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20080200164 | Method and Apparatus for Speech Quality Assessment in a Cellular Communication System - The invention relates to an apparatus and method for speech quality assessment in a cellular communication system. The apparatus ( | 08-21-2008 |
20080207196 | Evaluation of Random Access Preamble Codes - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for gathering statistics relating to random access operation in a cell of a cellular radio communication network and supervising such random access operation. Statistics are gathered ( | 08-28-2008 |
20080214183 | Method of Determining an Error Rate and a Suitable Testing Device - The invention relates to a method and to a test device ( | 09-04-2008 |
20080214184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MODIFY WIRELESS NETWORK CALIBRATION DATA - A system and method to re-calibrate an area of a wireless communications network that has been exposed to one or more network configuration changes is disclosed. When one or more attributes of the wireless network undergo a change which impairs the geo-location capability to locate a mobile station, it can be detrimental to the safety and well being of the network users. Geo-location calculations rely on accurate and updated calibration data to correctly locate a mobile station. In some instances, it may be necessary to update the calibration data for areas of the network that have been exposed to network configuration changes. Modifying previously collected calibration data to account for changes that have occurred in the network may increase the accuracy of mobile station location estimation. | 09-04-2008 |
20080214185 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESELECTING ANTENNAS IN A CELLULAR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A cellular mobile communication system using multiple antennas reselects a plurality of transmission antennas of base stations connected to a mobile station. The system includes measuring a channel quality parameter used for estimation of channel performance, determining whether to reselect the transmission antennas using the measured channel quality parameter, reselecting transmission antennas of the base stations connected to the mobile station, and connecting the reselected transmission antennas to the base station. | 09-04-2008 |
20080233949 | METHOD FOR UPDATING A MONITORING LIST OF INFORMATION IDENTIFYING CELLS TRANSFERRED BY A BASE STATION OF A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK IN A CELL MANAGED BY THE BASE STATION - The present invention concerns a method for updating a monitoring list of information identifying cells transferred by a base station of a wireless telecommunication network in a cell managed by the base station, the monitoring list comprising information identifying cells which are neighbour of the cell managed by the base station. The base station:
| 09-25-2008 |
20080233950 | Method of Deactivating High-Speed Downlink Operation in CELL_FACH State for a Wireless Communications System and Related Apparatus - To avoid degrading the packet transmission performance, a method for improving a determining procedure of stopping a high speed downlink operation corresponding to a CELL_FACH state for a user equipment, also called UE, in the CELL_FACH state in a wireless communications system is provided. The method includes changing a setting of a dedicated variable corresponding to a dedicated HS-DSCH radio network transaction identifier, hereinafter called H-RNTI, from a use state to a close state; and determining that the setting of the dedicated variable and a setting of a common variable corresponding to a common H-RNTI are valid configuration if the setting of the common variable is a close state. | 09-25-2008 |
20080254790 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS E-911 CALL TESTING - The technology described herein provides systems and methods for remote emergency wireless E-911 call testing. The wireless E-911 call testing system includes a remote call testing unit (RCTU) which, in combination with an Automated Emergency Operator Server (AEOS), allows for verification of 911 call functionality without the need for in-person, on-site testing at each cellular site. | 10-16-2008 |
20080261586 | Method and Apparatus For Improving Call Quality - A method of selectively improving the quality of calls carried by a communications network. The method comprises defining off-peak and peak call periods, and during off-peak periods, for each call carried by the network, analysing call data to determine whether or not a network based Voice Quality Enhancement function should be applied to the call and, if yes, applying the function to the call. A database is maintained containing subscriber and/or terminal identities together with respective Voice Quality Enhancement function requirements, said requirements being updated based upon determinations made during said off-peak periods. During peak periods, said network based Voice Quality Enhancement function is invoked on a per call basis in dependence upon the requirements contained in said database for the user(s) and/or terminal(s) participating in the calls. | 10-23-2008 |
20080261587 | Expert System - Expert system for evaluating diversity antenna installations. Antenna elements | 10-23-2008 |
20080268831 | Wireless Fault Monitoring System - If a mobility aid develops a problem, the person controlling the aid may be unable to move or request assistance or call for help. Furthermore, even if someone was alerted to their predicament, that person may not be able to identify and thus rectify the problem expediently without expert assistance. A system ( | 10-30-2008 |
