Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
455512000 | Based on priority | 49 |
20080200196 | TRANSMISSION OF PRIORITIZED INFORMATION IN THE PROXIMITY OF REFERENCE SIGNALS - Transmission of information in a wireless network is performed by allocating a channel from a transmitter to a receiver. The channel has at least one time slot with each time slot having a plurality of symbols. Each slot contains at least one reference symbol (RS). As information becomes available for transmission, it is classified as prioritized information (PI) and other information. Digital samples are produced using an element of prioritized information. One or more priority symbols are generated using the digital samples. Other symbols are generated using the other data. Priority symbols are transmitted on the channel in a manner that separation of priority symbol(s) and a reference symbol does not exceed a time duration of one symbol. The other symbols are transmitted in available locations. | 08-21-2008 |
20080207239 | TRANSMITTER APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION ENABLE SIGNAL TRANSMITTER APPARATUS - The present invention has an object of providing a transmitter apparatus, a mobile communication system, a base station and a communication enable signal transmitter unit, which can prioritize communications of a mobile station in a priority communication system over communications of a mobile station in a non-priority communication system, in a network where the priority communication system and the non-priority communication system coexist in the same communication area. | 08-28-2008 |
20080214220 | Preemption Method for Management of Radio Resources in a Mobile Communication Network - The invention relates to management of radio resources allocated to communication channels each associated with requested QoS parameters in a mobile communication network, consisting of the following if there is a lack of resources when accepting a new channel request:
| 09-04-2008 |
20080274760 | POWER MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS IN WIRELESS SYSTEMS - To schedule uplink transmission time slots for a collection of mobile communication devices, a set of base station target interference patterns is associated with base stations. A time slot target interference pattern is assigned for each time slot and it repeats after several time slots. The time slot target interference pattern in a given time slot specifies the interference allowed by each time slot to a given base station by any single mobile. A priority index may be determined for each time slot for each mobile associated with the particular base station. The priority index may be based, in part, on a determined correlation between the time-slot target interference patterns and a potential interference profile of a mobile to which a time slot is to be allocated. A mobile's throughput requirement, the throughput already received over a specified past duration, the system fairness requirement, as well as the amount of data available for transmission are also used for evaluating the priority index. | 11-06-2008 |
20090111496 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING BLUETOOTH CHANNELS USING A WIDEBAND RECEIVER - Aspects of a method and system for classifying Bluetooth channels using a wideband receiver are provided. In this regard, FFT analysis may be utilized to detect signals/interference present in a sub-band of an ISM band and classify Bluetooth channels in that sub-band based on the detected signals. A co-located Bluetooth transceiver may utilize the classification to determine which Bluetooth channels comprise a best communication link for communicating via Bluetooth. In this regard, Bluetooth channels may be ranked in order of preference based on the classification. Preferred Bluetooth channels may provide more reliable Bluetooth communications. The ISM frequency band may be the 2.4 GHz ISM frequency band. The sub-bands may each comprise a WLAN channel. The Bluetooth channels may be classified based on strength, type, and/or a rate of recurrence of the detected signals. In addition to the FFT, a signal strength indicator may be utilized to detect signals/interference. | 04-30-2009 |
20090117929 | Systems And Methods For Managing Access Channels - Systems and methods for maintaining base stations are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes a base station that is configured to receive transmitted signals from one or more mobile stations, calculate one or more data rates based on the transmitted signal associated with the one or more mobile stations, respectively, and generate data rate signals based on the calculated one or more data rates. The base station includes a dithering unit that is configured to apply dithering noise to the data rate signals, and memory that includes channel assignment logic configured to assign access channels to the one or more mobile stations based on the dithered signals, respectively. | 05-07-2009 |
20090239565 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UPLINK BEAMFORMING AND SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (SDMA) IN MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An apparatus and method for beamforming of a terminal in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting sounding signals beamformed through a plurality of beamforming weight vectors in sequence, receiving control information indicative of an uplink weight vector determined by a base station and a maximum channel quality value using the sounding signals and transmitting a transmit signal beamformed with the uplink weight vector via a plurality of antennas. | 09-24-2009 |
