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20080205266 | DATA BURST ASSEMBLY APPARATUS AND DATA BURST PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A data burst assembly apparatus includes a receiver to receive a packet from at least one source; a monitor to monitor a data traffic condition of a network; and a data burst generator to dynamically determine a value of a generation parameter for generating a data burst with respect to the packet received at the receiver according to the data traffic condition of the network, and to generate the data burst using the generation parameter value. A storage unit may be further included to store a mapping table defining generation parameter values mapped based on data traffic conditions. A data burst generator can read a generation parameter value mapped to a monitoring result from a mapping table and generate a corresponding data burst. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212466 | APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND TANGIBLE MACHINE-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF FOR RELAYING A DATA SIGNAL IN A MILTI-HOP NETWORK - An apparatus, a transmission method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for relaying a data signal in a multi-hop relay network are provided, wherein the multi-hop relay network comprising a plurality of relay stations. The apparatus comprises a storage module, a receiving module, and a transmission module. The storage module is configured to store a message of the multi-hop relay network, the message indicating a relation between the apparatus and the relay stations. The receiving module is configured to receive the data signal. The transmission module is configured to transmit the data signal and a first response signal according to the message in response to the data signal, wherein the first response signal relates to a correctness of the data signal. | 09-04-2008 |
20080212467 | APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND TANGIBLE MACHINE-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF FOR RELAYING DATA SIGNAL IN A MILTI-HOP NETWORK - An apparatus, a transmission method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for relaying a data signal in a multi-hop relay network are provided, wherein the multi-hop relay network comprising a plurality of relay stations. The apparatus comprises a storage module, a receiving module, and a transmission module. The storage module is configured to store a message of the multi-hop relay network, the message indicating a relation between the apparatus and the relation stations. The receiving module is configured to receive the data signal. The transmission module is configured to transmit the data signal and a first response signal according to the message in response to the data signal, wherein the first response signal relates to a correctness of the data signal. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219157 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA RECONFIGURATION IN AN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system and method are disclosed that may be operable to avoid upstream reassembly at an optical line terminal in a passive optical network. | 09-11-2008 |
20080225703 | CONGESTION REDUCING RELIABLE TRANSPORT PACKET RETRY ENGINE - A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for transmitting at least one packet across a network destined for reception by at least one network endpoint. A plurality of packets is processed sequentially from a queue to be sent to at least one network endpoint. At least a first packet from the plurality of packets is transmitted to the network endpoint. The at least first packet transmitted to the network endpoint is determined to not have been acknowledged. A first retry packet associated with the at least first packet is transmitted to the at least one network endpoint. Transmission of packets other than the first retry packet is suspended to the network endpoint. The first retry packet is determined to have been acknowledged by the at least one network endpoint. Transmission of remaining packets in the plurality of packets to the at least one network endpoint is resumed. | 09-18-2008 |
20080225704 | PROBES FOR PREDICTIVE DETERMINATION OF CONGESTION BASED ON REMARKING/DOWNGRADING OF PACKETS - In one embodiment, a technique for detecting the re-marking of a parameter in a network packet is provided. The technique involves sending a request packet that contains a first value of a type of service parameter effecting how the packet is to be handled relative to other packets and receiving a response packet to the request packet, the response packet containing an indication of a second value of the type of service parameter in the request packet as received by a network device that sent the response packet. The first and second values of the type of service parameter are compared. A determination that the request packet was re-marked is made if the first and second values of the type of service parameter do not match. | 09-18-2008 |
20080267063 | Method and apparatus for multi-user scheduling for interference avoidance in adaptive beamforming systems - A method and apparatus of imparting coverage gain to cell-edge or cusp mobile subscribers without resort to diluted frequency reuse factors is disclosed. Each base station adopts a priori a beam illumination sequence designed to minimize or obviate the likelihood of beam clashes in a narrow beam adaptive beamforming system. Such sequences may be optimized to impact primarily cell-edge subscribers or subscribers within cusp areas of adjoining beams or sectors. The inventive protocols may be applicable to fixed multibeam systems as well as individual steered beam and spatial null generation antenna systems. | 10-30-2008 |
20080273458 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTICAST SCHEDULING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - The invention includes a method and apparatus for scheduling multicast transmissions in a wireless network by selecting one of a plurality of multicast groups of a cellular region that is permitted to transmit information during a current timeslot. A method includes receiving data rate request values from wireless user terminals of each of a plurality of multicast groups, assigning a data rate to each multicast group using the data rate request values of wireless user terminals belonging to the respective multicast groups, selecting one of the multicast groups using the assigned data rates, and transmitting information to the selected one of the multicast groups at the associated assigned data rate. In one embodiment, the multicast scheduling algorithm may be a multicast proportional fairness (MPF) scheduling algorithm which attempts to maximize utility value of data received by individual users. In one embodiment, the multicast scheduling algorithm may be an inter-group proportional fairness (IPF) scheduling algorithm which attempts to maximize utility value of data received by multicast groups. | 11-06-2008 |
20080279097 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Network Device Congestion Relief - A method, system, and computer program product for network device congestion relief are provided. The method includes receiving a level of congestion for a network device, receiving a data packet including a codec list, and determining a filter policy based on the level of congestion. The method further includes applying the filter policy to the data packet to remove at least one codec from the codec list when a filter policy condition is met, resulting in a filtered data packet, and outputting the filtered data packet. | 11-13-2008 |
20080285443 | METHOD FOR MONITORING CHANNEL EYE CHARACTERISTICS IN A HIGH-SPEED SERDES DATA LINK - A method is disclosed for tuning each channel of a high-speed SerDes cable link interface arranged in a configuration linking a local side physical layer to a remote side physical layer. The method includes initiating an operational state of high-speed SerDes cable link interface, identifying flow-control packet Op codes not cited for use by operational high-speed SerDes cable link interface, transmitting a flow control signal from the local side physical layer to the remote side physical layer to control the remote side physical layer to monitor the eye characteristics of the channels used by the local side physical layer to transfer data to the remote side physical layer, transferring eye characteristics acquired in the monitoring to the local side physical layer and processing the eye characteristics by the local side physical layer to generate equalization setting adjustments. | 11-20-2008 |
20080298232 | Systems and methods for wireless transmission and reception of data including processing and buffering features - The present invention relates to a wireless data system which has a transmitter including a transmission buffer. The transmitter is configured to transmit a plurality of packets of encoded data, wherein a level of the transmission buffer is encoded in one of the packets of encoded data. The system further has a wireless receiver for receiving the plurality of packets. The receiver has at least one receiving component that receives the plurality of packets to generate a plurality of decoded signals, wherein the at least one receiving component is configured to receive one of the packets of encoded data from the transmitter to determine the level of transmission buffer. The receiving component is further configured to store the plurality of packets received in a receive buffer, to determine the level of the receive buffer, and to calculate an aggregate buffer level from the transmission buffer and the receive buffer. The receiver controls a packet output rate from the receive buffer to maintain the aggregate buffer level at a desired level. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298233 | Systems for Detecting Nagling on a TCP Network Connection - Systems for detecting Nagling on a TCP network connection are disclosed. Embodiments may generally include a system with a Nagle detection threshold determiner for determining a Nagle detection threshold based on the network connection. The system may also generally include a Nagle detection module in communication with the Nagle detection threshold determiner for observing a small segment at a second time following an acknowledgement indicative of a Nagling condition at a first time, wherein the Nagle detection module also may detect a Nagling condition if the difference between the second time and the first time is less than or equal to the Nagle detection threshold. The system may be a receiver computer or a network computer. The system may also generate and transmit a notification of the Nagling condition, increment a Nagle monitor counter, or save an indication of the Nagling condition in a log. | 12-04-2008 |
20090003200 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING A TRUNK WITH MULTIPLE TRUNKS - A system and method for protecting a trunk with multiple trunks may select a primary path on a first trunk for which to place a corresponding bypass tunnel on a second trunk. The system and method may further select one or more alternate trunks using a constraint-based trunk-selection algorithm. The system and method may further determine if at least one of the selected alternate trunks has sufficient priority bandwidth. In the event that the physical bandwidth of the primary path is larger than the priority bandwidth of each alternate trunks, the system and method may notify a network administrator. In the event that one or more alternate trunks have priority bandwidths larger than the physical bandwidth of the primary path, the system and method may select an alternate trunk from the one or more alternate trunks having priority bandwidths larger than the physical bandwidth of the primary path based on a pre-determined order of priority bandwidth. The system and method may further compare the priority bandwidth of the selected alternate trunk to a threshold value. In the event that the priority bandwidth of the selected alternate trunk is not greater than the threshold value, the system and method may place the selected alternate trunk in a standby status. In the event that the priority bandwidth of the selected alternate trunk is greater than the threshold value, the system and method may place the bypass tunnel on the selected alternate trunk and may set a reserved physical bandwidth for the corresponding bypass tunnel on the selected alternate trunk. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003201 | HARNESSING PREDICTIVE MODELS OF DURATIONS OF CHANNEL AVAILABILITY FOR ENHANCED OPPORTUNISTIC ALLOCATION OF RADIO SPECTRUM - A proactive adaptive radio methodology for the opportunistic allocation of radio spectrum is described. The methods can be used to allocate radio spectrum resources by employing machine learning to learn models, via accruing data over time, that have the ability to predict the context-sensitive durations of the availability of channels. The predictive models are combined with decision-theoretic cost-benefit analyses to minimize disruptions of service or quality that can be associated with reactive allocation policies. Rather than reacting to losses of channel, the proactive policies seek switches in advance of the loss of a channel. Beyond determining durations of availability for one or more frequency bands statistical machine learning also be employed to generate price predictions in order to facilitate a sale or rental of the available frequencies, and these predictions can be employed in the switching analyses The methods can be employed in non-cooperating distributed models of allocation, in centralized allocation approaches, and in hybrid spectrum allocation scenarios. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003202 | Method and apparatus for domain and subdomain establishment for preemption - In one embodiment, a method and corresponding apparatus, in a network, treat a reservation for network layer resources according to a domain of reservation treatment to which the reservation belongs. | 01-01-2009 |
20090046580 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOST PACKET RECOVERY WITH CONGESTION AVOIDANCE - Devices and techniques for overcoming lost packets and avoiding congestion when conducting media conferences over packet switched networks are described herein. To avoid the problem of lost packets, redundant information is inserted into the media stream that permits the receiver to reconstruct any lost packets from the redundant information. Congestion avoidance techniques include adjusting the bitrate of the media stream to find the highest bitrate that can be supported without packet loss due to congestion. When increasing the bitrate to a higher rate, the additional bits can come from the redundant information used for lost packet recovery so that any lost packets caused by network congestion will not adversely affect the bitstream. | 02-19-2009 |
20090052318 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR TRANSMITTING DATA ENTITIES - A method, system and computer program product for transmitting data entities, the method includes: receiving data entities to be transmitted over multiple channels; and preventing a transmission of data entities that are to be transmitted over congested channels while transmitting data entities that are to be are to be transmitted over non-congested channels | 02-26-2009 |
20090067325 | Receiving and transmitting devices for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a transmission path - The present invention provides receiving and transmitting devices for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a transmission path. The transmitting device comprises an interface and a control unit coupled to the interface. The control unit is adapted to negotiate a packet size with a remote device. The control unit is also adapted to transmit a data packet of up to the negotiated size. The control unit is further adapted to receive acknowledgments from the remote device associated with one or more fragments, fragmented at the transport-level, of the transmitted data packet. The receiving device comprises an interface and a control unit coupled to the interface. The control unit is adapted to receive two or more fragments of a data packet transmitted by a remote device. The control unit is also adapted to transmit one or more acknowledgments to the remote device based on the received fragments. | 03-12-2009 |
20090073876 | ADAPTIVE CODING AND MODULATION AWARE NETWORK LOAD BALANCING - Methods, systems, and devices are described for determining a preferred routing path for communicating source data from a data source to a data terminal over a network having multiple routing path options. Embodiments include receiving a source dataset at a network node; determining multiple routing path options for routing the source dataset, each comprising a set of communication links that communicatively couple the data source with the data terminal; determining a hierarchical encoding scheme for encoding the source dataset to generate a transmission; generating routing path profiles for each routing path option by evaluating each routing path option against a routing metric; determining a preferred routing path for routing the transmission by comparing the routing path profiles; and routing the transmission over the preferred routing path according to the hierarchical encoding scheme. | 03-19-2009 |
20090086627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING OR AVOIDING DISRUPTIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A wireless communication method comprises selecting a cause of a disruption from two or more potential causes of disruptions by associating at least one characteristic of a communication with a device with the selected cause of a disruption and changing a data rate for the communication from an existing data rate to a new data rate based upon the at least one characteristic of the communication. | 04-02-2009 |
20090116379 | Insufficient bandwidth notification for transmission of multimedia program - A network connection is established between a multimedia viewer at a viewer's premises and a service provider. The viewer requests presentation of a multimedia channel via the multimedia viewer. In response to the request, an available bandwidth of the network connection is determined, as is a bandwidth requirement of the requested multimedia channel. In response to determining the bandwidth requirement is inconsistent with the available bandwidth, the viewer is provided with an indicator that the first multimedia channel is unavailable for presentation by the multimedia receiver. In response to determining the bandwidth requirement is consistent with the available bandwidth, data representing the content of the requested multimedia channel is transmitted to the multimedia receiver for presentation to the viewer. | 05-07-2009 |
20090116380 | QUALITY OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT FOR MESSAGE FLOWS ACROSS MULTIPLE MIDDLEWARE ENVIRONMENTS - A method of managing information system resources to provide a message flow having a consistent level of quality of service (QoS) within and across a plurality of interconnected middleware domains is described. The method includes receiving a QoS message from a first QoS manager expressing at least one QoS requirement, translating the at least one QoS requirement to at least one parameter specific to a messaging service that communicatively couples multiple middleware domains, creating a client connection between a first middleware domain and the messaging service for receiving the message flow, transmitting the QoS message to a second middleware domain, and creating a client connection between the messaging service and the second middleware domain for transmitting the message flow. | 05-07-2009 |
20090116381 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONGESTION MANAGEMENT IN A FIBRE CHANNEL NETWORK - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates congestion management in a Fibre Channel (FC) network. During operation, the system determines a threshold data rate on an outgoing link coupled to an FC switch. The system further determines the number of sources that send data to the outgoing link and an aggregate arrival rate of data for the outgoing link. Next, the system determines an injection data rate for a respective source based on the threshold data rate on the outgoing link, the number of sources transmitting data to the outgoing link, and the aggregate arrival data rate for the outgoing link. Subsequently, the system communicates the injection data rate to the source, thereby allowing the source to throttle its data injection in the FC network to prevent network congestion. | 05-07-2009 |
20090122697 | INFORMATION PLANE FOR DETERMINING PERFORMANCE METRICS OF PATHS BETWEEN ARBITRARY END-HOSTS ON THE INTERNET - Performance metrics between any two arbitrary end-hosts are predicted based upon previous measurements on the Internet between a plurality of geographically dispersed vantage points and clusters of end-hosts. Each cluster comprises end-hosts that are related based upon their IP address prefixes. In response to a central agent that stores the measured data for each of a plurality of predicted paths on the Internet, the vantage points use traceroute software to measure and periodically update performance metrics such as latency, bottleneck capacity, bandwidth, and packet loss rate for links comprising the predicted paths between the vantage points and one (or more) destination points associated with each cluster, and gather such data using distributed application systems. A user or client application can subsequently request predicted performance metrics for communication between specific end-hosts, based upon the previous measurement data. | 05-14-2009 |
20090122698 | VIRTUAL QUEUE - An apparatus comprising a virtual queue configured to virtually receive virtual data units as the data units are actually received by a real queue. In various embodiments, the virtual queue may include a committed token counter (CTC) configured to represent a number of bytes available to be allocated to a committed burst having a maximum size. In such an embodiment, the virtual queue may include an excess token counter (ETC) configured to represent a number of bytes available to be allocated to an excess burst having a maximum size. In one embodiment, a token counter incrementer configured to, as an exiting data unit virtually exits the virtual queue, increment either the committed token counter or the excess token counter. In various embodiments, the virtual queue may include a token counter decrementor configured to, as an entering data unit virtually enters the virtual queue, attempt to allocate the entering data unit to either the committed burst or the excess burst and decrement either the committed token counter or the excess token counter respectively. In some embodiments, the virtual queue may include a congestion indicator configured to categorize the entering data unit. In various embodiments, the virtual queue may be configured to provide congestion feedback information based, at least in part, upon the state of the CTC & ETC. | 05-14-2009 |
20090141623 | Central Antenna Management System With Centralized Database - An antenna management system is disclosed for managing cellular communications network antennas remotely in response to traffic demands and environmental factors, including a packet switching network, antennas, base transceiver stations, tilt controllers, air interface modules, a management database, and a control network. In the exemplary embodiment, the system utilizes feedback from a variety of sensors including downtilt sensors, azimuth sensors, weather sensors, gas sensors, and a camera. The system enables data from the sensors to be viewed remotely and analyzed to determine if corrective adjustment of the antenna(s) is needed. After analyzing the data, the system or a user of the system such as a network operator can remotely adjust the antenna(s) to make necessary adjustment(s). The system further enables data received from the sensors to be made available over a packet switching network, such as the Internet or a local or wide area network, to any device, such as a computer or mobile station, connected to the packet switching network. | 06-04-2009 |
