first wireless network based on the second performance data obtained in order to reduce interference generated by the first wireless network towards the second wireless network. | 12-12-2013 |
20130337821 | Dual Band LTE Small Cell - A dual band LTE small cell base station communicates on both licensed bands and unlicensed bands. The small cell base station modifies the communication protocol utilized by the licensed band to enable communication over an unlicensed band. This modification involves replacing the physical (PHY) layer of the licensed band communication protocol with the PHY layer of a to-be-used protocol in an unlicensed band. | 12-19-2013 |
20130337822 | LOCATING AND TRACKING USER EQUIPMENT IN THE RF BEAM AREAS OF AN LTE WIRELESS SYSTEM EMPLOYING AGILE BEAM FORMING TECHNIQUES - In embodiments of the present disclosure improved capabilities are described for increasing the bandwidth in a large area broadband network, where a scheduler facility, in association with a cellular LTE base transceiver station utilizing an agile beam forming antenna system, schedules communications between the LTE base transceiver station and mobile transceiver devices, wherein the scheduler facility schedules communications with a target mobile transceiver device to take place in one of the m times N RF beams of the agile beam forming antenna system based on a location determination of the target mobile transceiver device within the cell coverage area determined through a location determination algorithm that utilizes at least one of a channel quality indicator (CQI) measurement and a sounding reference signal (SRS) measurement collected through a communicative interaction between the cellular LTE base transceiver station and the target mobile transceiver device. | 12-19-2013 |
20130344883 | CONFIGURING CELLULAR CONNECTIVITY - A method, apparatus, and computer program for configuring a terminal device of a cellular system to propose aggregation of unlicensed frequencies for the use of the terminal device. A network element receiving the proposal processes the proposal and configures the aggregation of the unlicensed frequencies. | 12-26-2013 |
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20140004870 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MINIMUM COVERAGE FOR MULTIMEDIA TRANSMISSION IN PRESENCE OF SWITCHED OFF CELLS | 01-02-2014 |
20140011508 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING NUMBER OF ANTENNAS IN MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of determining a number of antennas, includes calculating a power used by a transmitting device. The method further includes calculating a channel capacity of the transmitting device. The method further includes determining a number of antennas of the transmitting device to be used based on the power and the channel capacity. | 01-09-2014 |
20140011509 | Use of Licensed Shared Spectrum in a Radio Access Network Where Signal Propagation is Unknown - For controlling a wireless transmission of a network element of a radio access network where signal propagation is unknown, wherein the network element is configured to inhibit use of a licensed shared access spectrum, interference levels in predefined reservation zones are determined, which are introduced by the network element when using the licensed shared access spectrum. It is checked whether or not the interference levels violate agreed interference levels in the predefined reservation zones of the licensed shared access spectrum, and the network element is configured to allow use of the licensed shared access spectrum in case the interference levels do not violate the agreed interference levels in the predefined reservation zones. | 01-09-2014 |
20140011510 | Method and Arrangement in a Communications System for Handling a GBR Bearer - A method in a first network node for handling a GBR bearer is provided. The first network node is comprised in a communications system. The first network node allocates ( | 01-09-2014 |
20140011511 | Method for Controlling Interference in Femto Cell Deployments - A method and system provide a plurality of femto cells that are deployed within a macro cell of cellular network. The femto cells improve cellular service inside structures, such as residential and commercial structures. Femto base stations convert signals between an airlink-interface and core network to enable data communication between the mobile terminal and an access network to occur through the Internet and a public switched telephone network. The femto base stations are independent of each other and the macro cell. The method and system provide the femto base stations with interference awareness and mitigation techniques to minimize interference with the cellular network. | 01-09-2014 |
20140018089 | BANDWIDTH AND POWER ALLOCATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS WITH IMPERFECT SPECTRUM SENSING - Optimizing use, by a secondary terminal, of an idle wireless communication channel that is associated with a primary terminal is presented herein. A mapping component can receive: information including an indication that a communication channel assigned to a wireless device is idle; and one or more requests, from respective other wireless devices, to transmit information via the communication channel. Further, an allocation component can compute power allocations of the one or more requests, and grant a request of the one or more requests based on the power allocations. The allocation component can further be configured to iteratively compute a power allocation of the power allocations based on a bandwidth allocation of the bandwidth allocations; and iteratively compute a bandwidth allocation of the bandwidth allocations based on a power allocation of the power allocations. | 01-16-2014 |
20140018090 | INTER-NODE INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION - A method for cancelling inter-node interference at a victim node is disclosed, which method may be executed as instructions on a machine, where the instructions are included on at least one computer readable medium. The method can include the victim node receiving downlink signal information from an aggressor node. The victim node can estimate a channel impulse response for a channel between the aggressor node and the victim node using the downlink signal information. The victim node can estimate an inter-node interference signal for the channel using the downlink signal information and the channel impulse response. The victim node can receive an uplink signal from a wireless device, wherein the downlink signal information is received prior to the reception of the uplink signal. The victim node can subtract the estimated inter-node interference signal from the uplink signal to form an inter-node interference compensated uplink signal to substantially cancel the inter-node interference from the aggressor node in the uplink signal. | 01-16-2014 |
20140018091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONE CELL TO COVER MULTIPLE AREAS - A system, method and network device for covering a plurality of areas by one cell are disclosed. The system includes: a plurality of radio frequency groups and at least one base band unit. One radio frequency group corresponds to one area of the cell, one radio frequency group corresponds to one date channel, and one base band unit is connected to a plurality of radio frequency groups through a plurality of date channels. The embodiment of the invention reduces the signal interference among each area of the same cell, increases the system capacity, and benefits cell splitting, i.e., benefits increasing the capacity and upgrading during network enhancement. | 01-16-2014 |
20140018092 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A BASE STATION AND BASE STATION - A method for operating a base station of a mobile wireless system, in particular of a mobile communications network, wherein the base station is configured to operate in different operation states, wherein the operation states at least include an active operational mode, in which the radio interface subsystem of the base station is fully activated, and a low-duty operational mode with reduced radio transmission activity, is characterized in that in the low-duty operational mode the base station implements a window mechanism including availability intervals during which radio transmissions are allowed and unavailability intervals in which no radio transmissions are allowed. Furthermore, a corresponding base station for deployment in a mobile wireless system is disclosed. | 01-16-2014 |
20140024386 | DEVICE-EMPOWERED RADIO RESOURCE SELECTION - A system and method are provided for mitigating interference between wireless access points (APs). A user equipment (UE) device uses a first set of radio resources to wirelessly communicate with a first AP and a second set of radio resources to wirelessly communicate with a second AP. The UE device then uses the first and second radio resources to communicate cooperation data between the first and second access points to mitigate interference thereinbetween. | 01-23-2014 |
20140024387 | MULTIPLE NETWORK CONNECTION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE THEREOF - A multiple network connection method that includes: receiving, by a first device from a second device, capability information of the second device; transmitting, by the first device to the second device, a registration complete message indicating that the second device is registered to a network; and performing, by the first device, a service control for providing a service for the second device. A first connection path and a second connection path are established using the capability information. The first connection path is established between the network and the second device through the first device, and is used for conveying control information for the service. The second connection path is established between the network and the second device not through the first device, and is used for conveying user data for the service. | 01-23-2014 |
20140031050 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK WITH NOISE METRIC BASED OPTIMIZATION FOR CELLULAR CAPACITY IMPROVEMENT - A radio resource management, RRM, apparatus for at least one wireless communication network macrocell is provided. The macrocell includes at least a first coverage region and second coverage region. The RRM apparatus includes a processor that is configured to determine at least one scheduling block, SB, for use by at least one user device. The determination of the at least one SB is based at least in part on a first noise metric when the at least one user device is located within the first coverage region. The determination of the at least one SB is based at least in part on a second noise metric different from the first noise metric when the at least one user device is located within the second coverage region. | 01-30-2014 |
20140031051 | DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A BASE STATION AND A TERMINAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system for dynamic adaptation of communication parameters for communication between a base station and terminals in a wireless telecommunications network includes one or more transmitters configured for transmission of signals in the network using a broadcast channel between the base station and the terminals, a machine-readable storage medium having stored therein data associated with communication parameters of the wireless telecommunications network, and a base station controller operatively connected to the one or more transmitters and the machine-readable storage medium and configured to cause the one or more transmitters to transmit adaptation signals from the base station to the terminals using the broadcast channel between the base station and the terminals, wherein the data is configured to cause the terminals to adapt the communication parameters and to begin network search and attach procedures for communication with the base station utilizing the adapted communication parameters. | 01-30-2014 |
20140031052 | METHOD IN A BASE STATION FOR ALLOCATING COMMUNICATION RESOURCES TO A USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The invention relates to a method | 01-30-2014 |
20140038626 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING, TRANSMITTING, AND RECEIVING AN UNUSED CARRIER FREQUENCY AND TRANSMITTING OVER THE UNUSED CARRIER FREQUENCY - Some embodiments concern a method of transmitting electrical signals. The method can include: using a global positioning satellite receiver to determine a first location of a first electrical device; using a first transmitter to transmit the first location to a first server; using a receiver to receive information identifying at least one first unused frequency at the first location from the first server; selecting a first transmission frequency from the at least one first unused frequency; and communicating the first transmission frequency to a user. Other embodiments are disclosed in this application. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038627 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED INTERFERENCE COORDINATION IN A FEMTOCELL ENVIRONMENT - Distributed inter-cell interference coordination in a communications system can include: at one other femtocell system, sending channel quality information of a subordinate device communicating with the other femtocell system to the first femtocell system; receiving the channel quality information of the at least one other femtocell system at the first femtocell system; estimating an influence of a use of a resource on the communications system at the first femtocell system according to the channel quality information received by one or more of the at least one other femtocell system; and determining at the first femtocell system whether to use the resource. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038628 | Apparatus and Method for Communication - Apparatus and method for communication are provided. The solution includes a first server of an operator specific communication system configured to perform the administration and management tasks of the operator specific communication system including one or more radio access technologies, communicate with the respective server of one or more communication systems of another operators, and a second server configured to manage mobility policy of the operator specific communication sys-tem, communicate with the user terminals of the system by transmitting information on inter-system radio access network selection and access, wherein the first and second server are configured each to maintain an interworking data model including information on operator specific cognitive radio parameters and access policies related to networks of one or more operators. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038629 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - To further notify the amount of data retained in the transmission buffer used in a communication among a plurality of MOBILE STATIONs to a RADIO BASE STATION, the mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: transmitting, with a MOBILE STATION (UE# | 02-06-2014 |
20140038630 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR TESTING A TRANSMISSION PARAMETER VALUE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method in a first radio network node for testing a transmission parameter value in a wireless communication system is provided. The first radio network node is configured to, during operational mode thereof, perform transmissions using available resources divided in to resource blocks. The first radio network node allocates a test resource block, for test purposes, among the available resources. The first radio network node defines for the test resource block, a test value for the transmission parameter. The test value differs from the nominal value. The first radio network node performs, during operational mode, a test transmission using the resource block. During the test transmission, the transmission parameter is set to the test value. The test transmission is configured to form the basis for an evaluation of the test value. | 02-06-2014 |
20140051454 | REDUCING DATA TRANSFER LATENCY CAUSED BY STATE TRANSITIONS IN MOBILE NETWORKS - Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for reducing data transfer latency caused by state transitions in mobile networks are disclosed. An example method for a wireless device disclosed herein comprises, while operating in a first state having fewer available radio resources than would be available in a second state, setting an indicator if the wireless device determines that a large amount of data is expected to be transferred, and sending a message including the indicator to a network. | 02-20-2014 |
20140051455 | METHOD TO TAKE MOBILE STATION PREFERENCE FOR CHANNEL TYPE INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN PERFORMING CODEC NEGOTIATION - Controlling establishment of a connection between an originating subscriber connected via an originating radio network to a communication network and a terminating subscriber connected via a terminating radio network to the communication network. The connection is established between originating payload node and terminating payload node employing a common coding scheme. Coding scheme negotiation comprises establishing, in originating control node (OCN), a list of supported coding schemes of originating subscriber, originating radio network and originating payload node. Determining, by the OCN, a radio channel property of the originating subscriber, oRCP, relaying the list and the radio channel property between the control nodes controlling the connection towards a terminating control node (TCN). Removing, by the control nodes, non-supported coding schemes from the list. Determining, by the TCN, common coding scheme(s) for the connection by selecting a remaining coding scheme considering the oRCP and a radio channel property of the terminating subscriber, tRCP. | 02-20-2014 |
20140057641 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication control apparatus including: a processor configured to set each of starting time candidates for each of data communications performed by each of wireless communication apparatuses respectively, to estimate each of finishing time candidates for each of the data communications which corresponds to each of the starting time candidates, and to set each of starting times when each of wireless communication apparatuses is to start each of the data communications to each of the starting time candidates, by performing an optimization of a final finishing time candidate which is the final one of the finishing time candidates. | 02-27-2014 |
20140057642 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A device and method arranged to control access to resources of a communication network by a User Equipment (UE). One embodiment includes an apparatus for a user equipment for use in controlling access to resources of a communication network, the apparatus including a processing system arranged to cause the apparatus to: monitor for a change in a state of association between a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell and the user equipment, said CSG cell having a Public Land Mobile Network Identity (PLMN ID) and a CSG Identity (CSG ID) associated therewith; and in response to a said change, communicate data indicative of the change, of said CSG ID and of said PLMN ID, for receipt by a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) associated with the user equipment, whereby to enable the UICC to control access to resources of said CSG cell. | 02-27-2014 |
20140057643 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The wireless communication apparatus includes: a first wireless communication unit that connects with an external network, a second wireless communication unit that forms a service area in which it is possible to connect with the external network using either of a first frequency band and a second frequency band that are different from each other, a location information acquisition unit that acquires location information of the apparatus itself, and a selector that selects either the first frequency band or the second frequency band, based on the location information. | 02-27-2014 |
20140066082 | PROVIDING GROUP CALL PRIORITY ACCESS IN LTE AND PRIORITY ACCESS FOR USER EQUIPMENTS WITH DUAL ACCESS CLASSES - The disclosure relates to determining priority access with dual access barring classes. An aspect receives, at a client device, at least one high priority access barring class and at least one low priority access barring class, switches to the low priority access barring class, receives an access barring message, and switches to the high priority access barring class in response to receiving the access barring message. An aspect receives a call request for a high priority call among a group of client devices, transmits a notification to a network instructing it to transmit an access barring message in response to receiving the call request, wherein one or more members of the group of client devices switch to a high priority access class in response to receiving the access barring message, and suppresses call announcements for non-priority call requests after transmitting the notification. | 03-06-2014 |
20140066083 | BASE STATION WITH COORDINATED MULTIPLE AIR-INTERFACE OPERATIONS - Base stations with coordinated multiple air-interface operations are provided. In some embodiments, multi-mode base station (BTS) systems operate with different air-interfaces, functionality, or configurations in a coordinated manner. For example, typical applications of such systems can include Macrocell BTS, Picocell BTS, Femtocell BTS, or Access Point (AP), Set Top Box (STB), or Home Gateway, Hot Spot Devices, User Terminal with the capability to perform required base station operations. In some embodiments, various techniques are provided for system improvements and optimizations via radio resource management, including user and system throughput optimization, QoS improvement, interference management, and various other improvements and optimizations. In some embodiments, a system (e.g., a multi-mode device, such as a base station, a repeater, and/or a terminal) includes a multi-mode communication unit, in which the multi-mode communication unit allocates access for communication using at least two modes; and a processor configured to implement at least in part the multi-mode communications unit. In some embodiments, the at least two modes include one or more of the following: frequency band, protocol standard, duplexing format, broadcast mode (e.g., television broadcast and/or a radio broadcast), and one-way communication mode. | 03-06-2014 |
20140073336 | TRANSMITTING CONFIGURATION INFORMATION OF INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENT RESOURCE, AND MEASURING INTERFERENCE - The disclosure is related to transmitting configuration information of interference measurement resources (IMRs) and measuring interference in a downlink CoMP environment. | 03-13-2014 |
20140073337 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD USING MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCY BAND - There are provided a communication device using a millimeter-wave frequency band and a communication method using the millimeter-wave frequency band. The communication device includes a beam scheduling unit configured to schedule uplink and downlink beams corresponding to movement of a terminal, a core network interface unit configured to transmit data provided from the beam scheduling unit to a core network, and to provide data received from the core network to the beam scheduling unit, a mobility management unit configured to configure an uplink and downlink beam set based on inter-beam interference information provided from the beam scheduling unit, and an inter-base station interface unit configured to exchange a control message with another base station under control of the mobility management unit. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently build a cellular network using the millimeter-wave frequency band. | 03-13-2014 |
20140073338 | MULTICOORDINATION SCHEDULING - A scheduler for a cellular telecommunications network is provided having a first base station, the base station corresponding to a first cell, the scheduler being adapted to: identify a geographical location of a first mobile device connected to the base station; obtain resource usage information of mobile devices located in proximity to the first mobile device but connected to a second cell of the network; and, based on the geographical location of the first mobile device and the resource usage information, allocate resource blocks to the first mobile device. A base station and telecommunications network and associated method and computer readable storage medium are also provided. | 03-13-2014 |
20140073339 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND BASE STATION FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a base station for resource allocation. In the embodiments of the present invention, a network side device determines, not only according to a difference between values of RSRP | 03-13-2014 |
20140073340 | METHODS IN A BASE STATION, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS AND BASE STATION - The invention relates to a method in a base station serving a cell, the base station using a frequency bandwidth and comprising an antenna arrangement and a controller. The antenna arrangement comprises a number of antenna devices and a beamformer. The method comprises the steps of: associating, in the beamformer, at least a first and a second frequency band with a respective first and a second beam, each frequency band comprising a part of the frequency bandwidth used by the base station; dynamically determining, in the controller, a degree of utilization of the at least first and second frequency bands within the at least first and second beam; and re-associating, in the beamformer, the at least first and second frequency bands with the first and second beam, based on the determined degree of utilization of frequency bands. The invention also relates to base stations, computer programs and computer program products. | 03-13-2014 |
20140073341 | RADIO BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention is designated to improve received quality in a mobile terminal apparatus when coordinated multiple-point transmission (CoMP)—in particular, DCS-CoMP—is adopted. With the radio communication method of the present invention, when dynamic cell selection-type coordinated multiple-point transmission is adopted, a radio base station apparatus increases transmission power in radio resources to transmit to a mobile terminal apparatus, transmits the increased transmission power to the mobile terminal apparatus as transmission power information and performs dynamic cell selection-type coordinated multiple-point transmission at the increased transmission power. | 03-13-2014 |
20140080498 | CONTROLLER FOR COORDINATING WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF RADIO UNITS AND ONE OR MORE USER DEVICES - A controller for coordinating wireless transmissions between a plurality of radio units and one or more user devices, each radio unit having a respective geographic area of coverage. The controller comprises a first module for signaling each radio unit to broadcast a pilot signal over its respective geographic area of coverage, the pilot signal being designed to elicit a response signal from each user device located within the radio unit's area of coverage, and a second module for receiving from each radio unit information specifying the user devices from which the respective radio unit has received a response signal. The controller is configured to use the information received from the radio units to determine which user devices are located within range of each radio unit. | 03-20-2014 |
20140080499 | FEMTO CELL SIGNALING GATING - Signaling in a femto cell access point is managed. A pilot signal power profile, or pilot signal gating, determines transmitted a time-dependent pilot signal power. The power profile displays a duty cycle well below 100% and a power depth, which is the amplitude between maximum and minimum pilot signal power, determined partially upon radio link conditions. The time-dependent power profile can be established through a schedule based at least in part on attachment data or subscriber input; machine-learning method facilitate inferring the schedule. Pilot signal gating profile can be reused in a femto cell deployment to broaden femto cell identification and thus facilitate macro-to-femto handover. Activating/deactivating pilot signal in a femto cell in the scheduled and synchronized manner provided herein leads to macro-femto interference mitigation and mobility improvement(s), and improved battery life of wireless devices that operate in a wireless environment that includes femto cells. | 03-20-2014 |
20140080500 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION, CORE NETWORK DEVICE, AND RADIO BASE STATION - To provide remedies when the quality of a radio link in a Ud interface is deteriorated. In a mobile communication method according to the present invention, a first communication state in which transmission/reception of a data signal is performed between a mobile station UE# | 03-20-2014 |
20140087746 | RADIO CHANNEL ALLOCATION AND LINK ADAPTATION IN CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods, apparatuses, controllers, systems, and terminals can, in certain embodiments, determine a number and properties of potential interferers in a plurality of available radio channels. The properties of the potential interferers can include modulation methods used by the potential interferers. A network element responsible for channel allocation can perform channel allocation for a terminal and select a modulation method for the allocated channel on the basis of the determination. | 03-27-2014 |