20090247204 | Dynamic Allocation Of Communications Resources - In a communications spectrum shared by public safety users and commercial users, in the event of an emergency condition, commercial users are preempted and corresponding bandwidth is reallocated to authorized public safety users. When the emergency condition subsides, the reallocated bandwidth is made available for commercial use. Reallocation and preemption can be initiated by an authorized public safety entity and/or can be initiated when public safety usage exceeds a predetermined usage threshold. | 10-01-2009 |
20090247205 | Management Of Preemptable Communications Resources - In a communications spectrum shared by public safety users and commercial users, in the event of an emergency condition, commercial users are preempted and corresponding resources are reallocated to authorized public safety users. When the emergency condition subsides, the reallocated resources are again made available for commercial use. In an example configuration, resources and associated attributes including preemptability status are maintained in a Base Station Controller (BSC), Radio Network Controller (RNC), and/or Radio Resource Control (RRC) of a communications network. | 10-01-2009 |
20100137014 | METHOD TO IMPROVE DIVERSITY GAIN IN A COOPERATIVE SPECTRUM SENSING NETWORK - A cooperative sensing technique ( | 06-03-2010 |
20100227636 | METHOD FOR RANDOM ACCESS BASED ON PRIORITY - A random access method based on priority is disclosed. A priority-based random access method for use in a random access method supporting emergency communication including selecting, by a user equipment (UE), a random access slot corresponding to priority of the UE, among several random access slots to which at least two priorities are allocated, selecting an arbitrary sequence by the UE, and transferring the selected sequence to a base station via the selected random access slot. The method minimizes a UE access delay time requesting emergency communication by assigning priority to resources, and is able to reduce an amount of wasted resources by effectively distributing resources to not only a high-priority UE but also a low-priority UE according to individual situations. | 09-09-2010 |
20100240407 | Method and System for Managing Channel Set for Dynamic Channel Allocation - Provided are a method and an apparatus for managing a channel set in a cognitive radio (CR) communication system. A CR communication system for dynamically allocating frequencies or channels manages vacant channels regularly so as to set an appropriate priority to usage of the vacant channels such that a channel set can be managed efficiently. | 09-23-2010 |
20100279726 | METHOD FOR INITIATING A COMMUNICATION WHILE PARTICIPATING IN ANOTHER COMMUNICATION - Within a two way radio frequency communication system, a repeater transmits an identity of a rest channel when transmitting during an active communication call on a channel other than the rest channel. A subscriber unit communicating within the active communication, receives the identity of the rest channel, leaves the active communication; and initiates a new communication on the rest channel. | 11-04-2010 |
20100311455 | Distributed Arbitration - A communication unit for communicating data in dependence on a priority associated with a data communication to be made by that communication unit and on a priority associated with a data communication to be made by another communication unit, the communication unit being arranged to assign a priority to a data communication to be made by the communication unit, make an adjustment to the priority to form an adjusted priority, the adjustment being independent of an adjustment made by the other communication unit to a priority assigned to a data communication to be made by that communication unit and communicate the adjusted priority to the other communication unit as being the priority associated with the data communication to be made by the communication unit. | 12-09-2010 |
20100317391 | METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE DISCRIMATION BETWEEN AUTHENTIC AND SPURIOUS SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS COGNITIVE NETWORK - A WRAN discriminates between authentic incumbent and spurious/malicious signals by collaboratively sensing the frequency environment, classifying and fusing the sensed results, and categorizing each signal as valid or invalid. Embodiments categorize signals according to reports from at least two nodes, thereby increasing detection confidence and resisting denial-of-service attacks. A “voting-rule” can be applied whereby a signal is authentic only if it is detected by a specified percentage of the nodes. Some embodiments categorized signals by comparing sensed analog signal properties, such as amplitude, bandwidth, pulse width, mean, variance, modulation, standard deviation, moments, cumulants, and rise and fall times, with properties of known incumbents and/or known incumbent types. Sensed results can be weighted according to known node locations and/or local topology, sensed signal strengths, and comparisons of sensed analog features with corresponding features of known incumbents and/or known incumbent types in the same class. | 12-16-2010 |
20110003611 | MOBILE AND BASE STATION TRANSCEIVER APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING - A mobile transceiver apparatus being adapted for communicating radio signals from/to a base station transceiver. The mobile transceiver apparatus has a receiver module for receiving an information signal from an other base station transceiver, wherein the information signal being received with an information signal strength. The mobile transceiver apparatus further has a transmitter module for communicating a transmit radio signal with a transmit power to the base station transceiver, wherein the transmit power being dependent on the information signal strength received from the other base station transceiver. | 01-06-2011 |