20090154347 | PACING OF TRANSPORT STREAM TO COMPENSATE FOR TIMESTAMP JITTER - De-jittering a transport stream, at least some transport packets of the transport stream carrying audio-video data and at least some of the transport packets of the transport stream containing Program Clock References (PCRs). A data buffer receives the transport packets and stores the transport packets. Pacing counter clock circuitry produces a pacing counter clock and adjusts the pacing counter clock based upon a pacing counter clock adjust signal. Pacing control circuitry produces the pacing counter clock adjust signal based upon receipt of the transport packets. PCR packet pacing circuitry receives the pacing counter clock, based upon the packing counter clock, retrieves transport packets from the data buffer, and transmits the retrieved transport packets as an output transport stream. The pacing counter clock adjust signal may be based upon data buffer fullness or based upon an estimated program clock generated from the PCRs. | 06-18-2009 |
20090168648 | Method and System for Annotating Network Flow Information - A scalable flow monitoring solution takes in standard flow records exported from network devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, hubs, etc., and annotates the flow with additional information. This information is derived from a number of sources, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), user configuration, and other, intelligent flow analysis. These annotations add information to the flow data, and can be used to perform value-added flow analysis. The annotated flow is then resent to a configurable set of destinations using standard flow formatting, e.g., Cisco System Inc.'s NetFlow, in one implementation. This allows the annotated flow to be processed and the enhanced information to be used by other flow analysis tools and existing flow analysis infrastructure. | 07-02-2009 |
20090219810 | IMPLICIT RESERVATION OF RESOURCES IN A POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT OR MULTI-POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT NETWORK - A point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint communication network comprises at least one management center and remote traffic stations, between which radio links sharing resources allocated dynamically by the management center have been established. Each traffic station is tasked, whenever it needs additional resources to increase the useful traffic (UT) that it must transmit to the management center, with adding to the current useful traffic (UT) a first traffic (ST), known as smoothing traffic and representative of a selected margin, and a second traffic (AT), known as anticipated traffic and representative of an anticipated need for additional resources, in order to implicitly solicit the management center, then with determining whether additional resources were allocated by the management center, and, if additional resources were allocated, to increase the useful traffic (UT) by an amount corresponding as much as possible to the sum of the resources corresponding to the first traffic (ST) and allocated additional resources. | 09-03-2009 |
20090231996 | Method for the phase-related scheduling of data flow in switched networks - There is described a method for communicating a real-time data traffic in a collision-preventing communications network, during which the following steps are carried out before a real-time data traffic, which is composed of real-time messages and which cyclically recurs within a macro cycle composed of successive cycles: routing the cyclically recurring real-time data traffic for determining optionally the most economical data paths for the real-time messages in communications network; scheduling the cyclically recurring real-time data traffic based on the determined data paths for establishing transmit times for the real time messages within the cycles; subdividing the macro cycle into k phases, k being a natural number>1, and; assigning a respective real-time message to a phase. | 09-17-2009 |
20090231997 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A PACKET SWITCHED CONGESTION STATUS OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and mobile electronic device are provided that display, for a user, a packet switched congestion status of a wireless communication network that is useful for estimating a network quality of service. The method includes transmitting a packet switched congestion status inquiry message from the mobile electronic device to a first network element in the wireless communication network. A reply message received from the first network element in response to the packet switched congestion status inquiry message is then processed. The reply message includes transmission delay information obtained from a device transmission delay between the first network element and the mobile electronic device and a network transmission delay between the first network element and at least one packet switched support node. The packet switched congestion status is then determined based on the transmission delay information. Finally, the packet switched congestion status is displayed on the mobile electronic device. | 09-17-2009 |
20090238068 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT INVOLVING CONGESTION AND FAULT NOTIFICATION IN ETHERNET - A method for sending congestion notifications from a node in an Ethernet protocol including, determining whether the node is congested, generating a congestion message including a unique identifier of the node, responsive to determining that the node is congested, and sending the congestion message to a source transmitter. | 09-24-2009 |
20090245103 | CONGESTION DETECTION METHOD, CONGESTION DETECTION APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONGESTION DETECTION PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - According to an aspect of the embodiments, a congestion detection method causes a computer to function as a congestion detection apparatus connectable to a network. Packets on the network are obtained and a packet loss is detected. A packet group made up of a series of packets based on the obtained packets is extracted. A packet loss in the packet group is detected and a position in the packet group where the packet loss occurred is detected. Whether congestion is occurring is judged based on the position of the packet loss in the packet group. | 10-01-2009 |
20090316576 | ADDRESS-SIMULATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - An address-simulation device is disclosed. The address-simulation device includes an address-generating element, a header-filling element, a packet-generating element and a packet-transmitting element. The address-generating element generates a plurality of addresses, wherein each of the addresses is different from the others. The header-filling element fills the addresses respectively in a plurality of headers. The packet-generating element combines the headers with data respectively to form a plurality of packets. The packet-transmitting element transmits the packets to a server. An address-simulation method is also disclosed. | 12-24-2009 |
20090323523 | Method and Apparatus for Optimizing Station Data in Mobile Communication Network, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium for Computer Program - In order to prevent occurrence of congestion derived from an unexpected or temporary factor as much as possible, a computer is allowed to execute a process of acquiring actual operational information indicating an actual operational history of a mobile communication network; a process of acquiring setting data corresponding to station data set for each node of the mobile communication network; a process of extracting, on the basis of the actual operational information and the setting data, a node or a channel expected to have increase in traffic and a node or a channel having a margin in traffic; a process of creating station data optimized in consideration of change of traffic to be set for each extracted node; and a process of transferring the created station data to the corresponding node for update. | 12-31-2009 |
20100002579 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRIORITY-BASED SERVICE REQUESTS, GRANTS FOR SERVICE ADMISSION AND NETWORK CONGESTION CONTROL - A method for priority-based network congestion control may be implemented by a network entity. The method may include determining one or more priorities associated with a service request that is being processed by the network entity. The method may also include determining resource availability. The method may also include determining whether to grant the service request based on the one or more priorities associated with the service request and the resource availability. | 01-07-2010 |
20100014420 | Lightweight Application Classification for Network Management - Managing network traffic to improve availability of network services by classifying network traffic flows using flow-level statistical information and machine learning estimation, based on a measurement of at least one of relevance and goodness of network features. Also, determining a network traffic profile representing applications associated with the classified network traffic flows, and managing network traffic using the network traffic profile. The flow-level statistical information includes packet-trace information and is available from at least one of Cisco NetFlow, NetStream or cflowd records. The classification of network flows includes tagging packet-trace flow record data based on defined packet content information. The classifying of network flows can result in the identification of a plurality of clusters based on the measurement of the relevance of the network features. Also, the classification of network traffic can use a correlation-based measure to determine the goodness of the network features. | 01-21-2010 |
20100014421 | SPECULATIVE CREDIT DATA FLOW CONTROL - A method of speculative credit data flow control includes defining a low watermark value as a function of a number of open buffers in a receiving unit; receiving a data packet from a sending unit; determining whether the data packet includes a packet delay indicator; defining a first speculative credit value responsive to receiving the packet delay indicator; defining a second speculative credit value as a function of the first speculative credit value added to a regular credit value; generating a flow control packet including the second speculative credit value; and sending the flow control packet to the sending unit. | 01-21-2010 |
20100020681 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND DEVICE, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a communication apparatus by which a user can simply set a transmission quality in a network and QoS control effectively functions. QoS type receiving sections ( | 01-28-2010 |
20100020682 | Communication device, communication method, and recording medium - In transmitting data between a server device and a client device or between communication terminals, a data transfer rate is set in response to an available bandwidth, an application of the data, and the like not to cause waste of the network. A controlling portion detects a packet loss caused per transmission of data, and then chooses a compression mode whose data transfer rate is low when the packet loss is detected. In contrast, the controlling portion counts a time required from the data transmission (a reciprocation delay time) in such a situation that no packet loss is caused, and chooses a compression mode whose data transfer rate is high when the reciprocation delay time is sufficiently small. As the method of choosing the compression mode, for example, the method of switching a codec into another codec or changing a compression ratio being set in the codec may be employed. | 01-28-2010 |
20100074106 | SCHEME FOR AVOIDING DEADLOCK IN MULTI-RING INTERCONNECT, WITH ADDITIONAL APPLICATION TO CONGESTION CONTROL - A method and system to avoid multi-ring deadlock. The method includes removing a message on a multi-ring interconnect either with a ring connector associated with the target of the message or by the message's source station such that the message travels no more than one time around the slotted ring interconnect before its removal. The method may also be applied to single ring networks for congestion control. | 03-25-2010 |
20100074107 | AVOIDING UNNECESSARY RSVP-BASED PREEMPTIONS - In one embodiment, a path request message for a new data flow is received at a network node. The path request message indicates resources needed to accommodate the new data flow. The resources needed to accommodate the new data flow are compared to an amount of available resources at the network node. Provided there are sufficient available resources at the network node to accommodate the new data flow, the resources needed to accommodate the new data flow are associated with a held resources state. Subsequently, a reservation request message is received at the network node. The reservation request message requests resources for the new data flow. A determination is made that the requested resources correspond to resources associated with the held resources state. The requested resources are removed from the held resources state and reserved for the new data flow. | 03-25-2010 |
20100091650 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING PRIORITY ASSOCIATED WITH A COMMUNICATION AMONG A PLURALITY OF NETWORKS - A system for conveying priority associated with a communication conveyed among networks includes: (a) a first network originating the communication in packets; each respective packet including two segments; a first segment containing a portion of the communication in information payload bits in a first encoding scheme; a second segment containing overhead information relating to the packet in overhead bits in a second encoding scheme; a number of the overhead bits being configured to indicate the priority; and (b) a second network cooperating with the first network to alter encoding of the first segment of a selected packet-set to express the information payload bits in a third encoding scheme that is unreadable in the second network; the second network employing the priority-indicating bits to ascertain priority for handling the communication by the second network; the second network preempting lower priority resources to reserve resources for higher priority packet-sets. | 04-15-2010 |
20100103815 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REFLECTING FORWARDING PLANE UTILIZATION IN CONTROL PLANE - A method is provided that includes setting a first oversubscription factor of a control plane for an interface, measuring forwarding plane utilization on the interface, and calculating a second oversubscription factor of the control plane for the interface using the measured forwarding plane utilization as compared with a target forwarding plane utilization on the interface. The method also includes determining whether to update the first oversubscription factor based upon the calculated second oversubscription factor. | 04-29-2010 |
20100110886 | Automated local spectrum usage awareness - Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus and computer programs providing localized awareness of spectrum usage and other factors in uncoordinated deployments of radio access networks. A method includes transmitting a beacon from a first access node for reception by a first user terminal that is associated with the first access node and also by a second user terminal that is associated with a second access node. The method further includes receiving feedback from the first user terminal that is associated with the first access node, the feedback comprising information obtained by the first user terminal from a beacon received from the second access node. | 05-06-2010 |
20100142371 | Loadbalancing network traffic across multiple remote inspection devices - Methods of balancing network packet traffic among multiple checking functionalities (CFs) are described. A network has at least one client operatively connected to at least one source switch and multiple available CFs operatively connected to at least one destination switch. Each available CF has predetermined, but possibly different inspection capabilities. A source switch receiving packets from a client inspects each packet and can optionally choose an available CF having at least the minimum necessary inspection capabilities to inspect the particular packet, and tunnel the packet to the chosen CF. | 06-10-2010 |
20100149969 | BFD rate-limiting and automatic session activation - A system and method for bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) rate-limiting and automatic BFD session activation includes tracking a total bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) packet rate for a line card (LC) of the node, and rejecting operations associated with creation of a new BFD session that would cause the total BFD packet rate to exceed a predetermined maximum rate. The new BFD session is stored in a state on the node and the operations of the new BFD session are automatically retried at a time when doing so would not exceed the predetermined maximum rate. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b). | 06-17-2010 |
20100149970 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - In a wireless communication system, a method and apparatus for controlling traffic congestion includes determining that the traffic congestion at a plurality of geographical locations in the wireless communication network is above a predetermined threshold value. At least one geographical location of the plurality of geographical location is identified, wherein the identification of the at least one geographical location is based on the determination of the traffic congestion in the plurality of geographical location. At least one network node of a plurality of network nodes located in proximity of the identified geographical location is selected and assigned a first level of priority during congestion control. | 06-17-2010 |
20100165838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING DATA THROUGHPUT IN A NETWORK - A method and apparatus for improving data throughput in a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives at least one packet from a first device, and generates an acknowledgement message for verifying a receipt of the at least one packet, wherein the acknowledgement message comprises a precedence value that indicates that the acknowledgement message is to be handled with a priority in accordance with the precedence value. The method sends the acknowledgement message to the first device. | 07-01-2010 |
20100214911 | DYNAMIC, ASYMMETRIC RINGS - Dynamic, asymmetric rings and related communication equipment and methods are disclosed. Various features may be implemented to provide any or all of several degrees of freedom for managing resources in a communication network. Communication rates may be optimized on a node-to-node basis or overall on a network level. Different rates may be configured and possibly dynamically adjusted between different nodes, and/or for different directions of traffic transfer. Bandwidth can be dynamically allocated along a string of the communication nodes in a ring or linear topology in some embodiments. Direction of traffic transfer represents an additional possible degree of freedom in a ring topology, in that traffic can be transferred in either direction in a ring, such as the direction of least delay. | 08-26-2010 |
20100226247 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL FAIR QUEUING OF NETWORK TRAFFIC - Systems and methods for dynamically controlling bandwidth of connections are described. In some embodiments, a proxy for one or more connections may allocate, distribute, or generate indications of network congestion via one or more connections in order to induce the senders of the connections to reduce their rates of transmission. The proxy may allocate, distribute, or generate these indications in such a way as to provide quality of service to one or more connections, or to ensure that a number of connections transmit within an accepted bandwidth limit. In other embodiments, a sender of a transport layer connection may have a method for determining a response to congestion indications which accounts for a priority of the connection. In these embodiments, a sender may reduce or increase parameters related to transmission rate at different rates according to a priority of the connection. | 09-09-2010 |
20100232290 | Methods And Systems For Managing Network Traffic Within A Virtual Network System - Methods, systems and computer readable mediums storing computer executable programs for managing network traffic within a virtual network system. A virtual network system defined within a physical network device is identified. A first virtual network device defined within the virtual network system is identified. A virtual network appliance within the physical network device is defined. The virtual network appliance is communicatively coupled to the first virtual network device. The virtual network appliance is communicatively coupled to the virtual network system. The virtual network appliance is operable to manage network traffic associated with the first virtual network device. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232291 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE - In a data transmission device and method provided with e.g. duplexed switches outputting frames in the order of input for continuing the communication without instantaneous interruptions even though one of the switches are faulted, input interfaces generate frames in which every time data is inputted, input order information indicating the input order is added to the data together with unique information of each input interface and providing the frame generated to the switches in parallel. At least one output interface sequentially stores the frames outputted from the switches for every unique information and selects a first arrived frame among the frames stored with same input order information. | 09-16-2010 |
20100238801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STALE DATA DETECTION BASED QUALITY OF SERVICE - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for controlling the quality of service for data communication. The method includes reviewing a timestamp of a data set, the timestamp having a time value. The time value may be the time the data set expires. Alternatively, the time value may be the time the data set was acquired. In yet another alternative, the time stamp may include both the time the data set expires and the time the data set was acquired. Next, the method includes determining if the time value of the time stamp is greater than the current time. If the time value is the time the data set expires and the time stamp is greater than the current time, the data set has become stale and is dropped. | 09-23-2010 |
20100260043 | VIDEO AND DATA NETWORK LOAD BALANCING - A load balancing communications network configured to communicate with multiple data terminals includes: a first data terminal and a second data terminal; a gateway including: a source data receiver module adapted to receive first source data representing video content and second source data representing broadband data content; a pre-coder module adapted to pre-code the first source data using pre-coding schemes to generate sets of representation data; and an ACM module adapted to associate the sets of representation data with coding and modulation schemes; and a transceiver module adapted to generate a first transmission by applying the coding and modulation schemes to the sets of representation data, generate a second transmission from the second source data, and communicate the first transmission to the first data terminal and the second transmission to the second data terminal over a satellite link. | 10-14-2010 |
20100309781 | SWITCHING BETWEEN MIMO AND RECEIVER BEAM FORMING IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - Aspects describe different multiple antenna techniques that can be utilized in a peer-to-peer network based on a network congestion level. A MIMO scheme where a transmitter sends to a receiver multiple spatial streams at substantially the same time in the same traffic segment can be utilized when network congestion level is low. A receiver beam forming scheme where transmitter sends a single stream in a traffic segment and receiver uses multiple receive antennas to maximize signal to noise ratio can be utilized when network congestion level is high. The connection pair (transmitter and receiver) occupy more control resources in the MIMO scheme than the receiver beam forming scheme. The decision related to which technique to utilize can be made at about the same time as a communication is initiated. Further, if network conditions change during a communication, the antenna technique that is utilized can be switched to a different technique during the communication exchange. | 12-09-2010 |
