Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120170534 | Station Operation Method and Apparatus in TV Whitespace - The present invention relates to a station (hereinafter, ‘STA’) operation method and apparatus in a TV whitespace. In a TVWS band, when an STA operating as an unlicensed device with permission to operate in an available channel not used by a licensed device needs to operate in the TVWS band by acquiring information on the available channel, the STA transmits an available channel information request message to a device having database information; receives, from the device having database information, an ACK message for the available channel information that includes (a) identification information on an available channel, (b) information on the maximum allowable power level in the available channel, and (c) information on valid time of the available channel; and transmits/receives a signal using the information of (a), (b) and (c), i.e., using the maximum allowable power level within the valid time in the available channel. | 07-05-2012 |
20120184318 | Method and Apparatus of Transmitting a White Space Map Information in a Wireless Local Area Network System - A method of transmitting a White Space Map information in a wireless local area network system (WLAN) is disclosed. A method of transmitting a white space map information from a first station to a second station in a regulatory domain where a licensed device and an unlicensed device are permitted to operate together in a wireless local area network (WLAN) comprises acquiring a first list of available channels at each location of a plurality of locations from a regulatory database; determining a second list of available channels at a white space zone (WSZ) using the first list of available channels at each location of a plurality of locations; and transmitting, to the second station, one of a beacon frame, a probe response frame and a white space map announcement frame comprising a white space map (WSM) element, the WSM element including information of the WSZ and the second list of available channels, wherein the WSZ is a geographical area in which common available channels are set. | 07-19-2012 |
20120218956 | Station Operation Method and Apparatus in TV Whitespace - The present invention relates to a station (hereinafter, ‘STA’) operation method and apparatus in a TV whitespace. In a TVWS band, when an STA operating as an unlicensed device with permission to operate in an available channel not used by a licensed device needs to operate in the TVWS band by acquiring information on the available channel, the STA transmits an available channel information request message to a device having database information; receives, from the device having database information, an ACK message for the available channel information that includes (a) identification information on an available channel, (b) information on the maximum allowable power level in the available channel, and (c) information on valid time of the available channel; and transmits/receives a signal using the information of (a), (b) and (c), i.e., using the maximum allowable power level within the valid time in the available channel. | 08-30-2012 |
20120314658 | Station Operation Method and Apparatus in TV Whitespace - The present invention relates to a station (hereinafter, ‘STA’) operation method and apparatus in a TV whitespace. In a TVWS band, when an STA operating as an unlicensed device with permission to operate in an available channel not used by a licensed device needs to operate in the TVWS band by acquiring information on the available channel, the STA transmits an available channel information request message to a device having database information; receives, from the device having database information, an ACK message for the available channel information that includes (a) identification information on an available channel, (b) information on the maximum allowable power level in the available channel, and (c) information on valid time of the available channel; and transmits/receives a signal using the information of (a), (b) and (c), i.e., using the maximum allowable power level within the valid time in the available channel. | 12-13-2012 |
20130130731 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCEIVING CHANNEL TRANSMIT POWER INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transceiving channel transmit power information in a wireless communication system. According to one embodiment of the present invention, transmit power information for the channel available for the device which operates in a television band may be signaled for each individual channel. | 05-23-2013 |
20130163574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISABLING AN ILLEGAL DEVICE IN A WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM - A method for an enabler entity to indicate an event to a manager entity includes transmitting, from the enabler entity to the manager entity, an event indication message indicating an event in a device served by the enabler entity. The enabler entity enables communication between the device and the manager entity and the manager entity exchanges information required for coexistence between enabler entities comprising the enabler entity. The event indication message includes type information indicating that the event indication message is for indicating that a specific device is detected by the device, the specific device operating on a frequency not permitted to the specific device. | 06-27-2013 |
20130237192 | ACCESS METHOD BETWEEN A TERMINAL AND A BASE STATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - The present description relates to a method in which a terminal accesses a base station in a wireless communication system and to a terminal thereof. The method includes broadcasting, to at least one base station, an advertisement message containing identification information for advertising existence of the terminal; receiving, from the base station, an inviting message which allows access to the base station; and performing an access procedure with the base station in accordance with the received inviting message. The present description further relates to a method in which a base station accesses a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method including receiving an advertisement message which is broadcasted by the terminal and contains identification information for advertising existence of the terminal; transmitting, to the terminal, an inviting message which allows access to the base station; and performing an access procedure with the terminal in accordance with the inviting message. | 09-12-2013 |
20130267237 | Method and Apparatus for Transceiving Channel Availability Query and Response in a Wireless Communication System - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transceiving channel availability query and response in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, a scheme is provided to enable devices which operate in TVWS to request/response information on an available channel in a plurality of geographical locations in a more accurate and efficient manner. | 10-10-2013 |
