33rd week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 27 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110199931 | HIGH DATA RATE INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD - A data interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit, and receive packets forming the communications protocol, and to form digital data into one or more types of data packets, with at least one residing in the host device and being coupled to the client through the communications path. The interface provides a cost-effective, low power, bi-directional, high-speed data transfer mechanism over a short-range “serial” type data link, which lends itself to implementation with miniature connectors and thin flexible cables which are especially useful in connecting display elements such as wearable micro-displays to portable computers and wireless communication devices. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199932 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC DATA TRANSFER MANAGEMENT ON A PER SUBSCRIBER BASIS IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method of dynamically managing transmission of packets is disclosed. The method, in some embodiments, may comprise establishing a network session over a communication link between a network and a user device of a user and associating a data transmission parameter with the user device. The method may further comprise receiving a packet and calculating a delay period associated with the packet based on the data transmission parameter and delaying transmission of the packet based on the delay period. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199933 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES AMONG MULTIPLE USERS - A method and apparatus for allocating resources among multiple users are provided. The method includes: determining the code allocation manners of multiple users involved in resource allocation, and determining a CQI value for each user in each code allocation manner; obtaining a TBS of each user corresponding to the determined CQI value and code for each user; and obtaining the total TBS of all users involved in resource allocation in each code allocation manner, and selecting the combination of the CQI value and code allocation manner corresponding to the largest TBS from the total TBS to serve as the manner for resource allocation. During the resource allocation among multiple users, the channel conditions of other users are considered while allocating resources to each user. This maximizes the sent data amount. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199934 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention involves monitoring the flow of traffic for a particular user to detect a pattern in the flow of traffic. Upon detecting a particular pattern, one or more operating parameters or settings of the radio access network are adapted accordingly. The pattern can correspond to a particular application, or a combination of two or more applications being used concurrently by the user. The parameters or setting include timer settings or threshold values relating to state transitions. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199935 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - Provided are a radio communication system, a transmission device, and a communication signal transmission method, which enable a reception device to correctly demodulate a communication signal without performing a feedback of a propagation path characteristic from the reception device to the transmission device. The transmission device includes an SVD calculation unit for calculating, as an inverse-direction propagation path characteristic, a propagation path characteristic exhibited in a direction from the reception device toward the transmission device and for calculating a forward-direction propagation path characteristic being a propagation path characteristic exhibited in a direction from the transmission device toward the reception device, based on the inverse-direction propagation path characteristic, reception-side calibration information regarding radio reception units notified from the reception device, and transmission-side calibration information regarding radio transmission units, and a weight synthesis unit for generating the communication signal weighted based on the forward-direction propagation path characteristic. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199936 | IMPLEMENTATION OF SWITCHES IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A routing device such as either a 1:N demultiplexer or N:1 multiplexer can provide a power dissipation proportional to log | 2011-08-18 |
20110199937 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method for configuring a wireless network having a plurality of nodes to which a mobile device attaches to access the network, a plurality of gateways (GTW) and a mobile management entity (MME), includes the steps of: each GTW providing to the MME a code giving its identity and information identifying the nodes that the respective GTW serves; and the MME sending the code and information identifying the nodes that the respective GTW serves to nodes of the network at which the code and information is stored. The plurality of nodes may include home nodes. The network may be, for example, an LTE network. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199938 | COMMUNICATING CONSTRAINT INFORMATION FOR DETERMINING A PATH SUBJECT TO SUCH CONSTRAINTS - Path determination constraints may be encoded in the form of a program having one or more instructions. Each of instructions may include an operation code, and operands (or pointers to locations where operands are stored). In this way, an extensible, interoperable way for a nodes (e.g., label-switching routers) to communicate constraints within a network is provided. Such constraints may be inserted (e.g., as one or more CONSTRAINT objects) into signaling messages (e.g., a PATH RSVP message). By enabling the signaling of constraints, the determination of constraint-based (label-switched) paths can be distributed among a number of (label-switching) routers or other nodes. Upon receiving a message with constraints (e.g., a CONSTRAINT object(s)), a node may (i) ignore the constraints if the node is a tail-end node (label-switching router), (ii) apply the constraints to a link if the next hop in the (label-switched) path is strict, and/or (iii) perform a constraint-based path determination to a next hop if the next hop is loose. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199939 | PATH COMPUTATION METHOD, NODE DEVICE AND PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENT - A path computation method is provided. A node device and a path computation element (PCE) are also provided correspondingly. The path computation method includes: sending a path computation request message to the PCE after receiving a client-side service transmission request, the path computation request message carrying identifiers of a source node and a destination node that access a client-side service and carrying a path concatenation constraint; and receiving the path computation response message carrying path information returned by the PCE, the path information being obtained by the PCE through computation according to the identifiers of the source node and the destination node that accesses a client-side service, the concatenation constraint, and concatenation capabilities of each interface of nodes in a network. The technical solution of the present invention is simpler and more convenient, which obviously reduces the complexity of the specific implementation. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199940 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING ROUTE - The embodiment of the present invention provides a method for establishing a route, which includes searching a target node by a node from a first level node group according to first level route information, returning to query a result or data saved by the target node if the target node is found, otherwise executing the following step; searching a target node by the node from a higher level node group according to higher level route information, returning to query a result or the data saved by the target node if the target node is found, otherwise repeating the step. Through the hierarchical communication system, most of the flows of daily service operations in the communication network are limited within a small region, thereby preventing from excessively occupying the band width of a backbone network being originally not wide enough. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199941 | Rate-Varying Multicast Transmission for Clock Distribution in Packet Networks - In at least some embodiments, the disclosure includes an apparatus a root node in a packet based network that multicasts a plurality of packets. The apparatus also includes an intermediary node coupled to the root node and a plurality of leaf nodes coupled to the intermediary node. The root node, the intermediary node, and the plurality of leaf nodes are arranged in a tree topology. The packets are received at the intermediary node from the root node at a data rate equal to the data rate of the leaf node having the maximum data rate. The packets are multicast from the intermediary node to each of the plurality of leaf nodes at a plurality of different data rates such that each particular one of the plurality of leaf nodes receives the packets at a data rate corresponding to the data rate for the particular one of the plurality of leaf nodes. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199942 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REALIZING EMERGENCY CALLING SERVICE IN HIGH RATE PACKET DATA NETWORK - The present invention discloses a method and system for providing an emergency calling service for a high speed packet data network based on the CDMA technology. An access network transmits an emergency calling indication carried in an emergency calling message which is initiated by an access terminal to a packet data service node such that the emergency calling service can be implemented under the support of the packet data serving node. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199943 | AVIONIC SYSTEM COMPRISING A CONTROLLER AND AT LEAST ONE PERIPHERAL THAT ARE LINKED BY A LINE MUTUALIZED FOR POWER AND DATA - According to a first aspect the invention relates to a device forming a central controller (C) intended to he linked to a remote peripheral (P | 2011-08-18 |
