38th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 36 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130242785 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOGGING AND REPORTING EVENTS THAT COULD CAUSE ACCESSIBILITY PROBLEMS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus are disclosed for logging and reporting events that could cause accessibility problems in a wireless communication system. The method includes logging, at m UE, in an event log an occurrence of an event where no cell could he found. The method also includes reporting the event log from the UE. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242786 | Network Controlled Throughput for Enhanced Uplink FACH - Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for network control of interference associated with uplink transmissions by user equipments, UEs, operating in a random access state, e.g., the CELL_FACH state. A radio network controller, RNC, can determine, and then transmit, a limitation on uplink transmissions for such UEs, e.g., a maximum transport block size, TBS. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242787 | System and Method for Measurement Report Triggering Configuration for Multiple Point Communication Measurement Set Management - A method embodiment includes configuring, by a network device, a multiple point communication measurement reporting scheme. The multiple point communication measurement reporting scheme includes a multiple point communication measurement set, a List A, a List B, and measurement report triggering events. The measurement report triggering events includes a first event wherein a measurement result of an element in List A becomes better than a threshold, a second event wherein a measurement result of an element in List A becomes better than a measurement result of an element in List B by at least an offset, a third event wherein a measurement result of an element in List B becomes worse than a threshold, and/or a fourth event wherein a measurement result of an element in List B becomes worse than a measurement result of an element in List A by at least an offset. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242788 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN A RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The user equipment comprises a radio transmitter arranged to transmit data packets to a receiver on an uplink channel and a receiver arranged to receive data packets transmitted from a transmitter on a downlink channel. The user equipment comprises circuitry that analyzes the received data packets. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242789 | Signal Measurement on Component Carriers in Wireless Communication Systems - A method in a wireless communication device includes performing measurements of a first serving cell on a first carrier frequency at a first rate, determining whether a signal level of a second serving cell on a second carrier frequency exceeds a threshold, and performing measurements of the first serving cell at a second rate if the signal level of the second serving cell is below the threshold, wherein the second rate is higher than the first rate. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242790 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING ACTIVATION INDICATOR REGARDING COMPONENT CARRIER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for supporting activation/deactivation of serving cells by a base station (eNB) in a wireless communication system provides decreased overhead and decreased power consumption for a user equipment (UE). The method includes configuring M supportable serving cells in the UE, configuring an indicator indicating activation/deactivation of each of the M serving cells, configuring a medium access control (MAC) message which includes a MAC control element (CE) and a logical channel identifier (LCID), the MAC CE including the indicator configured for each of the M serving cells and having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of 8 bits, the LCID indicating that the MAC CE includes the indicator indicating activation/deactivation of each serving cell, and transmitting the configured MAC message to the UE. Accordingly, a control channel or data channel regarding a component carrier is selectively received depending on whether the component carrier is activated. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242791 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE TRANSMISSION POWER OF A BASE STATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling transmission power of the base station in a wireless communication system and includes calculating signal-to-noise ratio of a target component carrier and recovering the signal-to-noise ratio to be equal to or greater than a threshold by increasing a transmission power to a predetermined level and requesting, when the signal-to-noise ratio is less than a predetermined threshold, a neighbor base station to decrease the transmission power. According to the present invention, it is possible to suppress the inter-cell interference and improve channel utilization efficiency, resulting in improvement of the throughput of the wireless communication system. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242792 | MULTIPLE BAND PORTABLE SPECTRUM ANALYZER - A device for detecting RF power information, for use as a stand alone purpose built device, or connectable to an external computing instrument such as a laptop, PDA, or cell phone, or other similarly capable technology. The device scans two or more bands in the wireless frequency and provides output to the user with wireless information about multiple bands of information. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242793 | Method, Device, and System for Selecting Relay Type - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a device, and a system for selecting a relay type. A relay node selects a Un interface frequency band with an optimal signal according to frequency bands supported on a Un interface. The relay node determines a relay type according to the selected Un interface frequency band and a configured Uu interface frequency band and sends indication information to a DeNB. The indication information includes the selected Un interface frequency band and the relay type. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242794 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CONFIGURING ANTENNA MODE FOR UPLINK COMMUNICATION - Methods and devices for configuring transmit antenna mode for a user equipment that can transmit in the uplink using at least two transmit antennas are provided. In accordance with embodiment a transmit antenna mode of the user equipment can be configured in response to a measured transmit antenna imbalance. Methods and devices for configuring transmit antenna mode for a user equipment that can transmit in the uplink using at least two transmit antennas are provided. In accordance with embodiment a transmit antenna mode of the user equipment can be configured in response to a measured transmit antenna imbalance. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242795 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FINGERPRINTING OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method for fingerprinting wireless devices and a method for using a device fingerprint for identifying wireless devices. A monitoring station listens to a channel. For each received frame, the station measures the inter-arrival time from the end of the previously received frame to the end of the present frame, if possible, the station obtains the identity of the sender of the frame. If the sender is known, then the station stores the inter-arrival time in a histogram for the sender; the histogram becomes the fingerprint for the sender. Identification of a device begins by obtaining a number of inter-arrival times for an unknown sender and then matching these to stored fingerprints using a suitable similarity measure. The invention is particularly suitable for IEEE 802.11 and may for example be used to detect so-called MAC spoofing and as an additional layer of an identification protocol. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242796 | Method for reporting measurement capability and UE - The disclosure discloses a method for reporting measurement capability, including: a UE reports the measurement capability of the UE to a base station, wherein the measurement capability is the capability of whether a measurement gap is required for the UE to execute different-frequency and different-system measurement when the UE operates in one frequency band or in a carrier aggregation scenario; and after acquiring the measurement capability of the UE, the base station determines whether to configure a measurement gap for the UE according to the frequency band to which carriers configured to be aggregated for the UE belong, the frequency band to which the carrier frequency for a measurement object of a currently configured measurement task belongs, and the measurement capability of the UE. The disclosure also discloses a UE correspondingly. By the disclosure, the base station is capable of not configuring a measurement gap for the UE if unnecessary, so that the influence of the different-frequency and different-system measurement to the service can be reduced, and possible resource waste caused can be avoided when the UE carries out measurement in the carrier aggregation scenario. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242797 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Upon receipt of sounding signals from a plurality of communication devices including a communication partner device, an evaluation value processing unit calculates an evaluation value indicative of a characteristic of a transmission path based on the sounding signals from the plurality of communication devices. A transmission scheme setting unit sets, based on the evaluation value, adaptive array transmission that achieves both null steering and beamforming or beamforming dedicated transmission as a transmission scheme to the communication partner device. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242798 | APPARATUS FOR DUPLICATING ROUTER IN BUILDING AUTOMATIC CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - There is disclosed a network apparatus connecting BACnet/IP and BACnet/MSTP that are standard networks used in a building automatic control system such as equipments, electricity, lighting control of a building, more particularly, an apparatus for duplicating a router in a building automatic control system that can achieve stability of a network and reduce data transmission failure on a network and enable serial data transmission by controlling the other router to continuously perform a function of a router instead, when one of two routers installed thereof is stopped, and a controlling method thereof. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242799 | DEVICES FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST INFORMATION FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - A User Equipment (UE) for sending Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) information is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines a primary cell (PCell) configuration. The UE also determines a secondary cell (SCell) configuration. The UE further determines whether the PCell configuration specifies uplink (UL) and the SCell configuration specifies downlink (DL) for a subframe or whether the PCell configuration specifies DL and the SCell configuration specifies DL for the subframe. The UE additionally determines a HARQ Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) reporting subframe based on the PCell configuration if the PCell configuration specifies DL and the SCell configuration specifies DL for the subframe. The UE also sends SCell Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) HARQ-ACK information in the HARQ-ACK reporting subframe. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242800 | CLASSIFIER FOR RADIO FREQUENCY FRONT-END (RFFE) DEVICES - A method for classifying radio frequency front-end (RFFE) devices. The method includes enumerating a radio frequency front-end (RFFE) slave device according to at least one classifier bit within the RFFE slave device. The method also includes adjusting an RFFE control interface of an RFFE master device according to slave device configuration information determined from the at least one classifier bit within the RFFE slave device. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242801 | Reverse Engineering Peering At Internet Exchange Points - A technique for examining the relationships of autonomous systems (ASes) participating in an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) utilizes packet tracing servers proximate the IXPs. Where such packet tracing servers cannot be found in the participating ASes, the methodology identifies additional vantage points by looking at a list of ASes that are one hop away from the ASes at the IXP. The choice of one-hop away ASes is made judiciously by picking ones that have better connectivity, based on past-data. Plural-hop ASes may also be used where necessary. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242802 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MANAGE ROUTING IN NETWORKS - Example methods, apparatus and articles to manage routing in networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes identifying a first network element associated with a problematic network element; identifying a first maximum transmission unit of the first network element and a second maximum transmission unit of the problematic network element; determining whether the first and second maximum transmission units are different; and when the first and second maximum transmission units are different, identifying a value of a greater one of the first and second maximum transmission units and configuring the first network element and the problematic network element to each have the identified value. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242803 | IP BASED VIDEOCONFERENCE USING A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVER - In the field of IP telephony, a video conference call is established between a calling node and a called node. Identification information relating to a calling party is transmitted to a connection server, which accesses a database of information relating to one or more parties and links between the parties. It uses the links to determine a set of parties depending on the identity of the calling party. It transmits identification information relating to the set of parties, and receives a selection from a user of a party from said set. It interrogates a database to determine a network address for one of the nodes and initiates a call with one of the nodes. It sends a call-transfer instruction to that node, which instructs the node to cease the call with the connection server and to transfer the call to the other node. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242804 | PATH CALCULATION METHOD - When a path which is a network communication path is calculated, the amount of path calculation is reduced while satisfying the requirement of the path. The network is logically divided into a plurality of calculation domains, and the divided calculation domains are hierarchically managed, and the path attribute of a path within the calculation domain of a lower hierarchical layer is held as a link attribute of an abstract link of a higher hierarchical layer. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242805 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING A GROUP PROFILE IN A WI-FI DIRECT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A Wi-Fi direct communication system and method are used for regenerating a group of an electronic device in the Wi-Fi direct communication system, and an operation mode is determined in information of an obtained profile. When the operation mode is a group owner mode, the electronic device is set to an automatic group owner. At least one device included in the profile information is retrieved, and the retrieved device is invited to the group. When the invitation is completed, the group regeneration is completed. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242806 | GATEWAY APPARATUS, NODE APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A gateway apparatus that connects a multi-hop network of tree structure formed of node apparatuses to other network, comprising a grouping unit that groups, for each representative node apparatus having a direct link to the gateway apparatus in the tree structure, the nodes belonging to a subtree having same representative node as a root, into a node group, an interference group specifying unit that specifies a node group in which packet communication in the node group is subjected to an interference of a degree exceeding a threshold as an interference group, and a slot allocation unit that allocates some one time slot among a plurality of time slots included in a frame to one interference group among a plurality of interference groups, and allocates another time slot among the plurality of time slots to another interference group among the plurality of interference groups. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242807 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE COMMUNICATION CONNECTIONS - Methods and apparatuses to provide communication connections for partners based on communication references assigned to entities maintained by the partners. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving from a partner contact information of an entity; providing the partner with a real-time communication reference usable to at least initiate a request for a communication connection; and in response to receiving a request initiated via the real-time communication reference, providing a real-time communication connection between a requester and the entity using the contact information received from the partner. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242808 | Method, Terminal and Voice Memory for Storing Voice Messages in a Communication Network - After the input of a subscriber (TLN | 2013-09-19 |