20110045862 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION IN COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORK - A CR apparatus for performing communication in a CR network includes: a communication unit configured to measure a channel estimation signal, transmit measured channel state information to a master device, and, when a QP of a reference channel arrives, make a communication channel transition to a candidate channel and perform communication; and a channel information management unit configured to receive and manage the channel state information measured by the communication unit and channel information comprising a candidate channel, into which a channel transition is to be made during a QP of the reference channel, received from the master device and control channel transition of the communication unit based on the channel information. | 02-24-2011 |
20110077042 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SPECTRUM ALLOCATION - Disclosed are techniques for managing situations where spectrum use by one party is preempted by spectrum needs of another party. A revocation may be sent from a spectrum management system to secondary radio systems that are impacted by the presence of priority radio system. Remedial action may be taken if an acknowledgement of the revocation message is not received from a secondary radio system. Also, the secondary radio systems may transmit keep-alive messages to monitor operation of the communication pathway for the revocation messages. | 03-31-2011 |
20110117949 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio base station ( | 05-19-2011 |
20110117950 | Sharing A Radio Frequency Interface Resource - Applications may seek access to a radio frequency interface resource on a processor-based system that exceeds the available capacity of that resource. When more than one application needs access to an RF interface resource at the same time and the available capacity of the RF interface resource does not permit all these requests to be granted, contention resolution may be provided. In one embodiment, the contention resolution may involve determining the priority of each application seeking RF interface resource access and granting access based on that priority. | 05-19-2011 |
20110218007 | BASE STATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING COMMUNICATION BAND - A base station device is provided with a receiver, an interference comparator, an allocation unit, and a transmitter. The receiver receives an interference parameter indicating a level of interference of the first mobile station with the second mobile station. The interference comparator compares the interference parameter with a predetermined interference threshold value. The allocation unit allocates a communication band to the first mobile station such that the probability that the first band will be allocated to the first mobile station becomes larger than the probability that the second band will be allocated to the first mobile station when a level of interference represented by the interference parameter is larger than a level of interference represented by the interference threshold value. The transmitter transmits information of an allocated band to the first mobile station. | 09-08-2011 |
20110218008 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING STATE OF PLURALITY OF CHANNELS AND FOR SELECTING IDLE CHANNEL - A method of measuring a state of a plurality of channels is provided. The method includes transmitting to a second device test signal information needed to transmit/receive a test signal for measuring the state of the plurality of channels; receiving an information received response from the second device, indicating that the second device has received the test signal; if the information received response is received, transmitting the test signal to the second device, using the test signal information, via the plurality of channels; and receiving from the second device the state information regarding the plurality of channels which has been measured by using the test signal. | 09-08-2011 |
20110250920 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal retains a communication device allocation priority table in which the allocation priorities of communication devices to respective applications are recorded for each of the communication devices mounted to the mobile terminal. The allocation priorities are determined from the combination of the types of an application and the operation state of the application. The mobile terminal allocates the communication devices to the applications in accordance with the priority orders recorded in the allocation priority table. The allocation priorities recorded in the communication device allocation priority table are varied in accordance with the operation states of the applications and the presence/absence of an alternate device. | 10-13-2011 |
20110300892 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - An apparatus for providing network assisted local communication offloading to unlicensed bands may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least receiving information indicative of channel conditions associated with primary communication involving at least one primary mobile communication device and a network communication node, and determining, at a secondary mobile communication device, primary communication resources to be utilized for secondary communication by the secondary mobile communication device based on the information indicative of the channel conditions. A corresponding method is also provided. | 12-08-2011 |