20130281109 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting and Receiving Channel Information in Wireless Communication System - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing communication by obtaining available channel information through an unlicensed device in which operations are permitted within an available channel and is not used by a licensed device in a white space band, includes the steps of: transmitting a message for requesting available channel information to a database device; receiving the available channel information including first information for indicating a format of the available channel information and second information for identifying the available channel, in response to the message for requesting the available channel information; and obtaining the second information using the first information and transmitting and receiving signals within the available channel corresponding to the second information, wherein the format of the available channel information can be changed according to country. | 10-24-2013 |
20130329693 | Channel Switching to a White Space Band Through TDLS - When channel switching to a channel in a white space band is performed through tunneled direct link setup (TDLS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, it is confirmed whether or not a white space band between STAs is operable by directly including white space band performance between communication target STAs and device identifier information in a TDLS request/response message. Thus, one STA performs a channel availability query (CAQ) procedure in order to obtain available channel information, and a TDLS channel switching request/response message is exchanged by selecting a target channel in an available channel. Therefore, TDLS-based channel switching to a white space band is efficiently performed. | 12-12-2013 |
20130336277 | MESH NETWORK CONFIGURATION IN A WHITE SPACE BAND - The invention relates to a method for efficiently configuring a mesh network in a white space band and to a device therefor. In order to configure a mesh network in a white space band, a first station, which is accessible to a geographical position database through direct Internet access, notifies at least one second station through a gate announcement frame, for which the first station itself serves as a mesh gate; at least one second station receives a first multi-hop management action frame including position information on each of at least one, mesh point that subscribes to a mesh network; and a second multi-hop management action frame including information on an available channel in the white space is transmitted to at least one mesh point. Therefore, a mesh network may be configured in a white space band. | 12-19-2013 |
20140029516 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PERFORMING FREQUENCY RESOURCE SENSING AND DATA TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for simultaneously performing frequency resource sensing and data transmission in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for performing frequency band sensing or data transmission and reception at a pico Base Station (BS) within the coverage of a macro BS in a wireless communication system includes determining the number of (M | 01-30-2014 |
20140092779 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FINDING A NEIGHBOR IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for finding a neighbor. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for setting an Internet protocol (IP) by a station (STA) of a wireless communication network comprises: a step of receiving network prefix information; a step of transmitting an initial generic advertisement service (GAS) request frame including the set IP address information to an access point (AP). According to the present invention, a novel method of setting an IP is proposed which can be performed independently of, or prior to the completion of, an initial link set-up process. | 04-03-2014 |
20140135032 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCEIVING A CONTACT VERIFICATION SIGNAL REGARDING AVAILABLE CHANNELS IN A PLURALITY OF LOCATIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method of receiving available channel information on K (K≧2) numbers of locations by a first type station (STA) from a second type STA in a wireless communication system includes: receiving a channel availability query (CAQ) response message, wherein the CAQ response message includes a field of the numbers (K) of the locations and K numbers of available channel list fields configured with information on an available channel list for each of the K numbers of locations, from the second type STA, and performing a communication in a white space using an available channel included in an available channel list for a single location among the K numbers of locations, wherein the K numbers of available channel list fields are configured with a Map ID field and a field of N (N≧1) numbers of available channels are repeated K times. | 05-15-2014 |
20140254537 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting reduced power-almost blank subframe (r-ABS) setting information from a first cell to a second cell, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises a step of the first cell transmitting to the second cell r-ABS pattern information for indicating the r-ABS which is setup by the first cell, and r-ABS power indication information for indicating transmission power of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of the first cell from the r-ABS, wherein the PDSCH transmission power of the first cell can be set to a transmission power which is low compared to a common subframe. | 09-11-2014 |
20140269597 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING TRANSMISSION POWER INFORMATION OF DOWNLINK SUBFRAME AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method for an eNB to transmit a downlink signal to a User Equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method includes transmitting information about a data transmission power within an OFDM symbol in a data region of a downlink subframe to the UE. The information about the data transmission power is determined according to a specific condition and the specific condition includes at least one of presence/absence of a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) within the symbol and a modulation scheme or a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) of the symbol. The downlink subframe is a Non-Zero Power Almost Blank Subframe (NZP ABS) in which signals are transmitted at a lower transmission power than a transmission power of a normal subframe on downlink. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286283 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for a base station transmitting transmission power of a subframe to a user equipment, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises a step of transmitting downlink control information to the user equipment through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), wherein the transmission power information of the subframe is indicated by information related to the PDCCH, and a value of the information related to the PDCCH can be decided based on a predetermined mapping relationship between the transmission power information and the value of the information related to the PDCCH. | 09-25-2014 |
