32nd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 30 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100202303 | RANGING METHOD FOR MEASURING DISTANCE BETWEEN A CENTRAL NODE AND AN EQUIPMENT NODE IN A BEACON WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK - A ranging method is described for measuring distance between a central node and an equipment node in a beacon wireless personal area network. At the beginning stage, the central node calculates the parameters needed in the ranging operation and sends these parameters to the equipment nodes by beacon frames. Equipment nodes, in turn, send ranging frames at time slots assigned thereto according to the information received in the beacon frames. The central node calculates beacon frame flight time by recording the sending time and the arrival time of the ranging frame, and then calculates the distance between the central node and the equipment node. For nodes failing in the ranging procedure, the ranging parameters are changed according to failing reasons and the above procedure is repeated until a ranging result is received without failure. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202304 | SIGNAL QUALITY MEASUREMENT IN A TIME DIVISION DUPLEX SYSTEM - The invention discloses a method ( | 2010-08-12 |
20100202305 | FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM SHARING - Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to one example embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a first wireless node in a first wireless network, a request from a second wireless node in a second wireless network to borrow spectral resources from the first wireless network. The method may further include determining a cost of granting the request, the cost being based at least in part on a cost to a lending cell within the first wireless network from which the spectral resources will be borrowed and a cost to neighboring cells of the lending cell. The method may further include lending the spectral resources to the second wireless node based at least in part on the determined cost of granting the request. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202306 | Including in the Uplink Grant an Indication of Specific Amount of CQI to be Reported - The present invention relates to a method, user equipment and a base station adapted to handle channel state feedback reports in a more flexible way. More specifically, a channel state feedback procedure is provided which utilizes the resources available for transmission of channel state feedback more efficiently. This is achieved by including uplink grant availability into the channel state feedback reporting triggers used for determining when and how to send channel state feedback from a UE, i.e. a channel state feedback reporting request may be sent by a base station in an uplink grant to a UE comprising an indication of an expected amount of information to be returned. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202307 | METHOD OF MEASURING CELL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method includes receiving priority information on priority for different frequency or a Radio Access Technology (RAT), measuring a serving cell periodically, measuring different frequency or RAT with higher priority than the serving cell, and suspending the measurement of different frequency or RAT with the higher priority during a certain time period when a measurement result of the different frequency or RAT with higher priority is lower than a reference value. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202308 | SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS FOR COOPERATIVE BEAMFORMING - Certain aspects of the present disclosure support techniques for cooperative beamforming based on inter-cell coordination. Signaling design allows coordinated downlink transmissions with reduced inter-cell interference. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202309 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - A transmission apparatus is provided, including a combination determination unit configured to determine combinations of data packets so that when a data packet in a first frame is missed in transmission, a recover packet (FEC packet) for recovering the missing data packet is generated based on data packets in the first frame and data packets in a second frame, and an error correction coding unit configured to generate a recover packet based on the determination made by the combination determination unit. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202310 | TRANSMISSION BAND DETERMINATION METHOD FOR BANDWIDTH AGGREGATION SYSTEM - A bandwidth aggregation system for providing wideband communication services by aggregating multiple bandwidths and a transmission band determination method for the bandwidth aggregation system are disclosed. T bandwidth determination method includes computing weights of the multiple bandwidths based on resource allocation distributions of the individual bandwidths, and selecting one of the multiple bandwidths for establishing a connection between a base station and a mobile station based on the weights of the multiple bandwidths. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202311 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CHANNEL STATE REPORTING - An approach is provided for optimizing the timing scheme for channel state reporting. A platform determines an offset value for each of a plurality of user equipment. The offset value relates to timing between a channel state measurement point and a corresponding point for reporting of the channel state measurement. The platform further initiates signaling of the offset values to the respective user equipment. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202312 | QUALITY OF SERVICE ROUTING ARCHITECTURE - A quality of service routing architecture is provided which includes a network router configured to route network data traffic. The architecture may further include a routing communication protocol for to sending router control information from the network router to other network routers, the routing communication protocol having a quality of service level attribute. There may be a routing communication protocol decoding module on the network router. The routing communication protocol decoding module may identify incoming routing control communications and determine the quality of service level attribute of the incoming routing control communications. The network router can also include a quality of service forwarding module for determining a next hop router value based on the quality of service level attribute and forwarding data according to the next hop value determination. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202313 | REMOTE UNIT FOR PROVIDING SPATIAL PROCESSING - Methods and apparatus implementing spatial processing in a remote unit. In general, in one aspect, a remote unit in accordance with the invention includes a spatial processing unit to process signals received by a plurality of antennas. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202314 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENSURING COMPATIBILITY ON A HIGH PERFORMANCE SERIAL BUS - A data communications system is disclosed having at least one Legacy cloud coupled to at least one Beta cloud. The system further having at least one BOSS node and at least one border node. A method for ensuring compatibility is disclosed comprising determining when the BOSS node is idle, determining whether the last packet transmitted by any border node was an Alpha format packet if the BOSS node is idle, and unlocking the Legacy cloud if the last packet transmitted by the border node was not an Alpha format packet. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202315 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT USING PERIODIC MEASUREMENTS OF INDICATORS - A beacon signal used in data communications, such as the IEEE 802.11, is provided with data extensions. The data extensions permit additional information to be provided by the beacon signal, thereby reducing the traffic overhead of the network. The data extensions further permit handoffs and handoffs based on offset values. Periodic beacon requests are made during connection between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and an access point (AP) on a WLAN. A Measurement Request field corresponding to a beacon request contains a measurement duration value and channel number for which the request applies. The beacon request permits a scan mode which includes “Active Scan” mode, “Passive Scan” mode and “Beacon Table” mode. In Active Scan mode, the measuring station (STA) transmits a probe request with a broadcast SSID. In Passive Scan mode, the measuring STA passively receives on the specified channel and return a beacon report containing one information element for each STA from which it detects a beacon or probe response. In Beacon Table mode, the measuring STA returns a beacon report containing the current contents of its beacon table without performing additional measurements. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202316 | STEPS ONE AND THREE W-CDMA AND MULTI-MODE SEARCHING - Techniques for efficient searching in asynchronous systems, such as W-CDMA, as well as multi-mode searching, are disclosed. In one aspect, step one and step three search are performed in a single search engine. In another aspect, a search engine is configurable to search the offsets of a slot in step one search, producing sequential hypothesis energies, and peak detecting and sorting those energies. In yet another aspect, the peak detector and sorter are configurable to perform step one searching or step three/multimode searching. Various other aspects of the invention are also presented. These aspects have the benefit of circuit area and search-time efficiency which translate into reduced costs, increased standby time, increased acquisition speed, higher quality signal transmission, increased data throughput, decreased power, and improved overall system capacity. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202317 | POWER CONTROL PROTOCOL FOR HIGHLY VARIABLE DATA RATE REVERSE LINK OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A subscriber unit performs power control of a reverse link by sending heartbeat messages to a base station, permitting the base station to determine a reverse link quality report. Using a reverse link quality report message received from the base station, the subscriber unit calculates its reverse power level and maintains the reverse power level during the standby state. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202318 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING PHYSICAL HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST INDICATOR CHANNEL - A method for allocating a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH) includes allocating a CDM group according to a cyclic prefix type in consideration of a ratio of the numbers of necessary CDM groups according to spreading factors, and allocating a PHICH to the allocated CDM group. The PHICH includes an ACK/NACK signal multiplexed by code division multiplexing (CDM). Therefore, resources for PHICH transmission are efficiently allocated and a transmission structure can be maintained irrespective of a spreading factor. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202319 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING BANDWIDTH-CONSUMING FRAME FLOWS IN A NETWORK - A port monitor monitors network traffic that passes through a port of a switch. Frame flows routed through the switch are counted by hardware frame counting logic, which includes a content-addressable memory (CAM) and counters corresponding to various frame flows. Port monitor software includes logical containers (“buckets”), which are used to record and sort counts of the frame flows from hardware based on activity of the frame flows. Frame flow sorting is based on confidence building algorithms such that the thrashing of frame flows between buckets is reduced. Storage and sorting of the frame flows in software allows the activity level of any number of frame flows associated with the switch to be counted, regardless of hardware limitations on how many frame flows can be counted. This allows a real-time analysis of frame flows and a determination of frame flows that are major users of Fibre Channel bandwidth. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202320 | UTILIZING AD-HOC NETWORK PATHWAY SUPPORT VIA COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A user end-point device may determine a plurality of personal communication devices that are operable to provide ad-hoc network pathway support when communicatively coupled to the user end-point device, and negotiate with the personal communication devices for incentives for facilitating ad-hoc network communication via one or more connections between the devices. Incentives comprise offering pay and/or credit to the personal communication devices. The personal communication devices receive traffic intended for the user end-point device, and the received traffic is stored, buffered, and/or queued in the personal communication devices. Various types of communication are available during ad-hoc network pathway support, comprising multicast and snoop communications. Providing access to, blocking, limiting and/or modifying available/offered services is managed based on incentives and/or availability of resources in the personal communication devices. The user end-point device is operable to reconstruct data from plurality of packets received directly and via the personal communication devices. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202321 | IPv6 ADDRESSING OVER NON-IPv6 SYSTEMS - A system includes an access node having an associated identifier. The access node is configured to insert the identifier into a network connection request. The system includes an IP edge service node connected to the access node and configured to receive the network connection request. The IP edge service node is further configured to store the inserted identifier and to insert the identifier into an Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) address request transmitted according to dynamic host configuration protocol version 6 (DHCPv6) through an established network connection based on the network connection request. The system further includes a server configured to receive the IPv6 address request and assign an IPv6 address based on the IPv6 address request. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202322 | Method for Terminating Connection to Wireless Relay Station - A method for terminating connections to wireless relay stations (RS), applied in a system comprising a wireless communication network set, which comprises a base station (BS) and RSs subordinated to the base station. The method comprises: (a) a wireless RS, RS | 2010-08-12 |
20100202323 | PATH ESTABLISHMENT METHOD, ACCESS NETWORK SWITCHING METHOD, ACCESS NETWORK SWITCHING APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION, AND PROXY ACCESS NETWORK SWITCHING APPARATUS - In a mobile communication system including a mobile station, an access apparatus for performing connection control between the mobile station and an access network, and an access network switching apparatus for switching access networks to communicate with the mobile station, the mobile station establishes a first path to communicate with the access apparatus, when the mobile station enters a coverage area of the access apparatus. The access apparatus establishes a second path to communicate with the access network switching apparatus when the first path is established. The access network switching apparatus switches the access networks when a predetermined condition is satisfied. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202324 | RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSCEIVER FRONT END CIRCUIT WITH MATCHING CIRCUIT VOLTAGE DIVIDER - A front end circuit for coupling an antenna to a radio frequency (RF) transceiver for time domain duplex systems is disclosed. The front end circuit includes an antenna port, a power amplifier, a low noise amplifier, and a matching network. The output of the power amplifier and the input of the low noise amplifier are coupled to the matching network and connected in common to the antenna. The power amplifier and the low noise amplifier are activated and deactivated in sequence corresponding to the transmit and receive modes of the transceiver, and the matching network minimizes the effect that one has on the other at the designated operating frequency. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202325 | DUAL MODE TRANSCEIVER - A circuit is disclosed with an external coupling port for coupling to an external antenna, for example. The circuit has an FDD receive path including a narrowband passband filter. The circuit has a TDD receive path bypassing the narrowband passband filter but relying on a same amplifier. The circuit also has an FDD transmit path including a narrowband passband filter. The circuit has a TDD transmit path bypassing the narrowband passband filter of the FDD transmit path but relying on a same transmit amplifier. A switching configuration allows the circuit to operate in TDD mode, alternating between the TDD receive path and the TDD transmit path and in the FDD mode wherein the FDD transmit and receive paths are simultaneously coupled to the external coupling port. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202326 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A MULTI-PORT DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA - Methods and systems for a multi-port distributed antenna are disclosed and may include configuring one or more amplifiers to communicate signals via one or more ports on a distributed antenna. A characteristic impedance of the distributed antenna at each of the one or more ports may be configured by a location of the one or more ports on the distributed antenna. The amplifiers may be impedance matched to the distributed antenna by coupling each of the amplifiers to the ports based on the characteristic impedance. The amplifiers may include power amplifiers and/or low noise amplifiers. The signals may be time division duplexed. The signals communicated via the ports on the distributed antenna may include RF signals. The distributed antenna may be integrated on a chip with the amplifiers or may be located external to a chip with the amplifiers. The distributed antenna may include a microstrip antenna. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202327 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for communication includes transmitting a first uplink message from a first remote node ( | 2010-08-12 |
