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20080212468 | Apparatus, methods and computer program products providing estimation of activity factor and enhanced radio resource management - In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: estimating an activity factor for a priority class based at least in part on a provided bit rate for the priority class and a guaranteed bit rate of the priority class; and using the estimated activity factor to estimate at least one network-related parameter. In another non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: obtaining a measurement for a priority class; and estimating an activity factor for the priority class based at least in part on the measurement and a quality of service attribute of the priority class. As a non-limiting example, exemplary embodiments of this invention employ a framework providing an estimation of effective activity factor per service priority indicator (SPI) class to provide, for example, enhanced quality of service awareness in radio resource management functionality, such as for estimation of the amount of power used per SPI class/group. | 09-04-2008 |
20080225729 | Apparatus, methods and computer program products implementing fast bearer prioritization in a MAC-HS packet scheduler based on required activity detection - Apparatus, methods and computer program products provide fast instantaneous overload control during scheduling operations involving users in a wireless communications network who are candidates to be scheduled in a next transmission time interval. Apparatus detect congestion conditions in a wireless communications network by determining an instantaneous operating region of a scheduler (e.g., a medium access control-high speed scheduler) based on required activity detection and prioritize users in a scheduling candidate set based on the cost of a user. In a variant, this may be implemented by combining part of the required activity detection algorithm with a per-bearer cost function. In one implementation, this will limit the number of users that suffer during momentary congestion in the wireless communications network. | 09-18-2008 |
20090268676 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program Product Providing Usage of E-Dch as Rach Shared Channel - Apparatus, methods and computer program products in a wireless communications system provide an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) for use by user equipment operating in the wireless communications system for use in conjunction with the random access procedure. The user equipment has circuitry to request a HS random access channel and, in response to receiving an assignment from a Node B of a dedicated mode channel for use as the random access channel, to send uplink data in a random access fashion over the assigned dedicated mode channel while receiving feedback from the Node B over at least one downlink L | 10-29-2009 |
20100329182 | Apparatus, Methods, Computer Program Products And Systems Providing RACH Parameters In A Broadcast Channel For A Random Access Procedure - In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving at least one parameter from a broadcast channel ( | 12-30-2010 |
20110075744 | Allocating Resources Within Communication System - The present invention is related to a method for allocating resources in a communications system. The method includes receiving a matrix of priorities assigned to a plurality of services at a plurality of user levels; and allocating resources to a bearer for a station of the communication system based at least in part upon the priority assigned to a service provided over the bearer at the user level associated with a subscriber. | 03-31-2011 |
20110130150 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SERVICE-AWARE ENERGY SAVING AND LOAD BALANCING OPERATIONS - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises establishing a plurality of mode priorities one for each of a plurality of technology modes supported by a user equipment (UE) and selecting a target technology mode that meets at least one current user service requirement of the user equipment and maximizes a power saving based at least in part on a mode priority associated with the target technology mode. The method also includes causing the user equipment to camp on the selected target technology mode and balancing a resource allocation based in part on the selected target technology mode. | 06-02-2011 |
20120163319 | Enhanced Physical Downlink Shared Channel Coverage - An apparatus is provided, including an observing function configured to observe an indication about the coverage status of a user equipment; a deciding function configured to decide, based on the indication, to switch into a coverage extension mode; a providing function configured to provide a scaling number in dependence of the coverage extension mode; an allocating function configured to allocate, for data to be transmitted to a user equipment, a first modulation and coding scheme, a first modulation order, a first size of a transport block, and a first number of resource blocks per transport block according to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technology, a reducing function configured to reduce a first size per resource block, being the quotient of the first size of the transport block and the first number of resource blocks per transport block, based on the scaling number, thus obtaining a second size per resource block, being the quotient of a second size of the transport block and a second number of resource blocks per transport block; and a scheduling function configured to schedule, for the data, the second size of the transport block and the second number of resource blocks per transport block. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163437 | Extension of Physical Downlink Control Channel Coverage - It is provided an apparatus, including observing means configured to observe a first parameter; deciding means configured to decide, based on the first parameter, whether or not an original search space of a downlink control channel of an orthogonal frequency division multiplex technology is to be redefined; and redefining means configured to redefine the original search space, thus obtaining a redefined search space. | 06-28-2012 |
