Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120213183 | SCHEDULING OF DIRECT TO DIRECT COMMUNICATION - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program can provide scheduling of direct to direct communication by a high speed packet access base station. The method, for example, can include obtaining a direct user equipment communication toggling message ( | 08-23-2012 |
20120302254 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A LOCATION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An apparatus, system and method for determining a location of a wireless communication device employing machine-to-machine devices in a communication system. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a processor | 11-29-2012 |
20130012221 | EVOLVED NODE B CONTROLLED CENTRALIZED RESOURCE REUSE FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE AND CELLULAR USERS - Device-to-device (D2D) communication is one alternative to communication between devices through a radio access network. One interesting D2D communication method is reuse-mode D2D, where D2D nodes communicate with each other using the same uplink (UL) radio resource that is being used by some other cellular user equipment(s) (UEs). In other words, the UL cellular resources occupied by cellular UEs are reused by D2D nodes in their short-range communications. Centralized control of D2D communication can be performed by appropriate signaling between a D2D-capable UE and an evolved Node B (eNB). | 01-10-2013 |
20130016666 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING PACKET SCHEDULING FOR A HYBRID COMMUNICATION NETWORKAANM Chen; TaoAACI EspooAACO FIAAGP Chen; Tao Espoo FIAANM Kunnari; EsaAACI SaarenkylaAACO FIAAGP Kunnari; Esa Saarenkyla FI - Methods, apparatus and computer program products facilitate scheduling in a hybrid communication network with mobile devices of the first type such as device-to-device (D2D) mobile terminals and second type of mobile terminals such as cellular terminals. A scheduling activity factor is calculated based at least in part on a total number of both mobile devices of the first type and second type of mobile terminals, which is sent to at least one first type of mobile terminal. After signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) information is received from the at least one first type of mobile terminal after transmission of the scheduling activity factor, the first type of mobile terminal may be scheduled separately from second type of mobile terminals, based at least in part on the SINR information which is utilized to establish a predefined or determined threshold. | 01-17-2013 |
20130022010 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Inter-Cell Interference for Device-to-Device Communications - A method, apparatus, and computer program can provide inter-cell interference management. The method, for example, may generate an inter-cell assistance information to facilitate a selection of one or more physical resource blocks for device-to-device communications based at least in part on a scheduling or interference information exchanged between a plurality of nodes. The method can further comprise transmitting the generated inter-cell assistance information to a plurality of user equipments in device-to-device communication mode. The inter-cell assistance information may comprise at least one physical resource block, or additionally at least one source node identity associate with the at least one physical resource block, or additionally at least one destination node identity associated with the at least one physical resource block and the at least one source node identity. | 01-24-2013 |
20130156019 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UNLICENSED BAND OPERATION - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to enable operation of both cellular and WLAN on a shared unlicensed band. In this regard, a method is provided that includes causing a primary transmission mode period of operation, a secondary transmission mode period of operation, and an idle mode period of operation on an unlicensed frequency band to be transmitted to a mobile terminal. The method further includes receiving an interfered ratio report from the mobile terminal. The method also includes causing the mobile terminal to be classified as at least one of a primary user or a secondary user based on the interfered ratio report. The method also includes causing the classification to be transmitted to the mobile terminal. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159407 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAFFIC OFFLOADING BETWEEN DEVICES - Various methods for enabling D2D connections to exchange P2P data so as to reduce traffic on a network. One example method may comprise constructing a local topology of one or more mobile terminals. The method of this embodiment may also include determining that a mobile terminal of the one or more mobile terminals has initiated a peer to peer session. The method of this embodiment may also include determining, based on the local topology, one or more mobile terminals to act as one or more seeder devices for the peer to peer session. The method of this embodiment may also include causing the local topology to be transmitted to the mobile terminal that has initiated the peer to peer session. In some example embodiments, the mobile terminal is configured to use the local topology to initiate a device to device connection for the peer to peer session. | 06-20-2013 |