20100202328 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE - A communication method and device are applicable in a mobile communication system of LTE Type2 wideband TDD. The method includes transmitting, by a first communication device, to a second communication device a radio frame, where each half-frame of the radio frame including a data timeslot for transmitting data, an uplink special timeslot and a Downlink special timeslot for carrying synchronizing information, and the data timeslot is shorter than an original data timeslot by a first timeslot and/or the uplink special timeslot is shorter than an original uplink special timeslot by a second timeslot; and a part of the first timeslot or the second timeslot or the combination of the first timeslot and the second timeslot, having the length of one orthogonal frequency division multiplex symbol, carries a secondary synchronous channel. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202329 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a communication system for performing communication while switching between full-duplex communication and half-duplex communication, a slave | 2010-08-12 |
20100202330 | MANAGEMENT OF NETWORK LAYER PACKETS IN AN ACCESS NETWORK OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - An access node such as a base station is adapted to communicate with a first transmission network and via a data radio channel with a user node. When a second transmission network is connected to the access node, to manage a network layer packet transmitted between the user node and a node of one of the first and second transmission networks, the access node inspects at least one part of the network layer packet, and switches the inspected network layer packet to a node of one of the first and second transmission network or to the user node. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202331 | CLOSED-LOOP POWER CONTROL IN MULTI-CARRIER HIGH-SPEED UPLINK PACKET ACCESS - A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes applying independent power controls to two or more carriers from a set of high speed packet access signals. The method includes monitoring power across the two or more carriers to determine power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. The method also includes automatically adjusting at least one of the independent power controls in view of the determined power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202332 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD USED FOR THEM - A base station ( | 2010-08-12 |
20100202333 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSMISSION SCHEDULING DURING SLEEP MODE IN WIMAX NETWORKS - Certain embodiments of the present disclosure allow data for a second connection to be exchanged while the second connection is in a low power state that overlaps with a listening interval of a first connection. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202334 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION USING A VARIABLE CONSTRAINT LENGTH CONVOLUTIONAL ENCODER - Systems and methods are provided for selecting transmission parameters used in the transmission of a communication signal in a wireless communications device. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for determining a convolutional code constraint length and/or a modulation type is provided. The method includes obtaining a channel condition for a channel associated with transmission of the communication signal. Based at least in part on the channel condition, the method includes selecting a convolutional code constraint length and/or a modulation type for transmitting the communications signal. In some embodiments, the method also includes selecting a data rate for transmitting the communications signal. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202335 | METHOD FOR MANAGING THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION PACKETS ACROSS A WIRELESS AND ROUTING NODES IMPLEMENTING IT - A wireless network includes permanently powered routing nodes and intermittently operating routing nodes. A polling procedure is used for transferring routing and data information packets from a permanently powered routing node to an intermittently operating routing node. In particular, when the permanently powered routing node has to transmit an information packet to the intermittently operating routing node, it stores the information packet in a memory; it waits until the intermittently operating routing node is able to receive information packets; and then it transmits the information packet to the intermittently operating routing node, and when the intermittently operating routing node has to transmit an information packet to the permanently powered routing node, it transmits immediately the information packet to the permanently powered routing node. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202336 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING MBMS DATA TO SUBSCRIBER STATIONS - A subscriber station may receive a WiMAX connection identifier (CID) scheduling message from a 2G/3G network. The WiMAX CID scheduling message may include scheduling information that indicates when Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) data for the subscriber station will be transmitted from a WiMAX network. The subscriber station may receive the MBMS data from the WiMAX network in accordance with the scheduling information. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202337 | INFORMATION BROADCASTING SYSTEM - Provided is an information broadcasting system for broadcasting information to subscribers of the system. The system includes an information receiving module that is configured to receive information from a monitoring authority, and an information transmitting module that is configured to receive the information from the information receiving module. The transmitting module is also configured to transmit coded data relating to the information to relay stations in at least one pre-selected geographical location to be relayed to subscribed communications devices in said at least one pre-selected geographical location. The coded data is configured to correspond with at least one information component stored on said communications devices such that on receipt of the coded data, the subscribed communications devices generate a notification corresponding to said at least one information component. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202338 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS DEVICE USING THE SAME - A packet receiver receives an instruction, sent from other radio apparatuses, as to the transfer mode used when data signals received from the other radio apparatuses are to be forwarded. A setting unit sets the transfer mode based on the instruction received. The setting unit sets a primary transfer mode or a secondary transfer mode as the transfer mode. The probability of carrying out a transfer by a packet generator and a packet transmitter under the primary transfer mode is defined to be higher than that under the secondary transfer mode. The packet generator and the packet transmitter transfer the data signals received from the other radio apparatuses, according to the transfer modes respectively set. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202339 | MESSAGE BROADCASTING - A system for broadcasting user messages in a wireless network, said system comprising an access point and a plurality of clients, wherein each client comprises: a processing unit for receiving a message input by a user, a generator for generating a beacon frame comprising said input message, and a broadcast means for broadcasting said generated beacon frame; and wherein each access point comprises: a receiver for receiving broadcast beacon frames, and a broadcast means for rebroadcasting said received beacon frames. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202340 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A RESOURCE MATRIX FOR TRANSMITTING MULTICAST BROADCAST SERVICE (MBS) DATA - A base station comprises a controller configured to construct a resource matrix comprising resource units. The controller also is configured to allocate a plurality of resource units within the resource matrix containing resource units that carry Enhanced-Multicast Broadcast Service (E-MBS) data, and to generate at least two indicator values. The at least two indicator values are configured to identify at least some of the plurality of resource units containing E-MBS data within the resource matrix. The base station further comprises a transmitter configured to transmit the E-MBS data placed in the resource matrix and the at least two indicators to a subscriber station. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202341 | EMBEDDED MBMS STATUS INFORMATION REPORTING OF IDLE UE IN SUPPORTING LTE MBMS AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT - A simple and effective mechanism is shown to determine and utilize information about idle user equipment which received MBMS services for purposes of audience monitoring. The implementation can be done by defining a new information element (IE) for a proposed MBMS status information and embedding the new IE into a UE-originated message of a network control signaling procedure, e.g., RRC Connection Request which may be sent at the convenience of the UE when it transitions from the idle state to the active state for its own purposes, i.e., purposes primarily other than audience monitoring. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202342 | AREA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A transmission area is specified flexibly in accordance with the contents of a flow. An area identification number (SHOG) is specified for each interlaced stream of wireless base stations. The same flow is sent at the same timing (or substantially at the same timing) in the interlaced stream specified for the same SHOG. A wireless terminal determines a neighbor sector or a neighbor wireless base station sending the same flow, in accordance with information given from the wireless base stations, and receives and combines the flows. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202343 | Relays in a Multihop Heterogeneous UMTS Wireless Communication System - Aspects relate to a Remote NodeB Relay that appears similar to a NodeB, a Radio Network Controller (RNC), and served mobile devices. Also provided is a Super-Light Router Relay that can provide better performance and QoS to served mobile devices while mitigating modifications to mobile devices, NodeBs, or interfaces between RNC and intermediary NodeBs. Aspects also relate to an Internet Protocol (IP) Relay that requires few, if any, modifications to mobile devices, NodeBs, or interfaces between RNC and intermediary NodeBs. Further, changes to an RNC and/or a core network can be mitigated though utilization of a strategic Relay Gateway. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202344 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE, MOBILE BASE STATION, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - Disclosed is a technique which reduces the packet loss and the band consumption for data transfer when a mobile terminal conducts the handover between a fixed base station and a mobile base station for group movement. According to this technique, when an MH (mobile terminal) | 2010-08-12 |
20100202345 | WIRELESS HOME MESH NETWORK BRIDGING ADAPTOR - A network bridging adaptor and method for enabling nodes to access a multi-tier wireless home mesh network is described. The network bridging adaptor is adapted to operate in an ad hoc network having access restricted to only wireless nodes that are provided from a common entity. According to one embodiment of the invention, the network bridging adaptor comprises a housing; one or more ports positioned along a side of the housing to receive data from an electronic device; a first radio logic unit contained within the housing and adapted to transmit and receive messages in order to detect a presence of the ad hoc network; and a second radio logic unit contained within the housing and adapted to operate as an access point by establishing communications with nodes that are provided by an entity different than the common entity. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202346 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided in some embodiments is a method of wireless inter-vehicle communication. The method includes storing a message packet in a shared memory location of a first communication device. The shared memory location is wirelessly accessible by one or more other communication devices. The method also includes assessing, at a second communication device, whether or not the message packet stored in the shared memory location of the first communication device is intended to be received at the second communication device and assessing, at the second communication device, whether or not to accept the message packet from the shared memory location of the first communication device. Further, the method includes receiving at least a portion of the message packet at the second communication device if it is determined that the message packet should be accepted from the shared memory location of the first communication device. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202347 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACKNOWLEDGING SUCCESSFUL RECEPTION OF A DATA TRANSMISSION FOR MULTI-ACCESS COMPATIBILITY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of wireless communication for acknowledging receipt of a packet is disclosed that includes determining that the packet has been received successfully; and, generating an acknowledgment (ACK) message upon the determination that the packet is received successfully, wherein the ACK message includes a unique identifier associated with a receiver used to receive the packet. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed herein. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202348 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PACKET ACKNOWLEDGMENT - Systems and methods for packet acknowledgement are disclosed. In one embodiment, codewords are redundantly used in order to decrease the total number of bits required for feeding back acknowledgment information or in order to increase the Euclidean space between codewords. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202349 | METHOD FOR USING AN EXTENDING SUPER-FRAME TO TRANSFER DATA IN A SHORT DISTANCE WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK - A method for using an extending super-frame to transfer data in a short distance wireless personal network is provided. Firstly, the super-frame segments, which are in an active period of a network coordinator are continuously copied to a whole inactive period of a current device, and an extending super-frame segments are obtained. Then, information is broadcasted to all general devices. The general device with a quality of service requirement send a service guarantee time slot bandwidth application to the network coordinator, and indicates in the application that the extending super-frame is required. When the application is granted, the super-frame segments, which are in the active period of the current device are copied to the whole inactive period, and the extending super-frame segments are obtained. Then, data is transmitted to the network coordinator with the extending super-frame segments. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202350 | PROXY MOBILE IP SYSTEM, ACCESS GATEWAY AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ORDER OF REGISTRATION NOTIFICATION MESSAGES USED THEREFOR - A proxy mobile IP system comprises: a mobile terminal including a time management/notification unit; the time management/notification unit alerting time information, managed by the mobile terminal itself, to an access gateway at the time of access authentication in proxy mobile IP (Internet Protocol) communication; the access gateway; the access gateway including a time information acquisition/management unit alerting the time information, received from the mobile terminal, to a mobility anchor, at the time of performing proxy mobile IP registration in the proxy mobile IP communication, as the time information received from the mobile terminal is carried on a registration notification message; and the mobility anchor; the mobility anchor including a time information acquisition/management unit alerting the registration notification message including the time information to a proxy mobile IP registration unit responsible for performing proxy mobile IP registration. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202351 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING ADDRESSING BY USER STATIC IP ADDRESS IN LTE SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and relevant apparatuses for supporting addressing by a user static Internet Protocol (IP) address in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. The method includes: when a user attaches to a network, downloading, by a Home Subscriber Server (HSS), user subscription data including a user static IP address and information of a corresponding Access Point Name (APN) to a Mobility Management Entity (MME); sending, by the MME, the user static IP address and the information of the corresponding APN to a Serving Gateway (S-GW) through a Create Default Bearer Request message; sending, by the S-GW, the user static IP address, the information of the corresponding APN and an address of an S-GW serving the user to a Packet Data Network Gateway (P-GW) corresponding to the APN which corresponds to the user static IP address; and establishing, by the P-GW, a default bearer according to the user static IP address, the information of the corresponding APN and the address of the S-GW serving the user. The present invention solves the packet data addressing problem of the user static IP address in a simple manner. The procedure is simple and convenient for use and has better applicability. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202352 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROUTE-OPTIMIZED COMMUNICATION FOR A MOBILE NODE NESTED IN A MOBILE NETWORK - In a future scenario where end to end route optimization protocol such as the Access Router Option protocol and Hierarchical Mobility Management protocol are implemented in the visiting mobile nodes, mobile routers and the mobility anchor points, routing sub-optimality may occur when visiting mobile node that is nested is trying to communicate with the correspondent node. To overcome such routing sub-optimality arising in this heterogeneous protocol scenario, this invention presents a primary mechanism where the registration at the mobility anchor point is such that the local care-of address associated with visiting mobile node and local care-of addresses associated with upstream mobile routers of the visiting mobile node can be obtained using a single access router option protocol type of recursive tracing mechanism. Such tracing is achieved by embedding a different type of address in the access router option based binding registration at the mobility anchor point. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202353 | WIRELESS ACCESS MODULE WITH INTEGRATED ANTENNA - An integrated wireless antenna/transceiver module that has particular application for use on a vehicle. The module includes a plurality of antenna radiating elements integrated on a circuit board where a separate radiating element is typically provided for each wireless application desirable for the particular vehicle. The module further includes a separate transceiver integrated on the circuit board where each transceiver is electrically coupled to a particular radiating element. Each of the transceivers is also electrically coupled to a local area network hub that receives signals from the transceiver, where the hub multiplexes the signals onto a digital interface to be sent to the particular application in the vehicle. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202354 | Frame Structure for Medium Access in Body Area Networks (BAN) - A system and method for providing a variety of medium access and power management methods are disclosed. A defined frame structure allows a hub and a node to use said methods for secured or unsecured communications with each other. Contended access is available during a random access phase. The node uses an alternate doubling of a backoff counter to reduce interference and resolve collisions with other nodes attempting to communicate with the hub in the random access phase. Non-contended access is also available, and the hub may schedule reoccurring or one-time allocation intervals for the node. The hub and the node may also establish polled and posted allocation intervals on an as needed basis. The node manages power usage by being at active mode at times during the beacon period when the node is expected to transmit or receive frames. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202355 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING ROUTE OPTIMIZATION IN 6LoWPAN BASED MANEMO ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided for registering a mobile router in an Internet Protocol version 6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) network. The mobile router detects movement into a wireless network through the reception of a beacon message, and sends a Router Solicitation (RS) message requesting registration in the wireless network to a gateway. The gateway acquires an address of the mobile router from the RS message, stores the acquired address, assigns a new address to be used in the wireless network to the mobile router, and sends a Router Advertisement (RA) message with assigned address information and gateway address information, to the mobile router. The mobile router acquires the assigned address information and the gateway address information from the RA message. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202356 | BACKFIRE DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM (DAS) WITH DELAYED TRANSPORT - A distributed antenna system (DAS) is provided, comprising a host unit and a plurality of remote placed to define a common coverage area. Each of the plurality of remote units is communicatively coupled to the host unit, points at least partially towards the common coverage area, and simulcasts data from the host unit. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202357 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MOBILITY OF A MOBILE NODE IN A MULTI-HOP IP NETWORK AND A NETWORK SYSTEM THEREFOR - A method is provided for supporting mobility of a Mobile Node (MN) in a multi-hop Internet Protocol (IP) network, in which an MN that has moved from a source Personal Area Network (PAN) to a target PAN, sends a Router Solicitation (RS) message with an option for requesting its profile to a gateway of the target PAN, and receives a Router Advertisement (RA) message from the gateway in response to the RS message. The RA message includes a home prefix of the MN as the requested profile. The method supports mobility of MNs, enables unicast communication, and facilitates efficient use of the network. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202358 | PROCESSING APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - The invention discloses an apparatus and transmission method thereof. The apparatus combines a wired network transmission unit with a wireless network transmission unit. A control unit distributes and controls the packet to achieve the purpose of link aggregation and fail-over function. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202359 | RADAR DETECTION AND DYNAMIC FREQUENCY SELECTION - A wireless network device includes a correlation module, an automatic gain control module, and a control module. The correlation module correlates a predetermined portion of a radio frequency (RF) signal and generates a correlation signal based thereon. The automatic gain control (AGC) module generates a gain control signal based on said RF signal. The control module selectively determines whether said RF signal is a radar signal based on said correlation signal and said gain control signal. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202360 | MAC MULTIPLEXING AND TFC SELECTION FOR ENHANCED UPLINK - A method and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for multiplexing data for an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) is disclosed. The WTRU receives at least one serving grant and at least one non-scheduled grant, wherein the at least one serving grant is a grant for scheduled data transmission and the at least one non-scheduled grant is a grant for non-scheduled data transmission. The WTRU determines supported enhanced dedicated channel transport format combinations (E-TFCs). The WTRU determines an enhanced uplink medium access control (MAC-e) protocol data unit (PDU) payload amount. For each logical channel, in order of priority, the WTRU multiplexes data from MAC-d flows associated with each logical channel into a MAC-e PDU, wherein each MAC-d flow is configured as either a scheduled MAC-d flow or a non-scheduled MAC-d flow, wherein on a condition that the MAC-e PDU payload amount is not equal to a supported E-TFC size, reducing the amount of data from a scheduled MAC-d flow to multiplex into the MAC-e PDU, based on a next smaller E-TFC size relative to the MAC-e PDU payload amount. The WTRU selects an E-TFC for transmission of the MAC-e PDU, wherein the selected E-TFC is a smallest E-TFC that supports the MAC-e PDU. The WTRU transmit the MAC-e PDU over the E-DCH processed in accordance with the selected E-TFC. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202361 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING IP MOBILITY WITH HIGH SPEED ACCESS AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - An architecture for network layer mobility support, using always on broadband high speed access and a network-based mobility manager, termed as a network server or gateway is disclosed. The present invention obviates the need of MIP for IP mobility. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202362 | Network-Initiated Session Recovery - Techniques for network-initiated session recovery are described. A relationship is maintained between two identifiers both associated with a session between a first device and an access terminal in a wireless network. The first identifier is associated with the first device, and the second identifier is associated with a second device in communication with the first device. After a breach of the session, communications associated with the session are preserved based on the relationship between the first and second identifiers. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202363 | METHOD OF SCHEDULING FOR ENHANCED DEDICATED CHANNEL (E-DCH) - A method of scheduling for an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) in a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. More specifically, a method of receiving an information indicating an allowable transmit power range from a base station and updating a group of Transport Format Combinations (TFCs) allowed by the base station by selecting the TFCs that can be used within the allowable transmit power range. Furthermore, the method comprises transmitting the E-DCH by at least one TFC selected from the group of TFCs. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202364 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATIONS OF DATA FROM MULTIPLE BASE STATIONS TO A MOBILE STATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method provides for controlling communications from multiple base stations to a mobile station in a communication system. A mobile station transmitter transmits from the mobile station channel quality indicator data of a first base station. The data is covered with Walsh code assigned to the first base station. A base station receiver receives the transmission of the channel quality indicator data of the first base station. The mobile station transmitter punctures the transmission of the channel quality indicator data of the first base station with null channel quality indicator data, and covers the null channel quality data with Walsh code assigned to a second base station of the multiple base stations to indicate a desire to switch a source of transmission of traffic data from the first base station to the second base station. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202365 | MODULAR COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHOD - A modular device for providing wireless services and a network of such devices. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202366 | Method for establishing a connection with a generic access network and associated GAN-enabled mobile station - A method for establishing a connection with a generic access network (GAN) and an associated GAN-enabled mobile station are provided. The method is used in the GAN-enabled mobile station. The method first issues a request message to the generic access network to request for connection establishment, and at the same time starts a timer with a timeout longer than five seconds. Then, the method determines a state of the GAN-enabled mobile station according to a response message corresponding to the request message when the response message is received within the timeout. In this manner, the GAN-enabled mobile station can increase the success rate of connection establishment with the generic access network. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202367 | VELOCITY BASED RANDOM ACCESS SCHEME - A communications method includes establishing two or more access slot groups corresponding to velocity ranges of mobile units, receiving a signal from a mobile unit in an access slot of an access slot group, where the signal includes a sequence, and detecting the sequence using a detection algorithm, where the detection algorithm used is assigned to the access slot group. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202368 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMISSION OF EMERGENCY CALL DATA OVER WIRELESS NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus for providing useful data in association with a high-priority call such as an emergency call. In one embodiment, the data comprises a data (e.g., an MSD or FSD) embedded within one or more real-time protocol packets such as RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) packets, that are interspersed within the voice or user data stream (carried in e.g., RTP packets) of an emergency call. Apparatus and methods are described for transmitting the data portion reliably from the initiating terminal (e.g., an in-vehicle system) to a Public Safety Answering Point CPSAP), by using the same transport connection as the user data. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202369 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program Product Providing Harq-Aware Packet Scheduler - Methods and apparatus operative in a wireless communications system divide a communications resource available for performing information transmission and retransmission operations into a plurality of communication resource units. Channel quality information is used to rank each of the communication resource units in terms of channel quality. The communication resource units are divided into a first group having better channel quality and a second group having worse channel quality. The first group of communication resource units having better channel quality is used to transmit new information to a first group of receiving communication devices. The second group of communication resource units having worse channel quality is used to retransmit information to a second group of receiving communication devices. In such a manner simultaneous scheduling of information transmission and retransmission may be accommodated in a 3GPP LTE OFDM based wireless communications system. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202370 | METHOD FOR SELECTING MODULATION AND CODING SCHEME FOR MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method for selecting modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for multi-antenna systems comprises the steps of: a multi-antenna system transmits signals according to MCSs of single spatial stream and determines an MCS accordingly. Subsequently, the multi-antenna system increases the number of the spatial streams applied, transmits signals according to the corresponding MCSs and determines an MCS accordingly until an optimum MCS is found. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202371 | System and method for efficient enhanced multicast broadcast system (E-MBS) map decoding - A wireless communication network is provided. The network comprising a plurality of base stations capable of wireless communication with a plurality of subscriber stations within a coverage area of the network. At least one of the plurality of base stations comprises a transmitter configured to transmit a downlink frame. The downlink frame comprising a first Enhanced Multicast Broadcast Service (E-MBS) MAP. The first E-MBS MAP comprises a field with an indicator to indicate a next E-MBS MAP to be decoded by a subscriber station. The subscriber station, upon decoding the first E-MBS MAP, refrains from decoding subsequent E-MBS MAPS that precede the next E-MBS MAP to be decoded by the subscriber station in accordance with the indicator. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202372 | Method and apparatus of transmitting feedback message in wireless communication system - A method and apparatus of transmitting a feedback message in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobile station receives information on a first period and a second period from a base station and transmits a first feedback message in every first period or a second feedback message in every second period to the base station over a primary fast feedback channel (PFBCH). The first feedback message comprises a channel quality indicator (CQI) for a subband selected from a plurality of subbands, and the second feedback message comprises a subband index of the selected subband. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202373 | Method and apparatus of transmitting uplink control signal in wireless communication system - A method and apparatus of transmitting an uplink control signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment receives pieces of resource allocation information about a plurality of respective uplink control channels, and transmits the uplink control signal through one of the plurality of uplink control channels. Radio resources sequentially adjacent to each other on a basis of one reference uplink control channel, selected from the plurality of uplink control channels, are allocated to the respective uplink control channels. And the resource allocation information comprises size of the radio resources allocated to each of the plurality of uplink control channels within a resource region in which the plurality of uplink control channels is configured. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202374 | MOBILE NODE, ACCESS GATEWAY, LOCATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND MOBILE PACKET COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - When a mobile station | 2010-08-12 |
20100202375 | Method for Reducing the Control Signaling in Handover Situations - The present invention relates to a method, devices, and a program for using IP multicast addresses for mobile terminals ( | 2010-08-12 |
20100202376 | SCHEDULING OF VOICE OVER IP DATA - Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) transfer is provided over radio links between mobile stations and base stations with a mechanism to schedule initial transmission within voice spurts when semi-persistent allocation of radio resources is employed. The radio link is changed during the voice spurt by allocating different physical resource blocks or by changing transmission parameters with given rescheduling intervals. The scheduling is informed from the base station to involved MS by using data link layer VoIP packet padding bits. The radio link can also be changed per initiative of the MS so that the MS codes a predetermined request into data link layer padding bits of an uplink VoIP packet. The requests from the MS typically involve a change of audio coding mode or informing of the present packet buffer status for VoIP packets at the MS. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202377 | CHANNEL ARRANGEMENT METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE - It is an object to provide a wireless communication base station device that can prevent the decline of a system throughput due to the degradation of a utilization efficiency of a communication resource of a channel for carrying out a frequency diversity transmission when a frequency scheduling transmission and a frequency diversity transmission are concurrently carried out in multiple carrier communication. In the wireless communication base station device, a modulation unit ( | 2010-08-12 |