20120094706 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication system includes at least one terminal apparatus and one communication apparatus which perform communication in a plurality of frequency bands. The terminal apparatus includes: a function information storing unit which pre-stores frequency band information indicating available frequency bands among the plurality of frequency bands and the number of simultaneously available frequency bands; and a terminal control unit which reads the frequency band information stored in the function information storing unit and transmits the read frequency band information to the communication apparatus via a first wireless communication unit. The communication apparatus includes: a base station control unit which selects at least one frequency band from the plurality of frequency bands based on the frequency band information transmitted from the terminal apparatus; and a second wireless communication unit which communicates with the terminal apparatus by use of the frequency band selected by the base station control unit. | 04-19-2012 |
20120100879 | MULTI-BEARER RATE CONTROL FOR TRANSPORTING USER PLANE DATA - An intermediary function receives a reservation request for a desired throughput from the sourcing device, and determines a set of bearers whose aggregate throughput approximates the desired throughput. The intermediary function requests from at least one access network the set of bearers whose aggregate throughput approximates the desired throughput, and receives from the at least one access network an allocated set of bearers, wherein the allocated set of bearers comprises one or more bearers. The intermediary function informs the sourcing device of an aggregate throughput of the allocated set of bearers, receives user plane data from the sourcing device, and associates the user plane data with the allocated set of bearers in order to transport the user plane data to the receiving device. Subsequent modifications to the allocated set of bearers causes the intermediary function to inform the sourcing device of the modified aggregate throughput of the allocated set of bearers. | 04-26-2012 |
20120129560 | PRIORITY-BASED FAIRNESS AND INTERFERENCE SIGNALLING TECHNIQUE IN A FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to at least a method, computer program, and apparatus to transmit a beacon from a first access node to a first user terminal associated with the first access node and also to a second user terminal associated with a second access node, where the beacon includes information indicating a priority of the first access node with respect to a radio resource allocation, and receive feedback from the first user equipment associated with the first access node, where the feedback includes information indicating a priority of the second access node. Further, in accordance with the first embodiments there is adjusting a value of a priority of a wireless network access node over time depending on an amount of radio resources reserved for use by the wireless network access node, such that the priority value decreases as more radio resources are reserved and increases as fewer radio resources are reserved, and transmitting the value of the priority to at least one other wireless network access node. Additionally, the exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to receiving an identification of a radio resource from a serving access node, and transmitting an interfering signal that specifies the identified radio resource. In addition, exemplary embodiments of the invention include detecting at an access node, uplink interference in a radio resource, and releasing a radio resource identified by the radio resource in which uplink interference was detected for use by another access node. | 05-24-2012 |
20120157144 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO SPECTRUM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A method and system for controlling access to a spectrum resource by radio devices that are grouped into a first class and a second class, the first class having higher priority to the spectrum resource than the second class. The control techniques include setting a weight for each radio device in each class of radio devices; setting a threshold for each class of radio devices; aggregating the weights of radio devices that use the spectrum resource; and determining if the aggregate weight crosses the threshold for one of the classes of radio devices and, if so, denying access to the spectrum resource for additional radio devices belonging to the class of radio devices associated with the crossed threshold. | 06-21-2012 |
20120172077 | RADIO BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - When allocating CCEs as a radio resource to a plurality of radio terminals within a predetermined sector, the disclosed radio base station ( | 07-05-2012 |
20120252514 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a wireless communication system including: a controller and a plurality of communication terminals connected to each other for communication, and the controller includes: a first wireless communication section; a communication number control section which counts a communication number of each of the communication terminal communicated and stores the number in the storage section; and a first communication control section which sets back off information indicating priority of communication of the communication terminal according to the communication number stored in the storage section and transmits the back off information through the first wireless communication section to the communication terminal, and the communication terminal includes: a second wireless communication section; and a second communication control section which sets the back off time of communication with the controller shorter as the priority becomes higher based on the back off information received from the controller. | 10-04-2012 |