20100309782 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AN ACCESS MODE OF A NODE B IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for managing an access mode of an NB in a wireless communication system. In the method for changing the access mode of a second NB at a first NB or a CN, an access mode change of the second NB is determined. An access mode change request message is transmitted to the second NB, requesting the access mode change of the second NB. An access mode change response message including an access mode control result is received from the second NB. | 12-09-2010 |
20100322069 | BEARER QUALITY OF SERVICE SELECTION - In the event an entity receives a message including an unknown quality of service parameter (e.g., class identifier) for a bearer, the entity may select a quality of service parameter for the bearer from a set of known quality of service parameters. Here, a guaranteed bit rate quality of service parameter may be selected from the set upon determining that the unknown quality of service parameter is associated with a guaranteed bit rate bearer. Conversely, a non-guaranteed bit rate quality of service parameter may be selected from the set upon determining that the unknown quality of service parameter is not associated with a guaranteed bit rate bearer. | 12-23-2010 |
20110032819 | Method and Nodes for Congestion Notification - A method of performing congestion notification for a data transmission ( | 02-10-2011 |
20110051600 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CALL VOLUME IN A PACKET NETWORK - Method and apparatus for controlling call volume in a packet-switched network is described. In one example, a number of concurrent calls per codec of a plurality of codecs is monitored. A concurrent call limit for each of the plurality of codecs is obtained. For each codec of the plurality of codecs, an indication is generated for each call causing the number of concurrent calls for the codec to exceed the concurrent call limit for the codec. In response to the indication, the call may be blocked or an alternative codec may be selected for the call. | 03-03-2011 |
20110063974 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A WINDOW BASED OVERLOAD CONTROL - A method and apparatus for controlling a network load in a packet network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request from a User Agent Client (UAC), and sends the request to a core proxy server. The method receives a request from a User Agent Client (UAC) and sends the request to a core proxy server. The method increments a counter, if the request is positively acknowledged by the core proxy server. The method decrements a value for a window size parameter by a first predetermined value, and resets the counter, if the request is not positively acknowledged by the core proxy server, and the method decrements a number of outstanding requests if the request is positively acknowledged or negatively acknowledged. | 03-17-2011 |
20110069613 | ENERGY EFFICIENT SCALING OF NETWORK APPLIANCE SERVICE PERFORMANCE - Systems and methods for automatically controlling efficient operation of a plurality of network appliances operatively linked and networked to balance network traffic load across a plurality of network appliances that are selectively enabled. The system facilitating performance of the method includes at least a plurality of network appliances operatively connected to a switch and controlled by a network access control module. During system operation, at any given moment in time, the plurality network appliances operate in one of two modes, fully operational or stand-by. The network appliances of the plurality that are fully operational and thereby consuming full operational power depends upon the network traffic load at any given moment in time. The network appliances functioning in a stand-by mode consume low power levels which are sufficient to allow a network appliance in stand-by mode to receive a command signal directing it to switch from stand-by to full operational mode. | 03-24-2011 |
20110075555 | CONSISTENCY CHECKING FOR CREDIT-BASED CONTROL OF DATA COMMUNICATIONS - A credit-based method for controlling data communications in a computer system between a sender and a receiver coupled by an ordered communication link is described herein. A request for a credit check is transmitted from the sender to the receiver via the ordered communication link. An initial number of credits are allocated to the sender in a credit counter. A snapshot counter is set to a value of the credit counter and us updated as returned credits are received. A number of reported credits are determined based on a credit check response message received from the receiver. The returned credits are ordered relative to the credit check response message. The number of credits is checked for consistency based on a number of the snapshot counter and the number of reported credits. | 03-31-2011 |
20110141885 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR TRIGGERING RESOURCE CONFIGURATION - A method, apparatus, and system for triggering resource configuration are disclosed. The method includes: if user equipment (UE) in Cell_Paging Channel (Cell_PCH) state figures out that the total amount of buffer occupancy at the radio link control (RLC) layer or the Transport Channel Traffic Volume is larger than configured threshold, the UE carries an indication in a MEASUREMENT REPORT message and transmit the message to the network side, wherein the indication is used to trigger the network side to configure resources for the UE. With the present invention, the resource configuration is quickly triggered, and the delay of the UE in the data transmission is minimized. | 06-16-2011 |
20110149726 | Method and System for Service Assurance and Capacity Management Using Post Dial Delays - A computer readable storage medium stores a set of instructions operable by a processor. The set of instructions is operable to determine a metric related to connection delays in a network; determine a level of service degradation for a selected one of a plurality of mechanisms for accessing the network; and instruct a user equipment to use a further one of the plurality of mechanisms, if the level of service degradation for the selected one of the plurality of mechanisms is greater than a predetermined degradation threshold. | 06-23-2011 |
20110149727 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRAFFIC - A traffic control apparatus is provided which includes an interface connector to transmit/receive an Internet Protocol (IP) packet to/from an external circuit, a frame generator to receive the IP packet through the interface connector and to generate a Media Access Control (MAC) frame, and a network processor to transmit/receive the IP packet to/from the frame generator, to execute at least one programmable application, and to identify and classify the at least one programmable application. | 06-23-2011 |
20110158088 | Self-Configuring Networking Devices For Providing Services in a Network - A method for use in a datacenter for load balancing services. A native registry is operated to provide a naming service storing service access information for services active in a network. On a node, an instance of a service is provided, and the native registry is updated with access information for the service. The method includes providing a content switch with a node controller such as on a network device. The method includes obtaining, with the node controller, service configuration information for the service from the native registry that includes the service access information. The node controller activates the service on the network by configuring the content switch based on the obtained service configuration information. The method includes the service node publishing a service definition for the service that includes the service access information and other information such as a service name, an IP address, and a load balancing algorithm. | 06-30-2011 |
20110182174 | TECHNIQUES FOR MILLIMETER WAVE MOBILE COMMUNICATION - A Base Station (BS), a Mobile Station (MS), and a millimeter Wave (mmWave) Access Point (mmAP), for use in a mobile communication system that includes a plurality of Base Stations BSs capable of communicating with a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs), are provided. The BS includes a cellular band transceiver for communicating in a cellular band, an mmWave band transceiver for communicating in the mmWave band, and a controller for controlling both the cellular band transceiver and the mmWave band transceiver for communication with an MS. | 07-28-2011 |
20110182175 | METHOD, TERMINAL AND SYSTEM STRUCTURE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SERVICES IN MICROWAVE COMMUNICATION - A method, a terminal, and a system structure for transmitting and receiving services, which relate to the field of communication technology, so as to realize coordinated operation between Adaptive Code and Modulation and Hitless Switch Mode functions in a microwave communication system, thus improving system transmission efficiency and transmission reliability. The method for transmitting services includes the following steps. A transmitting end of an active link receives an ACM switching indication fed back by a receiving end of the active link, and a transmitting end of a standby link receives an ACM switching indication fed back by a receiving end of the standby link; the transmitting end of the active link performs ACM switching on the services transmitted through the active link and transmits the services; and the transmitting end of the standby link performs ACM switching on the services transmitted through the standby link and transmits the services. | 07-28-2011 |
20110205887 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION USING VARIOUS TRANSMISSION POWER LEVELS - A wireless communications device supports a constant transmission power mode of operation and a time varying transmission power mode of operation for transmitting data, e.g., peer discovery data. The device determines an amount of network congestion and switches between the two modes of operation as a function of the determined amount of network congestion. Various described methods and apparatus are well suited for use in a peer to peer ad hoc wireless communications system in which a limited amount of air link resources are available for peer discovery signaling and the same peer discovery resources are, at times, used concurrently by multiple devices. When network congestion is low, the device operates in the constant transmission power mode. When network congestion is high, the device operates in the time varying power mode. Devices sharing a common peer discovery resource in a local area intentionally select different time varying transmission patterns. | 08-25-2011 |
20110222397 | PACKET BUFFERING BASED AT LEAST IN PART UPON PACKET RECEIPT TIME INTERVAL WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE - An embodiment may include circuitry to be comprised in a node. The node may be communicatively coupled to a network and may include a host processor to execute at least one communication protocol-related process. The circuitry may determine, at least in part, whether to buffer, at least in part, at least one packet received from the network based at least in part upon whether a weighted moving average exceeds a first threshold and is less than a second threshold. The average may be determined based at least in part upon one or more time intervals between one or more packet receptions from the network. Many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible. | 09-15-2011 |
20110242972 | Dynamic Buffer Status Report Selection For Carrier Aggregation - In one exemplary aspect of this invention a method includes buffering data in a user equipment and, in response to an amount of buffered data exceeding a threshold value, triggering the generation of a buffer status report and the sending of the buffer status report to a network access node, where the threshold value is a function of the capacity of a currently allocated uplink data transmission resource and some certain amount of time. In another exemplary embodiment the triggering of the generation of the buffer status report and the sending of the buffer status report to a network access node occurs when an amount of buffered data in a buffer of a particular logical channel group exceeds a maximum value associated with one of a plurality of buffer status report tables that is currently in use. | 10-06-2011 |
20110255400 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REFLECTING FORWARDING PLATE UTILIZATION IN CONTROL PLANE - A method is provided that includes setting a first oversubscription factor of a control plane for an interface, measuring forwarding plane utilization on the interface, and calculating a second oversubscription factor of the control plane for the interface using the measured forwarding plane utilization as compared with a target forwarding plane utilization on the interface. The method also includes determining whether to update the first oversubscription factor based upon the calculated second oversubscription factor. | 10-20-2011 |
20110261685 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND UPPER NODE - A radio communication system provides a first call type in which a radio resource is allocated to a call in time division and a second call type in which the radio resource is allocated according to a transmission rate. The radio communication system includes a measurement unit measuring a usage result of the first call type and a usage result of the second call type; and a setting unit setting a first usage result priority level as a priority level of the first call type based on the usage result of the first call type upon receipt of the first call type and setting a second usage result priority level as a priority level of the second call type based on the usage result of the second call type upon receipt of the second call type. The first usage result priority level is applied independently of a congestion state of a radio communication section. The second usage result priority level is applied according to the congestion state of the radio communication section. | 10-27-2011 |
20120087239 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING A SIGNALING MESSAGE THAT RELATES TO TRANSMISSION RATE RESTRICTIONS - A method for handling a signaling message that specifies transmission rate restrictions may include operating in a first state. The method may also include receiving the signaling message from a network. The signaling message may include an activation time, the transmission rate restrictions and the control duration. The method may also include receiving a state transition trigger to operate in a second state. The method may also include determining the user equipment's behavior regarding the transmission rate restrictions upon receiving the state transition trigger. | 04-12-2012 |
20120092987 | ROUTING APPARATUS AND NETWORK APPARATUS - A routing apparatus and a network apparatus that are capable of improving general system performance by compressing/decompressing data and transmitting the result of the compression/decompression, are provided. The routing apparatus may compress and/or decompress input data, and may transmit the compressed and/or decompressed input data. | 04-19-2012 |
20120113805 | SERVICE FLUX ALLOCATION METHOD AND EQUIPMENT THEREOF - The present invention discloses a service flux allocation method, which includes the steps of: by establishing a usable single board information database ( | 05-10-2012 |
20120140618 | Method and Arrangement for Interference Congestion Control - In a method of uplink interference congestion control in an interference suppression capable receiving node associated with a plurality of users in a wireless communication system, applying interference suppression to received signals in the node, to provide interference suppressed received signals. Subsequently, estimating a rise over thermal value for the uplink, based on the interference suppressed received signals, and determining a load measure for the uplink based on the estimated rise over thermal value. Finally, controlling interference congestion on the uplink based on the determined load measure. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140619 | EVOLVED MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING OF SERVICES WITH DIFFERENT QUALITY OF SERVICE CLASS IDENTIFIERS - A method for performing statistical multiplexing of services with different Quality of Service Class Identifiers (QCIs) in an evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (e-MBMS) system, comprising: at an evolved Broadcast Multicast Service Center (eBM-SC), determining a statistical multiplexing bundle and information of the statistical multiplexing bundle for e-MBMS services, wherein the statistical multiplexing bundle comprises multiple services with different QCIs, and services with the same QCI constitute a statistical multiplexing sub-bundle in the statistical multiplexing bundle, the information of the statistical multiplexing bundle comprising: a QCI, a service list and an Aggregated Bundle Bit Rate (ABBR) of each statistical multiplexing sub-bundle, and the ABBR of the statistical multiplexing bundle; at an MBMS Collaborative Entity (MCE), determining an ABBR bundle based on the information of the statistical multiplexing bundle determined by the eBM-SC and according to a predetermined standard, and performing statistical multiplexing scheduling for the services of the ABBR bundle so that multiple services belonging to the same ABBR bundle share resources allocated to the ABBR bundle. The method may acquire further gain, that is, further reduce resource consumption. | 06-07-2012 |
20120163167 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - The present disclosure provides systems and methods improving Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) network congestion avoidance in wireless networks. Specifically, the present disclosure decouples wired and wireless TCP connections at a wireless access point, thin access point, wireless switch, etc. The wired TCP session is terminated on the wireless access device and a wireless TCP session is automatically started for the last hop to a mobile unit. Advantageously, the wireless TCP session may utilize a congestion avoidance algorithm optimized for wireless network. Furthermore, wireless local area network (WLAN) information may be tied to the TCP stack for improved performed, e.g. an IEEE 802.11 Acknowledgement (ACK) may be considered as equivalent to a TCP ACK from the mobile unit. By splitting a TCP downstream connection into two—wireless and wired, high-jitter, high-loss wireless hops may be hidden from the remote host's TCP socket. | 06-28-2012 |
20120213064 | MONITORING RESOURCE CONGESTION IN A NETWORK PROCESSOR - Embodiments of the invention are directed to monitoring resources of a network processor to detect a condition of exhaustion in one or more of the resources over a predetermined time interval and to provide an indication of the condition. Some embodiments periodically sample various resources of a network processor and from the samples calculate utilization of the network processor's memory bus and core processor, and determine if an interworking FIFO packet queue error has occurred. Such information may help network operators and/or support engineers to quickly zero in on the root cause and take corrective actions for network failures which previously could have been attributed to many different causes and that would have required significant time and effort to troubleshoot. | 08-23-2012 |
20120213065 | MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GUARANTEEING QUALITY OF SERVICE IN WIRELESS LAN - A media access control (MAC) apparatus and corresponding methods for guaranteeing quality-of-service in a wireless local area network (LAN) are presented. The MAC method includes extracting, performing, determining, a first transmitting step, and a second transmitting step. The extracting includes extracting a user priority from a frame received from an upper layer and separately storing a voice frame and a non-voice frame according to an access category (AC). The performing includes independently performing backoff operations for the voice frame and the non-voice frame. The determining includes determining whether the backoff operations for the voice frame and the non-voice frame have simultaneously ended. The first transmitting includes transmitting the voice frame having a higher priority first and performing the backoff operation for the non-voice frame if the backoff operations have simultaneously ended. The second transmitting includes transmitting a frame whose backoff operation ends if the backoff operations have not simultaneously ended. | 08-23-2012 |
20120213066 | Optimizing A Physical Data Communications Topology Between A Plurality Of Computing Nodes - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for optimizing a physical data communications topology between a plurality of computing nodes, the physical data communications topology including physical links configured to connect the plurality of nodes for data communications, that include carrying out repeatedly at a predetermined pace: detecting network packets transmitted through the links between each pair of nodes in the physical data communications topology, each network packet characterized by one or more packet attributes; assigning, to each network packet, a packet weight in dependence upon the packet attributes for that network packet; determining, for each pair of nodes in the physical data communications topology, a node pair traffic weight in dependence upon the packet weights assigned to the network packets transferred between that pair of nodes; and reconfiguring the physical links between each pair of nodes in dependence upon the node pair traffic weights. | 08-23-2012 |
20120218885 | SELECTION OF RECEIVE-QUEUE BASED ON PACKET ATTRIBUTES - According to embodiments of the invention, there is provided a method for operating a network processor. The network processor receiving a first data packet in a stream of data packets and a set of receive-queues adapted to store receive data packets. The network processor processing the first data packet by reading a flow identification in the first data packet; determining a quality of service for the first data packet; mapping the flow identification and the quality of service into an index for selecting a first receive-queue for routing the first data packet; and utilizing the index to route the first data packet to the first receive-queue. | 08-30-2012 |
20120218886 | Method and Apparatus - A system includes a base station and a plurality of relay nodes defining a group. Each of said relay nodes has a direct connection with the base station. Each of the relay nodes is connected to at least one other relay node, whereby at least one direct connection of one relay node is configured to at least one of receive and send information for another of said relays nodes. | 08-30-2012 |
20120224476 | Method and Apparatus for Maintaining Traffic Continuity - A method for maintaining traffic continuity through a Traffic Offload Function (TOF) entity includes the following steps: the TOF entity receives a downlink packet of offload traffic of a User Equipment (UE), where the downlink packet of the offload traffic is sent by a Packet Data Network (PDN); the TOF entity sends a Core Network (CN) paging message to the UE; the TOF entity receives a paging response sent by the UE to the CN, where the paging response includes a service request message of the UE; and the TOF entity forwards the service request message to the CN so that the CN sets up a Radio Access Bearer (RAB) after the service request message is received. With the method, the communication between the CN and the UE can be restored to guarantee the transmission of traffic. Accordingly, a TOF entity is also disclosed according to the present invention. | 09-06-2012 |
20120250501 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SIGNAL ASSOCIATED WITH WARNING NOTIFICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Based on a proposed method, the UE can initiate a certain timer in order not to allow non-emergency calls when warning notification is given in a certain area. In particular, the UE can receive a paging message including warning indication from a network, and starting a delay timer upon receiving the paging message if the UE belongs to a delay-tolerant category. The UE performs a random access procedure after the delay timer is expired. Namely, the UE that receives the paging message for warning, such as the ETWS and CMAS, immediately check whether it belongs to a certain category proposed by this document to trigger a delay timer to wait for a certain period of time until it attempt the call initiation procedure. | 10-04-2012 |