20140293820 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for supporting a measurement of a user equipment, according to one embodiment, comprising the steps of: a second cell deciding at least one measurement resource set with respect to the user equipment, based on subframe setting information of a first cell and/or transmission power information of the first cell; and the second cell transmitting to the user equipment information for indicating the at least one measurement resource set that is decided, wherein the subframe setting information of the first cell can include setting information with respect to a first almost blank subframe (ABS) and a second ABS. | 10-02-2014 |
20140301237 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION ON OCCUPIED CHANNEL OF DEVICE WHICH SUBSCRIBES TO INFORMATION SERVICE IN TELEVISION WHITE SPACE BAND - Provided is a method for acquiring information on an occupied channel of an apparatus (hereinafter, “information service apparatus”) which subscribes to an information service in order to allocate a channel to an apparatus (hereinafter, “management service apparatus”), which is performed by a management apparatus, and comprises: transmitting, to the information service apparatus, an occupied channel query request message for query of information about one or more channels (hereinafter, “occupied channels”) occupied by the information service apparatus; and receiving, from the information service apparatus, an occupied channel query response message including the information about the occupied channels, wherein the occupied channel query request message includes an ID of the information service apparatus and information about a measurement period of the occupied channels, and the information service apparatus and the management service apparatus may be TVWS devices. | 10-09-2014 |
20140301332 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INTER CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method in which a second cell receives subframe pattern information on a first cell according to one embodiment of the present application comprises a step in which uplink almost blank subframe (ABS) pattern information and downlink ABS pattern information on the first cell are received by a second cell, wherein the downlink ABS pattern information is not separated into first and second type ABSs set by the first cell, and the first and second type ABS patterns of the first cell can be identified on the basis of the downlink ABS pattern information and the uplink ABS pattern information. | 10-09-2014 |
20140334422 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING AVAILABLE CHANNEL INFORMATION BASED ON DIRECTIVITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting and receiving available channel information based on directivity in a wireless communication system. A method for enabling a station (STA) to receive available channel information in a whitespace band according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining a current position of the STA and a position at which the direction is changed on a moving path of the STA; determining K (K≧1) operating ranges based on the current position of the STA and the position at which the direction is changed; transmitting a channel availability query (CAQ) request frame for the K operating ranges to a database; and receiving available channel information on the K operating ranges through a CAQ response frame from the database. | 11-13-2014 |
20140347985 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING UP LINK AT HIGH-SPEED IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for setting up a session at a high speed in a WLAN system or a LAN LTE system. A method for a station (STA) setting up a link at a high speed in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: transmitting a request frame comprising information related to bandwidth requested by the STA to an access point (AP); and receiving from the AP a response frame, which is decided on the basis of the information related to the bandwidth that is requested, comprising information indicating whether to accommodate the request. | 11-27-2014 |
20140362720 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING MEASUREMENT REPORT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a measurement report in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for transmitting a measurement report at a UE in the wireless communication system includes measuring received strengths and reception frequencies of first and second signals, and transmitting a measurement report including a frequency offset between the first and second signals, if the received strength of the second signal is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold. The frequency offset is used to support cooperative transmission of transmission points transmitting the first and second signals. | 12-11-2014 |
20150016331 | APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A method of receiving downlink signal at a user equipment in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The present invention includes receiving an information related to a reference signal of a neighbor cell from a serving cell and performing an interference handling in resources in accordance with the information related to the reference signal of the neighbor cell, wherein the information related to the reference signal of the neighbor cell comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a cell ID (identity) of the neighbor cell, the number of ports for transmitting the reference signal of the neighbor cell, an frequency information for transmitting the reference signal of the neighbor cell and an time information for transmitting the reference signal of the neighbor cell. | 01-15-2015 |
20150016333 | DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM CONNECTION THROUGH A STATION WORKING AS A NON-ACCESS POINT - The present invention relates to a method and device for performing a connection to a distribution system (DS) through a station working as a non-access point (AP) in a wireless communication system. In particular, any station (referred to hereinafter as ‘a first STA’) works as an AP having DS connection performance in first frequency band wireless local area network (WLAN) communication when performing WLAN communication to connect to a distribution system (DS), wherein a direct link setting procedure is performed with a specific STA (referred to hereinafter as ‘a second STA’) working as a station that is not an AP in second frequency band WLAN communication, in the second frequency band WLAN communication; and a connection is made to the DS through the direct link in the second frequency band WLAN communication. | 01-15-2015 |