20130242809 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL MODULE AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - In a tunable duplexer combining a tunable filter with a canceler, calibration for optimizing passband characteristics and stop band characteristics is accelerated, and the deterioration of performance due to variations is highly accurately compensated. The tunable filter is calibrated to acquire isolation characteristics, and then coarse calibration and fine calibration are performed on the canceler. In coarse calibration, the use band of the tunable filter is set to a suppression band, and the isolation characteristics of the canceler are acquired. An amplitude, a phase, and a bias voltage are adjusted based on a result of comparison with the acquired isolation characteristics of the tunable filter for determining an approximate convergence. Fine calibration is further performed, and the optimum point is determined in a narrow range near the convergence. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242810 | USING A FULL DUPLEX VOICE PROFILE OF A SHORT RANGE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL TO PROVIDE DIGITAL DATA - In an example, a processing device of an electronic device is configured to determine whether to provide digital data (other than encoded voice) of the first electronic device to a resource of a second electronic device. The processing device is configured to, in response to determining to provide the digital data of the first electronic device to the resource, establish a connection with the second electronic device over an external interface of the electronic device using a first full duplex voice profile of a short range communication protocol. The processing device is configured to convert the digital data into audio information and transmit the audio information over the established connection. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242811 | Radio transceiver and control method thereof - In order to reduce deterioration of reception performance even further in a case of simultaneously performing transmission and reception, a transmitting circuit ( | 2013-09-19 |
20130242812 | SUPPORT FOR ASYNCHRONOUS ADAPTATION TO UPLINK AND DOWNLINK TRAFFIC DEMANDS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Technology is discussed to allow transmission points within a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) to adapt to Up Link (UL) and Down Link (DL) traffic demands independently. To mitigate potential interference arising from transmission points scheduled for conflicting UL and DL transmissions, measurements between transmission points can be made to indicate a level of coupling. Based on the various levels of coupling between transmission points, clusters can be formed. Where a high level of coupling is present, transmission points can be included in a common cluster. Where a low level of coupling is present, they can be isolated. Transmission points within the same cluster are scheduled with a common pattern of UL and DL transmissions to avoid interference. Transmission points in different clusters can have different patterns of UL and DL transmission to independently adapt to the relative demands for UL and DL transmissions experienced within these different clusters. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242813 | UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE MAPPING IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SYSTEMS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure describe determining a downlink (DL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARD) timing linkage between a first component carrier and a second component carrier, the first component carrier having a different uplink (UL) and DL configuration than the second component carrier. A derived downlink association set can be determined. A PUCCH resource in a subframe can be identified based on a first downlink association set associated with the first component carrier and the derived downlink association set. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242814 | UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE COLLISION RESOLUTION IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and apparatuses of a wireless communications network include identifying a resource collision between uplink channels for acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signaling of a first component carrier and a second component carrier. An indicator representative of the ACK/NACK signaling of the first component carrier and the second component carrier can be identified. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242815 | UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SYSTEMS - Systems, apparatuses, and methods of a wireless communications network include identifying a first downlink control channel. The possibility of an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) resource collision on a first uplink control channel is determined for a first component carrier and a second uplink control channel for a second carrier component. A second downlink control channel can be identified to avoid the ACK/NACK resource collision. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242816 | HARQ/ACK CODEBOOK SIZE DETERMINATION - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for determining a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) codebook in wireless communication networks. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242817 | UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE MAPPING FOR AN ENHANCED PDCCH IN LTE SYSTEMS - An enhanced physical down link control channel (ePDCCH) for Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems is described that is constructed using enhanced control channel elements (eCCEs). Techniques are also described by which user equipment (UE) may be implicitly allocated uplink resources for transmitting acknowledgements to data received via downlink resources allocated by an ePDCCH. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242818 | Techniques for Timers Associated with Powering Receiver Circuitry at a Wireless Device - Examples are disclosed for timers associated with powering receiver circuitry at a wireless device or user equipment. The examples include separately defining one or more timers based on different time division duplex (TDD) configurations. The different TDD configurations may be used for communications between user equipment and serving cells supported by one or more base stations such as evolved node Bs (eNBs) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network. The defined timers may be used by the user equipment to selectively power receiver circuitry. Other examples are described and claimed. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242819 | SCHEDULING TIMING DESIGN FOR A TDD SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method of transmitting, from an enhanced Node B (eNB), an indication of an uplink/downlink (UL-DL) subframe configuration of a scheduling cell and a scheduled cell in a wireless time-division duplex (TDD) system. Embodiments include identifying the type of the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduling cell and determining a UL-DL subframe configuration to use for UL resource allocation of the scheduled cell. Other embodiments include identifying a reference UL-DL subframe configuration to use for UL resource allocation of the scheduled cell. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242820 | DIGITAL FILTER CONTROL FOR FILTER TRACKING SPEEDUP - A method for speeding up a filter tracking speed includes scaling filter coefficients based at least in part on an uplink/downlink configuration in a time division duplex (TDD) or a multimedia broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) system. The method also includes applying scaled filter coefficients during at least one downlink subframe to control a filter tracking speed. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242821 | Apparatus and Method to Reduce Interference between Frequency-Division Duplex and Time-Division Duplex Signals in a Communication System - An apparatus, method and system to reduce interference between frequency-division duplex and time-division duplex signals in a communication system. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor ( | 2013-09-19 |
