43rd week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 79 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170311281 | CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION DEVICES BY ACTIONS TRIGGERED BY PAGING - Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for controlling communications devices. An access node can generate a message for at least one communication device for transmission at a resource determined at least partly on the basis of a first identifier value assigned to said at least one communication device. The generation comprises including in the message at least one other identifier value, wherein the other identifier values are assigned to communication devices for a purpose of addressing messages to communication devices. The at least one other identifier value is used exclusively for said at least one communication device at said resource and is recognisable to said at least one communication device as instruction to take one or more actions associated with the at least one other identifier value. A communication device can check for a message at the resource, the checking comprising checking in the message for the one or more other identifier values. In response to detecting one or more of said one or more other identifier values, said communication device can take one or more actions associated with said detected one or more of said one or more other identifier values. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311282 | Situationally-Aware Alerts - An electronic device that provides situationally-aware alerts determines to provide an alert output (such as haptic, audio, visual, and so on) via an output device, determines a movement pattern based on one or more signals from one or more sensors indicating information relating at least to movement of the electronic device, and adjusts the alert output to account for the movement pattern. In some implementations, the electronic device may adjust the alert output by delaying the alert output. In other implementations, the electronic device may adjust the alert output by altering the alert output to be discernible despite the movement pattern based on a cadence of the movement pattern. In still other implementations, the electronic device may determine to provide the alert output in response to receiving an incoming communication and may adjust the alert output differently based on a priority associated with the incoming communication. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311283 | Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunication System - There is provided a method for use in a user equipment when the user equipment is in idle mode or any other low activity state, and when the user equipment bandwidth is smaller than the cell transmission bandwidth. The method comprises the steps of determining a paging position of the user equipment in the frequency domain; receiving, from the network, paging information within the user equipment reception bandwidth; and changing, if indicated by the network, the paging position of the user equipment within the cell transmission bandwidth. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311284 | PAGING PROCEDURES FOR USER EQUIPMENTS REQUIRING COVERAGE EXTENSION - The present disclosure relates to a method for paging coverage extension UEs in a cell controlled by a radio base station. At least one CE-specific paging possibility is defined for paging CE-UEs. The CE-UEs in the cell regularly monitor the at least one CE-specific paging possibility. When the radio base station determines to page all the user equipments in the cell, it pages the CE user equipments in the cell at the CE-specific paging possibility, using a coverage extension technique. The disclosure also relates to a method for paging a CE-UE, which performs radio measurements by a CE-capable user equipment to determine whether coverage extension is necessary. The radio base station is informed about whether the CE-capable user equipment needs coverage extension and then pages the CE-UEs applying or not applying a CE technique depending on whether coverage extension is necessary. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311285 | COOPERATIVE GROUP BROADCASTING OF ON-DEMAND SYSTEM INFORMATION - Aspects described herein include receiving, at a base station operating in a wireless communication network, at least one chirp signal including at least one system information block request bitmap that identifies one or more of a plurality of system information blocks corresponding to each of one or more system information requests, identifying the one or more system information requests, generating a message in response to the one or more system information requests, encoding at least the portion of the message based at least in part the at least one system information block request bitmap to define an encoded message; and transmitting, over a broadcast channel, the encoded message in response to the chirp signal. A user equipment may include aspects for transmitting the chirp signal and receiving the encoded message. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311286 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING VARIABLE TRANSPORT BLOCK SIZE WITHOUT ASSOCIATED DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting cell-broadcast data in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station determines a transport block size (TBS) based on an aggregation level, and transmits the cell-broadcast data to a machine-type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) by using the TBS. That is, different TBSs may be determined based on different aggregation levels. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311287 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION VIA A BROADCAST CHANNEL (BCH) AND A DOWNLINK SHARED CHANNEL (DL_SCH) - A method for receiving system information, the method includes receiving, by a mobile terminal, a first block of second system information from a base station, wherein the first block of second system information includes scheduling information related to a plurality of second blocks of second system information; determining, by the mobile terminal, on which resource the plurality of second blocks of second system information is received using the scheduling information; and receiving, by the mobile terminal, the plurality of second blocks of second system information from the base station on the determined resource. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311288 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FOCUSED DATA COMMUNICATIONS - A method and apparatus for focused communication is disclosed. The method includes a base transmitter array in communication with at least one client device at the same frequency. The base transmitter array provides a focused data communication to the client device. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311289 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR UPLINK MULTI-USER TRANSMISSION IN WLAN - Improved uplink multi-user (UL MU) resource allocation is proposed. For the UL MU scheduling information of trigger frame, N (N>1) bits indicate allocated resource unit (RU) in unit of 26-tone RU, 52-tone RU, 106-tone RU, 242-tone RU, 484-tone RU and 996-tone RU in 80 MHz, and indicates the allocated RU in 80+80 MHz. The UL MU scheduling information of a multi-user request-to-send (MU-RTS) frame indicates an allocated channel corresponding to ‘242*M’-tone RU with a same bit pattern as the N bits of the first UL MU scheduling information, wherein ‘M’ is an integer greater than 0. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311290 | System Information Provisioning And Light Weight Connection Signaling - System information can include a basic set of system information and additional system information. A UE can receive the basic set of system information and then later request or receive the additional system information. Messages can use tags which can be used to look up locally stored system information. If a tag does not correspond to any locally stored system information, the system information and an associated tag can then be requested. Messages can be indicative of a cluster identity associated with cells. When the UE goes into a new cell, the cluster identity can be checked to see if system information from a prior call can be reused. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311291 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE - A data transmission method and device are described. The method includes: a first transmission node determines that a resource in a second predefined time window is available according to a detection value obtained by detection on a resource in a first predefined time window, and/or determines that the resource in the second predefined time window is available according to first feedback information or second feedback information from a second transmission node; and the first transmission node transmits data to the second transmission node by using the resource in the second predefined time window. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311292 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING WIRELESS RESOURCES IN BANDWIDTHS OF DIFFERENT SIZES IN WIRELESS LAN - Disclosed are a method and a device for allocating wireless resources in bandwidths of different sizes in a wireless LAN. The method for allocating wireless resources in bandwidths of different sizes in a wireless LAN may comprise steps in which: an AP determines a first resource unit to be allocated to an STA in a first bandwidth; and the AP schedules the first resource unit for the STA, wherein the allocation starting position of the first resource unit allocated in the first bandwidth is configured the same as the allocation starting position of a second resource unit allocated in a second bandwidth, and the allocation starting position of a first guard tone adjacent to the first resource unit may be configured differently from the allocation starting position of a second guard tone adjacent to the second resource unit on the basis of tone shifting. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311293 | METHOD FOR LIMITING USE OF EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE PERFORMED BY USER EQUIPMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND USER EQUIPMENT USING METHOD - The present invention provides a method for the performance of a device-to-device (D2D) operation by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: starting to use an exceptional resource; determining whether a condition for suspending the use of the exceptional resource is satisfied; and when the condition for suspending the use of the exceptional resource is satisfied, suspending the use of the exceptional resource, wherein the condition for suspending the use of the exceptional resource is a suspension condition in an RRC idle state. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311294 | METHOD AND DEVICE BY WHICH MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL TRANSMITS AND RECEIVES DATA IN WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM SUPPORTING MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION - The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting machine type communication (MTC), and according to one embodiment of the present invention, a method by which an MTC terminal transmits a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) in a wireless access system supporting machine type communication (MTC) can comprise the steps of: monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a monitoring section having N number of subframes; receiving at least one PDCCH in the N number of subframes; and transmitting HARQ-ACK corresponding to all subframes included in the monitoring section in the Xth subframe after the end subframe of the monitoring section. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311295 | FIRST AND SECOND NETWORK NODES AND METHODS THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a first network node and a second network node. The first network node comprises: a processor and a transceiver, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a first signal comprising a network information message indicating network information associated with a region (R) or with at least one sub-region (SR) of the region (R); wherein the processor is configured to determine a density of network nodes for operation λ | 2017-10-26 |
20170311296 | Method and Apparatus for Enabling Uplink MIMO - Methods and apparatuses enabling uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are provided. A user equipment (UE) includes a transceiver and a processor operably connected to the transceiver. The transceiver is configured to receive an uplink (UL) grant for an UL transmission. The processor is configured to decode a precoding information field in downlink control information (DCI) associated with the UL grant. The precoding information field includes at least one precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to a plurality of precoders. The transceiver is further configured to precode a data stream according to the precoders indicated by the precoding information field and transmit the precoded data stream on an UL channel. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311297 | HIGH-SPEED CAPTURE AND ANALYSIS OF DOWNLINK DATA IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Certain features relate to optimizing the processing of downlink data in a telecommunications system by capturing a downlink data stream and transferring the downlink data to a memory device in parallel. A processing device can capture a first set of downlink data blocks from a base station and store the first set of downlink data blocks to a memory device. Once a sufficient number of downlink data blocks are written to the memory device, the first set of data blocks can be transferred to a digital signal processor. A second set of data blocks can be captured substantially simultaneous to the first set of data blocks being transferred to the digital signal processor. In additional aspects, the second set of data blocks can be processed by the digital signal processor substantially simultaneous to additional data blocks being captured and stored in the memory device. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311298 | Control Channel Transmission Method and Apparatus - In a system and method of control channel transmission in the communications field, REs, except those used for transmitting a DMRS, are grouped in each physical resource block pair of L physical resource block pairs. The L physical resource block pairs are determined to be used to transmit a control channel into N eREGs. The number of valid REs are calculated except other overheads in each eREG of the N eREGs. Each of the eCCEs are mapped onto M eREGs according to the number of valid REs included in each eREG of the N eREGs of each physical resource block pair. The eCCE is sent in the REs included in the eREG. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311299 | EPDCCH RESOURCE AND QUASI-CO-LOCATION MANAGEMENT IN LTE - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In an aspect, the apparatus may configure at least a first resource set and a second resource set for a control channel. The first and second resource sets may be configured with a common reference signal configuration. The apparatus also configures first rate-matching parameters for the first resource set and second rate-matching parameters for the second resource set. Then, the apparatus transmits the first rate-matching parameters and the second rate-matching parameters and transmits the control channel using the first resource set and the second resource set. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311300 | FRAMING FOR AN ADAPTIVE MODULATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and method for mapping a combined frequency division duplexing (FDD) Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)/Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) downlink subframe for use with half-duplex and full-duplex terminals in a communication system. Embodiments of the downlink subframe vary Forward Error Correction (FEC) types for a given modulation scheme as well as support the implementation of a smart antenna at a base station in the communication system. Embodiments of the system are also used in a TDD communication system to support the implementation of smart antennae. A scheduling algorithm allows TDM and TDMA portions of a downlink to efficiently co-exist in the same downlink subframe and simultaneously support full and half-duplex terminals. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311301 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL CHANNEL BY BEAMFORMING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a control channel by beamforming in a wireless communication system are provided. The transmission method includes determining a plurality of pieces of control information to be transmitted on control channels and determining transmission beams for use in beamforming transmission of the plurality of pieces of control information, mapping at least one piece of beam region information indicating at least one beam region in a control channel region and the plurality of pieces of control information to the at least one beam region in the control channel region, at least one piece of control information corresponding to the same transmission beam being arranged in one beam region, and transmitting the mapped beam region information and the mapped control information by transmission beams corresponding to the beam regions in the control channel region. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311302 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING PACKETS IN SUB-1GHZ FREQUENCY BANDS - A system includes a packet generator, a preamble generator, and a modulator. The packet generator generates a packet including a preamble for transmission via a sub-1 GHz channel. The preamble generator generates the preamble for the packet. The preamble includes a first signal field and a second signal field. The first signal field and the second signal field conform to a Very High Throughput format specified in a wireless networking standard. The modulator modulates both the first signal field and the second signal field of the preamble using the same modulation scheme in response to the packet being a single user packet. The modulator modulates the first signal field and the second signal field of the preamble using different modulation schemes in response to the packet being a multiuser packet. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311303 | METHOD FOR GUARANTEEING OPERATION OF CONTROL MESSAGE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR SAME - Provided is a method for guaranteeing the processing of a control operation in a wireless communication system, and the method is performed by a first machine-to-machine (M2M)/Internet of Things (IoT) device and can comprise the steps of: transmitting, to a third M2M/IoT device, a resource generation request for delivering a control message for directing a control operation of a second M2M/IoT device, wherein the resource generation request includes the contents of the control message, an indicator requesting a processing guarantee of the control operation or an identifier of the resource generation request; receiving a resource generation response to the resource generation request from the third M2M/IoT device; receiving a control result notification including a processing result of the control operation according to the indicator from the third M2M/IoT device, wherein the control result notification includes the identifier of the resource generation request; and checking whether the contents of the control message match the contents of the control result notification. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311304 | NETWORK SERVICE EXPOSURE METHOD AND APPARATUS UTILIZING THE SAME - A machine type communication (MTC) gateway device is operable to provide usage type information to a 3GPP network entity and an application out of the 3GPP network. The disclosed MTC gateway device and base station provide an enhanced monitoring response with an enhanced positioning granularity to a position monitoring request. Exposure of usage type and subscription information associated with a user equipment (UE) device is a first step to virtual network function and network slice related provisioning and dedicated core network related provisioning for the UE device. Providing UE usage type through a network exposure function to a third party application enables the third party application to adapt for the usage type. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311305 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STACKING RECEIVER CHANNELS FOR INCREASED SYSTEM THROUGH-PUT IN AN RF DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A wireless RF data transmission system has at least one base station transmitting control information on a control channel and high speed data on at least one data channel. At least one subscriber station receives the control information and data channels, adjusting a modulation and/or coding of reception of the data in response to the control information. Preferably, the control information is transmitted using a more robust modulation, such as QPSK, than used to transmit the data, which is preferably transmitted using either 16, 64 or 256 QAM. Additionally, timing or header information for the date may be included on the control channel. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311306 | PUCCH RESOURCE ALLOCATION WITH ENHANCED PDCCH - Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and instructions for receiving at a user equipment (UE) of a third generation partnership project (3GPP) network an offset value selected from a plurality of offset values in downlink control information. The UE also receives one or more enhanced control channel elements (eCCEs) of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH). The UE may then determine an allocation of an uplink resource for a transmission on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) based at least in part on the index of a first eCCE and the offset value. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311307 | ELECTRONIC ALIGNMENT USING SIGNATURE EMISSIONS FOR BACKHAUL RADIOS - A backhaul radio is disclosed that includes one or more antenna structures collectively having a plurality of selectable radiation patterns for detecting alignment signals; one or more receivers configured to receive the alignment signals from the one or more antenna structures and provide received signals; one or more processors for processing the received signals to determine signal properties, wherein at least one of the one or more processors are coupled to at least one of the one or more receivers to receive said received signals; and an interface to couple at least one of the one or more processors to an alignment assisting device. The alignment assisting device coordinates between the backhaul radio and the second backhaul radio during the alignment process. The alignment assisting device further provides an indication of an improved alignment adjustment to a user of the alignment assisting device. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311308 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RE-ARRANGEMENT OF GROUP RESOURCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for re-arrangement of a group resource of an M2M device arranged according to a hierarchical tree structure is disclosed in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The method is performed by a first M2M device which owns a first group resource, and the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a second M2M device, a specific request message for the first group resource; determining whether it is necessary to transfer at least one member of the first group resource as a member of a group resource of another M2M device; determining, in order to transfer the at least one member as a member of the group resource of the another M2M device, whether to use a group resource existing in the another M2M device or whether to generate a new group resource in the another M2M device; and if a new group resource is generated in the another M2M device, adding the at least one member as a member of the new group resource, wherein the first group resource is added as a member of the new group resource if the another M2M device is higher than the first M2M device in the hierarchical tree structure, and the new group resource is added as a member of the first group resource if the another M2M device is lower than the first M2M device in the hierarchical tree structure. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311309 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, USER TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication control method comprises: receiving, by a user terminal, from a base station, first information indicating a Device to Device (D2D) frequency available in a D2D discovery procedure for discovering a proximal terminal; and using, by the user terminal, not only the frequency indicated by the first information, but also a frequency not indicated by the first information. The frequency not indicated by the first information is different from the frequency indicated by the first information and is indicated by second information received from another cell different from a cell in which the user terminal exists. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311310 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING UPLINK TRANSMISSION RESOURCE ON BASIS OF BUFFER STATUS INFORMATION IN WIRELESS LAN - Disclosed is a method and device for allocating uplink transmission resources on the basis of buffer status information in a wireless LAN. The method for allocating uplink transmission resources on the basis of buffer status information in a wireless LAN comprises: a step for transmitting, by an AP, a downlink frame containing buffer status report request information to multiple STAs; a step for receiving, by the AP, a plurality of uplink frames on superposed time resources from the multiple STAs, wherein the plurality of uplink frames contain a plurality of pieces of buffer status information of the multiple STAs that are generated on the basis of the buffer status report request information; and a step for determining, by the AP, uplink transmission resources to be allocated to the multiple STAs on the basis of the plurality of pieces of buffer status information. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311311 | Method for CSI Feedback - Embodiments of systems and methods for flexible Channel State Information (CSI) feedback in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, a base station configures a wireless device with a set of CSI-RS resources, dynamically configures a CSI-RS resource from the set of CSI-RS resources for measurement, and receives a CSI report from the wireless device determined from the CSI-RS resource dynamically configured for measurement. In this manner, the base station is enabled to dynamically configure and re-configure the CSI-RS resource(s) for measurement by the wireless device, which in turn provides flexible CSI feedback that is particularly well-suited for embodiments in which the base station transmits beamformed CSI-RS. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311312 | Method and Apparatus for Avoiding In-Device Coexistence Interference with Preferred Frequency Notification - A method, system and device are provided for avoiding in-device coexistence interference between different radio technologies deployed in adjacent bands on the same device by providing preferred frequency solutions for the in-device coexistence system. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311313 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink signal. A method for transmitting an uplink signal at a UE in a wireless communication system includes, when a virtual cell ID for a reference signal for demodulation of a physical uplink channel is provided, generating a sequence of the reference signal on the basis of the virtual cell ID, and transmitting the generated reference signal to an eNB. A group hopping pattern of the reference signal can be determined on the basis of the virtual cell ID. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311314 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention has an object to provide a communication system of improving the communication quality in a case where a plurality of communication devices having different sizes of ranges coexist, in which communication with a terminal device is possible, to thereby improve an entire throughput. In a case where a remote radio head (RRH) is installed in a coverage of a macro cell, an uplink resource transmitted from a user equipment (UE) to the macro cell, that is, an uplink carrier frequency band UL1 of the macro cell in a portion surrounded by a solid line is received not only by the macro cell but also by the RRH. Then, the macro cell combines a reception signal regarding the uplink resource of the macro cell, which has been received by the macro cell, and a reception signal regarding the uplink resource of the macro cell, which has been received by the RRH. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311315 | DIFFERENT NUMEROLOGY FOR SIGNAL TRANSMISSION - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Methods, systems, and devices provide for different tone spacing schemes for different channels. Methods, systems, and devices also provide for different tone spacing schemes for different stages of communication between a UE and a base station. The base station may indicate, to the UE, the tone spacing scheme in a control channel, a synchronization signal, or a reference signal and the tone spacing scheme may be selected by the base station from available tone spacing schemes for communication. Tone spacing schemes may also be referred to as numerologies. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311316 | DISCOVERY REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION AND DECODING AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may monitor for discovery reference signal (DRS) transmissions, physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions, or combinations thereof within a DRS transmission window. The UE may attempt to decode DRS or PDSCH transmissions for a subframe based on detection of DRS transmissions, prioritization of DRS transmissions relative to PDSCH transmissions, locations of subframes within a radio frame, overlapping of the DRS transmission window with a paging opportunity, or any combination thereof. In some cases, one or more radio link monitoring (RLM) parameters may be adjusted based on decoding of PDSCH or DRS transmissions. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311317 | Uplink Transmission in a Wireless Device and Wireless Network - The wireless device receives one or more messages comprising configuration parameters for a logical channel in a plurality of logical channels. The configuration parameters indicate a mapping restriction of the logical channel to one or more radio resource types in a plurality of radio resource types. The wireless device triggers a buffer status report (BSR) transmission when data becomes available for the logical channel with the mapping restriction and when a selected set of one or more logical channels with the same mapping restriction meet a first criteria. The wireless device receives an uplink grant indicating radio resources of a first radio resource type. The wireless device constructs a transport block comprising the BSR. The wireless device transmits the transport block via the radio resources of the first radio resource type. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311318 | ACCESS-CATEGORY-BASED MULTI-USER TRIGGER FRAMES - During operation, an interface circuit in an electronic device may receive, from a second electronic device (such as an access point in a WLAN), an uplink trigger frame that may specify an access category. In response to the uplink trigger frame, the electronic device may first include data associated with the specified access category in one or more frames, and then may transmit the one or more frames to the second electronic device. Moreover, when all the data associated with the specified access category has been transmitted or when there is no data associated with the specified access category, and when there is leftover time in an allocation associated with the uplink trigger frame, the interface circuit may transmit the one or more frames to the second electronic device with additional data associated with another access category that is different from the specified access category. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311319 | COVERAGE ENHANCEMENT FOR TIME DIVISION DUPLEX AND ENHANCED INTERFERENCE MITIGATION AND TRAFFIC ADAPTATION IN LONG TERM EVOLUTION SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are disclosed for use by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) operating in a coverage enhanced (CE) or coverage enhancement mode. The WTRU may receive a first Time Division Duplex (TDD) uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) subframe configuration and may receive a second TDD UL/DL subframe configuration. The WTRU may determine one or more subframes to use for receiving DL repetitions based on the first TDD UL/DL subframe configuration, and one or more subframes to use for transmitting UL repetitions based on the second TDD UL/DL subframe configuration. The WTRU may receive DL repetitions of a DL signal only in the determined one or more subframes for receiving DL repetitions, and may transmit UL repetitions of a UL signal only in the determined one or more subframes for transmitting UL repetitions. The WTRU may receive a TDD transmission using enhanced Interference Mitigation and Traffic Adaptation (eIMTA) capability. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311320 | CONTROL DATA SIGNALING FRAMEWORK FOR LTE-LAA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS EMPLOYING CARRIER AGGREGATION ON UNLICENSED BANDS - There is provided a method comprising controlling receiving, at a node, subframe type configuration information, said subframe type configuration information defining at least one subframe type of a group of subframes to be used in a secondary cell, said secondary cell configured to provide at least one of licensed-assisted access, licensed shared access and co-primary sharing access and using said subframe type configuration information to cause the node to operate in accordance with that configuration in the secondary cell. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311321 | BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT - Techniques for implementing MIMO communication in accordance with reciprocity based precoding are provided. The present disclosure relates to a base station for implementing multi-antenna transmission that includes a communication control unit configured to control multi-antenna transmission with user equipment and a channel state estimation unit configured to estimate a channel state with the user equipment based on an uplink reference signal from the user equipment. The communication control unit causes the user equipment to transmit the uplink reference signal in an uplink shared channel in an uplink subframe. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311322 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AND SCHEDULING PARTIAL SUBFRAME IN WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM SUPPORTING UNLICENSED BAND, AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING SAME - The present invention relates to, in a wireless access system supporting an unlicensed band, methods for configuring and scheduling a partial subframe (pSF) and devices for supporting same. A method for receiving data through a cell (U cell) configured in an unlicensed band in a wireless access system for supporting an unlicensed band comprises the steps of: a terminal receiving control information from a base station through a primary cell (P cell) which is configured in a licensed band; and the terminal receiving, on the basis of the control information, downlink data from the base station through an unlicensed band cell (U cell) which is configured in an unlicensed band, wherein, if cross-carrier scheduling is configured in the terminal, the terminal not anticipating, as the subframe for receiving the downlink data, a partial subframe (pSF) which is transmitted in a state of having the first part of symbol emptied, wherein the pSF is configured to be smaller than one subframe. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311323 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR SEQUENCE REPORTING AND SEQUENCE GENERATION - Disclosed are a sequence report method and a sequence report device for reducing a signaling amount for reporting a Zadoff-Chu sequence or a GCL sequence allocated for a cell. Indexes starting at 1 are correlated to different ZC sequences and are allocated for cells so that the indexes are continuous. When such ZC sequences are reported from BS to UE, a start index indicating the start of the continuous indexes is combined with the number of allocated sequences and they are reported as allocation sequence information by a report channel. The UE and the BS share the correlation between the ZC sequences and the indexes and the UE identifies a usable sequence number according to the correlation and the allocation sequence information reported from the BS. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311324 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN BEAM FORMING-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting a signal by a base station in a beam forming-based communication system is provided. The method includes: transmitting the signal using a transmission beam having at least one of a beam width and a transmission period in reverse proportion to one of a distance between a position of a transmission target region of the transmission beam for transmitting the signal within a service coverage of the base station and the base station and a size or area of the transmission target region. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311325 | STATION (STA), ACCESS POINT (AP) AND METHOD FOR MULTI-BAND CHANNEL BONDING - Embodiments of an access point (AP), station (STA) and method for channel sounding are generally described herein. The AP may contend for a transmission opportunity (TXOP) to obtain access to a bonded channel comprising a primary channel in a first frequency band and a secondary channel in a second frequency band. The AP may transmit a null data packet (NDP) announcement (NDPA) concurrently on the primary and secondary channels. The AP may transmit one or more NDPs concurrently on the primary and secondary channels, which may enable separate sounding measurements for the primary and secondary channels. The AP may decode one or more beamforming feedback (BF) frames that include the sounding measurements for the primary and secondary channels. The sounding measurements may be based on the training symbols of the NDPs. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311326 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AND METHODS - A user terminal configured to perform communication with an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network. The user terminal including a receiver configured to receive signals transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in accordance with a wireless access interface and a transmitter configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment in accordance with the wireless access interface. The user terminal is configured to receive an indication on a downlink of the wireless access interface of one of a plurality of different subcarrier spacing which the communications device should use to transmit or to receive the signals representing the data. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311327 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A wireless communication system includes a first communication device and multiple second communication devices. The first communication device includes a first transmitting unit that transmits control information to instruct a resource in a shared band to the second communication device by using a resource in a dedicated band. Each of the second communication devices includes a determining unit and a second transmitting unit. The determining unit determines whether the resource in the shared band is idle. When the resource in the shared band is idle, the second transmitting unit transmits data by using the resource in the shared band specified in the control information after transmitting a predetermined signal to the shared band. When receiving the predetermined signal from other second communication device, the second transmitting unit transmits data by using the resource in the shared band even when the resource in the shared band is busy. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311328 | CONTROL METHOD OF FREQUENCY BAND SWITCHING AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - In a frequency band switching by Fast Session Transfer (FST), a timeout value (link loss timeout: LLT) is determined based on a change in a communication state, a switching setup sequence including a step of transmitting the determined timeout value to a peer wireless station is performed, and frequency switching to the second frequency band is performed when time of the timeout value elapses from when the switching setup sequence is completed. For example, a large timeout value (LLT=T | 2017-10-26 |