20140087747 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR SUPPORTING RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus in a base station serving a first cell in a cellular network, for supporting radio resource management, RRM, in the cellular network. The base station obtains measurements (M) of signals transmitted in the first cell and of signals transmitted in at least one neighbouring cell and determines a cell isolation factor of the first cell, based on the obtained measurements, the cell isolation factor indicating insusceptibility to interference from signals transmitted in the neighbouring cell(s). The determined cell isolation factor is then used to support RRM for terminals in the network, e.g. as a basis for determining whether to employ an RRM scheme or not. Thereby, it is possible to decide to employ the RRM scheme for cells where it is effective and helpful and not in other cells. | 03-27-2014 |
20140087748 | Methods and Apparatus for Managing Wireless Communication Using Unlicensed Frequency Bands - Systems and techniques for managing the use of industrial-scientific-medical bands for cellular network communication. An apparatus comprises a processing system and a memory storing a set of program instructions. The processing system is configured to cause the apparatus to receive channel information from a UE reporting the control of an industrial-scientific-medical (ISM) band channel by the UE and cause the apparatus to schedule a communication session with the UE over the channel, with the channel being configured and activated as an ISM secondary component carrier (SCC). The apparatus may further request one or more user equipments (UEs) to report their wireless fidelity (WiFi) capability and request user equipments having WiFi capability to compete for the wireless medium and report occupation of the wireless medium in the form of a request to send command, to which the apparatus responds with a clear to send command. | 03-27-2014 |
20140094184 | Antenna Receiving Mode Configuration Processing Method, Base Station Controller and Base Station - Embodiments of the present invention disclose an antenna receiving mode configuration processing method, a base station controller, and a base station. When a user applies to a base station for establishing or adding radio links, an antenna receiving mode of the user is determined according to resource allocation information of the user. User admission processing is performed according to a channel element consumption rule that corresponds to the antenna receiving mode of the user. The base station controller includes a mode determining module and an admission processing module. The base station includes a configuring module, a monitoring module, and an adjusting module. | 04-03-2014 |
20140106763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED COGNITIVE CONNECTIVITY BASED ON GROUP DATASETS - An approach is provided for allocating radio resources based on social distance information for one or more social groups. The coexistence platform determines social distance information for at least one group of a plurality of one or more users, one or more devices associated with the one or more users, or a combination thereof. The coexistence platform causes, at least in part, at least one allocation of the one or more radio resources to the one or more devices based, at least in part, on the social distance information for the at least one group or a subset of the at least one group. The coexistence client causes an initiation of a request for at least one allocation of one or more radio resources. The coexistence client determines the one or more radio resources based, at least in part, on social distance information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140106764 | DYNAMIC CARRIER ASSIGNMENT OF CARRIER AGGREGATION IN AN LTE-ADVANCED SYSTEM - Various embodiments of a scheme of dynamic activation and release of carrier aggregation in an LTE-Advanced system are provided. When transmission need of an LTE-Advanced user is large and the user is within coverage of at least one secondary component carrier, carrier aggregation is activated while a certain amount of resource of each component carrier is preserved to support carrier aggregation. This avoids unnecessary activation and waste due to signaling cost. When the primary component carrier of an LTE-Advanced user has sufficient resource to satisfy transmission need of the user or when the user is not within coverage of at least one secondary component carrier, carrier aggregation is released. This minimizes complex measurement and cost of controlling signals due to multi-carrier scheduling. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 04-17-2014 |
20140106765 | INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - Allocation of terminal stations to communications channels is carried out on the basis of a selection criterion. Allocation takes account of whether the terminal station is in an edge region of a cell. If so, then the list of terminal stations to be allocated is modified, to account for any interference risk from other base stations. | 04-17-2014 |
20140106766 | METHOD FOR SCHEDULING USERS IN A CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT FOR APPLYING PARETO OPTIMAL POWER CONTROL, SCHEDULER AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - An approach for scheduling users in a cellular environment such that a Pareto optimal power control can be applied, wherein in each cell of the cellular environment there are a plurality of user, includes scheduling users such that a number of groups of interfering users from different cells which fulfill a feasibility condition for the Pareto optimal power control is maximized. | 04-17-2014 |
20140106767 | Methods and Apparatus for Optimizing Paging Mechanisms Using Device Context Information - Methods and apparatus enabling a wireless network to optimize paging channel operation, based on mobile device context information. In one embodiment, the wireless network is a cellular network (e.g., LTE-Advanced), and both base stations and cellular user devices dynamically exchange and maintain a paging agreement. The paging agreement limits the paging channel operation, thereby minimizing unnecessary scanning and usage of irrelevant radio resources. Such paging mechanisms are limited to the air interface between the base station and the mobile device, and are compatible with existing legacy devices and network entities. Networks with appropriately enabled user devices may improve their resource utilization. Base stations may advantageously reclaim freed-up cellular resources to support other services. | 04-17-2014 |
20140106768 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING USER MESSAGE, TERMINAL AND BASE STATION USING THE METHOD - When transmitting a user message, in a call setting period of a base station and a terminal and a radio connection state between a base station and a terminal, whenever a data transmittable channel resource is available, user messages of an amount corresponding to the available channel resource are transmitted. Therefore, user messages can be divided and transmitted according to an available channel in a call setting period. | 04-17-2014 |
20140106769 | Interference Coordination Method and Base Station - Embodiments of the present invention provide an interference coordination method and a base station. The method includes determining interfering cell base stations and interference levels of the interfering cell base stations and receiving power coordination information sent by the interfering cell base stations. The power coordination information is used to indicate a power headroom of an interfering cell base station on a specific channel resource or indicate a minimum transmit power of an interfering cell base station on a specific channel resource. A base station requiring interference coordination among the interfering cell base stations is determined according to the interference levels and power coordination information of the interfering cell base stations. A power adjustment request is sent to the base station requiring interference coordination so that the base station requiring interference coordination adjusts a transmit power on the specific channel resource. | 04-17-2014 |
20140106770 | MOBILE TRANSCEIVER, BASE STATION TRANSCEIVER, DATA SERVER, AND RELATED APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - Embodiments relate to apparatuses, methods and computer programs for a mobile transceiver, a base station transceiver and a data server. A mobile transceiver apparatus ( | 04-17-2014 |
20140106771 | AVOIDING DISTURBANCE OF RESTRICTED LOCAL ACCESS POINTS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - The invention concerns a method of determining output power in a first restricted local access point in a wireless network, a device implementing a restricted local access point, a wireless network as well as a computer program product for determining output power in a restricted local access point. A restricted local access point scans the network for determining broadcasting channels (B | 04-17-2014 |
20140113642 | BASE STATION, TERMINAL, AND CELL ASSIGNMENT METHOD - A counting unit of a base station counts the number of terminals located in an area covered by the base station for each of communication carriers corresponding to the terminals. An assigning unit assigns each of cells in a first group to any of the communication carriers, where each of the cells is a frequency band of the base station | 04-24-2014 |
20140113643 | System and Method for Radio Access Virtualization - A method embodiment includes defining, by a network controller, one or more operation modes for a radio node in a network. The one or more operation modes includes a hyper transceiver mode, where the hyper transceiver mode configures a virtual transmission point to cooperatively communicate with a virtual reception point in accordance with neighborhood relations of a target radio node. The method further includes selecting one of the one or more operation modes for the radio node and signaling a selected operation mode to the radio node. | 04-24-2014 |
20140113644 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION WITHIN A CELL OF A WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORK, BASE STATION AND WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORK - A wireless cellular network includes a plurality of cells, each cell including a base station for serving one or more mobile users. For controlling an operation within a cell of the wireless cellular network, a fuzzy logic is used. The input variables for the fuzzy logic include input variables determined on the basis of information only locally available in the cell. | 04-24-2014 |
20140113645 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, MOBILE STATION, AND RADIO BASE STATION - To appropriately decrease the amount of interference with respect to an adjacent band appropriately using “A-MPR” and “NS”. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a process A in which a mobile station UE notifies a radio base station eNB of “NS (network signaling value)” to which the mobile station UE corresponds, and a process B in which the radio base station eNB controls connection of the mobile station UE based on the notified “NS”. | 04-24-2014 |
20140113646 | OPTIMIZATION OF THE PRESENCE INFORMATION REFRESH FOR A WIRELESS DEVICE - In various embodiments, a mobile device and/or the presence-aware applications running on the device may be configured to support multiple user profiles. For instance, multiple users with access to the same mobile device may each create a user profile and login credentials on that device, and each user may take turns using the mobile device. The mobile device may also allow multiple users to access the mobile device simultaneously. In such embodiments, the mobile device processor executing the presence module and/or presence engine may be configured to associate a particular user profile with a request for updated presence information and determine whether to update the presence information based at least in part on the that user profile. | 04-24-2014 |
20140113647 | Radio Link Reestablishment Method and Controller - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a radio link reestablishment method and a controller. The method includes: if after sending downlink signaling or downlink data for designated times, a controller receives no corresponding acknowledgment returned by a user equipment in a cell dedicated channel state, or the controller receives a radio link failure indication message sent by a base station corresponding to the user equipment, the controller instructs the user equipment to re-search for a cell to trigger a cell update procedure, thereby improving reliability of a communications service, and ensuring normal running of the communications service. | 04-24-2014 |
20140120928 | METHODS CONTROLLING EXTENDED RANGE AREAS IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS AND RELATED NETWORK NODES - A method may provide wireless communications in a network including a first base station and a second base station, with the first base station operating within a coverage area of the second base station. The method may include providing soft-cell communications in an extended range area of the first base station, with the extended range area being outside a primary range area of the first base station. A number of wireless devices in the extended range area connected and/or communicating with the first base station may be tracked. Responsive to the number of wireless devices in the extended range area connected and/or communicating with the first base station exceeding a threshold (Threshold_N), the extended range area over which soft-cell communications are provided may be reduced. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120929 | DISTRIBUTED BUFFER STORE BASED UPLINK COORDINATED MULTIPOINT COMMUNICATIONS - A method and system for providing CoMP assistance in a wireless communication network are disclosed. In one embodiment a cooperating base station receives a CoMP assistance request from a serving base station. The CoMP assistance request is a request for assistance to decode a first transmission from a UE. The cooperating base station receives the first transmission from the UE. The first transmission from the UE is received at the cooperating base station at one of a time before receiving the CoMP assistance request and a time after receiving the CoMP assistance request. The cooperating base station determines a CoMP payload in response to the CoMP assistance request. The CoMP payload is based on the received first transmission from the UE. The CoMP payload is forwarded to the serving base station after the serving base station determines that the first transmission from the UE is received by the serving base station with error. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120930 | Method, Apparatus, Computer Program Product and System for Communicating Predictions - Various communication systems may benefit from communication of (key) performance indicators ((K)PIs). For example, a third generation partnership project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE) operation and maintenance (O&M) system may benefit from predictive (key) performance indicator reporting between a base station, such as an evolved Node B (eNB), and the O&M system. A method may comprise generating at least one of a predicted (key) performance indicator or a (key) performance indicator trend information at a first network element. The method may also comprise sending the at least one of predicted (key) performance indicator or (key) performance indicator trend information from the first network element to the second network element. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120931 | WIRELESS LOCALIZATION METHOD AND WIRELESS LOCALIZATION APPARATUS USING FINGERPRINTING TECHNIQUE - A wireless localization method using a fingerprinting technique that performs localization by using a plurality of access points and a plurality of sample points arranged at regular distances, the wireless localization method includes: detecting first through third sample points adjacent to a predetermined node from among the plurality of sample points via the fingerprinting technique; calculating corrected coordinates by using a received signal strength (RSS) between the predetermined node and the first sample point, an RSS value between the predetermined node and the second sample point, an RSS value between the first and second sample points, an RSS value between the first and third sample points, and a distance between the plurality of sample points; and estimating a location of the predetermined node by reflecting the corrected coordinates on coordinates of the first sample point. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120932 | Method and System for Improving Performance of a Femtocell Self Organizing Network - Femtocells in a self-organizing network (SON) sniff their wireless fidelity (WiFi) environments to identify WiFi footprints of the femtocells. The WiFi footprints of each femtocell are sent to a femtocell gateway. The femtocell gateway receives WiFi footprint data from a plurality of femtocells and determines if there is a common WiFi footprint between the femtocells. The femtocells with exclusive WiFi footprints are allocated the same network parameters. The femtocells with common WiFi footprint are allocated different network parameters. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120933 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus, includes: a processor configured to: perform a first detection to detect another wireless communication apparatus that shares given frequency bands with the wireless communication apparatus and that causes interference with the wireless communication apparatus, perform a second detection to detect a second wireless terminal that has communication quality lower than or equal to a given value from a first wireless terminal that communicates with the wireless communication apparatus, and select a frequency band from the given frequency bands for communication with the first wireless terminal based on a combination of detection result of the first detection and the second detection; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit a signal to the first wireless terminal using the selected frequency band. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120934 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND MOBILE STATION - Provided are a radio communication method, a radio communication system, and a mobile station, by which it is possible to easily establish initial access between mobile stations in D2D communication. A mobile station | 05-01-2014 |
20140120935 | METHOD, BASE STATION, AND RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER FOR PARAMETER CONFIGURATION DURING CHANNEL SWITCHING - A method for parameter configuration during channel switching is disclosed. After a common enhanced dedicated channel for uplink use to a terminal, a base station calculates an F-DPCH timing offset of the terminal in a non-Cell-DCH state, calculates a second F-DPCH timeslot format according to a first F-DPCH timing offset, a first F-DPCH timeslot format, and the F-DPCH timing offset of the terminal in the non-Cell-DCH state, and establishes a radio link by using the F-DPCH timing offset of the terminal in the non-Cell-DCH state and the second F-DPCH timeslot format. The method for parameter configuration during channel switching that is provided in an embodiment of the present invention can avoid interruption of uplink data transmission of the terminal. Embodiments of the present invention further provide a corresponding radio network controller and base station. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120936 | Wireless Communication Systems and Methods - Methods and devices arranged to control access to a cell in a communication network. One embodiment includes a processing system arranged to cause an apparatus to receive a plurality of Closed Subscriber Group identifiers (CSG IDs) assigned to the cell, select and transmit a first CSG ID from the plurality of CSG IDs on the basis of a first load condition on the cell, and select and transmit a second, different, CSG ID from the plurality of CSG IDs on the basis of a second, different, load condition on the cell. | 05-01-2014 |
20140128088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COEXISTENCE MANAGEMENT OF SHARED SPECTRUM ACCESS - Systems and methods for managing coexistence between a plurality of radio networks configured to operate over a shared spectrum are disclosed. These may include gathering a plurality of data about each of the plurality of radio networks; determining a load level associated with each of the plurality of radio networks; determining a bandwidth allocation value, the bandwidth allocation value based at least on the load level; and allocating a plurality of channel slices among the plurality of radio networks. | 05-08-2014 |
20140135025 | TIME AND FREQUENCY ACQUISITION AND TRACKING FOR OFDMA WIRELESS SYSTEMS - Obtaining a timing reference in wireless communication is facilitated when desiring to communicate with a weak serving base station (such as an evolved NodeB) in the presence of a stronger interfering base station. The user equipment (UE) may track a stronger interfering base station's timing, or the UE may track a timing that is derived by a composite power delay profile (PDP) from multiple base stations. The composite PDP may be constructed by adjusting individual base station PDPs according to a weighting scheme. The timing obtained in such a manner may be used for estimation of the channel of the interfering base station and cancelling interfering signals from the base station. It may also be used to estimate the channel of the serving base station after adding a backoff. The UE may track a stronger interfering base station's frequency, or the UE may track a composite frequency. | 05-15-2014 |
20140135026 | BASE STATION AND ANTENNA TILT ANGLE CONTROL METHOD - A base station includes an antenna, a sending unit, a monitoring unit, and a controlling unit. The antenna is configured to be operated corresponding to a communication area of the base station, the antenna being capable of controlling a tilt angle, the tilt angle being an angle made by a vertical direction and a direction of a main beam of the antenna. The sending unit is configured to send a command corresponding to adjustment of timing of sending a signal sent from a mobile station. The monitoring unit is configured to monitor the number of mobile stations present in the communication area by using the command. The controlling unit is configured to reduce the tilt angle when the number of mobile stations exceeds an upper limit allowed to be contained in the communication area. | 05-15-2014 |
20140135027 | REDUCING SCHEDULING REQUESTS BY A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE TRANSMITTING VOICE DATA OVER DYNAMICALLY SCHEDULED RESOURCES - A method for reducing scheduling requests by a wireless communication device transmitting data using dynamically scheduled resources over a logical is provided. The method includes receiving, at the wireless communication device, a configuration from a network entity that sets a LogicalChannelSR-Mask for a logical channel for which uplink resources can be dynamically scheduled by the wireless network. The method further includes waiting to send a scheduling request (SR) for a delay time period when data is available to be sent on the logical channel and uplink resources have not been granted. The method additionally includes using the grant to send the data without sending an SR when a grant is received within the delay time period; or sending an SR when a grant is not received within the delay time period. In another method, a network selectively enables or disables SRs for a logical channel through explicit signaling. | 05-15-2014 |
20140141791 | SMALL CELL BASE STATION COMPRISING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS, AND A METHOD OF CONTROLLING RECEPTION PATTERN BY SELECTING A SUBSET OF THE ANTENNAS FOR USE - A method is provided in a small cell base station comprising multiple antennas of controlling reception pattern by selecting a subset of the antennas for use. The method comprises determining a ranking value for each of subsets of the antennas dependent upon measurements of received signal quality, and choosing the subset of the antennas for use that provides the highest ranking value | 05-22-2014 |
20140141792 | Base Station and Method for Positioning Support - The present invention relates to a base station (BS) and to a method for supporting UE positioning measurements in a wireless communication system. The method comprises transmitting ( | 05-22-2014 |
20140148179 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SMALL CELL UPLINK INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION USING COOPERATION BETWEEN SMALL CELLS - A method of managing uplink interference at a base station includes: detecting uplink interference caused by one or more inter-cell user equipments to an uplink channel of a base station, the one or more inter-cell user equipments associated with a neighboring base station; receiving, at the base station, assistance information from the neighboring base station, the assistance information comprising a parameter list of ongoing transmissions by the one or more user equipments associated with the neighboring base station; and performing uplink interference cancellation, at the base station, on at least a portion of a received signal based on the assistance information to generate a resulting signal. | 05-29-2014 |
20140148180 | SIGNALING CONNECTION ADMISSION CONTROL IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method for admission control of control plane signaling requests includes receiving a signaling request. Upon receipt of the signaling connection request, a first determination is performed to determine whether to provide admission to common resources. When the first determination is negative, a second determination is performed to determine whether to provide admission to dedicated resources. When the second determination is negative, the signaling request is rejected. When the second determination is positive, the request is admitted to dedicated resources. When the first determination is positive, a third determination is performed to determine whether the quality of the signaling request is high or low. If the quality of the request is high, the signaling request is admitted to common resources. When the quality is low, a fourth determination is performed to determine whether to provide admission to dedicated resources. If the fourth determination is positive, the request is admitted to dedicated resources. If the fourth determination is negative, the request is admitted to common resources. | 05-29-2014 |
20140148181 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SCHEDULING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Performing scheduling operations by a centralized scheduler in a wireless communication system. Receiving Channel State Information (CSI) about a channel between each of a plurality of Transmission Points (TPs) and each of a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) performing communication with each of the plurality of TPs from each of the plurality of TPs, performing a first scheduling operation for allocating wireless resources to each of the plurality of TPs based on the CSI received from each of the plurality of TPs, and transmitting first scheduling information representing a result of the first scheduling operation to each of the plurality of TPs. The first scheduling information contains transmission power information representing transmission power for each of the wireless resources allocated to each of the plurality of TPs, and is used to perform a second scheduling operation to select a UE to communicate with each of the plurality of TPs. | 05-29-2014 |
20140148182 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION CODE FOR INTER-BASE STATION COORDINATED COMMUNICATION IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides a method for allocating a code for inter-Base Station (BS) coordinated communications in a radio communication system. The method includes grouping terminals, at least more than a predetermined number of whose transmit and receive beams indicated by the terminals' respective favorite beam configuration information correspond to each other, in a same group; and allocating unique codes to terminals in the same group and sending information regarding the allocated code to each of the terminals. | 05-29-2014 |
20140148183 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE LOCATION OF A RADIO DEVICE - A method and system for verifying a location value reported by an electronic device. The reported location value and spectrum sensing data containing signal strength measurements for each channel of plural channels are received from the electronic device. A predicted RF footprint for the reported location is generated. The predicted RF footprint includes signal strength values for each of the plural channels. Each signal strength value is representative of RF energy that the electronic device ought to detect if the electronic device is actually present in the reported location and each signal strength value is determined as a function of known characteristics of radio devices with known locations. A determination is made as to whether the received signal strength measurements and the predicted RF footprint sufficiently correlate to validate that the electronic device made the signal strength measurements at the reported location. | 05-29-2014 |