20150016419 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for acquiring system information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for acquiring system information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes: performing a handover from a first cell to a second cell; and acquiring system information of the second cell, wherein a method for acquiring the system information of the second cell is determined according to CRE (Cell Range Extension)-related capability of the UE. | 01-15-2015 |
20150023265 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING DOWNLINK DATA CHANNELS IN MULTICELL-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a method by which a terminal receives a downlink data channel in a wireless communication system. In detail, the method includes the steps of receiving from a network information on one or more settings defining large scale properties of a terminal-specific reference signal through a higher layer; detecting from the network one of either the first scheduling information or the second scheduling information on a downlink data channel based on a terminal-specific reference signal; and receiving the downlink data channel based on the terminal-specific reference signal on the basis of the detected scheduling information, wherein the first scheduling information includes an indicator indicating one or more of the settings, and the large scale properties of the terminal-specific reference signal are defined according to the setting indicated by the indicator during the detection of the first scheduling information, and a preset setting from among the one or more settings set during the detection of the second scheduling information. | 01-22-2015 |
20150029972 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING OR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK SIGNAL AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The method for receiving a downlink signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: receiving, from a base station, a candidate seed list and downlink control information for the generation of a sequence of a downlink demodulation reference signal, wherein a seed value is selected from the candidate seed list on the basis of seed value indicating information contained in the downlink control information and the sequence of the downlink demodulation reference signal is generated by using the selected seed value. The candidate seed list may include a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifiers and virtual cell identifiers related to the plurality of HARQ process identifiers. | 01-29-2015 |
20150036524 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING NEIGHBOR CELL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for measuring a neighbor cell in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for measuring a neighbor cell by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving subframe information including a subframe pattern for neighbor cell measurement; performing synchronization acquisition from the neighbor cell; and performing measurement in a subframe corresponding to the subframe pattern, wherein the user equipment (UE) assumes that a signal required when the UE acquires synchronization from the neighbor cell is transmitted in a subframe corresponding to the subframe pattern. | 02-05-2015 |
20150043367 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING NEIGHBOR-CELL MEASUREMENT COMMAND IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a neighbor cell measurement command in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for transmitting a measurement command of a neighbor cell by a serving cell in a wireless communication system includes: confirming user equipment (UE) capability information related to cell range extension (CRE); and transmitting a measurement command including a list of cells to be measured to the UE, wherein, if the UE has CRE-related capability, the measurement command includes neighbor-cell reference signal (RS) information. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043369 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MEASUREMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for performing measurement are disclosed. The method for performing radio link monitoring by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes: performing cancellation of a reference signal (RS) of a neighbor cell; and determining whether to declare a radio link failure (RLF) on the basis of a reference signal (RS) of a serving cell by using information of a predetermined power ratio related to the neighbor cell. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043469 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - One embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for allowing a terminal to transmit channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resources are set for a plurality of transmission points, and the method for transmitting the CSI comprises the steps of: determining CSI reference resources; and transmitting CSI calculated from a measured signal on the basis of the CSI reference resources, wherein the CSI reference resources are included in one of at least two CSI subframe sets, the CSI subframe sets are set for each of the plurality of CSI-RS resources, and the CSI subframe sets are commonly set for transmission points which perform cooperative transmission among the plurality of transmission points. | 02-12-2015 |
20150055495 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING SERVING CELL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for measuring a serving cell in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for performing measurement by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving a list of aggressor cells and neighbor-cell reference signal (RS) information from a serving cell; and performing measurement of the serving cell, wherein information as to whether CRE (Cell Range Extension)-related capability is used during the measurement is determined according to at least one of the presence or absence of CRE-related capability of the UE and information regarding configuration or non-configuration of restricted measurement. | 02-26-2015 |
20150063177 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting channel state information (CSI) by a user equipment in a wireless communication system includes receiving a CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS), determining overhead of a common reference signal (CRS) resource element based on the same antenna port number as an antenna port number associated with the CSI-RS, and transmitting the CSI calculated based on the CSI-RS and the overhead of the CRS resource element. | 03-05-2015 |
20150078272 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. A method for receiving data by a user equipment (UE) in a cooperative multi-point (CoMP) wireless communication system includes receiving information indicating a transmission base station (BS) that actually transmits data among a plurality of BSs that participate in CoMP, receiving information about zero-power channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) of each of the plural BSs, and assuming that data is not mapped to a resource element of zero-power CSI-RS corresponding to the transmission BS and receiving the data through a physical downlink control channel (PDSCH). | 03-19-2015 |