Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100061232 | LOAD BALANCING MECHANISM FOR DYNAMIC SERVING FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS SELECTION - A method of using a base station comprising establishing a connection with a plurality of authenticators. In one embodiment, the method further including receiving, from each authenticator, load balancing parameters indicating the state of the respective authenticator. In various embodiments, the method may also include receiving, from a mobile station, a request to join a network including the base station. In some embodiments, the method may include selecting an authenticator, to authenticate the mobile station, based upon the load balancing parameters. In one embodiment, the method may include requesting mobile station authentication from the selected authenticator. | 03-11-2010 |
20100085949 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATOR APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ATTACHING A BASE STATION APPARATUS TO AN AUTHENTICATOR APPARATUS - A Base Station apparatus includes a network attachment device and a memory. The network attachment device is adapted to attach the Base Station apparatus to an Authenticator apparatus by sending a Base Station Attachment signal. The Base Station Attachment signal is adapted to request globally scoped or per-Base Station information from the Authenticator apparatus and the memory is adapted to store received globally scoped or per-Base Station apparatus information. | 04-08-2010 |
20110145895 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication network ( | 06-16-2011 |
20110243096 | NETWORK APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A MESSAGE TO A TARGET NETWORK APPARATUS IN THE WIMAX SYSTEM - A network apparatus for transmitting a message to a target network apparatus is described, which may comprise a trigger device, a target profile determining device, a message preparation device and a message transmitting device. The trigger device may be adapted for determining and/or detecting a trigger for transmitting a message. The target profile determining device may be adapted for determining a profile of the target network apparatus. The message preparation device may be adapted for preparing a message for transmitting the message to the target network apparatus in accordance with the determined profile of the target network apparatus. The transmitting device may be adapted for transmitting the prepared message to the target apparatus. | 10-06-2011 |
20110281581 | Network Apparatus and Method for Performing a Handover in a Network - According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention a network apparatus may be provided, which network apparatus may include a detecting device, a selecting device, a receiving device, a determining device and a sending device. The detecting device may be adapted to detect a condition for a handover. The selecting device may be adapted to select a first group, wherein the first group includes at least one first target apparatus member. The receiving device may be adapted to receive a second group, wherein the second group may include at least one second target apparatus member. The determining device may be adapted to determine a difference group of the first target apparatus members and the second target apparatus members. The selecting device may be adapted to select at least one target apparatus member of the difference group. The sending device may be adapted to send a preparation information to the at least one selected target apparatus member of the difference group. | 11-17-2011 |
20120021747 | Reduction of Interruption Time in a Handover - A Mobile Station apparatus for controlling a handover between a Serving Base Station apparatus and a Target Base Station apparatus is described. The Mobile Station includes a Handover Message Receiving device, a Processing device, a Handover device and a timer Value and a Timer device. The Handover Message Receiving device is adapted to detect receiving of a Handover message and wherein the Processing device is adapted upon detecting of the Handover message to calculate a Connection Hold Time value. The Handover device is adapted to send a Handover Indication message to the Serving Base Station apparatus, to start the Timer device with the Connection Hold Time value and to handover the connection from the Serving Base Station apparatus to the Target Base Station apparatus upon expiring of the Timer device. | 01-26-2012 |
20120087338 | INDICATING ACTION TIMES AND FAST RANGING CAPABILITIES OF TARGET BASE STATIONS - According to one example embodiment, a method may include determining whether each of a plurality of target base stations is capable of providing a fast ranging opportunity to a mobile station served by the serving base station, and, for each of the plurality of target base stations which is capable of providing the fast ranging opportunity to the mobile station, determining an action time after which the target base station can send an uplink map to the mobile station, the uplink map indicating when the mobile station should send a fast ranging request. The method may also include sending a handover message to the mobile station, the handover message indicating whether each of the plurality of target base stations is capable of providing the fast ranging opportunity to the mobile station and, for each of the plurality of target base stations which is capable of providing the fast ranging opportunity to the mobile station, indicating the action time after which the target base station can send the uplink map to the mobile station. | 04-12-2012 |
20120100861 | Network Element and Method of Communication Management in a Network - A network element for a communication network including a plurality of network elements is provided, wherein the network element includes an input interface adapted to receive an activity signal indicating that a status of a specific network element has changed, a determination unit adapted to determine a neighbour signal of the specific network element indicative for the neighbourhood relationship of the specific network element, and an output interface adapted to send a neighbour signal to the specific network element. | 04-26-2012 |