20110199944 | APERIODIC SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for facilitating an aperiodic transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS) are disclosed. Transmission resources are allocated to the aperiodic SRS transmission. A portion of a first downlink control message is modified to produce a second downlink control message, where the first downlink control message does not trigger an aperiodic SRS transmission. The second downlink message is transmitted. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199945 | Uplink power control message indexing in wireless OFDMA systems - A method of power control message indexing is provided in a wireless Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) network. A base station configures fast feedback channels (FFBCHs) and mobile stations report downlink channel information via the configured FFBCHs. Based on the received channel information, the base station estimates uplink channel quality and detects any channel variation. In response to uplink channel variation, the base station delivers power offsets to adjust the transmit power levels of the mobile stations. In one advantageous aspect, the power control commands for mobile stations are aggregated and the indexing scheme of the power control commands is implicitly based on the configured FFBCHs. For example, if a FFBCH is located at a first location in an uplink frame, then a following power control command in response to the FFBCH is located at a second location in a downlink frame, the second location is located after the first location with a predefined fixed delay time. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199946 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING ADAPTIVE CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK RATE IN MULTI-USER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for achieving adaptive channel state information (CSI) feedback rate in multi-user communication systems. A rate by which CSI feedback can be transmitted from each user station of a wireless system to a serving access point may be adjusted based on evolution of a channel between that user station and the access point. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199947 | Commissioning Incoming Packet Switched Connections | 2011-08-18 |
20110199948 | MINIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A NETWORK DEVICE - A network interface device (NID) may determine whether the received data units of the computer system are to be compressed before transmitting the data units. The NID may determine the compression energy value consumed to compress the first K | 2011-08-18 |
20110199949 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POWER CONTROL IN HIGH SPEED PACKET ACCESS (HSPA) NETWORKS - A wireless communication device includes: an antenna for receiving inbound signals on dual receive channels and transmitting outbound signals on dual transmit channels; a transceiver coupled to the antenna to receive the inbound signals from the antenna and convey the outbound signals; a power controller coupled to the transceiver to control power levels of the outbound signals so a maximum nominal power level of the outbound signals is a first power level; and a processor coupled to the transceiver and the antenna to cause the power controller to control the power levels of the outbound signals so if a power level of a received one of the inbound signals is below a threshold value, then the maximum nominal power level of the outbound signals is a second power level lower than the first power level, wherein the second power level is lower than the first power level. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199950 | READING AND CACHING OF SYSTEM INFORMATION TO REDUCE CALL SETUP DELAY - Techniques for reading and caching system information of non-serving systems in order to shorten call setup delay are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a serving system, e.g., in an idle mode or a connected mode. The UE may periodically read system information of at least one non-serving system, e.g., as a background task. The UE may cache (i.e., store) the system information of the at least one non-serving system at the UE. The UE may thereafter access a particular non-serving system among the at least one non-serving system based on access parameters in the cached system information. By caching the system information, the UE can avoid reading the system information of the particular non-serving system at the time of system access, which may then reduce call setup delay. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199951 | DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS IN MULTI-COMPONENT CARRIER SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for performing a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) in a multi-Component Carrier (CC) system are disclosed. The method includes determining whether a condition for an application of a DRX to a first CC is satisfied and, if the condition is satisfied, performing the DRX on the first CC based on DRX configuration information common to the first CC and a reference CC. The on-duration of the DRX applied to the first CC is synchronized with the on-duration of a DRX mode of the reference CC. Although CCs enter the DRX mode at different points of time, the active or inactive times of the DRX modes are synchronized with each other such that the PDCCHs of all the CCs may be detected at the active times of the respective CCs. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199952 | POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR STATION IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM AND STATION THAT SUPPORTS SAME - A power management method of a station in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system and the station supporting the method are provided. The method includes: transmitting to an access point (AP) a power save configuration (PSC) request frame for reporting that the STA intends to transition to a power save (PS) mode; receiving from the AP a PSC response frame in response to the PSC request frame; and after receiving the PSC response frame, entering the PS mode. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199953 | METHOD FOR MULTICAST FRAME TRANSMISSION AND DUPLICATED MULTICAST FRAME DETECTION - A method and apparatus of transmitting a multicast frame in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises transmitting a request to send (RTS) frame to stations (STAs) included in a multicast group by using an omni-directional antenna, and receiving a clear to send (CTS) frame transmitted by the STAs included in the multicast group in response to the RTS frame, and transmitting the multicast frame to the STAs included in the multicast group by using a directional antenna. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199954 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL STATION, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A mobile communication system according to the present invention is a mobile communication system including base stations each of which forms a cell and transmits MBMS data to a mobile station existing in the cell, and control stations each of which controls the base station connected thereto, wherein the control stations include at least a control station and a second control station that determines a frequency and timing for transmitting the MBMS data in the cell and instructs the first control station of the determined frequency and timing, and wherein each of the first and second control stations establishes time synchronization with another control station and instructs the connected base station to set the cell to the frequency determined by the second control station and transmits the MBMS data to the connected base station in accordance with the transmission timing determined by the second control station. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199955 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR MANAGING A DATA FLOW TRANSFER - A method is provided for managing a transfer of a data stream received by a mobile terminal of a first network to a second network, the terminal having subscribed to at least one multicasting group receiving the data stream, and being connected to the first network by way of an access router for the first network, termed the first router. The method comprises: detecting, by an access router for the second network, termed the second router, an arrival of the terminal in the second network; obtaining, by the second router, information relating to at least one multicasting group to which the terminal has subscribed, on the basis of a reading of a subscription table; and receiving the data stream by the second router, on the basis of the information obtained, and retransmission to the terminal. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199956 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR REUSING CHANNEL RESOURCE - A radio communication method includes receiving first data transmitted from a first radio communication apparatus at a second radio communication apparatus and at a third radio communication apparatus | 2011-08-18 |