20120257496 | TECHNIQUE FOR CONTROLLING A LOAD STATE OF A PHYSICAL LINK CARRYING A PLURALITY OF VIRTUAL LINKS - A control method is provided for controlling a load state of a physical link between two physical network nodes in a physical network. A physical link carries a plurality of virtual links, and a virtual link connects together two virtual nodes belonging to a virtual network. First and second metrics are associated with the virtual link. The control method includes the following steps implemented by one of the two physical network nodes: a step of detecting a load state of a physical link; a step of identifying a virtual link for which a present metric is the first metric; and a step of sending a command to the virtual node carried by the physical node and to which the identified virtual link is connected, the command requesting a modification of the present metric from the first metric to the second metric for the virtual link. | 10-11-2012 |
20120269059 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEMPORANEOUSLY PROVIDING QUALITY OF SERVICE FUNCTIONALITY AND LOCAL IP ACCESS - A splitter component may be used by itself or with one or more ancillary devices to provide client devices local IP access (LIPA) using local area network (LAN) addresses, while contemporaneously providing quality of service (QoS) functionality to the access terminal for data communicated via a modem, contemporaneously with providing the LIPA. The splitter device may assign a higher priority to traffic of a type having QoS functionality. The QoS functionality may include any combination of a latency requirement, a signal quality requirement, or a signal strength requirement. Providing the one or more devices LIPA using one or more LAN addresses may include assigning each of the client devices an IP address and implementing a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) relay on an associated router, or other LIPA functions. | 10-25-2012 |
20120269060 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A MULTI-MEDIA WIRELESS SYSTEM IN A MULTI-USER ENVIRONMENT - In one aspect, a method of operating a wireless system is disclosed. The method comprises allocating each video packet to a plurality of user specific priority queues. The method further comprises assigning each of the queues to a video quality layer. The method further comprises selectively dropping of one or more of video packets in cases of network congestion based on the video quality layer information. | 10-25-2012 |
20120275300 | SERVICE EVENT TRIGGER - A Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) node for a telecommunications network has a service traffic detector, for performing service traffic detection during a session. A processor detects a predetermined service condition from said service traffic detection. The PCEF notifies a Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF) of the detected service condition by means of a service event defined in an Event Trigger AVP over a Gx reference point. The PCRF receives the notification of the detected service condition, and controls the service provision in response to the detected service condition, for example by controlling the Quality of Service applied to the service. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281528 | AUTONOMIC NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an autonomic network management system which includes: an active measurement unit that measures and analyzes a network state in an active measurement scheme; a passive measurement unit that measures and analyzes the network state in a passive measurement scheme; an autonomic management control unit that respectively receives the measured and analyzed results of the network from the active measurement unit and the passive measurement unit to determine the network state; and a transmission path control unit that receives a transmission path message from the autonomic management control unit to control a transmission path according to the transmission path message. | 11-08-2012 |
20120287781 | MOBILE VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATOR MEDIATOR - The disclosed subject matter provides centralized carrier-side moderation for mobile virtual network operator support. The traffic stream received by a carrier from a radio area network can include carrier traffic, mobile virtual network operator traffic, or combinations thereof. Inspection of the traffic stream can allow the mobile virtual network operator traffic to be dynamically redirected to a mobile virtual network operator gateway. Redirection of traffic can be based on rules that can be provisioned by the carrier or the mobile virtual network operator. Further, the core-components of the mobile virtual network operator can be virtualized on the carrier-side to support deployment of a mobile virtual network operator. | 11-15-2012 |
20120294142 | ADJUSTING CHANNEL ACCESS PARAMETERS DUE TO TRAFFIC LOAD - An apparatus (STA) receives from a first node (AP | 11-22-2012 |
20120300621 | DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING ATTRIBUTES OF A PARENT CIRCUIT ON A NETWORK ELEMENT - Methods and apparatus for dynamically configuring a parent circuit through a subscriber record on an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server responsive to an authorization event for the subscriber session on the network element. According to one embodiment of the invention, the AAA server accesses the subscriber record for a subscriber session on the network element. Based on this subscriber record, a set of one or more attributes for a subscriber circuit and a set of one or more attributes for a parent circuit of the subscriber circuit are determined. The network element applies the set of subscriber circuit attributes to the subscriber circuit and the set of parent circuit attributes to the parent circuit. | 11-29-2012 |
20120320741 | COORDINATION OF SILENT PERIODS FOR DYNAMIC SPECTRUM MANAGER (DSM) - A method for use in a Dynamic Spectrum Manager (DSM) for coordinating asynchronous silent periods in a network, the method comprising detecting a primary user in the network, transmitting a Silent Period Start Control Message to one or more cognitive radio (CR) nodes in the network, wherein the message indicates the start and duration of a silent period and initiates spectrum sensing, receiving a Measurement Report Control Message from the one or more CR nodes in the network indicating results of spectrum sensing, and transmitting a message to the one or more CR nodes, wherein the message instructs the one or more CR nodes to move to a different frequency based on the spectrum sensing results. | 12-20-2012 |
20120320742 | FLOW-CONTROL IN A SWITCH FABRIC - In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a module within a first stage of a switch fabric, a module within a second stage of the switch fabric, and a module within a third stage of the switch fabric. The module within the first stage is configured to send data to the module within the second stage. The module within the second stage is configured to send data to the module within the third stage. The module within the second stage is configured to send a first suspension indicator to the module within the third stage. The module within the third stage is configured to send a second suspension indicator to the module within the first stage in response to the first suspension indicator. The module within the first stage is configured to stop sending data to the module within the second stage in response to the second suspension indicator. | 12-20-2012 |
20130003537 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING INTEGRATED VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL IN A CLOUD-BASED NETWORK - A system for implementing VoIP over a cloud-based network includes a first edge proxy server operatively connected to a plurality of target proxy servers to receive resource information from one or more of the target proxy servers. Each target proxy server is associated with the cloud-based network. A first endpoint is operatively connected to the first edge proxy server and is configured for voice communications with a second endpoint. The voice communications are facilitated by the first edge proxy server using the received resource information. | 01-03-2013 |
20130028078 | TRANSMISSION TERMINAL AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - To realize a state in which a decrease in throughput at one place does not affect other transmission destinations while preventing CPU load from becoming high. | 01-31-2013 |
20130039172 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A communication apparatus communicates with multiple sources and includes an interface that receives from a given source among the sources, information indicating a data volume of source data that is at the given source and to be acquired by the communication apparatus as an executor; and a processor that based on the received information, judges whether the given source is to be an acquisition target, and acquires from the given source that has been judged to be an acquisition target, the source data to be acquired by the communication apparatus. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039173 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OVERLOAD MITIGATION USING UPLINK TRANSMIT POWER BACKOFF - Certain aspects of the disclosure relate generally to uplink flow control of wireless devices for mitigation of overload issues. A user equipment (UE) may reduce an average transmit power for the uplink channel based on whether an overload metric (e.g., temperature metric) exceeds a threshold value. The UE may perform duty cycling for an uplink control channel when an overactive uplink control channel is a dominating factor in a thermal issue. The UE may further reduce a maximum power transmit limit (MTPL) for one or more uplink channels, such as physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). | 02-14-2013 |
20130039174 | METHOD AND AN ARRANGEMENT IN A FIRST NETWORK NODE FOR MANAGING CONGESTION - A method and an arrangement ( | 02-14-2013 |
20130044592 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING OF ADAPTIVE GRANT AND POLLING SERVICE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for performing uplink scheduling for an adaptive grant and polling (aGP) service in a broadband wireless access system, the method comprising: transmitting a first message for requesting the switching or changing of a QoS (quality of service) parameter set to a base station; receiving, from the base station, a service specific scheduling control header including adaptation start time information for adapting a new QoS parameter set; and switching or changing to the new QoS parameter set at the checked adaptation start time after checking the adaptation start time information within the received service specific scheduling control. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044593 | MANAGEMENT OF ARQ DETECTION THRESHOLD IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Embodiments of a system and methodology are disclosed for enabling a network to manage threshold values provided to UEs for use in decoding ACK-NAK signals. In various embodiments described herein, a base station signals an actual fixed threshold value in a semi-static manner for use by UEs to decode ACK/NAK signals. In these embodiments, the threshold value is part of a semi-static but UE-specific threshold value. This allows the base station to accommodate varying UE geometries, and optimize power savings for ACK-NAK transmissions. Embodiments of the invention also allow the base station to enforce a desired quality of service (QoS) without excessive power variations across ACK/NAK which are limited by the transmit power dynamic range. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044594 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MTC SERVICE NETWORK OVERLOAD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a method for controlling an overload of a network, which may be generated due to a service request of a terminal in a mobile communication system of machine type communication (MTC). The invention controls a network overload and efficiently use network resources, by requesting activation of a particular MTC function to the network on the basis of information on changes in unnecessary MTC functions, without allowing a terminal to request (for example, attach request) the unnecessary MTC functions. | 02-21-2013 |
20130058211 | Method of Congestion Detection in a Cellular Radio System - A method for detecting congestion in a transport network is provided. The congestion detection utilizes flow control including relative bitrate. The method comprises counting the number of detected frame loss events for a flow. The method further comprises determining if the number of detected frame losses is greater than or equal to a corresponding threshold, wherein the threshold used is an individual threshold for the flow set taking into account relative bitrate weights of the flow, and detecting transport network congestion for the flow when the number of detected frame losses is greater than or equal to the corresponding threshold. | 03-07-2013 |
20130064077 | NODE APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND PACKET PROCESSING METHOD - A node apparatus capable of performing flexible load distribution and performing a high speed processing of packets, has an interface connecting to multiple packet processors through a switch, stores association information for associating each packet with information of the packet processor, and forwards a packet associated with information of a first packet processor in the association information to the first packet processor. The node apparatus has a control unit that when the first packet processor is determined to be in high load more than or equal to a threshold, updates the association information so that a packet being processable by the first packet processor may also be associated with information of a second packet processor in the association information. The interface forwards a packet associated with the information of the second packet processor in the updated association information to the second packet processor unit. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064078 | Method and Apparatus for Allocating Bearer Resources - The invention discloses a method and apparatus for allocating bearer resources, and relates to LTE system in the communication field. The method comprises: when a network side receives a bearer resource allocation request initiated by a user, if the number of currently activated EPS bearers has reached or exceeded a set upper limit, the network side searching the currently activated EPS bearers according to a QCI carried in the bearer resource allocation request, and if an EPS bearer corresponding to a QCI consistent with the QCI carried in the bearer resource allocation request is found, performing a proprietary bearer modification operation on the found EPS bearer to respond to the bearer resource allocation request. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070587 | System and Method for Reducing Network Congestion Related to a Mass Notification System - A system and method for reducing network congestion related to a mass notification is described herein. Specifically, mass notification system can comprise a memory that stores an application, a predetermined threshold, and a plurality of contacts that comprise location data. The mass notification system can further comprise a processor that, at the direction of said application, delivers said one or more messages to a first portion of said contacts comprising a common location data at a rate, determines a delivery success rate for said first portion of said contacts, compares said deliver success rate to said predetermined threshold, adjusts said rate, and delivers said one or more messages to a second portion of said contacts at said adjusted rate. | 03-21-2013 |
20130094356 | PRIORITIZING HIGHLY COMPRESSED TRAFFIC TO PROVIDE A PREDETERMINED QUALITY OF SERVICE - A network optimization engine can be used to optimize the transmission of network traffic by employing means to prioritize highly compressed network traffic over other network traffic. The network optimization engine accomplishes network traffic optimization by calculating a compression ratio for received data packets and determining whether the calculated compression ratios exceed a compression ratio threshold. The predetermined compression ratio threshold can be a hard coded value or an empirically determined compression ratio threshold that is calculated using a sample of the received network packets. Network packets having a compression ratio that exceeds the compression ratio threshold are classified as highly compressed network traffic and transmitted according to a transmission scheme that is different than a transmission scheme used to transmit non-highly compressed network traffic. | 04-18-2013 |
20130107701 | DYNAMIC CONGESTION CONTROL FOR POWER-BLOCKING SECTORS IN A RADIO TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK | 05-02-2013 |
20130121143 | COMBINED BASE TRANSCEIVER STATION AND BASE STATION CONTROLLER DATA CALL AND QUALITY OF SERVICE - A system, method, and computer readable medium for determining a data call rate comprises determining if a supplemental channel (SCH) should be allocated, if the SCH should be allocated, potentially altering the data rate, requesting an SCH allocation at a current data rate or the altered data rate, and receiving a response to the request with the current data rate, the altered data rate, or a further altered data rate. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121144 | MULTIPLEXING APPARATUS AND DISCARD METHOD - An ATM multiplexing apparatus of the present invention is the apparatus for selectively performing cell discard processing in the case of congestion on the basis of a use state of the same connection formed by cells from the side of an ATM switching unit and subscribers without installing UPC units, and the ATM multiplexing apparatus, which is connected to the ATM switching unit and each of plural subscribers through ATM communication lines and performs multiplexing processing to ATM cells sent from the plural subscribers, comprises: detection means | 05-16-2013 |
20130128729 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK OPERATOR TRAFFIC REGULATION MANAGER AND DATA COLLECTION MANAGER AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A traffic regulation manager, a method of regulating basic management and supplemental traffic and a communication network operator architecture. In one embodiment, the traffic regulation manager includes: (1) a payload analyzer configured to receive management and supplemental information from customer premises equipment devices, examine payloads of packets bearing the management and supplemental information to identify the management session and, if a packet is bearing the supplemental information, forward the packet to a data collection manager, (2) a traffic prioritizer coupled to the payload analyzer and configured to receive the packets bearing the management information from the payload analyzer and prioritize the packets according to at least one criterion and (3) a traffic allocator coupled to the traffic prioritizer and configured to distribute management traffic representing new management sessions among management servers and packets representing existing management sessions to a management server already handling the existing management sessions. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128730 | ENHANCEMENT OF PATH QUALITY OF SERVICE IN MULTI-HOP PACKET COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Techniques and systems for enhancing quality of service (QoS) in communication networks, including wired and wireless communication networks. Implementations of described techniques and systems can be used to provide path-based QoS with distributed per-hop scheduling for carrying traffic over a multi-hop packet communication network. | 05-23-2013 |
20130135994 | Power Saving Procedure in Communications Network - There is proposed a mechanism for power saving procedures to be conducted in transmission network nodes, such as base stations or the like, in a heterogeneous network environment. A transmission node is set to operate in a sensor mode for conducting traffic monitoring when an operation mode of the transmission node is an inactive state. Information necessary for the traffic monitoring by the transmission node based on detection of random access channel (RACH) signals of neighboring cells is provided. On the basis of results of the monitoring of RACHs of the neighboring cells, it is determined whether the inactive transmission node is to be reactivated. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135995 | COMBINING BANDWIDTH AWARE ROUTING WITH CHANNEL SELECTION AND SWITCHING IN A MULTI-HOP WIRELESS HOME NETWORK - A method and apparatus are described including selecting a first route between a source node and a destination node using a bandwidth-aware routing protocol, determining if the selected first route satisfies a bandwidth requirement of an application of the source node, initiating a switch to a new channel selected from a back-up channel list if the bandwidth requirement of the application is not satisfied by the selected route, selecting a second route over the new channel using the bandwidth-aware routing protocol, determining if the selected second route over the new channel satisfies the bandwidth requirement of the application of the source node and streaming data from the source node to the destination node if the selected first route satisfies the bandwidth requirement of the application or if the selected second route over the new channel satisfies the bandwidth requirement of the application. | 05-30-2013 |
20130142037 | ADAPTIVE PACKET SIZE MODIFICATION FOR PACKET NETWORKS - A system and method for modifying the size of data packets transmitted over a packet network in a manner that avoids overloading of the network. The system and method involves monitoring one or more parameters indicative of an amount of bandwidth being utilized on the packet network, responsive to the monitoring, determining that a level of bandwidth utilization on the packet network has changed, responsive to the determination that the level of bandwidth utilization on the packet network has changed, issuing a command to change the size of packets used for carrying data from a first packet size to a second packet size. | 06-06-2013 |
20130163414 | DISTRIBUTION ROUTE CONSTRUCTION METHOD AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A distribution route construction method includes: transmitting, in a data distribution system, at least one check packet to a plurality of terminals within a network from a check packet transmission terminal; checking a reply packet from the plurality of terminals; grouping the plurality of terminals into a first terminal group including a first terminal whose reply packet reaches the check packet transmission terminal and a second terminal group including a second terminal whose reply packet does not reach the check packet transmission terminal; changing a designation terminal for data communication to reduce communication data traffic between the first terminal group and the second terminal group; and reconstructing distribution routes based on the checking and the changing. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163415 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING A LOAD AMONG A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An apparatus distributes a load among a plurality of communication devices. The apparatus stores a session information management table that stores session information for a request packet in association with one of the plurality of communication devices via which the request packet has been transmitted to the apparatus. The apparatus receives a first response packet in response to a first request packet that has been transmitted via a first communication device included in the plurality of communication devices where the first response packet sharing first session information with the first request packet. The apparatus selects, from among the plurality of communication devices, the first communication device associated with the first session information, by referring to the session information management table, and transmits the first response packet to the selected first communication device. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163416 | PROCESSING DIGITAL SIGNAL - Described embodiments provide a digital unit for controlling a plurality of radio units to transmit a signal to user equipment. The digital unit may determine whether user equipment is located at an overlapping service area of a first radio unit and a second radio unit and control the first radio unit to transmit a signal to the user equipment using the first antenna and control the second radio unit to transmit the same signal to the user equipment using the second antenna when the user equipment is located in the overlapping service area. A transmission pattern of the first antenna of the first radio unit may be different from a transmission pattern of the second antenna of the second radio unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130188479 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A BACK-OFF VALUE - One embodiment of the invention provides a method for determining a back-off window value for accessing a transmission channel. The method comprises receiving, at a first wireless node, a first set of time-varying parameters for at least one second wireless node; and using, by the first wireless node, the received first set of time-varying parameters at least partially and a second set of time-varying parameters of the first wireless node in determining a back-off window value for the first wireless node for accessing the transmission channel. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188480 | SUBSCRIBER HANDLING IN RADIO TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method for radio network subscriber handling is provided comprising storing a list of gateway addresses in a radio network node, and performing radio network subscriber handling actions based on information stored in said list of gateway addresses. | 07-25-2013 |