20170311329 | RECONCILING DIFFERENT SPATIAL REUSE MODES - In certain aspects, an apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus comprises an interface configured to receive a packet transmitted by another apparatus using a resource, and a processing system configured to determine whether to reuse the resource for a transmission by the apparatus based on one or more reuse constraints. The interface is further configured to output another packet for transmission using the resource if a determination is made to reuse the resource. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311330 | System and Method for Reducing Exposure of Human to Radio Frequency Radiation - The present invention ( | 2017-10-26 |
20170311331 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING DATA IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT SCHEME - The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method for receiving data includes selecting one of reception schemes, and receiving data based on the selected reception scheme, wherein the reception schemes includes a scheme of determining an integer matrix based on channel values estimated for channels, and decoding symbols received through the channels based on the determined integer matrix, and a scheme of detecting, for each channel, a sum of symbols received from each of the channels during a preset time based on integer matrixes which are determined based on each of the channel values, retransforming the sum of the symbols detected for each channel based on at least one of the integer matrixes, and decoding the retransformed sum of the symbols for each channel. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311332 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING SIGNALS BASED ON INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENT IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a 5G or a pre5G communication system to be provided for supporting a higher data transmission rate after 4G communication systems, such as LTE. According to embodiments of the present invention, a method and an apparatus for receiving signals in a mobile communication system may be provided, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a second signal including an interference signal of a first signal transmitted by a first terminal and a first signal transmitted by a second terminal; obtaining information related to the interference signal; removing the interference signal on the basis of the obtained information; and decoding the first signal after removing the interference signal from the second signal, wherein the information related to the interference signal includes resource block allocation information with respect to the interference signal and/or a reference signal for demodulating the interference signal. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311333 | CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - This invention relates to a method in a cellular communications network having a plurality of base stations, and to a base station for said cellular communications network, wherein each base station is configured to use a frequency band of one of a hierarchy of spectrum levels, the method comprising: a first base station using a frequency band of a first spectrum level of the hierarchy of spectrum levels; determining an interference level in the network; determining whether the interference level indicates that the first base station's performance is sub-optimal; and, if so, the first base station reconfiguring to use a frequency band of a second spectrum level of the hierarchy of spectrum levels, the second spectrum level having a different number of frequency bands than the first spectrum level. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311334 | METHOD, NETWORK NODE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO, AND METHOD, NETWORK NODE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION OF DELAY SENSITIVE DATA IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Disclosed is a network node and a method performed by a network node in a wireless communication network for determining signal to noise ratio of a signal received at a receiver from a first mobile station, which signal may include both noise and interference. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of measured noise and interference power values, IN values, of signals received at the receiver in one or more frequency sub-bands, determining IN for a lowest X percentile of the measured IN values, and applying the determined IN for the lowest X percentile as a measure of the noise. The method further comprises obtaining a measured signal strength value for a signal received at the receiver from the first mobile station, and determining SNR for the signal from the first mobile station by applying the determined noise measure. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311335 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system of the present invention includes a first base station ( | 2017-10-26 |
20170311336 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CHANNEL ALLOCATION - An exemplary system and method for dynamic channel allocation in an LMR system includes using one or more preference indicators to dynamically determine a channel allocation priority to be used for channel allocation when channel allocation requests are received. The preference indicators may include a channel failure indicator (e.g. a channel health indicator based on repeater failures), a channel priority indicator, a radio frequency interference indicator, a high reflected power indicator, an excessive current drain indicator, a loss of backbone communications indicator, and a channel usage indicator. If more than one preference indicator is used, the channel priority ranking may be determined using any of a variety of weightings and prioritizations of the various preference indicators to dynamically generate the channel allocation priority. The dynamic channel allocation system may include one or more site controllers, servers, and/or one or more processors configured to implement the method of dynamic channel allocation. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311337 | Data Processing Implementation Method, Base Station and User Equipment - Disclosed are a method for implementing data processing, a base station and a user equipment. The method includes: a base station determining to perform data transmission using an unlicensed carrier and notifying a UE of scheduling information; the UE determining that the base station pre-schedules the UE; the UE performing modulation coding according to the scheduling meanwhile the base station preempts an unlicensed carrier resource; and the UE sending data on which modulation coding has been performed on the preempted unlicensed carrier resource. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311338 | RADIO RELAY STATION, RADIO BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In order to achieve a more efficient data transmission, an RN | 2017-10-26 |
20170311339 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed are a data transmission method and apparatus. In embodiments of this application, a virtual cell comprising multiple cells can be configured, and data transmission can be implemented by time-division multiplexing among the cells, so that transmission carriers for a terminal service can be flexibly adjusted. Particularly, under the condition that transmission is deployed on an unlicensed spectrum resource, multiple cells operating on an unlicensed frequency band are aggregated into one virtual cell, and data transmission is implemented by time-division multiplexing among the cells; therefore, the interference in different frequency domains can be reduced and the system transmission efficiency can be improved. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311340 | Message Transmission Method and Apparatus - A message transmission method for a base station whereby after obtaining a permission for a channel of an unlicensed spectrum, the base station cyclically sends a first sequence immediately, where a time interval between a first moment and a start moment of a first symbol is not less than a time length of the first sequence of one period, the time length of the first sequence of one period is not greater than a time length of a symbol that does not include a cyclic prefix (CP), and the first sequence is a characteristic sequence of a licensed-assisted access using long term evolution (LAA-LTE) system. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311341 | NEIGHBOR AWARENESS NETWORKING SCHEDULE NEGOTIATION - A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus may be configured to determine a many-to-many multicast schedule for an NDL of a service associated with a NAN network and to communicate with a plurality of wireless devices subscribed to the service based on the determined many-to-many multicast schedule. The apparatus may be a schedule owner of the many-to-many multicast schedule. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311342 | METHOD AND BASE STATION FOR RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION, AND METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR TRANSMITTING SYSTEM INFORMATION - Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving system information. The base station transmits a plurality of first type system information (SIs), and transmits a plurality of second type SIs according to the respective plurality of first type SIs. The plurality of first type SIs are transmitted on different first SI time resources, respectively. The plurality of first type SIs may schedule different second time resources for the second type Sis, respectively. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311343 | UPLINK PAYLOAD DETERMINATION AND UPLINK GRANT INDICATION FOR MULTEFIRE - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The payload size for uplink transmissions of unscheduled control information may vary and, in some cases, may be dynamically determined. A user equipment (UE) may determine a payload size or may select a payload size from a set of predetermined sizes. A base station may independently determine the same payload size or it may blindly detect the payload size upon receiving the uplink (UL) transmission. Or the base station may indicate the payload size to the UE. Additionally, UL grants issued to the UE may take one of several forms (e.g., different downlink control indicator formats), and characteristics of the grant may indicate information about resources assigned by the grant, including a location of the resources among various transmission opportunities or whether the grant is for multiple subframes. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311344 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING D2D SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring a downlink control channel by a first terminal having a single RX chain in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention comprises the steps of: setting a particular gap for a resource area related to device-to-device (D2D) signal transmission/reception; and monitoring a wide area network (WAN) communication-based downlink control channel on the basis of a timer performed according to a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation, wherein the timer is counted on the basis of at least one subframe which does not overlap with the particular gap, and the particular gap is a time interval set for allowing the single RX chain to cover a switching operation between WMN communication and D2D communication. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311345 | Uplink Control Signaling for Joint FDD and TDD Carrier Aggregation - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for operating a mobile device including establishing a connection to a first base station designated as a PCell and establishing a connection to a second base station designated as a SCell. When the mobile device receives PDSCH from a TDD SCell in a subframe n, it transmits a HARQ ACK to an FDD PCell in subframe n+4. When the mobile device receives PDSCH in a downlink subframe from an FDD SCell, it transmits a HARQ ACK corresponding to the PDSCH to a TDD PCell in a selected uplink subframe. The selected uplink subframe may be the first valid uplink subframe following the downlink subframe. For example, where the downlink subframe carrying the PDSCH is subframe n, and the selected uplink subframe is subframe n+k, where k≧4. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311346 | FRAME STRUCTURE SIGNALING FOR MULTEFIRE - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A downlink control message type used for triggering uplink transmissions may convey additional information, including timing for uplink transmissions. The type or format of the control channel (e.g., physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) type or format) used to trigger an uplink transmission may also indicate a starting time or a time period, or both for the uplink transmission. In some cases, downlink control information (DCI) may indicate the function of a downlink control message that includes the DCI. Additionally, system information identified in a downlink control message may be used to determine a subframe length which, in some examples, may be used to determine whether or how long to monitor a discovery reference signal (DRS) subframe. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311347 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, USER TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication method comprises a communication apparatus managing a serving cell of a user terminal and broadcasting to the user terminal system information for Device to Device (D2D) proximity service using a frequency of the serving cell. The user terminal performing a discovery procedure to discover another user terminal on a basis of the system information, which includes first information that indicates an available frequency for the discovery procedure different from the frequency of the serving cell and related to a center frequency of a frequency band of the available frequency, second information that indicates at least one parameter for calculating transmission power for the discovery procedure, third information that indicates a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) identifier for the available frequency, and fourth information that indicates number of times of re-transmissions of a discovery signal to be re-transmitted by one user terminal in the discovery procedure. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311348 | Method and Apparatus for Acquiring Resources - The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for acquiring a resource. Herein, the method includes the following steps: acquiring a resource request index and a contention opportunity set ( | 2017-10-26 |
20170311349 | METHODS USED IN TERMINAL DEVICES AND NETWORK DEVICES, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES - The present disclosure relates to a method used in a terminal device, and the associated terminal device. The method comprises: obtaining a pattern for UL transmission to a network device, the pattern being specific to the terminal device and specifying a plurality of time points for transmitting a UL signal to the network device; and transmitting the UL signal to the network device based on the pattern. The present disclosure further relates to a method used in a network device, and the associated network device. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311350 | ADAPTIVE UL-DL TDD CONFIGURATIONS IN A HETEROGNEOUS NETWORK - Technology for a first eNodeB is disclosed. The first eNodeB can decode an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) time-division duplexing (TDD) subframe reconfiguration received from a second eNodeB. The UL-DL TDD subframe reconfiguration can be for the first eNodeB. The first eNodeB can encode the UL-DL TDD subframe reconfiguration received from the second eNodeB for transmission to a plurality of user equipment (UEs). | 2017-10-26 |
20170311351 | COLLISION DEADLOCK RESOLUTION - A user equipment (UE) may, in a first discovery frame, determine whether a discovery resource is available for communication. If the discovery resource is available for communication, the UE may, in a second discovery frame following the first discovery frame, transmit a discovery signal using the discovery resource and puncture the discovery signal during a listening window. The UE may detect the energy of a received signal at the discovery resource during the listening window. The UE may abandon the discovery resource if the detected energy is above a threshold. In some example, the listening window may have a fixed duration and a beginning that is randomly selected from a predetermined set of values. In some example, the listening window may have a variable duration and an end that matches an end of the second discovery frame. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311352 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND STATION - A method for transmitting data and a station are described. The method includes: when there is data to be sent in a station, determining whether there is a station using a channel in a BSS to which the station belongs and an OBSS using virtual channel detection; when determining that there is no station using the channel in the BSS to which the station belongs and there is a station using the channel in the OBSS, starting or resuming a back off procedure for OBSS spatial reuse transmission of the station; and monitoring the channel in the back off procedure for the OBSS spatial reuse transmission according to a fixed first channel detection threshold and a dynamically adjusted second channel detection threshold, transmitting data when the back off procedure for the OBSS spatial reuse transmission ends. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311353 | System and Method for Initial Attachment in a Communications System Utilizing Beam-Formed Signals - A method for operating a user equipment (UE) in a millimeter wave (mmWave) communications system includes receiving a first wide beam beam-formed reference signal from a mmWave evolved NodeB (eNB) during an initial time interval, the first wide beam beam-formed reference signal carrying timing information, detecting a wide beam boundary between the first wide beam beam-formed reference signal and a second wide beam beam-formed reference signal during a subsequent time interval, wherein both the first wide beam beam-formed reference signal and the second wide beam beam-formed reference signal are rotated by a narrow beam beam-width during each intermediate time interval between the initial time interval and the subsequent time interval, and informing the mmWave eNB of an indication that the UE detected the wide beam boundary during the subsequent time interval, the indication being used to assign a narrow beam direction to the UE. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311354 | METHOD FOR CONTENTION RESOLUTION IN A RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE IN A D2D COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for contention resolution in a random access procedure in a D2D communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a message containing a buffer status information for data transmission over PC5 interface in a random access procedure; receiving a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in response to the message; and considering contention resolution successful if the received PDCCH is addressed to sidelink-RNTI (SL-RNTI). | 2017-10-26 |
