10th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 45 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140064132 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR DELIVERING MINIMIZATION OF DRIVE-TESTS MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS - Embodiments of the present application discloses a method, system and apparatus for transmitting Minimization of Drive-Tests (MDT) measurement configuration parameters, relate to the field of wireless communications and address the problem that a User Equipment (UE) can not perform MDT measurement when the UE is configured by the network side to perform MDT measurement. In the present application, a Mobility Management Entity (MME) receives MDT measurement configuration parameters of a user equipment transmitted from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS); the MME determines whether cell list information in the MDT measurement configuration parameters includes information of a cell controlled by a base station controlling a serving cell of the user equipment; and the MME transmits the MDT measurement configuration parameters to the base station serving the user equipment when the result of determination is YES. With the invention, the problem of the UE failing to perform MDT measurement can be avoided. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064133 | Nodes and Methods for Enabling Measurements Performed by a Wireless Device - The disclosure relates to a method in a network node of a communications system, for enabling measurements performed by a wireless device, when MBSFN subframes are configured in the system. The method comprises determining ( | 2014-03-06 |
20140064134 | ADAPTIVE FAST DORMANCY CONTROLLER - Methods, devices, and instructions stored in non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for adaptively adjusting when a mobile device requests fast dormancy (FD) by determining when applications executing on the mobile device stop using a connection to a cellular telecommunications network. An adaptive fast dormancy controller function executing on a processor of the mobile device monitors network traffic activity by the applications. The adaptive fast dormancy controller function may determine that an open network connection should be released using a device traffic inactivity timer that times durations of network inactivity by applications. The duration of the device traffic inactivity timer may be adjusted based upon observed application and/or network conditions. Multiple device traffic inactivity timers may be used to enable timing traffic inactivity of each application or groups of applications executing on the mobile device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064135 | Reception of Downlink Data for Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission in the Event of Fall-Back - Systems and methods for fall-back rate-matching and timing for user equipment (UE) configured for downlink (DL) Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission (CoMP) are disclosed. In one embodiment, when a UE configured in DL CoMP receives a fall-back transmission, PDSCH is rate-matched around the serving cell CRS. In an alternative embodiment, when a UE configured in DL CoMP receives a fall-back transmission, PDSCH is rate-matched or uses timing around one of the cell-specific reference symbol (CRS) resource element (RE) set indicated by RRC-higher layer signaling. For example, PDSCH may be rate-matched or use timing around the first RRC higher layer configured CRS RE set. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064136 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system includes a mobile terminal, a base station, a first gateway device, a second gateway device, a flow measurement server, a quality management server, and an operational terminal. A predetermined flow is extracted by a quality management server, and the extracted flow is summarized for each communication path. A distribution of the communication quality of the flow for each communication path is displayed on a display unit of the operational terminal. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064137 | NON-INTRUSIVE MONITORING OF QUALITY LEVELS FOR VOICE COMMUNICATIONS OVER A PACKET-BASED NETWORK - Provided is a method and apparatus for objectively and non-intrusively measuring voice quality on live calls without disrupting the call session or the network. A communication system includes plural communities each including a switch that controls access to a packet-based data network for call sessions. Each of the communities is coupled to the data network by respective packet-based trunks. Quality of service (QoS) monitoring devices are coupled to the respective packet-based trunks to monitor quality levels of routes between any two given communities. Each QoS monitoring device receives packets containing streaming data (which may be actual packets or test packets). From the received packets, the QoS monitoring device can derive QoS parameters, particularly for audio and speech signals on live calls without disrupting the call session. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064138 | NETWORK TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY AND OBSOLESCENCE REPORTING - Implementations of the present disclosure involve an apparatus and/or method for a network topology discovery engine that detects one or more network elements and/or one or more connections between a plurality of network elements. The network topology discovery engine transmits a request for operational and connection information from at least one network element. In response, network topology information is received by the network topology discovery engine by one or more elements of the network that provide information on the topology and operational state of the telecommunications network. The received information may then be stored in a network topology database. This network topology database may be utilized by the network or a related component for information or maintenance of the telecommunications network, such as an obsolescence tracker to detect one or more network elements that could be replaced or upgraded. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064139 | REMOTELY CONTROLLING ASPECTS OF POOLS AND SPAS - Systems and methods of (remotely) controlling aspects of pools and spas and of modifying water contained therein are detailed. Internet-enabled access to pool and spa controllers may happen without any need for users to create firewall ports or utilize static internet protocol addresses. Certain networking devices may be configured using a USB connection or SD card, avoiding any requirement for an Ethernet cable or supplying separate power to the devices during configuration. Other devices may be configured wirelessly, without need of any USB connection or SD card. Time-varying data may be obtained in respect of one or more installations and analyzed for various information. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064140 | QUICKLY JOINING WI-FI NETWORKS USING NEIGHBORING ACCESS POINTS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a device for joining a known Wi-Fi network. During operation, the device performs a scanning operation during a scanning process to find a known access point of a WLAN for the device to join. Next, if the scanning operation finds an access point, the device determines whether the access point neighbors a known access point. If so, the device attempts to associate with the known access point by performing a scanning operation on the specific channel associated with the known access point. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064141 | MOBILITY DETECTION FOR EDGE APPLICATIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Various embodiments detect wireless communication device mobility in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, one or more Internet Protocol (IP) data packets associated with a wireless communication device are analyzed. The wireless communication device is coupled with the edge entity. A determination is made, based on the analyzing, that the wireless communication device is a newly coupled device at the edge entity. A central entity disposed within the wireless communication network is notified that the wireless communication device is currently coupled to the edge entity. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064142 | UPDATING MULTICAST GROUP INFORMATION OF A CLIENT DEVICE OF A WIRELESS MESH NETWORK - Systems, methods and apparatuses for updating multicast group information of a client device of a wireless mesh network are disclosed. One method includes an access node of the wireless mesh network determining multicast group information of the client device that is connected to the access node, and the access node providing routing updates to upstream access nodes and a first upstream gateway, wherein the multicast group information of the client device is included within the routing updates of the client device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064143 | SYSTEM FOR ACCOUNT SETUP AND/OR DEVICE INSTALLATION - A user may select more than one device to be installed in a building. An order of installation of the devices may be determined based on the type of devices selected. A user may be presented with a module for each device selected. The modules may be presented in the order of installation. The modules may include instructions for installation for the corresponding device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064144 | Switching System Employing Independent Data Switches Connecting Orthogonal Sets of Nodes - A switching system formed of a number of nodes interfacing with external network elements and interconnected through a number of independent switches is disclosed. The switches are arranged into a set of primary switches, a set of secondary switches, and a set of tertiary switches and each node connects to a respective primary switch, a respective secondary switch, and a respective tertiary switch. The connection pattern of nodes to switches is selected so that any set of nodes connecting to any primary switch, any set of nodes connecting to any secondary switch, and any set of nodes connecting to any tertiary switch are mutually orthogonal. A distributed control system sets a path from any node to any other node traversing at most two switches. The switching system may serve as a large-scale data-switching center or a geographically distributed network. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064145 | Representing and Searching Network Multicast Trees - Methods and systems are disclosed for receiving data from each of a plurality of components in a network, the components being arranged as a plurality of multicast trees, the data from each of the components indicating a structure of a portion of the network and at least one attribute associated with the respective component. The disclosure further provides for determining, based on the data, a structure of at least some of the multicast trees, receiving search criteria, and determining which of the multicast trees meet the search criteria. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064146 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING NETWORK CONFIGURATION, AND RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for processing network configuration, and a radio network controller. The method includes: establishing a neighboring cell relationship between a macro cell and a generic access network cell, where the neighboring cell relationship is a neighboring cell mapping relationship between a radio network controller of the macro cell and a generic access network controller of the generic access network cell, and more than two generic access network cells share one generic access network controller; and when a handover of a user equipment from the macro cell to the generic access network cell occurs, sending a measurement control message to the user equipment according to the neighboring cell relationship between the macro cell and the generic access network cell. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064147 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WAN ENABLED PEER DISCOVERY - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for communication are provided in connection with WAN entity enabled discovery to for P2P communications. In one example, a WAN entity is equipped to obtain location information associated with a UE, allocate a peer discovery resource to the UE for use during peer discovery based at least in part on the obtained location information, and send a control message to the UE including the allocated peer discovery resource and one or more attributes associated with the peer discovery resource for use during peer discovery. In another example, a UE is equipped to send location information associated with a physical location of the UE to a WAN entity, receive a control message including a peer discovery resource and one or more attributes associated with the peer discovery resource, and use the peer discovery resource during peer discovery. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064148 | Distributed Proxy Addressing Operations - An addressing redirection mechanism is initiated at a switch or a router in a computing network in order to enable the switch to perform one or more distributed proxy addressing operations on behalf of a connected router. An address request transmitted from a first host device to a second host device to obtain addressing information of the second host device is received at the switch, and the switch inspects the address request to identify addressing information for the first host device. The switch is configured to forward the addressing information for the first host device to the router | 2014-03-06 |
20140064149 | NETWORK ACCESS DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ESTABLISHING CONNECTION TO A WIDE AREA NETWORK - A network access device (NAD) is configured to automatically establish a connection to a WAN. The NAD tests IP configurations according to a first priority scheme at least until a currently best scoring one of the IP configurations is selected for use to communicate over the WAN. The testing of the IP configurations includes transmitting requests according to a first priority scheme and tracking any replies reflecting which IP configurations are valid. The first priority scheme is for selecting among IP configurations for testing and prioritizing a first type of IP configuration over a dynamically determined type of IP configuration. Which IP configurations of the dynamically determined type that are to be tested are determined by attempting to obtain DHCP leases using different VLAN IDs according to a second priority scheme of VLAN IDs to include in DHCP requests. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064150 | MST EXTENSIONS FOR FLEXIBLE AND SCALABLE VN-SEGMENT LOOP PREVENTION - In one embodiment, a first number of multiple spanning tree instances (MSTIs) are defined within a network. A second number of network segments associated with segmentation identifier (IDs) are also configured, where the first number of MSTIs is less than the second number of segmentation IDs. Segmentation ID to MSTI mappings are maintained that map each defined segmentation ID of the second number of network segments to one of the first number of MSTIs. A segmentation mapping digest is computed of the segmentation ID to MSTI mappings. Multiple spanning tree (MST) bridge protocol data units (BPDUs) are broadcast that include the digest of the segmentation ID to MSTI mappings. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064151 | SY SESSION CREATION AND RECOVERING FROM INCONSISTENT SESSION STATE BETWEEN PCRF AND OCS - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a policy and charging rules node (PCRN), the method including: sending a first Sy spending limit request (SLR) to an online charging system (OCS) without specifying any policy counters; receiving from the OCS a first spending limit answer (SLA) including policy counters and associated status reports for a subscriber; creating an Sy session; determining required policy counters based upon the policy counter statuses; sending a second Sy SLR to the OCS for the required policy counters; and receiving a second SLA including status reports for the required policy counters. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064152 | High Definition Audio Distribution System - A system distributes high-definition (HD) audio across a local telephone network. The system receives an audio selection from a communication device linked through the local telephone network. The audio selection may identify an audio source to retrieve audio data from, such as a broadcast channel, Internet streaming source, or others. The system can tune a communication resource to obtain an audio stream from the specified audio source, transcode the received audio stream into HD audio data, and distribute the HD audio data to the communication device via the local telephone network. The local telephone network may be an analog telephone network or an Internet Protocol (IP) network that supports Voice over IP (VoIP) communications. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064153 | DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION LINE ASSIGNMENT - A system that enables a calling party to communicate with a called party over a communications network comprises: (a) a web page storage device that is operable to send, over the internet, (i) web pages to a calling party device, the web pages including a data entry screen into which a user enters a required telephone number or VoIP user name with which communication is sought and (ii) a call-in number; (b) a conversion device that is operable to receive over the internet, from the calling party device, the telephone number or VoIP user name and can cause the altering of call forwarding settings at a switch, such that a call from the calling party device to a call-in number will be automatically forwarded to a device associated with the telephone number or VoIP user name; (c) a dynamic line assignment module that can dynamically assign the call-in number. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064154 | MULTI-TENANT SERVICE MANAGEMENT IN A VOIP NETWORK - A system and method for aggregating services within a VoIP network. The VoIP network comprises a plurality of vendors, resellers, and users, and each reseller aggregates a plurality of services from the vendors and other resellers. Each type of service may be organized into two or more tiers, with each tier including one or more services. Each tier is presented to downstream users as a single price and is re-branded with the reseller's branding elements. Downstream users can select a desired service from a given tier, and the tier may automatically select a service that maximizes the profit for the reseller. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064155 | Processing Communication Sessions - Measures for moving an established communication session in a telecommunications network, the communication session being established between a first device in a plurality of user devices associated with a user and a remote user device associated with a remote party, to a second device in the plurality of user devices associated with the user. At the second user device, a message is received from the first user device indicating that a communication session has been established between the first user device and the remote user device, the message comprising contact information for the remote user device. The second user device transmits, to the remote user device using the contact information comprised in the message, a request to replace the communication session established between the first user device and the remote user device with a communication session between the second user device and the remote user device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064156 | SELECTIVE NETWORK PARAMETER CONFIGURATONS BASED ON NETWORK IDENTIFICATION OF NON-IMS MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS - In a first embodiment, an access network detects whether QoS links for both IMS and non-IMS sessions are allocated to a client device, whereby the non-IMS session is recognized as being associated with a particular application type. An SRVCC feature for the IMS session is disabled if the QoS link for the non-IMS session exists and carries at least a threshold level of traffic. In a second embodiment, a non-IMS session is supported by a first network with QoS and is then handed off to a second network. After the handoff, the second network supports the non-IMS session with an application-specific QoS configuration based on application-identifying information provided from the first network. In a third embodiment, a single or dual-transceiver client device is engaged in a non-IMS session with QoS. A page originating from a CS network is ignored if a do-not-disturb feature is activated for the non-IMS session. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064157 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SEGMENTS OF A HOME NETWORK - A method for providing bidirectional communication between segments of a home network includes receiving a first communication signal at a first interface of an inter-domain bridge during a first time interval; receiving a second communication signal at a second interface of the inter-domain bridge during the first time interval; generating a superimposed signal of the first communication signal and the second communication signal; and transmitting the superimposed signal through the first interface and the second interface during a second time interval. The second time interval occurs after the first time interval. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064158 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN A NETWORK NODE - A method and arrangement in a first network node, which is serving a user equipment, for determining whether a handover of the user equipment is to be made to a second network node. The first network node and the second network node are configured for wireless communication with each other over a backhaul link in half-duplex communication mode. The first network node obtains an estimation of data-rate performance over the backhaul link, and determines whether to hand over the user equipment to the second network node based on the obtained estimation of the data-rate performance over the backhaul link. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064159 | Method and Apparatus for Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Signaling - In one aspect, the teachings herein provide a method and apparatus for extending certain HARQ feedback procedures introduced in LTE Rel-10, which were defined for CA configurations involving TDD serving cells of the same UL/DL configuration, to the new, more complex CA configurations introduced in Rel-11, which involve the aggregation of interband TDD serving cells with differing UL/DL configurations. Such reuse enables reliant and efficient HARQ feedback signaling in LTE Rel-11, without substantially increasing the specification or implementation complexity of HARQ feedback signaling in LTE Rel-11, despite the decidedly more complex CA configurations introduced in LTE Rel-11. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064160 | Synchronizing Uplink and Downlink Transmissions in a Wireless Device - Synchronizing uplink and downlink transmissions by a wireless user equipment (UE) device. A connection with a network may be established via a wireless link with a cell. The UE may operate in an active state during first periods of time in which uplink or downlink communications may be performed between the UE and the network. The UE may operate in a reduced-power state during second periods of time in which uplink and downlink communications are not performed. The first periods of time may alternate with the second periods of time in a repeating manner. Uplink data generated by the UE may be buffered during second periods of time and transmitted during first periods of time. Buffering uplink data in this manner may prevent the UE from immediately transitioning from the reduced-power state to the active state to transmit uplink data, which may conserve battery of the UE. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064161 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FACILITATING EARLY HEADER DECODING IN COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - Communications devices are adapted to receive a plurality of RF bursts of a radio block, where the plurality of RF bursts includes a number of RF bursts less than a total number of RF bursts for the radio block. A header can be decoded from the received plurality of RF burst. From the decoded header, a determination may be made whether the radio block is intended for the communications device or for another device. According to at least some examples, if the radio block is determined to be intended for another device, at least a portion of a receiver circuit of the communications device can be powered down. Also, according to at least some examples, if the radio block is determined to be intended for the receiving communications device, a data payload of the radio block may be decoded. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064162 | POWER MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK OF STATIONARY BATTERY POWERED CONTROL, AUTOMATION, MONITORING AND PROTECTION DEVICES - A faulted circuit indicator periodically joins a network to report information and receive commands. The faulted circuit indicator optimizes the transmit power used to join the network so that an acceptable network acquisition time and/or robust routing through multiple nodes are obtained. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064163 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PAGING BASED PEER DISCOVERY - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with LTE based paging for peer discovery. In one example, an eNodeB is equipped to receive a message including a D2D discovery notification for a UE, determine that the UE is in an idle mode, and transmit a paging notification to the UE including the D2D discovery notification. In another example, a UE is equipped to receive, from an eNodeB, a paging notification including a D2D discovery notification, determine, while in idle mode, that the D2D discovery notification is successfully decoded, and transmit an ACK to the eNodeB using a RACH sequence on a PRACH. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064164 | TRANSMITTING BEACON FRAMES OVER A WIRELESS DATA LINK - A method and apparatus are described for transmitting beacon frames to an electronic device over a wireless data. In the described embodiments, a processing subsystem is coupled to a transceiver and is configured to determine a beacon frame interval based on a highest common factor of a listen interval for the electronic device and a delivery traffic indication message interval, and to control the transceiver to transmit a beacon frame each beacon frame interval. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064165 | RADIO POWER SAVING TECHNIQUES FOR VIDEO CONFERENCE APPLICATIONS - In video conferencing over a radio network, the radio equipment is a major power consumer especially in cellular networks such as LTE. In order to reduce the radio power consumption in video conferencing, it is important to introduce an enough radio inactive time. Several types of data buffering and bundling can be employed within a reasonable range of latency that doesn't significantly disrupt the real-time nature of video conferencing. In addition, the data transmission can be synchronized to the data reception in a controlled manner, which can result in an even longer radio inactive time and thus take advantage of radio power saving modes such as LTE C-DRX. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064166 | DYNAMIC SELECTION OF EARLY-RX DURATION DURING NETWORK SLEEP OPERATION - Systems, methods, and devices for saving power in wireless communications devices are described herein. In some aspects, an apparatus includes a memory unit configured to store wake-up information associated with a wake-up time duration for receiving a beacon signal, and includes a processor operationally coupled to the memory unit. The wake-up time duration identifies a time for the processor to wake-up before an expected arrival time of the next beacon signal. The processor may be configured to retrieve the wake-up information from the memory, and vary, over a period of time, the wake-up time duration based on the wake-up information. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064167 | INTER-CHIP DATA COMMUNICATIONS WITH POWER-STATE TRANSITION MANAGEMENT - A method includes inter-chip data communications between a power-managed integrated circuit (IC) and a peer IC. The peer IC generates a data frame and prepends a discardable preamble of a predefined size to a payload of the data frame. The predefined size is a size not less than a size of data discarded by the power-managed IC upon the power-managed IC receiving a data frame while in a low-power state. The peer IC transmits the data frame to the power-managed IC. The power-managed IC, while in a low-power state, may receive the data frame from the peer IC and in response to receiving the data frame, begin exiting the low-power state. The power-managed IC, while exiting the low-power state, may discard a portion of the data frame such as for example, some or all of the discardable preamble, without discarding payload. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064168 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - According to an embodiment, a wireless communication device configured to perform an intermittent receiving operation during standby includes a frame detection monitoring unit and a timer unit. The frame detection monitoring unit is configured to monitor detection of a frame during a receiving operation in the intermittent receiving operation. The timer unit is configured to extend a period of the receiving operation when receiving a notice of detection of the frame from the frame detection monitoring unit, and to extend the period of the receiving operation again when receiving again the notice of detection of the frame from the frame detection monitoring unit during an extended period of the receiving operation. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064169 | DUTY CYCLED TRANSMISSIONS - Systems, methods, and devices for saving power in wireless communications devices are described herein. In some aspects, an apparatus for wireless communication includes a memory unit configured to store transmission power information, and a processor operationally coupled to the memory unit, the processor configured to retrieve the transmission power information from the memory unit and further configured to define, based at least partially on the transmission power information, a duration of the data segment and a duration of an idle time segment such that an average transmit power by a transmitter over the duration of the data segment and the duration of the idle time segment is below a threshold power value. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064170 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ADOPTING A CARRIER AGGREGATION TECHNIQUE, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present application discloses a method in which a terminal transceives a signal to/from a base station in a wireless communication system adopting a carrier aggregation technique. More particularly, the method comprises: a step of receiving a wake-up message for a sub-component carrier which is in an idle state from said base station via a main component carrier; a step of starting to monitor said sub-component carrier after receiving said wake-up message; and a step of receiving a downlink signal from said base station or transmitting an uplink signal to said base station via said sub-component carrier. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064171 | METHOD FOR CONSERVING POWER ON BATTERY-POWERED COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method limits power usage by a battery-powered communication device having high and low power states of operation. The device's WiFi driver running on a kernel level of the operating system includes a counter-based routine for placing the device in one of its low power state and high power state. A high or low priority level is established for applications maintained on the device. An identifier for each application and its priority level is stored within a module maintained at the operating system's kernel level. Network traffic passing through the kernel level is monitored to determine whether the network traffic is associated with one of the identified applications and whether the priority level associated therewith is high priority. The counter-based routine of the WiFi driver is accessed when the network traffic is associated with one of the applications and its priority level is high priority. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064172 | TIMING RE-SYNCHRONIZATION WITH REDUCED COMMUNICATION ENERGY IN FREQUENCY HOPPING COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a battery-operated communication device “quick-samples” a frequency hopping sequence at a periodic rate corresponding to a substantially low duty cycle, and is discovered by (e.g., attached to) a main-powered communication device. During a scheduled sample, the main-powered communication device transmits a control packet to be received by the battery-operated communication device, the control packet containing timing information and transmitted to account for worst-case clock drift error between the two devices. The battery-operated communication device responds to the control packet with a link-layer acknowledgment containing timing information from the battery-operated communication device. Accordingly, the two devices may re-synchronize their timing based on the timing information in the control packet and acknowledgment, respectively. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064173 | STANDBY TIME IMPROVEMENTS FOR STATIONS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method includes receiving, at a station, a first delivery traffic indication message (DTIM) assigned to a first delivery interval. The first DTIM is configured to indicate whether group-addressed traffic is scheduled for delivery during a beacon interval. The first delivery interval is larger than a second delivery interval associated with a second DTIM. The method further includes receiving the group-addressed traffic during the beacon interval. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064174 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL AND BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system includes a user terminal capable of discontinuous reception (DRX) and a base station communicating with the user terminal. The user terminal includes a receiving section for receiving information about DRX from the base station; a DRX cycle setting section for setting DRX cycles; a first period setting section for setting a first period among the DRX cycles to receive a downlink signal; and a receivable period setting section for setting a receivable period to receive the downlink signal within a second period outside of the first period. The base station includes a DRX cycle setting section for setting the DRX cycles; a first period setting section for setting the first period; a receivable period setting section for setting the receivable period; and a transmission section for transmitting the set information to the user terminal to be set on the user terminal. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064175 | REDUCING LATENCY IN MULTIPLE UNICAST TANSMISSIONS - A transmitter for transferring a data stream to multiple receivers, the transmitter being configured to sample a first portion of the data stream to form a first sample dataset, encode the first sample set to form a first encoded dataset and transmit the first encoded dataset to a first one of the receivers; sample a second portion of the data stream to form a second sample dataset, encode the second sample set to form a second encoded dataset and transmit the second encoded dataset to a second one of the receivers; and to perform at least part of the step of sampling the second portion of the datastream whilst the first sample dataset is being encoded or the first encoded dataset is being transmitted. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064176 | APPLICATION LAYER RELATED GROUP PRIORITY ACCESS USING EMBMS AND LTE PRIORITY ACCESS - The disclosure relates to dynamically controlling group priority access to a wireless network for a plurality of subscriber devices. An aspect transmits, on a broadcast/multicast interface, a priority group list indicating a priority state of at least one communications group of subscriber devices, wherein a subscriber device is barred from performing channel access procedures when at least one group identifier of the priority group list does not match at least one group identifier of a list of group identifiers of the subscriber device. An aspect receives, on a broadcast/multicast interface, a priority group list indicating a priority state of at least one communications group of subscriber devices, and bars channel access procedures when at least one group identifier of the priority group list does not match at least one group identifier of a list of group identifiers of the subscriber device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064177 | EVOLVED MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST/MULTICAST SERVICES (eMBMS) GEO-LOCATION BASED GROUP CALL - The disclosure generally relates to techniques that may be used to coordinate an evolved multimedia broadcast/multicast services (eMBMS) geo-location based group call. More particularly, an eMBMS bearer may be established to support a group call based on a mapping among eMBMS network components that service a geographic area selected by an originator associated with the group call (e.g., an area that the call originator defines according to latitude and longitude coordinates, a selected region on a map that displays available group members in the selected region, network identifications, etc.). The group call may then be initiated over the established eMBMS bearer using network group identifiers associated with the call originator and one or more group members present in the selected geographic area and unicast service with a dedicated link to group members located outside the selected geographic area may be established to include such group members in the group call. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064178 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A FRAME INCLUDING CONTROL INFORMATION IN BROADCASTING SYSTEM - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a frame including control information in a broadcasting system are provided. A frame for a broadcast service is generated including at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) and indication information for indicating a change/no-change of control information for the broadcast service in the next frame. The indication information includes information on a position in which the control information will change. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064179 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A TRIPLE USE SATELLITE SYSTEM - A triple use satellite system includes a VSAT population including a VSAT, and a satellite including a broadcast beam for a broadcast service and spot beams for a broadband service, where each of the spot beams provides broadband service to VSATs in separate coverage areas in a geographic region and the broadcast beam provides a broadcast service to the VSAT population in the geographic region. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064180 | DYNAMIC HEADER COMPRESSION BASED ON ATTRIBUTES OF TRAFFIC - A system may be configured to identify attributes of a bearer channel. Based on the attributes of the bearer channel, the system may identify a header compression policy associated with the bearer channel. The system may be configured to identify, based on attributes of traffic sent and/or received via the bearer channel, and further based on the header compression policy, that header compression should be performed on at least a portion of the traffic associated with the bearer channel. The system may be configured to perform header compression on the at least the portion of the traffic. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064181 | WIRELESS MESH NETWORK CONFIGURATION - A wireless mesh network employs an integrated interface between a plurality of access points for mitigating throughput degradation of multiple consecutive “daisy chain,” or mesh, links. The mesh network employs a plurality of access points, each linked back to a root access point by a series of “hops” through other access points. The wireless mesh network, therefore, employs a plurality of access points operable for wireless links to subscriber, or user, devices, including cellular phones, smart phones, tablet and laptop computing devices, or any suitable portable or handheld computing device. Access points establish an integrated interface with an adjacent access point for direct coupling of the access points for message traffic. The resulting integrated access point establishes a wireless link to a root access point connected to a backhaul network from which media services emanate. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064182 | MOBILITY DETECTION FOR EDGE APPLICATIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Various embodiments detecting wireless communication device mobility in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, one or more Internet Protocol (IP) data packets associated with a wireless communication device are analyzed. The wireless communication device is coupled with the edge entity. A determination is made, based on the analyzing, that the wireless communication device is a newly coupled device at the edge entity. A central entity disposed within the wireless communication network is notified that the wireless communication device is currently coupled to the edge entity. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064183 | FAST ACCEPTANCE OF DIAMETER PEER FAILOVER - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a network node, the method including: receiving a connection request from a peer network node including a peer identifier; determining that the received peer identifier matches an identifier of an existing peer; sending a verification message to the existing peer; setting a timer; when a response the verification message is received before the timer expires: cancelling the timer; and rejecting the received connection request; when the timer expires: closing a connection to the existing peer; and accepting the new connection from the new peer. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064184 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR ADDRESS FORMAT DETECTION - Systems, methods, and devices for address format detection are described herein. In one aspect, a method of detecting whether an addressing format is supported by an access point on a wireless network is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a request to an access point using an addressing format including a source address field and a separate transmitter address field. In some aspects, the request may be an address resolution protocol (ARP) request or an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) ping request. The request includes the source address field set to a first address and the transmitter address field set to a second address; monitoring transmissions of the access point to determine whether the access point transmits a response to the request that includes a destination address equal to the first address; and determining whether the access point supports the addressing format based on the monitoring. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURELY TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DISCOVERY AND PAGING MESSAGES - Methods, devices, and computer program products for transmitting and receiving discovery and paging messages in a wireless communication device are described herein. In one aspect, a wireless apparatus operable in a wireless communication system comprises a transmitter configured to transmit a medium access control change request message to an access terminal to initiate a change in a medium access control address of the wireless apparatus and a receiver configured to receive a medium access control change response message from the access terminal. The wireless apparatus further comprises a processor configured to change the medium access control address of the wireless apparatus in response to receiving the medium access control change response, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a medium access control change confirm message to the access terminal. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064186 | A Radio Network Controller, A Serving Base Station, A User Equipment and Methods Therein - A radio network controller, RNC, | 2014-03-06 |
20140064187 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system including: a terminal, and a base station including an antenna configured to perform wireless communication with the terminal, and a processor configured to perform, when a difference between a first throughput at a radio layer for the wireless communication and a second throughput at an upper layer to the radio layer for the wireless communication is larger than a given value, a processing to decrease errors at a radio layer for the wireless communication. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064188 | ARRANGEMENT FOR PROVIDING FUNCTIONS OF A MOBILE IP-CAN GATEWAY AND USE OF SUCH ARRANGEMENT FOR OFFLOADING TRAFFIC FROM SAID MOBILE IP-CAN - In an embodiment, there is provided an arrangement for providing functions of a mobile IP-CAN gateway, said arrangement comprising:
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20140064189 | USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION AND METHODS RELATED TO MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT - It is presented a method for controlling multiple input multiple output, MIMO, pilot channel boosting. The method is performed in a user equipment, UE, capable of MIMO transmissions using a primary and a secondary stream. The method comprising the steps of: determining a rank used for uplink transmissions from the UE; and determining a boosting parameter affecting power boosting of an Enhanced Dedicated Physical Control Channel, E-DPCCH, and a Secondary Dedicated Physical Control Channel, S-DPCCH, based on the rank. A corresponding UE, base station and associated method are also presented. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064190 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LTE UPLINK RANDOM ACCESS PREAMBLE BASED ON PARALLEL PROCESSING - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for detecting an LTE uplink random access preamble based on parallel processing. The apparatus for detecting an LTE uplink random access preamble based on parallel processing according to the present invention includes a generation unit for calculating a random access preamble sequence using a root index and generating channel delay profile data using the random access preamble sequence and a channel delay profile generation input signal. A comparison unit generates a preamble start position value corresponding to the root index and compares the preamble start position value with a channel delay profile index. A detection unit detects a peak value of the channel delay profile data if the preamble start position value is identical to the channel delay profile index. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064191 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RELIABLY TRANSMITTING RADIO BLOCKS WITH PIGGYBACKED ACK/NACK FIELDS - A method and apparatus are described. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) generates data bits and piggybacked acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (PAN) bits and generates a plurality of symbols based on the data bits and the PAN bits. Each symbol of the plurality of symbols represents a plurality of bits and has a least significant bit (LSB) position, and no PAN bits are present in the LSB position of each of the plurality of symbols. The plurality of symbols are transmitted. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064192 | Method and Apparatus for Supporting the Large Service Data Unit (SDU) - Systems and methodologies are described that segment or concatenate radio link control (RLC) service data units (SDUs) into RLC protocol data units (PDUs). In accordance with various aspects set forth herein, systems and/or methods are provided that receive a first RLC SDU, partition the first RLC SDU into a first RLC PDU and a second RLC PDU, set a length indicator (LI) field associated with the second RLC PDU to indicate the size of information contained in the second RLC PDU, concatenate the second RLC PDU with a third RLC PDU associated with a second RLC SDU to form a concatenated RLC PDU, and dispatch the first RLC PDU, the concatenated RLC PDU, and a fourth RLC PDU associated with the second RLC SDU. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064193 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING MULTIPLE AIR INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES - A wireless communication system is provided that comprises a base station (BS) serving a subscriber unit (SU) in a Public Safety Narrowband (PSNB) network, an eNodeB serving the SU in a broadband data network, and a network element of the PSNB network that is in communication with the BS and that identifies the eNodeB to the BS. In response to the identification of the eNodeB, the BS informs the eNodeB, via an interface between a radio access network (RAN) of the PSNB network and a RAN of the broadband data network, of an initiation of a voice session in the PSNB network involving the SU and of PSNB network resources allocated to the session. In response to being informed of the initiation of the session and the allocated PSNB network resources, the eNodeB avoids allocation of resources to the SU that are spectrally proximate to the allocated PSNB network resources. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064194 | Methods and devices for providing TFI - Methods and devices for generating a TFI are described. In some embodiments an extended TFI with more bits than a legacy TFI is provided and the bits of the extended TFI are added in a RLC/MAC data block or in a PAN addressing field. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064195 | Recovery from Uplink Timing Alignment Failures in Cellular Communications - Regaining uplink synchronization after timing alignment failure in cellular communications. An out-of-sync condition with a cellular network may be detected. A first type of random access procedure may be initiated in response to detecting the out-of-sync condition. It may be determined whether or not a message transmitted as part of the first type of random access procedure is received by the cellular network. If the message transmitted as part of the first type of RACH is received by the network and no response to the message is received from the cellular network, a second type of RACH may be initiated. The second type of RACH may include a message having an indication that an out-of-sync condition occurred. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064196 | LAYER 2 ADDRESS MANAGEMENT IN 3 ADDRESS ONLY CAPABLE ACCESS POINTS IN NETWORKS WITH RELAYS - During uplink traffic, a map is formed between the MAC address and an upper layer identifier of each station of a communications network. When a downlink unicast packet is received, the identifier is compared to the map to select a corresponding MAC address. The packet having the selected MAC address is delivered to the station. During uplink, the MAC address of the station generating the packet is replaced with the MAC address of the relay receiving the packet. A device receiving an uplink multicast packet is assigned a temporary MAC address which remains valid during a known period. The device replaces the MAC address of the station generating the multicast packet with the temporary MAC address to generate a new packet that is transferred up the link. A downlink packet that includes the temporary MAC address and is received during the first time period is delivered as a response packet. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064197 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station apparatus that communicates with a radio communication terminal in a radio communication system, includes: processor configured to detect interference between the radio communication system and another radio communication system, and determine whether or not to switch a radio channel used to communicate with the radio communication terminal when the interference is detected; and a channel switching unit that switches the radio channel when the processor determines to switch the radio channel, and does not switch the radio channel when the processor determines not to switch the radio channel. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064198 | METHOD FOR A WIRELESS TARGET DEVICE TO AUTOMATICALLY CONNECT TO A TARGET NETWORK, WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC NETWORK SETTING ABILITY, AND WIRELESS TARGET DEVICE THEREOF - A method is for allowing a wireless target device to automatically connect to a target network. The method is to be implemented by a wireless executing device in a wireless network system. In the method, the wireless executing device is configured to establish an ad-hoc wireless network with the wireless target device, and to transmit an access setting to the wireless target device over the ad-hoc wireless network. The access setting enables the wireless target device to connect to the target network automatically. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064199 | METHOD AND CHANNEL SELECTOR FOR SELECTING AN OPERATION CHANNEL, AND WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE CHANNEL SELECTOR - In a method for selecting an operation channel, a wireless network connecting apparatus is configured to: identify at least one preoccupied channel; determine a plurality of available channels; evaluate a channel quality of each of the available channels; select one of the available channels based on the channel quality thereof as the operation channel, and to switch to the operation channel; transmit an evaluation packet through the operation channel; determine whether the operation channel needs to be replaced, based on a number of data retransmissions; and exclude the operation channel from the available channels when the determination is affirmative. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064200 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING RESOURCES IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a method for using resources in a communication system, a communication region is divided into inter-sector boundary regions, sector central regions, and a sector common region, and predetermined resources are allocated to the divided regions. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064201 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR CSI-RS CONFIGURATION IN DISTRIBUTED RRH SYSTEMS - Apparatuses and methods for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration in distributed remote radio head (RRH) systems are described. A transmission point selection module can receive a user equipment (UE) signal via a transmission point from a plurality of transmission points sharing a single cell identification. A downlink transmission point can be selected based on the UE signal. The UE can then be configured to report CSI-RS measurements for the selected downlink transmission point. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064202 | METHODS AND NODES FOR MAINTAINING A WIRELESS CONNECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method and user node for maintaining a connection with a network node when operating in a multi-carrier mode using a first filter configuration to receive multiple frequency carriers simultaneously for downlink communication. The user node MO) applies a mode switching scheme comprising first intervals for the multi-carrier mode and second intervals for a single carrier mode using a second filter configuration to receive a single carrier for the downlink communication. In this case, the user node ON) switches temporarily from the multi-carrier mode to operate in the single carrier mode during the second intervals according to the mode switching scheme. Thereby the user node is enabled to maintain the connection by receiving messages and/or control signalling from the network node over the single frequency carrier during the second intervals, for example when the multi-carrier mode is highly disturbed by interference. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064203 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING DEVICE-TO-DEVICE - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, to a method and a device for communicating device-to-device. The method for a first device to transmit a signal to a second device according to one embodiment of the present invention enables the first device to request to a base station a resource allocation for transmitting the signal to the second device, receive from the base station scheduling information for transmitting the signal to the second device, and the signal can be transmitted from the first device to the second device on the basis of the scheduling information, wherein the scheduling information includes information on an uplink resource for transmitting the signal from the first device to the second device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064204 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING DOWNLINK SIGNAL AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SAME, USER EQUIPMENT, AND BASE STATION - Presented is a plan for utilizing resources not being used in a subframe consisting of relay transmission, and being thrown away thereafter. The present invention enables efficient utilization of the resources by reducing the waste of the resources in a wireless communication system supporting a relay. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064205 | SEARCH SPACE FOR UPLINK GRANT IN AN AGGREGATED-CARRIER MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to transmitting and receiving of control information in a system supporting carrier aggregation. A search space for control information is configured in such a way that at least two search spaces determined by respective component carriers are on a first slot of a subframe and a further search space determined by a further component carrier is on a second slot, wherein at least one candidate of search spaces in the first slot is mapped in a same resource block pair with at least one candidate of a search space in the second slot. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064206 | Resource Scheduling Method and Device - Provided are a resource scheduling method and device; the method comprises: scheduling resource according to the transmission demands; and configuring a frame structure with a non-fixed frame length matching the scheduled resource. The method according to the present invention prevents wastage of wireless resources caused by competition conflict or random back-off, and can better adapt to the demands of different kinds of data services with varied features in the future. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064207 | Methods and Devices for Selection of Random Access Channel - Disclosed is, among other things, a method of physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) selection in a User Equipment, (UE) where the UE selects PRACH non-randomly from a list of candidate PRACHs. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064208 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING INFORMATION OF AN UNCODED CHANNEL IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM - A method apparatus and system for efficiently transmitting and receiving channels are provided in a wireless communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). A multiplexing scheme differs according to a channel when a transmitter transmits a packet data channel, a common control channel and a control channel designated for a particular user. Uncoded 1-bit information is broadly dispersed in frequency and time domains using multiplexing technology for maximizing diversity gain in a channel for transmitting information of at least one bit to a particular user like an acknowledgement (ACK) channel. The transmitter converts a sequence obtained by multiplexing multiple bits to be transmitted to a plurality of users to parallel signals, and broadly disperses the parallel signals in the time and frequency domains. When the uncoded 1-bit information is transmitted, reception reliability is improved because channel coding and transmission are efficiently performed using a small amount of resources. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064209 | OPTIMIZED ALWAYS-ON WIRELESS SERVICE USING NETWORK ASSISTANCE AND KEEP-ALIVES - The disclosure generally relates to optimized always-on wireless service using network assistance and keep-alives. More particularly, in response to a user equipment (UE) requesting a bearer for an always-on service, a network may establish the bearer for the always-on service and transmit an availability time that indicates a period during which the bearer will be held in an active state to the UE. Any applications running on the UE may then use the bearer for the always-on service, and the UE may transmit a single keep-alive message to the network before the availability time expires to reset the period during which the bearer will be held in the active state. Furthermore, the keep-alive message may be structured to not generate a reply and thereby reduce battery consumption, reduce communication overhead, and improve network capacity | 2014-03-06 |