20130194916 | Method for Generating a Load Sharing Vector - The invention relates to a method for generating a load sharing vector indicating a plurality of communication targets for load sharing in a communication network. The method comprises providing ( | 08-01-2013 |
20130194917 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR REGISTERING TRANSMISSION CAPACITIES IN A BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORK - An access node, resource database, network gateway node, methods, and computer program product for use in a broadband access network is described. According to an embodiment of the invention, an access node is configured to determine at least one characteristic in the access node pertaining to the uplink capacity of a logical link between the access node and an aggregation network node in the broadband access network, determine the uplink capacity of the logical link based on the at least one determined characteristic in the access node, and provide a network gateway node in the broadband access network with access to the determined uplink capacity of the logical link. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194918 | System and Method for Link Adaptation Overhead Reduction - Systems and methods of providing link adaptation information feedback are provided. A mobile device that receives packets generates link adaptation information based on incorrectly received packets. This can involve sending link adaptation information in association with NACKs (negative acknowledgements) generated by the mobile device. The network receives this link adaptation information and performs link adaptation accordingly. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194919 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USER EQUIPMENT ASSISTED CONGESTION CONTROL - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with improving QoE in RAN congestion. In one example, a communications device is equipped to indicate a quality control indicator (QCI) for each of a plurality of applications that communicate with a RAN over a bearer, receive information regarding modification of the bearer or additional bearers based on the QCIs, and modify the bearer or additional bearers according to the information to achieve a desired QoE for at least one of the plurality of applications. In another example, a RAN is equipped to receive a QCI for each of a plurality of applications related to a bearer from a UE, and modify the bearer or adding additional bearers for communicating with the UE based on the QCI for each of the plurality of applications to improve QoE at the UE. | 08-01-2013 |
20130208585 | Congestion Control in a Communication Network - A method for congestion control in a network node ( | 08-15-2013 |
20130223207 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure provides a system and a method for managing network traffic. The traffic management system has a quality of experience (QoE) measurement module configured to monitor a QoE metric in real-time. A control module is configured to periodically receive the QoE metric and determine a traffic management action based on the QoE metric. A traffic management module is configured to apply the traffic management action to the network traffic. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223208 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT FOR NETWORK SERVICES - The present invention provides a QoE (Quality of Experience) management solution, wherein QoE feedback is used to optimize the usage of QoS provisioning techniques, thus improving the utilization efficiency of network resources. According to one aspect of the invention, a method for QoE management for a network service provided to a user device, the method comprising: displaying a user interface on the user device for a user to input an expected QoE value of the network service; receiving the expected QoE value of the network service from the user; evaluating an objective QoE value of the network service as a function of network QoS parameters; and adjusting the QoS parameters of the network service if the objective QoE value is less than the expected QoE value. | 08-29-2013 |
20130229914 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT - A method of managing the operation of a network element in a communications system, the method comprising: receiving performance indicators by an optimising function; combining together the performance indicators to produce an achievement indicator comprising weighted components of the performance indicators; using the achievement indicator to determine an optimum setting of at least one parameter value related to operation of the network element; applying the parameter value to the network element. | 09-05-2013 |
20130235719 | METHOD AND APPARATUS IN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM USER EQUIPMENT - A method and apparatus for handling congestion in a mobile telecommunications system is described, the method comprising, at the user equipment: monitoring messages from a cell for an indication of congestion and handing the congestion in a battery and signalling efficient manner. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235720 | SUPPORTING A LARGE NUMBER OF DEVICES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A method for receiving a backoff value at a wireless station is presented. A traffic indication map is received at the station, wherein a backoff number is implicitly assigned to the station based on a position of the station within the traffic indication map. The backoff value is determined by multiplying the backoff number by a predetermined time value. | 09-12-2013 |
20130242726 | USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR REDUCING DELAY IN A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK - Embodiments of user equipment and methods for reducing delay in a radio-access network (RAN) are generally described herein. Embodiments disclosed herein provide enhancements that may be applicable to a 3GPP LTE RAN for reducing delay that may be particularly beneficial for real-time over-the-top (OTT) applications. Some embodiments provide for an uplink delayed buffer status report. Some embodiments provide for a downlink congestion and buffer report. Some embodiments provide for traffic characteristic based inter-UE prioritization. | 09-19-2013 |
20130258843 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND APPARATIS - A network system includes a plurality of apparatuses which transmits traffic data included in a plurality of communications by switching a destination for each communication, and a management device coupled to the plurality of apparatuses, wherein each of the plurality of apparatuses includes, a processor which executes a first process including, selecting a communication from a plurality of communications, acquiring traffic data included in a selected communication selected in the selecting, and transmitting a acquired traffic data acquired in the acquiring to the management device, and wherein the management device includes a processor which executes a second process including receiving the acquired traffic data from each of the plurality of apparatuses, and performing an analysis of the selected communication based on the acquired traffic data. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258844 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Method and arrangement in a first node for requesting a status report from a second node. The first node and the second node are both comprised within a wireless communication network. The status report comprises positive and/or negative acknowledgement of data sent from the first node, to be received by the second node. The first node comprises a first counter configured to count the number of transmitted Protocol Data Units, PDUs, and a second counter configured to count the number of transmitted data bytes. The method and arrangements comprises initialising the first and the second counter to zero, transmitting data to be received by the second node, comparing the value of the first and the second counters with a first threshold limit value and a second threshold limit value and requesting a status report from the second node if any of the threshold limit values is reached or exceeded. | 10-03-2013 |
20130265869 | Systems and Methods for Selective Data Redundancy Elimination for Resource Constrained Hosts - System and method embodiments are provided for selective data redundancy elimination. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving, at a transmission point, an incoming data packet containing content, wherein the content comprises a content type, eliminating, with the transmission point, redundant data elements from the data packet when the content type matches a selective data redundancy elimination type, and bypassing, with the transmission point, selective data redundancy elimination when the content type matches a bypass-elimination type. | 10-10-2013 |
20130272117 | DETERMINING MAXIMUM BANDWIDTH IN A MIXED VERSION MOCA DEPLOYMENT - A method, performed by a computer device, may include identifying Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance nodes associated with a customer's network; querying particular pairs of the identified Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance nodes for physical rates to obtain reported physical rates for the particular pairs of the identified Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance nodes; and querying particular ones of the identified Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance nodes for supported Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance versions. The method may further include determining a maximum bandwidth for the customer's network based on the reported physical rates and based on the supported Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance versions. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272118 | System and Method for Automatically Adapting Audio Packet Marking in a Packet Network - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for managing a packet network to deal with a problem of dropped audio packets. A triggering event signal indicates that audio marked packet traffic in the packet network has exceeded a capacity limit. Upon receiving the triggering event signal, a transmitting device transmits audio packets marked as non-audio packets through the packet network. The transmitting device, for example, is a VoIP telephone. The triggering event signal, for example, is generated when the audio marked packet traffic exceeds a dropped packet threshold, or when monitoring of audio marked packet traffic indicates that audio marked packet traffic approaches a committed data rate (CDR) threshold. | 10-17-2013 |
20130279327 | Locating Traffic Reduction Utilities in Communication Networks - A method of locating traffic reduction entities in a communication network, optionally where at least one reduction entity is located within each network path which allows traffic flow between endpoints and central stations. The method comprises assigning a plurality of allocation cost values each estimating cost of locating of one of a plurality of traffic reduction entities on one of a plurality of intermediate nodes of a communication network, calculating a plurality of excess load cost values each calculated according to excess load cost between two adjacent intermediate nodes of the plurality of intermediate nodes, identifying a node set selected from the plurality of intermediate nodes using a target function based on the plurality of cost values and the plurality of excess load cost values, and outputting instructions for locating the plurality of traffic reduction entities on the communication network according to the node set. | 10-24-2013 |
20130301405 | Systems and Methods for Creating, Managing and Communicating Users and Applications on Spontaneous Area Networks - A Spontaneous Area Network (SPAN) is formed by mobile and fixed nodes using wireless transmission links between nodes, usually in a nearby geographical area. Applications allow users to create, join, leave, and manage SPANs and groups in a SPAN. Automatic procedures allow nodes to join other SPANs. Transmission power of the wireless network interface is dynamic, varying depending on battery level, type of information to transmit, state and topology of the network. A delay tolerant object layer abstraction creates, modifies, deletes, publishes, and handles Delay Tolerant Distributed Objects (DTDOs). A Patient Transport Protocol (PTP) ensures a reliable transport of information through the network while avoiding congestion conditions. An aggressive and explosive network protocol (AGENET) has routing and forwarding capacities and uses datagrams to establish communication between different nodes of the SPAN. Cooperation and diversity are exploited to react to node mobility that causes frequent changes in network topology and disconnections. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301406 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - An object of the present invention is to forward a packet corresponding to trajectories of roads without it being necessary to use road trajectory information. A communication device is mounted on a vehicle. The communication device includes a reception section that receives a packet containing forwarding information that represents a transmission area of the packet that is set up based on a reference direction from a transmission source; an acquisition section that acquires a running direction of its own vehicle; and a processing section that transmits the packet containing the forwarding information to at least the transmission area of the packet that has been set up based on the running direction of its own vehicle. | 11-14-2013 |
20130322235 | ADAPTIVE UL-DL CONFIGURATIONS IN A TDD HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - Technology for traffic offloading to generate a low interference flexible subframe (FlexSF) of an adaptive uplink-downlink (UL-DL) time-division duplexing (TDD) subframe configuration in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is disclosed. One method can include an evolved Node B (eNB) monitoring a traffic loading metric for a specified traffic loading condition. The eNB can offload traffic scheduled for a packet of a macro user equipment (UE) from a macro cell to a FlexSF of a UL-DL subframe configuration of a small cell when the specified traffic loading condition exists. The eNB can be a macro eNB of the macro cell or a small eNB of the small cell. | 12-05-2013 |
20130336109 | ORDERED FLOODING REQUESTS FOR PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENTS - In one embodiment, a stateful path computation element (PCE) in a computer network determines a need to route at least a threshold number of tunnels, and in response, triggers a routing update from a determined set of routers. Having updated the routing information and available network resources for the set of routers, the stateful PCE may then compute the tunnels based on the update. | 12-19-2013 |
20130343181 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DATA PROCESSING USING AN FPGA-IMPLEMENTED HASH FUNCTION - A method for processing data packets in a computer system may include receiving a data packet at a configurable logic device (e.g., an FPGA), each packet including header information regarding the data packet, the configurable logic device automatically identifying particular information elements in the header information of the data packet, the configurable logic device automatically executing a hash function programmed on the configurable logic device to calculate a hash value for the data packet based on the particular information elements, and processing the data packet based on the calculated hash value for the data packet. The calculate hash value may be used for various purposes, e.g., routing and/or load balancing of traffic across multiple interfaces. The configurable logic device may be able to execute the hash function at line rate, thus freeing up processor cycles in one or more related processors. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343182 | PACKET AGGREGATION - Methods and apparatus for improving the efficient use of a wireless channel. Flows of compatible packets to be transmitted are processed in separate queues based on characteristics of the packets, destination and quality of service (QoS) requirements. Aggregation parameters selected for each flow define when packets aggregated on a flow are to be sent. The aggregation parameters may reflect packet type, such as QoS requirements, an application type and/or wireless channel conditions. In some embodiments, the aggregation parameters indicate a threshold frame size or include a threshold time to buffer a packet while waiting for other packets on that flow to fill a frame. When an aggregation parameter for a queue is met, the aggregated packets are transmitted as a frame. The queue is cleared and subsequent packets may begin aggregating. Some types of packets, such as acknowledgment packets, may be sent without aggregation. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343183 | WIRELESS CHANNEL ALLOCATION IN A BASE STATION PROCESSOR - A system and method are provided for allocating wireless channels in a base station processor to messages sent between a subscriber and the base station processor in a wireless network. A latency period is determined corresponding to a return message to be received from a responsive node in response to an outgoing message sent from a sender via the base station processor. A latency manager in the base station processor computes the latency period and stores the latency period in an allocation table. A scheduler schedules a channel to be available at the end of the latency period indicated in the allocation table. At the end of the latency period, the return message is received and the scheduler allocates a channel as defined in the allocation table. The scheduled channel is used to transmit the message to or from the corresponding subscriber. | 12-26-2013 |
20140003230 | ADAPTIVE STANDBY ACCESS IN A LOCAL AREA COMMUNICATION NETWORK | 01-02-2014 |
20140003231 | CALL DELAY CONTROL | 01-02-2014 |
20140010075 | OVERLOAD DETECTION AND HANDLING IN A DATA BREAKOUT APPLIANCE AT THE EDGE OF A MOBILE DATA NETWORK - Mobile network services are performed in an appliance in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. The appliance in the radio access network breaks out data coming from a basestation, and performs one or more mobile network services at the edge of the mobile data network based on the broken out data. The appliance has defined interfaces and defined commands on each interface that allow performing all needed functions on the appliance without revealing details regarding the hardware and software used to implement the appliance. The appliance includes overload detection and handling within the appliance. This appliance architecture allows performing new mobile network services at the edge of a mobile data network within the infrastructure of an existing mobile data network. | 01-09-2014 |
20140022894 | NETWORK SYSTEM, SWITCH AND CONNECTED TERMINAL DETECTION METHOD - In an OpenFlow network, it is determined which port of which node device a terminal connected to a group of node devices is connected to, by only using the source MAC address and port number of a packet transmitted from the terminal. Specifically, the node device compares a set of the port number and source MAC address information of a packet transmitted from the terminal to the node device with a set(s) of a port number and MAC address information held in a preliminary search table to check whether they match each other. When the comparison does not result in a match, the node device notifies the controller by using the inquiry information (packet-in) function of OpenFlow. Furthermore, the node device compares the destination MAC address information of the packet with a set(s) of MAC address information held in a final search table to check whether they match each other. | 01-23-2014 |
20140029420 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAFFIC OFFLOADING BASED ON CONGESTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method that can increase network performance and user perceived service quality by allocating more radio resources to user data through a non-3GPP Access Network (AN) in a wireless communication system such as LTE is provided. Use of a 3GPP AN or a non-3GPP AN may be set in a user equipment or set according to a policy received from a policy server such as ANDSF. A scheme for dynamically updating and applying a policy according to user and AN conditions is provided. The scheme provides two approaches for determining whether to apply a policy according to user and the AN conditions. | 01-30-2014 |
20140036662 | TCP RELAY APPARATUS - An apparatus for terminating and replaying transmission control protocol (TCP) communication between a server and cellular phone is disclosed. The TCP relay apparatus performs precise control for each TCP connection in the process of executing default TCP transmission control for the server and performing wireless-optimized TCP transmission control for the cell phone while facilitating setup for determination of the type of a network to which a communication destination terminal belongs. The TCP relay apparatus includes a unit capable of setting TCP control information suitable for the characteristics of a network linked to the destination device on a per-TCP connection basis, a unit which enables an application program to instruct the TCP control information setting, and a unit which determines the network type by judging whether the connection is a passive connection to a listen port or a TCP connection to the server. | 02-06-2014 |
20140043964 | ASSIGNING IDENTIFIERS TO MOBILE DEVICES ACCORDING TO THEIR DATA SERVICE REQUIREMENTS - A network fabric includes a mobile device associated with a service type and a server including a processor and memory storing program code for assigning identifiers to mobile devices in accordance with an identifier assignment policy. The processor, in response to executing the program code stored in the memory, associates a service type with the mobile device, maps the service type to an identifier predetermined to cause frames bearing the identifier to receive a particular frame-forwarding treatment within the network fabric, assigns the identifier to the mobile device based on the service type of the mobile device, and sends the identifier to the mobile device for inclusion in frames transmitted by the mobile device. | 02-13-2014 |
20140043965 | NETWORK APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, ABNORMAL TRAFFIC DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A network apparatus includes a marking unit marking traffic that exceeds a predetermined rate limit, a measuring unit measuring an amount of the marked traffic, and a monitoring unit outputting the measured traffic amount in a period determined based on an expected duration time of abnormal traffic as a detection target. | 02-13-2014 |