20140148184 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COORDINATED POWER-ZONE-ASSIGNMENT IN WIRELESS BACKHAUL NETWORKS - Methods are disclosed for scheduling resources in a wireless backhaul network comprising a plurality of N Hubs, each Hub serving a plurality of K Remote Backhaul Modules (RBMs), using a coordinated power zone assignment across the backhaul network. For each Hub, a one-to-one power zone assignment, of each of the K RBM to one of the K power zones, is computed by maximizing a selected network utility across the backhaul network. Coordinated power zone assignment according to preferred embodiments based on the auction approach offers a close-to-global-optimal solution. Coordinated scheduling based on first assigning RBMs to hubs heuristically, and then optimally scheduling RBMs within each hub also offers significant performance improvement as compared to non-coordinated systems. Preferred embodiments offer a significant performance improvement as compared to conventional systems. They are low in complexity, and compatible with the physical constraints of SFR-based wireless backhaul network, which make them amenable to practical implementation. | 05-29-2014 |
20140148185 | Base Station and Method of Operating the Same - The present invention is directed to a base station including a transceiver configured to communicate with another base station using a radio resource, wherein the radio resource is allocated to the base station to serve communication devices located in a radio cell operated by the base station. A method of operating a base station is also disclosed. | 05-29-2014 |
20140148186 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING TIMING ADVANCE TA, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION - The present invention provide a method for determining a timing advance TA, and a method and a device for transmitting information, including: receiving downlink signal characteristic information of each transceiver node in a first transceiver node set in a cell accessed by a terminal, where the first transceiver node set includes one or more transceiver nodes; detecting, according to the downlink signal characteristic information of each transceiver node in the first transceiver node set, time at which a downlink signal transmitted by each transceiver node in the first transceiver node set arrives at the terminal; and determining, according to the time at which the downlink signal transmitted by each transceiver node in the first transceiver node set arrives at the terminal, a timing advance TA for transmitting an uplink signal to each transceiver node in the first transceiver node set. | 05-29-2014 |
20140148187 | A METHOD FOR OBTAINING A TIMING ADVANCE VALUE - Timing control procedure is needed for uplink transmissions in several communication networks. Some networks and bands have physical and regulatory limitations for obtaining timing advance value in conventional manner. One example of these limitations is disabled downlink channel in TV white spaces. The present invention provides an arrangement for obtaining timing advance value in a situation wherein the use of downlink channel is disabled. | 05-29-2014 |
20140155078 | METHOD FOR MANAGING THE STATE OF MICRO BASE STATIONS BY FOLLOWING THE VARIATIONS OF TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS, AND ASSOCIATED CONTROLLER DEVICE - A method manages the state of a plurality of micro base stations inside a mobile communication network. The network comprises at least a macro cell containing at least one Tracking Area covering a plurality of micro cells each one associated with a micro base station. The method to manage the states of micro cells comprises the steps of: switching on of all the micro base stations contained in said Tracking Area of the macro cell, counting of the messages of paging to determine the number of portable devices in Idle mode inside said Tracking Area, and switching off at least one micro base station in the Tracking Area when the number of portable devices in Idle mode in the said Tracking Area is lower than a first determined value. According to an improvement, the switching on of all the micro base stations contained in a Tracking Area is triggered when the current load of the macro cell exceeds a second determined value. | 06-05-2014 |
20140162671 | DISCOVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION IN CELLULAR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a discovery method and apparatus for device-to-device (D2D) communication in a cellular mobile communication system. The discovery method performed by the discovery apparatus may include obtaining, from a server managing information associated with terminals providing a service using a D2D communication scheme over a mobile communication network, information associated with a service provided by the terminals, selecting a service of interest based on the information associated with the service, receiving, from a base station, information associated with a discovery radio resource allocated to the terminals providing the service of interest, and discovering the terminals providing the service of interest based on the information associated with the discovery radio resource. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162672 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN ADAPTIVE FILTER ARCHITECTURE - A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for identifying a spectral region in a radio frequency spectrum, determining a signal strength of the spectral region, determining a correlation factor by correlating the signal strength of the spectral region, detecting according to the correlation factor interference in the spectral region, generating coefficient data to substantially suppress the interference in the spectral region, configuring a filter according to the coefficient data to substantially suppress the interference in the spectral region and produce a digital filtered signal, and transmitting the digital filtered signal to a base station. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162673 | Rank Indicator Transmission During Discontinuous Reception - A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE includes a processor configured to transmit a rank indicator (RI) using one of an assigned periodic RI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start on an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode of the UE and a fast assigned periodic RI reporting resource after the start of the on-duration. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162674 | POWER CONTROL METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a power control method and apparatus. The power control method of the present invention includes: when a service runs in a first-standard communication system, determining a transmit power P1 of the first-standard communication system; determining that the transmit power P1 is higher than or equal to a threshold value P2 of power interference of the first-standard communication system to a second-standard communication system; use a power lower than P1 to send data on an interference frequency of the first-standard communication system. According to the power control method in the present invention, a signal transmit power of the interfering frequency of the first-standard communication system can be reduced when it is determined that the first-standard communication system will cause interference to the second-standard communication system, thereby reducing the interference of the first-standard communication system to the second-standard communication system. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162675 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA COMMUNICATION IN HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED NETWORK - A method for data communication in a hierarchically structured network including at least two lower level entities on a lower level, at least one higher level entity on a higher level, wherein each higher level entity provides lowlink connections to each of the lower level entities and highlink connections to at least one further high level entity wherein a lower level entity the higher level entity connected to the low level entity and the high level entity connected to the higher level entity defines a connection branch, includes: determining communication capabilities of the lowlink and highlink connections in each branch; providing communication capability information according to the determined communication capabilities to the lower level entities; determining the connections in each branch having the lower one of the data communication capability; and adapting the data communication capabilities of the connections in each branch according to the determined lower data communication capability. | 06-12-2014 |
20140171094 | METHOD OF MULTI-HOP COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION FROM TERMINAL AND BASE STATION AND NETWORK FOR MULTI-HOP COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION - A method of multi-hop cooperative communication includes recognizing a plurality of relays capable of cooperating with one another to amplify or quantize and forward mixed signals received from a plurality of different nodes, selecting a transmission mode from a direct mode for transmission from a base station directly and a cooperation mode for transmission from the base station via the plurality of relays, transmitting data from the base station directly to a terminal through a first radio resource in the direct mode in response to the selected transmission mode being the direct mode, and transmitting data from the base station to the terminal via the plurality of relays through a second radio resource in the cooperation mode in response to the selected transmission mode being the cooperation mode. | 06-19-2014 |
20140171095 | METHOD FOR REDUCING INTER-FEMTOCELL INTERFERENCE AND FEMTOCELL BASE STATION - The present invention discloses a method for reducing inter-Femtocell interference, including: obtaining an average channel gain of all available channels; determining whether the average channel gain is greater than a preset threshold; if the average channel gain is greater than the preset threshold, determining, by using spectrum sensing, a P channel and an N channel, where the P channel is one or more available channels causing greatest interference and the N channel is one or more available channels suffering greatest interference; and transmitting or receiving a signal in an available channel other than the P channel and the N channel. | 06-19-2014 |
20140171096 | Extended Access Barring and Network Sharing - It is provided an apparatus, including base station means adapted to provide a base station functionality for a first user equipment attached to a first network and a second user equipment attached to a second network different from the first network; access barring broadcasting means adapted to broadcast, via the base station means, a first EAB parameter including a first category indication for extended access barring related to the first network and a second category indication for extended access barring related to the second network. | 06-19-2014 |
20140179332 | Node and Method for Determining Link Adaptation Parameters - The present invention relates to a method for determining link adaptation parameters for a wireless device. The method is performed in a first radio network node of a wireless communication system. The first radio network node hosts a first cell serving the wireless device. The wireless device is interfered by a second cell. The method comprises predicting ( | 06-26-2014 |
20140179333 | METHOD AND BASE STATION FOR AUTOMATIC CARRIER SELECTION - A femtocell basestation selects its carrier frequency by detecting a carrier used by at least one other basestation in its network, and selecting its own carrier frequency such that it partially overlaps with the detected carrier. The downlink power of the femtocell basestation is set based on the degree of overlap between the selected carrier and the detected carrier, so that a user equipment having a connection to the other basestation is forced to search for the selected carrier. | 06-26-2014 |
20140187253 | System and Method for Scheduling Feature Based on Power Status Reporting - The present invention is drawn to a user equipment for use with a power source and a base station, wherein the power source can provide power. The user equipment includes a transmitting portion and a power source monitoring portion. The transmitting portion can transmit a signal to the base station. The power source monitoring portion can monitor a parameter of the power source and can generate a status signal based at least on the monitored parameter. The transmitting portion can additionally transmit the status signal for receipt by the base station. | 07-03-2014 |
20140187254 | Method and Base Station for Selecting Working Remote Radio Unit for User Equipment - The present invention provides a method for selecting a working remote radio unit for a user equipment. By comparing isolation of a current working RRU set of a user equipment with a preset isolation threshold, resource utilization and signal interference can be effectively balanced and a working remote radio unit of the user equipment can be accurately determined. | 07-03-2014 |
20140194134 | COMMUNICATION DURING THERMAL MITIGATION - In order to facilitate communication in a wireless network, an accessibility issue in the wireless network may be detected. For example, if an electronic device is near the boundary between two adjacent cells in the cellular-telephone network, the signal power of signals from a current cell or connection may decrease. Concurrently, the maximum transmit power of the electronic device may be constrained by a thermal limit of the electronic device. When this occurs, the connection may be lost unless remedial action is taken. Therefore, in response to this condition, the electronic device may temporarily increase the maximum transmit power to allow the electronic device to communicate with the cellular-telephone network so that the connection may be transitioned to another cell or connection. In this way, the communication technique may restore the communication performance and avoid a dropped call, which will improve the user experience and customer satisfaction. | 07-10-2014 |
20140200017 | COGNITIVE RADIO APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - To perform communication in a cognitive radio network, a cognitive radio apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes: an estimation module configured to generate a channel estimation signal to be transmitted to a predetermined reception apparatus positioned in a predetermined channel in the case of selecting the predetermined channel from among multiple channels; a communication module configured to transmit the channel estimation signal to the predetermined reception apparatus, and to receive a channel response signal from the predetermined reception apparatus; and a control module configured to control the communication module so that at least one of a communication signal set with respect to the predetermined channel and a variable communication signal obtained by varying the communication signal is transmitted to the predetermined reception apparatus, when it is determined that the predetermined channel is positioned in a deep fading section based on the channel response signal. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200018 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING CALL PERFORMANCE OF THE MOBILE DEVICE - In a method for improving call performance of a mobile device, the strength of received signals is sent to a base station when the mobile device receives signals from the base station. The method obtains a path balance value sent by the base station, and determines whether the path balance value is greater than a predefined threshold value. The path balance value is obtained according to the strength of the received signals of the mobile device and an emission intensity of the mobile device. When the path balance value is greater than the predefined threshold value, the method obtains a transmitting power of the mobile device, and increases the transmitting power of the mobile device according to the path balance value to improve call performance of the mobile device. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200019 | CORE NETWORK APPARATUS, RADIO BASE STATION, MOBILE TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD - A core network apparatus ( | 07-17-2014 |
20140200020 | Channel Quality Index Determination - A method of a transceiver arranged to operate in a cellular communication system comprising cells is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a transmission from a first cell; determining an interfering signal and its occupation in time and/or frequency; determining reduced values in the received signal corresponding to the occupation in time and/or frequency of the interfering signal; and measuring a quotient between desired signal and non-desired signal of reference symbols of the received signal. A channel quality index, CQI, is formed taking into account reduction of values performed at the reducing, and the CQI is reported to the communication system. A transceiver and computer program for the same are also disclosed. | 07-17-2014 |
20140206373 | NETWORK CONTROLLED EXTENDED ACCESS BARRING FOR USER DEVICES - A method includes determining whether a network access class associated with a data use device is a mixed access class. The mixed access class includes a non-extended access barring (EAB) network access protocol for at least one service and an EAB network access protocol for at least one other service. The method also includes determining whether EAB access has been granted for the data use device to access a network. The method includes barring EAB network access for the data use device if EAB access has not been granted for the data use device to access the network. The method further includes allowing network access for all services for the data use device if EAB access has been granted for the data use device to access the network. | 07-24-2014 |
20140206374 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for dynamic spectrum management. The method includes: determining a reusable spectrum for one of multiple cell links in a network according to co-frequency indication information, where the co-frequency indication information is used to indicate reusable levels of spectrums of other cell links for each cell link in the multiple cell links; and updating a spectrum configuration of the one of the multiple cell links by using the reusable spectrum of the one of the multiple cell links. By determining a reusable spectrum for a specific cell link according to co-frequency indication information, embodiments of the present invention can locally adjust the spectrum configuration of the specific cell link, thereby reducing a spectrum configuration overhead while increasing network capacity and reducing inter-cell interference. | 07-24-2014 |
20140213270 | Method and Device for Capacity Management - The embodiments disclose a method performed in a Radio Network Controller, RNC, in a radio communication network including at least one RNC and at least one Radio Base Station, RBS, and a plurality of user equipments, UEs. The method introduces cooperation between the RNC and other devices which have the related information about Enhanced Uplink, EUL and/or High Speed Downlink Packet Access, HSDPA, user number of said RBS. The method comprises: receiving a message, which includes the information about EUL and/or HSDPA user number of said RBS; using said information about EUL and/or HSDPA user number of said RBS for the RNC's capacity management. The embodiments also disclose a RNC thereof. | 07-31-2014 |
20140213271 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION USING LIMITED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method of performing inter-cell interference coordination in a heterogeneous network. The apparatus includes a reception unit, a determination unit, a generation unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) level from a small cell base station in each frame. The determination unit determines a calculated MCS level based on the MCS level and an interfering signal estimated through probabilistic modeling. The generation unit generates a ratio of subframes, in which data will not be transmitted, to all subframes of a frame based on the MCS level and the calculated MCS level. The transmission unit transmits the ratio and the calculated MCS level to the small cell base station. | 07-31-2014 |
20140213272 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION CONTROL METHOD, MOBILE STATION CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - To alleviate interference by a transmission signal on the uplink and downlink of a femto base station to a transmission signal on the uplink and downlink of a macro base station and/or a micro base station. A mobile station | 07-31-2014 |
20140213273 | Localized Dynamic Channel Time Allocation - Techniques for localized dynamic channel allocation help meet the challenges of latency, memory size, and channel time optimization for wireless communication systems. As examples, advanced communication standards, such as the WiGig standard, may support wireless docking station capability and wireless streaming of high definition video content between transmitting and receiving stations, or engage in other very high throughput tasks. The techniques help to deliver the desired user experience in such an environment and support desired performance levels for latency and throughput while controlling memory footprint. | 07-31-2014 |
20140213274 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING A MOBILE TERMINAL - Embodiments relate to methods and apparatuses for scheduling a mobile terminal ( | 07-31-2014 |
20140220992 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK COMPONENT, COMMUNICATION DEVICES, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA AND METHODS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION - A communication network component is described including a determiner configured to determine whether a communication device operates a plurality of subscriber identity modules; and a controller configured to control data transmission to the communication device depending on whether the communication device operates a plurality of subscriber identity modules. | 08-07-2014 |
20140220993 | TWO-LEVEL OPTIMIZATION FOR CLOUD SPECTRUM SERVICES - A system and method are provided for implementing a cloud based spectrum management scheme that enables Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) through rentals of available spectrum in a two-level analytics process for optimization. Primary spectrum holders as exclusive licensees of underused spectrum communicate with a global spectrum broker to place portions of their underused spectrum into an auction-based rental market on the condition that they can regain control of their spectrum when a need arises. Local spectrum brokers communicate with the global spectrum broker to bid for available spectrum to meet their temporary needs in time and place. The local spectrum brokers, in turn, administer local optimization schemes over their portion of the global region to ensure that an expected level of quality of service is provided to individual customers with whom the local spectrum brokers communicate. The disclosed brokering scheme, properly administered, provides an incremental step-wise approach to solving long-term spectrum shortage for wireless communications. | 08-07-2014 |
20140220994 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING THE STATE OF LOCAL ACCESS POINTS IN A CELLULAR NETWORK - A method of allocating resources in a cellular radio communication network including user equipments and a cluster composed of local access points to the network covering a microcell. For each local access point, the presence of user equipments in a coverage zone of the microcell associated with the local access point is determined. A local coverage message specifying equipments determined as present in the microcell coverage zone is generated. A global coverage message by aggregation of the local coverage message of each local access point in the cluster is generated. At least one operating parameter of a local access point in the cluster is modified as a function of the global coverage message. For each local access point in the cluster, an activity state of the user equipment is determined and a field in the local coverage message is entered accordingly with data representing the activity of the equipment. | 08-07-2014 |
20140220995 | UPLINK INTERFERENCE MITIGATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for mitigating uplink interference in the wireless communication system, wherein the method comprises determining a loading-status value for each sector; if the loading-status value is not greater than the first threshold value, generating UL zone switch IE and UL allocation start IE to allocate data bursts of the sectors to different subchannels; and preparing an uplink map using the UL zone switch IE and UL allocation start IE for each sector, wherein the uplink duration indicates a duration where all the subchannels are used for allocation of the data burst. | 08-07-2014 |
20140220996 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMISSION IN BUNDLING MODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for a transmission in a bundling mode are provided to prevent a conflict between a bundling transmission resource and other transmission resource in a wireless communication network. A bundling transmission method includes determining whether there is a transmission conflicting with a bundling transmission induced by an uplink grant regarding uplink transmission resources. If it is determined that there is a conflicting transmission, the method disregards at least one of the bundling transmission and the conflicting transmission. A bundling transmission apparatus includes a retransmission unit and a transmission control unit, which are configured to execute the bundling transmission method. | 08-07-2014 |
20140235258 | APPLICATION SERVER AWARENESS OF DEVICE CAPABILITIES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Capability information, relating to hardware and/or software capabilities of different types of mobile devices, may be used to tailor services provided to the mobile device based on the particular type of mobile device. In one implementation, a device, such as an application server that provide services to mobile devices, may: receive a request from a mobile device, for services; obtaining information indicating a type of the mobile device; obtain, based on the type of mobile device, information indicating capabilities of the mobile device; and provide the services to the mobile device, in which the provided services are tailored for the mobile device based on the capabilities of mobile device. | 08-21-2014 |
20140235259 | CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMIT POWER IN A PLURALITY OF BASESTATIONS - A method for controlling uplink transmit power for a plurality of basestations in a mobile communications network is disclosed. The basestations may form a second layer within the network, and the network may comprise another plurality of basestations forming a first layer. The method comprises clustering the plurality of second layer basestations according to association with first layer basestations, exchanging second layer basestation loading information between second layer basestations belonging to the same cluster, and dynamically setting uplink transmit power limits for individual second layer basestations based on the exchanged loading information. The method may further comprise updating the clustering of the second layer basestations according to dynamic variation in association of second layer basestations with first layer basestations. The method may also comprise dynamically controlling uplink resource allocation such that concurrent use of the same frequency resource by more than one second layer basestation is reduced. | 08-21-2014 |
20140235260 | ANTENNA TO TRANSCEIVER MAPPING OF A MULTIMODE WIRELESS DEVICE - Various arrangements for mapping antennas to transceivers are presented. A plurality of antennas may be present. Each antenna of the plurality of antennas may be configured to communicate using different radio technologies. A plurality of transceivers may be present. At least some of the transceivers of the plurality of transceivers may be configured to utilize different radio technologies. A selector circuit may be present that is configured, based on input from a processor, to map each antenna of the plurality of antennas with each transceiver of the plurality of transceivers. The processor may be configured to control which antennas of the plurality of antennas are mapped to which transceiver of the plurality of transceivers. Touch sensors may be used to determine which antenna or antennas are likely to serve as effective electromagnetic transducers. Signal-to-noise measurements may be used to determine when to modify an antenna mapping. | 08-21-2014 |