20140064210 | SELECTIVELY ALLOCATING QUALITY OF SERVICE TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE CONCURRENT SESSIONS FOR A CLIENT DEVICE - In an embodiment, a server mediates a first group communication session with the user equipment (UE) by exchanging media for the first group communication session with the UE over a first link with a first level of Quality of Service (QoS) resources (e.g., either without a guaranteed bit rate (GBR) or a threshold amount of GBR) and exchanging non-media signaling data for the first group communication session with the UE over a signaling link that is either the same or separate from the first link. The server detects, while the UE continues participation in the first group communication session, that the UE has joined or is attempting to join a second group communication session. The server applies a policy for selectively allocating additional QoS resources to supplement the first level of QoS resources to the UE for concurrently supporting both the first and second group communication sessions in response to the detection. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064211 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING A GEOMETRY INDICATOR IN HETNET DEPLOYMENTS - In a heterogeneous network deployment that includes a macro base station and a low power node, a geometry indicator is transmitted by the low power node to facilitate the calculation of a path loss difference value at a user equipment using power estimates of the received synchronization signal from the macro base station and received geometry indicator signal from the low power node. Using the estimated path loss difference value, the user equipment adjusts the power level of an initial preamble signal transmission to the macro base station. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064212 | Bluetooth Low Energy and LTE Coexistence Enhancements - Methods for preventing coexistence interference between a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio and a collocated LTE radio are provided. In a first solution, the BLE radio adds padding bytes to BLE packets such that the total packet length falls in a specific range to prevent coexistence interference. In a second solution, the BLE radio limits the total BLE packet length to a predefined length to prevent coexistence interference. In a third solution, the data rate for transmitting the BLE packets is higher than a predefined rate to prevent coexistence interference. In a fourth solution, the BLE radio dynamically adjusts the time inter-frame-spacing (T_IFS) value to prevent coexistence interference with the collocated LTE radio. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064213 | FEEDBACK CAPABILITY ENHANCEMENT USING REFERENCE SYMBOL RADIO RESOURCE SELECTION - Feedback information is conveyed between a wireless device and a base station in a cellular communications network via selection and detection of radio resources utilized for an uplink reference signal transmitted from a wireless device to a base station. In this manner, additional feedback information may be sent from the wireless device to the base station without sacrificing any bandwidth available for data transfer between the wireless device and the base station. The radio resources utilized for the uplink reference signal may include cyclic shift and/or time and frequency resources. The uplink reference signal may be an uplink sounding reference signal for a long term evolution network (LTE), or its evolution, such as LTE-Advanced. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064214 | ADAPTING A NUMBER OF AGGREGATION LEVELS FOR CONTROL CHANNEL ELEMENTS - Methods and apparatus are described for a base station to transmit and for a User Equipment (UE) to detect a Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) conveying a Downlink Control Information (DCI) format scheduling data reception or data transmission by the UE. The base station transmits a PDCCH and the UE decodes candidate PDCCHs using a number of Control Channel Elements (CCEs) from a first set of CCEs for a first DCI format and using a number of CCEs from a second set of CCEs for a second DCI format depending on a maximum code rate for the DCI format transmission or on a scheduling bandwidth. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064215 | Method of Handling Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel and Related Communication Device - A method of handling an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) for a network of a wireless communication system comprises calculating the average number of available resource elements (REs) in one control channel element (CCE) for EPDCCH in a physical resource block (PRB); selecting an aggregation level from a first aggregation level set; calculating the number of available REs in a EPDCCH for the selected aggregation level according to the selected aggregation level and the average number of available REs in one CCE; selecting a first candidate number set according to a second comparison result between the number of available REs in the EPDCCH for the selected aggregation level and a second threshold; and determining an aggregation level and the number of blind decoding candidates corresponding to the determined aggregation level, for transmitting control information dedicated to a user equipment. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064216 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN AN ASYMMETRIC MULTICARRIER COMMUNICATION NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for communicating Downlink Control Information (DCI) in an asymmetric multicarrier communication network environment, the method comprising: determining a carrier type corresponding to DCI to be transmitted to a mobile station from a plurality of carrier types, encoding the DCI in a DCI format, wherein the DCI format comprises a set of fields corresponding to the determined carrier type, and transmitting the DCI encoded in the DCI format to the mobile station through a downlink control channel on a primary carrier, wherein the DCI format comprises a carrier index field indicating type of the fields in the DCI format encoding the DCI and the carrier type corresponding to the encoded DCI. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064217 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING IMS SUPPORT FOR ENTERPRISE PBX USERS - An architecture and procedures by which an NGN can provide the following capabilities to an NGCN user: basic terminating service in the peering model; enhanced terminating services in the peering model; enhanced originating services in the peering model; and roaming service in the subscription and peering models. All capabilities are provided in an easily scalable manner via provisioned subscriber data and small modifications to existing IMS procedures. In one embodiment, an NGN is configured among the external networks to receive all SIP requests intended for the NGCN users of an NGCN interconnected to the NGN via the peering model (this NGN is the trunking home NGN), and the NGN forwards these requests to the NGCN for handling using request retargeting. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064218 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL - A method of transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) includes receiving SRS operation information including a sounding indicator, the sounding indicator indicating whether SRS transmission takes place at a subframe; generating the SRS according to the SRS operation information, and if the sounding indicator indicates occurrence of SRS transmission, transmitting the SRS at the subframe. Multiplexing can be achieved without collision between data and a sounding reference signal and single carrier characteristics required in uplink transmission can be preserved. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064219 | DATA SENDING METHOD AND TRANSMISSION RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention discloses a method for sending a BSR. The method includes: if an LCG logical channel meets a regular BSR trigger condition, triggering a first regular BSR; or if a BSR retransmission timer expires, and any LCG logical channel has transmittable data, triggering a second regular BSR; if the LCG logical channel triggering the first regular BSR meets a non-transmittable condition, canceling the first regular BSR; or if all LCG logical channels meet a non-transmittable condition after the second regular BSR is triggered, canceling the second regular BSR; and if an uplink transmission resource is available in a current TTI, and the first or second regular BSR that is triggered but not canceled exists, sending a BSR MAC CE by using the uplink transmission resource. The disclosed method prevents a UE from generating and reporting meaningless BSR MAC CEs, and thereby saves transmission resources. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064220 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Method and Apparatus for performing power control on the power control commands transmitted on a forward link in a wireless communication system. The power level of the power control bits on the forward link are adjusted in response to power commands received on the reverse link. The mobile station measures the power level of the adjusted power control bits to measure the quality of the forward link. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064221 | BEAMFORMING FEEDBACK OPTIONS FOR MU-MIMO - Beamforming may be used in MIMO communication systems to further enhance spectral efficiency. Beamforming refers to beamed transmissions to a single destination (e.g., a station) at a time, to enhance the rate and/or range of transmission. To perform beamforming from a source to one or more destinations, a channel and/or beamforming matrices corresponding to the channel needs to be known at the source, which may be obtained as feedback from the destination. However, the beamforming matrices may not be smooth over frequency as it is fed back from the destination. Therefore, certain aspects of the present disclosure provide beamforming feedback options, resulting in the smoothness of a beamforming matrix. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064222 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus are provided for enabling a user to effectively use a wireless network using a contention free channel access service. The wireless communication method includes receiving a contention free channel access request frame from at least one device in a wireless network in a superframe, and broadcasting a traffic information message including contention free channel access information in the superframe after the contention free channel access request frame is received. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064223 | METHOD FOR SIGNALING INFORMATION BY MODIFYING MODULATION CONSTELLATIONS - Methods and systems for communicating in a wireless network may distinguish different types of packet structures by modifying the phase of a modulation constellation, such as a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) constellation, in a signal field. Receiving devices may identify the type of packet structure associated with a transmission or whether the signal field is present by the phase of the modulation constellation used for mapping for the signal field. In one embodiment, the phase of the modulation constellation may be determined by examining the energy of the I and Q components after Fast Fourier Transform. Various specific embodiments and variations are also disclosed. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064224 | TRANSPORT FORMAT COMBINATION SELECTING METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND MOBILE STATION - Methods of selecting a transport format combination are provided. For example, a method comprises calculating the transmission power of a first physical channel using each of first TFCs, and determines whether a mobile station is in a transmission capable state. The method also comprises calculating the sum of the transmission power of first and second physical channels using first and second TFCs, with respect to each of combinations of first and second TFCs, and determines whether the mobile station is in the transmission capable state. The method also comprises selecting first TFC from the first TFCs wherein the mobile station is in the transmission capable state and selecting a second TFC from the second TFCs which are included in combinations wherein the mobile station is in the transmission capable state among the combinations including the selected first TFC. The data is transmitted using the selected first and second TFCs, respectively. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064225 | RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND RADIO TRANSMISSION METHOD - A base station is provided, including a transmitter configured to broadcast information for determining one or more first preambles contained in a first Random Access Preamble group and any second preamble(s) contained in a second Random Access Preamble group; and a receiver configured to receive a preamble transmitted by a mobile station. The received preamble is randomly selected from among the first preamble(s) when the first Random Access Preamble group is selected, or is randomly selected from among the second preamble(s) when the second Random Access Preamble group is selected. The second Random Access Preamble group is selected if a message size based on data available for transmission by the mobile station meets a first condition and if a value calculated based on a reference signal received power of downlink meets a second condition, and else the first Random Access Preamble group is selected. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064226 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SUB-FRAME DESIGNATION INFORMATION TO A DOWNLINK IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting subframe designating information in downlink in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The present invention includes generating the subframe designating information for designating a subframe of a specific type in a radio frame and transmitting the generated subframe designating information to a user equipment, wherein the subframe designating information includes initial location information indicating an initial location of the subframe of the specific type on the radio frame and period information indicating a period for the subframe of the specific type to be repeated. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064227 | FREQUENCY BAND ADAPTIVE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A system, apparatus and method is disclosed for multiband wireless communication. Frequency bands and/or transmission formats are identified as available within a range for wireless communication. The system evaluates signal quality metrics for each frequency band and selects a communication method based on the evaluation. Multiple frequency bands and communication methods can be utilized by the system such that a combination of licensed, unlicensed, semilicensed, and overlapped frequency bands can be simultaneously used for communication. The system monitors communications and can report link performance for adaptive control of the selected communication methods. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064228 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL RESPONSES - A method and apparatus for supporting a random access using a random access channel (RACH) are disclosed. The WTRU detects a format of control information in at least one control channel element (CCE) of a common area in a control portion of a downlink transmission. The control information indicates a resource allocation in a data portion of the downlink transmission. The WTRU recovers a random access response assigned to the WTRU from the indicated resource allocation of the data portion on a condition that the at least one CCE has a random access radio network terminal identifier (RA-RNTI) assigned to the WTRU. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064229 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DISCOVERY SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically to a method and an apparatus for transmitting a discovery signal in a wireless communication system. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for enabling a terminal for supporting multiple radio access technologies to perform communication includes the steps of: communicating first data to a base station; receiving first information for notifying the presence of a first AP from the first AP as at least one AP among a plurality of APs; and communicating second data using the first AP, wherein the first information is received by using a first resource as at least a part of all resources which the base station uses, a first radio access technology can be applied between the terminal and the base station, and a second radio access technology can be applied between the terminal and the first AP. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064230 | BASE STATION - When a scheduling executing section allocates a use downlink radio resource including in a frequency direction a frequency band, in which a known signal is not received by an uplink radio resource for known signal, from a downlink radio resource associated with the uplink radio resource for known signal to a communication terminal, a communication section generates a known signal to be received from the communication terminal in a frequency band of the use downlink radio resource in a pseudo manner when performing downlink communication with the communication terminal using the use downlink radio resource. The communication section controls transmission directivity in a plurality of antennas based on a new reception signal obtained by adding the pseudo known signal as a desired wave component to a reception signal that is received in the frequency band of the use downlink radio resource in the uplink radio resource for known signal. | 2014-03-06 |
20140064231 | LAYERED CHANNEL ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SYSTEM - A layered channel access method of a Group Representative-station (GR-STA) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system is provided. The method includes receiving a management, including setting information indicative of a first phase and a second phase frame, from an Access Point (AP), receiving a first radio frame from the AP or accessing a channel and sending a second radio frame to the AP during the first phase indicated by the setting information, and receiving a third radio frame from an affiliated STA of a group to which the GR-STA belongs or accessing a channel and sending a fourth radio frame to at least one STA of the group to which the GR-STA belongs during the second phase indicated by the setting information. | 2014-03-06 |