20140050080 | TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING BUFFER OVERFLOW IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A technique for operating a wireless communication device includes transmitting a first downlink rate in a first control message. The first downlink rate is based on a latency of an inter-processor communication link associated with the wireless communication device. First downlink data at the first downlink rate is then received for a first time period. Following the first time period, second downlink data is received at a second downlink rate that is higher than the first downlink rate. | 02-20-2014 |
20140056128 | Radio Network Node, Network Control Node and Methods Therein - Embodiments herein relate to a method in a radio network node ( | 02-27-2014 |
20140056129 | RADIO STATION, ROUTING METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio station includes a weighting factor determining unit that outputs a value larger than one as a weighting factor when a traffic amount of an adjacent radio station positioned in a communicable range of the radio station exceeds a certain threshold, and a cost calculating unit that calculates a radio quality cost based on radio quality for each link between the radio station and each adjacent radio station, regards a multiplication result of the obtained radio quality cost and the weighting factor as a link cost when there is an input of the weighting factor from the weighting factor determining unit, and regards the obtained radio quality cost as a link cost when there is no input of a weighting factor from the weighting factor determining unit. | 02-27-2014 |
20140064066 | Data Processing - A method implemented in a network apparatus used in a network is disclosed. The method comprises collecting information about network topology from a network controller, collecting information about data movement, deciding routing in the network according to the information about network topology and the information about data movement, and providing information about the routing to the network controller, wherein the network controller enforces the routing in the network. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 03-06-2014 |
20140071814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE NETWORK CONGESTION CONTROL - A method for predictive network congestion control may include receiving network traffic data of a network. The network traffic data may be indicative of a current level of use or the network. A predicted future level of use at the location of the network may be identified based on the received network traffic data and based on past network traffic data for the location of the network. A recommendation to alter the future level of use for the location may be generated. The recommendation may include a type of alert to transmit to devices of users in the location of the network. The recommendation may be transmitted to a network policy management server of the network | 03-13-2014 |
20140071815 | CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD AND APARATUS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - A wireless terminal comprises a communications interface and a congestion controller. The communications interface communicates over a radio interface with a base station. The congestion controller, upon occurrence of a congestion indication, reduces uplink transmission power of the wireless terminal by lowering a transport format combination for use by the wireless terminal for transmitting an enhanced dedicated uplink channel (E-DCH) over the radio interface to the base station. In an example embodiment and mode, the congestion controller performs an expedited transport format combination reduction procedure which is distinct from Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) power reduction based on a command received in a closed loop power control procedure, e.g., on a Fractional-DPCH (F-DPCH) channel. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071816 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SWITCHING DATA TRAFFIC BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - A mobile communication device is provided with a first wireless module, a second wireless module, and a controller module. The first wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a telecommunication network using a cellular technology. The second wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions using a Short Range Wireless (SRW) technology. The controller module is configured to perform operations for communication controls, and the operations include detecting a connection loss to an Access Point (AP) via the second wireless module after data traffic which is to be directed to and from the mobile communication device has been offloaded from the telecommunication network to the AP, prioritizing a connection establishment procedure for reconnecting to the telecommunication network in response to the connection loss, and transceiving the data traffic directly to and from the telecommunication network after successfully reconnecting to the telecommunication network. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071817 | PACKET LOSS PROCESSING METHOD, DESTINATION NETWORK NODE DEVICE AND MOBILE TRANSMISSION NETWORK SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a packet loss processing method, a destination network node device and a mobile transmission network system. The method includes: receiving, by a destination network node device, data sent through at least two transmission quality measurement protocol links by a source network node device, where service priorities of the at least two transmission quality measurement protocol links are different; and determining a reason for occurrence of packet loss according to packet loss ratios and the service priorities on the at least two transmission quality measurement protocol links when it is detected that packet loss occurs on the at least two transmission quality measurement protocol links. Technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention for distinguishing bit error packet loss and congestion packet loss are high in efficiency. | 03-13-2014 |
20140086045 | TRAFFIC FLOW ESTABLISHMENT METHOD AND DEVICE AND TRAFFIC FLOW MODIFICATION METHOD AND DEVICE - In the present invention, before data transmission, a “connection”, between a requesting end and a destination end, identified by a traffic flow identifier (FID) is established or modified through traffic flow management. Therefore, when the requesting end and the destination end perform data transmission on the traffic flow, the FID alone can sufficiently serve as the identifier, so as to save the need of carrying the destination end identifier in each exchanged data packet, thereby simplifying the operation. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086046 | QUALITY OF SERVICE OPTIMIZER FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A method, system, and medium are provided for improving communication between a mobile device and a wireless network in embodiment of the invention. Based in part on expected locations for a mobile device and network availability, predictions can be made regarding the future quality of service available for the mobile device. This prediction can allow actions to be taken to mitigate any change in the quality of service. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086047 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADIO LINK SYNCHRONIZATION AND POWER CONTROL IN CELL_FACH AND IDLE MODE - A method and apparatus for radio link synchronization and power control in CELL_FACH state and idle mode are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) transmits a random access channel (RACH) preamble and receives an acquisition indicator acknowledging the RACH preamble via an acquisition indicator channel (AICH) and an index to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) resource. The WTRU determines a start of an E-DCH frame. An F-DPCH timing offset is defined with respect to one of the RACH access slot and an AICH access slot carrying the acquisition indicator. A relative F-DPCH timing offset may be signaled to the WTRU and the WTRU may determine a start of an E-DCH frame based on the relative F-DPCH timing offset and timing of an AICH access slot including the acquisition indicator. The WTRU may transmit a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) power control preamble before starting an E-DCH transmission. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086048 | DATA TRANSMISSION RATE CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM IN UPWARD VERTICAL HANDOVER IN OVERLAY NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Provided is a data transmission rate control method in upward vertical handover in an overlay network environment, including: a TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) sender checking whether or not a retransmission timeout event occurs while communicating with a TCP receiver through a dual interface in a TCP scheme; the TCP sender storing a sequence number of a packet having the largest sequence number among transmitting packets, and after that, performing congestion control if the retransmission timeout event occurs; the TCP sender checking whether or not ACK signal corresponding to a sequence number which is equal to or smaller than the stored sequence number is received after the TCP sender performs the congestion control; and the TCP sender determining to execute upward vertical handover if the ACK signal is received. | 03-27-2014 |
20140092730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID WIRELESS CONTENT DELIVERY - A method comprising transmitting a request, by a mobile device, indicating one or more content items; determining a location for the mobile device, by a processor; establishing a connection with a transmission medium, based at least in part on the indicated one or more content items, if the indicated one or more content items is not on the mobile device, wherein the transmission medium includes a digital radio tower, a long range radio tower and a wireless access point; and activating the indicated one or more content items, if the indicated one or more content items is on the mobile device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092731 | ANDSF PARAMETERS FOR WLAN NETWORK SELECTION - Embodiments describe systems, methods, and apparatuses for identifying, based at least in part on an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) quality of service (QoS) policy, a preferred access point (AP) of a wireless local area network (WLAN). In some embodiments, the ANDSF QoS policy may be compared to one or more of an air-interface congestion parameter of the AP, and/or a backhaul congestion parameter of the AP. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098660 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED ACCESS OF A PHYSICAL RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL - A method for optimized access of a physical random access channel (PRACH) includes sampling a plurality of mapped zones associated with a base station. Each of the mapped zones has a plurality of endpoints. The method further includes determining a subset of disconnected endpoints in the given mapped zone where the disconnected endpoints are disconnected from a wireless network. The method also includes estimating a PRACH load based on the subset of disconnected endpoints. Additionally, based on whether the estimated PRACH load is a pre-determined factor larger than an original PRACH allocation, the method includes increasing the PRACH allocation to accommodate reconnection of the subset of disconnected endpoints in the given mapped zone. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098661 | CARRIER SELECTION POLICY FOR JOINT SCHEDULING FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION IN AN LTE-ADVANCED SYSTEM - Various embodiments of a semi-joint scheduling algorithm for carrier aggregation in an LTE-Advanced system are provided. The proposed semi-joint scheduling algorithm combines the advantages of independent scheduling and joint scheduling while avoiding the respective shortcomings, and provides a technical foundation for a wide adoption of the carrier aggregation technology. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 04-10-2014 |
20140105003 | WI-FI INTELLIGENT SELECTION ENGINE - Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed to offload the usage of a cellular network by intelligent selection of broadband network connections such as Wi-Fi access points. A Wi-Fi transceiver on a mobile device is activated when certain conditions are met, such as a time, location, recognition of a radiofrequency (RF) environment, etc. The conditions are correlated with a database of known locations in which a one or more Wi-Fi access points are determined to exist. The Wi-Fi transceiver on the mobile device is activated and commanded to connect to a particular Wi-Fi access point. Dynamic intelligence ensures that the appropriate connection method is used, and minimizes handovers to networks or access points that are unreliable or that are predicted to become inaccessible to the mobile device. | 04-17-2014 |
20140112126 | ROUTING TABLE UPDATING - A method of transmitting routing information within a network is disclosed. Accordingly, in response to a change in preferred route from one node to another node within the network, the method includes providing a message comprising a digital word in which at least each node in the mesh network other than the one node and the another node is represented by a single binary bit. The binary bit associated with each node is set to one value if the node is in the preferred route and the other value if the node is not in the preferred route. | 04-24-2014 |
20140119177 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVELY METERING NETWORK TRAFFIC - An approach for resizing a network tunnel based on criteria associated with incoming traffic to the network is described. A tunnel management platform determines a frequency or a relevancy of network traffic matching predetermined class of service criteria. The tunnel management platform also calculates, based on the frequency or relevancy, a minimal amount of bandwidth to reserve for tunneling subsequent network traffic associated with the predetermined class of service criteria over a network of the service provider. A resizing of the network tunnel is then initiated based on the calculation in association with subsequent network traffic. | 05-01-2014 |
20140133293 | TRIGGERING CONGESTION CONTROL IN A MANNER SUCH THAT THE MOBILE DEVICE RADIO IS APPLICATION AWARE - Currently, the radio on the device is the only one aware of network congestion while applications are not. At the same time, only the application is aware of the criticality of information it needs to send across the network. In order to address mobile network congestion more effectively, device radio needs to become application aware or application becomes radio aware. This way, the device radio knows the priority of the application traffic and does not blindly block critical information while allowing non critical information to be transferred or the application knows that the network is congested and uses it efficiently. The current congestion management mechanisms have their triggers and corrective actions limited to the device radio level without any regard to application. To address this problem, the disclosed technology includes a solution for congestion management where the trigger is on radio level while corrective measures are at IP/application layer. | 05-15-2014 |
20140140206 | System and Method for Credit-Based Link Level Flow Control - A system and method for credit-based link level flow control. In one embodiment, a byte-based flow control mechanism is based on a sender effectively maintaining a buffer state at the receiver. In maintaining a buffer state at the receiver, the sender is provided with information regarding byte expansion at the receiver. This byte-expansion information can be used by the sender to identify the amount of additional storage needed by the receiver when storing a packet transmitted by the sender in the receiver's packet buffer. | 05-22-2014 |
20140169160 | METHODS FOR CONGESTION CONTROL IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - A centralized self optimizing network and policy server is configured to control congestion within at least one cell in a wireless network by coordinating application of radio frequency congestion control mechanisms affecting all users within the cell and application of core network congestion control mechanisms associated with individual users within the cell. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169161 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING DATA - The present invention discloses a method and a device for transmitting data. According to the technical solution provided by the present invention, no actual end-to-end multi-bearer connection is established between a terminal and a network side, but the terminal, when locally transmitting a data packet, simulates a multi-bearer mechanism to establish multiple virtual service channels on a bearer and performs priority-based scheduling between the service channels. Through virtual multi-bearer, the present invention can balance service QoS with resource utilization under the condition that the network or the terminal does not support the multi-bearer capability or the multi-bearer capability is restricted. | 06-19-2014 |
20140185435 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MOBILITY OF MOBILE STATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The MS includes, generating a message for requesting to generate a service flow, the message comprising mobility management information of the service flow, and transmitting the message comprising the mobility management information. The mobility management information is used to determine whether the service flow requires an anchor. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185436 | GENERAL INPUT/OUTPUT ARCHITECTURE, PROTOCOL AND RELATED METHODS TO IMPLEMENT FLOW CONTROL - A storage device is provided to maintain a value of flow control credits allocated for a device on a channel and flow control logic is provided to receive a flow control signal over a link of an interconnect, the flow control signal indicating flow control credits allocated for the device on the channel. The flow control logic is further to update the value of flow control credits based on activity of the device on the channel. | 07-03-2014 |
20140192638 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING UPLINK QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) IN CELLULAR NETWORK - A cellular communication system includes a method for managing uplink (UL) quality-of-service (QoS) in a two-hop wireless cellular communication system, including determining a count of UL QoS requests received from each user equipment (UE) and determining a served-to-requested ratio that is a ratio of a the number of bytes of UL data served to each UE by a mobile relay to the number bytes of UL data requested by each UE from the mobile relay. A UE subsystem of the mobile relay determines if any UEs are experiencing low UL QoS based on the number of UL QoS requests and the served-to-requested ratio. In response, a macro base station allocates network resources for improving the UL QoS provided to the set of UEs. | 07-10-2014 |
20140198637 | Handling User Plane Congestion - In accordance with some embodiments, when UPCON congestion is detected, service data flows (SDFs) may be adjusted to account for the problem and to avoid denial of service. In accordance with some embodiments, a priority scheme may be implemented in which certain users or certain types of data are given priority and in some cases maximum bit rates (MBRs) may be imposed for either particular users or certain types of data. Once the congestion alleviates, regular service data flows may be again permitted. | 07-17-2014 |
20140204735 | AUTOMATIC DEADLOCK DETECTION AND AVOIDANCE IN A SYSTEM INTERCONNECT BY CAPTURING INTERNAL DEPENDENCIES OF IP CORES USING HIGH LEVEL SPECIFICATION - Systems and methods for automatically building a deadlock free inter-communication network in a multi-core system are described. The example implementations described herein involve a high level specification to capture the internal dependencies of various cores, and using it along with the user specified system traffic profile to automatically detect protocol level deadlocks in the system. When all detected deadlock are resolved or no such deadlocks are present, messages in the traffic profile between various cores of the system may be automatically mapped to the interconnect channels and detect network level deadlocks. Detected deadlocks then may be avoided by re-allocation of channel resources. An example implementation of the internal dependency specification and using it for deadlock avoidance scheme is presented on Network-on-chip interconnects for large scale multi-core system-on-chips. | 07-24-2014 |
20140219082 | Network Congestion Control with Adaptive QoS Bit-Rate Differentiation - A method is provided for congestion control in a network node ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140241150 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNALS AND SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS IN EXTENSION CARRIER OF LTE ADVANCED - A telecommunications system is configured to perform a method for mapping synchronization signals. The method includes transmitting data, reference signals, synchronization signals and control elements to at least one of the plurality of subscriber stations. The method also includes configuring DMRS parameters to avoid a collision between the DMRS and at least one of the synchronization signals in a middle 6 resource blocks (RBs) of a system bandwidth. | 08-28-2014 |
20140254355 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR INCENTIVIZING OPEN ACCESS TO CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP LOW-POWER BASE STATIONS - Apparatus and methods are disclosed that provide various incentive schemes for owners of low-power base stations to allow others nearby to use their base station, enabling offloading of some users from a nearby macrocell, thus helping improve overall network performance. For example, a “win-win” scenario might exist when a sharing opportunity at a low-power base station overlaps with a sharing opportunity at the neighboring macrocell. During this overlap, when the low-power base station provides access to its air interface to one or more UEs outside of a set of UEs associated with the low-power base station, an incentive credit may be received. Incentive credits can take various forms, and in some examples, may be in an amount that is a function of an amount of contribution to the network resulting from the provision of access to the air interface. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRAFFIC OF RADIO ACCESS NETWORK IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method for controlling traffic of a Radio Access Network (RAN) in a wireless communication system. The method includes acquiring at least one of subscription class information of a User Equipment (UE) user and type information of an application or content; determining whether a congestion situation has occurred in the RAN; and controlling traffic for the UE based on the acquired information, if the congestion situation has occurred in the RAN. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254357 | FACILITATING NETWORK FLOWS - Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating network flows in a networked environment. In various embodiments, a switch transmits data using an egress port that comprises an egress queue. The switch sets a congestion notification threshold for the egress queue. The switch generates a drain rate metric based at least in part on a drain rate for the egress queue, and the congestion notification threshold is adjusted based at least in part on the drain rate metric. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254358 | Method for Providing Bearer Specific Information for Wireless Networks - The Packet Control Function (PCF) has limited knowledge about the nature of the packet data arriving on a bearer path connected via the Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN), and cannot make an intelligent decision on its own as to how best to handle the packet data. Thus, the PDSN provides bearer-specific information by classifying the priority of received packet data; encapsulating the packet data within the payload of a Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) frame; and for high priority packet data i) setting a protocol type field in the header of the GRE frame indicating said packet includes an attribute field; and ii) adding an attribute field to the payload of the GRE packet which provides an indication of said high priority data. Furthermore, the PCF can send an A-11 request to the PDSN indicating the features that the PCF is requesting the PDSN enable. For example, for a short data indication, the PCF would request the PDSN enable adding the attribute field to the GRE frame when an Short Data Burst (SDB) is suitable. | 09-11-2014 |
