02nd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 28 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130010635 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION POWER AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention relates to a method in which a home base station performs power control and an apparatus for the same, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring information on downlink signal strength of a macrocell; and determining an upper limit of downlink transmission power of the home base station by taking into consideration of the downlink signal strength of the macrocell, wherein: when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the upper limit of the downlink transmission power of the home base station is determined to be an intermediate value among a minimum transmission power value, a maximum transmission power value, and a power control value proportional to the downlink signal strength of the macrocell; and when the predetermined condition is not satisfied, the upper limit of the downlink transmission power of the home base station is determined to be a predetermined fixed value, the predetermined condition being a value indicating the downlink signal strength of the macrocell is equal to or greater than a first threshold value. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010636 | THREE DIMENSIONAL FAT TREE NETWORKS - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a non-blocking switch fabric is provided comprising: a first set of intra-domain switches; a second set of intra-domain switches; a set of inter-domain switches located centrally between the first set of intra-domain switches and the second set of intra-domain switches, wherein each of the ports of each of the inter-domain switches is connected to an intra-domain switch from the first or second set of intra-domain switches. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010637 | Network Modeling, Service Provisioning, and Service Management - Methods and devices for network modeling, service provisioning, and service management are disclosed. A network modeling method includes accessing information describing a set of nodes of a communications network, physical links physically connecting the nodes, and logical links logically connecting the nodes using the physical links. The method further includes, based on the information, creating a different connection group object for each of the physical links and for each of the logical links. Each connection group object includes a connection representing the link, a first endpoint representing a first node of the set connected to the link; and a second endpoint representing a second node of the set connected to the link. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010638 | Merging a Stand-Alone Switch to a Fibre Channel Network - A Fibre Channel (FC) switch and related methods are provided for merging the FC switch with an existing FC network. During a merge process of a stand-alone switch with an FC network, a first Exchange Fabric Parameters (EFP) frame is sent from the stand-alone switch to an FC switch in the existing FC network. The first EFP frame has an empty domain identifier (ID) list. The stand-alone switch receives a second EFP frame from the FC switch. The second EFP frame contains a domain ID list of domain IDs already in use in the FC network. The stand-alone switch compares the domain ID list in the second EFP frame with a stored list of one or more domain IDs associated with the stand-alone switch to determine if there is a domain ID overlap or conflict. If no conflict is detected, the stand-alone switch merges with the existing network without initiating a Build Fabric phase or a Principal Switch Selection phase that could cause disruption of traffic in the network. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010639 | SWITCH FABRIC MANAGEMENT - Techniques are disclosed for managing a switch fabric. In one embodiment, a server system is provided that includes a midplane, one or more server cards, switch modules and a management controller. The midplane may include a fabric interconnect for a switch fabric. The one or more server cards and the switch modules may be operatively connected to the midplane. The switch modules may be configured to switch network traffic for the one or more server cards. The management controller may be configured to manage the switch modules via the fabric interconnect. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010640 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTER - Provided is a network management system for managing a plurality of packet relay devices, the network management system comprising: the plurality of packet relay devices constituting networks; and a display device for displaying configurations of the networks, in a case where it is determined that a virtual packet relay device identifier of the virtual packet relay device that is assigned a second-network identifier associated with the extracted second-network identifier is registered in a first-network configuration table, a first-work identifying module is configured to associate a first-network identifier that is associated with the virtual packet relay device identifier with the obtained configuration information, and register the association between the first-network identifier and the obtained configuration information in the first-network configuration table. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010641 | Carrier Activation Employing RRC messages - A base station transmits an RRC reconfiguration message to an RRC-connected wireless device to configure secondary carrier(s). The RRC reconfiguration message is configured to cause the RRC-connected wireless device to control the activation of at least one secondary carrier. The base station transmits data packets to the RRC-connected wireless device on a data channel on at least one of the secondary carriers. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010642 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DISCOVERY OF CUSTOMER-EDGE DEVICES AND INTERFACE CONNECTIONS IN A VIRTUAL-PRIVATE-NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a customer-edge-discovery subsystem, within a VPN-provider system interconnected with a public communications network, that automatically generates a data representation of a VPN-provider view of the network by: initializing the data representation; accessing tools and protocols available within the VPN-provider system to discover elements, connections, interfaces, VPNs, and other components and characteristics of the public communications network and include representations of the discovered elements, connections, interfaces, VPNs, and other components and characteristics of the public communications network in the data representation; and finding customer-edge devices for each provider-edge device to include in the data representation using broadcast domains or address-resolution-protocol caches. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010643 | Method and apparatus for loop path search in mesh network - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for loop path search in a mesh network, comprising: a network side searching for all nodes adjacent to node v | 2013-01-10 |
20130010644 | AUTO-DISCOVERY AND MANAGEMENT OF BASE STATION NEIGHBORS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methods are disclosed that include determining a local node configuration for a local network node. The local network node configuration can include a local range and a local location. In addition, these systems and methods can include receiving a remote network node configuration for a remote network node via a communications link. The remote network node configuration can include a remote range and a remote location. Also these systems and methods can further include generating a neighbor list that includes the remote network node and the local network node. The neighbor list can be determined using the local network node configuration and the remote network node configuration. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010645 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION, USER EQUIPMENT, AND NETWORK EQUIPMENT - A method for acquiring information includes: receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) address acquisition request or Packet Data Network (PDN) address allocation information sent by User Equipment (UE); determining a PDN address capability according to the IP address acquisition request or the PDN address allocation information; and sending the determined PDN address capability to the UE. An UE and network equipment are also provided. The PDN address capability is determined by the network and is sent to the UE, so as to indicate to the UE the IP address information that may be acquired in a current PDN connection, such that when the network cannot provide an IP address for the UE any more, the UE is prevented from acquiring other IP addresses in other manners, avoiding service abnormality. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010646 | Method and device for managing network topology structure of machine to machine network - The disclosure discloses a method for managing network topology structure of a Machine to Machine (M2M) network. The method mainly includes: a control station of the M2M network obtains wireless link information of the M2M network; the control station completes establishment and/or adjustment of the network topology structure of the M2M network according to the obtained wireless link information. The disclosure also provides a device for managing network topology structure of an M2M network. By the disclosure, performing self-adaptive management on numerous terminals can be realized by the M2M network; by applying the disclosure to the wireless network management of the M2M network, manpower cost is saved and working efficiency is improved, and also it is of important significance to the smooth development of the telecom operation. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010647 | Audio Network System and Display Method - In a top row on an audio network view screen, device images corresponding to devices composing a basic network are displayed in such a manner as to be arranged in a horizontal direction according to a connection order along with connection cable images indicative of connections between the device images according to connections between devices in the network. In display rows subsequent under the top row, other device images corresponding to devices composing another network which is connected to a connection node in the basic network with a full bridge are displayed in such a manner as to be arranged in the horizontal direction in a connection order along with connection cable images indicative of connections between the device images according to connections in the other network. As for a network connected to the basic network with a partial bridge setting, a partial bridge image is displayed in a display rows. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010648 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELIABLE, FAST AND SCALABLE MULTICAST MESSAGE DELIVERY IN SERVICE OVERLAY NETWORKS - A method to organize nodes into an overlay network and to disseminate multicast messages within this overlay both through an efficient tree embedded in the overlay and through gossips exchanged between overlay neighbors. Regardless of the size of the system, this invention incurs a constant low overhead on each node. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010649 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCALABLE VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK MULTICASTING - In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for scalable virtual private network multicasting. In one embodiment a service network builds a new data multicast distribution tree for each high-bandwidth multicast data flow (e.g., multicast data flows that require an amount bandwidth meeting or exceeding a predefined threshold). However, if the multicast data flow is a low-bandwidth flow (e.g., if the required amount of bandwidth falls below the predefined threshold), the multicast data flow is routed over an existing multicast distribution tree in order to minimize an amount of state information that must be maintained by service provider core routers in the backbone network. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010650 | System and method for improving service subscription or unsubscription speed for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) roaming users - The present invention discloses a system and a method for improving service subscription or unsubscription speed for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) roaming users, wherein the system comprises a national WAP portal protocol conversion module and provincial WAP portal protocol conversion modules. The national WAP portal protocol conversion module and each provincial WAP portal protocol conversion module are configured to, through performing conversion between a synchronous message and an asynchronous message, inform a corresponding provincial WAP portal of a subscription or unsubscription request sent by a national WAP portal through a long connection link between the national WAP portal protocol conversion module and the provincial WAP portal protocol conversion module, and inform the national WAP portal of a processing result of subscription or unsubscription performed by the provincial WAP portal through the long connection link. The present invention accomplishes the conversion transmission of the synchronous message and asynchronous message through protocol conversion modules, reduces the load of the national WAP portal greatly, and makes it quite obvious that the service subscription or unsubscription speed for users is improved. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010651 | THIRD PARTY CHARGING FOR SIP SESSIONS - Communication networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide third party charging for SIP sessions. A communication network of the invention comprises a session control function (e.g., an IMS CSCF), a network node (e.g., an IMS application server), and a charging system. The session control function serves a SIP session initiated between a first and second party. The network node identifies a third party to charge for the session. The network node includes a third party identifier for the third party in a SIP message for the session, and transmits the SIP message to the session control function. The session control function generates a charging message, maps the third party identifier to the charging message, and transmits the charging message that includes the third party identifier to the charging system. The charging system then initiates charging of the session to the third party based on the third party identifier. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010652 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCAL AND TOLL SERVICES WITH LNP, AND TOLL-FREE SERVICES TO A CALLING PARTY WHICH ORIGINATES THE CALL FROM AN IP LOCATION CONNECTED TO A SIP-ENABLED IP NETWORK - A method for providing combined local, toll, toll-free services, and number portability, to a calling party originating calls from an IP-based communication devices which are coupled to an IP-based multi-media service provider. The method includes receiving a SIP INVITE message, which includes a multi-media service identifier, at the multi-media provider. The SIP INVITE message represents a call request for a multi-media service. The SIP INVITE message is processed at the multi-media service provider for determining if the call request can be satisfied. If the multi-media service provider includes resources for satisfying the call, the multi-media service identifier of the SIP INVITE message is set to a first predetermined state and the call is processed. If the multi-media service provider does not include resources for satisfying the call, the multi-media service identifier of the SIP INVITE message is set to a second predetermined state and the call is processed elsewhere. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING MORE THAN ONE HEARING DEVICES - The method for configuring at least two devices of a hearing system ( | 2013-01-10 |
20130010654 | MULTIPLE CONNECTION OPTIONS FOR A TRANSCEIVER - Apparatus, including a communication device which has two or more radio frequency (RF) ports for communicating in respective frequency bands. The apparatus also includes a substrate which has two or more interconnection ports, and which are respectively connected to the two or more RF ports of the communication device and are configured to couple a selected one of the RF ports to a duplexer operating at one of the respective frequency bands. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010655 | VOICE DATA INTEGRATED MULTIACCESS BY SELF-RESERVATION AND CONTENTION ALGORITHM - Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method for providing multiple access to a communication channel, the method comprising: sending a reservation request of a first type into a first selected minislot of a selected frame of an uplink channel when information of a first type is to be sent, the uplink channel having a plurality of frames, each frame having a first selectable number of minislots and a second selectable number of slots, the reservation request of the first type requesting an assignment of at least one slot for transmitting information of the first type in at least one frame that is subsequent to the selected frame. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010656 | CELL RESELECTION FOR SIMULTANEOUS -LTE AND TD-SCDMA COMMUNICATIONS - In a wireless communication system, a user equipment (UE) may be capable of communication on multiple radio access networks. A UE may be in simultaneous communication with one radio access network, such as TD-SCDMA for circuit-switched voice calls and with another radio access network, such as TDD-LTE for packet-switched data communications. When the TDD-LTE network is idle, the UE may evaluate signal strength of the respective network for potential cell reselection. The UE may measure only a serving TD-SCDMA cell for purposes of switching packet-switched service to the TD-SCDMA network, thereby avoiding a situation where the UE attempts to connect to a different TD-SCDMA cell for purposes of packet-switched communications than the cell presently affiliated with the UE for circuit-switched communications. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010657 | VEHICLE CREW COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The vehicle crew communication system provides up to sixty wireless headsets that can be used with one base station, a range of 1600 feet from the base station for operation of the headsets, full duplex operation communication over digitally encrypted DECT protocol links from one base station to a plurality of headsets, pairing of each headset to a particular base station, use of wireless technology inside and outside of the vehicle, automatic channel and link selection to transparently avoid interfered-with channels and links, removal of the need to manually select a channel on the headset, and the combination of the noise-cancelling microphone with noise threshold, noise attenuation, and line echo cancellation tuned to intercom parameters. The invention may be used with or without a vehicle. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010658 | Method and system for implementing synchronization among micro base stations - The present disclosure provides a method and system for implementing synchronization among micro-base stations, including: a micro-base station intercepts a wireless reference signal of an air interface, and selects a synchronization reference object according to an intercepted wireless reference signal; and the micro-base station implements synchronization processing through detecting the wireless reference signal of the selected synchronization reference object, and adjusts its own synchronization information. The method for implementing synchronization among micro-base stations disclosed in the present disclosure is implemented on the basis of the wireless air interface signals of the micro-base stations, requires no additional synchronization hardware devices (such as Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receiving apparatus, etc.) and has low cost. By the solution disclosed in the present disclosure, the mutual interference caused by asynchronization between a Time Division Duplex (TDD) micro-base station and other base stations is eliminated flexibly. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010659 | SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN ASYMMETRIC CARRIER AGGREGATION - Sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission is disclosed for asymmetric carrier aggregation, where the carrier aggregation occurs using multiple component carriers that include both paired and at least one non-paired component carrier. A user equipment (UE) determines whether to transmit SRS over at least one of the non-paired component carriers. The UE transmits the SRS over the non-paired component carrier when the determination is made. The UE maintains a single component carrier transmission at a time with a single carrier waveform SRS transmission by transmitting the SRS on a different component carrier at different subframes. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010660 | Method for Implicit Conveying of Uplink Feedback Information - Method and apparatus for conveying feedback reports from a data receiving party ( | 2013-01-10 |
20130010661 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OFDM PEER DISCOVERY - A method of wireless communication includes splitting data into n data sets, where n is greater than or equal to two. In addition, the method includes selecting n different resources associated with a resource identifier based on a hopping pattern for sending each of the data sets within a set of resources of one full set of transmissions. The selected n resources have a hopping pattern such that there is at least one resource of the n resources that is non-overlapping in time with resources associated with resource identifiers other than said resource identifier. Furthermore, the method includes sending m data sets on m selected resources in m transmissions within the one full set of transmissions, where m is less than or equal to n. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010662 | Filtering Group-Addressed Frames in Wi-Fi Devices - A method according to one embodiment includes the operations of buffering group-addressed frames; generating a first signal field comprising a first rate code selected from a plurality of invalid rate codes; receiving a trigger frame from a wireless station; and transmitting the first signal field in combination with the buffered group-addressed frames in response to the trigger frame. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010663 | HANDOVER FOR A MULTI-MODE MOBILE TERMINAL TO OPERATE IN CDMA 1X AND WiMAX OVERLAID NETWORKS - Aspects of the present disclosure allow a mobile station (MS) to maintain data activity while performing handover operations within the WiMAX network and listening to a CDMA 1x paging cycle. According to aspects, the MS maintains timing of a base station (BS) in a first radio access technology (RAT) and a BS in a second RAT. The MS may determine an expected timing of a paging cycle in the second RAT and send a sleep request to the BS in the first RAT such that the sleep interval coincides with the timing of the paging cycle in the second RAT. The MS may perform operations to ensure a sleep interval, after performing handover operations, coincides with the timing of the paging cycle in the second RAT. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010664 | METHOD FOR POWER SAVING IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method of power saving in a wireless local area network is provided. The method, performed by a wireless device, includes acquiring TXOP (transmission opportunity) from access point (AP), the TXOP indicating an interval of time when the AP has the right to transmit at least one data block for multi user-multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmission, receiving a power saving indicator from the AP, the power saving indicator indicating whether the AP allows to enter doze state during the TXOP, and entering the doze state until the end of the TXOP if the power saving indicator indicates an allowance of entering the doze state. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010665 | AD-HOC NETWORK POWER SAVE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Symmetrical and asymmetrical ad-hoc, wireless networks and a method for saving power in the same may include causing a first station to determine whether a second station has a master capability to buffer data traffic for the first station. A first station requests the second station to buffer the data traffic intended for the first station for a first predetermined period. The first station enters a first power save mode, and the second station buffers the data traffic for the first station for the first predetermined period. The first station exits the first power save mode after the first predetermined period and the second station sends the buffered data traffic to the first station. Both the first and second stations may have master capabilities, or only one of the first and second stations may have a master capability. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010666 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH INDEPENDENT BATTERY AND RADIOFREQUENCY COMMUNICATION INTERFACE - The invention is aimed at optimising the life of the power supply of mobile equipment with a radiofrequency communication interface by switching off the power to it when it reaches a given state. A mobile device ( | 2013-01-10 |
20130010667 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTICAST/ BROADCAST SERVICE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for providing a multicast/broadcast service in a mobile communication system. Upon detecting an occurrence of a multicast data packet, an Internet Protocol (IP) terminal converts the multicast data packet into an alternative multicast data packet, and transmits the alternative multicast data packet to a femto Node B. Upon detecting an occurrence of a broadcast data packet, the IP terminal converts the broadcast data packet into an alternative broadcast data packet, and transmits the alternative broadcast data packet to the femto Node B. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010668 | Synchronisation in a Communication System - Synchronisation in a communication system A method and apparatus for a communication system is disclosed. In the system communications occur via a multiple of nodes each providing a stratum for synchronisation. It is determined that the stratum of a node is not included in a predefined set of stratums. In response to said determination synchronising with the node is provided differently from nodes with stratums without taking the order of the stratum into account. Information about the status can be communicated between nodes. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010669 | A METHOD FOR MULTICAST LOAD BALANCING IN WIRELESS LANS - A method for multicast load balancing in a wireless network having a plurality of access points. The method includes setting a maximum Internet protocol multicast bandwidth for the access points, receiving an admissions control request from a client at one of the access points, and determining whether the admissions control request from the client is for an admitted or unadmitted multicast stream at the access point. The access point is responsive to the admissions control request for the admitted multicast stream by servicing the admitted multicast stream and to the admissions control request for the unadmitted multicast stream by servicing the unadmitted multicast stream where the bandwidth required for the unadmitted multicast stream, plus that portion of the access point bandwidth currently used for all existing downlink multicast streams, does not exceed the maximum internet protocol multicast bandwidth for the access point. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010670 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MULTICAST DATA DISTRIBUTION METHOD, CORE NETWORK APPARATUS, AND ACCESS NETWORK APPARATUS - A core network apparatus notifies a piece of identification information on each service for receiving multicast data in a down link to an access network apparatus. The access network apparatus receives the piece of the identification information notified from the core network apparatus to capture a radio channel for the service identified by the piece of the identification information. The core network apparatus transmits the multicast data to the access network apparatus in a receivable form on the basis of the piece of the identification information. The access network apparatus receives the multicast data transmitted from the core network apparatus on the basis of the piece of the identification information and transmits the received multicast data to terminals over the radio channel. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010671 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICE RESOURCE - When zone allocation information of sub-bands is changed, a terminal receives a new MBS configuration message after a lifetime of an MBS configuration message at a time when the changed zone allocation information is received is expired. The terminal applies the changed zone allocation information at the beginning of the first MSI of the new MBS configuration message. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010672 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REUSING MBSFN SUBFRAMES - A method and apparatus for reusing a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe are disclosed. The method comprises configuring a policy of using unicast on a reused MBSFN subframe; and implementing the configured policy to reuse the MBSFN subframe. By using the above technical solution, it is enabled to implement transmitting unicast services on an MBSFN subframe while achieving a balance between power saving and implementation complexity, without affecting the existing protocol. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010673 | RELAY METHOD FOR INCREASING FREQUENCY SELECTIVE CHARACTERISTIC OF WIRELESS CHANNEL AND RELAY DEVICE USING SAME - A relay method of a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention relates to a relay method of a wireless communication system in which at least one relay device communicates with a base station. The relay method comprises the steps of: each relay device setting information about a frequency band to be relayed, composing a control signal including the information about the set frequency band, and transmitting the control signal to at least one relay device; and receiving the control signal, extracting the information about the frequency band included in the control signal, amplifying the signal according to the information about the frequency band set in each relay device, and transmitting the amplified signal to at least one terminal. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010674 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO BASE STATION - A mobile communication system according to the present invention is configured such that a relay node RN is configured to time-share a subframe for transmission and reception in a Un interface and a subframe for transmission and reception in a Uu interface, and a radio base station DeNB is configured to transmit SI, which is to be transmitted in a subordinate cell, to the relay node RN via individual signaling. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010675 | Communications Network - A communications network comprises: a plurality of nodes, wherein the nodes are interconnected via links; and a gateway node that transmits a signal to one or more of the nodes, wherein certain ones of the nodes receives a transmission of the signal and selected ones of the nodes repeats the transmission of the signal, and wherein a given node of the interconnected nodes receives multiple transmissions of the signal from two or more other nodes of the interconnected nodes. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010676 | METHOD OF TRANSCEIVING SIGNAL AT RELAY NODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method for allowing a relay node (RN) to transmit and receive in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method for transmitting and receiving a signal at a relay node in a wireless communication system includes transmitting and receiving a relay-User Equipment (UE) link signal through an access subframe, switching a communication link from a relay-UE link to a relay-base station (BS) link during a predetermined time, and transmitting and receiving a relay?BS link signal through a backhaul subframe. A timing edge of the access subframe is located ahead of a timing edge of an uplink subframe of the backhaul subframe by an offset value. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010677 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING RELAY COMMUNICATION - A method for reporting a channel status in a mobile communication system including a relay station (RS) is provided. When a mobile terminal in the coverage of a base station (BS) receives a service through an RS, the RS reports a channel status between the RS and the terminal to the BS to allow the BS to decide whether or not to communicate with the terminal through the RS. In the method, a first RS in communication with a BS and at least one terminal measures a channel quality with a first terminal, compares the measured channel quality with a threshold and transmits a report message to the BS according to the comparison. The report message requests the BS to measure channel quality of at least a second RS or the first terminal in communication with the BS. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010678 | Wireless Protocol Converter - Methods, apparatuses, and systems for interfacing between a broadband wireless communication system and a Local Area Network (LAN) system are disclosed herein. For instance, the method can include converting first wireless data formatted according to a broadband communication protocol to a LAN protocol to generate LAN-formatted data. The method can also include converting second wireless data formatted to the LAN protocol to the broadband communication protocol to generate broadband-formatted data. Further, the method can include transmitting the LAN-formatted data to one or more first devices and the broadband-formatted data to one or more second devices. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010679 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS WITH RELAYS - Methods and systems are provided for use with wireless networks having one or more cell in which each cell includes a base station (BS), at least one relay station (RS) and at least one mobile station (MS). The at least one relay station can be used as an intermediate station for providing communication between the BS and MS. Methods are provided for an RS to initially access the network, access of the RS by MSs initially accessing the network, methods of allocating OFDM resources for communicating between the BS, RS and/or MS for example dividing transmission resources into uplink and downlink transmissions, and methods of inserting pilot symbols into transmission resources used by the RS. In some embodiments on the invention, the methods are consistent and/or can be used in conjunction with existing standards such as 802.16e. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010680 | POWER CONTROL AT A RELAY STATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A wireless network includes a base station and a relay station for extending wireless coverage of the base station. Downlink data is sent by the base station and relayed through the relay station to a mobile station, where the downlink data is associated with a preamble that is sent directly from the base station to the mobile station. A transmit power of the relay station is adjusted for transmitting the downlink data from the relay station to the mobile station to reduce a difference between a first power level of the preamble received at the mobile station and a second power level of the downlink data received at the mobile station. The uplink transmit power of the mobile station t for the data sent to the relay station is adjusted to compensate for the difference in path loss from mobile station to base station and mobile station to relay station and to compensate for the difference in noise_plus_interference level at relay station compared to that of the base station. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010681 | Network-Relay Signaling for Downlink Transparent Relay - In a method of providing downlink retransmissions to a mobile station in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network comprising a base station communicatively linked to a transparent relay station, the base station receives a request for a retransmission from the mobile station; schedules resources for the retransmission; signals scheduling information for the retransmission to the transparent relay station via a control link; and the transparent relay station receives the scheduling information for the retransmission on the control link; and sends the retransmission to the mobile station in a retransmit subframe on a retransmit frequency band. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010682 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING DOWNLINK SIGNAL - The present invention relates to A METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR RECEIVING A DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM. More specifically, the method of the present invention comprises the following steps: receiving first control information for downlink scheduling in the first slot of a resource block pair, wherein the first control information includes allocation information on at least one resource unit; receiving a data in the second slot of the resource block pair, when the allocation information on the resource unit having the resource block pair with the first control information has a first value; and attempting to detect second control information for uplink scheduling in the second slot of the resource block pair, when the allocation information on the resource unit having the resource block pair with the first control information has a second value. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010683 | RELAY APPARATUS, RELAY METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A relay apparatus includes a first control section which connects to a first network, a second control section which connects to a second network, the type of which is different from that of the first network, and a relay section which selects a path to be operated as an active system from the first network and the second network and switches paths based on information regarding the first network and information regarding the second network, wherein the second control section converts a transmission unit for transmission in the first network into a transmission unit for transmission in the second network, and transmits the transmission unit to the second network. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010684 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING CONTROL INFORAMTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS CARRIER AGGREGATION - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation. According to the present invention, a processor of a base station device that transmits control information configures a component carrier type for each of a plurality of downlink component carriers (DL CCs) in accordance with whether or not each of the plurality of DL CCs can support a relay PDCCH (R-PDCCH), which is a downlink control channel dedicated to a relay node. A transmitting antenna transmits information on the type of each of the configured DL Cs to the relay node. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010685 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING R-PDCCH - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a Relay Physical Downlink Control Channel (R-PDCCH) being a control channel for a relay node (RN) in a wireless communication system are disclosed. To transmit an R-PDCCH to a RN, a BS includes a processor for interleaving a predetermined number of Control Channel Elements (CCEs), mapping the interleaved CCEs to at least one Virtual Resource Block (VRB) configured for R-PDCCH transmission, mapping the at least one VRB to at least one Physical Resource Block (PRB), and a transmitter for transmitting the R-PDCCH to the RN through the at least one PRB. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010686 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUBSCRIBER MOBILITY IN A CABLE NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes creating a service flow with an endpoint over a wireless link coupled to a backhaul; notifying a mobility anchor of a location associated with the endpoint; relaying control packets between the endpoint and an access gateway; and relaying bearer packets between the endpoint and the mobility anchor, where the bearer packets are exchanged with the endpoint over a locally terminated bearer tunnel and the bearer packets are exchanged with the mobility anchor using Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010687 | SYNCHRONIZED UPLINK-DOWNLINK HOP FOR MEASUREMENTS - A method of wireless communication is provided which includes communicating with a base station on a first channel and tuning to a second channel concurrently with the base station tuning to a second or third channel. The method also includes measuring interference on the second channel and re-tuning to the first channel concurrently with the base station re-tuning to the first channel. The method further includes reporting channel quality, based on the interference, to the base station to enable channel selection. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010688 | METHOD OF DELIVERING A PDCP DATA UNIT TO AN UPPER LAYER - Disclosed is a radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and a terminal, and more particularly, to a method of delivering a continuously and/or consecutively received Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Service Data units (SDUs) to an upper layer immediately if a PDCP entity receives the PDCP SDUs during a process of a RLC re-establishment within an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) that has evolved from a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010689 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, SWITCH, AND SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION SERVER - A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A in which, in location registration processing of a mobile station, an switch of a first communication scheme and an switch of a second communication scheme send a subscriber information server first information used to determine whether or not all coverage areas have a same capability of providing a telephony service by packet switching; and a step B in which, when a status inquiry request made upon receipt of a terminating-call signal destined for the mobile station is received from an application server, the subscriber information server determines based on the first information whether or not to make an inquiry at the switch of the first communication scheme or the switch of the second communication scheme about whether or not provision of the telephony service by packet switching is possible in an area where the mobile station is located. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010690 | Technique of Encoding HARQ Feedback Information with Two Separate Codewords with Unequal Error Protection for DTX and ACK/NACK - A technique for encoding downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, HARQ, feedback information in a mobile station supporting aggregated component carriers is provided. A method implementation of this technique comprises the steps of obtaining ( | 2013-01-10 |
20130010691 | METHOD FOR UPDATING CARRIER INFORMATION IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more particularly, to a method in which a terminal acquires and updates global carrier configuration information of base stations in a network, and to an apparatus for performing the method. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method in which a terminal acquires carrier configuration information in a broadband wireless access system that supports multiple carriers comprises the following steps; transmitting a first message containing a change count value of the carrier configuration information acquired by the terminal: receiving, from the base station and in response to the first message, a second message containing the current change count value of the carrier configuration information; and, if the change count value of the first message and the change count value of the second message are different from each other, receiving a third message containing current carrier configuration information and the current change count value from the base station. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010692 | Other Protocol Message Routing Over a Wireless Network of Metering Devices - Methods and apparatus are provided for routing DNP (or other) protocol messages over a network of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system that employs a different communications protocol. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010693 | MOBILE NETWORK BACKGROUND TRAFFIC DATA MANAGEMENT WITH OPTIMIZED POLLING INTERVALS - Systems and methods for aligning data transfer to optimize connections established for transmission over a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for aligning data transfer to a mobile device to optimize connections made by the mobile device in a cellular network. The method includes batching data received in multiple transactions directed to a mobile device for transmission to the mobile device over the cellular network such that a wireless connection need not be established with the mobile device every time each of the multiple transactions occurs. For example, the data received in the multiple transactions for the mobile device can be sent to the mobile device, in a single transaction over a single instantiation of wireless network connectivity at the mobile device. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010694 | Multi-Carrier Operation for Wireless Systems - A method for a subscriber station to perform network entry in a multi-carrier wireless environment that has a primary carrier and at least one secondary carrier associated with a base station. The method includes sensing a carrier in an area serviced by the base station and determining if the carrier is a primary carrier or a secondary carrier. The method further includes performing the network entry if the determining establishes that the sensed carrier is a primary carrier and not a secondary carrier. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010695 | System and method for adaptive frame size management in a wireless multihop network - A system and method for adaptively managing frame size in a wireless multihop network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a packet is transmitted from a source to a destination. A acknowledgement packet is received and a successful acknowledgement packet counter is incremented if the acknowledgement packet arrives prior to a time-out of a timer. A frame size is increased if the successful acknowledgement packet counter reaches a specified value. If the acknowledgement packet arrives after the time-out of the timer, the successful acknowledgement packet counter is reset and the frame size is decreased. These procedures can be repeated until the frame size is greater than or equal to a maximum frame size or less than or equal to a minimum frame size. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010696 | METHOD AND AN ARRANGEMENT FOR LEGACY FALLBACK BETWEEN COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEMS - A method for handling Circuit Switched Fallback from a Packet Switched domain includes receiving an indication that Circuit Switched Fallback is supported from an eNodeB located within the Packet Switched domain. The method also includes registering to a Circuit Switched domain associated with Circuit Switched Fallback by tunneling Circuit Switched Registration information, via the eNodeB, to the Circuit Switched domain, thereby enabling the User Equipment to setup a Circuit Switched call or receive a Circuit Switched page. The method also includes receiving a Circuit Switched specific parameter setting from the eNodeB. The Circuit Switched specific parameter setting includes decoding information to facilitate decoding of transmissions in the Circuit Switched domain. Additionally, the method includes, after receiving the Circuit Switched specific parameter setting, switching from the Packet Switched domain to the Circuit Switched domain and using the decoding information to access the Circuit Switched domain. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS MULTI-HOP NETWORK SYNCHRONIZATION AND MONITORING - A wireless communication system and method for wireless communication in a multi-hop network. A first preamble is transmitted using a first repetition cycle. Monitoring for a second preamble is done in a second repetition cycle. The first repetition cycle is different than the second repetition cycle. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010698 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - The present invention allows content to be delivered to a mobile terminal over different types of networks in order to efficiently use network resources. Content can be delivered using a select delivery method over a cellular network, a local wireless network, or a broadcast network. Within any of the networks, the content may be unicast to individual mobile terminals using individual content flows, multicast to a group of mobile terminals, or broadcast to any or all of the mobile terminals. Content can be multicast or broadcast to mobile terminals via different ones of the disparate networks. During a content flow, the network through which the content flow is delivered may be changed to allow the mobile terminal to receive the content through a different network. Further, the delivery method used to deliver the content may dynamically change as the number of mobile terminals receiving or requesting the content changes. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010699 | METHOD OF RANDOM ACCESS IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM - A random access method in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The present invention includes transmitting a bandwidth request indicator and a quick access message from a mobile station to a base station and starting a timer having a timer value determined according to an acknowledgement from the base station. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010700 | COMMUNICATIONS AND SYSTEMS UTILIZING COMMON DESIGNATION NETWORKING - A method of forming ad hoc RSI hierarchical communication networks among pluralities of wireless transceivers includes assigning to each of the transceivers one or more common designations. A network organization routine of the transceivers operates to establish hierarchical networks based on the transceivers' common designations, resulting in a logical network organization that provides efficiencies for acquiring information from particular transceivers that share a common designation. Each transceiver's common designation is used by a digital processor of the transceiver to selectively receive data packets that are intended for receipt by transceivers sharing the particular common designation. Such a “common designation” network reduces power consumption and signal interference thereby increasing battery life. Each transceiver may include a sensor interface a query handling routine in communication with a memory of the transceiver for serving as a dynamic distributed hierarchical database system of information such as, for example, sensor-derived information and time-sensitive information. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010701 | BASE STATION AND METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Abase station includes a radio communication unit ( | 2013-01-10 |
20130010702 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION FROM MULTIPLE BASE STATIONS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A first GW function block ( | 2013-01-10 |
20130010703 | HYBRID SUBCARRIER MAPPING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and system of accommodating different mapping schemes in a transmission using an orthogonal direct sequence spread spectrum technique in which input data to a transmitter is spread by conversion into a sequence of complex numbers modulated for N-point discrete Fourier transform (N-point DFT), subcarrier mapping, M-point inverse discrete Fourier transform (M-point IDFT), and cyclic prefix (CP) insertion; the spread and modulated data is transmitted to and received by a receiver; and the received data is despread demodulated for cyclic prefix (CP) removal, M-point discrete Fourier transform (M-point DFT), subcarrier demapping and equalization, and N-point inverse discrete Fourier transform (N-point IDFT). | 2013-01-10 |
20130010704 | CONTROLLING UPLINK AND DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION POWER DURING ASYNCHRONOUS SWITCHING OF CONTROL STATES BY USER EQUIPMENT - A network node is disclosed that communicates with a user equipment node in a communications system. The network node repetitively transmits first uplink transmission power control, TPC, commands on a first physical channel with a first channel configuration while repetitively transmitting second uplink TPC commands on a second physical channel with a second channel configuration. The first and second uplink TPC commands control uplink transmission power from the user equipment node to the network node. Related user equipment nodes and methods are disclosed. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010705 | RLC DATA TRANSMISSION CONTROL BASED ON UE MEMORY CAPACITY - Data transmission with a wireless communication device which communicates over an air interface with a radio network is controlled by setting a radio link control (RLC) window size for a first logical connection established with the wireless communication device over the air interface, the RLC window size indicating a number of RLC protocol data units (PDUs), periodically estimating a total amount of memory available at the wireless communication device for storing RLC PDUs, and controlling transmission of RLC PDUs associated with the first logical connection to the wireless communication device based on the estimated total amount of memory available at the wireless communication device for storing RLC PDUs, or based on the RLC window size set for the first logical connection if the RLC window size limits the transmission of the RLC PDUs more than the estimated total amount of memory available at the wireless communication device. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010706 | Uplink Power Control Adjustment State In Discontinuos Data Transfer - The present invention provides a method, apparatus and a computer program product for uplink transmission power control in discontinuous data transfer. The present invention includes calculating, on a processor at a user equipment, a transmission power based on currently used bandwidth, and checking, on the processor at the user equipment, whether a transmission power limit has been reached based on the calculated transmission power. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING PAGING CONFIGURATIONS AND CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNAL (CSI-RS) CONFIGURATIONS - A UE or eNnodeB receives a paging configuration or channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration of a neighbor cell. The configuration enables calculating when the CSI-RS or muting of the neighbor cell will occur. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010708 | GROUP ID ALLOCATION FOR DIRECT LINK SERVICE (DLS) - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for managing group identifiers (IDs) in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) schemes to ensure that the group ID maps to the same assigned spatial stream position for a particular station (STA), for either Direct Link Service (DLS) or downlink (DL) MU-MIMO transmissions. One example method generally includes transmitting, form a first apparatus to a second apparatus, a message requesting assignment of a group ID identifying a group of apparatuses for receiving MU transmissions; and receiving, from the second apparatus, an indication of the assigned group ID, such that spatial stream assignments for the group of apparatuses are the same between the first and second apparatuses, the spatial stream assignments corresponding to the assigned group ID. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010709 | Downlink Control Information Set Switching When Using Carrier Aggregation - A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a user equipment configured for multi-carrier operation from a first downlink control information set to a second downlink control information set while carrier aggregation is being used, including receiving a physical downlink control channel with downlink control information formats containing a carrier indicator field. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010710 | METHODS, USER EQUIPMENTS AND RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLERS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK FOR CONTROLLING DOWNLINK COMMUNICATION - The present disclosure relates to a method in a user equipment ( | 2013-01-10 |
20130010711 | Random Access with Primary and Secondary Component Carrier Communications - The invention relates to random access procedures in an LTE-system applying carrier aggregation, in particular to support network-initiated random access on secondary cells. A UE transmits a preamble on a random access channel to a radio base station on a secondary cell and receives or detects a random access response message from the base station including timing advance information for uplink transmission by the UE. The UE can determine the secondary cell that the control information in the random access response message refers to and transmits to the base station based on the timing advance information in the random access response message. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010712 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING CONTENTION BASED ACCESS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method of performing a contention based access in a UE of a mobile communication system. The method includes: triggering a BSR to an ENB if data to be transmitted to the ENB occurs; and triggering the contention based access if the BSR has been triggered. The method can minimize collision between signals transmitted in the uplink by multiple UEs through contention based transmission resources in a mobile communication system. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010713 | Methods and Arrangements for Handling a Downlink Transmission in a Cellular Network - A method in a first base station ( | 2013-01-10 |
20130010714 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PDCCH USING DCI HAVING ADJUSTED SIZE - The present invention relates to a method for adjusting a size of an information bit used in a control channel and an apparatus for performing the same. In addition, the present invention relates to a method for searching for a control channel including an information bit having an adjusted size. A method for receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless access system for supporting multi-carriers as one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: performing blind decoding in a search space allocated in a terminal to search for a PDCCH; and receiving the PDCCH including downlink control information (DCI) having a size adjusted in the search space. At this time, the size of the DCI can be adjusted by considering a bandwidth allocated in the terminal, a transmission mode of a component carrier (CC) allocated in the terminal, and the number of antennas of the terminal. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010715 | System Frame Number in Multicarrier Systems - A base station is configured to communicate employing a plurality of carriers comprising at least one prime carrier and at least one non-prime carrier. The base station may transmit a system frame number in a physical broadcast channel in a frame on a prime carrier. The base station may transmit and receive, employing a communication interface, packets in the frames on a non-prime carrier. The communication interface employs the system frame number transmitted in the frame of the prime carrier. The non-prime carrier is configured to operate without broadcasting the system frame number on the non-prime carrier. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010716 | Carrier Configuration in Multicarrier Systems - A base station transmits data packets to a wireless device using carrier aggregation. A first downlink carrier carries the broadcast control information for the wireless device. The base station receives a physical uplink control channel on a first uplink carrier. The base station transmits at least one control message to the wireless device reconfiguring the carriers of the wireless device. A second downlink carrier carries the broadcast control information for the wireless device and a second uplink carrier carries the physical uplink control channel. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010717 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for transmitting data according to distributed scheduling by guaranteeing fairness and considering system throughput at same time in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for operations of a terminal for transmitting the data include determining a Proportional Fairness (PF) value, determining a link class of a link to a peer terminal using the PF value, determining a variable which is used to determine whether the terminal wins or loses a contention according to the link class, and transmitting a request message requesting channel occupation based on the contention according to the variable. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010718 | OVERLAY OF BEARERS IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio system having multiple bearers overlays a relatively narrowband bearer such as P25 on a relatively wideband bearer such as LTE, for transmission of both uplink and downlink signals. The wideband bearer uses a spectrum of subcarriers which form a set of radio frequency blocks. One or more blocks or other related parts of the spectrum may be allocated to the narrowband bearer. In some cases the narrowband bearer may push through the wideband allocation using a relatively high power to dominate signals transmitted by the wideband bearer. Voice calls such as emergency calls using the narrowband bearer may be prioritised. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010719 | METHOD FOR MANAGING THE SPECTRUM OF A MULTI-BAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - System and method for managing the spectrum of a multi-channel wireless communication system. Information related to other channels and bands is exchanged between a client associated to a first channel of the multi-channel wireless communication system and a multi-channel access point. The information includes, inter alia, capabilities of the access point and the client, working channel information of the access point, link quality metrics of the client in the other bands etc. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010720 | POWER HEADROOM REPORTING FOR NON-SCHEDULED UPLINK COMPONENT CARRIERS - This invention relates to a proposal for power headroom reporting for uplink component carriers for which no uplink resource allocation is scheduled by the eNodeB. The user equipment (UE) calculates a virtual power headroom for the non-scheduled uplink component carrier, based on a virtual uplink resource assignment pre-configured by the UE and eNodeB. According to one embodiment the maximum transmit power of the UE is set to a pre-configured fixed value. Alternatively, the maximum transmit power is calculated by the UE considering the power reduction, while the uplink transmission power is set to zero. The virtual power headroom is then transmitted to the eNodeB, which in turn can infer therefrom the pathloss and/or power-per-resource-block for the non-scheduled uplink component carrier and may also infer the power reduction used by the UE. This allows a more accurate scheduling of future uplink transmissions on said non-scheduled uplink component carrier. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010721 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In case that a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus use a plurality of component carriers to communicate with each other, they effectively transmit and receive HARQ control information. At least one physical downlink control channel on at least a first downlink component carrier attempts to be decoded, and, in case that one physical downlink control channel corresponding to one physical downlink shared channel transmission on a second downlink component carrier other than the first downlink component carrier is detected, the HARQ control information is transmitted to the base station apparatus using a first physical uplink control channel resource whereas, in case that one physical downlink control channel corresponding to one physical downlink shared channel transmission on the first downlink component carrier is detected, the HARQ control information is transmitted to the base station apparatus using a second physical uplink control channel resource. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010722 | MOBILE STATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND CIRCUIT DEVICE - A mobile station device communicates with a base station device. The mobile station device—includes a reception unit receiving downlink data and a downlink control channel including information indicating a radio resource for contention based signal transmission, and a transmission unit-transmitting at least one of ACK/NACK for the downlink data and a contention based signal when the ACK/NACK and the contention based signal collide with each other in the same uplink time frame. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010723 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - For efficient transmission of a first reference signal and a second reference signal for channel estimation without deteriorating a channel estimation accuracy, and without deteriorating a communication quality, a mobile station apparatus, in the case where a transmission of the first reference signal and a transmission of the second reference signal coincide in the same timing (Step S | 2013-01-10 |
20130010724 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOLVING THE CONFUSION IN CCES - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for handling physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) in a user equipment, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of control channel elements (CCEs) from a base station; performing blind decoding of the plurality of CCEs in CCE aggregation units; and identifying a CCE aggregation level used for the PDCCH transmission, on the basis of the blinding decoding result, wherein the CCE aggregation level is relevant resource mapping of the control information included in the PDCCH. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010725 | TRANSMITTING AND/OR RECEIVING DATA IN A SIDE CHANNEL - Systems, methods, and apparatus are described that employ specially designed interference patterns to build an in-band side channel without degrading the effective throughput of the main channel. A first device ( | 2013-01-10 |
20130010726 | SEQUENCE ALLOCATING METHOD AND SEQUENCE ALLOCATING APPARATUS - A sequence allocating method and apparatus wherein in a system where a plurality of different Zadoff-Chu sequences or GCL sequences are allocated to a single cell, the arithmetic amount and circuit scale of a correlating circuit at a receiving end can be reduced. In ST | 2013-01-10 |
20130010727 | SEQUENCE ALLOCATING METHOD AND SEQUENCE ALLOCATING APPARATUS - A sequence allocating method and apparatus wherein in a system where a plurality of different Zadoff-Chu sequences or GCL sequences are allocated to a single cell, the arithmetic amount and circuit scale of a correlating circuit at a receiving end can be reduced. In ST | 2013-01-10 |
20130010728 | WIRELESS TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless terminal apparatus is capable of switching between a first mode in which connection to a wireless access network is established and a second mode in which the connection to the wireless access network is temporarily released. The wireless terminal apparatus has a data processing unit and a transmitting unit. The data processing unit generates data to be transmitted to the wireless access network. The transmitting unit includes at least a part of the data generated by the data processing unit during the second mode in a control message to be transmitted to the wireless access network in the second mode, and transmits the data. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010729 | MULTIPLEXING SCHEMES FOR OFDMA - Methods and systems are provided for allocating resources including VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and Non-VoIP resources. In some embodiments, multiplexing schemes are provided for use with OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access) systems, for example for use in transmitting VoIP traffic. In some embodiments, various HARQ (Hybrid Automatic request) techniques are provided for use with OFDMA systems. In various embodiments, there are provided methods and systems for dealing with issues such as Handling non-full rate vocoder frames, VoIP packet jitter handling, VoIP capacity increasing schemes, persistent and non-persistent assignment of resources in OFDMA systems. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010730 | System and Method for Resource Scheduling - A component in a telecommunications system is provided. The component includes one or more processors configured to promote semi-persistent scheduling of a resource and to send a release message. The release message informing the user equipment to cease attempting to process data from the downlink portion. Also provided is user equipment comprising one or more processors configured to promote providing an indication that a request for an uplink resource is related to a voice over Internet Protocol call. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010731 | DYNAMICALLY DEDICATED WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SERVICE FOR HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO TELECONFERENCING - In an example embodiment described herein is an apparatus comprising a wireless transceiver and channel selection logic coupled to the wireless transceiver and operable to select an operating frequency for the wireless transceiver. The channel selection logic is configured to reserve a dedicated channel having a special identifier. The channel selection logic is configured to have the wireless transceiver advertise the dedicated service on a normal operating frequency. The channel selection logic is responsive to receiving a request from a wireless device via the wireless transceiver on the normal operating frequency to use the dedicated channel to switch to the dedicated channel and establish communications with the wireless device on the dedicated channel. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010732 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication apparatus specifies a radio resource area in which a radio communication apparatus searches for a control signal, on the basis of information about the use of a plurality of frequency bands. Then, the radio communication apparatus transmits a control signal addressed to the radio communication apparatus in the specified radio resource area. The radio communication apparatus calculates the specified radio resource area on the basis of the information about the use of the plurality of frequency bands. Then, the radio communication apparatus searches signals in the calculated radio resource area, out of signals received from the radio communication apparatus, and thereby detects the control signal addressed to the radio communication apparatus. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010733 | METHOD OF CONFIGURING A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matches the rate between the different coded transport channels with separate qualities of service, and the different coded transport channels are then multiplexed. The matching rate specific to each coded transport channel is determined from at least one first parameter representative of the expected Eb/I ratio and a second parameter representative of the capacity of the physical channel. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010734 | SELECTING A TRANSMISSION MODE BETWEEN A SUBSCRIBER AND A BASE STATION - Embodiments for a method and apparatus of selecting a transmission mode between the subscriber and a base station are disclosed. One method includes determining a predictive window. Instantaneous channel quality measurements are averaged, wherein the averaging is dependent upon a size of the predictive window. A first estimate of the transmission mode is determined based on the averaged instantaneous channel quality measurements. A margin is calculated based on reception of a qualifying downlink transmission. The transmission mode is selected by updating the first estimate with the margin. | 2013-01-10 |