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| 20080268889 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ACTIVE SET IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method is provided for managing active sets of a terminal that receives a pilot channel from a base station in a mobile communication system. Reception strength of the pilot channel is measured. It is checked whether the number of active sets being managed by the terminal is greater than or equal to the predetermined maximum number of supportable active sets. It is determined whether to transmit a pilot to the base station according to the checking result. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080311906 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTHENTICATING MOBILE NODE IN THE MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for performing device authentication and user authentication in a mobile communication network are provided. A connection is established between an MS and an SRNC that controls communications of the MS through a BS. The SRNC receives a D-MSK for device authentication of the MS from an AAA server that has completed an EAP negotiation with the MS and stores the D-MSK by the SRNC, when the BS triggers an EAP authentication after the connection establishment. The SRNC receives an R-MSK from an AG and stores the R-MSK after the connection establishment. The R-MSK is generated using a U-MSK for user authentication of the MS received from the AAA server by the AG. The SRNC generates a PMK for use during a session using at least one of the D-MSK and the R-MSK, and one of the BS and the SRNC generate a key set using the PMK, for use in at least one of data encryption, data integrity check, and session management during the session. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090052356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING ACK/NACK INFORMATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM BASED ON TIME DIVISION DUPLEXING - A method is provided for transmitting control information by a Base Station (BS) in a Time Division Duplexing (TDD)-based Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system. The method includes determining a TDD ratio value; when a value obtained by dividing a number of consecutive Forward-Link (FL) time slots of a predetermined time interval by a number of consecutive Reverse-Link (RL) time slots is not a positive integer, grouping Mobile Stations (MSs) into multiple groups and generating group index information; and transmitting, to the MSs, control information including the TDD ratio value and the group index information. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20100113009 | Measurement report method and apparatus in wireless communication system - A measurement report method and apparatus of a user equipment is capable of improving system performance in a wireless communication system in which macro and Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cells are co-located. An inter-frequency measurement report method of a user equipment in a wireless communication system including macro and Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cells according to the present invention includes performing measurements for all cells identified by unique Physical Cell Identifiers (PCIs); determining whether at least one cell of which measurement fulfills inter-frequency measurement report events; checking, if at least one cell of which measurement fulfills inter-frequency measurement report events, a type of a best cell among the at least one cell in measurement; and transmitting, if the best cell is a macro cell or an accessible CSG cell, the inter-frequency measurement report to a serving base station. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100113019 | UE mobility state detection apparatus and method for wireless communication system - A method for transmitting information required for user equipment mobility state detection is provided. The method includes broadcasting, at a base station, system information including frequency information and cell identifiers (IDs) of cells co-located with a current cell geographically; and transmitting, when an handover is detected, a handover command message including a handover factor indicator indicating whether the handover was triggered by movement of the user equipment, wherein the user equipment detects the mobility state based on the information provided by the system information and the handover command message. The apparatus and method of the present invention allows the UE to add the cell reselection/handover triggered by movement of the UE to the number of cell reselections/handovers and subtract the cell reselection/handover triggered by a non-mobility factor from the number of cell reselections/handovers used for determining the UE mobility state thereby improving accuracy of the UE mobility state detection. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110263262 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HANDOVER SUPPORT INFORAMTION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for providing handover support information in a mobile communication system are provided. A method for an Base Station (BS) to provide information necessary for measurement report trigger performance to a Mobile Station (MS) after the MS determines neighboring BSs in a mobile communication system includes, in a case where the MS is an active mode MS, providing a Time To Trigger (TTT) independently by a specific neighboring BS to the active mode MS and, in a case where the MS is an idle mode MS, providing a reselection time period (Treselection) independently by the specific neighboring BS to the idle mode MS. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120083290 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING A SIGNAL OF A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method which involves resetting a signal-measuring cycle for an object system to a specific initial value when a terminal which communicates with one system has changed the location thereof by a value more than a specific reference value, and determines whether or not the intensity of the signal or phase information measured in a source system which is in communication with the terminal has changed by a value higher than a specific value, by means of determining whether or not the terminal has changed the location thereof, under the condition mobile communication system using different wireless connection techniques coexist. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120184221 | POWER HEADROOM REPORT METHOD AND APPARATUS OF USER EQUIPMENT - A power headroom report method and apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) provides an efficient resource allocation in a mobile communication system. The power headroom report method of the present disclosure includes calculating a power headroom change by comparing the current power headroom and the previous power headroom. The method also includes determining, when the power headroom change is greater than a predetermined threshold value, whether a report prohibit timer set to a predetermined value has expired. The method further includes reporting the current power headroom when the report prohibit timer has expired, and resetting the prohibit timer to a different value. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120195287 | COMMUNICATION METHOD USING DUPLICATED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - Communication methods using duplicated acknowledgement (ACK) are provided. A communication method of a serving base station includes determining if a handover of a device attached to the serving base station is required, and, if the handover is required, transmitting two or more duplicated ACKs to a fixed host. The two or more duplicated ACKs have the same identifier as a final ACK transmitted from the device to the fixed host. This method can alleviate an unnecessary reduction in transmission rate caused by timeout that may occur during handover of the device. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120224470 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING RADIO LINK OF TERMINAL IN WHICH MULTIPLE CARRIERS ARE INTEGRATED IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method, wherein a terminal in which multiple carriers are integrated and sets a radio link by detecting and recovering radio link failure in a mobile communication system. The method comprises the steps of: setting a radio link in one serving cell in multiple carriers; checking a radio state of a primary carrier if failure of the radio link is detected; searching other cells adjacent to the serving cell by driving a timer, if the radio state is not matched with a preset radio condition; stopping the driving of the timer if the radio state is recovered while the timer is driven; and inactivating one of the multiple carriers. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120300685 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION OPERATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for supporting a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation in a Node B in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes defining a second System Frame Number (SFN) where one cycle of a first SFN corresponds to one bit, transmitting information on the second SFN to a User Equipment (UE), determining a second SFN which is used to transmit a paging signal to the UE, determining a first SFN which is used to transmit the paging signal in the determined second SFN, and transmitting the paging signal to the UE at the determined first SFN. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120320760 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA USING CONTENTION-BASED ACCESS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting and receiving data using a Contention-Based (CB) access to prevent successive collisions due to an HARQ operation and improve the probability of successful reception in a mobile communication system. In a method for transmitting data using a CB access, it is determined whether it is possible to transmit data provided from an upper layer to a Node B using a CB access method. If it is possible to transmit the data using the CB access method, a CB grant is acquired from the Node B. Upon acquiring the CB grant, a transmit power is determined by selecting a smaller value among a value obtained by adding a predetermined first margin value to an uplink power Required_uplink_power required to transmit the data, and a maximum transmit power of a UE. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120320842 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for accessing a Random Access Channel (RACH) at a low-power terminal in a wireless communication system are provided, in which resource allocation information is acquired according to used resource identification information included in system information broadcast from a Base Station (BS), and a random access preamble is transmitted to the BS according to the acquired resource allocation information. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120322440 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE COMMUNICATION OF AN IDLE MODE DEVICE HAVING LOW MOBILITY IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention defines an efficient measurement method for idle mode M2M/MTC device with low/no mobility in a mobile communication system. An example of the mobile communication system to which the present invention is application is 3GPP UMTS mobile communication system and 3GPP LTE/LTE-A mobile communication system as the next generation mobile communication system under discussion in 3GPP. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130003629 | PAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION OF M2M/MTC DEVICE OPERATING IN HIGH POWER SAVING RECEPTION MODE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND SYSTEM THEREOF - method is provided for communicating with a User Equipment (UE) supporting a High Power Saving Reception Mode (HPSRM) mode by an evolved Node B (eNB) in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle information from a network entity performing mobility management for the UE by the eNB communicating with the UE over a wireless link; and broadcasting system information including the DRX cycle information. The DRX cycle information is set longer than DRX cycle information of a UE non-supporting the HPSRM mode. By doing so, an efficient paging method for an UE operating in the HPSRM mode may be provided. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130012186 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACTIVATING CARRIERS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for activating carriers in a mobile communication system, and includes determining, when an instruction message for aggregating multiple carriers is received, a bit position per carrier according to an identifier per carrier in the instruction message; checking, when a carrier state message including a state bitmap indicating state per carrier, the state per carrier according to the bit position per carrier in the state bitmap; and activating/deactivating the carriers according to the per-carrier states. According to the present invention, it is possible to minimize signaling overhead caused by carrier activation and deactivation. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130045735 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING CHANNEL MEASUREMENT INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for efficiently configuring information during a process in which a terminal records channel measurement information in a mobile communication system. Disclosed is an operation of a terminal for accurately indicating to a base station whether or not a serving cell or neighbor cells are measured in configuring channel measurement information. In addition, disclosed is a method in which a terminal adjusts the frequency of recording in consideration of the importance of the measured information. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130064191 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RANDOM ACCESS METHOD THEREOF - A random access method of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation which allows transmitting data on multiple carriers is provided. A random access method for a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation according to the present invention includes receiving, at a terminal, Random Access Channel (RACH) selection information necessary for random access, the RACH selection information being transmitted by a base station; selecting, when the random access is triggered, an uplink carrier on which the random access is attempted based on the RACH selection information; and attempting the random access on the selected uplink carrier. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130102345 | UPLINK CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An UpLink (UL) control method and apparatus for in a wireless communication system supporting beamforming are provided. A method of a Mobile Station (MS) for UL control in the wireless communication system supporting the beamforming includes receiving a plurality of DownLink (DL) reference signals from a plurality of Base Station (BS) transmission beams using a plurality of MS reception beams having different directivity, measuring a path loss based on a reception signal strength of each of the plurality of DL reference signals received through different transmission/reception beams, selecting an MS transmission beam for uplink based on the path loss value measured for each of the plurality of DL reference signals, and transmitting a UL signal to a BS using the selected MS transmission beam. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130184021 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM ACCESS - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system access method for a user equipment performing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication with a system may include: awaiting, when the user equipment detects a need for system access, reception of access delay information from a base station for a preset delay information wait time; obtaining, when access delay information is received from the base station within the delay information wait time, an access delay time from the access delay information; and awaiting expiration of the access delay time while not attempting system access. Hence, system access attempts made by many M2M user equipments can be efficiently handled in the present invention. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130195042 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SERVICE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for providing a service in a next-generation wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting, upon recognizing an initial access by a Subscriber Station (SS), resource allocation information indicating resources allocated for channel quality reports by the SS to the SS by a master Base Station (BS) serving the SS, determining at least one slave BS that serves the SS and constitutes a first cloud cell, using the channel quality reports received from the SS, and exchanging data with the SS together with the at least one slave BS. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130217404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting/receiving signals at a terminal in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining at least one first reception path with a lowest path loss from among first reception paths that receive a first reference signal from a base station, receiving a second reference signal through second paths set up based on the at least one first reception path, and transmitting an uplink access signal with a second uplink transmitting beam that corresponds to a second downlink receiving beam corresponding to a second path having a lowest path loss. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130258974 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING COOPERATIVE CELL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for configuring a cooperative cell by a master Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes instructing a Mobile Station (MS) and adjacent BSs to measure channels, receiving channel measurement results from the MS and the adjacent BSs, and determining at least one BS constituting a cooperative cell according to the channel measurement results. The at least one BS constituting the cooperative cell provides one of an UpLink (UL) service and a DownLink (DL) service to a same MS. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130310024 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SMALL BASE STATION AND THE SMALL BASE STATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of controlling an operation of a small Base Station (BS) and the small BS in a communication system are provided. The method includes measuring the strengths of signals received from adjacent macro BSs, transmitting a reference signal corresponding to an Identifier (ID) of the small BS at a predetermined time, if a highest of the measured signal strengths received from the adjacent macro BSs is less than a threshold, and operating the small BS in an active mode, upon receipt of an activation signal from at least one Mobile Station (MS). The active mode is a state in which the small BS communicates with an MS within a service area of the small BS. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20140004897 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING RESOURCES IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140016492 | "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING SYSTEM SIGNAL" - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring a signal. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a signal measuring method may comprise the steps of: determining whether or not a current subframe corresponds to a measurement period; measuring a serving cell signal when the current subframe corresponds to the measurement period; determining whether a current measurement mode is a normal scan mode or a short scan mode in which a serving cell signal is more frequently measured than in the normal scan mode; determining whether or not the measured serving cell signal is less than a preset low signal threshold value when the current measurement mode is the normal scan mode; and changing the current measurement mode to the short scan mode when the measured serving cell signal is less than the low signal threshold value. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system signal measuring method and apparatus which can quickly reflect the surrounding environment while efficiently using power is provided. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140071943 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION SERVICE BETWEEN MACRO BASE STATION AND SMALL CELL BASE STATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for providing a cooperative communication service by a macro Base Station (BS) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes generating at least one small cell BS group by grouping small cell BSs if there are small cell BSs of which a number is equal to or larger than a threshold small cell BS number within a service coverage of the macro BS, establishing a cooperative interface with a representative small cell BS among small cell BSs included in the at least one small cell BS group, and providing a cooperative communication service with the at least one small cell BS group using the cooperative interface. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140073331 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RESOURCE BETWEEN MACRO BASE STATION AND SMALL CELL BASE STATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for allocating a resource by a Mobile Station (MS) in a mobile communication system includes performing a measurement operation and a measurement report operation; and being allocated a resource from a small cell Base Station (BS) or a macro BS based on a neighbor small cell BS change probability and a neighbor small cell BS list, wherein the neighbor small cell BS list includes information on neighbor small cell BSs, and the neighbor small cell BSs are neighbor small cell BSs of which received signal strengths for reference signals measured by the MS are equal to or greater than a threshold received signal strength, and wherein the neighbor small cell BS change probability is determined using a neighbor small cell BS list which is generated at a current timing point and a neighbor small cell BS list which is generated at a previous timing point. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140099959 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HANDOVER SUPPORT INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for providing handover support information in a mobile communication system are provided. A method for an Base Station (BS) to provide information necessary for measurement report trigger performance to a Mobile Station(MS) after the MS determines neighboring BSs in a mobile communication system includes, in a case where the MS is an active mode MS, providing a Time To Trigger (TTT) independently by a specific neighboring BS to the active mode MS and, in a case where the MS is an idle mode MS, providing a reselection time period (Treselection) independently by the specific neighboring BS to the idle mode MS. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140307615 | Apparatus and Method for Transmitting/Receiving Multiuser Packet in a Mobile Communication System - An apparatus and method is provided for generating one packet with transmission data and transmitting the packet from an access network transceiver system (ANTS) to a plurality of access terminals (ATs) in a mobile communication system including the ATs and the ANTS which are capable of performing packet data communication with ATs located in coverage thereof. The method includes the steps of generating a medium access control (MAC) header including information on a receiving AT's address, a length and format for transmission data, generating a MAC payload, by consecutively connecting data units to be transmitted to the receiving AT, and generating a MAC trailer. The ANTS pads ‘0’ bits to the MAC header if a predetermined MAC size is greater than a sum of lengths of the MAC header, the MAC payload and the MAC trailer. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140328162 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING RADIO LINK OF TERMINAL IN WHICH MULTIPLE CARRIERS ARE INTEGRATED IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for configuring a radio link of a terminal communicating via aggregated carriers including a primary cell and a secondary cell are provided. The method includes detecting a Radio Link Failure (RLF) for the secondary cell, deactivating the secondary cell, and reporting at least one of a measurement result of the secondary cell and a measurement result of neighboring cell of the secondary cell to a base station. The apparatus includes a transceiver for communicating with a base station, and a controller configured to detect a RLF for the secondary cell, to deactivate the secondary cell, and to report at least one of a measurement result of the secondary cell and a measurement result of neighboring cell of the secondary cell to the base station. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140329551 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK POWER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for controlling uplink power in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for controlling uplink power of a User Equipment (UE) forming a transmission link with a plurality of BSs (BSs), a power headroom report trigger event by at least one of the plurality of BSs is detected. Power headroom information of the UE is reported to at least one of the plurality of BSs. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140341023 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA PACKET IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a data packet in a transmitting apparatus in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving first feedback information including buffer status information indicating information related to a status of a buffer included in a receiving apparatus from the receiving apparatus, determining a number of first data packets to be transmitted to the receiving apparatus based on the buffer status information, determining a number of second data packets which is identical to at least one of the number of first data packets based on a data packet loss rate for each of a plurality of paths, and encoding the determined number of first data packets and the determined number of second data packets and transmitting encoded first data packets and encoded second data to the receiving apparatus through each of the plurality of paths. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140364128 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for a serving base station to determine a handover time in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining whether to set up dual connectivity (DC) with respect to a terminal with a target base station that transmits the beacon if it is recognized that the terminal receives a beacon including a plurality of pieces of service coverage area information, and determining whether to execute a handover to the target base station based on a measurement report of the terminal, which is received after the DC is set up if the DC is set up. | 12-11-2014 |
