Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140362691 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTONOMOUS OPERATION IN CELLULAR-BASED LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises configuring an autonomous mode for traffic offloading; and indicating the autonomous mode towards at least one terminal, wherein said autonomous mode supports local area radio access connectivity by internet protocols to reduce control from a core network. Related apparatus and computer program product are also described. | 12-11-2014 |
20150103775 | FLEXIBLE HARQ ACK/NACK TRANSMISSION - A method including utilizing HARQ process grouping and subframe grouping to carry ACK/NACK transmissions, wherein the HARQ process grouping divides HARQ processes into one or more groups, and the subframe grouping divides a radio frame into one or more groups. The method may further include carrying ACK/NACK transmissions. | 04-16-2015 |
20150126210 | INTERFERENCE-AVOIDANCE ORIENTED CARRIER REUSE OF DEVICE-TO-DEVICE (D2D) COMMUNICATION IN CELLULAR NETWORKS - An apparatus and method for interference-avoidance in a hybrid communications network is provided. The method includes obtaining related information for interfering cellular user equipment in the hybrid network, reporting the related information for the interfering cellular user equipment to an evolved Node B (eNB), receiving a list of component carriers and competition related information for the component carriers, and selecting one or more proper component carriers from the list of component carriers according to certain rules. | 05-07-2015 |
20150195854 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENTION BASED TRANSMISSION - Systems and techniques for contention based transmission in a cellular network. A physical uplink shared channel is used for contention based transmission by a device such as a user equipment, based at least in part on information provided by a physical uplink control channel associated with the physical uplink shared channel. In addition, a base station such as an eNodeB may respond to a physical uplink shared channel by providing a common physical downlink shared channel providing acknowledge ment/negative acknowledgement information. In addition, the base station may provide a physical downlink control channel indicating the common physical downlink shared channel. | 07-09-2015 |
20150215838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILITY CONTROL IN HETEROGENOUS NETWORK - Methods, corresponding apparatuses, and computer program products for mobility control in a heterogeneous network are provided. The method comprises sending, by a source local area base station (e.g., a source access point), a handover request for handing over a user equipment to a target local area base station (e.g., a target access point), wherein the source and target local area base stations are connected with a same wide area base station and the user equipment is connected with the same wide area base station via the source local area base station. The method also comprises handing over, based on a handover request acknowledgement from the target local area base station, the user equipment to the target local area base station for continuing with at least one of an ongoing local area service and an ongoing wide area service without changing security keys of the same wide area base station. With the claimed inventions, the handover latency and service continuity during the inter-AP mobility would be efficiently improved in a secure manner. | 07-30-2015 |
20150230098 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING RADIO RESOURCES - Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for scheduling radio resources in a communication system. According to the method, in response to receiving a request for accessing a target frequency band utilized by a Macro BS and a LPN from a frequency-shared system, a first notification is transmitted to the Macro BS, such that the Macro BS deactivates the target frequency band, and a second notification is transmitted to the LPN, such that the LPN extends its coverage. Then, information on the extended coverage is received from the LPN. | 08-13-2015 |
20150230153 | LOCAL CELL DISCOVERY IN MACRO-ASSISTED ENHANCED LOCAL AREA - A macro eNB (MeNB) triggers a small cell (eLA eNB) to transmit a sequence on a second frequency band using a triggering command that indicates a time to transmit the sequence. On a first frequency band the MeNB triggers at least one user equipment UE to detect the sequence on the second band, and this trigger also has a first indication of when the sequence will be transmitted. From a second indication the MeNB receives on the first band from the at least one UE in response to the triggering of the UE the MeNB can determine whether the UE is located proximate to the small cell. The indication may be as little as a single bit indicating whether the UE detected or not the sequence. The first and second bands may be on first and second component carriers that may not be synchronized to one another, and the aperiodic nature of the triggered sequences and detection reports saves UE power. | 08-13-2015 |
20150237610 | NEIGHBOR CELL ASSISTED TDD CONFIGURATION - A method for neighbor cell assisted TDD configurations is described. The method includes receiving, from a serving cell, a first configuration. The first configuration is a cell specific configuration which indicates a first set of individual configurations for each of a plurality of SFs. A second configuration is received from the serving cell. The second configuration is a UE specific configuration which indicates a second set of individual configurations for each of the plurality of SFs. The method includes determining whether a given SF is configured differently in the first configuration than in the second configuration. In response to determining that the given SF is configured differently in the first configuration than in the second configuration, the method also includes communicating, with a neighbor cell, in the given SF as configured in the second configuration. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 08-20-2015 |