20140235261 | FEMTOCELL SERVICE THROUGH A SECONDARY CONNECTION - System(s), apparatus(es), and method(s) are provided to for providing femtocell service through a secondary connection to a network gateway node that is part of a service provider network. The secondary connection can be established in response to at least one telecommunication performance condition of a primary connection to the network gateway node; the at least one performance condition includes connectivity state of the primary connection or quality of traffic delivery through the primary connection. The secondary connection can be established, in part, via a home gateway node that is alternative to a home gateway node associated with a femtocell access point (AP) that enables, in part, the femtocell wireless service. The main home gateway node or the femtocell AP can initiate establishment of the secondary connection. Home gateway node(s) or femtocell AP(s) that can provide femtocell service through the secondary connection can manage connectivity with the network gateway node. | 08-21-2014 |
20140243004 | Communication Parameter Selection for Small Cell Access Points - Communication parameter selection techniques are presented to reduce interference in small cells of wireless networks. A list of neighboring radio access points with respect to a particular radio access point in a wireless network is obtained. The list includes a unique identifier for each neighboring radio access point. A set of candidate communications parameters are obtained for use in the wireless network by the particular radio access point. A prediction is made of candidate communications parameters in the set of candidate communications parameters which can be used by the neighboring radio access points. The communication parameters in the set of candidate communication parameters which are available for use by the particular access point are determined based on the predicted set of communications parameters. A communication parameter is selected for use by the particular radio access point based on the communication parameters determined to be available for use. | 08-28-2014 |
20140243005 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES IN A CELLULAR NETWORK - One example method is provided for dynamic allocation of air interface resources in a cellular network comprising at least three wireless cells located within a geographical proximity of each other, the method comprising determining, by a central managing entity, one or more classification rules for classifying each of said plurality of mobile devices according to the one or more classification rules; providing, by the central management entity, to a group of base stations associated with the at least three cells, information that comprises: information that relates to the determined one or more classification rules; information that relates to semi-static allocation of blocks of air interface resources adapted for use by one or more specific members of the group of base stations. | 08-28-2014 |
20140248891 | MANAGEMENT OF PREEMPTABLE COMMUNICATIONS RESOURCES - In a communications spectrum shared by public safety users and commercial users, in the event of an emergency condition, commercial users are preempted and corresponding resources are reallocated to authorized public safety users. When the emergency condition subsides, the reallocated resources are again made available for commercial use. In an example configuration, resources and associated attributes including preemptability status are maintained in a Base Station Controller (BSC), Radio Network Controller (RNC), and/or Radio Resource Control (RRC) of a communications network. | 09-04-2014 |
20140248892 | Radiation Power Level Control System and Method for a Wireless Communication Device Based on a Tracked Radiation History - A radiation power level control scheme for a wireless user equipment (UE) device. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining that a current transmission event involving the wireless UE device is commenced outside a time duration from a last transmission event. If so, responsive to the determining, the method involves disregarding or resetting a power data history associated with the wireless UE device in computing a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) value for the wireless UE device during the current transmission event. Otherwise, at least a portion of the power data history may be used in computing the SAR values. | 09-04-2014 |
20140248893 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - The addition and change of a CoMP transmission point performing a CoMP transmission/reception process is appropriately performed. A mobile communication method includes: a step of notifying, by a radio base station (eNB), configuration information of CSI-RS of a CoMP transmission point to a mobile station (UE) connected to a cell (# | 09-04-2014 |
20140248894 | RADIO COMMUNICATION BASE STATION - A radio communication base station allocates the same radio resource as a radio resource used for communication between the radio communication base station and a radio communication terminal in other radio communication base station to be a radio resource used in the other radio communication base station for communication between the other radio communication base station and the radio communication terminal. The radio communication base station includes a control unit that performs control to allocate a radio resource used for communication between a radio communication terminal moving at at least a predetermined speed and the other radio communication base station on a priority basis in accordance with content of service in the communication. | 09-04-2014 |
20140248895 | Efficient Co-Existence Method for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing - An apparatus defines a set of resources out of a first number of orthogonal radio resources and controls a transmitting means to simultaneously transmit a respective first radio signal for each resource on all resources of the set. A respective estimated interference is estimated on each of the resources of the set when the respective first radio signals are transmitted simultaneously. A first resource of the set is selected if the estimated interference on the first resource exceeds a first predefined level and, in the set, the first resource is replaced by a second resource of the first number of resources not having been part of the set. Each of the controlling and the estimating, the selecting, and the replacing is performed in order, respectively, for a predefined time. | 09-04-2014 |
20140256339 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA BASED ON COOPERATION OF DEVICES FOR SINGLE USER - A method of transmitting data using devices for a single user, the devices including a master device being in a used state and at least one slave device being adjacent to the master device and in an idle state, includes identifying devices for a single user, the devices comprising a master device in a used state and at least one slave device in an idle state; calculating, at a base station, a data transmission rate based on information received from the devices; and transmitting data to the devices according to the data transmission rate. | 09-11-2014 |
20140256340 | TRANSMIT POWER CALIBRATION FOR MATCHING THE COVERAGE OF DIFFERENT RADIO TECHNOLOGIES ON A COMMON RADIO NODE - A method for wireless communication may comprise, for example, automatically determining first power settings for a first radio access technology (RAT) based on second power settings for a second RAT, and automatically applying the first power settings as power settings for the first RAT. | 09-11-2014 |
20140256341 | INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT AND INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Interference mitigation (e.g., interference suppression and/or interference cancellation) in a wireless communications system may include interference alignment techniques. Interference alignment may be performed to concurrently mitigate the effects of multiple types of interference (e.g., inter-cell interference and intra-cell interference). Interference management using interference alignment may enhance spectral efficiency in an interference-limited communications system, such as a wireless communications system (e.g., a cellular system). Interference alignment techniques may be applied to a homogeneous wireless communications system (e.g., including one or macro base stations). Interference alignment techniques may be applied to a heterogeneous wireless communications system (e.g., including one or macro base stations and one or more overlaid low-power nodes, such as small cells, remote radio heads (RRHs), or the like). | 09-11-2014 |
20140256342 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN ADAPTIVE FILTER ARCHITECTURE - A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for scanning a radio frequency spectrum for an available frequency band, selecting an available frequency band in the radio frequency spectrum even if the available frequency band is affected by radio frequency interference, measuring a signal strength in portions of the available frequency band, correlating the signal strength of each portion to generate a correlation factor, detecting radio frequency interference in the available frequency band according to the correlation factor, and generating tuning coefficient data to cause the filter apparatus to substantially suppress the radio frequency interference in the available frequency band. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 09-11-2014 |
20140274087 | NETWORK NODE, USER EQUIPMENT AND METHODS THEREIN - A method in a user equipment for arranging a Physical Uplink Control Channel, PUCCH, transmission to a network node in a telecommunications system is provided. The PUCCH transmission comprises control information for use in downlink carrier transmissions. Furthermore, the control information is Reed-Müller, RM, encoded using at least two RM codewords and transmitted using Alamouti encoded transmit diversity over at least two antenna ports. Also, the control information comprises a first bit or symbol sequence and at least a second bit or symbol sequence. The user equipment arranges the first bit or symbol sequence and the at least second bit or symbol sequence, such that at least two bits or symbols from the first bit or symbol sequence and at least second bit or symbol sequence, that subsequently are Alamouti encoded together, originates from the same RM codeword of the at least two RM codewords. This is performed in order to enable control information encoded using one RM codeword to be processed independently from control information encoded using another RM codeword at the network node. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274088 | SPATIAL ALIGNMENT FOR D2D INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - Described are techniques for managing the interference produced by D2D (device-to-device) transmissions that may be used in conjunction with transmit power control but operate independently. In one technique, interference between D2D transmissions and cellular uplink transmissions using common resources as received at a base station is managed by opportunistic interference alignment and clustering of D2D devices. In another technique, interference between different D2D devices using the same resources is mitigated by base-station aided space-time interference alignment. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274089 | Radio Spectrum Utilization - The concepts relate to radio channel utilization. One example can obtain a set of channels that are available at a location of a device. The example can send the set of available channels to the device. The example can also receive information that the device established a network on an individual channel from the set of available channels. The example can further cause the information about the individual channel to be associated with the location. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274090 | Radio Spectrum Utilization - The concepts relate to radio channel utilization. One example can monitor a location of a mobile device that has cellular capabilities. The example can identify a set of channels that are available to the mobile device at the location. The example can also send the set of channels to the mobile device with a suggestion for the mobile device to utilize one or more of the channels of the set to accomplish data communication rather than using the cellular capabilities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274091 | PAGING FOR FLEXIBLE BANDWIDTH CARRIER SYSTEMS - Methods, systems, and devices are provided that may support paging over a flexible bandwidth carrier. For example, a reduced paging capacity with respect to a target paging capacity for the flexible bandwidth carrier may be identified. The reduced paging capacity for the flexible bandwidth carrier may be mitigated by various techniques. One technique may include increasing a number of paging indicators sent per frame over the flexible bandwidth carrier. Other techniques may include reducing a Spreading Factor (SF) for a physical channel or a Secondary Common Control Physical Channel (SCCPCH) carrying the paging indicators over the flexible bandwidth carrier. Further techniques may include utilizing a plurality of paging channels, which may include utilizing a plurality of Paging Indicator Channels (PICHs) or a plurality of SCCPCHs. Other techniques may include reducing a paging area for at least the flexible bandwidth carrier and a normal bandwidth carrier. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274092 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH INTERFERENCE MITIGATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A wireless communication system includes: a communication interface configured to receive a desired input signal and an interference input signal; and a control module, coupled to the communication interface, configured to calculate a capacity region to maximize a first R1 reference for the desired input signal by removing the interference input signal. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274093 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AVOIDING INTERFERENCE - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method that determines at least one threshold for detecting signal interference in a first plurality of segments occurring in a first radio frequency spectrum of a first wireless communication system, detecting a pattern of recurrence over time of signal interference in a segment of the first plurality of resource blocks according to the at least one threshold, and performing one or more mitigation steps to mitigate the signal interference without filtering the signal interference where the one or more mitigation steps include at least one of transmitting signals out of phase from the signal interference, adjusting transmit power, increasing power in a resource block of a long term evolution communication session, performing beam steering, or changing time parameters for the resource block without changing to a new resource block. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274094 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION UTILIZING ANTENNA PATTERN ADJUSTMENTS - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method for receiving interference information, identifying a plurality of interferers, approximating a location of the plurality of interferers, and adjusting an antenna pattern of an antenna. The method can include determining traffic loads and adjusting the antenna pattern according to the traffic loads. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274095 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD - A mobile terminal includes a receiving unit configured to enable reception of a wireless signal by concurrently using a cell of a first frequency bandwidth and a cell of a second frequency bandwidth that is different from the first frequency bandwidth, where the cell of the second frequency bandwidth having a range that is smaller than the cell of the first frequency bandwidth; a measuring unit configured to measure reception quality of each cell of the second frequency bandwidth; a setting unit configured to set among the cells of the second frequency bandwidth and based on a result of measurement, a cell that is to be used by the receiving unit; a detecting unit configured to detect a movement speed of the mobile terminal; and a control unit configured to terminate the measurement when the detected movement speed exceeds a predetermined speed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274096 | UPLINK INTERFERENCE RESOLUTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An access node is provided in a wireless communication network for conducting interference resolution of a received signal, the access node comprising a transceiver module, a backhaul module, and a memory. The access node further comprises a processor coupled to the transceiver module, the backhaul module and the memory and configured to identify a neighboring access node in the wireless communication network, to exchange, via the backhaul module, communication parameters with the neighboring access node, to receive, via the transceiver module, a signal comprising a transmission from a first user equipment and an interfering transmission from a second user equipment, the signal being received over a plurality of uplink resources, to receive, via the backhaul module, resource information from the neighboring access node, the resource information corresponding to the plurality of uplink resources, and to apply the resource information for interference resolution of the received signal. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274097 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE RANKED NETWORK PRIORITY - Methods, systems and apparatus are disclosed to facilitate ranked network priority. An example method includes calculating a rank of a first wireless device relative to a plurality of wireless devices based on a first bid value associated with the first wireless device, allocating a first bit rate to the first wireless device based on the rank of the first wireless device at a first time, and in response to detecting a change in availability of the first bit rate at a second time, applying a second bid value for a second bit rate when the first wireless device is located in a first geographic area, and applying a third bid value for the second bit rate when the first wireless device is located in a second geographic area different from the first geographic area. | 09-18-2014 |
20140287771 | Method and Apparatus for Avoiding In-Device Coexistence Interference with Preferred Frequency Notification - A method, system and device are provided for avoiding in-device coexistence interference between different radio technologies deployed in adjacent bands on the same device by providing preferred frequency solutions for the in-device coexistence system. | 09-25-2014 |
20140295866 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING RESOURCE - A dynamic resource allocating apparatus of a first base station that manages a first cell in a cellular communication system including the first cell and a plurality of cells adjacent to the first cell determines time resource division vector in which one time resource division period is formed of a plurality of time division intervals and calculates time resource division vector for maximizing utilities of user terminals in a set up objective function to update the time resource division vector. Among the plurality of time division intervals, a first time division interval is operated by a time resource reuse coefficient 1 for user terminals positioned in center regions of a first cell and a plurality of adjacent cells, and the remaining time division intervals excluding the first time division interval are operated by a time resource reuse coefficient n for user terminals positioned at edges of the first cell and the plurality of adjacent cells. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295867 | CHANNEL BANDWIDTH - A communication device for communicating via a wireless network that is permitted to operate only in communication channels that are not designated for use by another network, the communication device being configured to determine that it is permitted to use a communication channel and use only a part of the bandwidth of that communication channel in dependence on an activity associated with a device operating outside of the wireless network. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295868 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROXIMITY-BASED SERVICE - The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for use in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a method of managing a communication connection and an apparatus therefore, in which the method comprises: transmitting a first message for requesting a RRC connection, wherein the first message includes information indicating a cause of the request; establishing the communication connection via a network path; and receiving a second message from a ProSe server if the cause of the request is related with a ProSe, wherein the second message indicates whether the communication connection is out of proximity range or not, wherein, if the second message indicates that the communication connection is out of the proximity range, a third message for requesting one of a proximity range extension and a communication connection release is transmitted to the ProSe server. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295869 | Method and System of creating virtual sector within physical sector to avoid the interference and maximize the system throughput - The present invention relates to a methods and system for allocating resources, e.g., bandwidth over time in a sectorized cellular communications network. In one embodiment this is accomplished by dividing the sectors in to one or more logical sectors, generating plurality of time frequency allocation maps, to schedule the time and frequency resources to avoid interference, for each of said one or more divided sectors, identifying logical sector within the physical sector by means of UE position and serving the UE with logical sector which eliminates interference and maximizes the throughput by re-using the time and frequency resources again and again. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295870 | Remotely Managed Data Radios Including Remote Management Capabilities - Systems and methods for remotely managed data radios in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. In one embodiment of the invention, a remotely managed data radio includes first and second data radio modules, wherein the first data radio module configured to communicate on a first network including an amount of bandwidth and a latency for a given frequency channel, wherein the second data radio module is configured to communicate on a second network, and wherein the remotely managed data radio is configured to communicate mission-critical data utilizing the first data radio module, measure the performance of the first network using the first data radio module, generate non-mission-critical data using the second data radio module, where the non-mission-critical data includes the measured performance data, and communicate the non-mission-critical data utilizing the second data radio module, thereby preserving the bandwidth and latency of the primary network for communicating mission-critical data. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295871 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLING IN-DEVICE COEXISTENCE INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In the present invention, a method or device of controlling in-device coexistence interference is described. The present invention includes receiving from a base station measurement configuration information including an IDC triggering threshold used for the condition of triggering an event indicating whether on-going IDC has been initiated; performing each of measurement considering IDC and measurement not considering IDC based on the measurement configuration information; triggering the event when a difference between a result of the measurement considering IDC and a result of the measurement not considering IDC is larger than the IDC triggering threshold; and reporting to the base station an IDC indication indicating whether the event is triggered and the results of the measurements. | 10-02-2014 |
20140302863 | VIRTUAL CELL MANAGEMENT FOR INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION AND INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION IN LTE - In some aspects, a method for performing wireless communication includes configuring a set of virtual cells for user equipments (UEs). One or more virtual cells of the set is associated with at least one set of parameters. The method also includes transmitting information, to the UEs, regarding the set of the virtual cells, and operating, for a same virtual cell, according to a same set of parameters for some or all of the UEs. In other aspects, a method for performing wireless communications includes receiving, from a node, information regarding, for a UE, a set of virtual cells associated with a set of parameters. The method also includes communicating with the node. The communication is based on a virtual cell and its associated set of parameters. | 10-09-2014 |
20140302864 | TRANSMISSION GAP CREATION AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS UTILIZING THE SAME - A communications apparatus includes a first radio frequency (RF) signal processing device, a first baseband signal processing device and a processor. The first RF signal processing device transceives a plurality of RF signals to and from a peer communications apparatus to communicate with the peer communications apparatus in compliance with a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) and processing the RF signals. The first baseband signal processing device processes a plurality of baseband signals corresponding to the RF signals. The processor obtains an uplink scheduling indicating a predetermined time assigned by the peer communications apparatus to transmit uplink data from the baseband signals, determines whether to transmit the uplink data at the predetermined time according to a gap-creation criterion, and transmits padding instead of the uplink data to the peer communications apparatus at the predetermined time when the gap-creation criterion is satisfied. | 10-09-2014 |
20140302865 | Flexible Measurements in Unlicensed Band - The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) for implementing enhanced and flexible radio aperiodic measurements, e.g., on an unlicensed band in LTE wireless systems and providing effective and timely reporting. A UE may receive from a wireless network an aperiodic measurement request to measure a special measurement object (e.g., a neighbor cell) specified in the aperiodic measurement request, e.g., in an unlicensed band. In response to the aperiodic measurement request, the UE may perform the measurement of the special management object until a further instruction from the wireless network or for a determined period of time. Inter-frequency measurements may be performed during the measurement gap determined from the aperiodic measurement request. | 10-09-2014 |
20140302866 | METHOD FOR ALLOWING TERMINAL TO DETERMINE UPLINK TRANSMISSION POWER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a method for determining uplink transmission power of a terminal in a wireless communication system and a device therefore. Specifically, the method for allowing a terminal to determine uplink transmission power in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving information for determining uplink transmission power from an upper layer; measuring a path loss value for base stations, which participate in cooperate communication, on the basis of information for determining transmission power, on the basis of the received information for determining the transmission power and the measured path loss value, wherein the information for determining the transmission power is information for channel estimation of at least one base station which participates in the cooperative communication. | 10-09-2014 |
20140302867 | RADIO BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD OF RADIO BASE STATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is a radio base station including a terminal detection unit that detects an uplink signal of a first terminal serviced by another base station, a storage unit that stores an allocation priority of a radio resource for a predetermined period, and a resource allocation unit that allocates a radio resource to a second terminal serviced by the radio base station, using the allocation priority of the radio resource stored in the storage unit. When the terminal detection unit detects the uplink signal of the first terminal, the resource allocation unit preferentially allocates a radio resource of an uplink of a high allocation priority to the second terminal while lowering an allocation priority of a radio resource estimated to be used next for the uplink by the first terminal. | 10-09-2014 |
20140308967 | STATIC TERMINALS - A method for allocating communication resources in a network comprising a plurality of terminals, some of the terminals being mobile and others of the terminals being static, the method comprising designating one or more of the terminals as static terminals and allocating communication resources of the network in dependence on those designations. | 10-16-2014 |