20120129521 | Association Level Indication to Neighboring Base Stations - It is described a method of sending an association level indication to neighboring base stations by a serving base station to indicate to the neighbor base station to report a particular ranging parameter set corresponding to the association level indication for a user equipment requesting scanning of neighbor base stations. According to an embodiment, the ranging parameters of the ranging parameter set are provided to the user equipment in single message or are provided in two or more messages, e.g. in the case of network assisted association reporting. | 05-24-2012 |
20120282900 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUSES - After a successful authentication in a femto system, a home base station management system is used to send configuration data to a home base station and manage the home base station over a secured management connection. The configuration data stored in the management system is classified into two types: a) Device-related configuration data, which are indexed by a device ID; and b) subscriber/user-related configuration data, which are indexed by a subscriber ID. The management system sets up a binding relationship between device ID of the home base station and the subscriber/user identity of the USIM/SIM installed in the home base station. Then the management system generates full configuration data for the home base station based on the combination of the binded IDs. In other words, the full configuration data contains device-related configuration data selected from the classified configuration data based on the binded device ID, and user-related configuration data selected from the classified configuration data based on the binded subscriber/user ID. The management system then sends this full configuration data to the home base station. | 11-08-2012 |
20120287773 | Mechanism for alarm management of femto related systems to avoid alarm floods - A method of alarm management in a communications system having a number of Femto base stations ( | 11-15-2012 |
20130223408 | ACTION TIMES FOR HANDOVER OF MOBILE STATIONS - A method may include determining whether each of a plurality of target base stations is capable of providing a fast ranging opportunity to a mobile station served by the serving base station, and, for each of the plurality of target base stations which is capable of providing the fast ranging opportunity to the mobile station, determining an action time after which the target base station can send an uplink map to the mobile station, the uplink map indicating when the mobile station should send a fast ranging request. The method may also include sending a handover message to the mobile station, the handover message indicating whether each of the plurality of target base stations is capable of providing the fast ranging opportunity to the mobile station and indicating the action time after which the target base station can send the uplink map to the mobile station. | 08-29-2013 |
20130272190 | Dynamic Configuration of Relay Nodes in a Cellular Communication System - An access node of a radio access network of a cellular communication system obtains first configuration information for at least one relay node which is capable of being wirelessly connected to the radio access network via the access node and is associated with the access node, wherein the first configuration information includes information on an interface between the access node and the at least one relay node, and transmits the first configuration information to at least one other access node of the radio access network. Alternatively or in addition, the access node receives second configuration information from the at least one other access node, for at least one other relay node which is capable of being wirelessly connected to the radio access network via the at least one other access node and is associated with the at least one other access node, wherein the second configuration information includes information on an interface between the at least one other access node and the at least one other relay node. | 10-17-2013 |
20140080468 | CELL RECONFIGURATION - There are provided measures for a cell reconfiguration, more specifically a cell reconfiguration in a relay-enhanced network environment. Such measures exemplarily include recognizing a decision on a change of a configuration of a base station, informing a user equipment served by the base station in view of a forthcoming change of the configuration before the configuration of the base station is changed, and providing the user equipment being served by the base station with a synchronization signal indicating a new configuration after the configuration of the base station is changed from an old configuration to the new configuration. | 03-20-2014 |
20140220934 | Access Control of Relay Node with Closed Subscriber Group - There are provided measures for access control of a relay node with a closed subscriber group, said measures exemplarily comprising retrieval of setting information relating to a closed subscriber group of a base station function of a relay node, said relay node requesting access to a relay-enhanced cellular system via a donor base station, acquisition of setting information relating to a closed subscriber group of the donor base station, and execution of access control of the base station function of the relay node based on the setting information relating to the closed subscriber groups of the base station function of the relay node and the donor base station. | 08-07-2014 |
20140307586 | MECHANISMS ADDRESSING DYNAMIC COMPONENT CARRIER CHANGE IN RELAY SYSTEMS - The present invention proposes methods and devices to further improve relay systems operating on the basis of carrier aggregation on the access as well as on the backhaul link Under an aspect of such approach, there is proposed a relay node as a device, comprising a transceiver device, configured to communicate via a first interface with a terminal and via a second interface with a remote network device, wherein communication via the first and/or second interface is configured to operate based on aggregation of plural individual component carriers, and a control device, configured to perform, per component carrier: detection of a change concerning a component carrier on the first interface, sending, responsive thereto, of update information pertaining to at least the first interface towards the remote network device, reception of reconfiguration instructions, implied by the detected change, to be applied on the first interface, and initiation of reconfiguration of the first interface based on the received instructions. Similar approach is applied to a donor eNB as well as to corresponding methods and computer program products. | 10-16-2014 |