20110199957 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND INTERFERENCE MITIGATION TECHNIQUES FOR RELAY-BASED WIRELESS NETOWORKS - Embodiments of a system and methods for resource management and interference mitigation techniques for relay-based networks are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199958 | RELAY SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE AND SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD - When no synchronization signal is transmitted over a system bus ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110199959 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF, REPEATER DEVICES AND WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICES - Plural repeaters ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110199960 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY SYSTEM, REPEATER DEVICES AND SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD - A wireless communication system comprises a relay system including a plurality of relay devices and a plurality of wireless terminal devices. Each relay device transmits control information to the wireless terminal device which is registered in the own relay device, and each wireless terminal device selects, based on the control information received from the relay device which registers the own wireless terminal device, a channel which is currently able to relay a communication among channels respectively allocated to the relay devices to establish a communication between the wireless terminal devices. Each relay device acquires information configuring the control information via a communication line and causes a downlink signal wirelessly transmitted by the own relay device to synchronize with a communication signal, and each wireless terminal device maintains, when shifting a channel for communication to another channel, a synchronized state established in a channel prior to shifting. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199961 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CONTENTION BASED UPLINK CHANNEL - A method, a mobile system, and a user communication device are disclosed. A receiving unit | 2011-08-18 |
20110199962 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TECHNOLOGY SELECTION - A method and system for selecting at a terminal at least one of a plurality of available access networks for use with a wireless application invoked at the terminal according preferences associated with the wireless application, the network service provider, the subscriber, the subscriber subscription and application content provider. The selection may be constrained by an Application Policy received from a network service provider | 2011-08-18 |
20110199963 | Systems and Methods for Managing PDP Contexts in a Wireless Data Communications Network - Systems and method are for managing packet data protocol (PDP) contexts in a wireless data communications network. A plurality of real-time applications are prioritized within a single, shared PDP context or allocated a second PDP context based upon priority levels logically assigned to the plurality of applications such that high priority applications are delivered before lower priority applications. Lower priority applications are suspended and interrupted by higher priority applications and are set to resume after the higher priority applications are completed. Priority levels are established by a priority management engine (PME) that may reside in one or more network elements, such as a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Node or a network probe system. The priority management engine establishes the priority levels based upon one or more factors including, for example, PDP utilization characteristics at a given time and/or given network location, and/or user preferences. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199964 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION OF AN ACCESS POINT BASED ON ASSOCIATION OF THE ACCESS POINT WITH A COMMUNICATION DEVICE HAVING A KNOWN LOCATION - A communication device associated with a wireless access point, namely, a WiFi access point or a Bluetooth access point for example, communicates its location information to the wireless access point. The wireless access point determines its own location utilizing the communicated location information. The communicated location information comprises a device location address and/or a GNSS position of the associated communication device. The device address comprises a network accessible address, a device identifier, a telephone number, an IP address, a url and/or ftp location, an e-mail address, and/or an account number that identifies a corresponding location of the communication device. The wireless access point retrieves corresponding device location addresses and/or GNSS positions from a plurality of associated communication devices. The retrieved device location addresses are converted to determine corresponding locations for self-locating the wireless access point. The determined location of the wireless access point is shared with each associated communication device. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199965 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RADIO APPARATUS - After checking a status of frequency band usage of a primary system by preliminary sensing, a master node transmits to slave nodes a sensing request containing a target frequency band for cooperative sensing. The slave nodes perform spectrum sensing according to specified parameters and send, as responses, results thereof to the master node. The master node collectively receives these results, comprehensively determines the sensing results of the slave nodes, and makes a final determination on whether or not the target frequency band is available. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199966 | CLUSTERING MANAGEMENT IN mmWAVE WIRELESS SYSTEMS - According to various embodiments, a method is disclosed that includes detecting if a first cluster capable PCP/AP is within range of a non-PCP/non-AP STA; and transmitting a message to a second cluster capable PCP/AP associated with the non-PCP/non-AP STA requesting that the second cluster capable PCP/AP start or continue the use of clustering in a basic service set (BSS) of the second cluster capable PCP/AP. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199967 | TECHNIQUES TO ASSIGN MULTIPLE IDENTIFIERS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques are described that can be used to assign identifiers to mobile stations in a Network Access Provider (NAP) domain and a paging identifier. In some cases, the NAP identifier and paging identifier can be unique in the NAP domain and the paging group domain. The paging identifier can be derived from a NAP identifier. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199968 | Beamforming feedback frame formats within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications - Beamforming feedback frame formats within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A transmitting wireless communication device (TX) transmits a sounding frame to one or more receiving wireless communication devices (RXs) using one or more antennae and one or more clusters. Any antenna/cluster combination may be employed in communications between TXs and RXs. The one or more RXs receive/process the sounding frame to determine a type of beamforming feedback frame to be provided to the TX. Any one of a variety of beamforming feedback frame types and a types of information may be contained within a respective beamforming feedback frame including various characteristics of the respective communication channel between the TX and each of the various RXs. A common beamforming feedback frame format may be supported and employed by all such wireless communication devices (e.g., TX and RXs) when performing MU-MIMO operation such as in accordance with IEEE 802.11ac/VHT. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199969 | GTPv2 NODE - A GTPv2 node for an E-UTRAN or a GERAN/UTRAN access system, arranged to comprise in a session related signaling message to a peer GTPv2 node information in an information element which indicates that the GTPv2 node supports a certain feature which is identified in the information element. The information element also indicates to the peer GTPv2 node that the peer GTPv2 node should indicate information about its own support or non-support for the feature in the information element in a session related signaling message which is sent as a result of the session related signaling message from the GTPv2 node, as well as including information about the GTPv2 node's support for the feature. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199970 | Method of Handling Proximity Indication and Related Communication Device - A method of handling a proximity indication for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of entering a proximity of a CSG (closed subscriber group) cell, reporting an entering proximity indication to a network and starting a specified timer; and sending a leaving proximity indication whenever the mobile device leaves the proximity of the CSG cell even the specified timer is running. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199971 | Packet transmission/reception method and apparatus in wireless communication system - A method for simultaneously transmitting packets having different lengths to two or more users in a wireless communication system includes: generating the packets which are to be transmitted to the respective users; and simultaneously transmitting the generated packets to the respective users. Each of the packets contains information on the position of a symbol to which a tail field of the packet belongs, and the information on the position of the symbol to which the tail field belongs includes at least one of the maximum symbol number of the packet, the symbol number of transmission data of the packet, positional information of a last aggregated MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU) subframe, and positional information of a null delimiter. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199972 | Wireless Chip-to-Chip Switching - Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for chip to chip communications in electronic circuits. A router or switch receives data packets at input port ASICs. A routing table on the input port ASIC or on a routing ASIC is used to identify a destination port ASIC based upon header information in the data packet. The data packet is transmitted from the input port ASIC to the destination port ASIC using millimeter wave signals that are transmitted across a waveguide or a wireless interface. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199973 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING MULTICAST BROADCAST SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK RESOURCES - In the field of mobile communication, a method, device, and system for configuring multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) resources are provided, so as to solve the problem that configuration information of each radio network controller (RNC) in an MBSFN cannot be dynamically synchronized. With the coordination of a master RNC, a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) configuration information message is transferred through IUR interface connection, and MBMS configuration information of the master RNC and each slave RNC is synchronized. In this way, the problem that configuration information of each RNC in an MBSFN cannot be dynamically synchronized is solved, thereby satisfying the demands of soft combing and air interface combining. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199974 | METHOD AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR IMPLEMENTING A VOICE SERVICE THROUGH A WIRELESS NETWORK - The present invention discloses a method and a communication terminal for implementing a voice service through a wireless network. The method includes: generating a request for a voice service according to a voice service access code and generating a trigger signal according to the request; setting up a connection with the wireless network according to the trigger signal; performing network registration for the voice service; and processing a call of the voice service through the network connection after the network registration is successful. The technical solution of the present invention overcomes the conflict between Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and dial-on-demand when VoIP traffic is carried over a Packet Switched (PS) network, so that no radio bandwidth is wasted and that the user can use VoIP at any time with no need to modify the network. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199975 | WIRELESS BASE STATION DEVICE USING COLLABORATIVE HARQ COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a transmission device on a serving eNB side, a first packet transmission unit performs an operation of transmitting a retransmission data packet. On the other hand, in a transmission device on a collaborative eNB side, a second packet transmission unit performs an operation of transmitting a new data packet corresponding to information transferred from the serving eNB by the packet transfer unit. The control information about a communication to a UE by the serving eNB and the collaborative eNB is communicated by using only a PUCCH from the UE to the serving eNB and a PDCCH from the serving eNB to the UE. The serving eNB and the collaborative eNB perform communications of a new data packet and communication control information etc. through an X2 interface. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199976 | Wireless Aircraft Sensor Network - A method and apparatus in a sensor network in an aircraft for collecting data about the aircraft. The sensor network in the aircraft collects the data about the aircraft. The sensor network comprises a set of wireless sensors attached to a first set of locations for the aircraft, a set of wireless routers attached to a second set of locations for the aircraft, and a set of gateways connected to an aircraft data processing system. The set of wireless routers is capable of receiving the data in wireless signals transmitted by the set of wireless sensors. The set of gateways is capable of receiving data in the wireless signals from the set of wireless routers to form received data and is capable of transmitting the received data into the aircraft data processing system. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199977 | PACKET-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for facilitating communication of packets between one or more applications residing on a first computing device and at least one second computing device. The system comprises a connection manager adapted to receive packets from the at least one second computing device, and a packet cache for storing packets received by the connection manager. The connection manager, upon receiving a packet from a second computing device, transmits the packet to the packet cache for storage and notifies each of the applications of receipt of the packet. Subsequently, the packet is retrievable from the packet cache by a notified application, and verification that the packet is intended for communication to the notified application is made. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199978 | RECOVERY TECHNIQUES IN MOBILE NETWORKS - A technique for protecting location information of a subscriber in a mobile network is disclosed. A User Mobility Server (UMS) receives a first query from a first call state control function (CSCF). The UMS transmits a call setup and a subscriber identity to a servicing-call state control function (S-CSCF). The S-CSCF may have no record of the subscriber identity due to a restart are some other event. The UMS receives a second query from the S-CSCF based in part of the subscriber identity. The UMS transmits a home address of a mobile station to the S-CSCF. The UMS may also transmit a profile download to the S-CSCF. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199979 | Method and System for Processing Bearer under ISR Mechanism - A method and a system for processing a bearer under an idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) mechanism are provided. The method for processing a bearer under an ISR mechanism includes the following steps. A mobility management network element acquires an access mode of a current network. The mobility management network element notifies a serving gateway (SGW) of the access mode of the current network, so that the SGW processes bearer according to the access mode of the current network. It can be ensured that the access mode of the current network is consistent with the access mode for a policy and charging control (PCC) strategy adopted during a bearing procedure under the ISR mechanism. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199980 | CHANNEL SWITCHING IN MESH TYPE NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus which enable flexible channel switching by exchanging channel information among network nodes to cumulate their view of the quality and availability of the available communication channels. The network nodes can now switch to the same channel independently of one another even when initiating a switch simultaneously. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199981 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, NETWORK SIDE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - Disclosed is a technique for performing flexible service-level access control in real-time while suppressing occurrence of signaling. According to the technique, a network entity (AAA server | 2011-08-18 |