20100202378 | METHOD OF EMERGENCY SERVICE REQUEST USING CONTROL CHANNEL - A method for performing emergency communication between a mobile station and a base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving allocation of a contention-free-based control channel from a base station, and transmitting an emergency service request message through the contention-free-based control channel. The contention-free-based control channel may be one of a channel quality indicator (CQI) channel and an acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) channel. Since the emergency service request message can be transmitted through a contention-free dedicated code and a dedicated region, a procedure is simplified and power resources of the mobile station can be saved. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202379 | Method and Device for Operating at Least Two Radio Access Technologies and Communication System Comprising Such Device - A method and a device are provided for operating at least a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology, the method including the step of: a hybrid radio frame is provided including elements of the first radio access technology and of the second radio access technology. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202380 | METHOD OF RESTRICTING SCHEDULING REQUEST FOR EFFECTIVE DATA TRANSMISSION - Disclosed is the radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and the terminal, and more particularly, to a method for restricting a use of particular control channel in an Evolved Universal Mobile telecommunications System (E-UMTS) evolved from the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202381 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A NETWORK INFORMATION LIST UPDATING SERIAL NUMBER AND A MOBILE TERMINAL - The present invention discloses a device for processing a network information list updating serial number, which includes: a parsing module configured to parse a network information list updating serial number from a multiplex frame head information of a multiplex frame received by a terminal; a comparing module, connected to the parsing module, and configured to compare the network information list updating serial number parsed by the parsing module with a network information list updating serial number in a network information list cached by the terminal; a determining module, connected to the comparing module, and configured to determine whether to update the network information list according to the comparison result of the comparing module; and a processing module, connected to the determining module, and configured to perform related processing to the network information list updating serial number according to the determination result of the determining module. A mobile terminal is also disclosed in the present invention. By using the present invention, the network information list can be updated in time; therefore the communication efficiency is improved. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202382 | METHODS OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN MOBILE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting and receiving data in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The data transmission method for allowing a transmission end of the mobile communication system to transmit data to at least one reception end via at least one physical channel includes, transmitting a reception indicator, which indicates whether at least one second physical channel is received, via a first physical channel, such that at least one reception end can determine whether the at least one second physical channel is received using the reception indicator, and transmitting data via a third physical channel controlled by the first physical channel. So, a sleeping time for reducing power consumption can be explicitly indicated by the above data communication method, such that power consumption required for transmitting and receiving data can be minimized. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202383 | Method and apparatus for roaming between communications networks - There is provided a method of managing roaming of a Mobile Node in a Visited network. The Mobile Node is associated with a Home network. In the Visited network, a server selects a Gateway node for use by the Mobile Node based on selection criteria. The Gateway node is disposed between the Home network and the Visited network. The server then sends a message to an access node in the Visited network to which the Mobile Node is attached, the message identifying the selected Gateway node. This instructs the Mobile Node to communicate with its Home network via the selected Gateway Node. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202384 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data from a primary station to a secondary station, comprising at the primary station signalling to the secondary station that a data message is to be received, and at the primary station transmitting the data message, wherein the time of transmission of the data message relative to the time of the signalling depends on a state of the secondary station. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202385 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROUTE-OPTIMIZED COMMUNICATION FOR A MOBILE NODE NESTED IN A MOBILE NETWORK - To overcome the routing sub-optimality problem arising in the heterogeneous protocol scenario where end-to-end route optimization protocol such as the Access Router Option protocol and Hierarchical Mobility Management protocol are implemented in the mobile hosts and mobile routers, this invention presents three methods. The first method is such that when visiting mobile node or mobile router wants to perform access router option based route optimization with some node, it will use its local care-of address as its care-of address. The second method is such that when visiting mobile node or mobile router decides to use hierarchical mobility management with some node, it will use regional care-of address as its care-of address. The third method is such that when there is legacy mobility anchor point in architecture, mobile router does not send the mobility anchor point option in its router advertisement. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202386 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND MAPPING METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus wherein the power consumption can be reduced. In this apparatus, a code block dividing part ( | 2010-08-12 |
20100202387 | Communication Control Method and Communication System - There is provided a communication control method comprising the steps of: providing an instruction for determining availability of usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service from a first communication device to a second communication device; providing an instruction for sensing a communication environment from the second communication device to a communication device located nearby; transmitting sensed data obtained by sensing a communication environment from a third communication device located near the second communication device to the second communication device; determining availability of usage of the second communication service based on the sensed data by the second communication device; transmitting a determination result on availability of usage of the second communication service from the second communication device to the first communication device; and permitting usage of the second communication service in accordance with the determination result received from the second communication device by the first communication device. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202388 | OVER-THE-AIR ENHANCEMENT FOR BACKHAUL DYNAMIC INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Techniques for allocation resources in a wireless communications network are provided. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202389 | Indication of Uplink Semi-Persistent Scheduling Explicit Release Using a Downlink Physical Downlink Control Channel - A method is provided for acknowledging a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) uplink resource release. The method comprises receiving an SPS resource release signal over a physical downlink control channel in a Downlink Control Information (DCI) format 1A. The signal includes an indicator that indicates that the signal pertains to at least one of an uplink resource release and a downlink resource release. The method further comprises sending an acknowledgement to confirm the release of the resource. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202390 | MOBILE BROADCAST SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING IRREGULAR INTERVAL BROADCAST SERVICE AND IN-BAND SIGNALING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - An in-band signaling method and apparatus of a mobile broadcast system supporting irregular interval broadcast services is provided for facilitating channel switching of a mobile device. An in-band signaling method for a mobile broadcast system according to the present invention includes generating scheduling information of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) transmitted at irregular intervals, the scheduling information including a next frame index and a first frame flag, inserting the scheduling information into a control information of a current frame and multiplexing broadcast service traffic of the PLPs and the control information. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202391 | ACCESS POINT RESOURCE NEGOTIATION AND ALLOCATION OVER A WIRELESS INTERFACE - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate communicating between access points using the same air interface as for serving wireless devices. Access points can communicate with one another over the air interface to exchange interference management messages related to negotiating and/or allocating resources among the access points or other messages. In addition, access points can prepare served wireless devices for time periods where the access points communicate with disparate access points over the air interface to mitigate confusion or radio link failure detection by the served wireless devices. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202392 | POWER ALLOCATION IN MULTI-CARRIER ENHANCED UPLINK - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate split a common total power resource among a plurality of carriers. A power distribution scheme can be employed jointly across the plurality of carriers to determine an amount of power to allocate to respective carriers. Based upon an amount of power allocated, a packet format can be selected for each carrier based upon the amount of power allocated to the carrier and/or a serving grant associated with the carrier. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202393 | UPLINK CARRIER ALLOCATION - This innovation relates to systems and methods for multiple carrier allocation in wireless communication networks, and more particularly to allocation and/or de-allocation of one or multiple carriers on the uplink to a high-speed uplink packet access user. A radio network controller can allocate uplink carriers to users based on a plurality of criteria, including but not limited to network loading, channel conditions, and so forth. The allocation messages can be transmitted to the user via layer three messages or layer one signaling. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202394 | NON-SCHEDULED GRANTS IN MULTI-CARRIER ENHANCED UPLINK - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate power distribution and data allocation in a multi-carrier wireless communication system. A portion of transmit power can be pre-allocated to an anchor carrier to support non-scheduled data flows. Remaining power is split among all carriers, including the anchor carrier, after pre-allocation. Data from one or more flows, scheduled and non-scheduled, are allocated to the carriers in accordance with priorities associated with the one or more flows. Allocation of data can be performed sequentially starting with a non-anchor carrier. In addition, non-scheduled data flows can be restricted to the anchor carrier. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202395 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING MAP SIZE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for estimating a MAP size in a broadband wireless communication system based on FFR are provided. In the method, one of a plurality of connections is selected according to priority between the connections. An available resource condition and a MAP size for allocation of resources for the selected connection is determined if resources acceptable for a burst are present in a zone including the selected connection. The next connection is selected according to the priority if available resources are present. The determined MAP size is determined as the final estimation value of a MAP size if the available resources are not present. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING RESOURCE ALLOCATION INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system is provided for transmitting/receiving downlink resource allocation information in a communication system. In the system, a base station generates first information including downlink resource allocation information necessary for supporting a first mode supported by the base station, generates second information including length information of the first information, and transmits the first information and the second information. A mobile station notifies the base station of a second mode supported by the mobile station, receives, after the notification, the first information and the second information from the base station, and skips without decoding as much downlink resource allocation information as a length corresponding to the length information without decoding, if the first mode is different from the second mode. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202397 | Wireless Routing Based On Data Packet Classfication - Apparatuses and methods of using multiple radios of a wireless access node of a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes selecting a 4.9 GHz radio exclusively for public safety data packets, selecting other radios for other types of data packets, and selecting other radios for public safety data packets depending upon specification by a network operator. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202398 | SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT RECOVERY OF NODE-B BUFFERED DATA FOLLOWING MAC LAYER RESET - A method and system for the UE and RNC to reduce transmission latency and potentially prevent loss of PDUs upon a MAC layer reset. UE generation of the status PDU is coupled with the MAC layer reset. The RNC generates a message with a MAC reset indication. Following the MAC layer reset all PDUs stored in the UE MAC layer reordering buffers are flushed to RLC entities and then processed by RLC entities prior to the generation of a PDU status report. The PDU status report provides to the RNC the status of all successfully received PDUs. Upon reception of a PDU status report in the RNC, missing PDUs are realized and retransmitted to the UE. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202399 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL (TPC) COMMANDS IN A WIDEBAND CDMA (WCDMA) NETWORK BASED ON A SIGN METRIC - Method and apparatus for processing transmit power control (TPC) commands in a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network based on a sign metric are disclosed and may include calculating a sign metric of a downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH) based on a plurality of TPC bits received via the downlink DPCH. A value of at least one of the plurality of TPC bits may not be known when the at least one of the plurality of TPC bits is received. The sign metric may specify an error associated with the plurality of TPC bits. Transmit power may be adjusted for a signal transmitted via at least one uplink communication channel based on the calculated sign metric. At least one reliability weight value may be calculated for at least a portion of the received TCP bits, based on the calculated sign metric. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202400 | TRANSMISSION WITH COLLISION DETECTION AND MITIGATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Techniques for transmitting signals on shared resources in a manner to detect and/or combat collision are described. In an aspect, a terminal may transmit a signal on a subset of resource elements in a resource block, and at least one null resource element with no signal may be used to detect for collision of the signal. In another aspect, different terminals may simultaneously transmit their signals on different subsets of resource elements in a resource block. These different subsets of resource elements may be pseudo-randomly selected to randomize interference. In one design, a terminal may determine a resource block to use for transmission of a signal, select a subset of the resource elements in the resource block, and transmit the signal on the selected resource elements, e.g., to at least one other terminal for peer-to-peer communication. The signal may be a peer discovery signal, a paging signal, etc. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202401 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF HYBRID BURST MAPPING IN OFDMA SYSTEMS - Provided are a method of adaptively allocating appropriate hybrid bursts according to terminal attributes including terminal position, channel state, and service type in an orthogonal frequency-division multi-access (OFDMA) system, and an upstream-MAP information element (US-MAP IE) structure supporting the method. The method includes dividing an upstream subframe into a plurality of zones depending on the number of OFDMA symbols and allocating bursts of a zone to a terminal according to the terminal attributes. Bursts are formed by allocating slots along a time axis in the upstream subframe, and are formed by allocating slots along a frequency axis in a downstream subframe. | 2010-08-12 |
20100202402 | System And Method For Non-Contention Based Handover Based On Pre-Reserved Target Cell Uplink Allocations In Communication Systems - In accordance with aspects of the present invention, a method, apparatus and system for non-contention based handover based on pre-reserved target cell uplink allocations in communication systems. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a transceiver ( | 2010-08-12 |