20120252515 | Coordinated scheduling method and system in coordinated multi-point transmission - The present disclosure provides a coordinated scheduling method and system in coordinated multi-point transmission. The method includes: a central control cell of a region determines priorities of users to be scheduled in all coordinated cells according to user information from other coordinated cells in the region; the central control cell schedules users in each coordinated cell according to the determined priorities and informs a corresponding coordinated cell of the information on a user that is finally determined to be scheduled; and after receiving the scheduling information from the central control cell, the corresponding coordinated cell schedules a user in corresponding time and frequency resources. The present disclosure ensures performance of a user with the highest priority, further, considering the performance of the whole system, scheduling is performed in a scheduling stage according to a principle that the subsequent users to be scheduled should cause as little interference on the scheduled users as possible, therefore, the interference between scheduled users is effectively reduced, and the capacity of the system is greatly increased. | 10-04-2012 |
20120264472 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, USABLE RADIO RESOURCE SETTING METHOD, AND BASE STATION CONTROL PROGRAM - Provided is a setting method for the usable resource for a communication terminal which, while suppressing an inter-adjacent-cell interference, improves a selection flexibility for a band for the communication terminal subjected to a strong influence of the adjacent-cell interference. A base station, which performs radio communications with a communication terminal within a main communication area, includes: a priority band setting unit that sets a main priority radio resource that can be used for the main communication area on a higher priority basis than for a communication area adjacent to the main communication area, and acquires a particular priority radio resource that can be used for at least one particular communication area adjacent to the main communication area on a higher priority basis than for a communication area adjacent to the at least one particular communication area; and a usable band setting unit that acquires a communication quality difference regarding the communication terminal between communication quality related to the main communication area and communication quality related to the at least one particular communication area, and sets the main priority radio resource to which at least one particular priority radio resource is added, as usable radio resources for the communication terminal when at least one condition that the communication quality difference is larger than a threshold value is fulfilled. | 10-18-2012 |
20120315943 | SP/CBP SCHEDULE INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION - The distribution of the service period (SP) and contention-based period (CBP) scheduling information in the data transfer time (DTT) of a beacon interval (BI) defined under the WGA Draft Specification 0.8 is selectively scheduled to optimize channel access contention. STAs in a single antenna scope or groups of STAs in multiple antennas scopes is allocated to different CBPs to decrease collisions. Simultaneous CBPs is further allocated to STAs in multiple antennas scopes where STAs have peer-to-peer traffic with other STAs in the same antenna group during part of the CBP when the personal PCP/AP is unavailable to that antenna group resulting in an increase in network throughput. | 12-13-2012 |
20120315944 | Method and Apparatus for Receiving Sensing Results in a Wireless LAN System - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for receiving sensing results in a wireless local area network (LAN). According to one aspect of the present invention, in a wireless LAN system, a method for receiving a sensing result through a first station (STA) serving as an unlicensed device, which is allowed to operate in a usable channel not being used by a licensed device in a TV white space (TVWS) band, the first station transmits a frame including a first element (having information on a point when sensing is performed) and a second element (having a reporting sequence bitmap (RSM) that represents stations selected from a plurality of second stations for performing sensing and the sensing result report order of the selected stations) to the plurality of second stations; receives a measurement report frame, including a sensing result at the point when the sensing is performed, from each of the selected stations according to the sensing result order; and determines, using the measurement report frame, whether or not a licensed device is using a channel being used by the first station. | 12-13-2012 |
