Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080298318 | Apparatus and method for requesting bandwidth and allocating uplink resources based on group in wireless communication system - An apparatus and a method for allocating resources in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes when one or more Connection IDentifiers (CIDs) request UpLink (UL) resources, checking the UL resources requested by the CIDs; and requesting the UL resources requested by the CIDs to a base station at a time. | 12-04-2008 |
20080317033 | Apparatus and method for requesting bandwidth allocation and allocating bandwidth in a communication system - A method and apparatus for requesting bandwidth allocation and allocating a bandwidth in response to the request in a communication system are provided, in which an mobile station detects a second CID requiring bandwidth allocation, the second CID being different from a first CID included in a MAC header, generates a grant management subheader including an order field and a bandwidth field, the order field being for writing a rank of the second CID in a CID list listing CIDs of the mobile station according to a predetermined criterion and the bandwidth field being for writing a bandwidth required for the second CID, concatenates the grant management subheader to the MAC header, and transmits the concatenated MAC header and grant management subheader to a base station to request bandwidth allocation for the second CID. | 12-25-2008 |
20090022101 | Method and system for transmitting/receiving data in communication system - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for allocating a bandwidth in a communication system. The method includes the steps of checking the number of mobile stations that fall within a cell under the control of an relay station and have data to be transmitted to a base station, determining a bandwidth allocation period for data transmission corresponding to the checked number of mobile stations, and transmitting a bandwidth allocation message at intervals of the determined bandwidth allocation period. | 01-22-2009 |
20090059858 | System and Method for requesting bandwidth allocation and allocating bandwidth in communication system - Disclosed is a method of requesting bandwidth allocation by an MS having at least two CIDs in a communication system, the method including the steps of detecting at least one CID needing the bandwidth allocation; when a plurality of CIDs are detected, generating a grant management subheader including a region for recording the total number of the CIDs needing bandwidth allocation and a region for recording bandwidth information of a generic MAC header CID, and a grant management subheader including, for each of the CIDs needing bandwidth allocation, other than the generic MAC header CID, a region for recording the order of a corresponding CID given in a MS CID list and a region for recording bandwidth information of the corresponding CID; and transmitting the generic MAC header with the grant management subheaders concatenated thereto to a BS. | 03-05-2009 |
20090069024 | Method for Requesting Bandwidth Allocation and Detecting Service Flow in Communication System - A method for requesting bandwidth allocation by a mobile station in a communication system is provided. The mobile station detects at least one Connection IDentifier (CID), bandwidth allocation for which is to be requested, generates a bandwidth request header when the number of the at least one detected CID equals one, and transmits the bandwidth request header to a base station, wherein the bandwidth request header includes a region for indicating a first CID representing basic information for identification of the mobile station, a region for indicating a ranking of the detected CID, and a region for indicating information about bandwidth requested for the detected CID. | 03-12-2009 |
20090135805 | System and method for connection identifier synchronization in a communication system - A method is provided for synchronizing Connection IDentifiers (CIDs) of a first station and a second station in a communication system. The CID synchronization method includes sending, by the first station, a first message for requesting addition of a service flow identified by a CID to the second station; sending, by the second station, a second message which is a response message to the first message, and at the same time, setting a number of a frame where the second message is transmitted as a first start frame number; sending, by the first station, a third message for acknowledging receipt of the second message to the second station, and at the same time, setting a number of a frame where the third message is transmitted as a second start frame number; performing, by each of the first station and the second station, a modulo operation on a frame having the first or second start frame number and its succeeding frames using a positive integer for each frame, and detecting a number of a frame where a result value of the modulo operation becomes zero (0); and simultaneously updating CID lists of the first station and the second station at a frame having the detected frame number with regard to a CID of the added service flow. | 05-28-2009 |
20090196273 | Apparatus and method for transmitting data in wireless communication system - An apparatus and a method for a random access scheme for multi-channel in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for performing the random access scheme for the multi-channel in the wireless communication system includes randomly generating a backoff counter value to transmit data; adjusting the backoff counter value by taking into account status of a plurality of idle subcarrier sets per backoff slot; when the backoff counter value becomes zero, selecting one or more subcarrier sets to carry the data from the idle subcarrier sets; and transmitting the data through the selected one or more subcarrier sets. The data collision probability between the terminals can be lowered, the channel utility can be enhanced, the transfer rate in the single-channel random access scheme can be raised, and the consumption of the radio resource can be reduced without using signals for the band request and allocation. | 08-06-2009 |
20090258650 | Apparatus and method for reduction of handover interruption time using estimated handover time negotiation in a broadband wireless communication system - An apparatus and method for reduction of a handover interruption time using an estimated handover time negotiation in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A method for supporting a handover of a mobile station in a serving base station includes receiving a handover pre-notification response message including a residual estimated handover time from a target base station, determining a current residual estimated handover time using the residual estimated handover time, and exchanging the determined residual estimated handover time with the target base station. | 10-15-2009 |
