29th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140198689 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MIXED SIGNAL SPREAD SPECTRUM RECEIVING TECHNIQUE - An apparatus and method for mixed signal spread spectrum receiving and spectrum aggregation in a receiver having at least one antenna respectively receiving at least one signal are provided. The method includes modulating the at least one signal received by the receiver with at least one unique orthogonal pseudorandom (PN) code, downconverting the at least one modulated signal into at least one baseband signal, combining the at least baseband signal into an overlaid baseband signal and filtering the overlaid baseband signal, converting the overlaid baseband signal from an analog signal into a digital baseband signal, splitting the digital baseband signal into a plurality of signal paths each having the entirety of the digital baseband signal, applying one of the at least one unique orthogonal PN code to each of the plurality of signal paths, and multiplexing the plurality of signal paths into a combined digital baseband signal. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198690 | Method of Remapping Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Timeline in Time Division Duplex Uplink-Downlink Reconfiguration - A method of remapping Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) timeline in Time Division Duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) reconfiguration, for a communication device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes being reconfigured from a first TDD UL-DL configuration in a first radio frame to a second TDD UL-DL configuration in a second radio frame, determining a TDD UL-DL reference configuration according to UL subframe allocations of the first and second TDD UL-DL configurations in the first radio frame, and performing HARQ processes of the first TDD UL-DL configuration according to a HARQ timeline of the TDD UL-DL reference configuration during the first and second radio frames. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198691 | INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR DIVISION FREE DUPLEXING OR FULL DUPLEX OPERATION - In full duplex operation, a first signal is transmitted from a wireless device while a second signal in the same frequency band as the first signal is received at the device. A third signal can be generated that accounts for channel characteristics on the transmitted first signal. The third signal can be applied to the received second signal to compensate for interference caused by the transmitted first signal. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198692 | Securing Transmit Openings By The Requester - Techniques for securing transmit opening help enhance the operation of a station that employs the technique. The techniques may facilitate low latency response to a protocol data requester, for instance. The techniques provide ways for the protocol data requester to provide additional time for the protocol data responder to obtain the needed response data for the protocol data requester. One way in which this can be done is by intelligently lengthing the protocol request transmitted by the protocol requester. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198693 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING REACQUISITION PROCEDURES - Access terminals are adapted to facilitate reacquisition procedures for a slotted idle mode. According to one example, an access terminal can operate in a slotted idle mode. The access terminal can then determine one or more optimized parameters for reacquisition procedures. In one example, the access terminal can determine an optimized length of time for reacquisition periods by incrementally reducing the length of time for reacquisition periods until an optimized length of time is obtained. In another example, the access terminal can determine an optimized number of pseudorandom noise (PN) signals and PN positions to be stored during each awake state of the slotted idle mode by incrementally reducing the number of PN signals and PN positions that are stored until an optimized number of stored PN signals and PN positions is obtained. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198694 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL SCHEMES FOR D2D COMMUNICATIONS - Power control schemes for D2D communications are described. The schemes control the transmission power of a UE during D2D communications in a manner that reduces interference while maintaining the D2D communications link and the cellular link with the eNB. Open-loop and/or closed-loop techniques are employed. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198695 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AVOIDING SYSTEM LOSSES FOR M2M DEVICES OPERATING AT LONGER SLOT CYCLE - Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an apparatus and methods capable of pre-correcting reacquisition slew of pilot signal timing when a mobile device operates in a slotted mode or discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. In one aspect, a mobile device is operated in slotted mode. The mobile device wakes up to perform a pilot reacquisition corresponding to a slotted mode and detects a slew of a pilot timing relative to a pilot reference timing. The mobile device adjusts a subsequent pilot reference timing by an amount corresponding to the detected slew, to be utilized during a subsequent wake-up cycle. The mobile device returns to a sleep state to wait for the subsequent wake-up cycle. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198696 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCONTINUOUS RECEIVE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH LARGE NUMBER OF ANTENNAS - A user equipment (UE) performs a method for supporting discontinuous receive (DRX) in a wireless network. The method includes waking up at a wake up time associated with a beginning of a DRX cycle, the DRX cycle comprising a plurality of subframes. The method also includes determining whether to perform receive beam training before a beginning of a time period for downlink communication. The method further includes receiving data during the time period for downlink communication. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198697 | METHOD FOR EXITING A LOW-CONSUMPTION STANDBY MODE, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE - The invention relates to a method for controlling a device operating in several operating modes corresponding to different levels of power consumption and comprising a first and a second communication interface, said method being characterized in that it comprises the steps of activating said second communication interface upon receiving a first wake-up message via said first interface and receiving a second wake-up message via said second communication interface, said second wake-up message resulting in the exit from the low-power standby mode of the device. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198698 | System and Method for Filtering Broadcast Messages Received Over a Wireless Local Area Network - A user device configured to communicate with a remote device via a Wireless Access Point (WAP) listens on one or more active ports for data sent by the WAP while in a sleep mode. Upon receiving data, the user device identifies the port over which it received the data and determines whether that port is on a list of active ports. If the port is on the list, a controller in the user device wakes the user device from the sleep mode to process the data. If the port is not on the list, the controller discards the received data and leaves the user device in the sleep mode. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198699 | Reducing Power Consumption in Voice over LTE Terminals using Semi Persistent Scheduling in Connected Discontinuous Reception Mode - A connection with a network that includes a base station (BS) may be established by a user device (UE) via a wireless connection, for conducting communications using semi persistent scheduling (SPS) in a connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode. The SPS transmit periodicity may be adjusted with respect to the SPS activation command and the SPS interval UL (for uplink). Data may then be transmitted during the C-DRX On-Duration periods according to the determined SPS transmit periodicity. In some embodiments, the SPS transmit periodicity is adjusted such that following a first C-DRX On-Duration period when an SPS activation command is received, SPS data transmission occurs a specified number of subframes earlier during each subsequent C-DRX On-Duration period than in the first C-DRX On-Duration period. The SPS data transmission in each subsequent C-DRX On-Duration period may take place as soon as the UE device wakes up during the On-Duration period. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198700 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRAFFIC IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for controlling traffic in an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a process request event for a first traffic, identifying whether the first traffic is allowed to be delayed, detecting whether a second traffic is generated if the first traffic is allowed to be delayed in a state where process of the first traffic is delayed, and processing the first traffic and the second traffic simultaneously if the second traffic is generated. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198701 | Deciding Whether to Send Uplink Control Signaling Based on the Active Time Status of a User Equipment Configured with Discontinuous Reception (DRX) - A method in a user equipment for deciding whether or not to send an uplink transmission (ie. Channel State Information, CSI, and/or Sounding Reference Signal, SRS) to a radio access network node (Node B) is provided. The user equipment and radio access network node (Node B) are comprised in a communications network. The user equipment is configured with Discontinuous Reception, DRX, to be in active time or not be in active time. The user equipment decides ( | 2014-07-17 |