20130242822 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING ACK/NACK IN A TDD-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting ACK/NACK in a time division duplex (TDD)-based wireless communication system. A terminal receives zero or more downlink transmission blocks in M downlink subframes from a first serving cell, and determines an ACK/NACK state {HARQ-ACK(1), HARQ-ACK(2), HARQ-ACK(3), HARQ-ACK(4)} for the first serving cell. The terminal determines an ACK/NACK response based on said ACK/NACK state, and transmits the ACK/NACK response in an uplink subframe. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242823 | Sub-Frame Configuration - Transmitting an indication of a default configuration for a sub-frame having a downlink transmission portion and an uplink transmission portion; transmitting an indication of a preferred configuration for said sub-frame; and scheduling transmissions to and/or from a communication device according to said preferred sub-frame configuration. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242824 | METHOD FOR HALF-DUPLEX FDD OPERATION IN LTE FDD NETWORK - A method and apparatus for half-duplex (HD) frequency division duplex (FDD) (HD-FDD) operation are disclosed. The method in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes monitoring a first frequency for all downlink sub-frames for downlink communication except during a cell specific uplink frame, retuning to a second frequency and transmitting a scheduling request (SR) during a WTRU specific period of the cell specific uplink frame, wherein the WTRU specific period is based on a duty cycle, and retuning to the first frequency and receiving an uplink grant in a subsequent sub-frame. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242825 | COMMUNICATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - In an example embodiment, a system may include a base station configured to broadcast a group scheduling message configured to be received at a terminal group that includes a plurality of terminals. The base station may further be configured to receive group transmissions transmitted at the plurality of terminals in a scheduled sequence in response to the group scheduling message. The base station may further be configured to broadcast a group reply in response to receiving the group transmission. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242826 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION IN USER EQUIPMENT FOR POWER SAVINGS - Methods and apparatuses to power off a modem receiver or components of the receiver at a time prior to the end of the frame based on data in the frame being received and properly decoded before the end of the frame. In an aspect, the apparatuses and methods provide power saving in a wireless device, and include receiving data within a frame at a user equipment, determining whether all payload packet data has been correctly decoded prior to an end of the frame, and powering down a receiver component for a portion of a remainder of the frame in response to determining that all payload packet data has been correctly decoded and where a first time period to a next scheduled overhead hit transmission period of a slot in the frame is greater than a second time period corresponding to a warm-up period for the receiver component. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242827 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FACILITATING UPLINK MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT SIGNALING - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for detecting multiple input multiple output communications. A method and apparatus may enable transmission of a first control signal to a communication device. The first control signal may indicate at least one number of data streams that the communication device is allowed to utilize to transmit data. The method and apparatus may perform detection of discontinuous transmission on one or more control channels indicated by the first control signal. The method and apparatus may determine whether the communication device currently communicates on the control channels in response to performing the detection of the discontinuous transmission. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242828 | OPTIMIZED WAKEUP FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Devices, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for optimized wake-up are described. According to some embodiments, page messages are received at a page message receiving sub-slot. The page messages can be received by a communication device's communication interface, processes by a communication device's processor, and stored in a communication device's memory. Upon receiving page messages, a wake-up record is updated. A communication device can enter sleep mode based in part on reception of the page messages. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242829 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALIGNING DOWNLINK DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION PATTERNS IN MULTIFLOW HSDPA - Aspects of this disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for aligning downlink discontinuous reception patterns in multiflow High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA). One aspect of the disclosure provides a method for wireless communications. The method includes: communicatively connecting with a user equipment (UE), a first cell, and a second cell; determining a sub-frame pairing between the first cell and the second cell; and selectively updating the sub-frame pairing based on a timing offset representative of a sub-frame delay between the first cell and the second cell. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242830 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LIMITING TRANSMISSION OF IN-DEVICE COEXISTENCE INDICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus of communicating in a mobile communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives an configuration message including information on an in-device coexistence (IDC) indication from the base station. The UE determines whether or not to transmit an IDC indication message based on the received information on the IDC indication, and transmits the IDC indication message to the base station if it is determined to transmit the IDC indication message based on the received information on the IDC indication. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242831 | Client Initiated Idle Mode Transition - In accordance with some embodiments, a user equipment can initiate connected-to-idle mode transitions. A three way handshake is undertaken before allowing network disconnection. The transition can be made with a reasonable amount of signaling overhead. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242832 | Providing Assistance to a Base Station from User Equipment - In accordance with some embodiments, a user equipment or mobile station may provide assistance to the eNB or base station so that eNB or base station can more effectively provide settings to the user equipment. Because the user equipment may have more in depth knowledge about the conditions that exist at the user equipment, efficiencies may be achieved by providing information to the eNB from which the eNB can better set various settings on the user equipment, including those related to power saving and latency. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242833 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IN-DEVICE COEXISTENCE INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for controlling in-device coexistence interference (IDC) in a wireless communication system are provided. The present invention comprises transmitting IDC indication information including an unusable frequency band that is a frequency band in which performing communication is difficult because of IDC interference to a evolved NodeB (eNB), receiving Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration including IDC Discontinous Reception (DRX) configuration reconfiguring DRX relating the unusable frequency band based on the IDC indication information from the eNB and performing autonomously denial of Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) transmission in the unusable frequency band by reconfiguring DRX based on the IDC DRX configuration. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242834 | Methods for selecting modules for a wireless communication device to achieve optimal performance - The present invention relates to a method and system for adapting a wireless communication system to support a desired functionality of the wireless communication system at an optimized performance and economic benefit. The desired functionality can be determined by defined criteria such as a maximum range of communication with the wireless communication system, quality of a transmission link in the wireless communication system, capacity of the wireless communication system, power consumption of the wireless communication system, protocols supported in the wireless communication system, modulation techniques used in the wireless communication system and processing techniques for combining signals in the wireless communication system. The system can be adapted by varying one or more of the number of components or processing techniques used in the wireless communication system. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242835 | POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR STATION IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM AND STATION THAT SUPPORTS SAME - A power management method of a station in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system and the station supporting the method are provided. The method includes: transmitting to an access point (AP) a power save configuration (PSC) request frame for reporting that the STA intends to transition to a power save (PS) mode; receiving from the AP a PSC response frame in response to the PSC request frame; and after receiving the PSC response frame, entering the PS mode. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242836 | TRANSITIONING FROM MIMO TO SISO TO SAVE POWER - Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory may include computer-executable code that, when executed by the processor, is configured to cause the apparatus to send a message to a node in wireless communication with the apparatus, the message indicating a transition by the apparatus from multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) to single-input single-output (SISO), and transition from wireless MIMO communication with the node to wireless SISO communication with the node after sending the message to the node. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242837 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST PROCESS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an improved method and apparatus for processing an uplink component carrier hybrid automatic repeat request process. The method comprises: receiving an indication that a downlink component carrier is de-activated; stopping receiving a physical hybrid retransmission indicator channel from the de-activated downlink component carrier; and stopping processing an uplink component carrier hybrid automatic repeat request process scheduled by the de-activated downlink component carrier. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242838 | WLAN SCANNING ACCORDING TO CHANNEL ORDER REPRESENTING DECREASING RELATIVE PREVALENCE OF ACCESS POINT DEPLOYMENT - A channel order that is specific to a population of access points is stored in a wireless local area network client device. The order of channels in the channel order represents the decreasing relative prevalence of access point deployment in the population. The wireless local area network client device scans for wireless local area networks according to the channel order. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242839 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Channel Transmission Status - A method and an apparatus for controlling a channel transmission status, can be used in the communication field. The method includes receiving a command for controlling activation of a secondary carrier. Within a preset delay time after the secondary carrier is activated, a channel transmission status corresponding to the secondary carrier to a continuous transmission status can be set. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242840 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN OPERATIONAL CHANNEL IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK, ENERGY-RESTRICTED DEVICE AND PROXY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method for determining an operational channel c_op of a communication network comprising at least two potential proxies for an energy-restricted device to join the network, and a set C of radio channels, wherein an energy-restricted device is to join the network, the method comprising the following steps: —the energy-restricted device transmitting a first beacon message on a first channel succ | 2013-09-19 |
20130242841 | Channel Feedback In OFDM Systems - Methods and apparatus of channel feedback are disclosed. In OFDM systems, the channel is acquired in the frequency domain. A generic multipath model for wireless channels, however, reveals that the time-domain parameters of the channel require much smaller data than the frequency-domain representation of the channel. Means to extracting the time-domain parameters from the frequency-domain channel samples are described for both the continuous time domain and the discrete time domain. Refinements of the time-domain parameters via minimizing a frequency-domain matching error are also described, which further improve the quality of the channel feedback and reduce the feedback overhead. Channel feedback with the time-domain parameters requires only a small fraction of the feedback overhead that is needed by existing channel feedback schemes, and maintains consistently superior performances over wireless channels of various delay spreads, short or long. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242842 | RADIO INTERFACE COMMON RECONFIGURATION - A method of requesting a radio interface common reconfiguration, a base station, a method of performing a radio interface common reconfiguration, user equipment and computer program products are disclosed. The method of requesting a radio interface common reconfiguration to be made by each of a group of user equipment from within a plurality of user equipment being supported by a base station in a multi-carrier wireless communications system comprises the steps of: determining the radio interface common reconfiguration to be made by each of the group of user equipment; encoding the radio interface common reconfiguration in a payload field of an high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) order; encoding, in the HS-SCCH order, an indication associating the HS-SCCH order with the group of user equipment; and transmitting the HS-SCCH order to the plurality of user equipment being supported by the base station. Hence, a single message can be sent to a group of user equipment to cause that group of user equipment to make a common reconfiguration of their radio interface which reduces the amount of time taken to perform the reconfiguration and minimises the amount of resources utilised to effect the reconfiguration. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242843 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND TERMINAL - A wireless communication system including: a terminal, and a base station that forwards a traffic flow to the terminal, wherein the terminal includes a plurality of first wireless interfaces, and a first processor that selects a first wireless interface from among the plurality of first wireless interfaces, the first wireless interface from which to transmit a response packet in response to a multicast packet or broadcast packet, based on first information indicating the operational states of the plurality of first wireless interfaces, and the preferability of link aggregation on the traffic flow that follows the response packet. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242844 | ACCESS POINT COMMUNICATION BASED ON UPLINK TRANSMISSION - Uplink transmissions by an access terminal are used to communicate information from one access point to another access point. For example, a first access point that is serving an access terminal and wishes to communicate certain information to a second access point configures the access terminal to conduct an uplink transmission using a specified physical layer parameter. The specified physical layer parameter is different from the physical layer parameter normally used by the access terminal for uplink transmissions to the first access point. The second access point monitors for uplink transmissions that are based on the specified physical layer parameter. Detection of an uplink transmission (based on the specified physical layer parameter) by the second access point results in the information being conveyed to the second access point. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242845 | Method and Apparatus of Handling MBMS service in a Wireless Communication System - A method of handling a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) service for a communication device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises determining a state of the MBMS service of the communication device when the communication device enters a multicast-broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) with a point-to-multipoint control channel (MCCH) information at a current repetition period; and updating the MCCH information when the state is changed. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242846 | Subcarrier Signal for Synchronization in Macro Network - Disclosed herein are methods and systems that may help a WiMAX base station function without a GPS signal by providing a high-stability reference signal via a subcarrier of a broadcast signal, such as an FM radio signal. An exemplary broadcast station may therefore be configured to phase-lock a subcarrier signal to a GPS signal, and include this subcarrier in its broadcast signal, thereby providing the subcarrier signal for use by a base station as a high-stability reference signal for local-oscillator stabilization at the base station. The broadcast station may further modulate a timing signal onto the subcarrier signal. An exemplary base station may therefore receive the broadcast signal, decode the broadcast signal to acquire the subcarrier signal, and use the subcarrier signal to stabilize its local oscillator, rather than using a GPS signal. The base station may further demodulate the subcarrier to acquire the timing signal, which the base station may use for frame-start synchronization, instead of a GPS signal. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242847 | METHOD OF PROVIDING AN EMERGENCY ALERT SERVICE VIA A MOBILE BROADCASTING AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A device providing an emergency alert service via a mobile broadcasting according to one embodiment of the present invention includes an RS frame encoder configured to generate an RS frame, which is a 2 | 2013-09-19 |
