Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110064177 | Device and Method for Time Synchronization in a Communication Network - A device and method for time synchronization in a communication network, wherein a virtual clock is produced by a controller in each network node based on the PROFINET-Standard and/or the Precision Transparent Clock Protocol. In contrast to known methods for estimating the time, the time of the virtual clock does not undergo sudden changes. The virtual clock includes a controlled, continuous path. As a result, the virtual clock is particularly suitable for time-critical applications. Here, the estimation of the time of a reference clock is improved by 18-35%. Accordingly, a markedly greater number of network nodes may be synchronized with a predetermined level of accuracy for the time synchronization. | 03-17-2011 |
20110161524 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING CLOCKS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The invention refers to a method for synchronizing clocks in a communication network, wherein a first clock of a first network element (MA) which is a master element is used for synchronizing second clocks of one or more second network dements which are slave elements. According to the method of the invention, a first sequence of first messages transmitted from the first network element to the second network element and/or a second sequence of second messages transmitted from the second network element to the first network element is recorded. First messages and/or second messages out of those sequences are identified by using an appropriate threshold function with respect to the transmission delays of those messages. Those identified messages have the same constant minimum delay, and based on those messages clock synchronization between the first clock and the second clock is performed. The invention has the advantage that clock synchronization is possible even if an intermediate switch causing an unknown delay is located in the transmission path between the first and the second network element. This is because most of the messages are transmitted within a minimum constant delay via such an intermediate switch and, by identifying those messages, a line delay between the first network element and second network element can be estimated and used for synchronizing the second clock with the first clock. The synchronization method of the invention is preferably used for synchronizing clocks in a DECT network. Furthermore, in a preferred embodiment, the first and second messages are messages according to the standard IEEE 1588. | 06-30-2011 |
20120320902 | Method for Time Synchronization in a Communication Network - A method for time synchronization in a communication network having a plurality of nodes each comprising a first node and at least one second node, wherein the first node generates first cycle counting states according to a reference cycle frequency and the second node generates second cycle counting states according to an internal cycle frequency, wherein time synchronization is performed in consecutive synchronization cycles in which, starting from the first node, synchronization messages are consecutively transferred from one node to a further node and a synchronization message transmitted by the node includes a segment of information that is used for time synchronization in the node receiving the synchronization message, wherein time synchronization is performed in the second node based on an estimate of a first cycle counting state in combination with a linear-quadratic regulator to obtain a synchronized time comprising a controlled first cycle counting state. | 12-20-2012 |
20130058433 | PRE-CODING METHOD, PRE-DECODING METHOD, TRANSMITTER AND MOBILE TERMINAL BASED ON INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT - The transmitter and a mobile terminal based on interference alignment use pre-coding and pre-decoding methods. An antenna mapping matrix is computed according to a downlink channel state information, wherein the antenna mapping matrix is used for antenna mapping for the current transmitter to perform interference alignment. A multi-cell pre-coding matrix according to the downlink channel state information and the antenna mapping matrix; a single cell multi-user pre-coding matrix and pre-coding user data using the single cell multi-user pre-coding matrix and the multi-cell pre-decoding matrix and performing an antenna mapping using the antenna mapping matrix are computed. A system which cannot use the interference alignment method directly may be transformed to use the interference alignment method directly. In addition, the interference suppression between cells and the interference management inside cells are two separate processes, in which different linear pre-coding and decoding methods may be used. | 03-07-2013 |
20150295671 | Base Station, Communication System and Method Thereof - The present disclosure provides a base station, a communication system and a method thereof. The communication system includes three base stations adjacent to each other, and each base station serves at least one UE. The method includes: acquiring, by each base station, a channel matrix of a channel from the base station to an adjacent base station; calculating an interference alignment-based transmission precoding matrix for each base station based on the channel matrices of the channels between the base stations; and precoding, by each base station, data to be transmitted with the interference alignment-based transmission precoding matrix. | 10-15-2015 |
20160007347 | RADIO BASE STATION, USER TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio base station capable of reducing the impact of interference and improving the efficiency of the use of radio resources even when different DL/UL configurations are employed between neighboring transmitting/receiving points is disclosed. The radio base station can communicate with user terminals via time division duplex and is able to change and control DL/UL configurations, has a subframe type determining section that classifies subframes into fixed subframes or flexible subframes, in accordance with the relationship between the DL/UL configurations that are employed in the radio base station and the DL/UL configurations that are employed in other radio base stations, and a frequency allocation control section that applies mutually different frequency allocation methods to the fixed subframes and the flexible subframes. | 01-07-2016 |
20160128073 | RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention is designed to reduce the impact of inter-cell interference by interference control using signaling between radio base stations. In the radio communication system of the present invention, a radio base station carries out radio communication with a user terminal by using a UL/DL configuration, which represent the configuration of uplink subframes and downlink subframes in a radio frame. Also, the radio base station determines the interference control information to use in interference control in the fixed subframe and the flexible subframe in the above UL/DL configuration. Also, the radio base station transmits the above interference control information to the neighboring radio base stations via an inter-radio-base-station interface. | 05-05-2016 |
20160143042 | RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - In order to avoid interference efficiently and control the amount of radio resources that are not used for interference avoidance, the present invention provides a radio base station connected to a neighbor radio base station via inter-radio base station interface. The radio base station has: a radio communication section that performs radio communication with a user terminal using a UL/DL configuration indicating a configuration of uplink and downlink subframes in a radio frame; an interference detecting section that measures and detects interference that the radio base station suffers from; and a selecting section that uses an interference detection result as a basis to determine which to apply to each subframe, between a resource allocation-unrestricted scheme and an inter-cell uplink/downlink orthogonalization scheme. | 05-19-2016 |