20140308968 | DYNAMIC SPECTRUM SHARING METHOD AND DEVICE - A dynamic spectrum sharing method includes steps of: determining first spectrum utilization information of a covered cell, the first spectrum utilization information comprising any one an access failure rate of the covered cell, calling strength of the covered cell, an expected bandwidth of the covered cell, an idle bandwidth of the covered cell, bandwidth configuration information of the covered cell and edge user equipment information of the covered cell or any combinations thereof; and sending the first spectrum utilization information to a neighboring base station when dynamic spectrum sharing is performed in homogeneous systems with the same Radio Access Technology; or the base station sending the first spectrum utilization information to a core network when dynamic spectrum sharing is performed in heterogeneous systems with different Radio Access Technologies; or sending the first spectrum utilization information to a radio resource management server. | 10-16-2014 |
20140308969 | CONTROLLING INTERFERENCE IN FEMTO CELL DEPLOYMENTS - A method and system provide a plurality of femto cells that are deployed within a macro cell of cellular network. The femto cells improve cellular service inside structures, such as residential and commercial structures. Femto base stations convert signals between an airlink-interface and core network to enable data communication between the mobile terminal and an access network to occur through the Internet and a public switched telephone network. The femto base stations are independent of each other and the macro cell. The method and system provide the femto base stations with interference awareness and mitigation techniques to minimize interference with the cellular network. | 10-16-2014 |
20140315564 | NETWORK RESOURCE PRE-BOOKING - A base station associated with a cellular network may receive a request for a service from a user device. The base station may determine a current location of the user device. The base station may determine, based on the current location, a set of future locations for the user device. The base station may generate a set of schedules for the current location and the set of future locations. The set of schedules may allocate network resources to the user device at the current location and at each future location of the set of future locations. The base station may transmit the set of schedules to the user device. | 10-23-2014 |
20140315565 | FREQUENCY SELECTION METHOD AND COGNITIVE WIRELESS SYSTEM - A frequency to be used in a cognitive wireless system is determined appropriately. A DB apparatus manages white spaces (WS) for each frequency, and calculates and reports, to a mobile terminal, WS vectors (distances from a mobile terminal location to an interference area in the four directions, north, south, east and west) for each frequency. The mobile terminal refers to the WS vectors and uses a frequency providing the longest available distance in a direction of movement. The available distance is calculated by interpolation (triangular interpolation, elliptical interpolation, rectangular interpolation) of WS boundaries using various methods. Desirably, the mobile terminal reports a direction of movement to the DB apparatus, and the DB apparatus reports the distance to an interference area only in the two directions near to the direction of movement. Furthermore, desirably, information indicating whether the interference areas in the two directions are the same area or different areas is added to the WS vectors, and the interpolation method employed by the mobile terminal is changed in accordance with this information. | 10-23-2014 |
20140323141 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A TRANSMIT ANTENNA GAIN AND A SPATIAL MODE OF A DEVICE - Methods and apparatus for determining a transmit antenna gain and a spatial mode of a wireless device ( | 10-30-2014 |
20140323142 | INTUITIVE COMPUTING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone's camera. The image processing tasks applied to the scene can be selected from among various alternatives by reference to resource costs, resource constraints, other stimulus information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. The phone can apply more or less resources to an image processing task depending on how successfully the task is proceeding, or based on the user's apparent interest in the task. In some arrangements, data may be referred to the cloud for analysis, or for gleaning. Cognition, and identification of appropriate device response(s), can be aided by collateral information, such as context. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 10-30-2014 |
20140323143 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMAL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION BEAMS IN BEAMFORMING SYSTEM - A method of providing an optimal transmission or reception (Tx/Rx) beam in a beamforming system. The method includes receiving a reference signal and selecting an optimal Tx/Rx beam that guarantees an optimal channel environment based on the received reference signal determining a possibility of occurrence of a Tx/Rx beam mismatch between the selected optimal Tx/Rx beam and a Tx/Rx beam used for transmitting information on the selected optimal Tx/Rx beam; and when there is the possibility of the occurrence of the Tx/Rx beam mismatch, performing at least one of widening a beam width of the Tx/Rx beam, increasing a number of Tx/Rx beams, reducing a period of a beam selection operation for selecting the optimal Tx/Rx beam, and reducing a transmission period of the reference signal. Other embodiments including a beamforming system are also disclosed. | 10-30-2014 |
20140323144 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING BEAM FORMING SCHEME - A method for transmitting by a reference signal transmitting apparatus a reference signal in a wireless communication system supporting a beam forming scheme is provided. The method includes transmitting beam pattern measurement window indication information including information related to at least two beam pattern measurement windows which each of reference signal receiving apparatuses will use to the reference signal receiving apparatuses; and transmitting reference signals based on beam patterns which the reference signal transmitting apparatus supports during a preset number of time units. | 10-30-2014 |
20140329534 | POWER MANAGEMENT IN A CELLULAR SYSTEM - There is provided a method for controlling a power allocation in a base station of a cell in a cellular communications network across a plurality of sub-bands. It is determined whether a long-term performance achieved by the cell exceeds a first threshold value and a total transmit power is allocated across the sub-bands according to whether the long-term performance achieved by the cell exceeds the first threshold value. A basestation configured to operate in accordance with the method is also provided. | 11-06-2014 |
20140335877 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMIC BACKHAUL BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Techniques for dynamic backhaul bandwidth provisioning are described herein. For example, a method may include determining a potential subscriber user equipment load change, transmitting a backhaul bandwidth change request message based a potential subscriber UE load change, wherein the backhaul bandwidth change request message includes a requested backhaul bandwidth level, receiving a backhaul bandwidth change reply message in response to transmitting the backhaul bandwidth change request message, implementing a subscriber UE load change response corresponding to the potential subscriber UE load change based on receiving the backhaul bandwidth change reply message. Further example methods disclosed may include receiving a backhaul bandwidth change request message, wherein the backhaul bandwidth change request message includes a requested backhaul bandwidth level, calculating an available backhaul bandwidth level corresponding to a backhaul, transmitting a backhaul bandwidth change acknowledgement message when the available backhaul bandwidth level supports the requested backhaul bandwidth level. | 11-13-2014 |
20140335878 | SELECTION OF A SECONDARY COMPONENT CARRIER BASED ON INTERFERENCE INFORMATION - A method includes selecting a candidate component carrier for a cell and determining if said candidate component carrier is to be used in said cell in dependence on information indicating activity in at least one of said cell and another cell using said candidate component carrier. | 11-13-2014 |
20140335879 | INTERFERENCE DETECTION WITH UE SIGNAL SUBTRACTION - Interference may be detected in a cellular network by receiving signals at a target base station in a quiet resource block in which no uplink transmissions to the target base station are scheduled to occur, identifying a plurality of user equipment attached to base stations neighboring a target base station as interfering user equipment, reconstructing signals transmitted by the interfering user equipment, removing the reconstructed signals from the signals received by the target base station in the quiet resource block, and determining interference in the signals from which the reconstructed signals are removed. Detected interference data can be used to create an interference cancelling receiver. | 11-13-2014 |
20140335880 | Adaptive Filter Used for Radio Resource Management - An apparatus ( | 11-13-2014 |
20140335881 | OPTIMIZED BROADBAND WIRELESS NETWORK PERFORMANCE THROUGH BASE STATION APPLICATION SERVER - In embodiments of the present disclosure improved capabilities are described for increasing the bandwidth in a large area broadband LTE wireless network, where regional optimization servers are incorporated near the wireless network in association with the public data network gateway, thus reducing the time-latency for applications being run from a mobile cellular device. Further, by associating additional optimization servers at base stations, application functionality may be optionally transferred from the regional optimization server to the local base station optimization server in instances where a number of mobile cellular devices are requesting the same data via their access through the same cell, and in other instances, to the effect that back haul network bandwidth utilization is reduced or eliminated. | 11-13-2014 |
20140342748 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SCHEDULING COMMUNICATIONS IN A CO-CHANNEL NETWORK - At least one example embodiment discloses a method of scheduling communications for a user equipment (UE) in a co-channel heterogeneous network having a macro cell base station and a small cell base station. The method includes obtaining, by the macro cell base station, pre-scheduling information for transmissions to the UE based on measurements from the UE, the obtaining including, allocating resource blocks for the transmissions, the transmissions to the UE being from at least one of the macro cell base station and the small cell base station, and transmitting, by the macro cell base station, the pre-scheduling information to the small cell base station, the pre-scheduling information indicating first resource blocks for first transmissions from the macro cell base station and second resource blocks for second transmissions from the small cell base stations | 11-20-2014 |
20140342749 | Radio Base Station; Radio Network Controller and Methods Therein - Embodiments herein relate to a method in a radio base station for handling Uplink Closed Loop Transmit Diversity, UL CLTD. The radio base station is configured to control UL CLTD of a user equipment ( | 11-20-2014 |
20140349666 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING PRIMARY SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL - A method for detecting a primary synchronization is provided. The method includes: obtaining a time-domain signal sequence for synchronization; obtaining a correlation result corresponding to the time-domain signal sequence; normalizing the correlation result according to a received signal strength indicator corresponding to the time-domain signals; and sorting the normalized correlation result to ascertain a peak value position corresponding to the correlation result. | 11-27-2014 |
20140349667 | METHOD OF PERFORMING COMMUNICATION BY USER EQUIPMENT IN CLOUD RADIO ACCESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a method of configuring a user equipment-based communication area in a cloud radio access network environment and an apparatus therefor. As one embodiment of the present invention, a method of performing a communication, which is performed by a user equipment (UE) in a cloud radio access network environment includes the steps of generating an RRU list based on signal strength of downlink signals received from each of one or more RRUs (remote resource unit), setting a UE-based communication area in a manner of transmitting the RRU list to a BBU (base band unit) via a first RRU among the one or more RRUs and establishing an RRC connection with a second RRU within the UE-based communication area. | 11-27-2014 |
20140364136 | COMPUTATION OF CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK IN SYSTEMS USING COMMON REFERENCE SIGNAL INTERFERENCE CANCELATION - When enabled with common reference signal interference cancellation, a user equipment (UE) may still compute a channel state feedback value with consideration of any canceled interfering neighboring signals. When the neighboring cells are determined to be transmitting data during the time for which the channel state feedback value is being computed, the UE is able to derive the channel state feedback value considering those canceled interfering signals. The UE determines whether each neighboring cell is transmitting during the designated time either by obtaining signals that indicate the transmission schedule of the neighboring cells or by detecting the transmission schedule, such as based on the power class of the neighboring cells. If the UE determines that the neighboring cells are transmitting data during this time period, the UE will compute the channel state feedback value including consideration of the canceled interfering signals. | 12-11-2014 |
20140370906 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING INTERFERENCE COORDINATION BETWEEN CELLS - A method and a base station serving a first cell of a cellular network, for controlling interference coordination with at least one neighbouring cell. The base station obtains transaction related information pertaining to a forthcoming data transaction involving at least one wireless terminal in the first cell, and estimates a transaction magnitude (TM) for said data transaction, based on the obtained transaction related information. The base station then controls employment of an Inter-Cell Interference Coordination scheme for the forthcoming data transaction, based on the estimated transaction magnitude. | 12-18-2014 |
20140370907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for controlling interference in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for controlling interference by a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system includes receiving an interfering cell signal transmitted by an interfering cell located adjacent to the BS, acquiring interference information based on the received interfering cell signal, and transmitting the acquired interference information to a User Equipment (UE). Because the BS acquires interference information between the BS and a neighboring cell and transmits the acquired interference information to the UE, the UE can effectively cancel interference at a cell edge area and the like, so that the system throughput of the entire wireless network can be significantly increased. | 12-18-2014 |
20140370908 | METHOD FOR REDUCING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN COOPERATIVE MULTI-CELL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a method for reducing inter-cell interference in a wireless communication system and to an apparatus for same. More specifically, a method for reducing the inter-cell interference between serving cells in the cooperative multi-cell wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving from an adjacent cell interference information on a specific wireless resource region; and reducing interference with respect to the specific wireless resource region based on the interference information, wherein the specific wireless resource region is a wireless resource region that the serving cell uses by changing the purpose of a wireless resource. | 12-18-2014 |
20140378152 | Handling of a User Equipment at the NodeB - In overview, the various embodiments describe methods for configuring a nodeB to recognize tuneaway events and to operate in a manner that mitigates the adverse effects of user equipment (UE) tuneaways on network capacity. In the various embodiments, the nodeB may detect that a UE is periodically tuning away based on the periodic, characteristic nature of the drops in the UE's signal strength. When the nodeB recognizes that a UE is performing periodic tuneaways, the nodeB may implement various resource management strategies while the UE is in a tuneaway gap to minimize the impact of the UE's tuneaway gaps and may resume normal resource management operations when the UE is not in a tuneaway gap. Thus, the various embodiments enable the nodeB to determine and manage the effects of a UE's tuneaway gaps, thereby increasing network capacity, optimizing power management, and enhancing the overall user experience. | 12-25-2014 |
20140378153 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLANNING RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method and apparatus for selecting a bandwidth option for a cell in a network are disclosed. For example, the method obtains, for the cell, network traffic data for a geographical area, and a physical characteristic of an antenna in the geographical area, determines busy time data traffic from the network traffic data, determines, for the cell, a cell range from the physical characteristic of the antenna, selects a bandwidth option from a plurality of bandwidth options, and determines an average throughput in accordance with the bandwidth option that is selected and the cell range. | 12-25-2014 |
20140378154 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ALLOCATION OF RESOURCE BLOCKS - Provided are methods and corresponding apparatuses for allocation of resource blocks. A method for allocation of resource blocks comprises receiving, from a base station, information regarding a measurement location at which at least one identified resource block has been measured; and using, based upon a current location of a mobile relay node and the measurement location, the at least one identified resource block for communication between the mobile relay node and at least one user equipment connected therewith, wherein the at least one identified resource block is not used for communication between the base station and at least one user equipment connected therewith at the measurement location and a measurement of the at least one identified resource block is below a predetermined threshold. With the claimed inventions, interference in the high speed railway communication could be ameliorated and the spectrum efficiency would be improved. | 12-25-2014 |
20140378155 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING RRC FOR CONTROLLING OVERLOADS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system and to a method for connecting RRC for controlling overloads in the wireless communication system. The method includes the steps of: a mobile signal processing unit transferring an overload control message including preference priority information for overload control to a base station; the base station storing the preference priority information and receiving an RRC connection request message including service information for performing a service from a UE; the base station determining whether the service information is included in the preference priority information when receiving the RRC connection request message; and the base station transmitting an RRC connection allowance message to the UE when the service information is included in the preference priority information. Accordingly, the base station can efficiently control the overload for each service performed in the UE. | 12-25-2014 |
20150011231 | APPLICATION-BASED WIRELESS DEVICE INITIATED RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus for radio resource management in a wireless device is provided. A type of data connection to be established between the wireless device and a network is determined. A radio resource capability mode for the data connection based on resource requirements of the determined type of data connection is dynamically determined wherein the radio resource capability mode is selected from a plurality of radio resource capability modes operable by the wireless device within wireless technologies supported by the network. The determined radio resource capability mode is conveyed to the network during connection establishment between the wireless device and the network, wherein the radio resource capability mode is used by the network to determine radio resources to be allocated to the wireless device for the connection. | 01-08-2015 |
20150017999 | METHOD OF COGNITIVE RADIO AND DEVICE UTILIZING THE SAME - A method of implementing a cognitive radio (CR) technology and a device utilizing the same are provided. The method includes: when a first base station meets a requirement for entering a cognitive radio (CR) state, acquiring information on a potential frequency band which is assigned to a second base station; performing a band selection based on the potential frequency band to select a desired frequency band; and entering the CR state by accessing the first base station using the desired frequency band. | 01-15-2015 |
20150018000 | RESOURCE OPERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - An embodiment of the present invention discloses a resource operation method and an apparatus thereof. The method includes: determining whether a conflict exists in the two operations; and if a conflict exists in two operations, implementing conflict coordination on execution of the two operations; wherein one of the two operations is a first operation on a first resource, and the other one of the two operations is a second operation on the first resource or a third operation on a related resource of the first resource. Through the present invention, a possible operation conflict can be discovered in a timely manner during an operation on a resource, thereby avoiding the operation conflict. | 01-15-2015 |
20150024767 | DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A BASE STATION AND A TERMINAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system for dynamic adaptation of communication parameters for communication between a base station and terminals in a wireless telecommunications network includes one or more transmitters configured for transmission of signals in the network using a broadcast channel between the base station and the terminals, a machine-readable storage medium having stored therein data associated with communication parameters of the wireless telecommunications network, and a base station controller operatively connected to the one or more transmitters and the machine-readable storage medium and configured to cause the one or more transmitters to transmit adaptation signals from the base station to the terminals using the broadcast channel between the base station and the terminals, wherein the data is configured to cause the terminals to adapt the communication parameters and to begin network search and attach procedures for communication with the base station utilizing the adapted communication parameters. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024768 | Method for Provisioning a Wireless Network - A method that collects data and subjects it to statistical analysis to detect localized events, which assists in network provisioning. illustratively, the data employed is hourly network traffic count that is collected at cell sites. By taking the advantage of additive property of Poisson process, the method integrates spatial neighbor information by aggregating temporal data in various areas, and iteratively estimating the event location and the radius of event impact by examining the posterior probability base on the aggregated data. | 01-22-2015 |
20150031381 | PROCESSING COMMUNICATIONS VIA A SENSOR NETWORK - A first device may receive provisioning information for a second device; establish a tunnel with the second device within a first network based on receiving the provisioning information; provide the provisioning information to the second device to cause the second device to gather or process data within the first network; and receive a command instruction from a user device via a second network. The command instruction may relate to the data gathered or processed by the second device. The first network may be separate from the second network. The first device may communicate with the second device within the first network and independently of the second network to process the command instruction; form a response to the command instruction based on processing the command instruction; and provide the response to the command instruction towards the user device. | 01-29-2015 |
20150031382 | PAGING A USER EQUIPMENT OVER UNLICENSED SPECTRUM - Methods and apparatus for paging comprise receiving data destined for a UE. The methods and apparatus further comprise determining a short identity for the UE relative to a longer global user equipment identity and identifying a MIB transmission based on a short identity. Moreover, the methods and apparatus comprise activating a bit within a slot of the MIB transmission to indicate that the user equipment listen for a page in order to receive the data and broadcasting the MIB. In other aspects, methods and apparatus for receiving a page comprise entering an idle state while camped on a cell. The methods and apparatus further comprise waking up from the idle state to monitor a slot of a MIB for a paging indication. Moreover, the methods and apparatus comprise recognizing the paging indication in the monitored slot of the MIB, determining a paging window based on correlation information in a SIB and waking up to listen for a page during the paging window. | 01-29-2015 |
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 |
20150031384 | METHOD OF CANCELING CELL REFERENCE SIGNAL INTERFERENCES - A method is provided in the invention to carry out cell reference signal interferences cancellations, the base station transmits configuration information of at least one cell to a UE (S | 01-29-2015 |
20150031385 | Method, Apparatus, and System for Triggering Resource Configuration - A method, apparatus, and system for triggering resource configuration are disclosed. The method includes: if user equipment (UE) in Cell_Paging Channel (Cell_PCH) state figures out that the total amount of buffer occupancy at the radio link control (RLC) layer or the Transport Channel Traffic Volume is larger than configured threshold, the UE carries an indication in a MEASUREMENT REPORT message and transmit the message to the network side, wherein the indication is used to trigger the network side to configure resources for the UE. With the present invention, the resource configuration is quickly triggered, and the delay of the UE in the data transmission is minimized. | 01-29-2015 |
20150031386 | Methods and Apparatus for Configuration of Femtocells in a Wireless Network - Methods and apparatus that enable and optimize the simultaneous operation of several wireless femtocells having overlapping coverage areas. In one embodiment of the invention, a resource allocation (e.g., time-frequency grid for an OFDM or TDMA based wireless network) governs the simultaneous operation of several femtocells with overlapping coverage areas by specifying uses for resources. A resource allocation unit (RAU) entity is disclosed for managing and modifying resource allocations for femtocells. The community of femtocells can flexibly share resources according to the time-frequency grid, thereby maximizing spectral efficiency without requiring substantial network overhead. | 01-29-2015 |
20150038154 | Fair Instantaneous Conflict Resolution Among N Periodic Contenders - The various embodiments include methods for managing how a multi-SIM-multi-standby (MSMS) communication device that is accessing an arbitrary combination of multiple telephony networks processes paging collisions. The embodiment methods promote the control of the paging block rates for two or more subscriptions, in which a subscription's paging block rate is the subscription's number of blocked pages during a certain time multiplied by the subscription's discontinuous reception cycle. In the various embodiments, an MSMS communication device may implement a fair paging conflict resolution algorithm to keep each subscription's paging block rate approximately equal over time. | 02-05-2015 |
20150038155 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ESTABLISHING RRC CONNECTION THROUGH DRIFT RNC - In a method for establishing a radio resource control connection between a user equipment and a serving radio network controller through a drift radio network controller, the drift network controller receives an indication of a forward access channel capability of the user equipment from the serving radio network controller, and transmits a signaling message to the user equipment according to the forward access channel capability of the user equipment to establish the radio resource control connection. | 02-05-2015 |