20110199982 | PROCESSING INFORMATION BLOCKS FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION - In general, according to an embodiment, a wireless transmitter includes a plurality of coding and modulation modules to apply corresponding coding and modulation algorithms to input information blocks. A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoder applies DFT processing to outputs of the coding and modulation modules, and an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) module receives a DFT output of the DFT precoder, which is mapped to different subcarriers according to the resource allocation indicated by the base station, and applies IFFT processing to the DFT output. An output processing stage produces output signals based on the output of the IFFT module to transmit wirelessly to a wireless receiver. In a different implementation, the outputs of the coding and modulation modules can be provided to an IFFT module to produce IFFT-processed output information. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199983 | OFDMA power allocation method - The OFDMA power allocation method provides for supporting absolute proportional rate constrains for scalable OFDMA systems. Network scheduling procedures implementing the prescribed method can provide absolute guarantees for satisfying the specified rate constrains while maximizing the throughput of the network. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199984 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND MOBILE STATION - When a radio resource allocation channel transmitted from a radio base station (eNB) at a discontinuous reception timing satisfies a specific condition, a mobile station (UE) is configured not to start a continuous reception of a signal transmitted from the radio base station (eNB), but to continue the discontinuous reception of a signal transmitted from the radio base station (eNB), even though the mobile station (UE) is performing the discontinuous reception of a signal transmitted from the radio base station (eNB). | 2011-08-18 |
20110199985 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTRA-CELL FREQUENCY REUSE IN A RELAY NETWORK - A method for communicating using a wireless communication network is presented. The method may include receiving a channel quality indicator (CQI) from a first UE. The first UE is served by a base station. The CQI characterizes a channel quality between the first UE and the base station when the base station transmits at a high power. A first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) may be determined for when the base station transmits at a low power based on the received CQI. When the spectrum efficiency of the first MCS is equal to or higher than the spectrum efficiency of a pre-determined MCS, first UE may be communicated with using a low power transmission. In some cases, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) downlink control information (DCI) message is transmitted to the first UE to identify a power spectral density (PSD) level. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199986 | REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR A COORDINATED MULTI-POINT NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION - A method of decoding a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is presented. An indication of a resource element (RE) configuration allocated for transmission of CSI-RSs by a first cell is received from a second cell. The method includes at least one of using the indication of the RE configuration to decode a first CSI-RS received from the first cell, and using the indication of the RE configuration to mute one or more REs within a data channel transmission received from a third cell. The first cell, second cell and third cell may be associated within a CSI-RS group. In some cases, at least two of the first cell, the second cell, and the third cell are mutually interfering cells. The indication of the RE configuration may include a plurality of logical indices having incremental values, the plurality of logical indices identifying REs used to transmit CSI-RS. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199987 | Multi-PDN (Packet Data Network) Connectivity To One APN (Access Point Name) - The present invention relates to a solution for handling several Packet Data Network (PDN) connections in a relation to one access point name, i.e. APN in a communication network, e.g. evolved packet system, i.e. EPS using a solution for appending a tag to an APN with a unique identifier and optionally a tag divisor. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199988 | TECHNIQUES TO ASSIGN IDENTIFIERS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques are described that can be used to assign identifiers to carriers of a multi-carrier mobile station. In some cases, each carrier of the mobile station is assigned the same identifiers. In some cases, each carrier of the mobile station is assigned a unique identifier on each channel. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199989 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING APPLICATIONS TO RADIOS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Techniques for mapping applications to radios in a wireless communication device are described. In one design, a controller residing below an operating system may receive inputs from applications residing above the operating system. The controller may determine radios selected based on the application inputs and further to mitigate interference between these radios. The controller may determine mapping of the applications to the radios based on the application inputs and may provide, to the applications, information indicative of the radios to which the applications are mapped. The applications may obtain connectivity via their selected radios. The controller may interface with entities in both upper layers and lower layers to facilitate radio selection and application-to-radio mapping. The controller may control the operation of a connection manager and/or a coexistence manager, manage databases for these managers, provide CPU and memory resources for these managers, manage a data bus used for communication, etc. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199990 | Uplink power control message design in wireless OFDMA systems - A method of uplink power control in a wireless OFDMA system is provided. A serving base station first configures a fast feedback channel by transmitting a feedback allocation message to a mobile station. The mobile station then reports downlink channel information via the allocated fast feedback channel. Based on the reported downlink channel information, the serving base station estimates uplink channel quality and thereby detects a channel variation and generates an uplink power adjustment message that delivers a power offset to adjust the transmitting power level of the mobile station. In one novel aspect, the uplink power adjustment message also comprises feedback allocation information that re-configures the fast feedback channel without extra signaling overhead. In addition, the novel power adjustment message eliminates redundant information such that it is transmitted via a minimum resource unit without requiring extra resource. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199991 | INCREASING SCHEDULING REQUEST EFFCIENCY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for increasing Scheduling Request efficiency in a wireless communication system includes a step | 2011-08-18 |
20110199992 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERN SWEEPING - A system and method for antenna radiation pattern sweeping in wireless networks, e.g., cellular networks, are disclosed. For example, the system comprises a first base station associated with a first antenna assembly for providing a first antenna radiation pattern over a first footprint of a first cell, a second base station associated with a second antenna assembly for providing a second antenna radiation pattern over a second footprint of a second cell, wherein there is an overlap between the first footprint and the second footprint, and a controller for controlling the first base station and the second base station to continuously provide a variation of the first antenna radiation pattern and the second antenna radiation pattern in a co-ordinated manner for maintaining the overlap between the first footprint and the second footprint. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199993 | CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT METHOD, WIRELESS NETWORK APPARATUS AND CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT METHOD APPLIED IN WIRELESS NETWORK - A channel assignment method includes the following steps: settling a beginning time point and a terminating time point for communicating with a target client operated in an active mode; and performing a channel reservation mechanism for the target client at a first time point, wherein the first time point is earlier than the beginning time point. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199994 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ALLOCATING CHANNELS FOR MULTIPLE TRAFFIC STREAMS - Provided is a system and method that may allocate channels with respect to multiple traffic channels. A channel request apparatus may determine a correlation between traffic streams to which channels are allocated, and to determine whether the traffic streams are related to each other, may generate a channel allocation request message that simultaneously requests channel allocation with respect to related traffic streams that are related to each other, and may transmit the channel allocation request message to a channel response apparatus to request the channel allocation with respect to the related traffic channels. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199995 | BASE STATION, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND REGION SIZE DETERMINATION METHOD - In a base station that performs radio data communication with terminal devices by using a plurality of bands of which each has a data channel region to which a data channel is assigned and a control channel region to which a control channel is assigned, the base station includes a control channel assigning unit that assigns a control channel for the terminal device at a location corresponding to a band to which a data channel assigned to the terminal device belongs, in the control channel region of any band of the plurality of bands, and a control channel transmitting unit that transmits the control channel to the terminal device at the location assigned by the control channel assigning unit. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199996 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL LAYER RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for allocating shareable wireless transmission resources. A resource pool is established. The resource pool is divided into a plurality of physical layer allocation units usable for wirelessly transmitting control information and traffic data. The allocation units are assigned at the media access control layer for the wireless transmission of the control information and traffic data. The system and method of the present invention also allows mobile stations to be dynamically grouped into multicast groupings to reduce system overhead resource requirements. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199997 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING RESOURCE INDICES - The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and system for determining resource indices in a wireless communication system, which explores and implements for at least two control channel elements (CCEs) for a user equipment (UE), maps the CCEs to at least two resource indices for the UE according to a predetermined mapping rule. It can determine multiple resource indices to a UE implicitly according to some embodiments of the present invention. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199998 | Method For Transmitting Data From RLC Layer in Radio Communication System - Disclosed is a method for transmitting data from an RLC layer in a radio communication system. The method includes the steps of storing RLC SDUs transferred from an upper layer in a transmission buffer, transmitting RLC PDUs on which the RLC SDUs stored in the transmission buffer are loaded to a receiving side in order, discarding the RLC SDUs stored in the transmission buffer, checking whether a transmission mode indicator is configured, and transmitting discard information about the discarded RLC SDUs to the receiving side entirely or in part in accordance with whether the transmission MRW mode indicator is configured. | 2011-08-18 |
20110199999 | RADIO TERMINAL DEVICE, RADIO BASE STATION DEVICE, AND CHANNEL SIGNAL FORMING METHOD - Provided are a radio terminal device, a radio base station device, and a channel signal forming method which can prevent quality degradation of the downlink source allocation information by reducing the frequency of the zero information addition process to the downlink resource allocation information when executing communication using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands correlated to the uplink unit band. A base station ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110200000 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND MODULATION METHOD - A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein even in a case of performing a wideband transmission using only a downstream line, CCE assignment can be flexibly performed without any collisions of ACK and NACK signals among a plurality of unit bands. In a wireless communication terminal apparatus ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110200001 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING RESOURCE ALLOCATION INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION MODES - The present invention relates to a method for transmitting resource allocation information between a mobile communication device and a base station in a wireless mobile communication system that supports a plurality of communication modes. The method comprises the steps of: creating information relating to the number of resource units available for the mobile communication device operating in a second communication mode from all of the whole resource units which can be used by a first mobile communication device operating in a first communication mode and a second mobile communication device operating in the second communication mode; and broadcasting the information relating to the number of available resource units created in the previous step. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200002 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method and device for signal transmission having good PAPR/CM characteristics. With regard to one aspect of said method, the method for transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication signal comprises a step wherein a reference signal sequence is generated, a step wherein said reference signal sequence is divided with respect to each of multiple sub-blocks, a step wherein each of said plurality of divided reference signal sequence is subject to circular shifting, and a step wherein said plurality of circular shifted reference signals are transmitted via said plurality of sub-blocks. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200003 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING MODULATION SYMBOLS TO RESOURCES IN OFDM SYSTEMS - A method for transmission, by dividing a transmission resource in a time domain subframe into a plurality of equal duration resource elements in a time and frequency domain, segregating the plurality of resource elements into a plurality of resource regions, modulating information to be transmitted to generate a sequence of modulation symbols at a transmitter, mapping the sequence of modulation symbols into the plurality of resource elements in the plurality of resource regions, and transmitting the modulation symbols via a plurality of antennas using the respective corresponding resource elements to a receiver. The mapping of the modulation symbols in at least one resource region is independent of a certain control channel information that is carried in said time domain subframe, and the mapping of the modulation symbols in at least another resource region is dependent upon said certain control channel information that is carried in said subframe. The information to be transmitted may be encoded to generate a plurality of code blocks, with roughly equal number of resource elements assigned to each of the plurality of code blocks in at least one resource region. Alternatively, the time domain subframe may contain only one resource region. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200004 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, AND BASE STATION DEVICE - A base station device includes: a control information generating section which generates control information specific to mobile station devices; a control information count indicator generating section which generates a control information count indicator indicating the number of pieces of generated control information of each mobile station device; and a transmitting section which transmits the control information count indicator and the control information. The mobile station device includes: a receiving section which receives a control information count indicator and control information transmitted from the base station device within a mobile station-specific search space selected based on a mobile station ID of the mobile station device; a control information count indicator detecting section which detects the control information indicator; and a control channel decoding section which decodes the control channel in response to the number of pieces of detected control information. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200005 | METHOD OF SUPPORTING MOBILITY USING SECURITY TUNNEL - Enclosed is a method of supporting mobility using a security tunnel. For the movement of a terminal in a local network and the movement of a terminal to an external network, an active tunnel and a standby tunnel are set to provide mobility to the terminal. When the local network moves, mobility for the local network is provided. The stability of a network is guaranteed using security connection. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200006 | HANDOVER METHOD OF MOBILE TERMINAL BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a handover method of a mobile terminal between heterogeneous networks. The present invention may provide a handover method ensuring service continuity between heterogeneous networks by transmitting an IP address of a mobile terminal to a mobile IP management server and activating or inactivating a PDP context when the mobile terminal connected to one of a mobile communication network or a wireless LAN is handed over to the other. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200007 | INTERWORKING BETWEEN SYSTEMS USING DIFFERENT IP MOBILITY MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS - Systems and methods allow 3GPP and non-3GPP access with interworking between GTP-based networks and PMIP-based networks. For handover attachment of a UE, an IWP can be provided the address of the PGW which was used in the initial attachment of the UE so that, for example, an IP address can be maintained for an ongoing data connection established with the UE. Alternatively, the same IWP can operate as the proxy for all data connections with the UE such that the IWP is aware of the PGW used for the initial attachment and can reuse the same PGW for handover. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200008 | MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER FOR MOBILITY - A method and apparatus for establishing a wireless communication link using a radio access technology selected from a plurality of radio access technologies are provided. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include a plurality of network devices, each configured to communicate via a different radio access technology. The WTRU may transmit measurement information including measurement reports for the plurality of radio access technologies to a network device. The WTRU may receive a link selection decision from the network device and may establish a wireless communication link in response to the decision. The link may be established for handover of a communication session from another radio access technology. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200009 | NAT TRAVERSAL FOR MOBILE NETWORK DEVICES - Traversal of a Network Address Translator (NAT) can be facilitated for a mobile device configured to communicate with one or more other devices over a network via one or more wireless access points. A direction of travel can be estimated for the mobile device. One or more wireless access points the mobile device is likely to encounter can be predicted using the estimated direction of travel. Information regarding behavior of one or more NATs associated with the predicted wireless access point(s) can be predicted. Such information can be stored in such a way that the information is retrievable by one or more other devices or using the information to traverse one or more of the NATs. Alternatively, information can be retrieved regarding behavior of one or more NATs associated with the predicted wireless access points. This information can be used to traverse one or more of the NATs. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200010 | Method, System, and Device for Network Handoff - A method, a system, and a device for network handoff is disclosed. A first evolved Access Network (eAN) sends a session transfer request to the target eAN that corresponds to the network handoff request. The first eAN receives a session transfer response from the target eAN. The first eAN sends a Traffic Channel Assignment (TCA) message to a User Equipment (UE) based on the session transfer response, so that the UE can switch from a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network to an evolved High Rate Packet Data (eHRPD) network based on the TCA message. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200011 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR EXTENDING THE MME-GANC INTERFACE TO REPORT WHICH UES HAVE REGISTERED FOR THE GAN TO TUNNEL CS VOICE OVER EVOLVED PACKET SYSTEM (EPS) - A system and method for handing over a User Equipment (UE) from a Packet-Switched network to a Circuit-Switched network. A Generic Access Network Controller (GANC) receives a registration message from the UE with a temporary UE identity (GUTI) and uses the GUTI to identify a Mobility Management Entity (MME) controlling a connection with the UE. The GANG informs the MME whether the UE is registered to use Circuit Switched over Long Term Evolution (CS over LTE) signaling using a Generic Access Network (GAN). If so, the MME selectively directs to the GANG, handover signaling relating to the handover of the UE. If not, the MME selectively directs the handover signaling to a Mobile Switching Center (MSC). If the UE changes to a new MME, the new MME is informed whether the UE is registered to use CS over LTE using the GAN. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200012 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, GATEWAY APPARATUS, TERMINAL ALLOCATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A wireless communication system of the present invention includes: terminals; a base station that performs wireless communication with the terminals; a gateway apparatus that manages the terminals and the base station; and a server apparatus that authenticates the terminals. The gateway apparatus includes: at least one C-plane processor that processes C-plane; and N U-plane processors that process U plane. Each of the N U-plane processors notifies the C-plane processor of its own load status. The server apparatus notifies the C-plane processor of service levels of target terminals that try to perform entry to a network in which the base station and the gateway apparatus are located. The C-plane processor allocates, based on the load status of each of the N U-plane processors and the service levels of the target terminals, one of the N U-plane processors as an entry destination to the target terminals. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200013 | HANDOVER CONTROL SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL, SIGNALING RELAY APPARATUS, AND SESSION CONTROL APPARATUS - The invention discloses a technique to adequately control a handover of a user terminal in a data communication network and to decrease the number of signalings. According to this technique, when address of a user terminal (UE ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110200014 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING MEASUREMENT RESULT INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for efficiently delivering measurement result information in a mobile communication system are disclosed. In an aspect of the present invention, a method for performing, by a serving base station, a handover operation in a mobile communication system, includes receiving a measurement report including a measurement result of at least one cell from a user equipment, determining handover based on the received measurement report, and upon determination of handover, transmitting a handover request message to a target base station, wherein the handover request message includes the measurement result of the at least one cell. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200015 | FLEXIBLE UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL CONFIGURATION - Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for transmission of downlink channel quality information and acknowledgment information in a multi-carrier wireless communication system. Channel quality information may be estimated for a number of downlink carriers. An uplink control channel may be configured in a flexible manner based on the number of activated carriers and whether those carriers are configured with MIMO. The feedback cycle for the channel quality information may remain constant. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200016 | HARQ ACK/NACK Signalling for Multi-Carrier HSDPA - Techniques are disclosed for signaling retransmission-related information in a multi-carrier wireless communication system supporting three or more carriers. In an example method, a wireless transceiver forms a first ACK/NACK group by jointly coding ACK bits and NACK bits for a first subset of the carriers, and transmits the first ACK/NACK group during a first transmission slot allocated for the first ACK/NACK group. If no carriers of a second subset of the carriers are activated for the wireless transceiver, then the first ACK/NACK group is also transmitted during a second transmission slot that is otherwise allocated to ACK/NACK information for a second subset of the carriers. In another method, first and second ACK/NACK groups corresponding to first and second subsets of carriers are each formed from a codebook comprising a DTX codeword indicating that no data transmission for the mobile station was detected for the corresponding subset of carriers. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200017 | GRADE OF SERVICE AND FAIRNESS POLICY FOR BANDWIDTH RESERVATION SYSTEM - A scheme and a method for assigning priority levels to users based upon a history of their request for access to the resources is disclosed. If a user has, over a historical period of time, made fewer demands than a stated amount, that user is given a higher priority than a user who has made greater use of the resources than their stated amount. Thus, users making the heaviest demand on the available resources are allocated fewer resources despite their demand, whereas users that make less demands for the resources are granted more of the resources they request. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200018 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMIT DIVERSITY - A method for providing transmit diversity in wireless network communications is presented. An indication of a slot structure is received. The slot structure identifies at least a first location of a reference signal within a slot. A first reference signal is transmitted within a first slot using a first antenna. A location of the first reference signal within the first slot is determined by the slot structure. A second reference signal is transmitted within the first slot using a second antenna. A location of the second reference signal within the first slot is determined by the slot structure. In some cases, the slot structure identifies a second location of a reference signal within the slot structure. The second location being offset from the first location, and a third reference signal is transmitted within the first slot at the second location on the first antenna. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200019 | Methods and Nodes in a Wireless Communication System - Embodiments herein include a network node and a mobile station in a wireless communication system. Embodiments also include a method in the mobile station and a method in the network node. With particular regard to the method in the network node, the method schedules wireless transmissions between the network node and the mobile station. The method comprises obtaining a multi-slot class of the mobile station and determining a downlink Temporary Block Flow configuration. Further, the method comprises assigning uplink timeslots to the mobile station and associating each assigned uplink timeslot with a priority value, based on the downlink Temporary Block Flow configuration and the multi-slot class of the mobile station. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200020 | CONTINUOUS MODE OPERATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for a continuous communications mode in a wireless communications system. The technique may involve processing bundles of transmission time interval (TTI) transmissions having transmission times that are mapped to voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) arrival times, wherein the bundled TTI transmissions are processed without acknowledgements to indicate the bundled TTI transmissions have been successfully received. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200021 | Allocation of Uplink Resources - A wireless telecommunications system with mobile terminals, MSs and a Base Station, BS through which traffic to and from the MSs in a cell is routed, so that there can be Down Link, DL, traffic from the BS of a cell to the MSs in that cell, and Up Link, UL, traffic from those MSs to the BS. At least part of the UL traffic is contention based, and DL data to an MS must be acknowledged by the MS. The method comprises letting the BS detect MSs in the cell whose DL traffic rate exceeds a certain limit, and also comprises a mechanism for allocating to said detected MSs an UL bandwidth which enables them to acknowledge DL traffic within a certain time period from its reception by the MS. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200022 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING IP-BASED WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS CLIENT LOCATION DATA - A location provision facility communicates with a mobile telecommunications device over an IP-based telecommunications network to obtain information that enables the facility to determine a location of the telecommunications device. The facility and/or the telecommunications device store the determined location. In response to requests from location-based applications for the location of the telecommunications device, the facility can provide the location-based applications with the stored or calculated location. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200023 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A POSITION FIX INDOORS - Whenever a mobile device in a building is within proximity of a RF communication device, the mobile device may be operable to receive location information transmitted, for example by broadcasting it, from a RF communication device. The transmitted location information comprises altitude information of the RF communication device. At least an altitude of the mobile device may be determined based on the received altitude information of the RF communication device. The RF communication device may be located in an elevator car and/or on a particular floor in the building. Whenever the RF communication device is located in the elevator car, the altitude information of the RF communication device may be received by the RF communication device from an elevator controller. In instances when the RF communication device also transmits its latitude/longitude (LAT/LON), the mobile device may be operable to determine a 3-dimentional (3D) location of the mobile device. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200024 | PROVIDING GNSS ASSISTANCE DATA VIA A WIRELESS LAN ACCESS POINT - A wireless mobile device, either a WLAN enabled mobile device or a Bluetooth enable device, which is within range of a WLAN access point, is operable to receive GNSS assistance data broadcasted from the WLAN access point. The GNSS assistance data are acquired by the WLAN access point from a reference database coupled to a location server. The broadcast GNSS assistance data comprise ephemeris data, LTO data, location information related to the WLAN access point and/or time information. The WLAN access point receives the acquired GNSS assistance data from the location server over a broadband IP network. The WLAN access point selects available resources for broadcasting the received GNSS assistance data to wireless mobile devices in range. The wireless mobile device receives the broadcast GNSS assistance data to calculate its own location. The calculated location of the wireless mobile device is used to update or refine the reference database. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200025 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110200026 | Apparatus, method, and medium for self-organizing multi-hop wireless access networks - A wireless computer network includes a backbone network including backbone network nodes authenticated to each other and in communication with each other. The wireless computer network also includes a master authenticator node and a proxy authenticator node among the backbone network nodes. When an unauthenticated new node requests authentication to the backbone network and the unauthenticated new node is in communication with at least one of the backbone network nodes, the at least one of the backbone network nodes becoming the proxy authenticator node for the unauthenticated new node and communicates with the master authenticator node to authenticate the unauthenticated new node to the backbone network. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200027 | TWO TIER HI-SPEED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION LINK - A method and apparatus for mobile two-tier wireless communication are provided. A wireless communication signal may be received at a mobile communication device from a cellular base station. Data may be recovered from the received wireless communication signal. The data may be transmitted to an IEEE 802.11 user device. A second wireless communication signal may be received from the IEEE 802.11 user device. Data may be recovered from the second wireless communication signal. The data may be transmitted to the cellular base station. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200028 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station device, which allocates one or more subbands of each of an uplink and a downlink to a mobile station device and transmits response information, which indicates whether or not uplink data from the mobile station device has been properly received, to the mobile station device, the base station device includes: a control unit ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110200029 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CLUSTERING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATED MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION - A method and system for identifying cell clusters within a coordinated multiple point wireless transmission network in order to reduce scheduling complexity while optimizing throughout and performance. The network includes a total number of cells served by corresponding base stations. The BSC divides the entire network of cells into clusters of cells and forwards this clustering information to all mobile devices. A cluster of cell candidates is a subset of the total number of cells within the network. The mobile device then provides to a base station controller the identity of a cluster of preferred cells selected from the cluster of cell candidates. The base station controller selects at least one base station located within the cluster of preferred cells to establish communication with the mobile device. A wireless connection is then established between the selected at least one base station and the mobile device. | 2011-08-18 |
20110200030 | METHOD FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN OFDM(A) SYSTEM - A method for uplink transmission in an OFDMA system is provided. The subcarrier transmission method includes arranging 4 pilot REs at different positions of a frequency axis in a basic unit when the basic unit includes 4 subcarriers on the frequency axis and | 2011-08-18 |