20090316595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING BASE STATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for identifying a base station in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes storing a Neighbor Cell List (NCL) received from a serving base station, obtaining a Physical Cell IDentifier (PCID) from a signal received from a neighbor base station, and identifying whether the neighbor base station is a macro base station or a femto base station by determining whether the obtained PCID exists in the stored NCL. | 12-24-2009 |
20100041393 | PAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a paging method and an apparatus thereof for User Equipment (UE) in a broadband wireless communication system. In the method, a paging message is received from a macro base station. Whether there exists an accessible femto base station inside a service area of the macro base station is determined. When there does not exist the accessible femto base station inside the service area of the macro base station, the UE responds to the paging message of the macro base station. When there exists the accessible femto base station inside the service area of the macro base station, the UE waits for a paging message to be received from the femto base station. | 02-18-2010 |
20100069069 | Apparatus and method for automatically searching for low-power base station supporting access of registered user in mobile communication system - An apparatus and method for automatically searching for a low-power Base Station (BS) supporting access of a registered user in a mobile communication system includes a method of performing automatic search on a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell by a User Equipment (UE). The method includes determining by the UE whether automatic search needs to be performed on the CSG cell. The method also includes, if it is determined that automatic search does not need to be performed on the CSG cell, turning off by the UE a CSG cell automatic search function of the UE by emptying a first white list including CSG Identifiers of accessible CSG cells. | 03-18-2010 |
20100124179 | Method and apparatus for identifying types and access modes of neighbor cells in femtocell environment - In a mobile communication system including macro cells and femtocells, a neighbor cell identification method includes: transmitting, by a neighbor cell that is a macro cell or a femtocell, a neighbor cell identifier containing information regarding the type and access mode of the neighbor cell to a user equipment. The user equipment identifies, after receiving the neighbor cell identifier the type and access mode of the neighbor cell. The user equipment also accesses the neighbor cell according to the identification result. | 05-20-2010 |
20100272065 | DATA FORWARDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING HANDOVER INTERRUPTION TIME IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A data forwarding apparatus and method for reducing a HandOver (HO) interruption time in a wireless communication system where a macro cell and a femto cell coexist are provided. An operation method of a Mobile Station (MS) for data forwarding in a wireless communication system includes synchronizing with a serving Base Station (BS) after completing a HO procedure with a target BS, and receiving data packets existing in a queue through an air link directly from the serving BS. | 10-28-2010 |
20100309782 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AN ACCESS MODE OF A NODE B IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for managing an access mode of an NB in a wireless communication system. In the method for changing the access mode of a second NB at a first NB or a CN, an access mode change of the second NB is determined. An access mode change request message is transmitted to the second NB, requesting the access mode change of the second NB. An access mode change response message including an access mode control result is received from the second NB. | 12-09-2010 |
20110019644 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING SESSION OF USER EQUIPMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE SAME - A system and method for switching a session of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system are provided. According to the method, if the UE performs a handover from a macro base station of a macro cell to a femto base station of a femto cell, a femto base station transmits a path switch request message, which includes a serving gateway relocation Information Element (IE), to a Mobility Management Entity (MME) of the macro cell, in order to request a switching from an existing session of the UE to a new session managed by the femto base station. Then, in response to the path switch request message, the MME switches the existing session of the UE to the new session and transmits a path switch approval message to the femto base station. The serving gateway relocation IE includes information requesting relocation of a serving gateway of the UE to a femto serving gateway within the femto cell. | 01-27-2011 |
20110058514 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REQUESTING ALLOCATION OF BANDWITH AND ALLOCATING BANDWITH IN A MULTI-HOP RELAY ENVIRONMENT - The present invention relates to a method and a system for requesting the allocation of bandwidth in a multi-hop relay environment. The present invention relates to a method for requesting bandwidth of a relay node in the multi-hop relay environment and a method for allocating bandwidth of a base station. In the invention, single piggybacking and multiple piggybacking based on approval-processing sub-headers are discriminated from single piggybacking and multiple piggybacking based on extensible sub-headers. Therefore, the bandwidth-requests for each CID from the base station are integrated and managed for each relay so that the message transmission and reception load may be reduced and the allocation of bandwidth may be optimized. | 03-10-2011 |
20110310833 | BLIND SCHEDULING APPARATUS AND METHOD IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and a method minimize power consumption, signalling overhead, and processing load in blind scheduling in a mobile communication system. A User Equipment (UE) detects a type of an uplink (UL) grant while it is periodically allocated the UL grant. If there is no data to transmit using the UL grant, the UE determines whether to transmit a padding Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB) using the UL grant according to the type of the UL grant. | 12-22-2011 |