20150038156 | ADAPTING MOBILE DEVICE BEHAVIOR USING PREDICTIVE MOBILITY - Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjusting at least one channel parameter based on accessed historical channel information associated with mobility patterns of a mobile device. In some examples, a mobile device or a base station may access historical channel information associated with mobility patterns of the mobile device or another mobile device. The mobility patterns may include information relative to a particular time and location of a mobile device, a previously traveled route by a mobile device, etc. Based on the historical channel information associated with the mobility patterns, the mobile device or the base station may adjust a channel parameter to improve communication performance across the particular channel. | 02-05-2015 |
20150038157 | Network Node, User Equipment and Methods Therein for Configuring Cells for Downlink Operations - A network node, user equipment, and corresponding methods can support non-contiguous cell configuration of the downlink in at least one frequency band of a telecommunications system. The network node configures cells for non-contiguous downlink operations based on a signal received from a user equipment. The signal comprises information about the user equipment's radio access capability in non-contiguous downlink operation, including: a first indication that indicates the maximum number of cells supported by the user equipment; a second indication that indicates the maximum gap bandwidth between cells supported by the user equipment; and a third indication that indicates whether the user equipment supports an equal number of cells, or a different number of cells, on each side of a gap between the maximum number of cells. | 02-05-2015 |
20150038158 | METHOD OF EFFICIENTLY REPORTING USER EQUIPMENT TRANSMISSION POWER AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method and an apparatus for efficiently transmitting or reporting a Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method of transmitting the PHR of the UE in a mobile communication system includes configuring an extended PHR including an indicator corresponding to a variation factor of a maximum transmission power of the UE, and transmitting the extended PHR from the UE to a Base Station (BS). The BS may be notified of a maximum transmission power of the UE and a variation factor corresponding to the maximum transmission power in order to enable efficient scheduling. | 02-05-2015 |
20150045048 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION AIDED HIGH FREQUENCY OPERATIONS - Wireless communication systems and methods are described in which a network device may establish a connection with a user device within a wireless network. Through this connection location information regarding the user device is received. Based on the received location information, a second network device may be configured to beamform a high-frequency communication transmission session with the user device. | 02-12-2015 |
20150045049 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided is a communication control device including a performance acquisition unit that acquires a parameter indicating communication performance on a signaling path of a base station of a small cell that at least partially overlaps with a macro cell in a wireless communication system, a selection unit that selects an interference control scheme for controlling interference between the macro cell and the small cell, based on the parameter acquired by the performance acquisition unit, and an interference control unit that transmits an interference control signal to the base station of the small cell in accordance with the interference control scheme selected by the selection unit. | 02-12-2015 |
20150045050 | System and Method for Resource Allocation Device-to-Device for Open Discovery - A method for operating a mobile device adapted for device-to-device (D2D) communications includes determining a utilization measure for discovery resources (DRs) allocated for D2D discovery in a communications system, and sending a utilization measure report to an evolved NodeB (eNB) when a reporting criterion is satisfied, wherein the utilization measure report is configured to prompt an adjustment to a number of DRs allocated for D2D discovery when an adjustment condition is met. | 02-12-2015 |
20150045051 | SELECTION OF A RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE BASED ON RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE HISTORICAL INFORMATION - The disclosed subject matter provides for selecting a radio access technology resource based on historical data related to the radio access technology resource. Location information can be employed to determine a radio access technology resource. Historical information related to the radio access technology resource can then be employed to determine the suitability of the radio access technology resource. A set of radio access technology resources can be ordered or ranked to allow selection of a suitable radio access technology resource from the set. Incorporation of historical information can provide for additional metrics in the selection of a radio access technology resource over simple contemporaneous radio access technology resource information. In some embodiments timed fingerprint location (TFL) information can be employed to determine a location. | 02-12-2015 |
20150050938 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO RESOURCE REQUESTING METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Provided are a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication system, a radio resource requesting method, and an integrated circuit that can improve efficiency of radio resource use by efficiently performing a radio resource request control between a mobile station apparatus and the base station apparatus. The base station apparatus configures a transmission parameter of a control channel used in the radio resource request and a parameter for determining a transmission state of the control channel used in the radio resource request in the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus transmits a message related to a permission to change the transmission parameter of the control channel used in the radio resource request to the base station apparatus on the basis of the transmission state of the control channel used in the radio resource request. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050939 | RADIO TERMINAL, RADIO STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHODS IMPLEMENTED THEREIN - In one embodiment, a radio terminal ( | 02-19-2015 |
20150057007 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH SWITCHED POLARIZATION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A wireless communication device includes a polarity setting module configured to set a plurality of polarity modes for the wireless communication with the plurality of external devices. The plurality of polarity modes includes selected ones of at least: a first polarity mode, and a second polarity mode. The polarity setting module sets the plurality of polarity modes based on information received from the plurality of external devices. A framing module is configured to generate data for transmission to the plurality of external devices based on the plurality of polarity modes set by the polarity setting module. | 02-26-2015 |
20150057008 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING CHANNEL IN WLAN SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, disclosed are a method and an apparatus for accessing a channel in a WLAN system. A method for accessing the channel from a station (STA) in the wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving from an access point (AP) setting information with respect to at least one slot allowing channel access by the STA; and beginning the channel access from a slot boundary of the at least one slot, wherein the channel access may begin without a clear channel assessment (CCA). | 02-26-2015 |
20150057009 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DYNAMIC SPECTRUM SHARING IN CELLULAR NETWORKS - According to a disclosed method, an MME in a network analyzes KPIs from the cells it serves and based on the KPIs, it decides to engage in sharing. The MME then contacts a sharing entity (SE) to announce that it wants to supply spectrum for sharing. The MME obtains terms of a sharing agreement from the SE and the MME obtains the identity of the other network. In response to this information, the MME configures its base stations to support the supplying of spectrum to the other network. The SE applies knowledge of network topology and of services offered. This knowledge is obtained from a sharing database. At the expiration of the sharing agreement, the SE tells the MMEs to deactivate the sharing agreement. | 02-26-2015 |
20150065157 | REVERSE CHANNEL SWITCH REQUEST FROM STATIONS TO ACCESS POINTS FOR LTE/WI-FI COEXISTENCE - Methods and apparatuses are described for wireless communications coexistence. In one aspect, a first device may detect an interference produced by a second device co-located with the first device. The first device may communicate with an access point (AP) using a free or open band and the second device may communicate with a cellular network (e.g., LTE network). In response to the detected interference, a message may be transmitted to the AP from the first device with information for the AP to determine whether to switch to a different channel in the open band to communicate with the first device. The AP may receive such a message from each terminal in at least a subset of associated terminals. The AP may determine, from the messages received, to switch to the different channel in the open band and may transmit a message to the associated terminals indicating the switch. | 03-05-2015 |
20150072700 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING BACKUP CHANNELS FOR COGNITIVE RADIO COMMUNICATION - Provided is an apparatus and method for managing a backup channel for cognitive radio communication that may group at least one device included in a cell served by a base station, and allocate backup channels for cognitive radio communication to the groups, based on location information and mobility of the groups. | 03-12-2015 |
20150080003 | MOBILITY-BASED FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY REUSE - Fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is defined based on a mobility condition of an access terminal. For example, upon determining that an access terminal is moving (or at a cell edge, or experiencing poor link conditions, etc., due to mobility), FFR may be defined for the serving access point of the access terminal and/or for neighbor access points to maintain acceptable link quality for the access terminal. In particular, FFR may be defined in a manner that frees-up or otherwise reserves resources for the access terminal. For example, the serving access point may allocate additional sub-bands for the access terminal and/or increase the power levels used on the sub-bands allocated for the access terminal. In addition, neighbor access points may back-off these sub-bands. | 03-19-2015 |
20150080004 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BEAMFORMING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A beamforming apparatus and method for expanding coverage of a control channel are provided, by which neighboring communication devices are classified according to the number of beams that they can receive, and therefore the frequency or period of beam transmission is adjusted to transmit a control channel by a beamforming method. Hence, an overhead reduction and an increase in transmission rate can be achieved, and coverage holes can be prevented. | 03-19-2015 |
20150080005 | Signaling Support for Antenna Selection Using Subset Lists and Subset Masks - A communication device is described herein that has control (or at least partial control) over which virtual antenna(s) in one or more base stations to use for transmissions. In one embodiment, the mobile phone performs the following steps: (1) receives an antenna subset list (from the scheduling unit) which identifies a configuration of virtual antennas that is associated with the base station(s); (2) uses the antenna subset list to select which virtual antenna(s) in the configuration of virtual antennas to use for transmissions; and (3) sends an antenna selection signal (to the scheduling unit) which contains information that instructs/requests the base station(s)/scheduling unit to use the selected virtual antenna(s) for transmissions. | 03-19-2015 |
20150080006 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, WIRELESS STATION, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - A wireless communications system includes a base station; and a wireless station. The base station, after receiving a first control signal that includes classifying information, configures by a second control signal, transition of a communication mode and releases by a third control signal, the transition of the communication mode. The wireless station performs transition of a mode of communication by the communication mode configured by the second control signal, and releases by the third control signal, the transition of the communication mode. | 03-19-2015 |
20150080007 | SERVICE CONNECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A call connection method and apparatus are disclosed. When a service is released in a portable terminal that supports different communication modes due to a network problem, the call connection method and apparatus reconnects the service to another network. The call connection method includes performing a first service through a first network, analyzing, when the connected first service is released, the cause of disconnection, acquiring, when the cause of disconnection is a problem in the first network, connection information, and attempting to connect a second service through a second network based on the connection information. | 03-19-2015 |
20150087323 | CLOUD BASED SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT - Certain embodiments herein are directed to managing wireless spectrum, which may include recommending or transmitting spectrum usage changes to one or more wireless devices. A spectrum management system comprising one or more computers may receive spectrum usage information associated with one or more wireless devices. The spectrum management system may generate a spectrum usage map based on the received information. Based on the spectrum usage map, a spectrum usage change is determined and transmitted to one or more wireless devices. The wireless devices may change their operation in accordance with the spectrum usage change. | 03-26-2015 |
20150094075 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND BASE STATION - Provided is communication control device including a determination unit which determines whether an access type of a small cell which at least partially overlaps a macro cell of a radio communication system is a closed access type or an open access type, an identification unit which, when it is determined that the access type of the small cell is the closed access type, identifies a user terminal of the macro cell which should be protected from interference caused by a radio signal from the small cell, and an interference control unit which transmits an interference control signal to a base station of the small cell so that the interference on the user terminal identified by the identification unit is reduced. | 04-02-2015 |
20150094076 | RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention is designed to make effective use of radio resources in VSEC to output a plurality of beams of varying tilt angles for sectorization in vertical directions. A radio communication method for a radio base station that outputs a plurality of beams of varying tilt angles and forms a plurality of cells that are sectorized vertically, and a user terminal that establishes wireless connection with the radio base station, provides the steps in which the radio base station acquires information about the communication capacity of each of the plurality of cells, and controls the vertical plane beam width and/or transmission power of each cell and sets the coverage area of each cell so that differences in communication capacity between the plurality of cells are reduced. | 04-02-2015 |
20150094077 | USER EQUIPMENT, SMALL CELL AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A user equipment, a small cell and an operation method thereof are provided. The small cell includes a processor and a transceiver. The processor is configured to generate a maintaining downlink signal when the small cell is in an off-state. The maintaining downlink signal utilizes fewer radio resources compared to a normal downlink signal which is generated when the small cell is in an on-state. The transceiver is electrically connected to the processor and configured to continuously transmit the maintaining downlink signal when the small cell is in the off-state and receive an uplink signal from the user equipment. The processor further switches the small cell from the off-state to the on-state according to the uplink signal. | 04-02-2015 |
20150094078 | Supplemental Maximum Power Reduction for Operation in Restricted Configurations - In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a method for reducing out of band emissions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a network signal value from a network, and reducing a transmission signal power on the basis of the network signal value, a center frequency of a transmitting channel, a number of allocated resource blocks, and a location of the allocated resource blocks within the channel. | 04-02-2015 |
20150099527 | DYNAMIC MULTI-CELL CLUSTERING FOR DOWNLINK COMP IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for generating at least one downlink CoMP cooperating set for downlink CoMP processing at a first node of a plurality of nodes in a network is provided. Each of the plurality of nodes managing at least one cell. A plurality of multi-dimensional UE points is determined. Each dimension of a respective multi-dimensional UE point corresponds to a channel quality metric value associated with a downlink signal received by the UE from a corresponding cell. At least one k-dimensional UE constellation is determined. Each k-dimensional UE constellation includes a set of UEs receiving downlink signals from k cells. At least one k-dimensional UE group is determined based on the determined at least one k-dimensional UE constellation. Each k-dimensional UE group is associated with the same cells. At least one downlink CoMP coordinating set is generated based on the plurality of k-dimensional UE groups. | 04-09-2015 |
20150099528 | ENHANCED SYSTEM INFORMATION DECODING - Methods and apparatus for decoding system information include determining a maximum repetition rate duration based at least in part on a master information block (MIB). The methods and apparatus further include generating a distributed system information block (SIB) decoding scheme for allocating radio frequency resources between a first subscriber identity module (SIM) and a second SIM. In some aspects, the distributed SIB decoding scheme includes a partitioned SIB decoding schedule for the maximum repetition rate duration and based at least in part on a continuous SIB decoding period. Additionally, the methods and apparatus include attempting to decode one or more SIBs during the maximum repetition rate duration according to the distributed SIB decoding scheme. | 04-09-2015 |
20150105090 | Enhancements in Channel Reliability in Scenarios Operating on Shared Band - The present invention proposes methods and devices for mobile communication deployed on shared bands, which enhance reliability of channels such as control channels. According to an aspect thereof, at a communication terminal, a list of channels useable for communication is maintained, information on the usability of a currently used channel is obtained, and it is switched to one of the channels of the list of useable channels if the currently used channel becomes unusable. The invention encompasses also corresponding computer products as well as methods, devices and computer products residing at a network node. | 04-16-2015 |
20150105091 | Method And Arrangement For Interference Mitigation - In a method of interference mitigation in a multi user detection capable radio base station in a communication system, which radio base station comprises a set of confined detection modules, at least one of which is capable of handling multiple user connections, first and at least a second subset of detection modules are formed from said set, wherein the second set comprises at least one interference mitigation capable detection module. Interference information from the first subset is communicated to the second subset, interference originating in user connections of the first subset are then mitigated from the user connections of the second subset. Subsequently, interference is mutually mitigated between the connections within the interference mitigation capable detection module. | 04-16-2015 |
20150105092 | INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT FOR DIFFERENT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate avoiding interference with disparate communication technologies when allocating and/or utilizing wireless communication resources. Access points can generate resource assignments for mobile devices based at least in part on resources utilized by the disparate communication technology devices, such as to avoid such resources, allocate narrow bands over such resources, avoid or limit allocations in a measurement gap during which disparate communication technology devices communicate, and/or the like to mitigate interference over the resources. Mobile devices can provide such information to the access point, such as a communication technology to avoid interfering, resources utilized by devices of the communication technology, etc. This information can be acquired by receiving signals from the devices, detecting presence of the devices, and/or the like. In addition, mobile device can reduce transmission power over resources used by the disparate communication technology. | 04-16-2015 |
20150105093 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIREMENT OF AVAILABLE SPECTRUM - The present invention provides a method and apparatus thereof for acquirement of available spectrum. The method comprises: receiving an inquiring request sent from a main device, said inquiring request carrying the location information and coverage information of said main device; according to the location information and coverage information of said main device, acquiring the geographical range which said main device can cover; according to the geographical range which said main device can cover, the available spectrum set obtained in advance in the preset geographical range, and the geographical range which can be covered corresponding to each available spectrum in said available spectrum set, acquiring the available spectrum information in the geographical range which said main device can cover; sending said available spectrum information to said main device. The apparatus comprises: a receiving module, an inquiring module, a first inquiring module and a transmitting module. | 04-16-2015 |
20150111589 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING COVERAGE AREA OF A SMALL CELL - The present disclosure presents a method and an apparatus for optimizing coverage area of a small cell. For example, the disclosure presents a method for estimating an available backhaul capacity of a small cell and determining a target OTA data rate for the small cell based at least on the estimated available backhaul capacity, and changing a coverage area of the small cell based at least on the determined target OTA data rate by. As such, optimizing coverage area of a small cell may be achieved. | 04-23-2015 |
20150111590 | ADAPTATION OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TO CHANGES IN CONFIGURATION - A telecommunications network, especially an LTE type network, is adapted to a change in configuration. The telecommunications network includes at least a first transmission device, of base station or transmission relay type, and a second transmission device, of base station or transmission relay type. There is no radio link in existence between the first transmission device and the second transmission device before the change in configuration. The process for change includes: detecting a change in the configuration of the telecommunications network; allocating radio resources in the communications frames of the first communications element for determination of the transmission quality with the second communications element; and establishing a radio link between the first transmission device and the second transmission device if the determined transmission quality is advantageous. The process is implemented by a telecommunications networking infrastructure and by a transmission device. | 04-23-2015 |
20150111591 | MULTIFACTORIAL OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for providing unequal allocation of rights among agents while operating according to fair principles, comprising assigning a hierarchal rank to each agent; providing a synthetic economic value to a first set of agents at the a high level of the hierarchy; allocating portions of the synthetic economic value by the first set of agents to a second set of agents at respectively different hierarchal rank than the first set of agents; and conducting an auction amongst agents using the synthetic economic value as the currency. A method for allocation among agents, comprising assigning a wealth generation function for generating future wealth to each of a plurality of agents, communicating subjective market information between agents, and transferring wealth generated by the secure wealth generation function between agents in consideration of a market transaction. The method may further comprise the step of transferring at least a portion of the wealth generation function between agents. | 04-23-2015 |
20150111592 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MITIGATION/REMOVAL OF INTERFERENCE BETWEEN MACRO-CELL AND FEMTO-CELL - There is provided a method for removing interference between a femto-cell and a macro-cell, comprising: allocating communication resources to a plurality of femto-cell user devices; receiving uplink signals between a plurality of the macro-cell user devices and a macro-cell base station from the plurality of the macro-cell user devices; detecting a high interference indicator (HII) from the uplink signals; deciding a macro-cell user device, which has transmitted the high interference indicator, as an interference subject user device; extracting channel state information (CSI) from the uplink signal received from the interference subject user device; and changing and allocating the communication resource allocated to the femto-cell user device based on the extracted channel state information. | 04-23-2015 |
20150119057 | BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A base station comprises a radio communication unit that uses a radio resource to perform radio communication with a radio terminal; an inter-base station communication unit that performs inter-base station communication with another base station; and a control unit that controls the radio communication unit and the inter-base station communication unit. The inter-base station communication unit comprises a transmission unit that transmits interference control information for controlling interference with the other base station, to the other base station; and a reception unit that receives information indicating a usage of the radio resource in the other base station, from the other base station. The control unit acquires the usage of the radio resource in the radio communication unit and changes a transmission cycle of the interference control information in accordance with at least one of the usage of the radio resource in the radio communication unit and the usage of the radio resource in the other base station. | 04-30-2015 |
20150119058 | Data Transmission Scheduling Using Energy Consumption Profile of Terminal Device - For controlling energy-consumption associated with data transmission between a terminal device ( | 04-30-2015 |
20150119059 | Dynamic spectrum allocation method and device based on channel management - The present disclosure discloses a dynamic spectrum allocation method and device based on channel management. The method comprises the following steps: a network node generates a channel set according to an available channel list and channel classification information, and maintains and updates the channel set; and the network node selects a spectrum from the channel set and allocates the spectrum. The device comprises: a channel set generation module configured to generate a channel set according to an available channel list and channel classification information and maintain and update the channel set; and a spectrum allocation module configured to select a spectrum from the channel set and allocate the spectrum. The present disclosure can reduce the delay in the spectrum resource reconfiguration of a CR system, improves the overall performance of spectrum resource reconfiguration and increases the utilization efficiency of a spectrum. | 04-30-2015 |
20150119060 | METHOD OF BARRING NETWORK ACCESS, MOBILE DEVICE AND PROCESSOR - When a network is requiring access barring, a mobile device determines whether a reference value broadcasted to the mobile device indicates a value determining that an access is denied regardless of a numerical value generated by the mobile device, or indicates a value having a possibility that an access of a certain mobile device is denied while an access of another mobile device is allowed. In the latter case, the mobile device determines appropriateness of an access by performing predetermined processing using the reference value as a value to be checked for a relationship with a numerical value generated by the mobile device when the mobile device does not have a special type access class, and uses a value enabling allowance of an access without performing the predetermined processing as a value for determining appropriateness of an access when the mobile device has the special type access class. | 04-30-2015 |