20130242848 | M2M DEVICE AND BASE STATION FOR TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF MULTICAST TRAFFIC AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF MULTICAST TRAFFIC - A method for performing communication of a machine to machine (M2M) device with a base station comprises the steps of receiving a paging message from the base station; and receiving multicast data from the base station on the basis of the paging message, wherein the paging message includes time information indicating the time when the base station transmits the multicast data to the M2M device. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242849 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, WIRELESS RECEPTION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - In a codebook-based closed loop type MIMO, improvement for complexity in a mobile station apparatus, and reduction of amount of overhead needed for notification from the mobile station apparatus should be provided. A wireless transmission apparatus that includes a plurality of transmission antennas, performs precoding on a data signal for each of a plurality of reception apparatuses and spatially multiplexes and transmits the signal after the precoding. The wireless transmission apparatus performs sharing a codebook describing a plurality of linear filters associated with each other is shared with the each reception apparatus, and precoding on the data signal for each reception apparatus, based on a first linear filter that is extracted from the codebook in each reception apparatus based on the association and that is notified from each reception apparatus. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242850 | METHOD FOR ACCELERATING THE ACTIVATION OF A MBMS SERVICE - The invention relates to a method for accelerating the activation of a MBMS service distributed by a service provider to a plurality of user equipments UEs in the form of MBMS data packets, MBMS data packet, comprising each, compressed header information and a payload, characterized by: —creating a specific MBMS service data flow containing only header information, —transmitting said specific MBMS service data flow to the UE separately from said MBMS data packets. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242851 | RANDOM ACCESS PREAMBLE TRANSMISSION - A base station transmits control message(s) to assign each of secondary cells to a cell group in a plurality of cell groups comprising a primary cell group and a secondary cell group. The base the base station transmits a control command to the wireless device. The control command is configurable to cause transmission of a first random access preamble on a secondary cell in the secondary cell group. The control command is unconfigurable to cause transmission of a second random access preamble on any secondary cell in the primary cell group. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242852 | PORTABLE WiFi SIGNAL REPEATER - A portable, battery-powered, wireless WiFi signal repeater is presented. It is placed in very close proximity to a WiFi-enabled device and is capable of improving the. communication link between the device and base station. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242853 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises: a step in which a relay node receives a relay physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) including indication information relating to at least one piece of information about a second antenna port and a second scramble ID from a base station by using information about a first antenna port and a first scramble ID; and a step in which the relay node receives a downlink data channel from the base station, wherein the downlink data channel comprises a first downlink data channel region assigned to a portion of a resource block pair to which the relay physical downlink control channel is assigned, and a second downlink data channel region assigned to the other portion of the resource block pair to which the relay physical downlink control channel is assigned, wherein the first downlink data channel region is received using the first antenna and the first scramble ID, and the second downlink data channel region is received using the indication information. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242854 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTRA-CELL FREQUENCY REUSE IN A RELAY NETWORK - A method for communicating using a wireless communication network is presented. The method may include receiving a channel quality indicator (CQI) from a first UE. The first UE is served by a base station. The CQI characterizes a channel quality between the first UE and the base station when the base station transmits at a high power. A first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) may be determined for when the base station transmits at a low power based on the received CQI. When the spectrum efficiency of the first MCS is equal to or higher than the spectrum efficiency of a pre-determined MCS, first UE may be communicated with using a low power transmission. In some cases, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) downlink control information (DCI) message is transmitted to the first UE to identify a power spectral density (PSD) level. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242855 | METHOD FOR AVOIDING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - According to the disclosure of the present invention, provided is a method for operating a relay node (RN) to avoid an inter-cell interference (ICI) in a wireless access system. The method includes: overhearing the downlink signal transmitted by a plurality of base stations to terminals within the coverage area of each base station in an n | 2013-09-19 |
20130242856 | MOBILITY ACROSS SATELLITE BEAMS USING L2 CONNECTIVITY - Systems and methods for providing mobility across satellite beams, are described. The system includes a first core node, a second core node in communication with the first core node at layer-2 of the OSI model (L2), and a first gateway in communication, at L2, with the first core, the first gateway configured to provide access to a first spot beam at a first location. The system further includes a second gateway in communication, at L2, with the second core node, the second gateway configure to provide access to a second spot beam at a second location, and a mobile device, at the first location, in communication, with the first gateway via the first spot beam, wherein the mobile device is assigned an IP address by the first core node. The mobile device moves from the first location to the second location. Further, the first gateway, in response to the mobile device moving from the first location to the second location, notifies the second gateway, through the first core node and the second core node, that the mobile device is moving to the second location, and transmits the session information to the second gateway, and the second gateway, in response to the notification, maintains connectivity with the mobile device using the IP address. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242857 | RELAY DEVICE AND AUXILIARY RELAY DEVICE - A relay device that relays a signal in which a plurality of signals having respectively different frequencies are multiplexed between a first communication device on a transmission side and a second communication device on a reception side. The relay device includes: a demultiplexing unit; a relay-method decision unit; a signal regeneration unit; and a multiplexing unit. The demultiplexing unit demultiplexes a signal received from the first communication device to a plurality of frequencies. The relay-method decision unit decides which relay method is performed on a signal having been demultiplexed by the demultiplexing unit. The signal regeneration unit performs demodulation, decoding, coding, and modulation on a signal decided to undergo regenerative relay by the relay-method decision unit. The multiplexing unit multiplexes a signal decided to undergo transparent relay by the relay-method decision unit and a signal regenerated by the signal regeneration unit. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242858 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIDEBAND AND SUPER-WIDEBAND TELEPHONY - A gateway includes at least one network interface, at least one analog telephony interface, and a processing unit operable to receive a bandwidth signal over the at least one analog telephony interface from a telephony device and configure an audio bandwidth of a telephony connection for the telephony device over the at least one network interface based on the bandwidth signal. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242859 | Handling Packet Data Convergence Protocol Data Units - Systems, apparatus and methods can be implemented for handling packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data units (PDUs). A described technique includes receiving a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data unit (PDU). It can be determined whether the received PDCP PDU is a duplicate PDCP PDU or that the received PDCP PDU is outside of a reordering window. The received PDCP PDU can be discarded without performing deciphering or header decompression for the received PDCP PDU. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242860 | PHYSICAL LAYER FEEDBACK FOR IN-DEVICE COEXISTENCE INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for transmitting IDC information on a physical uplink channel are provided. A described technique includes identifying, at a user equipment (UE), in-device coexistence (IDC) interference, and transmitting, to a base station, an IDC indicator or selected IDC solution identifying the IDC interference on a physical layer uplink channel. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242861 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED SYNCHRONIZATION IN FEMTOCELL NETWORKS - Aspects disclosed herein relate to facilitating synchronizing frequency and/or timing of a wireless network. In an example, with a femto node configured to receive one or more signals from one or more anchor sources, determine that at least one of the one or more signals are received at least at a threshold signal quality, determine whether a difference in a local frequency and/or a local timing is within a threshold difference to a signal frequency and/or a signal timing determined based on the at least one of the one or more signals, and advertise an anchor status where the difference is within the threshold difference. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EQUALIZING TRANSMISSION DELAY IN A NETWORK - A network device includes an antenna connected to an RF chip and a processor coupled to an Ethernet port, the RF chip, a program memory, a packet buffer memory, a pointer buffer memory, and a program memory. The program memory contains instruction that, when executed by the processor, cause a plurality of packets received by the antenna and the RF chip in a first order to be stored in the packet buffer memory in such order, cause a pointer associated with each one of the plurality of packets to be stored in the pointer buffer memory, cause the pointers stored in the pointer buffer memory to be placed in a second order in accordance with a timestamp that is included with each packet, cause the packets stored in the packet buffer memory to be passed along to the Ethernet port in accordance with the sorted pointer to each packet. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242863 | TRANSMISSION OF MBMS IN AN OFDM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention provides for a method of identifying a cyclic prefix to UEs in an OFDM communication system. The cyclic prefix has a dynamically variable length. The method includes, within an OFDM cell, transmitting MCCH scheduling information in a system information block in an OFDM broadcast channel, and using the MCCH scheduling information to receive the MCCH, wherein the MCCH contains MTCH scheduling information to indicate to the UE which sub-frame carries MTCH. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242864 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A NETWORK OF AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT - In a communications network including aircraft in flight and at least one ground station, which constitute communication nodes of the network, data are transmitted from a source node to a destination node following a non-predetermined path through the network that includes at least one node which is a so-called intermediate aircraft. Before transmitting data from a transmitting node to at least one receiving node, it envisages a step of selecting the receiving node defining a portion of the path without knowledge of the next portion of the path. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242865 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACCESS PROBE ENHANCEMENTS - Methods and wireless communication devices for access procedure enhancement are provided. The wireless communication device for access procedure enhancement includes a transceiver module and a communication protocol module. The transceiver module performs wireless transmissions and receptions. The communication protocol module receives a page message from a base station via the transceiver module, transmits at least one access probe via the transceiver module, and terminates the transmission of the rest of an access probe payload of the at least one access probe according to a termination criterion. Moreover, the access probe is transmitted using a transmission power which is lower than a first threshold, and the access probe is transmitted at a data rate lower than a second threshold. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242866 | METHOD FOR DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION AND BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT USING THE SAME - A method for device to device communication, a control node using the same, and a user equipment using the same has been proposed. For the proposed method, a control node first establishes with a caller device a connection during which an ID of the callee and an establishment cause indicating caller is transmitted to the control node. A control node then informs the call to a callee device by establishing with the callee device a connection during which a D2D ID of the callee and an establishment cause indicating callee is transmitted to the control node. When the control node finds a caller device linked with a caller establishment cause and a D2D ID of the callee, the control node automatically trigger D2D communication between the caller device and the callee device. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242867 | CONTROL OF MACHINE-TO-MACHINE DEVICES - A machine-to-machine device is configured to execute an application and comprises a cellular network interface for wireless communication of data for the application with a cellular network. It has subscription information allowing it to register with more than one cellular network. The device may be registered with one cellular network, selected as having a received signal quality measurement of at least a predetermined level that is based upon a quality of service level defined by the application. It is also provided that the device may identify that a quality measurement for a packet-switched communication link fails to meet a predetermined level. In response, the machine-to-machine device may be deregistered from one cellular network and registered with another cellular network. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242868 | FIRMWARE PROCESSING FOR DOWNLINK F-DPCH - A channel receiver operable to implement fractional dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH) for high-speed data packet access is provided. A received RF signal is processed to produce a set of soft symbol outputs. The receiver detects whether transmit power control (TPC) command bits are present in the set of soft symbol outputs. The TPC command bits are conveyed with the RF signal over non-dedicated pilot bits in the processed baseband signal. When TPC command bits are detected, the set of soft symbol outputs are processed to produce estimated TPC command bits. A TPC quality estimate is generated based on the estimated TPC command bits. A signal-to-interference ratio for the WCDMA dedicated physical channel is adjusted based upon a comparison of the TPC quality estimate with a TPC quality target to effect F-DPCH power control. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242869 | DIRECT GENERATION OF DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS OF TIME-SHIFTED ZADOFF-CHU SEQUENCES - A method includes accepting input values u and v, respectively identifying a u | 2013-09-19 |
20130242870 | MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT ANTENNA DEVICE - A Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna device is adapted for connecting electrically to a radio frequency (RF) circuit for transmitting and receiving RF signals . The MIMO antenna device includes a circuit board, a plurality of antenna units, and a plurality of multiplexer units. The antenna units are disposed on the circuit board proximate to a peripheral edge thereof, are arranged in a loop formation, and are divided into a plurality of groups of the antenna units . Each of the multiplexer units is connected electrically to a respective one of the groups of the antenna units for selecting one of the corresponding antenna units and for connecting electrically the selected one of the corresponding antenna units to the RF circuit, thereby achieving the MIMO technique with the independently and simultaneously operating antenna units. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242871 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VERSATILE MAC MULTIPLEXING IN EVOLVED HSPA - Methods and apparatus for versatile medium access control (MAC) multiplexing in evolved HSPA are disclosed. More particularly, methods for downlink optimization of the enhanced high speed MAC (MAC-ehs) entity and uplink optimization of the MAC-i/is entity are disclosed. Apparatuses for using the optimized downlink and uplink MAC entities are also disclosed. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242872 | MONITORING DEVICE, AND INSTALLATION POSITION MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR SMALL-SIZED BASE STATION - A monitoring device ( | 2013-09-19 |