20080268832 | INQUIRING OF A PROTECTED COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES DATABASE TO ADDRESS CONCERNS OVER BLIND BASE STATION OPERATION IN CONFLICT WITH PROTECTED COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES - A database stores updated information concerning protected communications services. A base station for a coexisting, and potentially co-channel, non-protected communications service makes an inquiry of the database requesting an identification of geographically relevant protected services along with the database stored information pertinent to each of those identified protected services. The returned information is processed by the base station to determine what channels are available for use by the non-protected service. An available channel is identified by the base station as the working channel for the non-protected service and the base station initiates a process to establish a communications network using the non-protected service and the selected working channel. | 10-30-2008 |
20080280604 | Forbidden neighbor cell list - Mobility in E-UTRAN might not rely on neighbor cell list. In such a case, the user equipment (UE) may be responsible for finding cells and reporting to the network. Consequently signaling load may be increased and also handover (HO) performance can be degraded for the cases in which the target cell proposed by the UE is not good. Certain embodiments of the present invention give the operator some control of the signaling load and HO performance by providing a list of forbidden cells with regard to which the UE does not have to search and report. | 11-13-2008 |
20080293401 | TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION CHANNEL MATCHING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND MOBILE PHONE TEST EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is a transmission/reception channel matching apparatus and method for a mobile communication terminal and a mobile phone test equipment. The apparatus includes mobile communication terminal-side terminals, transmission and reception terminals, a connection detection unit, a switching unit, and a control unit. The mobile communication terminal-side terminals are connected to the option pins of a serial communication port in a one-to-one correspondence. The transmission and reception terminals correspond to the transmission and reception channels of the mobile phone test equipment. The connection detection unit detects the state of connection between the mobile communication terminal-side terminals and the option pins. The switching unit connects the mobile communication terminal-side terminals to the transmission and reception terminals. The control unit automatically sets the transmission and reception channels of the mobile communication terminal and the transmission and reception channels of the mobile phone test equipment with reference to the state of the connection, and outputs the channel matching command. | 11-27-2008 |
20080299964 | TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION CHANNEL MATCHING APPARATUS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND MOBILE PHONE TEST EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is a transmission/reception channel matching apparatus for a mobile communication terminal and a mobile phone test equipment. The transmission/reception channel matching apparatus includes a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), a Dual In-line Package (DIP) switch, and a fastening casing. The PCB includes mobile communication terminal-side terminals to be electrically connected to option pins provided in the serial communication connector of the mobile communication terminal, and transmission and reception terminals corresponding to the transmission and reception channels of the mobile phone test equipment for transmitting a transmission signal to the mobile communication terminal and receiving a reception signal from the mobile communication terminal. The DIP switch is provided with a plurality of switches, is combined with the PCB, and selectively connects the mobile communication terminal-side terminals to the transmission and reception terminals depending on ON/OFF information. The fastening casing accommodates the PCB so that part of the DIP switch is exposed to the outside. | 12-04-2008 |
20080311901 | Method and Apparatus for Evaluating the Performance of a Radiomobile Transmission System - A method for evaluating the performance of a radiomobile system including a core network, includes the steps of generating a signal through a first device and transmitting the signal to a second device through the core network, wherein the transmission step includes emulating a radio access network interposed between the first device and the core network. | 12-18-2008 |
20090011756 | Method for maintaining the continuing existence of NPD in IEEE 802.22.1 operation - Methods for maintaining continuing existence of a next-in-line protecting device in a beacon network including a primary protecting device (PPD), the next-in-line protecting device (NPD) and a plurality of secondary protecting devices (SPDs). In one method, a subset of the plurality of secondary protecting devices periodically transmit beacon messages to the primary protecting device. When the next-in-line protecting device disappears, the primary protecting device selects a secondary protecting device from among the secondary protecting devices that have transmitted the beacon messages within a certain period to be a new next-in-line protecting device. In another method, the plurality of secondary protecting devices continuously monitor an existence of the next-in-line protecting device. When the next-in-line protecting device disappears for a certain period of time, a subset of the plurality of secondary protecting devices may contend to be a new next-in-line protecting device. In still another method, the primary protecting device transmits a beacon message to the plurality of secondary protecting devices to indicate whether a next-in-line protecting device is required. When a next-in-line protecting device is required, a subset of the secondary protecting devices contend to be a new next-in-line protecting device. | 01-08-2009 |