20130184024 | Asymmetric D2D Communication - There is provided a method for an asymmetric device-to-device, D2D, communication, the method including from the first terminal point of view: acquiring, by the first user terminal incapable to receive uplink data, information indicating whether or not to apply an asymmetric D2D communication with a second user terminal capable to receive uplink data; and upon applying the asymmetric D2D communication with the second user terminal, performing at least one of the following: acquiring data from the second user terminal via a base station of the cellular network, and causing transmission of data directly to the second user terminal. | 07-18-2013 |
20130189971 | Modified Measurement Procedures for User Equipments - A network sends to a user equipment UE downlink signaling indicating at least one frequency which is subject to special handling. In response the UE measures and reports neighbour cells operating on any of that/those frequencies without regard to a threshold signal strength of a serving cell which is configured for reporting neighbour cells. In more specific examples, if the neighbour cells operating on any of that/those frequencies is considered a first set of neighbour cells, then the network also sends a second set of neighbour cells in other downlink signaling. Measuring and reporting on the first set of neighbour cells is less frequent than for the second set of neighbour cells, when measurements of the second set is required. Measuring and reporting on the second set is dependent on measured signal strength of a serving cell being greater than the configured threshold signal strength of the serving cell. | 07-25-2013 |
20130194986 | Interference Avoidance in Low Power Nodes - The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product for avoiding UL interference in a victim LPN such as femtocell using DRX by the LPN coordinated with the UL DTX of UEs to the LPN and to one or more HPNs such as NBs (or Home NB), e.g., in HSPA systems. The victim LPN may start DRX having ON and OFF periods. Then the LPN sends information about DRX to its UEs (LUEs) communicating with the LPN, and to one or more network elements such as aggressor HPNs' RNCs. The network element(s) are adapted to identify and configure aggressor UEs (HUEs) communicating with one or more HPNs of the network for coordinating ON and OFF periods of the DRX by the LPN with transmissions of the LUEs and the HUEs to avoid interference during the OFF periods of the DRX in the LPN. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195073 | Low-Cost LTE System with Distributed Carrier Aggregation on the Unlicensed Band - A method for distributed carrier aggregation on unlicensed bands is described. The method includes tuning an antenna of a user equipment to a first carrier. The method includes transmitting, from an access point on a first carrier, information regarding a second carrier. The method also includes receiving, on the first carrier via the antenna, the information regarding the second carrier. The first carrier and the second carrier are in an unlicensed band. The method includes retuning the antenna to the second carrier and communicating data on the second carrier via the antenna. A maximum transmission power for the second carrier is based at least in part on a bandwidth of the second carrier. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 08-01-2013 |
20130203458 | POWER CONTROL FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION ON SHARED BANDS - There is provided, for example, an apparatus, which is caused to select a transmission power configuration for a communication with at least one user terminal taking place on component carriers of a carrier aggregation configuration within a shared band, wherein the selection is between a low transmission power configuration applying a transmission power below a predetermined power threshold without a listen-before-talk approach and a high transmission power configuration applying a transmission power of at least the predetermined power threshold; and upon detecting that the selected transmission power configuration needs to be informed, cause an indication of the selected transmission power configuration to the at least one user terminal and at least one secondary cell. | 08-08-2013 |
20130212219 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING MACHINE GATEWAY OPERATION - An apparatus ( | 08-15-2013 |
20130223399 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus is configured to receive a first signaling message comprising a first identifier of a first node and a second identifier of a second node, and responsive to the receiving initiate at least one policy action relating to at least one of the first node and the second node; and transmit a second signaling message to the first node, the second signaling message being configured to cause bearer establishment between the first node and the second node. | 08-29-2013 |
20130230032 | SELECTION OF COMMUNICATION MODE - A method, apparatus, and computer program for selecting a communication mode for a terminal device is described herein. A communication mode is selected for a terminal device on the basis of a difference between an estimated radio channel between the terminal device and a base station and an estimated radio channel between the terminal device and another terminal device. The communication mode is selected from a group comprising a plurality of different configurations to multiplex communication over the first radio link with communication over the second radio link. | 09-05-2013 |
