20th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 74 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170142586 | AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Security techniques and security mechanisms for wireless networks that transmit content such as advertisements. According to exemplary techniques, control messages comprising unrequested content (e.g., advertisement data) may be transmitted in response to a request from a client device, while in other exemplary techniques the control messages may be transmitted without any request from a client device. In some exemplary implementations, security mechanisms such as public key cryptography algorithms may be used to secure transmissions, in some of these techniques which implement public key cryptography, a user may he required to retrieve a public key from to a source other than the wireless access point transmitting encrypted advertisements (e.g., a sign or terminal in a commercial entity transmitting such advertisements, or from a web service), such that the user may confirm that the encrypted content is from a source matching the retrieved public key and thus confirm the authenticity of a wireless access point. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142587 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION USING A SECURITY MODEL TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE CONNECTIVITY AND SERVICE CONTEXTS - Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a security model for enabling multiple connectivity and service contexts while sharing a single connectivity context to establish a network connection. A context (e.g., connectivity context, service context, security context) is a set of information describing the connectivity, service, or security established between two or more entities. The connectivity context and service context may be established at different network nodes or entities. In one aspect of the disclosure, a connectivity context includes an Evolved Packet System (EPS) Mobility Management (EMM) context or both an EMM context and an EPS Session Management (ESM) context. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142588 | METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PEER-TO-PEER STREAM IN A MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Some embodiments relate to a method of authorizing the establishment of a peer-to-peer stream between two user terminals of a mobile telecommunications network. The method is implemented in a platform of the mobile telecommunications network and comprises receiving, from a server of a peer-to-peer service provider, a request to establish a peer-to-peer stream between a first user terminal and a second user terminal, the establishment request including a stream identifier, the stream identifier including at least an identifier of the first user terminal and an identifier of the second user terminal. The method also comprises deciding whether to authorize the establishment of the peer-to-peer stream between the first user terminal and the second user terminal and sending an authorization or rejection message for the peer-to-peer stream to a network gateway in charge of controlling the streams transiting on the mobile telecommunications network, the message including the stream identifier. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142589 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING USAGE POLICY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING THE SAME - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store a usage policy associated with the electronic device or a first user related to the electronic device with respect to at least one of resources of the electronic device, a communication circuit configured to communicate with an external electronic device and a processor implemented with a processor, wherein the module is configured to receive user information about a second user corresponding to the external electronic device from the external electronic device using the communication circuit, change at least part of the usage policy based on at least part of the receiving of the user information and adjust a use level of the electronic device or the first user with respect to the at least one resource based on the at least changed part of the usage policy. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142590 | AUTHORIZED AREAS OF AUTHENTICATION - An electronic device including a memory storing biometric or passcode data of a user, and a processor, scanning biometric or passcode data of the user and validating the scanned biometric or passcode data with the stored biometric or passcode data, dynamically identifying a current location of the electronic device, accessing a secure network, requesting access of data over the secure network, wherein access to the data is controlled by a server and the server enables access to the secure data only when the current location of the electronic device is within an authorized area of authentication (AAA), and if the current location of the mobile device is not within an existing AAA, the biometric or passcode data of the user is validated and contingent upon the validation being affirmative, submitting a request to the server to generate a temporary AAA that includes the current location of the electronic device. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142591 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND ORCHESTRATION FOR NETWORK SLICING - Systems and methods for implementing virtualized functions in control and data planes for a communications network are described herein. A method for managing a User Equipment (UE) attach request includes instantiating a Global Connection and Mobility Management (G-CMM) function configured to operate across a plurality of network slices in the communications network, determining an appropriate network slice from the plurality of network slices with the G-CMM function, and attaching the UE to the appropriate network slice. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142592 | COEXISTENCE MANAGEMENT VIA SCHEDULING - In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for coexistence management. A first access point is scheduled a time to begin transmission of a packet to a user device in an unlicensed frequency band using a first RAT. The time to begin the transmission is scheduled to avoid transmission overlap with a second access point using a second RAT in the unlicensed frequency band, and scheduled according to information from the second access point regarding operation in the unlicensed frequency band using the second RAT. One of the first and second RATs includes one of a WLAN RAT or a LTE based RAT, and another of the first and second RATs includes a remaining one of the WLAN RAT or the LTE based RAT, in one or more embodiments. The first access point receives updated information regarding operation in the unlicensed frequency band using the second RAT. Using the updated information, an updated time for the first access point to begin the transmission using the first RAT is determined, the updated time determined to avoid transmission overlap with the second RAT in the unlicensed frequency band. The first access point transmits, according to the determined updated time, the packet in the unlicensed frequency band using the first RAT. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142593 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL THROUGH UNLICENSED BANDWIDTH IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - In the present application, a method is disclosed of transmitting a downlink data channel from a base station through a terminal in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method comprises the steps of: mapping the downlink data channel to a transmitting resource of a licensed bandwidth or a transmitting resource of an unlicensed bandwidth; and transmitting the mapped downlink data channel via the terminal. The step of mapping the downlink data channel is characterized by comprising the steps of: applying a frequency priority mapping technique when the downlink data channel is mapped to the transmitting resource of the licensed bandwidth; and applying a time priority mapping technique when the downlink data channel is mapped to the transmitting resource of the unlicensed bandwidth. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142594 | Relay Selection Routing Method and Relay Selection Routing Apparatus Based on Direct Communication of Terminal - The present invention provides a relay selection routing method based on direct communication of a terminal, applied to a base station, including: establishing a database of a topological structure of a direct communication terminal on a network side; when a change of the topological structure is detected, updating the database of the topological structure; when a direct communication service request is received, determining a data sending path and a destination relay node corresponding to the direct communication service request according to the database of the topological structure, sender information and receiver information of the direct communication service request and a preset selection principle; and establishing a direct communication data sharing network corresponding to the direct communication service request according to the data sending path and the destination relay node. Correspondingly, the present invention further provides a relay selection router based on direct communication of a terminal. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142595 | DYNAMIC POSITIONING METHOD FOR MOBILE CELLS - Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed for determining dynamic positioning of mobile cells. Dynamic positioning provides for navigating a mobile cell, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle or the like, to a location suitable for offloading current network traffic, such that the suitable location maximizes offloading capabilities. The methodology describes takes into account both the current traffic load on the network and the location of the highest system capacity-intensive mobile terminals in determining an initial position for deploying the mobile cell. Additionally, the location of the deployed mobile cell is optimized, over time, based on tracking the direction of movement of the highest capacity-intensive mobile terminals, and, in some embodiments, service quality indicators provided by the mobile terminals and/or contextual information captured by the mobile cell apparatus. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142596 | 3D MODELING OF CELL SITES AND CELL TOWERS WITH UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES - A method for modeling a cell site with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) includes causing the UAV to fly a given flight path about a cell tower at the cell site, wherein a launch location and launch orientation is defined for the UAV to take off and land at the cell site such that each flight at the cell site has the same launch location and launch orientation; obtaining a plurality of photographs of the cell site during about the flight plane, wherein each of the plurality of photographs is associated with one or more location identifiers; and, subsequent to the obtaining, processing the plurality of photographs to define a three dimensional (3D) model of the cell site based on the associated with one or more location identifiers and one or more objects of interest in the plurality of photographs. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142597 | MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNITY WI-FI NETWORK - Various technologies described herein pertain to managing and accessing a community Wi-Fi network. The community Wi-Fi network can include sharer computing devices in differing local networks that share respective network bandwidth capacities with consumer computing devices. Feedback information pertaining to network bandwidth capacity available at different geographic locations covered by the community Wi-Fi network can be collected and evaluated to enable generation of maps for visualizing coverage of the community Wi-Fi network. A consumer computing device can display a map that includes visual information pertaining to the geographic coverage of the community Wi-Fi network relative to a geographic location of the consumer computing device. Community Wi-Fi network coverage can be analyzed to detect geographic locations at which network coverage is desirably added; network coverage can be added by incentivizing a potential sharer computing device to opt in to share network bandwidth capacity or controlling beamforming of sharer computing device(s). | 2017-05-18 |