20130021982 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACKET RETRANSMISSION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a packet retransmission method of a terminal accessing a base station in contention-based access mode, and the method includes transmitting an uplink packet to the base station; receiving, when the base station fails decoding the uplink packet, a retransmission request message transmitted by the base station; and initiating, when the retransmission request message is received, a Radio Link Control (RLC) retransmission. According to the present invention, the terminal operating in contention-based access mode initiates RLC retransmission in reception of an HARQ NACK from the base station. Accordingly, it is possible to perform the RLC retransmission immediately without necessity of waiting for the expiry of HARQ RTT as in the HARQ retransmission, resulting in reduction of packet retransmission delay. | 01-24-2013 |
20130040677 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING D2D ID OF USER TERMINAL IN AD-HOC NETWORK - An apparatus and a method for allocating a Device-to-Device (D2D) IDentity (ID) of a user terminal in an ad-hoc network are provided. The method includes determining that a first D2D ID allocated to the user terminal is duplicated with a second D2D ID allocated to at least one other terminal located within a predefined range from the user terminal, determining whether the user terminal is in communication, when the first D2D ID is duplicated with the second D2D ID, and changing the first D2D ID into a third D2D ID with reference to a D2D ID pool so that the first D2D ID is not duplicated with the second D2D ID, when the user terminal is not in communication. | 02-14-2013 |
20130178219 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION SERVICE TO MOBILE STATION BY MULTIPLE BASE STATIONS IN COOPERATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for providing a service to a Mobile Station (MS) by a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) operating in cooperation in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes configuring, by a master BS, a first cooperative cell including at least one slave BS, sending a resource request message for requesting resource allocation to the at least one slave BS included in the first cooperative cell, receiving, from each of the at least one slave BS, a resource request response message including resource approval control results for the resource allocation request, changing member BSs constituting the first cooperative cell based on the resource request response message, and allocating resources to an MS that is served in the first cooperative cell. | 07-11-2013 |
20130188575 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST OPERATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) method and an apparatus in a communication system are provided. The method includes receiving, by a Subscriber Station (SS), first data from at least one first member Base Station (BS) among member BSs of a cooperative cell, when the cooperative cell is configured with the member BSs to provide a communication service to the SS, generating a response signal indicating a reception result of the first data, and transmitting the response signal to at least one predefined second member BS from among the member BSs. The member BSs include a master BS for controlling communication of the member BSs and at least one slave BS for communicating with the SS under the control of the master BS. | 07-25-2013 |
20130208697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS - A method for supporting Device-to-Device (D2D) communications by a Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system is provided. The method includes performing a network entry procedure with a Base Station (BS) and receiving, from the BS, a BS prefix, a temporary Identifier (ID), and a valid period timer value for the temporary ID, generating a device ID using the BS prefix and the temporary ID, and performing, upon detecting data to be transmitted, communication with a peer MS using the device ID for a time indicated by the valid period timer value. The BS prefix is information unique within the communication system, and the temporary ID is information unique within a coverage area of the BS. | 08-15-2013 |
20130258974 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING COOPERATIVE CELL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for configuring a cooperative cell by a master Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes instructing a Mobile Station (MS) and adjacent BSs to measure channels, receiving channel measurement results from the MS and the adjacent BSs, and determining at least one BS constituting a cooperative cell according to the channel measurement results. The at least one BS constituting the cooperative cell provides one of an UpLink (UL) service and a DownLink (DL) service to a same MS. | 10-03-2013 |
20140071943 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION SERVICE BETWEEN MACRO BASE STATION AND SMALL CELL BASE STATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for providing a cooperative communication service by a macro Base Station (BS) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes generating at least one small cell BS group by grouping small cell BSs if there are small cell BSs of which a number is equal to or larger than a threshold small cell BS number within a service coverage of the macro BS, establishing a cooperative interface with a representative small cell BS among small cell BSs included in the at least one small cell BS group, and providing a cooperative communication service with the at least one small cell BS group using the cooperative interface. | 03-13-2014 |
20140073331 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RESOURCE BETWEEN MACRO BASE STATION AND SMALL CELL BASE STATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for allocating a resource by a Mobile Station (MS) in a mobile communication system includes performing a measurement operation and a measurement report operation; and being allocated a resource from a small cell Base Station (BS) or a macro BS based on a neighbor small cell BS change probability and a neighbor small cell BS list, wherein the neighbor small cell BS list includes information on neighbor small cell BSs, and the neighbor small cell BSs are neighbor small cell BSs of which received signal strengths for reference signals measured by the MS are equal to or greater than a threshold received signal strength, and wherein the neighbor small cell BS change probability is determined using a neighbor small cell BS list which is generated at a current timing point and a neighbor small cell BS list which is generated at a previous timing point. | 03-13-2014 |
20140364128 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for a serving base station to determine a handover time in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining whether to set up dual connectivity (DC) with respect to a terminal with a target base station that transmits the beacon if it is recognized that the terminal receives a beacon including a plurality of pieces of service coverage area information, and determining whether to execute a handover to the target base station based on a measurement report of the terminal, which is received after the DC is set up if the DC is set up. | 12-11-2014 |