20140198702 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING MULTICAST DISTRIBUTION OF MOBILE DEVICE UPDATE DATA - An approach for enabling load efficient delivery of updates and other content to mobile devices is described. A device management platform determines to communicate with a mobile device configured to operate over a cellular network and a local area network, wherein the local area network includes a customer premise gateway. The device management platform also initiates establishment of a multicast session with the mobile device via the customer premise gateway and over the local area network. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198703 | INTERFACE AND LINK SELECTION FOR A MULTI-FREQUENCY MULTI-RATE MULTI-TRANSCEIVER COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An apparatus includes network node configured to communicate with other network nodes via a communication network. The network node includes a plurality of transceivers and a controller. The controller includes a link management module and a packet management module. The link management module is configured to produce link profiles associated with communication links available to the network node, wherein a link profile indicates link characteristics of a communication link. The packet management module is configured to identify a link profile solution set that includes a set of link profiles corresponding to communication links for multicasting the message packet, map the link profiles of the link profile solution set to at least a portion of the plurality of transceivers, and initiate transmission of the message packet using the communication links corresponding to the link profile solution set. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198704 | JUST IN TIME LINK TRANSMISSION FOR A MULTI-FREQUENCY MULTI-RATE MULTI-TRANSCEIVER COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An apparatus includes a network node configured to communicate with other network nodes via a communication network. The network node includes a plurality of transceivers and a controller. The controller includes a packet management module that identifies a link profile solution set that includes a set of link profiles corresponding to communication links for multicasting the message packet. The link profile solution set maximizes coverage of network target nodes of the multicast message packet. The packet management module places a first message clone of the message packet in a transceiver queue for transmission to one or more of the network target nodes, updates the link profile solution set when the first message clone reaches the end of the transceiver queue, and initiates transmission of the first message clone or drop the first message clone according to the updated link profile solution set. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198705 | Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and duplication signaling within wireless communications - Communications are supported between wireless communication devices using OFDMA signaling and duplicate processing. An OFDMA frame, which includes first data intended for a first recipient device and second data intended for a second recipient device, is transmitted via a first sub-channel, and a duplicate of the OFDMA frame is transmitted via a second sub-channel. In some instances, additional duplicates of the OFDMA frame are transmitted via additional sub-channels. The OFDMA frame may be generated based on a first frequency and then down-clocked to a second frequency that corresponds to a bandwidth of one of the sub-channels. A wireless communication device configured to perform such operations may be compliant with one or more IEEE 802.11 communication standards, protocols, and/or recommended practices and may also be backward compatible with prior versions of IEEE 802.11. Different numbers of sub-channels and sub-channels of different bandwidths may be used to different times. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198706 | MULTICAST SOURCE REGISTRATION METHOD, MULTICAST RECEIVER JOINING METHOD AND MULTICAST SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD DURING HANDOVER - Disclosed are a multicast source registration method, a multicast receiver joining method and a multicast service providing method during handover, in which another mobile node may constantly receive multicast data even when a mobile node performs handover while transmitting multicast data in various mobile networks. According to the present invention, a safe and fast mobility of a network-based multicast source can be provided. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198707 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD THROUGH POINT TO MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSION SERVICE - The present disclosure proposes a data transmission method through multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS). Specifically, the present disclosure proposes using a cell broadcast service to perform data transmission, and the proposed functions would include receiving an information of a service data, allocating a data channel resource based on the information of the service data to generate an allocation information for the data channel, allocating a control channel resource based on the information of the service data to generate an allocation information for the control channel, and transmitting the allocation information for the control channel to a target device. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198708 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GROUP COMMUNICATION IN PROXIMITY-BASED SERVICE - The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for use in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a method of supporting a group communication and an apparatus therefore, in which the method comprises: establishing a communication connection with a second UE via a first relay UE; and receiving, from the first relay UE, a message requesting a relay connection, the message including first information indicating a current hop count, wherein if a condition is satisfied, the relay connection is provided between the first relay UE and a fourth UE via a second relay UE, the second relay UE being the first UE, wherein if the condition is not satisfied, the request of the relay connection is rejected, wherein the condition includes: the current hop count is less than a maximum number of allowed hops. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198709 | DISTRIBUTED SATCOM APERTURE ON FISHING BOAT - Embodiments of a mobile communications system to service multiple users in fishing boats over same spectrum in a communication satellite network and a method for the system are generally described herein. Signals of data streams for transmission to user equipment (UE) in spoke-and-hub configurations will utilize multiple transponders of satellites. Radiation patterns from ground terminals with distributed apertures feature orthogonal beams (OB). A tracking OB beam from a moving platform dynamically shall autonomously be formed as a shaped beam by a digital-beam-forming (DBF) network with a peak to a desired satellite, and nulls to undesired satellites to minimize mutual interferences among multiple satellite spatially. Comparing with many current mobile VSAT schemes via spreading transmitting power to a broader bandwidth reducing mutual interference to an acceptable level, the advanced terminals are more bandwidth efficient in utilizing space assets. Furthermore, to access reasonably low priced space assets, advanced ground hubs and mobile terminals feature “coherent” bandwidth aggregating capability from multiple available but non-contiguous slices of frequency slots in many transponders by wavefront multiplexing/demultiplexing (WF muxing/demuxing) techniques. These available residual frequency slots are negotiable to become “low priced” in general. The aggregated assets from slots in various transponders will function as individual virtual wideband channels. These individual frequency slots must be dynamically selected, calibrated and equalized continuously in receivers via embedded probing signals as a part of WF muxing/demuxing techniques. Among many other benefits of WF muxing, we may utilize linearly polarized (LP) space asset to service circularly polarized (CP) mobile users. Generally, CP mobile ground terminals are cheaper than LP ones. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198710 | FEEDBACK SIGNALLING FOR MULTICAST DATA TRANSMISSION - Data transmission in a multicast fashion in which retransmissions are requested by recipients sending feedback to the one sender. Receiving stations are informed about the feedback of another receiving station. This is done by mirroring the feedback of receiving stations to other receiving stations. Due to this, in case, for example, one of the mirrored feedbacks is a negative acknowledgement message, the other receiving stations are informed that it is no longer necessary to provide their feedback, since a retransmission will be initiated anyway. Advantageously, this may allow reduced interference in the direction of the feedback. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198711 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE TERMINAL, RADIO BASE STATION, AND PROGRAM - A mobile communication method is a method for distributing MBMS data to a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system including a general cell supporting a broadcasting of the MBMS data and a specific cell not supporting the broadcasting of the MBMS data, comprising: a step A of determining whether or not to continue a reception of the MBMS data in the general cell, based on at least one of an operation state of the general specific cell and a state of service with which the mobile terminal is provided by the general cell, when the mobile terminal receives, in a connected state, the MBMS data broadcasted from the general cell in a connected state. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198712 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHODS - Methods and apparatus for transmitting data to terminal devices in a wireless telecommunications system. The data may be user-plane data associated with a repeating Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS) session to be transmitted using MBMS over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) in a network including at least one relay node supported by a donor base station. The scheme includes delivering the data from the base station to the relay node in advance of a scheduled transmission to terminal devices at a first time, and transmitting the data from the relay node to a terminal device at the first time. The relay node is further configured to store the data in a cache. The relay node may then retrieve the data from the cache in advance of a scheduled transmission to terminal devices at a second time, and transmit the retrieved data to a terminal device at the second time. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198713 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING INTERNET-BASED SENSOR DATA TRANSMISSION - Provided is a method of supporting CoAP-based sensor data transmission between a sensor data collector in a sensor node relay and one or more 6LoWPAN-unsupported sensor nodes. The method includes receiving a CoAP sensor data request message from the sensor data collector, transmitting a CoAP sensor data request message to a corresponding 6LoWPAN-unsupported sensor node by analyzing the received CoAP sensor data request message, and responding to the sensor data collector by creating a CoAP sensor data response message including sensor data received from one or more of the 6LoWPAN-unsupported sensor nodes. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198714 | METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING AND CONSOLIDATING MME BEARER MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS - An aspect of the invention provides for a method of managing bearer signaling for one or more user equipments (UEs) coupled to a eNodeB via at least one relay node, by generating and sending MME Association Consolidation (MAC) request message by the eNodeB to the plurality of disparate mobility management entities managing plurality of user equipments coupled to the said relay node based on receiving bearer resource request of at least one user equipment coupled to the said relay node. The method further comprising of making available to the MME of the said relay node, MME Association Consolidation (MAC) response from the said plurality of disparate mobility management entities managing plurality of user equipments coupled to the said relay node and provisioning by the MME of the said relay node the bearer resource request of at least an user equipment, based on the received MAC response, and provisioning the consequential bearer request of the said relay node wherein, provisioning includes creating, updating, modifying and deleting bearers of UE and RN. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198715 | ESTABLISHING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A TRAIN AND BASE STATIONS - Methods and systems are provided for communication between moving objects (e.g., a train) and land-based systems (e.g., base stations of mobile wireless networks). For example, wireless communication may be established between a train and one or more base stations arranged along a track travelled by the train. In some instances, multiple-input and multiple-output arrays may be configured, comprising antennas of one or more communication relays arranged on the train, and the one or more base stations. Communications may be performed concurrently via multiple communication channels, such as channels of a MIMO arrays, using cooperative communication schemes for example. Channel state information (CSI) may be stored, remotely or locally, such as in a data storage system, and for communicating via the communication channel(s), channel state information may be determined, such as depending on information defining the current location of communication relays used in establishing the channels. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198716 | UPLINK RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR RELAY NODE BASED COMMUNICATION - A wireless communications system including a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is operable to receive from the base station an allocation of uplink resources for transmitting uplink data to the relay device, and to transmit uplink data to the relay device using the uplink resources allocated to the terminal device. The relay device is operable to receive the transmitted uplink data from the terminal device on the allocated resources, to receive an allocation of uplink resources for relaying the received uplink data to the base station, and to transmit the received uplink data to the base station using the uplink resources allocated to the relay device. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198717 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GROUND TRANSCEIVER COMMUNICATIONS WITH A SATELLITE TRANSCEIVER - A system and method of controlling communication between a satellite transceiver and a ground transceiver, where the satellite transceiver is configured to receive concurrently a plurality of messages at substantially the same carrier frequency from a plurality of ground transceivers. The satellite transceiver transmits a ranking threshold indicative of a transceiver ranking of a ground transceiver that authorizes the ground transceiver to transmit a message to the satellite transceiver. The ground transceiver receives the ranking threshold transmitted by the ground transceiver, and determines if the ground transceiver is authorized to transmit a message based on a comparison of the ranking threshold and a transceiver ranking of the ground transceiver. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198718 | AVOIDING NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATON IN A MOBILE DATA NETWORK - A flow setup table in a basestation breakout component allows for servicing non-cacheable IP data flows at the breakout component without the need for network address translation. For each broken out IP flow at the breakout component, the flow setup table holds a mapping between tunnel IDs and the IP related information. The flow setup table data is sent to the breakout component at the gateway. The gateway breakout component uses the flow setup table to forward non-cacheable data requests to the internet and return data received from the internet back to the basestation breakout component. The basestation component then sends the non-cacheable data in the correct tunnel to the user equipment requesting the data. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198719 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION WITH PRIVATE EXPRESSIONS - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with providing location information with expression information announced in a wireless network. In one example, a UE is equipped with applications that can request announcement of an expression. In an aspect, the expression may be associated with expression information to be announced over the air. In an aspect, the request indicates to provide location information with the expression information during announcement. Further, the UE may be equipped to generate Peer-Discovery (PD) data including the expression information and the location information. In an aspect, the location information may be included along with the expression information in a data section of the announced PD data. Still further, the UE may be equipped to announce the PD data. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198720 | ANTENNA PORT MANAGEMENT FOR LOCALIZED ENHANCED PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMISSIONS - Methods, systems, and devices are described for managing wireless communications. A first decoding candidate and a second decoding candidate are identified from a plurality of decoding candidates for a localized enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH) transmission. A first antenna port is identified from a set of antenna ports for the first decoding candidate. A second antenna port is identified from the set of antenna ports for the second decoding candidate. The second antenna port is different from the first antenna port. The localized EPDCCH is decoded based at least on the first and second decoding candidates and the identified first and second antenna ports. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198721 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GROUND TRANSCEIVER COMMUNICATIONS WITH A SATELLITE TRANSCEIVER - A system and method of controlling communication between a satellite transceiver and a ground transceiver, where the satellite transceiver is configured to receive concurrently a plurality of messages at substantially the same carrier frequency from a plurality of ground transceivers. The satellite transceiver transmits a ranking threshold indicative of a transmit power that a ground transceiver is authorized to use to transmit a message. The ground transceiver receives the ranking threshold transmitted by the ground transceiver, and determines a transmit power of the transmitter to transmit a message based on a comparison of the ranking threshold and a transceiver ranking of the ground transceiver. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198722 | METHOD OF PROVIDING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE IN A NETWORK - In a network implemented using packet-switching and circuit-switching mythologies, a short message is sent from a first device to a second device in a packet-switched domain or in a circuit-switched domain of the network. If an initial transmission attempt of the short message in the packet-switched domain is rejected due to a network-related cause, the short message is resent from the first device to the second device in the circuit-switched domain. If an initial transmission attempt of the short message in the circuit-switched domain is rejected due to a network-related cause, the short message is resent from the first device to the second device in the packet-switched domain or is directly aborted. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198723 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIUM ACCESS GROUP ASSIGNMENT - Systems and methods for implementing a medium access group assignment of stations (STAs) are disclosed. An access point (AP) device may be configured to allocate a chosen beacon interval to a medium access group (MAG). Further, the AP device may assign STAs to different MAGs. After assignment to a particular MAG, the STAs that are associated to the particular MAG may use the configured beacon interval during transmission and reception of messages. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198724 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMATTING FRAMES IN NEIGHBORHOOD AWARE NETWORKS - Systems and methods for formatting frames in neighborhood aware networks are described herein. One aspect of the subject matter described in the disclosure provides a method of communicating in a wireless neighborhood aware network (NAN). The method includes determining at least one connection setup information element indicating one or more connection parameters of the NAN. The method further includes determining at least one service identifier of the NAN. The method further includes generating a public action discovery frame comprising the at least one connection setup information element and the at least one service identifier. The method further includes transmitting, at a wireless device, the public action discovery frame. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198725 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMATTING FRAMES IN NEIGHBORHOOD AWARE NETWORKS - Systems and methods for formatting frames in neighborhood aware networks are described herein. One aspect of the subject matter described in the disclosure provides a method of communicating in a wireless neighborhood aware network (NAN). The method includes determining a discovery period. The method further includes generating a discovery window information element indicating a start time of a discovery window. The method further includes generating a NAN beacon or other sync frame comprising the discovery period and the discovery window information element. The method further includes transmitting, at a wireless device, the NAN beacon or other sync frame during the discovery window. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198726 | BROADCAST AND SYSTEM INFORMATION FOR MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION - Methods, systems, and devices are described for facilitating Machine Type Communication in a wireless communications system. Link budget-limited MTC devices, may be supported. An MTC physical broadcast channel may be utilized for the Machine Type Communication. The MTC physical broadcast channel may be transmitted over one or more subframes different from a regular physical broadcast channel. The payload for the MTC physical broadcast channel may be reduced. The MTC physical broadcast channel may also be utilized to indicate the presence of paging and/or to indicate a change in system information. Some embodiments utilize one or more MTC-specific system information blocks. The MTC-specific system information blocks may combine and/or simplify multiple system information blocks. The location of the MTC system information blocks may be predetermined or information about their location may be transmitted over the MTC physical broadcast channel. An enhanced paging channel may be used to indicate system information updates. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198727 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A wireless communication apparatus is for communicating with an access point through a first communication and communicating with another communication apparatus through a second communication via a network including an access point. The wireless communication apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a status of the first communication; and a reconnection unit configured to reconnect the first communication and then reconnect the second communication by using connection information of a corresponding network layer of the wireless communication apparatus acquired through the first communication when disconnection of the first communication is detected by the detection unit. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198728 | Information Transmission Method, Packet Data Gateway, and Policy and Charging Rules Function - Disclosed are an information transmission method, a packet data gateway, and a policy and charging rules function. The method includes: after receiving a Mobile IPv6 support for Dual Stack Hosts and Routers (DSMIPv6) binding update signaling, a packet data network gateway (P-GW) notifying a source User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port number of the DSMIPv6 binding update signaling to a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF); and the PCRF notifying the source UDP port number of the DSMIPv6 binding update signaling to a fixed broadband access network. The above-mentioned method provides the UDP port number for the fixed broadband access network according to whether the IPSec capsulation is performed on the user plane data, which makes the fixed broadband access network be able to identify the user plane data of the user equipment correctly and perform a corresponding policy control. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198729 | Controlling Random Access Failure on a Secondary Cell - A method in a base station for controlling a Random Access, RA, procedure is provided. The base station initiates ( | 2014-07-17 |
20140198730 | DEVICES FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING FEEDBACK INFORMATION - An evolved Node B (eNB) for sending feedback information is described. The eNB includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The eNB determines configuration parameters related to an Enhanced Physical Hybrid-Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) Indicator Channel (EPHICH). The eNB also sends a configuration signal based on the configuration parameters. The eNB additionally receives data in a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH). The eNB further sends Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information based on the configuration parameters. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198731 | DEVICES FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING FEEDBACK INFORMATION - An evolved Node B (eNB) for sending feedback information is described. The eNB includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The eNB determines configuration parameters related to an Enhanced Physical Hybrid-Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) Indicator Channel (EPHICH). The eNB also sends an uplink grant and an associated EPHICH resource indicator based on the configuration parameters. The eNB additionally receives data in a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH). The eNB further sends Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information based on the configuration parameters. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198732 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING INFORMATION - A communication device is described including a transceiver configured to establish a communication channel via a first radio cell and receive idle mode information of a second radio cell via the communication channel. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198733 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING A FLEXIBLE SUBFRAME - A user equipment (UE) for dynamically configuring a flexible subframe is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines that a subframe is a flexible subframe. The UE determines whether a downlink is indicated for the flexible subframe. The UE sets the flexible subframe as a downlink subframe if a downlink is indicated. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198734 | DEVICES FOR ESTABLISHING MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS - A method by a User Equipment (UE) is described. The method includes establishing a first radio interface between the UE and a first point on an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN). The method also includes establishing a second radio interface between the UE and a second point on the E-UTRAN by using the first radio interface. The method further includes mapping data radio bearers (DRBs) to at least one of the first radio interface and the second radio interface. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198735 | Apparatus and Method for a Communication System - Apparatus and method for communication are provided. The solution includes controlling the communication of a transceiver on shared data channels using a data channel slot including a sensing period and a data period and controlling a transceiver to communicate on common and dedicated control channels on a shared spectrum using control channel slots, each control channel slot including a downlink part and an uplink part, wherein the uplink part occurs at the same time as the sensing period of a data channel slot. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198736 | MANAGEMENT OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS USING INFORMATION RELATING TO SCHEDULING REQUEST PERFORMANCE - Methods, systems, and devices for managing wireless communications are described. In one embodiment, information relating to a scheduling request performance of a first set of one or more user equipments (UEs) may be compiled, and at least a subset of the information may be transmitted to trigger an identification of an adjustment of an uplink power control setting of a second set of one or more UEs. In another embodiment, information to trigger an identification of an adjustment of an uplink power control setting for transmitting scheduling requests may be received from each of a first plurality of UEs. The information may be analyzed, and a power adjustment may be identified for the uplink power control setting for at least one of a second plurality of UEs. The identified power adjustment may then be transmitted to the at least one of the second plurality of UEs. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198737 | OVERHEAD REDUCTION FOR TRANSMISSION OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT SIGNALS - A method and apparatus for compressing resources used for transmitting acknowledgment signals from User Equipments (UEs). An acknowledgment signal is in response to detections from a UE of one or more Physical Downlink Control CHannels (PDCCHs) in respective one or more Transmission Time Interval (TTIs) within M TTIs. Each PDCCH is transmitted over Control Channel Elements (CCEs). Resources account for both CCEs in a same TTI and for TTIs within the M TTIs. A Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) Acknowledgment Resource Offset (HRO) field in a Downlink Control Information (DCI) format is used to compress resources in both CCE and TTI domains. For the first TTI of the M TTIs, all HRO values compress resources in the CCE domain while for all remaining TTIs, half HRO values compress resources in the CCE domain and half HRO values compress resources in the TTI domain. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198738 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE PAGING CYCLES FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE DEVICES - Techniques to control paging cycles for machine-to-machine (M2M) devices are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, a connection manager component arranged for execution by the processor circuit to establish a wireless connection with a device, and a paging component arranged for execution by the processor circuit to select a paging class for the device from among multiple paging classes, each paging class associated with a different paging cycle and paging class parameter, with at least one of the multiple paging classes comprising a M2M paging class associated with a M2M paging cycle and a M2M paging class parameter. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198739 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Embodiments may comprise physical layer logic to implement a new, short acknowledgement. Embodiments may store the short acknowledgement on a machine-accessible medium. Some embodiments may determine and transmit a communication with the short acknowledgement. Further embodiments may receive and detect communications with the short acknowledgement. The short acknowledgement may reduce power consumption and reduce on-the-air time. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198740 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RESOURCES IN A CORE NETWORK - A base station apparatus determines, in accordance with at least one of a communication frequency of a mobile station apparatus, a congestion state of a core network that connects a radio access network and a public network, a number of users being located in a cell of the base station apparatus, and a radio state, a hold period for which a core network resource is to be held, where the core network resource is used for setting a bearer in the core network for the mobile station apparatus. The base station apparatus transmits information indicating the determined hold period to a gateway apparatus in the core network, thereby causing the gateway apparatus to release the core network resource after a period corresponding to the hold period has elapsed. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198741 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING MEDIUM ACCESS PARAMETERS FOR EACH COMMUNICATION SESSION - Systems and methods for selecting medium access parameters for each communication session are disclosed. In one aspect an access point includes a processor configured to select a value for a medium access parameter for a particular communication session between the access point and a wireless station. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198742 | PRACH Signals with Different Bandwidths - The present disclosure concerns radio communication. More particularly, the present disclosure concerns random access procedures used in communication between user equipments (UEs) and radio network nodes, such as evolved NodeB's. According to one exemplary embodiment disclosed herein, a method in a UE | 2014-07-17 |
20140198743 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - In a radio communication system in which a mobile station device and a base station device communicate with each other, power of a signal from the mobile station device to the base station device is efficiently controlled. When a finally received DCI format for PUSCH is a DCI format 0 or a DCI format 4 in which two transport blocks are enabled, a scheduling unit ( | 2014-07-17 |
20140198744 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA-SPLITTING TRANSMISSION FROM MULTIPLE SITES - Methods and apparatus for changing cell range coverage are disclosed. The coverage may be changed on a per-sub-frame basis. An antenna beam elevation tilting angle may be adjusted to provide different effective downlink (DL) coverage. For example, a subframe may be a small tilt subframe or a large tilt subframe. A network or evolved NodeB (eNB) may determine data channel transmission power to adjust cell range per subframe. Low Power Subframe (LPS) may be used alone or with Almost Blank Subframe (ABS) to transmit data. Timing Advance (TA) handling for uplink (UL) transmissions is described. A common TA (CTA) may be determined for multi-site UL signaling. UL power control may be determined for UL transmission to multiple sites. Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) may be performed for multiple sites on a carrier frequency. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may maintain synchronization in selected subframes for multiple cells. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198745 | Method and device for allocation of resource location with frequency hopping function - The disclosure provides a method and device for allocating a resource location with a frequency hopping function. The method includes: an uplink bandwidth of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) communication system is acquired; it is determined whether frequency hopping information needs to be allocated to uplink continuous frequency-domain resource location information in a multi-antenna port transmission mode, and when the frequency hopping information needs to be allocated, a length of a resource location and frequency hopping bit indicator and a length of frequency-domain resource location information are obtained according to the uplink bandwidth; a difference Value_D between the length of the resource location and frequency hopping bit indicator and the length of the frequency-domain resource location information is calculated; and frequency hopping information is allocated to the frequency-domain resource location information according to the difference Value_D. With the technical solution of the disclosure, allocation of frequency-domain resource location information with a frequency hopping function in a multi-port transmission mode can be supported. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198746 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING A RANDOM ACCESS PROCESS - The preset invention relates to a method and device for performing a random access process in a wireless communication system. A terminal transmits a random access preamble in an activated secondary cell, and receives a random access response including uplink resource allocation in a primary cell. The terminal transmits a scheduled message by using the uplink resource allocation in the activated secondary cell. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198747 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided are a communication system, a base station apparatus, a mobile station apparatus, and a communication method for reducing interference between uncoordinated adjacent cells. The communication system of the present invention comprises a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. The base station apparatus notifies the mobile station apparatus of a downlink control information format, the downlink control information format including resource allocation information that dictates switching of resource allocation of an uplink demodulation reference signal localized resource allocation and distributed resource allocation, and a frequency offset of the distributed resource allocation of the uplink demodulation reference signal specific to the mobile station apparatus. The mobile station apparatus determines the resource allocation of the uplink demodulation reference signal in accordance with the frequency offset of the mobile station apparatus when information comprised in the downlink control information format dictates the distributed resource allocation in the resource allocation information, and transmits the uplink demodulation reference signal to the base station apparatus. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198748 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING RANDOM ACCESS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for performing random access in a wireless communication system. A terminal receives from a base station a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) indication, which indicates an initiation of the random access with respect to a secondary cell (SCell), based on whether a cross-carrier scheduling is supported by the SCell; transmits a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble to the base station through the SCell; and transmits a RACH response as a response to the PRACH preamble, based on whether the SCell supports the cross-carrier scheduling, wherein the SCell and a primary cell (PCell) comprises a carrier aggregation (CA) system, the PCell is a cell from which the terminal performs radio resource control (RRC) connection with the base station, and wherein the SCell is at least one cell from residual cells in the carrier aggregation excluding the PCell. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198749 | TRANSMISSION AND PROCESSING OF HIGHER ORDER MODULATION - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE identifies properties associated with reference signals of a received payload. The properties associated with reference signals of the received payload may include a reference signal structure and/or a traffic to pilot ratio. The UE determines a payload structure based on the identified properties. Subsequently, the UE decodes the received payload based on the determined payload structure. The UE may receive mapping information indicating a mapping between possible properties associated with reference signals and possible payload structures. The UE may determine the payload structure further based on the received mapping information. The UE may receive the mapping information through a broadcast or RRC signaling. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198750 | Multi-User (MU) Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) Enhancement - A method implemented in a base station used in a mobile communications system is disclosed. The method includes configuring for a user equipment (UE) a channel state information (CSI) process for multi-user (MU) multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), the CSI process for MU-MIMO being associated with a channel part and an interference part, and according to the interference part, configuring the UE to measure or estimate inter-cell interference (ICI) and to compute or estimate intra-cell interference. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods also are disclosed. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198751 | Channel Feedback for Vertical and Full-Dimensional Beamforming - A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system where different antenna arrays are employed for transmissions to different co-scheduled users in a cell is disclosed. The method includes configuring multiple channel state information (CSI) processes for a user equipment (UE), and configuring, for the UE, a plurality of non-zero power (NZP) CSI reference signal (RS) resources, each of which is associated with an antenna array. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods also are disclosed. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198752 | Method of Handling Communication Operations and Related Communication Device - A method of handling a communication operation for a communication device configured with a first cell comprises the steps of performing a first communication operation in a subframe via the first cell, if a direction of the subframe determined according to a uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration of the first cell and a direction of the subframe determined according to a reference UL/DL configuration are the same; and stopping the first communication operation in the subframe via the first cell, if the direction of the subframe determined according to the UL/DL configuration of the first cell and the direction of the subframe determined according to the reference UL/DL configuration are the different. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198753 | PRIORITIZING RADIO ACCESS TYPES FOR CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP CELLS - A network entity may be configured for prioritizing radio access types for CSG cells of a wireless communication system by storing priority information defining, for each of one or more types of data traffic (e.g., IP traffic, voice traffic, etc.), a priority ranking of cell types comprising at least one of different wireless technologies and different access control types (e.g., a CSG mode, a hybrid mode and an open mode), and indicating the priority information to a mobile device for connecting to cells of a wireless communications system. A corresponding mobile entity may be configured for receiving the priority information as described, and selecting a cell to connect to or camp on based on the priority information. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198754 | MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE - A mobile telecommunications architecture is disclosed. A downlink mobile telecommunications signaling message is received via a first communication interface associated with a single shared network controller connection to a mobile switching center (MSC) server. The downlink mobile telecommunications signaling message is mapped to one of a plurality of small scale base stations each of which is configured to perform at least some network controller functions. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198755 | REUSE OF RF RECEIVE CHAIN FOR HAND-IN ASSISTANCE - A radio frequency receive chain of an access point is reused for different functions. For example, the same RF receive chain may be used to receive on a downlink at certain points in time and on an uplink at other points in time. An RF receive chain that is used to derive synchronization from downlink signals received from a macro system also may be used to receive uplink signals from an access terminal to provide assistance for hand-in of the access terminal. Accelerated searching for hand-in may be provided through the use of a relatively small search window for hand-in of an access terminal to a small coverage access point. In some aspects, the search window may be defined based on the distance between access points or calibration of synchronization error between access points. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198756 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATION OF DISCONTINUOUS UPLINK RESOURCE - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, wherein the method for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system comprises: a step of receiving a control channel signal containing resource allocation information; and a step of transmitting an uplink signal in accordance with the control channel signal, wherein the resource allocation information has a combination index r to be used for indicating two sets of resource blocks, and each set of resource blocks includes one or more continuous resource blocks. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198757 | MINIMALISTIC LTE MAINTENANCE TIMING ADVANCE METHOD - A method that implements a timing advance for an uplink communication from a user equipment (UE) comprises: selecting at least one subframe; reducing a duration of at least one selected symbol of each of the at least one subframe to generate at least one reduced duration subframe; replacing a remaining portion of payload data of each of the at least one selected symbol with a pre-selected replacement value; by-passing each of the at least one selected symbol during pre-transmission processing of the at least one reduced duration subframe; processing any remaining symbols of the at least one reduced duration subframe, such that a processing time of the remaining symbols of the at least one reduced duration subframe is reduced by at least the value of the timing advance; and transmitting the at least one reduced duration subframe via the uplink communication to the base station. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198758 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOFT BUFFER MANAGEMENT FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - An apparatus and a method therein include selecting a size of a soft buffer memory partition per component carrier in a Carrier Aggregation scenario. The method supports multiple carriers to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition, the partition associated with receiving data on at least one component carrier, the multi-carrier system comprising at least two component carriers, each component carrier is associated with a configured bandwidth, the apparatus comprising the processor configured to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition for the first component carrier based at least in part on a first total number of soft channel bits, a first number associated with hybrid automatic retransmit request processes, and the configured bandwidth of the first component carrier. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198759 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - A mobile station (MS) transmits, to a base station (BS), uplink data on a PUSCH, the PUSCH is assigned by using a PDCCH. The MS receives, from the BS, a radio resource control signal including first information instructing the MS to periodically transmit first reception quality information (RQI), the radio resource control signal including second information for determining an amount of resources for second RQI transmitted on the PUSCH, and third information instructing the MS to transmit the second RQI on the PUSCH; and transmits, to the BS, only the second RQI on the PUSCH in a case that the transmission of the first RQI which is instructed by using the first information and the transmission of the second RQI which is instructed by using the third information would occur at the same time, wherein the amount of resources for the second RQI is determined based on the second information. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198760 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING INFORMATIONAL DATA - A method for transferring informational data in a passenger transportation device is provided. The passenger transportation device, comprises an informational system having output units, on which information, is output to the passengers. In the passenger transportation device, by means of a masking signal, the establishment of a connection between mobile terminals located in the passenger transportation device and radio communication systems outside of the passenger transportation device is suppressed and/or diverted to a radio communication system located in the passenger transportation device. Additionally, the masking signal is encoded and modulated by a control unit so that informational data (ID) are transferred from the informational system to the output units with the aid of the masking signal and then output. The masking signal is used for wireless transmission of informational data, in addition to a function of the signal as an interference signal to suppress communication with external radio communications systems. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198761 | Resource Reconfiguration for Up-Link Transmission - A solution for communicating about change in up-link transmission resources of a terminal device is provided. According to this solution, a terminal device is provided with a plurality of up-link transmission resource configurations and a plurality of different up-link request resources including at least a first resource and a second resource. The first resource may be used for a default use purpose of the request resource, while the second resource may be used in connection with changing the up-link transmission resources of the terminal device. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198762 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMISSION OF A USER EQUIPMENT OVER A PLURALITY OF SECONDARY CELLS IN A GROUP OF SECONDARY CELLS - The invention proposes a method, in a carrier aggregation transmission-based radio communication network, of controlling uplink transmission of a user equipment over a plurality of secondary cells in a group of secondary cells, the user equipment being configured with a group of primary cells and at least one group of secondary cells, and the group of secondary cells belonging to the at least one group of secondary cells, wherein in the event that the group of primary cells and the at least one group of secondary cells each is configured with a time alignment timer, the method comprises the steps of: terminating the uplink transmission of the user equipment over at least one activated secondary cell in the group of secondary cells when the time alignment timer of the group of primary cells expires; in the event that the group of primary cells and the at least one group of secondary cells are configured with a common time alignment timer, the method comprises the steps of: determining whether a time alignment value of the group of secondary cells is valid when the time alignment timer is in operation; and if not, terminating the uplink transmission of the user equipment over the at least one activated secondary cell in the group of secondary cells and transmitting a notification message to a base station. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198763 | Method and Apparatus for Reference Signal Transmission and Reception - In one aspect, the teachings herein disclose methods and apparatuses for improved reference signal reception in a wireless device configured for operation in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, the network provides assistance information that indicates a received timing or frequency offset of a second reference signal relative to a first reference signal that is transmitted from a first antenna port. The second reference signal is transmitted by the wireless communication network from a second antenna port that is quasi co-located with the first antenna port with respect to timing, frequency and/or delay spread, and the wireless device is configured to use the assistance information to configure its receiver timing and/or frequency offset for reception of the second reference signal. Such operation reduces the “search” space in time and/or frequency needed at the wireless device, thereby improving and simplifying reception of the second reference signal. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198764 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A DISCOVERY SIGNAL IN A DEVICE-TO-DEVICE OR NETWORK COMMUNICATION - The techniques introduced here provide for device discovery of a greater number of mobile devices in a mobile network by increasing the multiplexing capacity of the system. The techniques may be applied to device-to-device communication networks and small cells using low power nodes (e.g., pico and femto eNodeB in a | 2014-07-17 |