20120207124 | Method and Device for Allocating Resources of a Control Channel in a Wireless Communication System - A method and a device for allocating resources of a control channel are provided, wherein said control channel is a control channel of a mobile network, wherein the control channel conveys uplink and downlink allocations, wherein the distribution of uplink and downlink allocations is determined based on traffic requirements. Furthermore, a communication system is suggested comprising said device. | 08-16-2012 |
20120230238 | Resource Setting Control for Transmission Using Contention Based Resources - There is proposed a mechanism for controlling a transmission of a connection quality information, like CQI, from a UE to a base transceiver station via an uplink connection. Resources of an uplink control channel for the trans-mission of the connection quality information are set for a plurality of UEs. A collision between transmissions of the connection quality information by at least two user equipments of the plurality of UEs on a same resource element is detected or predicted on the basis of input information, and a collision prevention processing is executed when such collision is detected or predicted. | 09-13-2012 |
20120263109 | Method and Apparatus for Planning of Cell Sizes and Frequency Use in a Wireless Communications Network - A method including providing at least a first and a second operationally adjacent base stations; each base station providing at least one cell in respect of a first carrier and at least one cell in respect of a second carrier, and wherein for each carrier, the respective cell areas overlap, and wherein for a first carrier, the cell area provided by the first base station is substantially larger than the cell area provided by the second base station. | 10-18-2012 |
20120282862 | USER EQUIPMENT ENERGY REPORTING FOR ENABLING POWER EFFICIENT OPERATIONS OF NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for enabling power efficient operation. In one aspect, there is provided a method including receiving a request for an indication of a value representative of an energy consumption of at least one of a transmission and a reception at a user equipment. Moreover, the value is determined in response to the request. The value may also be determined for one of a plurality of radio access technologies provided by the user equipment. The determined value may be reported to a network element. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 11-08-2012 |
20130021990 | Apparatus and Method for Scheduling in Carrier Aggregated Communication Systems Based on a Transmit-Receive-Frequency Gap Band - An apparatus, method, system and computer program product is configured for avoiding base station self-interference due to transmit intermodulation in carrier aggregated communication systems. Physical downlink communication channels are allocated to respective component carriers per time interval according to a communication service in which communication is performed on an aggregation of component carriers of one or more frequency band such that component carriers to be used for transmission are separated from component carriers to be used for receiving by a transmit-receive-frequency gap band. However, not all available component carriers to be used for transmission are allocated in the same time interval. Rather, in each time interval, the physical downlink communication channels to be allocated for transmission are allocated to the available component carriers to be used for transmission such that, in each frequency band, the overall emission spectrum does not reach beyond the transmit-receive-frequency gap band. | 01-24-2013 |
20130044674 | Method and Apparatus for Use in a Mobile Communications System Comprising a Relay Node - A method selecting one of a plurality of communication options, each communication option providing a different division of resources between a first link between at least one relay node and a base station and a second link between said at least one relay node and a plurality of user equipment configured to communicate with said at least one relay node; and using said selected communication option to control the division of resources between said first and second links, wherein said using includes sending information to a user equipment to control an activity of that user equipment in dependence on said selected communication option | 02-21-2013 |
20130065596 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING HANDOVER AND RESELECTION - A method and an apparatus for controlling handover and reselection are provided. The apparatus comprises: a controller configured to obtain information related to the energy consumption of one or more services on one or more systems utilizing different radio access technology; and determine a need for a handover or a reselection for a mobile unit using one or more services on the basis of the information. | 03-14-2013 |
20130155855 | Increasing Efficiency of Admission Control in a Network - An apparatus and a method is provided, by which a penetration of terminals supporting a congestion indication scheme in a network or a part of the network is determined, and a load threshold is dynamically adjusted according to the penetration of terminals supporting a congestion indication scheme, wherein the load threshold is used for controlling load in the network or the part of the network. | 06-20-2013 |