20170311355 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING INITIAL ACCCESS PROCEDURE FOR LOW COST USER EQUIPMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for performing an initial access procedure in a wireless communication system is provided. A low cost user equipment (UE) transmits a list of capabilities to a network, and receives a reject message from the network when at least one of the capabilities is not supported by the network. The list of capabilities may be transmitted during a random access procedure via a random access preamble on a physical random access channel (PRACH) or a message 3 on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The reject message may be received during the random access procedure a random access response or an acknowledge message for the message 3. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311356 | Random Access Preamble for Minimizing PA Backoff - An example method in a user equipment comprises generating a random access preamble signal and transmitting the random access preamble signal. This generating of the random access preamble signal comprises generating a Single-Carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) random access preamble signal comprising two or more consecutive preamble symbol groups, each preamble symbol group comprising a cyclic prefix portion and a plurality of identical symbols occupying a single subcarrier of the SC-FDMA random access preamble signal. The single subcarrier for at least one of the preamble symbol groups corresponds to a first subcarrier frequency and the single subcarrier for an immediately subsequent one of the preamble symbol groups corresponds to a second subcarrier frequency. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311357 | Mobile Surveillance System Using a Prioritized Wireless Network Communication Method - Disclosed is a surveillance applicable prioritized wireless communication system comprising one or more mobile surveillance applicable devices and one or more wireless networking nodes using a prioritized communication method, capable of faster response to emergencies and faster and more secured acquisition of real time scene evidences. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311358 | EMERGENCY RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCORPORATING INTEGRAL PUBLIC SAFETY RADIO BRIDGING CAPABILITY - A communication system and method is provided for handling emergencies wherein public safety radios are used to directly communicate with normally incompatible radios used by organizations such as schools. The system includes a radio communication bridge that is selectively activated by emergency personnel to contact an organization undergoing an emergency. The bridge is activated via a TCP/IP command over an IP network or alternatively sent by a pre-programmed digital radio. Computer software or firmware at communication endpoints, emergency responder locations, and at an emergency call center facilitates functionality of the system to include emergency notifications, dissemination of information associated with a particular emergency, and the status of the system to include activation and deactivation of the radio bridge. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311359 | METHOD FOR CONNECTING TO EXTERNAL DEVICES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - According to various embodiments of the present invention, a method for connecting to external devices by using a near-field communication module in an electronic device may include: obtaining external device information for connecting to the external devices, connecting to the external devices by using the obtained external device information, and controlling the connected external devices. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311360 | TECHNIQUES FOR ALLOCATING SHORT ADDRESSES TO NETWORK DEVICES - Disclosed are various embodiments for assigning a short address to a node in a network. A first node receives an association request that is a request from a second node to join the network. The first node transmits an association response to the second node, whereby the association response permits the second node to conditionally join the network and enter a low-power state. Data from the association request is transmitted to a coordinator node for the network on behalf of the second node. The first node receives a proxy response from the coordinator node in response to the data from the association request. When the second node is active, a notification is transmitted to the second node based on the response to the request. The notification includes an assignment of a short address when the response indicates the second node has joined the network. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311361 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REUSING GENERIC TOKENS USING BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY (BLE) BEACONS - Systems and methods for reusing generic tokens using a Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) beacon. The systems and methods include a user device including a wireless transceiver, a memory for storing a generic token, and one or more processors coupled to the memory and the wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver is configured to communicate with a beacon using a BLE communications protocol, receive a beacon identifier from the beacon, send a check in request to the beacon, and receive token differences from the beacon. The processors are configured to recreate a custom token based on the stored generic token and the received token differences. The beacon is configured to forward the check in request to a server. The server is configured to verify the user device and create the custom token and the token differences between the custom and generic tokens for return to the user device via the beacon. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311362 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA USING WLAN CARRIER AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - Provided are a method and apparatus for processing data by a terminal. The method ma include: receiving higher layer signaling including indication information requesting for configuring a terminal tunnel protocol entity for processing data transmitted/received through a WLAN carrier, configuring the terminal tunnel protocol entity on the basis of the indication information; and receiving bearer-specific user data and transmitting the bear-specific user data to a terminal user plane entity corresponding thereto. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311363 | INTERFACE OF AN M2M SERVER WITH THE 3GPP CORE NETWORK - An M2M Server may be integrated into a 3GPP network. A network node, for example a Serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Node (SGSN) may include a dedicated interface with a M2M server. The interface may be called a GM2M interface. The interface may be a logical interface internal to the network node. The node may receive subscriber data and control data, wherein the control data facilitates a network control procedure and the subscriber data identifies a device involved in the network control procedure. The node may determine that the device involved in the network control procedure is a machine to machine device based on the subscriber data. The node may also send the control data to a machine to machine server using a message sent via a dedicated interface with the machine to machine server. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311364 | SIMULATION OF NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATIONS - A computing device may identify one or more wireless broadcast signals that are each associated with a name that conforms to a specified wireless naming scheme. Responsive to identifying a particular wireless broadcast signal that is associated with a respective name conforming to the specified wireless naming scheme, the computing device may determine a signal strength of the particular wireless broadcast signal. The computing device may determine a likelihood that a remote device broadcasting the particular wireless signal is within a specified proximity of the computing device based at least in part on the signal strength of the particular wireless broadcast signal. Responsive to determining that the likelihood that the remote device is within the specified proximity of the computing device exceeds a specified threshold, the computing device may initiate an establishment of a wireless connection with the remote device. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311365 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS DEVICE PAIRING - Embodiments of the present invention include a system and method for wirelessly identifying and validating an electronic device in order to initiate a communication process with another device or a service. In an embodiment, the system includes a portable biometric monitoring device that is identified by a client device or a server for the purpose of initiating a pairing process. In an embodiment, pairing implies pairing the portable device to an online user account with minimal user interaction. After pairing, the portable device and appropriate client devices and servers communicate with little or no user interaction, for example to upload sensor data collected by the portable device. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311366 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN INTERACTION FROM A COMMUNICATING DEVICE CONFIGURED TO ESTABLISH A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNEL AND CORRESPONDING TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method envisions that a first device equipped with a wireless communication channel performs discovery operations and becomes discoverable on the wireless communication channel. The attributes of the devices detected during such operations are sent from the first device operating as a client, together with its unique system identification code, to a computer server that implements a detection service in proximity in a certified manner and is associated with a database comprising a list of attributes for devices registered with the service using such database. In addition, the server computer records, for example, in such database, the detections of such attributes of detected devices. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311367 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A USER CONNECTION - A system for providing a user connection between first and second mobile devices that includes a first software application executable on the first mobile device in communication with a server. The first mobile device includes a first geo-fence having a first radius. The software application is configured to permit a first user to send a connection request to a second user. When the second user accepts the connection request a device connection is made between the mobile devices. The second user mobile device has a second geo-fence with a second radius. When the device connection is made, an initial distance is determined between the mobile devices. The initial distance is greater than the sum of the first radius and the second radius. When the distance between the first and second mobile devices is less than the sum of the first radius and the second radius the device connection is terminated. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311368 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING INTER DEVICE CONNECTIVITY - A method for managing device connectivity between a plurality of secondary devices by a primary device, including acquiring history information from at least one secondary device of the plurality of secondary devices, the history information including information relating to a current connection and at least one previous connection among the plurality of secondary devices, identifying a plurality of connection states between the plurality of secondary devices based on the history information, displaying the plurality of secondary devices and the plurality of connection states between the plurality of secondary devices, and in response to receiving an input for two secondary devices of the displayed plurality of secondary devices, changing a connection status between the two secondary devices. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311369 | TRACKING AREA UPDATE ENHANCEMENT IN DUAL CONNECTIVITY - It is provided a method, comprising checking if a terminal connected to an apparatus performing the method is additionally to be connected to a secondary base station in a dual connectivity; providing provide, if the terminal is to be connected to the secondary base station in the dual connectivity, a secondary tracking area information of the secondary base station to the terminal; informing a management entity about the secondary tracking area information related to the terminal. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311370 | NETWORK CONTROLLED AND DEPLOYMENT BASED INCREASED PRIMARY CELL MEASUREMENTS - Communication systems may benefit from appropriate measurements of transmitters. For example, certain communication systems using dual connectivity may benefit from network controlled and deployment based increased primary cell measurements. A method can include configuring, by a network element, a user equipment to perform measurements on both a master cell group and a secondary cell group, according to activity in the secondary cell group. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311371 | METHOD AND NODES FOR HANDLING CONNECTIONS IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The embodiments herein relate to a method in a gateway node for handling a RAN-CN data connection between the gateway node and a RAN node in a communications system. The gateway node receives a data suspend indication indicating that at least one RAN-CN data connection for the UE should be suspended. When the data suspend indication has been received, the gateway node stores resume information associated with the RAN node. The gateway node suspends the RAN-CN data connection according to the received data suspend indication. The gateway node receives a data resume indication indicating that the at least one RAN-CN data connection for the UE should be resumed. The gateway node resumes the at least one RAN-CN data connection for the UE using the stored resume information. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311372 | Service Recovery Method, Apparatus, and System for a Wireless Communication Network - A service recovery method and a device for a wireless communication network are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving, by a target base station, a radio resource control (RRC) re-establishment request from a terminal and sending, by the target base station, an indication message indicating a radio link failure to a source base station to trigger the source base station with self-determination to initiate a handover preparation procedure between the source base station and the target base station, wherein the terminal remains in an active state. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311373 | User Equipment and Method in a Communications Network - A method in a user equipment for deciding whether to send an uplink transmission to a radio access network node is provided. The user equipment and radio access network node are comprised in a communications network. The user equipment is configured with Discontinuous Reception (DRX), wherein the user equipment is in active time or not in active time. The user equipment decides whether to send the uplink transmission at a transmission time t, based on the DRX status of the user equipment at a predefined earlier time instance relative to the transmission time t. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311374 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communications method, apparatus, and system. A terminal is provided. The terminal sets up a connection to a first base station, and stays in always connected mode. Therefore, when the terminal moves in a dense network, handovers of the first base station can be reduced. Further, when the terminal moves in the dense network, frequent signaling interaction is reduced, paging load in the entire network is reduced, and an end-to-end delay in service setup and transmission is reduced. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311375 | METHOD FOR TERMINAL MANAGING CONFIGURATION FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE (D2D) OPERATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND TERMINAL USING SAME - Provided are a method for a terminal managing a configuration for a device-to-device (D2D) operation in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. The method is characterized by receiving a D2D configuration for a D2D operation from a network, and maintaining the D2D configuration for the D2D operation without releasing same when leaving the radio resource control (RRC) connected state. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311376 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING RADIO NETWORK DEPLOYMENT STATE TEST PROCESS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for performing a radio network deployment state test process in a mobile communication system are provided. In the method, a User Equipment (UE) receives an equivalent Minimization of Drive Test (MDT)_Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) list from a Mobility Management Entity (MME) or an enhanced Node B (eNB), wherein a PLMN of the MME is an MDT_PLMN of the UE, the MDT_PLMN is a PLMN in which the UE performs an MDT process as a radio network deployment state test process using an MDT scheme, the equivalent MDT_PLMNs are equivalent PLMNs of the MDT_PLMN, and the equivalent MDT_PLMN Identifiers (IDs) represent PLMN IDs of equivalent PLMNs of the PLMN of the MME. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC DEPLOYABLE WIRELESS SERVICES - A system and method for intelligently and dynamically deploying a plurality of mobile robotic machines capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically to propagate wireless network connectivity comprising, at least, a mechanical framework, sensors, actuators, communications capability, an energy source, a propulsion means, a control mechanism, and a payload. The payload may comprise electronic or mechanical communication equipment to propagate services such as wireless networking services, in for example, a first responder or emergency environment, or electronic and mechanical jamming services in a military or anti-terrorism environment. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311378 | APPARATUS - [Object] To enable flexible arrangement of cells with a smaller burden. [Solution] Provided is an apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating one or more second base stations located within coverage of a first base station connected to a wired backhaul; and a controller configured to control establishment of a wireless backhaul between the first base station and each of the one or more second base stations. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311379 | SPLITTER DEVICE CONNECTING MULTIPLE REMOTE RADIO HEADS - It is provided a splitter device comprising: a first trunk cable interface for connecting with a first aggregation node via a first trunk cable; a first radio head interface for connecting to a first remote radio head via a first distribution cable; a second radio head interface for connecting to a second remote radio head via a second distribution cable; a signal combiner and splitter connected to the first radio head interface and the second radio head interface; and a radio signal refresh unit provided between the first trunk cable interface and the signal combiner and splitter. The radio head interfaces comprise respective gain control units and uplink signal amplifiers, wherein a gain of the uplink signal amplifiers is adjusted based on a signal from the respective gain control unit. | 2017-10-26 |
20170311380 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOISE FLOOR OPTIMIZATION IN DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM WITH DIRECT DIGITAL INTERFACE TO BASE STATION - A signal interface unit for a distributed antenna system (DAS) includes a channelized radio carrier interface configured to receive a downlink channelized radio carrier for a radio frequency carrier from a channelized radio carrier base station interface; an antenna side interface configured to communicate a downlink digitized radio frequency signal from the antenna side interface to the DAS communicatively coupled to the antenna side interface; and a signal conversion module communicatively coupled between the channelized radio carrier interface and the antenna side interface and configured to convert between the downlink channelized radio carrier and the downlink digitized radio frequency signal at least in part by adjusting at least one downlink attribute of the downlink digitized radio frequency signal communicated to the DAS based on requirements of the channelized radio carrier base station interface to cause the DAS to appear as a remote radio head to the channelized radio carrier interface. | 2017-10-26 |