20130005380 | SETTING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND PROGRAM - This invention is directed to provision of a technique for dynamically performing a priority band establishment that can achieve the suppression of interference between adjacent cells. This invention is characterized in that: a base-point resource block, which serves as a base point in establishing a priority resource block to be used, on a priority basis, by a terminal for which the quality of a communication path does not meet a predetermined quality, is so decided as to be different from the base-point resource block of an adjacent communication area; and the priority resource block is established, based on a communication load, in a predetermined order with the decided base-point resource block used as the base point | 01-03-2013 |
20130040681 | SCHEDULING WITH QUALITY OF SERVICES, MULTIUSER DIVERSITY GAIN, AND FAIRNESS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methods for scheduling wireless communications of a base station with multiple user mobile stations involve grouping the user mobile stations in clusters based on a predetermined criterion, such as a QoS profile of a user mobile station. Each cluster is assigned with a cluster weight factor that defines a priority level of the cluster. For each user mobile station in each cluster, a priority index may be determined based on the cluster weight factor of a respective cluster, and throughput and fairness factors respectively selected to maximize throughput and provide fairness to user mobile stations. The user mobile stations may be served in an order based on their priority indexes. | 02-14-2013 |
20130072246 | WIRELESS RESOURCE SETTING METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND PROGRAM - A wireless base station ( | 03-21-2013 |
20130109423 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION, AND RADIO BASE STATION | 05-02-2013 |
20130150110 | LTE Operation in White Spaces - One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for efficient reassignment of a secondary communication channel (having a first priority) within a white space, upon arrival of a conflicting primary user signal (having a second priority higher than the first priority). In particular, the method comprises reassigning a secondary communication channel to unused portions of one or more white spaces remaining after the arrival of one or more primary users. For example, in one embodiment wherein one or more secondary communication channels are operated at contiguous secondary frequency ranges within a white space, a primary/incumbent user may arrive at a frequency range that conflicts with the secondary frequency range and that generates unused frequency portions of the white space(s). The secondary communication channel may be reassigned to the unused frequency portions of the white space (e.g., forming a non-contiguous secondary communication channel, forming a secondary communication channel having a reduced bandwidth). | 06-13-2013 |
20130157706 | METHOD OF MAKING A COEXISTENCE DECISION ON HYBRID TOPOLOGY - Disclosed is a radio technology independent method for coexistence among dissimilar or independently operated TV Band Device (TVBD) networks and dissimilar TV Band Devices. A resource allocation method on Hybrid topology is disclosed, which comprises steps of receiving at least one available resource; performing a neighbor set calculation based on the received at least one available resource; calculating the resource according to the neighbor set calculation; receiving at least one channel list set from each of the coexistence manager (CM) entity; determining whether there is any conflict channel list set among the received channel list set, and either transmitting a confirmation message or a channel list set changing request message to CM entity based on the determination result. | 06-20-2013 |
20130196703 | SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION HUB FOR A PLURALITY OF MEDICAL DEVICES AND METHOD THEREFORE - System, hub and method having medical devices configured to transmit communications containing information affecting priority of transmission of data from an associated one of the medical devices, a destination node and a communication hub. The communication hub is configured to receive the communications from the medical devices, determine a priority of transmission of the data from the communications based, at least in part, on the information affecting priority, and transmit the data from one of the medical devices by way of a network to the destination node in an order based, at least in part, on the priority of transmission. | 08-01-2013 |
20130217430 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DATA TRANSMISSION FROM A MACHINE-TYPE COMMUNICATION ENTITY AND CORRESPONDING ENTITY - A method for controlling data transmission from a machine-type communication (MTC) entity over a radio network in a wireless telecommunications system is described. The method comprises receiving from the radio network a transmission cost parameter representing a cost associated with transmitting data over the radio network; and controlling data transmission from the MTC entity in dependence on the transmission cost parameter. Thus the MTC entity is able to select times and/or manner of data transmissions to reduce the overall cost of using the network. Furthermore, the radio network is able to dynamically manage traffic load by providing a cost incentive for transmitting MTC data when network resources are under utilised and applying a cost penalty for transmissions made while the network is relatively busy. | 08-22-2013 |
20130281145 | Phased Array Antenna Having Assignment Based Control and Related Techniques - Disclosed subject matter relates to techniques for allowing multiple transmit/receive assignments to share antenna resources in an efficient manner. The techniques may be used with, for example, transmit/receive assignments that are non-deterministic in nature. In some implementations, transmit/receive assignments each have a corresponding priority value. Transmit/receive assignments are permitted to contend for available antenna resources based, at least in part, on priority. | 10-24-2013 |