20130194915 | Radio Access Parameter Tuning - There is provided a solution for performing radio access parameter tuning. The solution includes obtaining first predetermined characteristics related to users who experienced a radio link failure, obtaining second predetermined characteristics related to the users who are according to a predetermined rule prone to a radio link failure, and determining, based on the obtained second predetermined characteristics in addition to the obtained first predetermined characteristics, whether radio access parameter tuning is to be performed or not. | 08-01-2013 |
20130303158 | Key Performance Indicator for Operator Performance Evaluation in Communication Network Resource Sharing - In an evaluation method it is detected whether an operator k of at least a part of a communication network gets less than an agreed minimum number of resources/throughput or less than an agreed share of resources/throughput according to a sharing framework. In case it is detected that the operator k does not get less than the agreed minimum number/share of resources/throughput, it is determined that the sharing framework is not violated and this result is stored in a metric m(j). In case it is detected that the operator k gets less than the agreed minimum number/share of resources/throughput, it is detected whether the operator k has enough traffic to be served to fill the agreed minimum number/share of resources/throughput. In case it is detected that the operator k has enough traffic to be served, it is determined that the sharing framework is violated and this result is stored in the metric m(j). In case it is detected that the operator k has not enough traffic to fill its share of the resources, it is determined that the sharing framework is not violated and this result is stored in the metric m(j). | 11-14-2013 |
20140177574 | Allocating Resources Within A Communication System - The present invention is related to a method for allocating resources in a communications system. The method comprises receiving a matrix of priorities assigned to a plurality of services at a plurality of user levels; and allocating resources to a bearer for a station of the communication system based at least in part upon the priority assigned to a service provided over the bearer at the user level associated with a subscriber. | 06-26-2014 |
20140293974 | Method of Transmission in a Communications Network - A method of transmission in a communications network is provided in which data is transmitted using a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology. The method includes providing an anchor carrier associated only with the first radio access technology and another carrier shared between the first radio access technology and the second radio access technology. Transmission via the second radio access technology is muted in the shared carrier during at least one subframe of each data frame transmitted using the second radio access technology. Data is transmitted using the first radio access technology in the shared carrier only during the at least one subframe in which transmission using the second radio access technology is muted. | 10-02-2014 |
20150029920 | Power Saving UL DTX and DL DRX Techniques for Multi-Flow Operation in HSPA - An apparatus includes multi-flow communicating means adapted to perform a communication with a UE including a portion of a multi-flow communication to the UE; evaluating means adapted to evaluate the communication with the UE; and providing means adapted to provide a DTX/DRX information based on the evaluation. The DTX/DRX information is related to at least one of a discontinuous transmission state and a discontinuous reception state of the UE. The instructing means is adapted to instruct the multi-flow communicating means to send DTX/DRX activation request with respect to the at least one of the discontinuous transmission state and the discontinuous reception state according to the DTX/DRX information to the UE. The storing means is adapted to store a status information, wherein the status information includes the at least one of the discontinuous transmission state and the discontinuous reception state corresponding to the instruction by the instructing means. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029998 | Inter-Node B Handover in HSDPA or Multi-Flow HSPA Including Packet Retransmission - The application relates to the removal of one of the links in multi-flow HSPA but the proposed method is also applicable to normal HSDPA operation during handover. In particular the application aims at minimizing the negative impact of a removed radio link, i.e. drop of packets and/or delays. According to the proposed method, in which the radio link to be removed is via a first Node B NB | 01-29-2015 |
20150085657 | Data Transmission Mechanism with Improved Robustness Using Multiflow Connection - There is provided a mechanism for conducting data transmission from a network management entity of communication network control element to a terminal or UE with improved robustness. After a multiflow connection for data units via at least one network transceiver device and via at least two different paths is set up towards a terminal, selection criteria are applied so as to decide which data units are sent on which transmission path. Specifically, dependent on the applied selection criteria, data units of specific data are selected to be subjected either to bicasting each selected data unit using the at least two paths, or to dynamic flow switching so as to transmit each selected data unit using one of the at least two paths and wherein each selected data unit can be in dependently chosen to be transmitted over either of the at least two paths. | 03-26-2015 |