| SEAH NETWORKS CO., LTD. Patent applications |
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| 20120120873 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING MIMO MODES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is an apparatus for switching MIMO modes, which can efficiently switch an MIMO mode of a mobile station. The apparatus for switching MIMO modes includes an MIMO mode determining unit, a staying time determining unit, and an MIMO mode switching unit. The MIMO mode determining unit determines a current MIMO mode of a mobile station. The staying time determining unit determines a first staying time in a first MIMO mode of the mobile station when the MIMO mode determining unit determines the current MIMO mode of the mobile station as the first MIMO mode for transmitting the same data through a plurality of antennas, and determines a second staying time in a second MIMO mode of the mobile station when the MIMO mode determining unit determines the current MIMO mode of the mobile station as the second MIMO mode for transmitting different data by antenna. The MIMO mode switching unit switches the MIMO mode of the mobile station to the second MIMO mode when the first staying time is greater than or equal to a first threshold staying time. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120114066 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEIGHT FACTOR MATRIX DETERMINATION FOR BEAM FORMING - Disclosed is a weight factor matrix determining method for beamforming in a base station in order for inter-cell interference to be removed. The weight factor matrix determining method for beamforming which includes: determining a first transmission power for a first terminal being a target terminal and a second transmission power for a plurality of second terminals other than the target terminal; calculating an Eigen vector with an Eigen value for a ratio of the first and second transmission powers; and determining a weight factor matrix in a serving base station, with the calculated Eigen vector. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120093111 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for allocating a MAP message region in a broadband wireless communication system having a multi-cell/-sector structure. The present invention allocates a common MAP message region for multiple cells/sectors and a data region, divides the common MAP message region into MAP message sections for each of the cells or each of the sectors, allocates MAP messages corresponding to each of the cells or each of the sectors to the divided MAP message sections and allocates data to be transmitted to each MS to the data region, and broadcasts multiple frames containing MAP message regions for each of the cells or for each of the sectors and the data region. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120064898 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING MULTICAST BROADCAST SERVICE - Disclosed are a method and device for supporting Multicast Broadcast Service (MBS). The device for supporting MBS includes a ranging determiner, an MBS determiner, and a message generator. The ranging determiner determines an action state of a mobile station according to a ranging request of the mobile station. The MBS determiner determines whether the mobile station has an MBS flow. The message generator generates a ranging request message on the basis of the action state and MBS flow. When the mobile station has the MBS flow, the message generator adds an MBS indication bit, representing “the mobile station is an MBS mobile station”, into a ranging purpose indication TLV of the ranging request message. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120058765 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FEMTO BASE STATIONS AND A FEMTO ZONE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention relates to a system and to a method for efficiently managing at least one or more femto base stations (BSs) existing in a femto zone containing a plurality of femto cells and for managing the femto zone in a wireless communication network. The system and method of the present invention comprise: receiving a registration request from a first femto base station from among the femto base stations in the femto zone that share a backhaul link; storing the registration of the femto base station and determining the first femto base station as a master base station or a candidate base station in accordance with the registration request; and transmitting, to the first femto base station, a registration acknowledgement message which contains the maximum backhaul link capacity of the femto zone and master base station information if the first femto base station is determined to be master base station, or a registration acknowledgement message which contains master base station information and candidate base station information if the first femto base station is determined to be the candidate base station. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120045019 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A PRECODING MATRIX - Disclosed is a method for determining precoding matrix based on an open-loop MIMO scheme, which can enhance a diversity gain at a static communication environment or a low-mobility communication environment. The method for determining precoding matrix applies a first precoding matrix to downstream data to transmit the downstream data through a plurality of antennas, the first precoding matrix being selected from a codebook which comprises a plurality of precoding matrixes, and changes the first precoding matrix to a second precoding matrix per predetermined period, and applying the second precoding matrix to the downstream data to transmit the downstream data through the antennas. The second precoding matrix is a precoding matrix corresponding to an index which has been shifted by a certain value from an index of the first precoding matrix in a direction where an index of a precoding matrix increases, in the codebook | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120040709 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPORTING TRANSMISSION POWER, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TRANSMISSION POWER - Disclosed is an apparatus for reporting transmission power. The apparatus for reporting transmission power includes a transmission power normalization unit, a message generation unit, and a transmission unit. The transmission power normalization unit normalizes a first transmission power at a current Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level into a second transmission power at a reference MCS level, the current MCS level being an MCS level of a burst which is intended to comprise a transmission power report of a terminal. The message generation unit generates a message comprising the transmission power report of the terminal with the second transmission power defined therein. The transmission unit transmits the generated message to a base station. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120020327 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING HIGH SPEED RANGING DURING HANDOVER - Disclosed is a portable internet system, and more particularly, to a method of supporting fast ranging upon handover. The method comprises calculating an action time based on a time when a handover confirmation message is received from a serving Radio Access Station (RAS), in a target RAS; and transmitting a fast ranging information message to a mobile station on the basis of the action time. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20110317639 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and system for controlling an uplink (UL) in a wireless communication system, wherein packet scheduling is performed on the data packet of a mobile station to allocate multiple bursts, the parameters of the mobile station and the multiple bursts are verified, and the parameters are used to determine the MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) level and transmission power level for the multiple bursts. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317612 | MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a multicast and broadcast service (MCBCS) system and method. According to the present invention, the MCBCS system comprises: an MBS distribution DPF (Data Patch Function) for receiving MBS data from an MCBCS server/controller and distributing the data; an MBS synchronization controller for acquiring GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) for the MBS data from the MBS distribution DPF and then generating an MBS synchronization rule; an MBS synchronization executor for executing MBS synchronization on the MBS synchronization rule received from the MBS synchronization controller; and an MBS DPF for receiving MBS data from the MBS distribution DPF, packaging the MBS data into an MBS burst and then transmitting the data to an MS (Mobile station). As such, multicast and broadcast services can be provided efficiently. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110274068 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE CONTROLLING SCHEDULING IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for controlling the scheduling in a radio communication system, which comprise calculating a first resource value for a first data packet using packet information of the first data packet, determining an MCS level and a transmission power density for the first data packet and a second data packet using a resource allocation parameter for the first data packet and packet information of the second data packet, calculating a second resource value for the first data packet and the second data packet using the MCS level and the transmission power density determined in the previous step, and allocating the second resource value for the first data packet and the second data packet as an uplink resource if the second resource value is not greater than the total number of allocable resources of an uplink frame. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110269450 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING CHANNEL INFORMATION IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for acquiring downlink channel information in a radio communication system having a multi-cell/sector structure, comprising receiving channel quality information of a mobile station and loading information of cells/sectors adjacent to the mobile station, checking the carrier to interference and noise ratio (CINR) contained in the channel quality information, checking the average loading factor of the adjacent cells/sectors contained in the loading information, summing the average loading factors for each of the adjacent cells/sectors to calculate an effective loading factor, and compensating for the CINR with the effective loading factor to acquire channel information of the base station. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110261841 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD USING SPACE-FREQUENCY TRANSMISSION DIVERSITY - The present invention relates to a transmission device and method using space-frequency transmission diversity in a communications system. The transmission device and method using space-frequency transmission diversity according to the present invention is characterised in that data or signals are grouped into 2 or more groups which are then transmitted through different transmission antennae by using different sub-carriers. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261731 | METHOD FOR UPLINK POWER CONTROL IN OFDMA TDD SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for uplink power control in an OFDMA TDD system. The method for uplink power control according to the present invention comprises: calculating an RSSI average by using RSSI measured from a downlink signal; and carrying out an uplink power control based on the RSSI average, with the RSSI average being calculated by using a weight that is determined depending on a channel variation rate and link symmetry. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110228739 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING BANDWIDTH IN WIDEBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for allocating a bandwidth in a wideband wireless communication system. Said method comprises: allocating a bandwidth to an uplink burst area in accordance with the bandwidth request received from at least one terminal; determining whether a preemptive grant bandwidth allocation is enabled or not; determining a preemptive grant terminal if the preemptive grant bandwidth allocation is enabled; and allocating a preemptive grant bandwidth within a residual bandwidth to the determined preemptive grant terminal. By doing this, the present invention can efficiently use the bandwidth of an uplink frame, and shorten the time taken for bandwidth request/approval between a terminal and a base station. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110103379 | TCP ACK PACKET TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD, AND A DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME - Disclosed is a broadband wireless network, and more particularly, to a method for transmitting and receiving a TCP ACK packet, and a device supporting the same, wherein the method for transmitting and receiving a TCP ACK packet receiving TCP ACK packets and data packets from an upper layer; creating a MAC PDU by unifying the TCP ACK packet and data packet buffered in the same queue among the received TCP ACK packets and data packets; and transmitting the MAC PDU to a physical layer. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110075762 | UPLINK INTERFERENCE MITIGATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for mitigating uplink interference in the wireless communication system, wherein the method comprises determining a loading-status value for each sector; if the loading-status value is not greater than the first threshold value, generating UL zone switch IE and UL allocation start IE to allocate data bursts of the sectors to different subchannels; and preparing an uplink map using the UL zone switch IE and UL allocation start IE for each sector, wherein the uplink duration indicates a duration where all the subchannels are used for allocation of the data burst. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110058506 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - This invention relates to a device and a method for transmitting channel information in a wireless communication system. The disclosed device and method are characterized by: estimating channels by dividing the channel matrix elements for a complex channel into a real number part and an imaginary number part; quantizing each channel which is estimated through the division into the real and imaginary number parts based on a preset boundary value; generating the channel information corresponding to the quantization value for the real and imaginary number parts of the channel matrix elements; and transmitting the generated channel information to a transmitter. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20100302989 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MULTICAST BROADCAST SERVICE (MBS) IN WIMAX - Disclosed is a mobile internet system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for supporting a multicast broadcast service (MBS) over WIMAX. The MBS supporting method of the present invention comprises assigning a first GRE key to a first MBS service flow for a first MS, and delivering MBS contents having the first MBS service flow through the use of first GRE key; and if a second MBS service flow for a second MS is the same as the first MBS service flow, delivering MBS contents having the second MBS service flow through the use of first GRE key pre-assigned to the first MBS service flow. | 12-02-2010 |