20090023440 | Communication mediation apparatus and communication mediation method - A communication mediation apparatus for mediating communication between an information processing device and a communication network includes a first communication unit, second communication unit, a determining unit, and a setting unit. The first communication unit communicates with the information processing device by first communication speed. The second communication unit communicates with the communication network having multiple second communication speeds. The determining unit determines the second communication speed being closest to the first communication speed from among the multiple second communication speeds. The setting unit sets the determined communication speed to the second communication unit. | 01-22-2009 |
20090023441 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A DOWNLINK TRANSMIT POWER CHARACTERISTIC IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A cellular communication system comprising a network optimizer ( | 01-22-2009 |
20090036117 | WIRELESS DEVICE OPERABLE TO MANIPULATE HIGH-SPEED SHARED CONTROL CHANNEL (HSSCCH) QUALITY CONTROL THROUGH CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATION REPORT MANIPULATION - A method to adapt channel quality indicator (CQI) reports from user equipment (UE) is provided. This involves first determining the presence of a high-speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) signal. An estimated signal to noise ratio (SNR) is also determined. Next an SNR correction based on the presence or lack thereof of the HS-SCCH signal and the CRC checks for HS-SCCH and HS-DSCH signals are determined and applied to the estimated SNR. The CQI report is then generated based on the corrected estimated SNR. This CQI report which takes into account a corrected estimated SNR may then be used to adjust the HS-SCCH signal in an HSDPA telephony system. | 02-05-2009 |
20090047944 | CELLULAR TELEPHONE SIGNAL MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A cellular telephone signal monitoring method and system. The method includes receiving and storing by a computing system from a first cellular telephone, a first profile associated with a first user of the first cellular telephone and first monitoring data associated with the first user and the first cellular telephone. The computing system receives and stores from a plurality of cellular telephones, first additional monitoring data associated with a plurality of users and the plurality of cellular telephone. The computing system analyzes the first monitoring data and the first additional monitoring data. The computing system generates a first analysis report based on results of the analyzing. The computing system transmits to the first cellular telephone and the plurality of cellular telephones the first analysis report. | 02-19-2009 |
20090047945 | Self-configuring small scale base station - A self-configuring mobile telecommunication base station is disclosed. A communication interface is configured to connect to an access network other than a mobile telecommunication network with which the base station is associated. A processor coupled to the communication interface is configured to establish a connection, at least in part via the access network, to an element associated with the mobile telecommunication network; receive via the access network an initialization data; and use the initialization data to configure the base station to provide access to mobile telecommunication services at least in part using a resource determined based at least in part on the initialization data. | 02-19-2009 |
20090054057 | Transmission power level regulation for high priority wireless calls - A method is provided for regulating transmission power levels for wireless calls. The method includes: determining whether or not a mobile station (MS) ( | 02-26-2009 |
20090069007 | MEASUREMENT CONTROL BASED ON RBS PROCESSING CAPABILITY - A telecommunication system includes one or more radio access network controllers and one or more radio base stations. A radio access network controller supervises the operation of a radio base station. To facilitate the supervision process, the radio access network controller receives a measurement capacity report from the radio base station and determines measurement control parameters specifying reporting requirements of the radio base station. The measurement control parameters are continually adjusted so that the capacity of the radio base station is not exceeded. Also, the capacity of the radio network controller is also considered in determining the measurement control parameters. | 03-12-2009 |
20090069008 | SITUATIONAL BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION IN SPECTRAL REUSE TRANSCEIVER - A situational or flexible bandwidth management system which enables management applications to control the allocation of bandwidth in a cellular network of spectral reuse transceivers based on network conditions. | 03-12-2009 |
20090075647 | UE Measurement Scheduling Based on Measurement Bandwidth - The method and apparatus described herein uses variable length snapshot periods to determine signal strength measurements. A mobile station determines the measurement bandwidth associated with a base station, and sets the snapshot period based on the measurement bandwidth. The mobile station determines the signal strength of serving and neighboring cells during snapshot periods. Such signal strength measurements may be used to assist and/or direct handover operations. | 03-19-2009 |