20140080532 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION - In various embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for communication channel distribution in a telecommunications frequency spectrum including: reserving, for a predetermined geographical location, at least one communication channel accessible at the predetermined geographical location for priority communication; and providing access to the at least one communication channel reserved for priority communication when a priority request criteria is satisfied. A corresponding system for communication channel distribution is provided. | 03-20-2014 |
20140087777 | DETERMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR NETWORK RESOURCE USAGE - The invention discloses a determination device and method for network resource usage. The device includes a management module used for storing and updating transformation situations of use statuses of the network resources of a primary user, wherein the transformation situations comprise each of a plurality of use statuses of the network resources transforming to other use status; and a determination module used for predicting a use status of the network resources of the primary user in current period in accordance with a use status of the network resources of the primary user in a period prior to the current period and other use status transformed from the use status in the period prior to the current period in the transformation situations under the condition of predicting the resources in the current period, and determining network resources which may be used by a secondary user in the current period depending on the predicted use status in the current period. The invention may predict the use statuses of the network resources of the primary user in the current period reasonably, thereby decreasing the time of sensing and overcoming the hysteresis of the secondary user for using the resources. | 03-27-2014 |
20140162715 | CHANNEL INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, CHANNEL INFORMATION PROVIDING DATABASE SERVER, AND CHANNEL INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a channel information providing method, a channel information providing database server, and a channel information providing system which receive channel quality information from a cognitive radio terminal which receives channel information based on position information and efficiently use channels using the received information. A channel information providing method which uses a database server to provide channel information to a cognitive radio terminal based on position information includes providing channel information to at least one cognitive radio terminal; receiving collected information regarding a quality of the channel from the at least one cognitive radio terminal; and determining to update the channel information provided in the providing using the information received in the receiving. | 06-12-2014 |
20140342767 | DISTRIBUTED MULTI-CHANNEL COGNITIVE MAC PROTOCOL - A method includes sending a message from a first to at least one second cognitive radio apparatus to determine a channel to be used for sending data from the first to the second radio apparatus, the message sent over a first channel and comprising an advertisement of at least one second channel for use in sending the data from the first to the second radio apparatus, the advertisement comprising a corresponding proposition/evaluation bit for each second channel, receiving a reply from the second radio apparatus over the first channel, comprising an acceptance of one of the second channels with the corresponding proposition/evaluation bit, a rejection of the second channel and an advertisement of a third channel, or a rejection of the second channel without an advertisement of a third channel, and transmitting the data from the first to the second radio apparatus over an agreed upon second or third channel. | 11-20-2014 |
20140349695 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR SCHEDULING WIRELESS RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - The invention relates to a method for service aware scheduling of wireless resources in a wireless network. According to the inventive method, a service request for service delivery of a service type is received ( | 11-27-2014 |
20150296500 | RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Radio resource management (RRM) systems and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an RRM system comprises: at least one radio frequency unit that transmits and receives signals over an antenna; at least one software defined radio unit configured to communicate with the radio frequency unit, wherein the software defined radio unit generates and receives signals corresponding to different communication systems; at least one processing device coupled to the software defined radio unit; and at least one memory device coupled to the processing device and configured to store instructions which, when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to: receive a plurality of situational data inputs; select at least one communication system using the situational data inputs; and configure the radio frequency unit and the software defined radio unit to transmit and receive signals using the selected communication system, wherein the configuration is based on the situation data inputs. | 10-15-2015 |