20150119061 | WIRELESS TERMINAL, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless terminal includes a small cell information data base, an acquisition unit, and a communication unit. The small cell information data base stores small cell information including position information and frequency information to be used when performing a wireless communication. The acquisition unit obtains current position information. The communication unit performs a wireless communication in a small cell by using frequency information obtained from the small cell information data base based on the current position information. | 04-30-2015 |
20150119062 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a wireless communication method for improving frequency efficiency is disclosed. The method can transmit a first instruction indicating that the second terminal is allowed to transmit a second data signal at the first frequency if the first signal strength intensity is not more than a threshold and if the second signal strength intensity is not more than a threshold. The method can transmit a second instruction indicating that the second terminal is caused to suspend the second data signal transmission at the first frequency in reference to the first instruction if interference occurring in a first base station as a transmission result of the second data signal is not less than a threshold. | 04-30-2015 |
20150126206 | Radio-Link Establishment for Multi-State Cells - A radio link is established for multi-state cells. User equipment is operated in a connected mode with a serving cell. A transition is determined of a neighbor cell from dormant to active. At least a set number of out-of-synchronization events are detected with respect to the serving cell. It is determined that the neighbor-cell reference-signal received power is greater than the serving-cell reference-signal received power plus a threshold after determining the transition of the neighbor cell from dormant to active. A radio-resource-control connection-establishment message is sent to the neighbor cell when the neighbor-cell reference-signal received power is greater than the serving-cell reference-signal received power plus a threshold. | 05-07-2015 |
20150126207 | COEXISTENCE OF LTE OPERATED IN UNLICESNSED BAND - A cellular access node collects information about at least interference in a plurality of channels in unlicensed spectrum, and uses that collected information to update an allocation of the channels among at least two different access points APs. In one embodiment the information is collected from measurement reports received from each AP which indicates whether the various respective channels are available or reserved. Additional measurement reports may be collected from user equipments operating under the APs. In various embodiments the information can include channel recommendations, estimated capacity for the channels, and/or a traffic model for the channels. With this collected information the cellular access node can balance traffic among the APs by its channel allocation decisions. The non-limiting examples assume a radio environment where a LTE cellular access node operates a primary component carrier in licensed spectrum and the cooperating APs operate secondary component carriers in unlicensed spectrum. | 05-07-2015 |
20150126208 | Communication Mechanism for Advertising Services - There is provided a mechanism for controlling a communication using a proximity services or D2D system for advertising services controlled by a cellular network. Configuration information for configuring at least one advertising channel including one or more advertising control channels and one or more advertising traffic channels are provided from a communication control network element to advertising system elements such as an advertising agent device. Scheduling information and advertising information are transmitted from the advertising agent device via downlink control channels and advertising channels, wherein corresponding information are received and processed by an advertising receiving device. | 05-07-2015 |
20150126209 | NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR RADIO RESOURCE ACTIVATION IN GREEN MOBILE NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for optimizing radio coverage and power consumption within a mobile communication network ( | 05-07-2015 |
20150126210 | INTERFERENCE-AVOIDANCE ORIENTED CARRIER REUSE OF DEVICE-TO-DEVICE (D2D) COMMUNICATION IN CELLULAR NETWORKS - An apparatus and method for interference-avoidance in a hybrid communications network is provided. The method includes obtaining related information for interfering cellular user equipment in the hybrid network, reporting the related information for the interfering cellular user equipment to an evolved Node B (eNB), receiving a list of component carriers and competition related information for the component carriers, and selecting one or more proper component carriers from the list of component carriers according to certain rules. | 05-07-2015 |
20150126211 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND BASE STATION - A communication control method used in a cellular mobile communication system that supports inter-terminal communication that is direct radio communication capable of being performed between user terminals in a state where a radio connection with a network is established, comprises a step of determining, by the network, a method for assigning a radio resource in the inter-terminal communication in accordance with a characteristic of an application used in the inter-terminal communication. | 05-07-2015 |
20150133136 | Method and Portable Data Apparatus for Operating Mobile Terminals in a Cellular Telecommunications Network - The invention relates to both a method and a network entity in a cellular communication network serving mobile terminals or communication devices, offering control over terminals in order to ensure that the best possible data connection is available to the user at all times whatever the coverage scenario and technology the terminals are operating on. | 05-14-2015 |
20150133137 | METHOD FOR SHARING WIRELESS RESOURCE INFORMATION IN MULTI-CELL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a method for sharing wireless resource information by a cell in a multi-cell wireless communication system. More particularly, the method for sharing wireless resource information by a cell according to the present invention comprises: a step of transmitting wireless resource information to a neighbor cell; and a step of receiving an acknowledgement message corresponding to the wireless resource information from the neighbor cell. The wireless resource information is information for changing the used of the wireless resource of a specific wireless resource region, and the acknowledgement message is a message indicating whether the change in use of the wireless resource is allowed in the neighbor cell. | 05-14-2015 |
20150133138 | Data Rate in Mobile Communications Networks - A method of operating a mobile telecommunications device including cellular communication means operable to communicate with a cellular telecommunications network base station and white space communication means operable to communicate with a non-cellular white space access point, the method including determining the availability of white space and selectively enabling white space communication in dependence upon the determination. Controlling transmission of user data in the white space may be by exchanging control data with the cellular telecommunications network base station such that the control data controls the transmission of user data in the white space. White space communication need not be implemented in uplink and may be used in the downlink alone. | 05-14-2015 |
20150133139 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION BY CELLULAR BASE STATIONS - A method for reducing energy consumption of a base station is described. A first pilot channel is transmitted via a first antenna using a first downlink power amplifier. A second pilot channel is transmitted via a second antenna using a second downlink power amplifier. It is determined that no multiple-input and multiple-output users are in a cell corresponding to the base station. The second pilot channel is shut off. | 05-14-2015 |
20150133140 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SILENT RETRY - A system and method for synchronizing the operation of a wireless mobile station ( | 05-14-2015 |
20150141026 | ENDPOINT DEVICE ANTENNA BEAM FORMING BASED JAMMING DETECTION AND MITIGATION - A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for locating a source of a communication impairment are disclosed. For example, the method detects the communication impairment, performs a sweep to locate a direction of the source of the communication impairment, wherein the sweep is performed in response to the detecting the communication impairment at the endpoint device, and generates a null in the direction of the source of the communication impairment. | 05-21-2015 |
20150141027 | SELF-ADAPTIVE COVERAGE OF WIRELESS NETWORKS - Both uplink spectral efficiency and downlink spectral efficiency are improved through adjustments made to various parameters that would otherwise be treated as static type parameters. Variations in respective performance of two or more cells can be considered during the adjustment. Further, variations of respective cell performance based on time of day/week are considered and compensated for through various adjustments. Such timely adaptations are applied in order to improve the performance of each cell, during each time of day/week. | 05-21-2015 |
20150141028 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING INTER-FREQUENCY NEIGHBORING CELL AND USER EQUIPMENT THEREOF - A method and an apparatus for measuring an inter-frequency neighboring cell is provided. The method comprises obtaining a time requirement of cell identification of a specific carrier, obtaining a time requirement of cell measurement of the specific carrier, identifying a new cell on the corresponding specific carrier in the time requirement of the cell identification of the specific carrier, measuring Reference Signal Receiving Power (RSRP) and/or Reference Signal Receiving Quality (RSRQ) of an identified cell in the time requirement of the cell measurement of the specific carrier, and reporting a measurement result of the identified cell according to a configured measurement event, wherein the specific carrier is different from other carriers, and the time requirement of the cell identification of the specific carrier is different from time requirements of the cell identification of other carriers. | 05-21-2015 |
20150141029 | BANDWIDTH PREDICTION FOR CELLULAR BACKHAULING - A bandwidth manager manages respective bandwidths for base stations in a communication network. The base stations are controlled by an access controller which dynamically allocates communication resources for the base stations. Each of the base stations has a respective allocated bandwidth. The bandwidth manager includes a signaling monitor and a bandwidth allocator. The signaling monitor monitors signaling between the access controller and at least one of the base stations so as to predict upcoming changes to a demand for communication resources for at least one monitored base station. The bandwidth allocator updates the respective allocated bandwidths in accordance with the predicted upcoming changes. | 05-21-2015 |
20150141030 | RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR DUAL PRIORITY ACCESS - The present invention relates to performing radio resource management tasks in a communication system including at least a base station and a terminal. In order to avoid inconsistencies in executing the radio resource management tasks for the dual-priority devices, which may run a delay-tolerant and a normal application at the same time, when the device priority changes, the change is indicated to the base station either from the terminal or from the core network. The device priority may be indicated as an overall priority per device or as a priority per bearer configured for the device. | 05-21-2015 |
20150148050 | ENHANCED RECEIVER ADAPTATION BASED ON RELATION BETWEEN SIGNALS FROM AGGRESSOR AND VICTIM CELLS - A method in a first radio node for adapting a receiver type is described. The first radio node includes a first a second different receiver types. The first radio node is included in a wireless communications network, which further includes a second and at least one third radio nodes. The method includes adapting the receiver type to be one of the first and the second types in the first radio node, for receiving first signals from the second radio node, based on a relation between an activity of the first signals and second signals received from the at least one third radio node. The first signals include signals received from a first cell associated with the second radio node. The second signals include signals received from a second cell associated with the at least third radio node. The at least third radio node causes interference on the first signals. | 05-28-2015 |
20150148051 | MOBILE TERMINAL TEST DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL TEST METHOD - Setting means does not respond to a transmission signal from a mobile terminal for a predetermined period of time and sets the mobile terminal to a designation value saturation level excess state during a random access process. Data transmission instruction means allocate M resource blocks and N resource blocks (where N is less than M) to the mobile terminal in the designation value saturation level excess state, respectively, and instruct the mobile terminal to transmit signals in which data are inserted into the allocated resource blocks. Power measurement means measures the power of the signals. Determination means determines whether a difference between the measured values when the numbers of resource blocks are M and N is within an allowable range and determines whether the mobile terminal quickly responds to an output power reduction instruction on the basis of the determination result. | 05-28-2015 |
20150148052 | Signaling for Legacy Terminal Operation in Harmonized Bands - Network nodes and methods therein for enabling use, in a cell, of different types of mobile terminals. A method in a network node ( | 05-28-2015 |
20150148053 | METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZATION WITHIN AN LTE/LTE-A SYSTEM IN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM - Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication. One method may include receiving, at a first base station, at least one clear channel assessment (CCA)-exempt transmission (CET) indicating timing information of at least a second base station over a shared spectrum. A timing of the first base station may be adjusted based on the received timing information of the second base station. Another method of wireless communication may include identifying a CCA slot assigned to a first base station for a frame, which may be associated with time synchronization, of a shared spectrum. A CCA may be performed at the identified CCA slot for the frame. When the CCA is successful, a first timing information of the first base station may be selectively transmitted during the frame. When the CCA is unsuccessful, a second timing information of a second base station may be listened for during the frame. | 05-28-2015 |
20150296384 | CLASSIFICATION-BASED ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION IN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM - Techniques for communication management between Radio Access Technologies (RATs) sharing operating spectrum in an unlicensed band of radio frequencies are disclosed. Interference may be mitigated by, for example, receiving signaling via a resource. A first RAT may be used to receive the signaling. Based on the received signaling, utilization of the resource associated with the first RAT may be identified. The identified utilization of the resource may be classified based on an attribute associated with the received signaling and a plurality of thresholds associated with the attribute. The plurality of thresholds may define different classes of utilization. Communication by a second RAT over the resource may be adapted based on the classified utilization of the resource. | 10-15-2015 |
20150301184 | Method for transmitting pseudolite system messages, pseudolite positioning system and associated device - Disclosed is a method for transmitting pseudolite system messages, the method including: pseudolite sends pseudolite node parameters of the pseudolite to which a positioning system messages broadcast channel belongs, and pseudolite node parameters of the pseudolite adjacent or nearby to the pseudolite to which the positioning system messages broadcast channel belongs, in the configured positioning system messages broadcast channel. A method for transmitting indication message of the positioning system messages broadcast channel is also disclosed in the present invention, the method including: a wireless access point sends an indication message of the positioning system messages broadcast channel of the pseudolite to a radio positioning terminal in its service area. According to the indication message of the positioning system messages broadcast channel, the radio positioning terminal accesses corresponding the positioning system messages broadcast channel, and surveys the positioning signal and/or positioning based on the node parameters obtained from the positioning system messages broadcast channel. A pseudolite positioning system and associated device are also disclosed in the present invention. By the present invention, it is possible to reduce the occupancy for the wireless access point in the pseudolite positioning. | 10-22-2015 |
20150305053 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USING COMMUNICATION RESOURCES - Embodiments of a system and method for using radio frequency (RF) resources are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the system includes an antenna subsystem including antenna apertures. The system may also include devices configured to execute a plurality RF tasks. The system may further include memory to store a prioritized list of RF tasks. The system may still further include a manager to receive a request from an RF task to use an antenna aperture. The manager may insert the RF task into a prioritized list of RF tasks within a time duration specified in the request. The manager may spawn a thread to execute the RF task through the antenna aperture, within a time frame depending on the RF task's position in the prioritized list. | 10-22-2015 |
20150305054 | INTELLIGENT M2M ENERGY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM - The invention provides for a method for power optimized transmission scheduling in an energy harvesting machine to machine device, comprising an internal power storage and an internal energy harvesting source and being configured for communication with a mobile communications network via a wireless link. The method comprises receiving an event triggering a decision to send data to the mobile communications network, monitoring at least one power parameter of said internal power source and scheduling said data for transmission based on the at least one power parameter. The invention also relates to a corresponding M2M device, to a network node and to a computer program for performing the method. | 10-22-2015 |
20150305060 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of performing interference management by a second cell in a wireless communication system, and a base station for performing the method, are discussed. The method, according to one embodiment, includes receiving, from a first cell by the second cell, an interference management message including at least one of first information on one or more predetermined subframes at which scheduling by the first cell to be restricted among a plurality of subframes, second information on an uplink interference overload indication (UL IOI) of the first cell and third information on applicability of the UL IOI in the plurality of subframes; and performing, by the second cell, an uplink or a downlink scheduling on a subframe in consideration of at least one of the first information, the second information and the third information. | 10-22-2015 |
20150312891 | Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for Wireless Local Area Networks - A method in a wireless dock includes querying a first wireless networking database to identify a first set of available channels, querying a second wireless networking database to identify a second set of available channels, and sending location and device attributes. The method also includes receiving a list of permissible frequencies and power levels, sending to a client device at least a portion of the list of the permissible frequencies and the power levels for use of selected channels selected from the first set of the available channels and the second set of the available channels, and communicating with the client device using selected frequencies and power levels selected from the at least the portion of the list of the permissible frequencies and the power levels. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312915 | UE, ENB AND METHOD FOR CHANNEL ACCESS PRIORITY FOR DISTRIBUTED D2D - Embodiments of an evolved Node B (eNB) and methods for determining priority values for User Equipment (UE) are generally described herein. A method performed by circuitry of an eNB may include receiving, at the eNB, a usage report from the UE. The usage report may include information indicating a channel usage time and a transmission power of the UE. The method may include determining, using the usage report, a priority value for the UE. The method may include sending the priority value to the UE, wherein the UE is to utilize the priority value to perform distributed scheduling of device-to-device (D2D) communication over a D2D connection with a second UE. | 10-29-2015 |
20150319641 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD FOR BUFFER STATUS REPORT, USER EQUIPMENT, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmission control method for buffer status reporting includes the steps of, by a network, configuring inter-site uplink carrier aggregation based upon at least one of a data size accumulated in a buffer of user equipment in communication with a first radio base station of a serving cell or a quality of a cell under a second radio base station, sending information of the configuration of the inter-site uplink carrier aggregation from the first radio base station to the user equipment, and transmitting a buffer status report from the user equipment to the second radio base station upon configuration of the inter-site uplink carrier aggregation. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319768 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING INTERFERENCE - A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, receiving a first signal operating at a first carrier frequency, receiving a second signal operating at a second carrier frequency, the first carrier frequency differing from the second carrier frequency, generating a combined signal based on the first signal and the second signal, measuring power levels in the combined signal, averaging at least a portion of the power levels to generate an average power level, determining a threshold according to the average power level, and monitoring interference in the combined signal according to the threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 11-05-2015 |
20150327028 | DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TRANSMISSION RATES - Apparatus, methods and logic for vehicles to determine vehicle to vehicle (V2V) safety message transmission rates for transmitting V2V safety messages based on how frequently the vehicles actually need to exchange safety messages, including factors such as vehicle velocities, distances among vehicles, and on how quickly the inter-vehicle distances are closing up. The determined V2V safety message transmission rates are selectively dynamically adjusted in accordance with detected significant changes in one or more of the inter-vehicle distances or inter-vehicle speeds. To avoid needless frequent changes to the transmission rate, statistical modeling techniques including hypothesis testing and sequential change detection are selectively used to more accurately detect significant changes in inter-vehicle distances or inter-vehicle speeds that warrant a change to the message transmission rate. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327237 | EQUIPMENT FOR FEMTOCELL TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A femtocell telecommunication system equipment comprising:
| 11-12-2015 |
20150334771 | DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION FOR A MOBILE PHONE NETWORK NODE - A mobile phone network node may determine traffic load associated with a mobile phone network and initiate discontinuous transmission at a frame level, based at least in part upon, determining that the traffic load is less than a first threshold. The mobile phone network node may further initiate discontinuous transmission at a subframe level, based at least in part upon, determining that the traffic load is greater than the first threshold and less than a second threshold and initiate discontinuous transmission at a symbol level, based at least in part upon, determining that the traffic load is greater than the second threshold. | 11-19-2015 |
20150341910 | TERMINAL APPARATUS - A terminal apparatus, which performs communication with a first base station apparatus and a second base station apparatus which has a smaller maximum transmit power than that of the first base station apparatus, includes a control unit that extracts control information from signals received from the first base station apparatus and the second base station apparatus and sets communication parameters of an uplink data signal, in which a bit number of information which is extracted by the control unit as the control information from the signal from the second base station apparatus is smaller than a bit number of information which is extracted as the control information from the signal from the first base station apparatus. | 11-26-2015 |
20150351103 | METHOD FOR INTER-BEAM INTERFERENCE REDUCTION USING CROSS POLARIZATION AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SIGNAL - Disclosed are a method for inter-beam interference reduction using cross polarization and a method for transmitting/receiving a signal. A transmitting method of a base station in a wireless communication system, includes: configuring a first parameter for forming a first beam having first polarization with respect to a terminal located in a first sub-sector, and configuring a second parameter for forming a second beam having second polarization with respect to a terminal located in a second sub-sector; and transmitting a signal to each terminal by forming the first beam using at least one antenna based on the configured first parameter and forming the second beam using the at least one antenna based on the configured second parameter, wherein a frequency band equal to a frequency band of the first sub-sector is allocated to the second sub-sector in a cell in the base station. | 12-03-2015 |
20150351126 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK CONNECTION OVERHEAD ASSOCIATED WITH MOBILE DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods include storing execution parameters for handling application messages for two or more client applications and storing callback paths for notifying the two or more client applications of transmission of the application messages. The method includes receiving an indication of a client application message available for transmission, receiving one or more network control messages that include an indication of an activity state of a network. The method includes determining whether to the delay the client application message. Responsive to the determining, based at least in part on the indication from the one or more network control messages that a network connection is active, the method includes allowing transmission of the client application message, and sending an indication of acknowledgement by one or more of the callback paths. | 12-03-2015 |