20090075648 | MOBILE PHONE NETWORK OPTIMISATION SYSTEMS - We describe a system to optimize performance of a mobile phone network towards a performance goal. The system receives performance data comprising aggregated data for a plurality of calls and commissions measurement data comprising data logged for a plurality of mobile phones, and outputs data for changing a configuration of said network. The system includes a performance monitoring system; a measurement data request system, wherein measurement data is selectively commissioned in response said performance mismatch; a measurement data analysis system to analyze the commissioned measurement data to determine a probable cause of said mismatch, and to provide analysis data identifying the probable cause; and an action determination system to receive said analysis data and to output action data dependent on the analysis data, the action data identifying one or more configuration changes to be made to the mobile phone network to reduce the mismatch. | 03-19-2009 |
20090082010 | FEMTOCELL BASE STATION WITH MOBILE STATION CAPABILITY - A communication device that includes a femtocell base station and a mobile station transmitter/receiver. The femtocell base station may provide bidirectional internet protocol (IP) communication for one or mobile devices to a cellular network. The femtocell base station may be operable to communicate with the cellular network using a wide area network. The mobile station transmitter/receiver may be coupled to the femtocell base station (in a same housing). The mobile station transmitter/receiver may be operable to perform radio frequency (RF) wireless communication with the cellular network, e.g., to detect and/or report environmental parameters, performing testing (e.g., loopback testing), and/or provide communication for the one or more mobile devices (e.g., when the wide area network is down), among others. | 03-26-2009 |
20090111463 | INCUMBENT SPECTRUM HOLD DEVICE - A monitoring device ( | 04-30-2009 |
20090111464 | SYSTEM INCLUDING A COMMUNICATION APPARATUS HAVING A DIGITAL AUDIO INTERFACE FOR AUDIO TESTING WITH RADIO ISOLATION - A system includes a communication apparatus coupled to a test subsystem through a converter. The test subsystem may be configured to initiate an audio test of the communication apparatus and receive in response a set of audio test data at a predetermined constant data rate. The communication apparatus may be configured to enable output of audio test data during inactive periods of operation of an RF circuit of the communication apparatus and to disable output of audio test data during active periods of operation of the RF circuit. The converter may be configured to receive the set of audio test data from the communication apparatus and provide the set of audio test data to the test subsystem at the predetermined constant data rate during the active and the inactive periods of operation of the RF circuit. | 04-30-2009 |
20090117892 | Compensation for Poor Coverage - A method of operating a user equipment, UE, intended to use a service in a wireless communication system having several base stations. The location of the UE is monitored, by the UE, for example with a GPS system or identification of the cell of the corresponding base station. If a problem, such as loss of coverage or call, is imminent or has occurred, information about the location is stored in a memory of the UE. After successful recovery from the problem, the alternative base station used is also stored in the memory. Next time the same location and problem is encountered, the UE uses the previous information for alleviating the problem or perform as fast recovery as possible. In this way, the UE can be operated with less frequent base station searches thereby saving battery, while at the same time sufficient coverage may be obtained. | 05-07-2009 |
20090117893 | Systems and Methods for Configuring Subscriber Systems in Wireless Mesh Networks - A wireless network may be managed by identifying one or more wireless subscriber systems included in a lobe pool of a wireless network, identifying at least one candidate subscriber system outside of the lobe pool with which to enable communications, and reconfiguring the antenna such that the lobe pool includes the identified candidate subscriber system. | 05-07-2009 |
20090117894 | Wireless Diversity Reception Apparatus and Reception Method - In a wireless diversity reception apparatus, a combining unit RAKE-combines signals of multipaths transmitted from a mobile station and received by a plurality of antennas. An antenna failure detection unit detects an antenna failure based on selection result information representing paths used for RAKE combining. A mobile station control unit calculates the total reception power value of a cell in accordance with an antenna failure detection state and outputs power control information to make the total reception power value of the cell match a target total reception power value. A transmission unit transmits the power control information to the mobile station to perform transmission power control of the mobile station. A wireless diversity reception method is also disclosed. | 05-07-2009 |
20090131044 | MOBILE-TERMINAL SIMULATOR FOR A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A mobile-terminal simulator of a wireless telecommunications network includes a control module, a protocol simulator, and a baseband-modem module, coupled to the protocol simulator. The simulator is provided with a baseband interface for coupling in communication the baseband-modem module with a radio base station of a wireless telecommunications system with a low-frequency connection. | 05-21-2009 |
20090149173 | WIRELESS NETWORK PROFILING SYSTEM - A wireless network profiling system is provided including providing a base station tester for attaching to a cellular base station, using a global positioning system for logging the position information of the cellular base station, using the base station tester for collecting a parametric information from the cellular base station and using a mobile handset emulator for transferring the parametric information and position information for analysis and storage. | 06-11-2009 |