20140269267 | METHODS FOR DYNAMIC TRANSCEIVER RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN MULTI-TRANSCEIVER SYSTEMS - Embodiments of a system and method for managing transceiver resources in a wireless network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a transceiver resource manager (MXRM) dynamically adapts the number of transceivers to an offered load. A node computes the number of transceiver it needs based on queue depth and queue usage. MXRM then shares the number of the transceivers to be requested, A, with next-hop neighbors. A node assigns X transceivers such that X is the maximum of their own A value and the highest A value they receive if they are next-hop targets. MXRM processes requests for additional transceivers from nodes and previous-hop neighbors such that the sender-receiver pair assigns a compatible number of transceivers. MXRM is also used to drive frequency assignments to increase capacity along the traffic flows. Therefore, MXRM adapts transceiver assignments to the traffic paths. | 09-18-2014 |
20140269268 | PROVIDING NETWORK-WIDE ENHANCED LOAD BALANCING - A method and apparatus to provide network-wide enhanced load balancing. In one embodiment a first message comprising a first value and an address is generated. The first message is transmitted to a first node via a first communication link. A second message comprising a second value and the address is generated. The first and second values are unequal. The second message is transmitted to the first node via a second communication link. Packets are received, wherein each of the packets comprises the address. A first percentage of the packets are forwarded to a first device via the first communication link, wherein the first percentage is proportional to the first value. A second percentage of the packets are forwarded to a second device via the second communication link, wherein the second percentage is proportional to the second value. | 09-18-2014 |
20140269269 | System and Methods for Estimation and Improvement of User, Service and Network QOE Metrics - Methods for estimating Subscriber quality of experience (QOE) for mobile users accessing networks for different services from observed data in control and user planes in mobile wireless networks and then summarizing inferences per user, per service, per sector, group of sectors and other aggregate points, and exporting this information for reducing user churn, network planning and network tuning, application adaptation to improve QOE are disclosed. Methods for improving subscriber QOE metrics for certain applications, services and web-sites for improved monetization methods are also presented. The methods facilitate quantifying network goodness from the user application point of view, and exporting triggers to other network elements, such as SON Server, OSS and PCRF, when QOE anomalies are detected. Additionally, this exported information could also trigger content adaptation, delivery optimizations and other actions. Finally, client, server and intermediary enhancements to improve QOE of certain applications in delay/capacity varying networks are presented. | 09-18-2014 |
20140293776 | Idle Load Balancing During Random Access Procedure - A method to balance idle UEs during RA procedures is described. The method includes determining a load condition of a first cell and a load condition of at least one neighbor cell and determining a suitability of the first cell for receiving access attempts from idle mobile devices based on the load conditions of the first cell and of the at least one neighbor cell. The method includes sending an indication of the suitability (for example, in a broadcast message and/or a UE specific message). A UE receives the indication of suitability. The UE selects a target cell from a plurality of cells based at least in part on the indication (for example, in order to select a target cell that is less loaded). The method also includes sending, from the UE, an access attempt to the target cell. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 10-02-2014 |
20140307543 | VOIP BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT - A computerized method of optimizing audio quality in a voice stream between a sender and a receiver VoIP applications, comprising: defining by the receiver time intervals; determining by the receiver at the end of each time interval whether congestion exists, by calculating (i) one-way-delay and (ii) trend, using double-exponential smoothing; estimating by the receiver a bandwidth available to the sender based on said calculation; sending said estimated bandwidth by the receiver to the sender; and using by the sender said bandwidth estimate as maximum allowed send rate. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307544 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING A SELF-STRETCHING POLICER - An example method for providing a self-stretching policer in a Quality of Service (QoS) community including a root node and one or more agent nodes can include maintaining and enforcing a policer policy in the root node. The policer policy can include at least one packet classification rule and corresponding police action, and the policer policy can be enforced by taking the corresponding police action if a traffic flow violates the packet classification rule. The method can include collecting policer statistics and determining if the traffic flow violates the packet classification rule by greater than a predetermined threshold using the policer statistics. If the traffic flow violates the packet classification rule by greater than the predetermined threshold, the method can include transmitting the policer policy to one or more of the agent nodes. | 10-16-2014 |
20140321270 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CHANNEL UTILIZATION - Methods and apparatus for determining a portion of a channel, e.g., a peer discovery channel, to use in a communications network, e.g., an ad hoc peer to peer network, are described. In the communication network, the channel includes a recurring set of time/frequency resources. A device monitors the congestion level and decides to use a whole channel or a fraction of a channel (e.g., ½. ¼) as a function of the congestion level. The device may change the fraction of the channel it occupies as the congestion level changes. The device broadcasts control information indicating the fraction of the channel it occupies. The device may be a mobile wireless terminal. | 10-30-2014 |
20140328167 | RESPONSE SCHEDULING FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVERS - A base station may poll multiple mobile devices with the same multicast poll, and the polled mobile stations may respond separately at different times based on an assigned delay period for each mobile station that was specified in the poll message. | 11-06-2014 |
20140334293 | OFFLOADING COMMUNICATION FROM A CELLULAR NETWORK TO A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - Disclosed are methods for offloading of communication traffic from a cellular network to a Wireless Local Area Network (“WLAN”). According to various implementations, a wireless device determines a time period during which a wireless channel of the WLAN is busy. This first time period may include multiple channel-busy periods separated by periods during which the channel is not busy. The wireless device determines a second time period that represents interframe spacings associated with the first time period. The wireless device determines a modified channel utilization for the wireless channel based on the first time period and on the second time period. The wireless device reports the modified channel utilization to the cellular network. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334294 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR SMOOTH CHANGE OF BANDWIDTH USAGE FOR A RAT IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio network node and a method therein for controlling usage of RAT and bandwidth in a radio communication system. The radio communication system includes the radio network node configured to support transmission and reception of one or more signals in a first RAT on a first bandwidth. Further, the communication system includes a plurality of terminals supporting the first RAT. The method includes transmitting signals associated with the first RAT on the first bandwidth to terminals supporting the first RAT. When traffic load passes a threshold, the method includes transmitting signals associated with the first RAT on a second bandwidth to terminals supporting the first RAT, wherein the second bandwidth is different from the first bandwidth and wherein the second bandwidth is partly overlapping the first bandwidth. Then, the method includes stopping transmission of signals associated with the first RAT on the first bandwidth. | 11-13-2014 |
20140341013 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING LOGICAL RADIO LINK CONTROL (RLC) AND MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) PROTOCOL DATA UNITS (PDUs) IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system for creating logical RLC and MAC PDUs in a mobile communication system includes first and second remote network entities that communicate using the LTE link-layer protocol. The first and second remote network entities include first and second layer-2 protocol stacks, respectively. The first layer-2 protocol stack includes first PDCP, RLC and MAC sub-layers and the second layer-2 protocol stack includes second PDCP, RLC and MAC sub-layers. During transmission of data from the first remote network entity to the second remote network entity, the logical RLC and MAC PDUs are created by the first RLC and MAC sub-layers by populating logical RLC and MAC PDU structures. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341014 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING AN AREA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for updating an area in a wireless communication system. The method for updating an area by a terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: starting a backoff timer set by a network; and transmitting an area-updating request message to the network when the terminal enters a new tracking area (TA) or a new routing area (RA) while the backoff timer is operating. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341015 | REDUCTION OF PACKET HEADER COMPRESSION OVERHEAD DUE TO HIGH ECN RATE - An ECN flow controller ( | 11-20-2014 |
20140347982 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device includes a communication unit that has a plurality of ports and relays data in accordance with a setting status of a plurality of VLANs; a status information management unit that manages, for each of the ports, status information that indicates whether or not the port is currently used by each of the VLANs; and an SNMP processing unit that receives a request, on a port-by-port basis, for the status information in accordance with an SNMP, obtains the status information, on a port-by-port basis, from the status information management unit, and sends the obtained status information to another device in accordance with the SNMP. | 11-27-2014 |
20140362686 | TECHNIQUES FOR END-TO-END NETWORK BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZATION USING SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING - Techniques for end-to-end network bandwidth optimization using software defined networking are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can receive information regarding a flow to be admitted to a network, where the flow is associated with a source and a destination. The computer system can further calculate, for each path in a plurality of paths between the source and the destination, a projected utilization of the path in view of the flow. If the projected utilization of the shortest path in the plurality of paths is less than or equal to a target utilization threshold, the computer system can assign the flow to the shortest path. Otherwise, the computer system can select a path in the plurality of paths that comes closest to the target utilization threshold without exceeding the threshold and can assign the flow to that selected path. | 12-11-2014 |
20140369187 | Cellular In-Device Coexistence (IDC) Advanced Coexistence Algorithm - Systems and methods for enabling in-device coexistence (IDC) are provided. In an embodiment, IDC interference is detected and determination is made whether or not the IDC interference can be remedied using an internal user equipment (UE) solution that does not involve the cellular network. If not, a preferred IDC solution is determined by the UE and sent to the cellular network in an IDC indication. The cellular network responds to the IDC indication with a network-identified IDC solution, which may or may not correspond to the preferred IDC solution. The UE can apply the network-identified IDC solution to remedy the IDC interference. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369188 | SELECTIVE ACTIVATION OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT POLICIES OF MOBILE DEVICES IN A MOBILE NETWORK - Systems and methods described herein employ techniques for generation and selective activation (or triggering) of network management policies in a congested network to, for example, prevent further aggravation of network congestion are disclosed. In order to address mobile network congestion it is necessary to be able to enforce network management policies on the devices which are in the a specific congested cell. This presents a challenge as the mobile devices cannot themselves determine if the cell they are currently located in is congested. Additionally, most network operators do not have mechanisms to determine which cells are congested in real-time. Thus, network operators (e.g., cellular providers) can create policies with congestion triggers that are not bound to specific cells to address congestion. The polices can be distributed to clients in the mobile network and selectively activated in congested cell locations (or areas) by the mobile clients. | 12-18-2014 |
20140376365 | DYNAMIC STEERING OF TRAFFIC ACROSS RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS - Intelligent radio access technology sensing and selection are applied in a dynamic traffic steering network. Network characteristics and network policies are determined. A server sends network characteristics and network policies to user equipment devices. User equipment devices can determine a radio access technology to connect to based on network policies and network characteristics. Further, it can be determined how to select user equipment devices for connection to a radio access network via a radio access technology. User equipment devices can dynamically select a radio access network for connection based on real-time or near real-time radio access network conditions. A self-organizing network can monitor and determine radio access network conditions and the radio access network conditions can be sent to user equipment devices in given cellular broadcast area. | 12-25-2014 |
20150023158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLOW CONTROL AND QUALITY OF SERVICE - Various embodiments of methods and systems for pausing and shaping data flow while supporting both parameterized and prioritized Quality of Service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for pausing and shaping data flow comprises an input buffer, a first pause controller coupled to the input buffer and an output buffer for flow control messages. Various embodiments also include a hop-1 buffer coupled to the input buffer and a hop-2 buffer comprising a plurality of queues coupled to the hop-1 buffer. Additionally, in some embodiments, a second pause controller is coupled to the queues. The second pause controller selects a queue or queues that will cause a pause to be generated based on a predetermined condition. A two-hop process controller controls the data packet flow from the input buffer to the hop-1 buffer and from the hop-1 buffer to the hop-2 queues based on packet classification. | 01-22-2015 |
20150029838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEEDING CALL ORIGINATIONS TO A VARIETY OF DEVICES USING INTELLIGENT PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR HALF-CALL ROUTING - A mobile application gateway configured to interconnect mobile communication devices on a cellular network with an enterprise network is provided. The mobile application gateway includes a voice and data signaling gateway configured to provide routing functionalities, service functionalities and admission control. A gateway GPRS support node (GGSN) is configured to establish a secure data session between one or more of the mobile communication devices and the enterprise network by establishing a GPRS tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnel between a carrier-hosted serving GPRS support node (SGSN) and the GGSN. | 01-29-2015 |
20150036486 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR DESTINATION-HOST DEFINED OVERLOAD SCOPE - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for Destination-Host defined overload scope are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for Destination-Host defined overload scope includes, at an entity for processing Diameter signaling messages: identifying at least one Diameter session as a member of an overload group; specifying an alias for use to identify the entity for processing Diameter signaling messages as a destination of Diameter messages; associating the specified alias with the overload group; and including the specified alias in messages associated with members of the overload group. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036487 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE AND CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD - A vehicle-mounted device includes a measurement unit that detects the radio signal to measure a congestion level, a reception unit that receives, from each of the predetermined vehicle-mounted devices, the value of a predetermined parameter, in which a degree of contribution to congestion increases as the value of the parameter increases, from among parameters relating to the communication of the predetermined vehicle-mounted device, and a control unit that sets, when the congestion level measured by the measurement unit is outside a set predetermined range, the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device so that the congestion level is within the predetermined range in consideration of the magnitude relationship between the congestion level and a value within the predetermined range and a magnitude relationship between the value of the predetermined parameter received by the reception unit and the value of the predetermined parameter of its own device. | 02-05-2015 |
20150043332 | CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL DATA - A method an apparatus for sending data to a User Equipment via a Radio Access Network node using the Transmission Control Protocol. A TCP node that sends TCP User Plane data to the UE receives a message originating from the RAN node. The message includes a congestion avoidance inhibitor relating to the UE. If the TCP node subsequently detects packet loss is detected between the TCP node and the UE, and the congestion avoidance inhibitor is present, then the TCP node will inhibit a congestion avoidance mechanism. This ensures that congestion avoidance mechanisms, which reduce transmission rate, are not initiated for temporary RAN events such as handover when there is no congestion in the network. | 02-12-2015 |
20150049602 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling the Transmission of Streaming Content in a Wireless Communication Network - This disclosure provides example details for a method and apparatus for controlling the transmission of streaming content from a wireless communication network to a wireless device, including temporarily increasing the size of a buffer used at the device for streaming content buffering and correspondingly initiating a transmission burst of the streaming content towards the device. These operations are undertaken responsive to determining that there is an expectation that a required QoS will be violated with respect to the device and among their several advantages, they lessen the likelihood that the expected QoS violation will disrupt streaming content playback at the device. | 02-19-2015 |
20150063098 | REDUCING INTERFERENCE FROM LTE IN UNLICENSED BANDS - The disclosure relates to reducing Wi-Fi interference from small cells that provide cellular coverage in unlicensed bands. In particular, in response to determining that a small cell is substantially unloaded (e.g., has traffic below a threshold), the small cell may be switched to a reduced interference configuration. For example, the small cell may be switched to a low downlink configuration to reduce interference in a time domain and/or a low bandwidth configuration to reduce interference in a frequency domain. Alternatively (or additionally), the small cell and/or any other small cells that have traffic below the threshold may switch to the same frequency and/or channel number to concentrate all possible interference on the same frequency and/or channel number. Further still, the configuration may be switched in a power domain, where a transmit power associated with the small cell may be adapted based on cellular measurements in combination with Wi-Fi measurements. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063099 | ROBUST INTER-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS IN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM - Systems and methods are disclosed for mitigating interference between Radio Access Technologies (RATs) sharing operating spectrum in an unlicensed band of radio frequencies. The mitigation may comprise, for example, identifying an upcoming signal transmission associated with a first RAT, with the signal transmission being scheduled for transmission on the shared operating spectrum during a transmission period. The signal transmission may be classified with respect to a protection status. Based on the protection status, a channel reservation message may be transmitted that is associated with a second RAT to reserve at least a portion of the shared operating spectrum for at least a portion of the transmission period. | 03-05-2015 |
20150071058 | QUALITY OF SERVICE DETERMINATION BASED ON UPSTREAM CONTENT SOURCE - Systems and methods for providing trigger based dynamic changes to a packet flow in a communication network are described. The trigger based dynamic changes can include upgrading and downgrading quality of service (QoS), processing the packet flow, and providing services to the packet flow. These changes can be provided by inspecting packets at a gateway for trigger conditions and setting up a proxy instance for the packet flows. The proxy can coordinate QoS changes and management of packet flows. The triggers can be based on the destination of the packet, for example, the uniform resource locator (URL) and/or by the services (e.g., email, video, messaging) that the subscriber is accessing. The triggers can also be based on the identity of the user or agreements a provider might have with an operator of network equipment for users accessing the provider's website. | 03-12-2015 |
20150098319 | METHOD FOR REDUCING OVERHEAD OF CONTROL SIGNAL DURING CONNECTION OF PLURAL LTE BASE STATIONS - Disclosed herein is a method for a terminal to effectively transmit a control signal when a macro cell base station that can be applied to a small cell cluster environment and a small cell base station simultaneously provide services in a heterogeneous network, and a method for reducing overhead of a control signal during connection of a plurality of LTE base stations, which can remarkably reduce the transmission frequency of control signals that are transmitted from a terminal to a small cell base station or can transmit the control signals all at once. | 04-09-2015 |