20170142598 | SMALL CELL BASE STATION SYSTEM, AND RELATED DEVICES AND DATA PROCESSING METHODS - The invention discloses a small cell base station system, and related devices and data processing methods, and the small cell base station system includes an extended small cell base station and at least one distributed component, where the extended small cell base station includes a network protocol processing module, an upper layer protocol processing module, a physical layer protocol processing module, a first baseband data processing module, and a first transceiver module; and the distributed component includes a second baseband data processing module and a second transceiver module, where in the downlink, the first baseband data processing module separates downlink baseband data into at least two branches, performs a data alignment operation on the at least two branches of downlink baseband data, sends one of the branches to the first transceiver module, and Ethernet encapsulates and then sends the remaining branches to the second transceiver module through the second baseband data processing module of the distributed component, thus extending a coverage area of the small cell base station system. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142599 | COMMUNICATIONS WHEN ENCOUNTERING AGGRESSIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Systems and methods presented herein provide for improving communications when encountering aggressive communication systems. In one embodiment, a communication system includes a WAP operable to link a UE to a communication network via a communication protocol and a communications processor operable with the WAP to detect another communication system operating within a range of the WAP, and to determine that the other communication system is operating via another communication protocol that differs from the communication protocol of the communication network based on UEs in range of the WAP. The UEs are operable to communicate via both communication protocols. The communications processor queries the UEs in the range of the WAP to determine which of the UEs are communicating via the other communication protocol, and estimates a rate of successful communication with the UE via the WAP based on a number of UEs communicating via the other communication protocol. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142600 | METHOD FOR SETTING UP AND OPERATING A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method is disclosed for establishing and operating a wireless network with a first communication unit, a second communication unit and a mobile communication unit. The first and second communication units are configured in each case as a server and the mobile communication unit is configured as a client. The mobile communication unit acquires connection set-up data of the first and second communication units. A wireless connection is established from the mobile communication unit to the first communication unit. The latter receives an instruction from the mobile communication unit via the wireless connection for configuration as a client of the second communication unit and the mobile communication unit transfers the connection set-up data of the second communication unit to the first communication unit. A wireless connection is then established from the mobile communication unit to the second communication unit. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142601 | ACCESS POINT PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION DEVICE AND ACCESS POINT PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION METHOD - An access point placement optimization device includes processing circuitry configured to: determine possibilities of communication between respective pairs of nodes in a wireless multi-hop network including a plurality of wireless terminals and a plurality of access points as the nodes; calculate, on basis of the possibilities of communication, a covering range of the wireless terminals with which each of the access points is allowed to make communications within a predetermined number of hops; generate one or more combinations of the access points; calculate, on basis of the covering range, a cost and a redundancy in case of placing the access points in accordance with each of the one or more combinations; and select the combination from the one or more combinations on basis of the redundancy and the cost. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142602 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A first node included in a first layer determines whether there has occurred a failure in a sink node included in a second layer subordinate to the first layer. The first node requests a second node included in the second layer to collect information of a third node included in a third layer subordinate to the second layer when the first node determines that there has occurred a failure in the sink node. The first node determines a fourth node serving as a substitute for the failed sink node included in the second layer on a basis of the information of the third node collected by the second node. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142603 | HETEROGENEOUS-NETWORK-USE BASE STATION, MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile communication device that is used in a heterogeneous network and is in a standby state has low reliability in measurement data obtained by MDT (Minimization Drive Tests) measurement. A base station includes at least one of ABS (Almost Blank Subframe) information and nonABS information in broadcast information (System Information Block), sets a subframe pattern used for the MDT (Minimization Drive Tests) measurement in at least one of the ABS information and the nonABS information, includes the subframe pattern used for the measurement in the broadcast information, and transmits the broadcast information. The mobile communication device receives the broadcast information including at least one of the ABS information and the nonABS information, detects, in a standby state, a subframe pattern used for the MDT measurement from the broadcast information, detects a subframe pattern used for the measurement, performs measurement, stores a result of the measurement as measurement data, and transmits the measurement data. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142604 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING MOBILITY SIGNALS AND RELATED NETWORK NODES AND WIRELESS DEVICES - This disclosure provides by a method for transmitting a mobility reference signal, MRS, during a mobility measurement session to a wireless device, WD. The method is performed in a radio access network node, RANN. The RANN is configurable to transmit using a set of transmission beams. The method comprises dynamically assigning, a MRS identifier to each candidate transmission beam in a set of candidate transmission beams. The method comprises transmitting control information to the WD, the control information comprising the MRS identifier for each corresponding candidate transmission beam; and transmitting the mobility reference signal, MRS, to the WD in accordance with the transmitted control information. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142605 | BEAM SPLITTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for beam splitting using multiple antennas are disclosed. An example wireless networking device includes an antenna system having a plurality of antennas; and a controller configured to determine directional antenna weight vectors (AWVs) directed substantially towards other wireless networking devices, determine a split beam AWV from the directional AWVs, and configure the antenna sub-system to form multiple wireless communication channels over the determined split beam AWV between the wireless networking devices. A split beam formed by the wireless networking device according to the split beam AWV maximizes a minimum gain towards, or provides at least a preset threshold minimum gain towards, each of the at other wireless networking devices. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142606 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING PARAMETER OF MULTI PATH SIGNAL - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for estimating a parameter of a multi path signal. The apparatus for estimating a parameter of a multi path signal includes: a plurality of pre-processing units configured to pre-process respective reception signals received through a plurality of antennas; a plurality of parameter converting units configured to approximate a parameter set of the respective pre-processed reception signals to have a sparse characteristic in a Doppler frequency and angle of arrival domain; and a parameter estimating unit configured to estimate an angle of arrival for a plurality of reception signals in each frequency region of the Doppler frequency and angle of arrival domain. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSIGNING CONTROLLED NODES TO CHANNEL INTERFACES OF A CONTROLLER - Controller provides signals to controlled nodes and includes first channel interface coupled to first controlled node and second channel interface coupled to second controlled node. Controller discovers which channel interface is coupled to which controlled node by communicating first measurement request signal from first channel interface toward first controlled node; communicating second measurement request signal from second channel interface toward second controlled node; communicating power level request signal from a channel interface to first/second controlled nodes; receiving set of power levels from both first/second controlled nodes in response to power level request signal; determining that first controlled node is more strongly signal-coupled with first channel interface than second controlled node when first power level received from first controlled node is higher; and determine that second controlled node is more strongly signal-coupled with first channel interface than first controlled node when first power level received from second controlled node is higher. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142608 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A RANGING PROTOCOL - Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for obtaining a range between devices based, at least in part, on an exchange of wireless messages. For example, wireless devices may obtain measurements of range based, at least in part, on an exchange fine timing measurement (FTM) messages. In one implementation, an initiating wireless station may transmit an initial FTM request message comprising one or more fields to a responding wireless station specifying an indefinite duration for a requested session to transmit FTM messages to the initiating wireless station. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142609 | Rate Adaptation Using Network Signaling - Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to perform rate adaptation in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU may receive an encoded data stream, which may be encoded according to a Dynamic Adaptive HTTP Streaming (DASH) standard. The WTRU may request and/or receive the data stream from a content server. The WTRU may monitor and/or receive a cross-layer parameter, such as a physical layer parameter, a RRC layer parameter, and/or a MAC layer parameter (e.g., a CQI, a PRB allocation, a MRM, or the like). The WTRU may perform rate adaption based on the cross-layer parameter. For example, the WTRU may set the CE bit of an Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) field based on the cross-layer parameter. The WTRU may determine to request the data stream encoded at a different rate based on the cross-layer parameter, the CE bit, and/or a prediction based on the cross-layer parameter. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142610 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - In order to solve a problem of difficulty in performing a communication at a higher bit rate while suppressing a delay generated by a transmission error, a communication device which communicates with another communication device via a relay device includes a detection unit that detects a state of a communication path to the relay device, and a control unit that controls a transmission time of data to be transmitted to the other communication device depending on the state of a communication path. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142611 | ADAPTING QOS FOR A RADIO BEARER - The present disclosure relates to a method performed in a radio device | 2017-05-18 |
20170142612 | HEADER COMPRESSION OPTIMISATION METHOD DURING AND AFTER HANDOVERS IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention concerns a method for optimizing ROHC RTP (Robust Header Compression Real Time Protocol) compression applied to IP header of data packets stream so as to use more compact formats enable to remain in a steady state, to never discard received packet, and to serve radio resources without requiring to modify ROHC specification. In the method, when handover or mobility procedure is started, new reference values are normally added to a sliding compression window, but no reference value is removed from the window as long as the handover or mobility procedure is on going, After the handover or mobility procedure is complete, when the number of values transmitted on the new radio link are appropriate to cope against the error properties on the new link, all older values can be removed at once from the compression window, thereby reverting to normal window operation. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142613 | LOAD BALANCING IN A DISTRIBUTED GATEWAY DEPLOYMENT - Method for assisting load-balancing of subscriber sessions in a distributed mobile gateway (e.g. PGW, SGW, ePDG, or TWAG) comprising a plurality of distributed gateway instances (DGIs) is disclosed. Method includes receiving an advertisement of GTP fully qualified tunnel endpoints identifications (F-TEIDs) allocated to a first plurality of subscriber sessions, the sessions assigned to a first DGI of the DGIs. The advertisement indicates the first DGI as a recipient for data provided to the gateway and related to any of the first plurality of sessions. Method further includes storing an association between the GTP F-TEIDs of the advertisement and the first DGI, receiving a packet comprising data related to a subscriber session of the first plurality of sessions, identifying a F-TEID for the data of the received packet, identifying from stored association, that the F-TEID is associated with the first DGI, and forwarding data of the packet to the first DGI. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142614 | Load Control Method and Apparatus for Notification Messages - The present document discloses a load control method for notification messages. The method includes: a common service entity (CSE) setting a maximum storage number of notification messages for the CSE; the CSE creating a first attribute for a subscription resource when the CSE creates the subscription resource; the CSE setting a second attribute of the notification message according to the first attribute of the subscription resource when the CSE generates the notification message for the subscription resource; and the CSE performing load control according to the maximum storage number of the notification messages and second attributes of various stored notification messages when the CSE stores the notification message and the second attribute of the notification message. The present document also discloses a load control apparatus for notification messages. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142615 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING ADDITIONAL NARROWBAND TRAFFIC OVER AN EXISTING 4G/LTE NETWORK - Systems and techniques for communicating additional narrowband non-bursty data traffic in a 4G/LTE network are described. Specifically, existing data traffic can be communicated in user symbols that are separated by guard symbols, and the additional narrowband non-bursty data traffic can be communicated in the guard symbols. In some embodiments, the additional narrowband non-bursty data traffic is communicated over guard bands that separate frequency bands that are allocated to different carriers. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142616 | COMBINING BANDWIDTH FROM MULTIPLE CELLULAR CONNECTIONS INTO A SINGLE WLAN NETWORK - A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving an instruction to aggregate cellular bandwidth of a user device with the cellular bandwidth of one or more participating user devices; appending a shared character string to a network name of the user device based on receiving the instruction; scanning for wireless local area networks (WLANs) after appending the shared character string; identifying one or more WLAN networks with the network names having the shared character string, where the one or more WLAN networks are hosted by the one or more participating user devices; connecting to a particular WLAN network, of the one or more WLAN networks via a WLAN interface of the user device; combining bandwidth from the cellular interface of the user device with the bandwidth from the WLAN interface of the user device; and hosting a WLAN network providing a sum of the bandwidth from the WLAN interface and the cellular interface. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142617 | Mobile Terminated Call Performance During Single Radio Long Term Evolution (LTE) Mode - Various embodiments include methods and apparatuses for responding to a page message for a mobile-terminated call by a wireless communication device using a single radio Long-term Evolution (LTE) mode. A wireless communication device may receive the page message for the mobile-terminated call, release resources of the wireless communication device owned by a non-LTE voice radio access technology receiving the page message, and execute an extended service request by an LTE radio access technology. The wireless communication device may search for a network for responding to the page message after the extended service request is completed. The network may be from a set of networks including a serving pilot network, a preapproved pilot network, and an unapproved pilot network, and each of the pilot networks may belong to a first base station. The wireless communication device may send a page message response using the network in response to finding the network. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142618 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING HANDOVER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for a terminal connected to a fixed cell performing handover to a moving cell, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving, from the fixed cell, measurement configuration information containing measurement report conditions on the moving cell; if the measurement results on the moving cell satisfy the measurement report conditions, reporting, to the fixed cell, the measurement results on the moving cell; configuring a secondary connection in the moving cell in addition to a primary connection in the fixed cell; and performing handover to the moving cell by releasing the primary connection in the fixed cell and switching secondary connection in the moving cell to the primary connection. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142619 | WIRELESS MESH NETWORK REPAIR SYSTEM - A wireless mesh network repair system includes a first wireless communication device that is configured to provide a first wireless communication path that provides for the transmission of wireless communications between first and second devices and to provide a notification of a change in the first wireless communication path that will prevent the transmission of the wireless communications between the first and second devices on the first wireless communication path. The system further includes at least one second wireless communication device that is configured to receive the notification from the first wireless communication device, and in response, determine a second wireless communication path that will provide for the transmission of wireless communications between the first and second devices, adjust a second wireless communication device communication range, and provide for the transmission of wireless communication signals between the first and second devices on the second wireless communication path. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142620 | METHOD FOR ASSISTING A WIRELESS DEVICE TO PERFORM UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS - A first Radio Network Node (RNN), and a method therein, for assisting a wireless device to perform an uplink transmission to a second RNN. The first RNN, the second RNN and the wireless device are operated in a wireless communications network. The first RNN is configured to serve the wireless device when located in a first cell and the second RNN is configured to serve the wireless device when located in a second cell, wherein the second cell has a size that is below a threshold and arranged to at least partly overlap the first cell. Further, the first RNN is adapted to trigger the wireless device to perform the uplink transmission using a configured Timing Advance (TA) value and a guard time without performing a preceding random access procedure in the second cell towards the second RNN. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142621 | METHODS USED IN CLUSTER MANAGER, RADIO NODE AND CONTROL NODE, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES - The present disclosure relates to a method used in a cluster manager controlling a cluster for a terminal device served by a radio node, and to the associated cluster manager. The cluster manager is under control of a control node and the cluster includes the radio node. The method includes: receiving Layer 1 (L1)/Layer 2 (L2) measurements of the terminal device on the radio node and one or more neighboring radio nodes of the radio node; determining a target radio node, to which the terminal device is to be handed over, based on the L1/L2 measurements; determining whether the target radio node is within the cluster; and if it is determined that the target radio node is within the cluster, determining whether the terminal device is to perform handover from a beam of the radio node to a beam of the target radio node. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142622 | NETWORK NODE AND METHOD THEREIN FOR HANDOVER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A network node and method therein for assisting a communication device t o perform handover from a serving cell to a target cell in a communication network are disclosed. The network node is configured to obtain a first round trip time between the network node and a server and obtain a second round trip time between a target node in the target cell and the server. The network node is further configured to instruct the communication device to perform handover from the serving cell to the target cell based on at least the first round trip time and the second round trip time. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142623 | CONTROLLER ARRANGEMENT, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A controller arrangement comprising a transceiver capable of communication via a wireless communication network, a controller arranged to control a physical entity at which the controller arrangement is arranged, and an interface between the transceiver and the controller is disclosed. The transceiver is arranged to provide information via the interface about present or imminent interrupts in the communication via the wireless network. The controller is arranged to operate in at least a first state when the information indicates that no interrupts are present or imminent, wherein the first state includes closed loop control from a remote entity via the wireless communication network, and a second state when the information indicates that interrupts are present or imminent, wherein the second state includes autonomous control operations by the controller. A method and computer program are also disclosed. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142624 | MOBILE HANDOVER - A handover process for enabling a user terminal to transfer a connect to a network from a route by way of a source access node to a route by way of a target access node, where the nodes are controlled by different respective control systems is initiated by establishing a link between the terminal and the target node and a data forwarding tunnel between the access nodes to allow data transmitted over a link from the network to the source node to continue to be transmitted to the terminal. The backhaul connection is then re-routed by co-ordination between the access control systems. The source node transmits a flag to the target node which identifies its respective access control system. This flag is forwarded by the target node to its respective access control system to allow it to set up a data link over which relocation instructions can be coordinated to set up a data link between the network and the target node, and to close the data link between the network and the source node. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142625 | RELAY STATION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A relay station relays communication between a base station and a wireless terminal, and the relay station includes: a first wireless unit, a second wireless unit and a third wireless unit, each of which communicates with at least one of the base station and the wireless terminal, wherein when the first wireless unit is connected to the wireless terminal and the second wireless unit is connected to the base station and when there is a trigger of handover, the third wireless unit is used to execute at least one of handover to another base station and handover to switch a control channel with the wireless terminal. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING INTERFERENCE BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method, apparatus, and system are provided for mitigating interference between two communication sessions based on a determined geographical proximity of two mobile devices (MDs) to each other. In one embodiment, a geographical proximity is determined of a first MD, engaged in a first communication session, to a second MD, engaged in a second communication session. Based on the determined geographical proximity, one of the two communication sessions is transferred to the other MD so that both communication sessions are resident at, and can be controlled by, a same MD. In other embodiments, wherein a first MD is engaged in two communication sessions, one of the two communication sessions may be transferred to a second MD that is sufficiently geographically distant from the first MD or the first MD may use a geographically distant remote wireless device as an uplink and downlink relay device for one of the communication sessions. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142627 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING OFFLOAD FROM ONE RADIO ACCESS NETWORK TO ANOTHER - A method of managing data traffic offload from a radio access network may include: determining a location of a mobile device; and identifying, based on data traffic offload requirements of a network operator and capabilities of alternative network providers, one or more alternative networks configured to be accessed by the mobile device at the determined location. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142628 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A DISTANCE-BASED SCHEDULE FOR MONITORING ONE OR MORE PROPERTIES OF AN ASSET USING A PLURALITY OF MOBILE SENSOR NODES IN A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - The invention provides a method and system for monitoring one or more properties of an asset using a plurality of mobile sensor nodes. The method generates a distance-based schedule for the plurality of mobile sensor nodes for monitoring the one or more properties of the asset. The method, then, monitors a location of a first mobile sensor node in the asset. The data collection operation is then initiated at the first mobile sensor node based on the location of the first mobile sensor node in accordance with the distance-based schedule. The data collection operation of the first mobile sensor node is then managed based on the distance-based schedule and an energy status of the first mobile sensor node. Finally, the data pertaining to the one or more properties of the asset is collected from the plurality of mobile sensor nodes. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142629 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREIN FOR HANDOVER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A communication device and method therein for handover from a serving cell to a target cell in a communication network are disclosed. The communication device is configured to obtain a first round trip time between the communication device via the network node and a server and obtain a second round trip time between the communication device via a target node in the target cell and the server. The communication device is further configured to send a request for handover from the serving cell to the target cell based on at least the first round trip time and the second round trip time. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142630 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT COOPERATIVE CELL CLUSTERING-BASED COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION AND HANDOVER - The present specification suggests a method for improving performance degradation caused by frequent handovers when a terminal moves among several cells, particularly among dense small cells. To this end, required are cooperative transmission among cells and a new handover method. A base station receives RSRP information about an anchor cell and a neighboring cell and configures a cooperation-based cell cluster using the RSRP information. If RSRP values are compared and meet specific conditions, the anchor cell and the neighboring cell carry out cooperative communication. If the RSRP values of the anchor cell and an anchor candidate cell are compared during the cooperative communication and meet specific conditions, handover from the anchor cell to the anchor candidate cell is carried out. If the present invention is applied, when the terminal moves in an environment where small cells are dense, the number of handovers is greatly reduced and thus network burden can be lessened. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOFF BETWEEN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN) AND A UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM (UMTS) - Apparatus and method for providing an automatic handoff process of a user equipment (UE) from either a wireless local area network (WLAN) to a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) or from a UMTS to a WLAN. Handoffs may be initiated by the UE, based upon user preference, signal quality, comparison of location coordinates of the UE and the system to be switched to or signal quality. The available channels of one system may be broadcast to the UE by the other system or the UE may monitor channels of the system to be switched to and lock on to one. The handoff may also be initiated by the UMTS, the selection being power-based. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142632 | MANAGING CARRIER RESTRICTIONS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques described herein may be used to manage a wireless telecommunications network that is subject to carrier restrictions. In a handover procedure, a source base station may assign an alternative primary carrier to a user device if the current primary carrier (or a secondary carrier thereof) is prohibited by a target base station. An unpaired downlink carrier may be aggregated to the alternative primary carrier as a supplemental downlink (SDL) carrier. New primary carriers may be created by joining unpaired downlink carriers with unpaired uplink carriers. New primary carriers may include a high frequency downlink carrier and a low frequency uplink carrier. New primary carriers may be allocated to wireless devices within a coverage area based on device type and/or a signal propagation quality of each wireless device. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142633 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication device according to one of the embodiments has: a transmitter configured to transmit information; and a controller configured to control the transmitter. The controller calculates a communication amount for additional communication with another device on the basis of power information indicating a power state of a power supply; and determines whether the wireless communication device connect to the another device at least in part based on the calculated communication amount. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142634 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND RELAY STATION - A communication system includes a destination base station that performs wireless communication with a terminal and is a communication destination; a neighboring base station; and a relay station that relays the wireless communication between the terminal and the destination base station. The relay station notifies the destination base station of information on the neighboring base station capable of communicating wirelessly with the relay station, as neighboring base station information, wherein when wireless communication between the destination base station and the relay station is disconnected, the destination base station makes an inquiry to the neighboring base station with reference to the neighboring base station information, and wherein the destination base station determines that abnormality has occurred in the relay station when wireless communication between the relay station and the neighboring base station is not confirmed. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142635 | BEACON DEVICE FOR SEAMLESS SERVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a beacon device and a control method for seamless service. The beacon device includes a plurality of Bluetooth communication modules. The beacon device activates one of the plurality of Bluetooth communication modules to broadcast a beacon signal. While the activated Bluetooth communication module is connected to any terminal device, the beacon device activates another one of the plurality of Bluetooth communication modules to broadcast the beacon signal, enabling the seamless service. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142636 | INTER-SUBNET AND INTRA-SUBNET ROAMING - Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication. A station (STA) with a host processor and a radio processor may communicate with a first access point (AP) in a first subnet. The STA may store network information for the first subnet in memory of the STA. The STA may identify a second access point and determine, by the radio processor without communication with the host processor, whether the second access point is in the first subnet or a second subnet. The determination may be based at least in part on the network information stored in memory. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142637 | Wireless Communication Unit, Access Point and Method for Providing a Presence service in a Wireless Communication System - A presence service can be provided by an access point | 2017-05-18 |
20170142638 | ACCESS POINT FOR FACILITATING CONNECTION OF ONE OR MORE WIRELESS USER DEVICES TO A COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL - An access point for facilitating connection of one or more wireless user devices to a first communications channel and operable to allocate resources to said user devices, the access point comprising a user device authenticator for determining whether a user device is in possession of pre-determined user device authentication information for obtaining access to the first communications channel, the access point having first and second modes of operation, wherein in the first mode of operation, the entirety of said resources is available for use by all user devices and in the second mode of operation, a portion of the resources is reserved for user devices that are in possession of the device authentication information; the access point being configured to switch the mode of operation when one or more mode switch criteria are met, wherein one of the mode switch criteria is based on the current demand for resources. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142639 | LOCATING PHYSICAL ASSETS VIA NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION NODES - An example device for processing a query for a physical asset includes a processor and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a query for a physical asset from a requesting device, determining a near field communication node that detects the physical asset, and providing to the requesting device an identification of a communication device that is associated with the near field communication node in response to the query. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142640 | Inheritance of ANQP Elements - The present disclosure provides an ADV_server wherein the ADV server comprises a storage to store a set of root-zone ANQP elements; and a processor configured to: receive a request for an ANQP element from an AP agent; search the storage for the requested ANQP element; and send the requested ANQP element to the AP agent if the requested ANQP element is found in the storage; wherein the set of root-zone ANQP elements can be inherited by the AP agent as a child node of the ADV_server. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142641 | CELL SEARCH IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - There is provided a method for cell search in a communications network. The method is performed by a wireless terminal. The method comprises detecting a level of energy received in a frequency interval to be higher than a threshold value. The method comprises acquiring auxiliary information regarding available cells in the frequency interval based on frequency location and width of the frequency interval. The method comprises performing a cell search in at least a sub-band of the frequency interval using the auxiliary information. There is also presented a wireless terminal configured to perform such a method, a computer program, and a computer program product for such a method. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142642 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD OF USER EQUIPMENT, AND DEVICE - A data processing method, user equipment, and computer readable medium are disclosed. The method includes when it is determined that the user equipment needs to perform network search, determining an available radio technology type according to obtained information about an access supportable radio technology type or information about an access prohibited radio access type; and searching, according to the determined available radio technology type, for an available network corresponding to the available radio technology type, where the available network is used by the user equipment to process data. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142643 | ROAMING NETWORK ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a roaming network access method and apparatus, where the method includes: acquiring, by user equipment, a list of networks with which registration can be successful; searching, by the user equipment, for an available network in a roaming area; each time the user equipment finds an available network, determining, by the user equipment, whether the found available network is recorded in the list of networks with which registration can be successful; and if yes, attempting, by the user equipment, to register with the found available network. According to the roaming network access method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention, duration of network searching performed by user equipment is reduced, time spent by the user equipment on initial network access in a roaming area is shortened, and user experience is improved. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142644 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WI-FI DEVICE TYPE IDENTIFICATION AND DEVICE TYPE BASED DIAGNOSTICS AND OPTIMIZATION - A software application executing on a server and communicating with an agent in a wireless access point predicts a type of a computing device wirelessly connected via a radio frequency link to the wireless access point. The application receives an indication of a model of the computing device from the wireless access point, and further receives one or more characteristics of the computing device from the wireless access point. The application then predicts the type of the computing device associated with the one or more of the indication of the model, and characteristics, of the computing device. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142645 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING PERFORMANCE OF A COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS IN A PLMN SEARCH PROCEDURE AND A COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS UTILIZING THE SAME - A communications apparatus includes a radio transceiver, a memory device and a processor. The radio transceiver transmits or receives wireless radio frequency signals to or from an air interface. The memory device stores a registration database including one or more sets of registration data. Each set of registration data corresponds to an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI). The processor determines whether performing a PLMN search procedure is required, and when performing a PLMN search procedure is required, the processor retrieves suitable registration data from the registration database according to a currently used IMSI and performs the PLMN search procedure via the radio transceiver based on the retrieved suitable registration data. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142646 | HUNTING AND SCANNING ACROSS LMR AND IP NETWORKS - Integration of a Land Mobile Radio (LMR) communications system and other wireless IP based systems such as LTE by way of a multi bearer router. The LMR system may be either trunked or conventional. Undertaking hunting for trunked control channels such that the best site is connected. Undertaking scanning for traffic channels such that the best site is connected. Flexibility is provided by enabling a multi bearer terminal in the communication system to communicate by RF and/or IP based signals. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142647 | D2D Station, System and D2D Discovery Method - A device-to-device (D2S) station including a receiving module, configured to receive a first DDM that is broadcast by a neighboring station at a first preset power, where the first DDM includes user information of the neighboring station, an obtaining module, configured to obtain information about a link between the D2D station and the neighboring station according to the first DDM received by the receiving module, a time determining module, configured to determine, according to the information that is about the link between the D2D station and the neighboring station and obtained by the obtaining module, a time interval for broadcasting a second DDM, and a sending module, configured to broadcast, at a second preset power, the second DDM at the time interval determined by the time determining module. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142648 | ROAMING NETWORK ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a roaming network access method and apparatus, where the method includes: obtaining a mobile country code MCC of a roaming area; obtaining a preferential roaming list, where the preferential roaming list is used to indicate information about at least one network that a user preferentially attempts to register with when the user is roaming; selecting a network that matches the MCC from the preferential roaming list and searching for the selected network; and each time a network is found by the searching, attempting to register with the found network. By means of the roaming network access method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention, duration of network searching performed by user equipment is shortened, time spent by the user equipment on initial network access in the roaming area is reduced. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142649 | DYNAMIC WIRELESS NETWORK ACCESS POINT SELECTION - Dynamic Wireless Network Access Point Selection A mobile device having a processor, a memory and a wireless network interface, the processor executing an operating system including a network communication library for providing networking services via the wireless network interface and being further arranged to: receive capability information associated with each of plurality of wireless network access points accessible to the mobile device; identify, for a set of networked applications in execution on the mobile device, one or more applications having associated a wireless network capability requirement; and select an access point from the plurality of access points to provide network communication for the mobile device, the access point being selected based on the identified one or more applications and the received capability information, wherein network communication for applications executed by the mobile device having associated a wireless network capability requirement that is incompatible with a network capability of the selected access point are prevented from network communication by the network communication library. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142650 | PREDICTING ACCESS POINT AVAILABILITY - Examples relate to predicting access point availability. In one example, a computing device may: obtain a set of training fingerprints, each training fingerprint specifying, for a client device, an access point to which the client device successfully connected and cellular signal strength for each cellular tower in a set of cellular towers; and for each access point: generate an access point profile for the access point, the access point profile indicating, for each cellular tower in the set of cellular towers specified by a first subset of the set of training fingerprints, a probability that a randomly selected training fingerprint included in the first subset specified a particular cellular signal strength for the cellular tower, wherein each training fingerprint included in the first subset specifies the access point as the access point to which the client device specified by the training fingerprint included in the first subset successfully connected. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142651 | Controlling Power Usage - It is presented a method performed in a power control device for controlling power usage. The method comprises the steps of: determining a power command to be transmitted to a radio base station; generating the power command for the radio base station; and causing the power command to be appended to data packet bound for the radio base station. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142652 | MULTIPLE-LAYER BEACON SWEEPING METHOD, ACCESS NODE AND USER EQUIPMENT - A multiple-layer beacon sweeping method performed by an access node, a method performed by a user equipment, and a respective access node and user equipment are provided. The multiple-layer beacon sweeping method may comprise performing multiple beacon sweepings including at least a first beacon sweeping and a second beacon sweeping, wherein the first beacon sweeping has a first set of beams and a first coverage area and the second beacon sweeping has a second set of beams and a second coverage area, and wherein the first coverage area is larger than the second coverage area. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142653 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS OPERATING AS A RELAY NODE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHODS - A communications device includes a transmitter to transmit signals representing data to an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network via a first wireless access interface and to transmit signals via a second wireless access interface to one or more communications apparatus which can act as relay nodes, a receiver to receive signals from the infrastructure equipment via the first wireless access interface and to receive signals via the second wireless access interface from the one or more communications apparatus which can act as relay nodes, and a controller. The controller can form a relay assist request message and with the transmitter and receiver to transmit the relay assist request message on the second wireless access interface for reception by the one or more communications apparatus which can act as relay nodes to assist in communicating signals representing data to the infrastructure equipment via the first wireless access interface. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142654 | Methods for Reconnecting to a Network - In a first embodiment, a method includes: entering a reduced communications performance environment, wherein a mobile device connected to a network loses connection to the network; attempting to reconnect to the network in the reduced performance environment without success; recording network connection attempt information; entering an improved performance environment, wherein the mobile device is reconnected to the network; and transmitting the network connection attempt information to a remote server. In a second embodiment, a method includes: consulting a network reconnection attempts profile previously sent from a cloud server to a mobile device; based on the network reconnections attempts profile, determining a network reconnection attempt schedule; and attempting to reconnect to the network according to the network reconnection attempt schedule until the mobile device is reconnected to the network. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142655 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN NETWORK-CONNECTED MEASUREMENT UNITS USING PREDICTION - A method and a system for determining sampling schemes of a network-connected measurement unit based on time-varying predictability of the measured signals are provided herein. The method may include the following steps: sampling, via a sensor, a metric indicative of a physical property of an infrastructure system, wherein the sampling is carried out over a training period, at an original sampling scheme; determining, based on the training period, in which future time ranges, whether said metric is predictable within a predefined threshold; and adjusting the original sampling scheme, so that the more said metric is predictable in a future time range, the less said future time range is sampled, to yield an updated sampling scheme. In another embodiment, the prediction of the signal may be used to postpone the transmitting of measurements by the local sensor devices whenever the new measurements do not exceed a predefined threshold beyond the predicted values | 2017-05-18 |
20170142656 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES - An electronic system electronic device includes: an internal battery, an external battery, a memory and a plurality of function modules. The internal battery is configured to generate a first power signal. The external battery is detachably attached to the electronic device, the external battery configured to generate a second power signal. The memory is configured to operate based on the first power signal. The plurality of function modules are configured to operate based on the second power signal. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSERVING POWER FOR A WIRELESS DEVICE WHILE MAINTAINING A CONNECTION TO A NETWORK - A system, device and method are described for operating a communication device communicating with a wireless network. The method comprises in a power save mode wherein a communication subsystem of the communication device has been deactivated: for a first period beginning at a first instance, re-activating the subsystem, executing an action relating to a link layer connection condition, and then de-activating the subsystem; and for a second period beginning at a second instance, re-activating the subsystem, executing an action relating to a network layer connection condition, and then de-activating the subsystem. For the method, the first period is repeated on a cycle based on a first frequency timed to allow the communication device to process a beacon signal from the wireless network; and the second period is repeated on a cycle based on a second frequency of occurrence of an Address Resolution Protocol request in the wireless network. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142658 | METHODS FOR REDUCTION OF BATTERY USAGE IN AMBULATORY INFUSION PUMPS - A battery-powered infusion pump for delivery of insulin or other medicament may collect and store data related to the pump. The infusion pump can communicate some or all of the stored data to another device, and control the timing and amount of data communicated in order to conserve battery life. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142659 | EARLY DETECTION PROCEDURE OF HIGH-EFFICIENCY FRAME AND DECISION TIMING FOR SPATIAL REUSE - In wireless communications, a station associated with a first wireless network may perform early detection of a high-efficiency (HE) frame for spatial reuse (SR). The station may determine a received power of a legacy preamble of the HE frame when the frame is associated with a second wireless network. The station may reduce the received power by a predetermined value. The station may initiate an SR transmission, when the reduced power is less than an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) packet detection level. The station may obtain an SR parameter associated with a second station, where the SR parameter is based on a transmission power level and an interference level at the second station, and initiate an SR transmission, based on the SR parameter and the reduced power. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142660 | SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS BASED ON TILT DETECTION - Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe a computing system that includes a tilt sensor and a transceiver. The system is configured to determine one or more tilts of the system detected by the tilt sensor. The system is also configured to determine a scan interval and a rest interval based on the one or more tilts detected. The system is also configured to provide scanning power to cause a transceiver of the system to scan an environment for one or more signals of interest based on the scan interval and the rest interval. As such, the one or more signals may be identified from the scan of the environment. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142661 | WLAN System with Opportunistic Transitioning to a Low Power State for Power Management - Embodiments described herein relate to providing reduced power consumption in wireless communication systems, such as 802.11 WLAN systems. Timing information regarding power save opportunities (PSOPs) may be provided in communication frames, which may inform mobile devices of expected frame exchange periods during which they may transition to a Doze state. Additional PSOP information may be included in beacon frames, which may inform mobile devices of expected multicast periods during which they may transition to a Doze state. This may operate to provide improvements in terms of power consumption. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142662 | METHODS FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMIT POWER IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Methods, apparatuses, computer readable media to control uplink transmit power in a wireless network. An apparatus of a wireless device comprising processing circuitry is disclosed. The processing circuitry is configured to determine MCSs to assign to stations based on an estimated transmission power the stations are to use to transmit using the corresponding MCS of the MCSs, and based on a receive range of the wireless device. The processing circuitry is further configured to encode a trigger frame comprising an uplink resource allocation for the stations and an indication of the corresponding MCS of the MCSs for each of the stations to use for the uplink resource allocation. The trigger frame may include a transmit power information request. The processing circuitry is further configured to decode packets encoded with the corresponding MCS of the MCSs, and each packet comprises a transmit power the corresponding station would use for a different MCS. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142663 | CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMIT POWER IN A PLURALITY OF BASESTATIONS - A method for controlling uplink transmit power for a plurality of basestations in a mobile communications network is disclosed. The basestations may form a second layer within the network, and the network may comprise another plurality of basestations forming a first layer. The method comprises clustering the plurality of second layer basestations according to association with first layer basestations, exchanging second layer basestation loading information between second layer basestations belonging to the same cluster, and dynamically setting uplink transmit power limits for individual second layer basestations based on the exchanged loading information. The method may further comprise updating the clustering of the second layer basestations according to dynamic variation in association of second layer basestations with first layer basestations. The method may also comprise dynamically controlling uplink resource allocation such that concurrent use of the same frequency resource by more than one second layer basestation is reduced. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142664 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SIGNAL TRANSMISSION POWER AND DEVICE FOR SAME - A method for controlling transmission powers by a communication apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting a plurality of component carriers, the method includes controlling transmission powers for one or more channels per each component carrier in such a way that a total transmission power of one or more channels in a corresponding component carrier does not exceed a maximum transmission power configured for the corresponding component carrier; when a simultaneous transmission of a sounding reference symbol (SRS) on a first component carrier, and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) on a second component carrier is scheduled, checking whether a total transmission power of the SRS, the PUSCH and PUCCH exceeds a maximum transmission power configured for the communication apparatus; and dropping a transmission of the SRS if the total transmission power of the SRS, the PUSCH and PUCCH exceeds the maximum transmission power configured for the communication apparatus. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142665 | Radio Link Monitoring for Link-Budget-Limited Devices - A link-budget-limited wireless communication device (UE) may implement improved radio link monitoring procedures for enhancing the link-budget of the UE. The UE may monitor the radio link and may determine whether the radio link can support a lowest acceptable link quality according to a hysteresis-based comparison that uses threshold values to determine error rates associated with a physical control channel. The UE may also identify itself to the network as a link-budget-limited device, and the network may enable special link-budget enhancing features for the UE, including boosting the power of the resource elements (REs) carrying physical channel signaling/data to the UE. The UE may detect the presence of power boost and may estimate/determine the power boost level. The UE may modify the threshold values based on the power boost detection and/or results of the power boost level estimation/determination, and may use the modified threshold values for determining radio link quality during radio link monitoring. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142666 | TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal device that communicates with a base station apparatus includes a transmission unit that transmits a channel and/or a signal based on a maximum output power in a first cell group in a certain subframe. The maximum output power in the first cell group is a sum of a power that is determined based on uplink transmission in the first cell group in a certain subframe and a power that is allocated to the first cell group, of a residual power. The residual power is given by subtracting the power that is determined based on the uplink transmission in the first cell group in the certain subframe and a power for a second cell group from a sum of maximum output powers of the terminal device. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142667 | USER TERMINAL, RADIO BASE STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention is designed to reduce the decrease of uplink throughput in the event a user terminal connects with a plurality of radio base stations. A user terminal ( | 2017-05-18 |
20170142668 | USER TERMINAL, RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention is designed so that user terminal operations are carried out adequately when guaranteed transmission power is configured in dual connectivity. A user terminal communicates with a plurality of cell groups, where each cell group is comprised of one or more cells that use different frequencies, and has a receiving section that receives the guaranteed transmission power value of each cell and active/non-active information of the cells in the cell groups, and a power control section that controls the guaranteed transmission power values of the cell groups by using the number of cells in the active state and the guaranteed transmission power value of each cell. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142669 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADIO LINK SYNCHRONIZATION AND POWER CONTROL IN CELL_FACH AND IDLE MODE - A method and apparatus for radio link synchronization and power control in CELL_FACH state and idle mode are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) transmits a random access channel (RACH) preamble and receives an acquisition indicator acknowledging the RACH preamble via an acquisition indicator channel (AICH) and an index to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) resource. The WTRU determines a start of an E-DCH frame. An F-DPCH timing offset is defined with respect to one of the RACH access slot and an AICH access slot carrying the acquisition indicator. A relative F-DPCH timing offset may be signaled to the WTRU and the WTRU may determine a start of an E-DCH frame based on the relative F-DPCH timing offset and timing of an AICH access slot including the acquisition indicator. The WTRU may transmit a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) power control preamble before starting an E-DCH transmission. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142670 | Network-Assisted Channel Selection and Power Control for Mobile Devices - Facilitation of a network assisted device-decided system can increase throughput of D2D devices and the link reliability of macrocells. In a network assisted device-decided system a macrocell can broadcast resource allocation data to D2D devices. The D2D devices can then select channels and adjust transmission power to offload traffic from the macrocell, thus creating a high spectrum efficiency with low power. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142671 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKER MARGIN SIZING BY AN AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL - A method for dynamic sizing of a blocker margin by a receiver automatic gain control (AGC) is described. The method includes measuring a wanted signal level and a blocker signal level. The method also includes adjusting a linear target for the wanted signal level at the output of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of the receiver based on the blocker signal level. The linear target is adjusted to optimize a wanted signal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the blocker margin. The method further includes adjusting a receiver front-end gain based on the adjusted linear target. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142672 | TIME CODE CONTROLLED LOGIC DEVICE - A synchronization device to synchronize at least one signal with an initiation of an event may generally comprise a time code generator to generate a first time code signal, a synchronization logic unit to calculate a time delay between the first time code signal and a second time code signal to determine when to initiate the event, and generate a time delay signal, and an output unit coupled to the time code generator and synchronization logic unit to receive the time delay signal and generate a signal output to initiate the event in synchronization with the first time code signal. Methods of making and using the synchronization device, a user interface of the synchronization device, and a system comprising the synchronization device are also described. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142673 | USER TERMINAL AND BASE STATION - A user terminal includes processor configured to execute processes of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information indicating whether the user terminal shall transmit a device-to-device (D2D) synchronization signal used for a D2D proximity service; transmitting the D2D synchronization signal in response to the received configuration information being first configuration information explicitly indicating the user terminal shall transmit the D2D synchronization signal; and prohibiting transmission of the D2D synchronization signal in response to the received configuration information being second configuration information explicitly indicating the user terminal shall not transmit the D2D synchronization signal. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142674 | Accurate Over the Air Synchronization - In one aspect, a first device determines transmitter location information indicating a location for each of one or more transmitters that provide synchronization signals. The first device inserts the transmitter location information in a time synchronization IE and transmits the time synchronization IE to a second device. The second device receives the transmitter location information from the first device and determines one or more propagation delays of a synchronization signal received from a transmitter based on the transmitter location information received for the transmitter in the IE. The second device uses the determined one or more propagation delays to compensate for a timing difference between the first device and a transmitter of the synchronization signal. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142675 | TIMEOUT OF COMMUNICATION RADIO LINK - A message is received via a time-synchronized communication channel implemented on a radio link of a cellular network from a terminal. The message includes data associated with the service implemented by the terminal and a node of the cellular network. The message has been transmitted by the terminal at a first point in time. A timeout point in time of communication associated with the service is determined based on the first point in time. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142676 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Synchronisation References - A backhaul domain of the communication network is determined | 2017-05-18 |
20170142677 | Sequence detection method and apparatus, and computer storage medium - The disclosure discloses a sequence detection method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: acquiring i-path data with the degree of parallelism i; storing x-th i-path data; receiving (x+1)-th i-path data; forming an x-th detection data set by the x-th i-path data and the (x+1)-th i-path data; extracting s paths of data continuously distributed in the detection data set within each of n detection windows to form n data segments; performing a correlation operation between each data segment and a local sequence; and determining, according to a result of the correlation operation, whether a data segment is a target sequence, wherein x is an integer not less than 1, i is an integer not less than 2, n is less than or equal to i, and s is an integer not less than 1 and equal to a bit number of the target sequence. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142678 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL FOR DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system. With respect to a D2D synchronization source to transmit a synchronization signal for D2D communication, the method includes: generating a D2D Synchronization Signal (D2DSS); and transmitting, by a synchronization source, the D2DSS to a D2D reception (Rx) UE, wherein the D2DSS includes a Primary D2D Synchronization Signal (PD2DSS) generated based on information associated with the synchronization source. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142679 | SUPPORT OF MOBILE-TERMINATED SHORT MESSAGE DELIVERY FOR A USER EQUIPMENT USING A POWER SAVING MECHANISM SUCH AS EXTENDED IDLE MODE DRX - A mobile network entity configured to upon reception of a TFR message forwarding a SM towards a UE in extended idle mode DRX, including a SM-Delivery-Timer/Start-Time indicating the time used in the SM gateway SMSC to supervise the receipt of the TFR message, keep the SM for a specified time if the UE is expected to become reachable before the expiration of the timer, and page the UE. If the UE responds to this paging during this specified time, the mobile network entity configured to deliver the SM to the UE, and if the UE does not respond to this paging during this specified time, or if the UE is not expected to respond within this time, send towards a SM gateway SMSC a delivery failure and set a flag to record that the UE is currently not reachable. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142680 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING A DEVICE LOCATION - Techniques for determining a device location based on measurements from multiple RATs are described. In an aspect, the methods and apparatus include determining, at a first device, one or more round trip time (RTT) measurements based on one or more signals communicated with a second device over a first Radio Access Technology (RAT). Further, in an aspect, the methods and apparatus include determining, at the first device, one or more angle measurements based on one or more signals communicated with the second device over a second RAT. Additionally, the methods and apparatus include determining a location of the first device in relation to the second device based on the one or more RTT measurements and the one or more angle measurements. The one or more angle measurements may include one or more angle of departure (AoD) measurements, one or more angle of arrival (AoA) measurements, or both. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142681 | POSITIONING METHOD AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a positioning method and a communications device. The method includes: receiving, by a first communications device, a first positioning request, where the first positioning request includes an identifier of a to-be-positioned communications device, and the first positioning request is used to request position information of the to-be-positioned communications device; and obtaining, by the first communications device, the position information of the to-be-positioned communications device according to the identifier of the to-be-positioned communications device by using a short-range wireless communications technology. Therefore, it is implemented that the first communications device can obtain position information of another communications device. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142682 | LOCATION INFORMATION IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - There is provided mechanisms for providing location information in a communications network. A method is performed by a first device. The first device supports positioning of other devices in the communications network. The method comprises acquiring positioning reference signal configuration from a radio network node in the communications network. The method comprises acquiring location information from a local positioning entity. The method comprises providing the location information to at least one of a radio network node and a second device in the communications network. The method comprises transmitting a positioning reference signal according to the positioning reference signal configuration. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142683 | METHOD FOR REPORTING LOCATION INFORMATION OF USER EQUIPMENT, AND APPARATUS - Embodiments provide a method for reporting location information of user equipment, and an apparatus. A master access node is provided, including an obtaining module, configured to obtain location information of user equipment, where the location information of the user equipment includes serving cell information of at least one secondary access node of the user equipment. The master access node also includes a sending module, configured to send the location information of the user equipment to a core network node, where the location information is used by the core network node to determine a control policy for the user equipment according to the location information of the user equipment. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142684 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING POSITION OF A USER EQUIPMENT - A method and system for determining the position of a User Equipment (UE) is described. The method comprises determining signal strength of signals received from a plurality of signal sources in an area in which the UE is located; and estimating position information for a location of the UE in the area based on a position model and the signal strength. | 2017-05-18 |
20170142685 | PAGING DECODING - A paging decoding method in a wireless communication device adapted to operate in association with a primary cell provided by a network node of a cellular communication system, wherein the primary cell has one or more neighboring cells is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a paging signal during a paging occasion, temporarily storing the received paging signal, attempting to decode the received paging signal based on one or more parameters of the primary cell, and (if decoding of the received paging signal based on one or more parameters of the primary cell is un-successful) attempting to decode the temporarily stored received paging signal based on parameters of one of the neighboring cells. In some embodiments, the method may further comprise selecting the one of the neighboring cells based on one or more of respective received signal strengths of the neighboring cells and respective received signal powers of the neighboring cells after receiving the paging signal during the paging occasion. Corresponding computer program product, arrangement and wireless communication device are also disclosed. | 2017-05-18 |