20140198765 | Method and Apparatus for Multi-Radio Coexistence on Adjacent Frequency Bands - Various methods for controlling an aggressor user equipment (UE) can use two transmission power control loops to mitigate UE-to-UE adjacent carrier frequency band interference to a geographically proximal victim UE. The aggressor UE can select between different transmission power parameters based on two (or more) power values. The usage of any particular power value depends on the time period of the transmission. For example, if a proximal victim UE is scheduled to receive when the aggressor UE is scheduled to transmit, a lower power value may be selected as instructed by a co-scheduler or determined by the aggressor UE. The aggressor UE can also send dual power headroom reports to its serving base station based on the two power values. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198766 | Methods and Nodes for Coordinating Uplink Transmissions in a Wireless Communication Network - Methods and nodes for coordinating uplink transmissions in a victim cell and in an aggressor cell. The uplink transmissions in the aggressor cell potentially cause interference at a victim radio node receiving or measuring uplink signals transmitted in the victim cell. A coordinating node obtains ( | 2014-07-17 |
20140198767 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILITY OPTIMIZATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - Methods, systems, and devices for mobility optimization in a heterogeneous network are disclosed herein. A base station includes an anchor module, a context information module, and a transmission point module. The anchor module configures the base station as a virtual anchor cell for a plurality of small cells. The context information module is configured to maintain context information for user equipment (UE). The context information for the UE is maintained by the context information module while any small cell of the plurality of small cells is configured as a TP for the UE. The transmission point (TP) change module is configured to send at least a portion of the context information to a small cell configured as the TP for the UE. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198768 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING CONNECTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for switching a connection in a wireless communication system is provided. A source cell decides radio resource control (RRC) connection switching to a target cell, transmits an aggregated user equipment (UE) context transfer message to the target cell, and transmits an RRC connection switching message to a UE in coverage of the source cell. The RRC connection switching message includes information on an identity of the target cell and a period during which the UE should finish the RRC connection switching to the target cell. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198769 | E-UTRAN AND HANDOVER - The present invention relates to a method, a base station and an interface for handover in a wireless communication network. Handover is initiated when the signal quality falls below a predetermined value. Random access serves as an uplink procedure to enable the UE to make handover from a first base station (eNodeB) to a suitable second base station (eNodeB). In the present invention, random access parameters are exchanged between second and first base station before said first base station signals said random access parameters to said user equipment. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198770 | NODE DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Anode device includes a receiver, a processor, memory, and a transmitter. The receiver receives a path information packet for notification of path information about a network. The processor generates a participation request packet for requesting a first node device selected between an adjacent node device and a node device communicable through the adjacent node device to participate in a first local cluster. The memory stores a path to each affiliated node device affiliated with the first cluster. The transmitter transmits the participation request packet to the first node device. When a number of affiliated node devices which are affiliated with the first cluster exceeds a threshold, the processor generates a generation request packet for requesting a second node device which is not affiliated with the first cluster to generate a second cluster different from the first cluster. The transmitter transmits the generation request packet to the second node device. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198771 | BASE STATION, HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an HeNB which can cause a mobile station within a coverage of the HeNB to be handed over to another communicable base station. An HeNB communicates with an MME through a relay process by a gateway. The HeNB detects a state of the gateway. The HeNB stops communication with a mobile phone in accordance with the state of the gateway. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198772 | SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL DESIGN FOR WIRELESS DEVICES IN A LONG RANGE EXTENSION MODE - Systems and methods related to a synchronization signal particularly well suited for wireless devices in an extended coverage area of a cell of a cellular communications network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a base station transmits a synchronization signal including multiple repetitions of a basic synchronization block during a coherence time of a downlink channel over which the synchronization signal is transmitted. The multiple repetitions of the basic synchronization block during the coherence time enable coherent combining during detection of the synchronization signal at wireless devices located in the cellular communications network. This coherent combining enables, for example, wireless devices located in an extended coverage area of a cell served by the base station to synchronize to the cell using a shorter synchronization signal than that which would be required if only non-coherent combining were used. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198773 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPECIAL SUBFRAME CONFIGURATION FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - A user equipment (UE) for special subframe configuration for carrier aggregation is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Executable instructions are stored in the memory. The UE transmits and receives based on the special subframe configuration, regardless of a combination of special subframe configurations of the aggregated cells. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198774 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RANGING OF MOBILE TERMINALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for controlling ranging in a wireless communication system. The apparatus according to the present invention comprises a Radio Frequency (RF) module converting RF band signals received via antenna to low-frequency band signal; a Fast Fourier transform (FFT) module converting the low-frequency band signal of time-domain to frequency-domain signal; a derandomizer performing derandomizing the frequency-domain signals by using a random sequence being transmitted by the terminals; a depermutation module combining the frequency-domain signals output from the derandomizer by unit of burst and outputting the combined signal; and a ranging controller controlling periodic ranging of the terminal corresponding to the respective bursts by estimating phase change in the frequency-domain signals of burst unit. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198775 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH A MAPPING SYSTEM ALLOWING NODES TO REGISTER WITH A CONTROLLER - A communication system is provided that includes a controller providing a map of information to enable communication with a plurality of nodes. The information includes identification of two separate time slots, one for random access requests when a node initially contacts a controller and another for exclusively assigned access to transmit messages. The map can further provide information to enable identification of the nodes and assign transmission frequencies. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198776 | METHODS OF TRANSMITTING AND/OR RECEIVING DATA TRANSMISSIONS USING INFORMATION RELATING TO OTHER DATA TRANSMISSIONS AND RELATED NETWORK NODES - A method may be provided to receive communications at a first node operating in a wireless communication network from a second node. The method may include receiving first information from the second node operating in the wireless communication network, wherein the first information is for a first data transmission from the second node to the first node. Second information may be received from the second node, wherein the second information is for a second data transmission to a third node operating in the wireless communication network. The first data transmission may be received at the first node from the second node using the first information for the first data transmission received from the second node and using the second information for the second data transmission received from the second node. Related transmission methods, network nodes, and wireless terminals are also discussed. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198777 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system comprising first and second master stations configured to perform synchronous wireless communication with a slave station via a first network, and a control station configured to be connected to the first and second master stations via a second network, wherein the control station transmits time information used to synchronize times of the first and second master stations to each of the first and second master stations via the second network, wherein one of the first and second master stations performs timing based on the time information from the control station, and wherein the other of the first and second master stations performs the timing based on announcement information announcing the time information transmitted from the one of the first and second master stations via the first network. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198778 | HOPPING MASTER IN WIRELESS CONFERENCE - A first radio has duplex communication with a second radio and a third radio, without using a base station by using a multiple-access protocol system. The first radio is configured to switch back and forth between being a master radio and a slave radio in the multiple-access protocol system. In some embodiments, time-division multiplexing is used as the multiple-access protocol system for the first radio, the second radio, and the third radio to communicate. In some embodiments, the master radio provides timing synchronization and/or assigns transmission slots for radios in the multiple-access protocol system. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198779 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING TIMING OF A FIRST STATION TO TIMING OF A SECOND STATION FOR TRANSMISSION OF DATA IN SEQUENTIAL SLOTS OF A TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS CHANNEL - A first station including a transceiver, a control module, first counters, and a generation module. The transceiver receives information from a second station. The control module generates an adjustment signal based on the information to synchronize the first station to the second station. The first counters, based on the adjustment signal, generate respective count values. The first counters comprise a first counter and second counters. The count value of the first counter is indicative of an amount of time within a first slot of a time division multiple access (TDMA) channel. Each of the count values of the second counters is based on one of the other count values of the first counters. The generation module, in response to the count values of the first counters, generates a control signal. The transceiver, based on the control signal, transmits data in a second time slot on the TDMA channel. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198780 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES TO ENABLE SHORT FRAMES - Generally, embodiments to enable short frames are described herein. Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to reduce the size of a packet by determining a short frame, transmitting the short frame, communicating that the frame is a short frame and interpreting the short frame at the receiving device. Embodiments may determine and transmit and/or receive and interpret short frames. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198781 | METHOD FOR DATA TRANSMISSION AND LOCAL NETWORK ENTITY - The invention relates to a method for data transmission with a local network, the local network comprising a plurality of local network entities for connecting mobile entities to the local network and at least one local network entity for connecting the local network to a data network. The method comprises receiving, by a first local network entity of the local network entities of the local network, a data packet, the network address of the first mobile entity on the basis of the data packet, determining, by the first local network entity on the basis of the network address of the first mobile entity, the second local network entity, via which the first mobile entity is connected to the local network, and forwarding, by the first local network entity, the data comprised by the data packet to the first mobile entity via the second local network entity. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198782 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL - The method includes providing a stream of data to be transmitted, and processing the data by means of channel coding with a time-varying code rate, thereby generating a stream of channel coded data. The method further includes forming succeeding transmission time intervals and distributing the channel coded data on the transmission time intervals, and adjusting a transmission power of the signal to be transmitted by timely positioning a transmission power slope between two succeeding transmission time intervals so that the transmission power slope is contained completely within one transmission time interval of the two transmission time intervals, wherein the one transmission time interval comprises a lower nominal code rate or a lower nominal transmission power than the other one of the two transmission time intervals. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198783 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR SYNCH FRAME TRANSMISSIONS - Logic to “loosely” manage synch frame transmissions in a synch network via the devices synced to the network that implement the logic. Logic may distributedly adjust the frequency of attempting synch frame transmissions without estimating the size of the neighborhood. Logic in devices of a synch network to let each device maintain a Transmission Window (TW). Logic to determine the frequency of attempting synch frame transmissions based upon the TW. Logic to increase TW if the device detects a synch frame transmission. Logic to decrease TW if the device successfully transmits a synch frame. Logic to balance power consumption and discovery timing by adjusting the decrease in TW responsive to a synch transmission in relation to the increase in TW responsive to detection of a synch transmitted by another device. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198784 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD - A wireless transmission device includes a wireless reception unit which receives and demodulates a wireless frame in which a local area network (LAN) signal including a timing packet and an error detection code are multiplexed and converted into a high-frequency wireless output signal from a wireless transmission path, separates the LAN signal from the demodulated wireless frame, and calculates a wireless frame error rate by detecting a signal error of the wireless frame from the error detection code within the wireless frame, and a holdover switching unit which switches an operation mode from a timing reproduction mode in which a clock and a timing pulse are output based on a cycle and a phase reproduced from a timing packet included in the LAN signal to a holdover mode in which a clock and a timing pulse are output based on a cycle and a phase saved at a normal time when the wireless frame error rate calculated by the wireless reception unit is greater than a first threshold value. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198785 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NEW COMMUNICATION SERVICES OVER EXISTING WIRING - The invention provides apparatus for providing a next-generation communication system over existing wiring. In one form the apparatus includes an input to receive broadband signals carrying next-generation communication data, a processor to extract the next-generation communication data from the broadband signals and a converter to convert the next-generation communication data into analogue telephone signals. The apparatus is arranged to output the analogue telephone signals at the input of the apparatus. Also described is a related method of providing a next-generation communication system over existing wiring. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198786 | MANAGING NETWORK BANDWIDTH - A system for using one or more via sites to manage network bandwidth, according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a first call manager at a source site receiving an offer message to connect a call. The offer message includes an endpoint media settings list. The first call manager determines a first filtered media preferences list based on a source media settings list and the endpoint media settings list. The first call manager and transmits an invite message to a second call manager at a first via site. The invite message includes the first filtered media preferences list. The first call manager receives from the second call manager a call settings list that includes a description of the call settings negotiated between the source site, the first via site and a destination site. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198787 | FORCED HOLD CALL HANDLING IN A VOP ENVIRONMENT - The present invention provides a technique for providing a forced hold service such as is used for an emergency services call, which is supported at least in part over a packet network. The forced hold service acts to effectively hold a connection for the call with a called party, even when the caller takes an action that would normally end a call, such as going on hook, pressing end, or the like. When the caller takes an action that would normally end the call, the forced hold service allows the caller to automatically reconnect to the emergency services provider over the held connection upon going offhook, pressing send, or the like. Alternatively, the emergency services provider can effectively re-engage the call wherein the caller is reconnected over the held connection upon going offhook, pressing send, or the like. | 2014-07-17 |
20140198788 | System and Method for Utilizing a Unique Identifier while Registering a Device in a Network - An information handling system includes a server having a management system module. The management system module broadcasts an address resolution protocol request including a unique identifier in the information handling system. The management system module also receives multiple address resolution protocol responses to the address resolution protocol request. Each of the multiple address resolution protocol responses includes a different media access control address associated with the unique identifier. The management system module also creates a unique identifier table correlating each of the media access control addresses with the unique identifier. | 2014-07-17 |