20150103646 | ALLOCATING NETWORK BANDWITH - As an example, a system and method is provided for allocating network bandwidth. The method includes identifying congested and uncongested links using a tenant demand for each link and a tenant bandwidth cap. A portion of the tenant bandwidth cap may be allocated to each uncongested link based on the tenant demand on the uncongested link and the tenant bandwidth cap. Additionally, the remainder of the tenant bandwidth cap may be allocated to the tenants congested links based on a link capacity. | 04-16-2015 |
20150109907 | LSP PING/TRACE OVER MPLS NETWORKS USING ENTROPY LABELS - The present disclosure provides for carrying downstream mapping information in an echo request message and/or echo reply message, which can describe both IP (Internet Protocol) multipath information and label multipath information. A transit node (e.g., an LSR element) that receives an echo request message from an initiator node determines downstream mapping information, which is returned to the initiator node. Transit node determines whether a newly defined type of multipath information (type 10) should be generated to return the downstream mapping information, based on whether transit node performs load balancing based on labels or IP header information, and whether transit node imposes entropy labels. A multipath information type 10 element includes either IP multipath information or label multipath information, as well as associated label multipath information that includes one or more entropy labels that map to the IP or label multipath information being returned. | 04-23-2015 |
20150124593 | INTERFERENCE CONGESTION CONTROL - The present disclosure concerns interference congestion control in radio communication networks. Disclosed herein are methods as well radio network nodes. A radio network node may, for example, estimate a neighboring cell interference. The radio network node may also detect a sudden significant increase in the estimated neighboring cell interference. In response to detecting a sudden significant in the estimated neighboring cell interference, the radio network node may also transmit a message to at least one other radio network node. This message may include an indicator indicating to said at least one radio network node to initiate an interference congestion control procedure. Hereby it is made possible to allow for interference congestion control in radio communication networks. | 05-07-2015 |
20150146521 | DYNAMIC RESOURCE POOLING AND TRADING MECHANISM IN NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION - A method for managing a pool of bandwidth resources available over a communication network as executed by a processor. The method includes receiving a plurality of wholesale bandwidth values requesting bandwidth from the pool of bandwidth resources from a plurality of computing resources associated with the plurality of customers, wherein the wholesale bandwidth values are guaranteed over a predetermined period, and wherein the pool has a maximum capacity. The method includes tracking bandwidth resource usage throughout the predetermined period. The method includes allocating a first portion of available bandwidth from the pool to a first customer based on a reselling rate ratio applicable to the plurality of customers at a particular point in time during the predetermined period. Available bandwidth is generated by purchasing unused bandwidth from the plurality of customers over the predetermined period. | 05-28-2015 |
20150296410 | Link Layered Networks With Improved Operation - A method and system for optimizing and keeping operational a wireless link layered network in which a system control and modifying message (SCMM) is elicited from nodes receiving information packets and based upon whether the node originating the SCMM is from a link layer level which is equal to or less than the link layer level eliciting the SCMM, rerouting or adjusting future transmissions can be effected or items like a less current time at a receiving node and a most recent utilization rate of a receiving node can be adjusted, recorded or set. | 10-15-2015 |
20150318958 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PACKET TRANSFER METHOD - To efficiently retransmit discarded packets and to reduce discarded location storage capacity, it is provided a communication apparatus to be coupled to a network, the communication apparatus being configured to: transmit data to a correspondent communication apparatus coupled to the network; receive an acknowledgement transmitted from the correspondent communication apparatus; monitor whether or not a storage capacity shortage for storing discarded locations of transmitted data in the correspondent communication apparatus; and retransmit data by setting a retransmission priority for discarded locations in a case of the storage capacity shortage. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319638 | Overload Control in a Communication Network - Disclosed are methods as well radio network nodes and user equipments (UE) that are suitable for overload control in a communication network. A radio network node may, upon receiving a random access preamble from an UE, determine whether there exists an overload condition. In response to a determination that an overload condition exists, the radio network node may configure a MAC PDU | 11-05-2015 |
20150326485 | AUTO-TUNING ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT - A method for calculating a drop probability can comprise determining, based on measurements within a network architecture of the computer system, a current packet delay and current link utilization within network architecture. The method can also comprise predicting a change in the packet delay within the network architecture at a predefined time interval in the future. Additionally, the method can comprise predicting a change in the link utilization within the network architecture at a predefined time interval in the future. Further, the method can comprise computing a drop probability that will ensure that the ratio of the predicted change in the packet delay over the predicted change in the link utilization approximates an predetermined ideal. | 11-12-2015 |
20150372949 | SIGNALLING CONGESTION - Methods and apparatus for signalling congestion are described, in respect of a network element ( | 12-24-2015 |
20150373581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VERSATILE MAC MULTIPLEXING IN EVOLVED HSPA - Methods and apparatus for versatile medium access control (MAC) multiplexing in evolved HSPA are disclosed. More particularly, methods for downlink optimization of the enhanced high speed MAC (MAC-ehs) entity and uplink optimization of the MAC-i/is entity are disclosed. Apparatuses for using the optimized downlink and uplink MAC entities are also disclosed. | 12-24-2015 |
20160021008 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE COMMUNICATION - The present invention relates to a technology of controlling vehicle communication and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for determining congestion of vehicle communication to control the vehicle communication, thereby reducing a degree of congestion. In detail, provided are an apparatus and method for controlling vehicle communication, the apparatus including: a reception unit for receiving data units transmitted by each of one or more of object terminals and one or more of pieces of congestion information of the object terminals; a congestion degree pre-determination unit for changing congestion information of a subject vehicle on the basis of the number of data units received during a predetermined period of time; a congestion determination unit for changing electric power control information on the basis of the congestion information of the subject vehicle or the congestion information of the object terminals; and an electric power control unit for controlling transmission electric power of a communication module on the basis of the electric power control information. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021562 | AUTOMATIC FULL DOWNLOAD OF IMPORTANT EMAILS - A mobile communication device, computer readable storage medium, and method for determining whether to download a full instance of an email. The mobile communication device determines a change in quality of service of wireless communication, and sends a request to completely download from an email server a full instance of an email, based on the mobile communication device determining that the change in quality of service of wireless communication indicates the mobile communication device is entering a poor wireless coverage area. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021586 | CHANNEL CONGESTION MITIGATION - Various embodiments implement protocols and algorithms for selectively transitioning peers in a P2P group, e.g., less than all the peers in the group, from a first channel to a second channel. The group owner may consider: which peers are in communication; the quality of an existing channel link with the peers; and the quality of an alternative channel. The alternative channel may have been identified actively or passively during the search and scan processes used to establish the group. When a transition is to occur, a modified channel switch announcement message identifying individual MAC addresses for transition may be used to effect the transition. Measurement of the peer-to-peer link quality may be accomplished using standard 802.11 measurement request primitives. | 01-21-2016 |
20160057653 | FREQUENCY ERROR DETECTION WITH PBCH FREQUENCY HYPOTHESIS - Aspects of frequency error detection with Physical Broadcast CHannel (PBCH) frequency hypothesis are described. For example, a method and apparatus are disclosed for frequency tracking in a user equipment (UE) may include detecting a change in frequency that exceeds a pull-in range of a frequency tracking loop (FTL) of the UE. The method and apparatus may also include identifying a tracking recovery frequency in response to the change in frequency being detected, wherein the tracking recover frequency is identified from a set of frequency hypotheses and based on decoding of the PBCH received by the UE. The method and apparatus may further include updating the FTL with the tracking recovery frequency. | 02-25-2016 |
20160065426 | QUANTIZED CONGESTION NOTIFICATION (QCN) PROXY FUNCTION IN DATA CENTER BRIDGING CAPABILITIES EXCHANGE (DCBX) PROTOCOL - In one embodiment, an apparatus for providing quantized congestion notification (QCN) proxy functionality to a network device control plane includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor, the logic being configured to enable QCN proxy functionality for a particular congestion notification priority value (CNPV) on each edge port of a QCN edge switch, wherein the QCN edge switch includes one or more edge ports connected to devices outside of a congestion notification domain (CND) that operates on the particular CNPV, and forward congestion notification packets received at the QCN edge switch using the QCN proxy functionality when the packets are destined for one of the devices connected outside of the CND that is not QCN-enabled. Other systems, methods, and computer program products for providing QCN proxy functionality to a network device control plane are described in more embodiments. | 03-03-2016 |
20160073289 | OVERLOAD CONTROL METHOD, AND DEVICE - The present invention discloses an overload control method, a gateway device, a mobility management entity, and a PGW. The method includes: determining, by a gateway device, first overload indication information, where the first overload indication information is used to indicate an overload control policy; and sending, by the gateway device, the first overload indication information to a mobility management entity, so that the mobility management entity executes the overload control policy according to the first overload indication information. According to the overload control method, the gateway device, the mobility management entity, and the PGW in embodiments of the present invention, adverse impact brought by device overload can be avoided; therefore, the device overload can be effectively controlled. | 03-10-2016 |
20160080269 | LSP PING/TRACE OVER MPLS NETWORKS USING ENTROPY LABELS - The present disclosure provides for carrying downstream mapping information in an echo request message and/or echo reply message, which can describe both IP (Internet Protocol) multipath information and label multipath information. A transit node (e.g., an LSR element) that receives an echo request message from an initiator node determines downstream mapping information, which is returned to the initiator node. Transit node determines whether a newly defined type of multipath information (type 10) should be generated to return the downstream mapping information, based on whether transit node performs load balancing based on labels or IP header information, and whether transit node imposes entropy labels. A multipath information type 10 element includes either IP multipath information or label multipath information, as well as associated label multipath information that includes one or more entropy labels that map to the IP or label multipath information being returned. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080576 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DYNAMICALLY SELECT A PEERED VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP) BORDER ELEMENT - Methods and apparatus to select a dynamically peered voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) border element are disclosed. An example method comprises collecting data representative of a dynamic performance of a voice over Internet protocol network, prioritizing a selection of a peered border element based on the collected data, and modifying a telephone number mapping (ENUM) database based on the prioritized selection. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080972 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided are a data packet transmission system and method, the system includes: an Agent device, a first connecting device, a MAC array, a second connecting device, a PHY array, a third connecting device and an RF array, where the Agent device sends data of a first data frame to the first connecting device, and the first connecting device sends a data packet to a destination MAC device in the MAC array; the destination MAC device sends a second data frame to the second connecting device; the second connecting device sends the data packet to a destination PHY device in the PHY array; the destination PHY device sends a third data frame to the third connecting device; and the third connecting device sends the data packet to a destination RF device in the RF array, and the destination RF device sends the data packet to a user side. | 03-17-2016 |
20160094458 | PREDICTIVE VPN BANDWIDTH BALANCING BASED ON WEATHER DATA AND SOCIAL MEDIA SENTIMENT - The disclosure is directed to a method for balancing VPN network bandwidth. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining weather data and social media sentiment for a plurality of geographical regions; analyzing the weather data and the social media sentiment for factors that may influence network bandwidth usage in each of the plurality of geographical regions; predicting network bandwidth requirements for each of the plurality of geographical regions based on the analysis of the weather data and the social media sentiment; and balancing the network bandwidth among the plurality of geographical regions based on the predicted network bandwidth requirements. | 03-31-2016 |
20160095059 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING WIRELESS NETWORK CAPACITY - A core network entity includes a core network entity processing circuit. The core network entity processing circuit calculates a plurality of dormancy timer adjustment parameters in response to a received service request from a user equipment, and adjusts a dormancy timer for the user equipment based on (i) at least one load condition for the wireless network, and (ii) a comparison between each of the plurality of dormancy timer adjustment parameters and a corresponding one of a plurality of dormancy timer adjustment parameter threshold values. The core network entity then outputs the adjusted dormancy timer to a base station serving the user equipment. | 03-31-2016 |
20160095109 | SELF-OPTIMIZING MOBILE SATELLITE SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and apparatus for self-optimizing Mobile Satellite System (MSS) resources are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed method involves determining, with at least one processor, a communication demand for at least one cell in a MSS network. The method further involves determining, with at least one processor, whether the communication demand for at least one cell exceeds the capacity threshold for at least one cell. Further, the method involves reallocating, with at least one processor, when the communication demand for at least one cell exceeds the capacity threshold for at least one cell, at least a portion of the MSS resources such that at least one cell is able to meet the communication demand. | 03-31-2016 |
20160105818 | MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION METHOD, MEASUREMENT REPORT METHOD, BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT USING THE SAME - The disclosure relates to a measurement configuration method and a measurement report method. The measurement configuration method comprises generating and transmitting a measurement configuration message to a user equipment. The measurement configuration message indicates a cell to be measured by the user equipment and an event for triggering a report of the measurement. The measurement configuration message also indicates whether the event if of a decoupling type or not. The measurement report method in the user equipment comprises receiving the measurement configuration message, and measuring and reporting according to the measurement configuration message. By configuring the message configuration message to indicate the type of the event, the user equipment can differentiate a decoupling case and a normal case, and only reports the measurement as required. There are also provided a base station performing the measurement configuration method and a user equipment performing the measurement configuration method. | 04-14-2016 |
20160112153 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PACKET SCHEDULING - The present disclosure is directed towards a method for scheduling data packets in a multi-channel packet processing environment. The method may include receiving one or more data packets associated with an incoming signal and inserting the one or more data packets into a queue. The method may further include monitoring a time delay associated with each of the one or more data packets, wherein the time delay indicates a difference between packet arrival and packet departure times. The method may also include sorting the time delay results based upon an increasing order of time delay and determining a total number of data packets associated with each of a plurality of channels. The method may also include scheduling a data packet for processing based upon, at least in part, at least one of the sorted time delay results and the total number of data packets associated with each channel. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112904 | REGULATING DATA COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A MOBILE DATA CLIENT AND A REMOTE SERVER - Disclosed are methods, circuits, apparatus, systems and functionally associated computer executable code for providing connectivity between a mobile communication device communicatively coupled to an access point of a mobile communication network and a remote server. According to some embodiments, there may be provided a data buffer at or in communicative proximity with the access point and which responds to receipt of data packets from the remote server with a packet receipt acknowledgement emulating a packet receipt acknowledgment of the mobile communication device. | 04-21-2016 |
20160119813 | LOAD BALANCING BASED ON AGGREGATE QUALITY OF SERVICE - A load threshold for a first carrier of a base station is set based on quality of service (QoS) classes for applications using the first carrier. Load balancing between the first carrier and one or more second carriers is performed based on the load threshold. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119844 | BASE STATION, USER APPARATUS, CONGESTION STATE NOTIFICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND SWITCH CONTROL METHOD - A base station for performing communication with a user apparatus that includes a function for switching connection between a first radio communication network and a second radio communication network, including: a group management unit configured to group a plurality of user apparatuses located in an area of the base station into a plurality of groups; and a notification control unit configured to transmit congestion state information indicating a congestion state in the first radio communication network for each group that is grouped by the group management unit, and to cause each group to perform connection switching between the first radio communication network and the second radio communication network. | 04-28-2016 |
20160127239 | NETWORK CONFIGURATION SETTINGS SOURCED BY USER EQUIPMENT - Systems and methods for User Equipment (UE) to request setting of a configuration of a network. One embodiment includes UE for a telecommunication network. The UE includes a transceiver configured to communicate with a base station of a mobile operator network comprising a Radio Access Network (RAN) and a packet core, and a controller. The controller is able to identify one or more applications residing on the UE, to determine a configuration for the mobile operator network that indicates how one or more elements of the mobile operator network will provide services for applications identified as residing on the UE, to generate a signaling message that describes the configuration, and to transmit the signaling message to the base station to implement the configuration at the mobile operator network for setting how packets are transferred by the mobile operator network between the UE and a Packet Data Network (PDN). | 05-05-2016 |
20160149784 | Passive Performance Measurement for Inline Service Chaining - A method is implemented by a computing device to monitor the performance of packet processing in an in-line service chain. The computing device is in communication with a plurality of network devices forming a software defined network (SDN) and the in-line service chain. The SDN includes a controller implemented by the computing device to configure the plurality of network devices. The plurality of devices includes a set of switches monitoring packets traversing the in-line service chain including at least one service. | 05-26-2016 |
20160149831 | RESOLVING A CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM TO OPTIMIZE NETWORK TRAFFIC IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed herein for managing network bandwidth in a distributed system having multiple endpoints that upload data to a central server or server cluster. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a logical topology of the network that is determined based on network measurements. The method further includes resolving a convex optimization problem over the logical topology to determine a bandwidth allocation scheme for the endpoints uploading data. In addition, the method includes controlling bandwidth consumption by the endpoints based on the determined bandwidth allocation scheme. | 05-26-2016 |
20160157125 | TRIGGERING MIGRATION OF A NETWORK ACCESS AGENT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACCESS TERMINAL | 06-02-2016 |
20160165546 | METHOD, NETWORK NODES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOAD BASED ADAPTIVE CRS POWER ADJUSTMENT - A method performed in a network node. The method includes the network node receiving a report regarding a traffic load of at least one network cell of a plurality of network cells. The method further includes the network node determining whether the traffic load of the at least one network cell is greater than an average traffic load of the plurality of network cells. The method further includes the network node adjusting a power of a reference signal based on said determining. The method also includes the network node transmitting the adjusted reference signal in the at least one network cell. | 06-09-2016 |
20160183124 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VERSATILE MAC MULTIPLEXING IN EVOLVED HSPA | 06-23-2016 |
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