20130242827 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FACILITATING UPLINK MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT SIGNALING - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for detecting multiple input multiple output communications. A method and apparatus may enable transmission of a first control signal to a communication device. The first control signal may indicate at least one number of data streams that the communication device is allowed to utilize to transmit data. The method and apparatus may perform detection of discontinuous transmission on one or more control channels indicated by the first control signal. The method and apparatus may determine whether the communication device currently communicates on the control channels in response to performing the detection of the discontinuous transmission. | 09-19-2013 |
20130273926 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION SCENARIO - A method, apparatus, and computer program for supporting simultaneous multi-use of resources of a backhaul link between a relay base station and another base station of a cellular radio network. The relay base station is configured to forward transmission resources of the backhaul link to at least one communication device located in a cell of the relay base station. The communication device(s) is/are then configured to utilize the resources of the backhaul link for device-to-device connections. | 10-17-2013 |
20140016595 | TTI Adaptation in E-DCH - An apparatus, comprising at least one processor configured to dynamically change a timing parameter, such as a Transmission Timing Interval for an E-DCH resource for a second apparatus in a cell. | 01-16-2014 |
20140126537 | Method and Apparatus for Obtaining Reliable E-DCH Reception for Transmission of Scheduling Information - A system to obtain an enhanced-transport format combination (E-TFC) for transmitting a scheduling information (SI) in a soft handoff (SHO) to a serving enhanced Data Channel (E-DCH) cell in a heterogeneous Network (HetNet). The system comprises receiving an E-TFC selection power backoff (ESPB) value from an active macro-cell, the active macro-cell being the service E-DCH cell; determining the E-TFC based on an indicated power of a serving grant minus the received ESPB value and a set of E-TFC power offset value received from the active macro cell, if an MAC-e/i data PDU to be transmitted is multiplexed with the SI; otherwise, determining the E-TFC based on the indicated power of the serving grant and the set of E-TFC power offset value; and transmitting the MAC-e/i PDU to the active macro cell using the indicated power of the serving grant and an enhanced dedicated channel selected based on the determined E-TFC. | 05-08-2014 |
20140206330 | MEASUREMENT REPORTING - Measures for use in measurement reporting in a cellular telecommunications network. One or more configuration parameters for configuring a plurality of Cell Individual Offset (CIO) values for use in measurement reporting in a given cell are generated. Signalling information comprising the generated configuration parameters for the plurality of CIO values is transmitted to at least one user equipment in the given cell. | 07-24-2014 |
20140355557 | Ratio Resource Sharing and Contention Scheme for Device-to-Device Communication in White Space Spectrum Bands - The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus and a computer program for resource contention in device-to-device communication links. The method partitions the time-frequency radio resource grid with a resource block set forming the resource unit in the grid, for all available, used and unusable frequency bands around a given virtual central frequency. Each resource block set is partitioned into a common control channel and a data channel. With a given procedure of control data transmission between transmitting and receiving user terminals, the resources are competed and shared. Frequency shifting with short distance frequency change or frequency transference with a larger frequency hopping into a free radio resource is available. The competition procedure is done in order to fairly share the frequency bands as a function of time between different device-to-device communication links in a localized manner. | 12-04-2014 |
20140369277 | Method and Apparatus for Communication Using a Shared Uplink Wireless Communication Channel - A method of transmitting data by a user equipment using a shared uplink wireless communication channel is described. The method includes receiving a power grant corresponding to the allowed transmission power on the shared uplink wireless communication channel. Also, the user equipment receives a scheduling grant corresponding to whether transmission is allowed on the shared uplink wireless communication channel. The user equipment transmits data on the shared uplink wireless communication channel according to the power grant and the scheduling grant, wherein the power grant is received separately from the scheduling grant. A corresponding method of controlling transmission, apparatus and computer program product is also described. | 12-18-2014 |