20150358834 | SIGNAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Methods and systems for signal strength management are provided. A first (mobile) communication device may provide a server with information relating to the signal strength, and such information may be used to determine future signal strength (e.g., at a different location). The first user may see the signal strength of a second communication device with which it may be communicating. The communication device may also communicate with a system that maintains a real-time database of signal strengths throughout an area, such as a state. A user's handheld device may receive a indications, warnings, and recommended courses of action that the user may take to maintain communications when a signal strength of a wireless communication network is predicted to change. Users of the present invention may take actions to insure that the quality of their call is maintained. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358977 | METHOD FOR MITIGATING INTERFERENCE WHEN CHANGING USE OF DYNAMIC RESOURCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DEVICE THEREFOR - The present application discloses a method whereby a base station transmits/receives signals to/from user equipment in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: applying one of at least one candidate resource setting as a resource setting for the signal transmission/reception; and transmitting/receiving signals to/from the user equipment in accordance with the applied resource setting, the method being characterized by: decreasing transmission power for a downlink signal if the downlink signal is transmitted, in a resource designated for uplink signal reception from the user equipment according to a predetermined reference resource setting, to the user equipment according to the applied resource setting; and increasing transmission power for an uplink signal or decreasing the coding rate of the uplink signal if the uplink signal is received, in a resource designated for downlink signal transmission to the user equipment according to the reference resource setting, from the user equipment according to the applied resource setting. | 12-10-2015 |
20150373508 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A device and method arranged to control access to resources of a communication network by a User Equipment (UE). One embodiment includes an apparatus for a user equipment for use in controlling access to resources of a communication network, the apparatus including a processing system arranged to cause the apparatus to: monitor for a change in a state of association between a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell and the user equipment, said CSG cell having a Public Land Mobile Network Identity (PLMN ID) and a CSG Identity (CSG ID) associated therewith; and in response to a said change, communicate data indicative of the change, of said CSG ID and of said PLMN ID, for receipt by a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) associated with the user equipment, whereby to enable the UICC to control access to resources of said CSG cell. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373689 | Selecting a Physical Data Channel based on Application Traffic Pattern - Selecting a physical channel for cellular communication based on application traffic pattern. A radio bearer may be established between a wireless device and a base station. A physical downlink channel may be selected for the radio bearer. The physical downlink channel may be selected based on an application traffic pattern of an application associated with the radio bearer. In some instances, a physical uplink channel may also be selected based on an application traffic pattern of an application associated with the radio bearer. | 12-24-2015 |
20150382340 | INDICATING RADIO BEARER INFORMATION TO NETWORK APPLICATIONS - Providing information related to a quality of a mobile communication link to an internal and/or external application provider is described herein. By way of example, a system can include component(s) that can receive communication link quality information associated with a mobile session, incorporate such information into a data packet, and forward such data packet to an application provider. The system can provide such information for second generation network components, third generation network components, and advanced components compatible with both second and third generation network architectures. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382367 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES IN A CELLULAR NETWORK - One example method is provided for dynamic allocation of air interface resources in a cellular network. The method can include at least three wireless cells located within a geographical proximity of each other. The method can include determining, by a central managing entity, one or more classification rules for classifying each of said plurality of mobile devices according to the one or more classification rules. The method can also include providing, by the central management entity, to a group of base stations associated with the at least three cells, information that can include, at least in part, information that relates to the determined one or more classification rules and information that relates to semi-static allocation of blocks of air interface resources for use by one or more specific members of the group of base stations. | 12-31-2015 |
20160014789 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD | 01-14-2016 |
20160020819 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVER ONLY TUNE AWAY IN MULTI-SIM DEVICES - Methods and apparatus for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus for wireless communication comprises a transmitter configured to transmit data at a first frequency on a first radio access technology. The apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive data at the first frequency on the first radio access technology. The apparatus comprises a processor configured to tune the transmitter to the first frequency associated with the first radio access technology. The processor is configured to tune the receiver from the first frequency to a second frequency associated with a second radio access technology while the transmitter remains tuned to the first frequency associated with the first radio access technology. The processor is further configured erase data to be transmitted for the first radio access technology from at least one transmission channel slot when the first frequency and the second frequency satisfy a predetermined combination of frequencies. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021660 | System and Methods for Improving Performance of a Multi-SIM Wireless Device Operating in Single-SIM or Multi-SIM Standby Mode - Methods and devices are disclosed for enabling improved efficiency and performance in idle mode processes on a multi-SIM wireless communication device currently operating in single SIM or multiple SIM multiple standby mode. After determining that the first SIM and/or second SIM are using the first RF resource and the second RF resource is unavailable, the wireless device may determine whether the first RF resource is operating in idle mode. Upon determining that the first RF resource is in idle mode, the wireless device may identify at least one idle-mode task to be performed by the first RF resource, identify parallelism parameters, identify possible parallelism task combination sets based on the at least one identified idle-mode task and the parallelism parameters, select a best parallelism task combination set, and assign parallel tasks to the first and second RF resources according to the selected parallelism task combination set. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021666 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COORDINATED POWER-ZONE-ASSIGNMENT IN WIRELESS BACKHAUL NETWORKS - Methods are disclosed for scheduling resources in a wireless backhaul network comprising a plurality of N Hubs, each Hub serving a plurality of K Remote Backhaul Modules (RBMs), using a coordinated power zone assignment across the backhaul network. For each Hub, a one-to-one power zone assignment, of each of the K RBM to one of the K power zones, is computed by maximizing a selected network utility across the backhaul network. Coordinated power zone assignment according to preferred embodiments based on the auction approach offers a close-to-global-optimal solution. Coordinated scheduling based on first assigning RBMs to hubs heuristically, and then optimally scheduling RBMs within each hub also offers significant performance improvement as compared to non-coordinated systems. Preferred embodiments offer a significant performance improvement as compared to conventional systems. They are low in complexity, and compatible with the physical constraints of SFR-based wireless backhaul network, which make them amenable to practical implementation. | 01-21-2016 |
20160073270 | DIGITAL CORDLESS TELEPHONE SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS USE, INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE PROGRAM - A carrier sense unit ( | 03-10-2016 |
20160073420 | LTE OPERATION IN WHITE SPACES - One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for efficient reassignment of a secondary communication channel (having a first priority) within a white space, upon arrival of a conflicting primary user signal (having a second priority higher than the first priority). In particular, the method comprises reassigning a secondary communication channel to unused portions of one or more white spaces remaining after the arrival of one or more primary users. For example, in one embodiment wherein one or more secondary communication channels are operated at contiguous secondary frequency ranges within a white space, a primary/incumbent user may arrive at a frequency range that conflicts with the secondary frequency range and that generates unused frequency portions of the white space(s). The secondary communication channel may be reassigned to the unused frequency portions of the white space (e.g., forming a non-contiguous secondary communication channel, forming a secondary communication channel having a reduced bandwidth). | 03-10-2016 |
20160081095 | SELECTION OF A RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE BASED ON RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE HISTORICAL INFORMATION - The disclosed subject matter provides for selecting a radio access technology resource based on historical data related to the radio access technology resource. Location information can be employed to determine a radio access technology resource. Historical information related to the radio access technology resource can then be employed to determine the suitability of the radio access technology resource. A set of radio access technology resources can be ordered or ranked to allow selection of a suitable radio access technology resource from the set. Incorporation of historical information can provide for additional metrics in the selection of a radio access technology resource over simple contemporaneous radio access technology resource information. In some embodiments, timed fingerprint location (TFL) information can be employed to determine a location. | 03-17-2016 |
20160087743 | DYNAMIC DIRECTIONAL SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Methods, systems, and devices are described for dynamic directional synchronization signal signals in a millimeter wave communication system. A base station may determine a narrowband signal component and a wideband signal component of a synchronization signal for millimeter wave communications. The base station may identify network characteristic(s) of the millimeter wave communication network and adjust parameter(s) of the narrowband signal and/or the wideband signal components of the synchronization signal. The parameters may include a transmission power split or ratio, a bandwidth, a tone selection, or combinations thereof. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088589 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING PHYSICAL CELL IDENTITIES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for allocating physical cell identities (PCIs) in a wireless communication system is provided. An eNodeB (eNB) allocates PCIs for split cells of an active antenna system (AAS), and transmits information on range of the allocated PCIs for split cells of the AAS to user equipments (UEs) or neighbor eNBs. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088608 | RADIO COMMUNICATION POLICY ALLOCATION IN A NETWORK NODE - The present disclosure relates to a method in a network node of a communication network. The method comprises determining from signalling with a cellular RAN and/or a wireless transceiver whether a radio device is within range of said wireless transceiver or not. The radio device is connected to the communication network over the cellular RAN. The method also comprises allocating a first communication policy to the radio device for communication over the cellular RAN if said radio device has been determined to be within range of the wireless transceiver, or allocating a second communication policy, different than the first communication policy, to the radio device for communication over the cellular RAN if said radio device has been determined to not be within range of the wireless transceiver. The method further comprises sending a communication policy message to the cellular RAN, comprising the allocated communication policy for the radio device for communication over the cellular RAN. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088638 | COMPUTATION OF CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK IN SYSTEMS USING COMMON REFERENCE SIGNAL INTERFERENCE CANCELATION - When enabled with common reference signal interference cancellation, a user equipment (UE) may still compute a channel state feedback value with consideration of any canceled interfering neighboring signals. When the neighboring cells are determined to be transmitting data during the time for which the channel state feedback value is being computed, the UE is able to derive the channel state feedback value considering those canceled interfering signals. The UE determines whether each neighboring cell is transmitting during the designated time either by obtaining signals that indicate the transmission schedule of the neighboring cells or by detecting the transmission schedule, such as based on the power class of the neighboring cells. If the UE determines that the neighboring cells are transmitting data during this time period, the UE will compute the channel state feedback value including consideration of the canceled interfering signals. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088677 | UE INITIATED EVOLVED PACKET CORE (EPC) AND IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM (IMS) NETWORK USAGE OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR LTE CAPABLE SMARTPHONES CONNECTED TO WIRELESS LAN (WI-FI) NETWORK - According to some embodiments, a wireless device determines that Wi-Fi is on and that the wireless device is not in a voice over LTE (volte) call or a video call with an LTE node. In response to the determination, the wireless device starts a Wi-Fi ping session via a Wi-Fi node. If the Wi-Fi ping session is successful and no packet loss is observed, the wireless device detaches from the LTE node, disables LTE on the wireless device, and attaches to a legacy node. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088678 | NETWORK INITIATED EVOLVED PACKET CORE (EPC) AND IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM (IMS) NETWORK USAGE OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR LTE CAPABLE SMARTPHONES CONNECTED TO WIRELESS LAN (WI-FI) NETWORK - According to some embodiments, an LTE node determines that a wireless device is in radio resource control (RRC) idle mode and starts an inactivity timer Tw. In response to expiry of the inactivity timer Tw, the LTE node directs the wireless device to a legacy node. | 03-24-2016 |
20160095069 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE TRANSMISSION POWER OF UPLINK CHANNELS AND SIGNALS AND APPARATUSES THEREOF - Provided are a method and an apparatus for a User Equipment (UE) for multiplexing at least one uplink channel and an uplink signal and for controlling the transmission power for an uplink channel and an uplink signal. A method of a UE for controlling an uplink transmission power may include setting the uplink maximum transmission power for each of a plurality of cell groups including one or more serving cells; and allocating the transmission power for an uplink channel and an uplink signal based on at least one of: the uplink maximum transmission power, a total sum of the transmission power of one or more uplink channels and an uplink signal transmitted in each of the plurality of cell groups, and the total maximum transmission power of the UE, and the uplink channel includes a PUCCH or a PUSCH, and the uplink signal includes a SRS. | 03-31-2016 |
20160095103 | COUNTRY CODE SELECTION LOGIC FOR WI-FI STATIONS - A wireless station (STA) and a method are disclosed that allow the STA to determine suitable characteristics for wireless transmissions from the STA. The STA may receive frames from a number of access points (APs), each frame including a country code indicating a country in which the corresponding AP is located, determine a popularity of each country code by polling the received country codes, determine in which country the STA is currently located based, at least in part, on the determined popularities of the country codes, and select a wireless channel and a transmit power level based, at least in part, on the determined country. | 03-31-2016 |
20160100405 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING A FEMTO BASE STATION AND A FEMTO BASE STATION FOR USE THEREWITH - A communication method for a wireless communication network comprises: providing a femto base station configured to communicate wirelessly with one or more wireless communication devices within the coverage area of the femto base station, wherein the femto base station may communicate on a plurality of different carrier frequencies; monitoring each communication device within the coverage area; and activating and/or deactivating one or more main carrier frequencies of the femto base station, in accordance with communication requirements of the communication devices; wherein a communication device, which is within the coverage area of the femto base station but is not being served by an active main carrier frequency of the femto base station, is served by a macro base station, having a coverage area within the coverage area of the femto base station, or, if the femto base station is also capable of communicating on auxiliary carrier frequencies, an auxiliary carrier frequency. | 04-07-2016 |
20160105839 | NETWORK CONTROLLED EXTENDED ACCESS BARRING FOR USER DEVICES - A method includes determining whether a network access class associated with a data use device is a mixed access class. The mixed access class includes a non-extended access barring (EAB) network access protocol for at least one service and an EAB network access protocol for at least one other service. The method also includes determining whether EAB access has been granted for the data use device to access a network. The method includes barring EAB network access for the data use device if EAB access has not been granted for the data use device to access the network. The method further includes allowing network access for all services for the data use device if EAB access has been granted for the data use device to access the network. | 04-14-2016 |
20160112963 | METHODS, NETWORK NODE, WIRELESS DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ASSISTING DOWNLINK INTERFERENCE ESTIMATION - It is presented a method for assisting downlink interference estimation in a cellular network. The method is performed in a network node of the cellular network and comprises the steps of: estimating an average transmit power of the network node in a future time period; transmitting a power parameter based on the estimated average transmit power to at least one wireless device being served by the network node; and transmitting a reference signal for downlink interference estimation. A corresponding network node, wireless device, computer programs and computer program products are also presented. | 04-21-2016 |
20160119071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for detecting inter-cell interference in a mobile communication system are provided. A base station receives a reference signal (RS) from a terminal, generate one or more interference candidate RSs, calculate a cross correlation of the one or more interference candidate RSs and the received RS, estimate at least one of a size of a Resource Block (RB) an offset of the RB, a group index (U), and a cyclic shift (CS) by using a preset number of interference candidate RSs in an order of the large cross correlation. The base station further removes an interference signal or performs a direct reduction by using at least one of the estimated RB size, the RB offset, the timing offset, and the group index (U). According to the present disclosure, it is beneficial to mitigate or cancel inter-cell interference problem on an uplink transmission without any assistance of neighbor base stations and/or adjacent cells in a wireless communication system. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119794 | Systems, methods, and devices for electronic spectrum management - Devices and methods enable optimizing a signal of interest based on identifying and analyzing the signal of interest based on radio frequency energy measurements. Signal data is compared with stored data to identify the signal of interest. Signal degradation data is calculated based on noise figure parameters, hardware parameters and environment parameters. The signal of interest is optimized based on the signal degradation data. Terrain data may also be used for optimizing the signal of interest. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119918 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SILENCE TIME - A transmission method comprises: connecting a first wireless device to a second wireless device; determining by the first wireless device whether a silence time is assigned to the second wireless device; setting a communication period with the second wireless device according to the assigned silence time if the silence time assigned to the second wireless device is recorded in the first wireless device; and determining by the first wireless device the silence time according to a traffic transmitted from the second wireless device if the silence time assigned to the second wireless device is not recorded in the first wireless device. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119934 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECEPTION CONTROL METHOD - A mobile station that communicates with a base station, including: means that determines whether to transmit, to the base station, quality information indicating radio quality when a predetermined time elapses based on a state, of the mobile station, which is an active state or not in discontinuous reception control; and means that, even when it is determined not to transmit the quality information based on the determination, transmits the quality information when the predetermined time elapses in a case where a scheduling request is transmitted to the base station before the predetermined time elapses. | 04-28-2016 |
20160134743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING FUNCTION OF WEARABLE DEVICE - A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a wear-or-not of a user for the wearable electronic device and limit at least one linked function using data transmitted and received to and from another electronic device, when the determining of the wear-or-not is determined as a non-wear state. | 05-12-2016 |
20160135169 | OPTIMIZED ACCESS REQUEST MESSAGE - A wireless device (e.g., Machine Type Communications (MTC) device), a wireless access node (e.g., Base Station Subsystem (BSS)), and various methods are described herein for utilizing an optimized access request message (e.g., an optimized Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (EGPRS) packet channel request message) within a wireless communication network. | 05-12-2016 |
20160135207 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CHANNEL ALLOCATON - An exemplary system and method for dynamic channel allocation in an LMR system includes using one or more preference indicators to dynamically determine a channel allocation priority to be used for channel allocation when channel allocation requests are received. The preference indicators may include a channel failure indicator (e.g. a channel health indicator based on repeater failures), a channel priority indicator, a radio frequency interference indicator, a high reflected power indicator, an excessive current drain indicator, a loss of backbone communications indicator, and a channel usage indicator. If more than one preference indicator is used, the channel priority ranking may be determined using any of a variety of weightings and prioritizations of the various preference indicators to dynamically generate the channel allocation priority. The dynamic channel allocation system may include one or more site controllers, servers, and/or one or more processors configured to implement the method of dynamic channel allocation. | 05-12-2016 |
20160143051 | BASE STATION APPARATUS - A REC unit manages card information on each of L1 cards handling a physical channel, L2-1 cards handling a logical channel, and L2-2 cards in which a scheduling function for communication processing performed with respect to the L1 card and/or the L2-1 card is implemented. A call control card of the REC unit selects, for each of first to third channels, a processing card establishing a signal path relevant to the logical channel from among the L1 card, the L2-1 card, and the L2-2 card. The call control card transmits connection relation information indicating a combination of the processing cards selected to each processing card. On the basis of the connection relation information received from the call control card, each processing card establishes the signal path for each of the first to third channels relevant to the logical channel between the processing cards. | 05-19-2016 |
20160150516 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND CONTROL METHOD - [Problem] To provide a wireless communication system, a base station, and a control method, whereby it is possible for the base station to control an active antenna transmission beam wherein an upstream reference signal is used. [Solution] A wireless communication system comprises a first base station further comprising an active antenna, and a second base station which is adjacent to the first base station. Using an upstream reference signal from a wireless terminal, the second base station estimates a direction of the wireless terminal with respect to the second base station, and transmits direction information which is the estimated result and location information of the second base station to the first base station. The first base station receives the direction information and the location information of the second base station, and, on the basis of the direction information, the location information of the second base station, and location information of the first base station, controls a transmission beam of the active antenna of the first base station. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150531 | ALLOCATING BASEBAND RESOURCE CAPACITY TO CELLS BASED ON BASEBAND PROCESSING DEADLINE MARGINS - Methods by a radio unit and related radio units are disclosed which control capacity of baseband processing resources allocated to a radio communication cell. The method includes determining a deadline margin for a prior transmission time interval (TTI) based on a difference between a time when baseband processing of data for transmission completed and a defined deadline time for completion of the baseband processing. The method further includes determining a desired capacity of baseband processing resources to allocate to the radio communication cell for a present TTI, and controlling capacity of baseband processing resources allocated to the radio communication cell for the present TTI based on the deadline margin and the desired capacity. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150537 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING PROXIMITY SERVICE DATA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR THE SAME - An electronic device and a method of an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a receiver, and a processor configured to receive first proximity service data through the receiver, wherein the first proximity service data comprises guide information that contains information indicating a device for transmitting second proximity service data and a transmission time point of the second proximity service data. The method of an electronic device includes receiving first proximity service data, wherein the first proximity service data comprises guide information that contains information indicating a device for transmitting second proximity service data and a transmission time point of the second proximity service data. | 05-26-2016 |
20160157220 | CLUSTER-BASED DERIVATION OF ANTENNA TILTS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK | 06-02-2016 |
20160157259 | METHOD FOR COORDINATED SCHEDULING BASED ON INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM | 06-02-2016 |
20160165453 | ARCHITECTURE, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM - Devices, systems, and methods are presented for a wireless base station to assign dynamically a plurality of radio transceiver chains among a varying number of wireless channels. In this manner, the communication system including the wireless base station may transition between a range extension mode and an enhanced capacity mode. In the range extension mode, a system is configured for maximum communication range with Subscriber Stations that are relatively distant from the radio transceiver chains, although communication is still possible with nearby Subscriber Stations. In the enhanced capacity mode, the system is configured for maximum communication throughput with Subscriber Stations that are relatively near to the radio transceiver chains, whereas communication with relatively distant Subscriber Stations will be either terminated or at least non-optimized. | 06-09-2016 |
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