20130242873 | Remote Transmission System - A virtual broadband transmitting unit includes a stream generator to generate a multiplicity of data streams from an incoming media data stream, and a transmission manager to control the upload of the multiplicity of data streams along a multiplicity of transmission channels to at least one wireless communication network. A virtual broadband receiver includes means to receive a multiplicity of media data streams from a multiplicity of data connections, and an assembly engine to assemble the data streams into a single media stream. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242874 | METHOD FOR DETECTING INTERFERENCE USER, HOME BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT - Detecting interference user and home base station including: pre-configuring the cell type information of a home base station as an open cell type, and broadcasting the cell type information by the home base station in the cell; determining whether user equipment is one belonging to the home base station by the home base station according to the related information transmitted by the user equipment via a random access procedure, wherein the related information includes user information or a random access preamble; and determining by the home base station that the user equipment is an interference user, if the user equipment is not one belonging to the home base station. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242875 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM RANGING OPERATIONS FOR WIRELESS STATIONS - Certain embodiments provide methods and apparatus for adjusting timing in an SDMA system. One method for adjusting the timing of packet transmissions in a wireless communications system, that may be performed by an access point, includes receiving ranging signals from a plurality of wireless network nodes, determining timing adjustment information for adjusting starting timing of packet transmissions from the wireless network nodes based on the ranging signals, and communicating the timing adjustment information to the wireless network nodes. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242876 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECEIVED CHANNEL POWER INDICATOR (RCPI) MEASUREMENT - A received channel power indicator (RCPI) value is used as a measure of the received RF power in the selected channel, measured at the antenna connector. This parameter is a measure by the PHY sublayer of the received RF power in the channel measured over the PLCP preamble and over the entire received frame. RCPI is a monotonically increasing, logarithmic function of the received power level defined in dBm. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242877 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING A NODE IN A MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - The present description relates to a method for notifying at least one node being used from among a plurality of nodes in a multi-node system including the plurality of nodes and a base station for controlling the plurality of nodes, wherein the method comprises a step in which a terminal determines, from the table preemptively shared with the base station, an index for indicating at least one node to be notified; and a step in which the terminal performs communication with the base station using the determined index. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242878 | ROUTER WITH STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A router with a storage device is provided. When a terminal communicates with a first or second communication unit, the terminal may store data into an internal storage device, and read and delete the stored data. When an external storage device is connected to a wired interface unit provided to the router, data stored in the external storage device may be uploaded to be stored into the internal storage device, and the data stored in the internal storage device may be backed up to the external storage device. When the terminal is connected to the wired interface unit, the terminal may store data into the internal storage device, and read and delete the stored data. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242879 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A communication system includes: a plurality of nodes each of which forwards a packet; a terminal device to establish a connection with at least one of the nodes, and to access a network through at least one of the nodes; and a control device to control a packet forwarding route in response to a request which is sent from at least one of the nodes to request for setting the packet forwarding route. The control device includes: a unit that stores a plurality of location information respectively corresponding to the respective nodes; a unit that receives the request sent from at least one of the nodes connected to the terminal device; and a unit that identifies a location of the terminal device based on the location information corresponding to the at least one of the nodes, and controls the packet forwarding route by using the location of the terminal device. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242880 | Aggregation For A New Carrier Type - The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) for aggregation of a new carrier type by configuring PCC (for PCell) and SCC (for SCell) bandwidths to be overlapped or at least partially overlapped and by control signaling, e.g., using PDCCH and/or E-PDCCH, for scheduling of data resources on SCC thus simultaneously serving legacy and non-legacy UEs, e.g., in LTE-A systems. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242881 | EXPLICIT INDICATION OF UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCES IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SYSTEMS - Systems, apparatuses, and methods performed as part of a wireless communications network include determining a downlink (DL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing for a first component carrier and a second component carrier, the first component carrier having a different DL HARQ timing configuration than the second component carrier. A physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource can be identified for the second component carrier. An indicator of the PUCCH resource can be sent to a user equipment. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242882 | Enhanced Common Downlink Control Channels - A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises designating, by a network element, a first set of time-frequency resources for transmitting a first set of downlink control channels for a plurality of UEs, wherein the first set of time-frequency resources is known to the plurality of UEs, and wherein the first set of time-frequency resources varies from a first time interval to a second time interval. The method further comprises mapping, by the network element, a first downlink control channel to the first set of time-frequency resources. The method further comprises transmitting, by the network element, the first downlink control channel together with a downlink data channel in a frequency-division multiplexing manner. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242883 | Uplink Control Channel Resource Allocation For Semi-Persistent Scheduling Of User Equipment - A method includes determining semi-persistent scheduling acknowledge/negative acknowledge (SPS AN) resources; configuring as a first metric for each SPS AN resource a number of user equipments (UEs) for which the SPS AN resource has been configured but is not activated; configuring as a second metric for each SPS AN resource a count of a number of sub-frames in which the SPS AN resource has been activated for a UE; configuring as a third metric for each SPS AN resource a number of UEs for which the resource is configured but some other SPS AN resource is allocated; forming a fourth metric using the first, second and third metrics; selecting N SPS AN resources from the PS AN resources based at least on the fourth metric; and selecting one of the N SPS AN resources based at least on the fourth metric when the UE is activated for SPS operation. | 2013-09-19 |
20130242884 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING INFORMATION TRANSMISSION - A method and apparatus for scheduling data transmission, during error control operation, in which data is scheduled dependent upon satisfying a criterion relating to a characteristic of the error control operation. | 2013-09-19 |