Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120157119 | Processor, Apparatus and Associated Methods for Unlicensed Use of White Space - A processor for a device, the processor configured to determine a current geographical area for the current device location within which geo-specific spectrum usage data are known; determine a geographical margin for the current geographical area, the geographical margin defining an outer area of the geographical area; and obtain geo-specific spectrum usage data corresponding to an adjacent geographical area from a location remote to the device when the device location is within the geographical margin. | 06-21-2012 |
20120185429 | Method, Apparatuses and Computer Program for Maintaining Databases - There is disclosed a method, apparatus and a computer code to maintain databases. In the method a first database containing information of a usage of a frequency spectrum is maintained for a first geographical area by the apparatus. Information is received from a second database apparatus on a second geographical area. The first database apparatus determines whether said first geographical area and said second geographical area are at least partly overlapping. A linkage table is maintained to provide an indication on the result of the determination, wherein said indication is indicative of whether said first geographical area and said second geographical area are at least partly overlapping. | 07-19-2012 |
20140113612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a receiver configured to receive information from a mobile device, the information comprising at least an indication of a location of the mobile device, at least one processing core configured to determine availability information concerning a 5 cell based at least in part on the information received from the mobile device, the availability information defining the cell to be available or not available, a transmitter configured to transmit to the mobile device advice concerning the cell determined to be available or not available, the transmitter being further configured to transmit to the cell determined to be available or not available an instruction, wherein the instruction is 10 configured to cause the determined cell to become active or inactive. | 04-24-2014 |
20140153535 | HARQ TIMING SCHEME FOR SIGNLE-CARRIER UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION WITH INTER-SITE CARRIER AGGREGATION - There is a pattern for downlink almost blank sub frames ABSFs for a first network node (e.g., macro eNB) operating in a first component carrier (e.g., PCell). For a user equipment UE operating with the first network node on the first component carrier and also with a second network node on the second component carrier, then either or both of the following are imposed. The UE is scheduled on the first component carrier such that no uplinic control information UCI from the UE is scheduled for any uplink subframe in the first component carrier which maps from any of the ABSFs; and the UE is scheduled on the second component carrier such that UCI from the UE is scheduled only for an uplinic subframe in the second component carrier which maps from any of the ABSFs. By example, the UCI includes either/or ACKs and NACKs corresponding to data sent downlink to the UE. | 06-05-2014 |
20140185576 | PDSCH ASSIGNMENT INDICATION FOR FDD SCELL ACK/NACK TRANSMISSION - A pico network node sends to a UE an allocation of physical downlink shared channel PDSCH subframes on the SCell. The allocation has control signaling indicating a number of the allocated PDSCH subframes that lie within a multiplexing window. The pico network node sends to the UE data on each of the allocated downlink subframes. The UE is also configured for a PCell with a macro network node not co-located with the pico. The UE determines from control signaling the number of PDSCH subframes that are allocated; and checks the determined number against PDSCH subframes it's received, to detect whether any allocated PDSCH subframe is missed. In an embodiment the control signaling is two bits per allocated downlink subframe as an assignment indication. | 07-03-2014 |
20140248919 | PICOCELL RANGE EXPANSION CONFIGURATION ON AUTHORIZED SHARED ACCESS - An apparatus, system, and method for a communication network that includes a picocell range expansion configuration on authorized shared access. A method may include determining, in a controller, at least one allowable maximal range expansion bias value for at least one picocell within a coverage area of a macrocell. The method may also include sending the determined allowable maximal range expansion bias value for the at least one picocell from the controller to the macrocell. A further method may include receiving at least one allowable maximal range expansion bias value for at least one picocell from a controller. The method may also include updating, by a macrocell, a range expansion bias value for each picocell within a macrocell based on the received allowable maximal range expansion bias value. | 09-04-2014 |
20140256332 | INTERFERENCE COORDINATION BETWEEN MACROCELL AND SMALL CELL - Provided are methods, corresponding apparatus and computer program products for interference coordination between a macrocell and a small cell. A method comprises receiving respective position information from at least one small-cell base station and at least one macrocell user equipment; calculating a distance between the at least one small-cell base station and the at least one macrocell user equipment based upon the respective position information; and determining, based upon the distance, whether to allow the at least one small-equipment cell base station to reuse radio resources used by the at least one macrocell user equipment. With the embodiments, the interference coordination can be improved and thus interference in small-cell transmission will be diminished due to efficient allocation and usage of the radio resources. | 09-11-2014 |
20140287693 | SPECTRUM SENSING - Provided are methods, corresponding apparatuses, and computer program products for performing spectrum sensing on a spectrum. A method comprises receiving, at a user equipment, information regarding performing spectrum sensing from a base station; performing, based upon the information, the spectrum sensing by the user equipment in an idle mode; and transmitting, by the user equipment out of the idle mode, to the base station a result of the spectrum sensing. With the claimed inventions, transmission interruption caused by non-idle user equipments performing the spectrum sensing would be eliminated. | 09-25-2014 |
20140341187 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAFFIC OFFLOADING - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to support traffic offloading in a manner that relies upon,a wireless access point having a co-located local gateway (L-GW), but that does not require each access point to have a co-located L-GW. In the context of a method, the traffic offloading capabilities of at least one other access point is initially determined. The method may also cause a tunnel to be established with another access point with a co-located L-GW having traffic offloading capabilities. Further, the method cause communications with a network to be conducted via the tunnel established with the another access point so as to utilize the traffic offloading capabilities of the another access point. | 11-20-2014 |
20140362798 | SHIFTING HARQ FEEDBACK FOR COGNITIVE-RADIO-BASED TD-LTE SYSTEMS - A method includes, in response to a determination one or more quiet periods conflict with specified hybrid automatic repeat request feedback timing, sending one or more indicators to one or more user equipment to indicate to the user equipment to shift the specified hybrid automatic repeat request feedback timing to a shifted hybrid automatic repeat request feedback timing. The method includes communicating hybrid automatic repeat request feedback based on the shifted hybrid automatic repeat request feed-back timing. Another method includes receiving at a user equipment one or more indicators indicating to the user equipment to shift specified hybrid automatic repeat request feedback timing to a shifted hybrid automatic repeat request timing, and communicating hybrid automatic repeat request feedback based on the shifted hybrid automatic repeat request timing. Apparatus, computer program product, and computer programs are also disclosed. | 12-11-2014 |
20140369313 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING RE-ESTABLISHMENT PROCEDURE IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - The present invention relates to method and apparatus for enabling re-establishment procedure in a heterogeneous network. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for a master node working with inter-site carrier aggregation in a heterogeneous network is provided. The method comprises: performing detection for whether there is a trigger for transferring UE context which is indispensable for a successful re-establishment procedure for a user equipment to at least one slave node; transferring, once said trigger is detected, said UE context to said at least one slave node. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided an apparatus of a master node, and corresponding computer program product. | 12-18-2014 |
20150036659 | Local Networks - The invention relates to an apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: provide access to a network and needed bearers locally, and obtain offload bearer traffic from an umbrella node under control of the umbrella node in such a manner that a core network sees the offload bearer traffic as internal umbrella node traffic. | 02-05-2015 |
20150063139 | Apparatus and Method for Interference Management between Cellular and Local Area Networks - According to an example embodiment of this application, a method may include determining a distance from a network element; and assigning at least one of a downlink resource or an uplink resource to the network element based at least in part on the determined distance, wherein the assigned resource is used for both a downlink and an uplink communication of the network element. | 03-05-2015 |