20090181665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME SERVICE ASSURANCE - A system and methods for providing service assurance using real-time monitoring, management and maintenance capabilities to provide customers and vendors with information related to the state of the service. The service assurance domain implements end-to-end functionality with a level of granularity sufficient to diagnose issues to the device and call/session level. | 07-16-2009 |
20090186609 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING NEIGHBORING BS INTERFERENCE AND IDENTIFYING INTERFERENTIAL NEIGHBORING BS - A method for detecting a neighboring BS interference is provided. The method includes the following steps. A base station (BS) informs a coexistence signaling interval information to a subscriber station (SS) in a wireless access system. The SS obtains a silent period in a coexistence signaling interval from the coexistence signaling interval information, and monitors an interference information from a neighboring BS during the silent period. The SS reports the monitored interference information to the BS. A device for detecting a neighboring BS interference, a method for identifying an interferential neighboring BS and a device thereof are further provided. The problem of resource conflict raised when two BSs which originally are not neighboring BSs become neighboring BSs because of changes of a SS's status, or SS's position and environmental conditions, is solved. | 07-23-2009 |
20090191861 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING MOVING SPEED OF MOBILE TERMINAL - A radio channel estimation result which is an estimation result of a state of a propagation path to a mobile terminal that is a communication target, is generated. Whether a correction operation for correcting a frequency drift of a radio frequency used in radio communication between a radio base station and the mobile terminal has converged or not is determined. Then, a moving speed of the mobile terminal is estimated using only the radio channel estimation result at the time when the correction operation has converged. | 07-30-2009 |
20090191862 | INTER-RAT/ FREQUENCY AUTOMATIC NEIGHBOR RELATION LIST MANAGEMENT - In one of its aspects the technology concerns a method of operating a telecommunications system comprising a serving radio base station and a candidate radio base station. The serving radio base station comprises a radio base station to which a wireless mobile station provides measurement reports. The serving radio base station and the candidate radio base station are different with respect to at least one of frequency and radio access technology. The method comprises the serving radio base station allowing the mobile station to obtain information broadcasted by the candidate radio base station. The information is either information for locating Cell Global Identity (CGI) of the candidate radio base station or the Cell Global Identity (CGI) itself of the radio base station. The mobile station obtains the information from the candidate radio base station during at least one reading gap. The reading gap is a time period in which the mobile station does not receive information from the serving radio base station. | 07-30-2009 |
20090191863 | MEASUREMENT BANDWIDTH CONFIGURATION METHOD - In a cellular radio system measurement bandwidth for a plurality of base stations belonging to a cellular radio system is performed by configuring the base stations to signal the measurement bandwidth to user equipments connected to the cellular radio system for performing downlink neighbor cell measurements over the signaled measurement bandwidth in the user equipment by first receiving a set of information. The received information is used for configuring the measurement bandwidth using the received set of information and the configured measurement bandwidth is signaled to the base stations. | 07-30-2009 |
20090215443 | Cellular Drive Test System Network - A method and apparatus is provided for processing wireless signals collected from a plurality of cellular base stations by a plurality of drive test units of a drive test system The method includes the steps of a first process within at least one of the plurality of drive test units processing and storing wireless signal samples in real time to identify and measure signals from the plurality of cellular base stations, the first process forming a target list of signals that could be identified and measured, a second process that processes the signals in near real time and a third process that processes signal offline. The first, second and third processes may share information irrespective of where executed, whether executed on a single drives test unit or multiple drive test units. | 08-27-2009 |
20090221282 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING CHANNEL QUALITY BY USING RANGING SIGNAL IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for measuring channel quality of a Base Station (BS) by using a ranging signal in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. The method includes estimating a time offset of the ranging signal received through a ranging channel, measuring channel quality by using the ranging signal including the time offset, determining whether distortion occurs in the measured channel quality by using the time offset, and compensating for distortion of the measured channel quality. | 09-03-2009 |
20090239525 | Channel Quality Indicator Transmission Timing with Discontinuous Reception - A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE includes a processor configured to begin channel quality indicator (CQI) transmissions using an assigned periodic CQI reporting resource before the start of the on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode. | 09-24-2009 |
20090239526 | Evolved Packet System Quality of Service Enforcement Deactivation Handling to Prevent Unexpected User Equipment Detach - A system of a telecommunications network is provided. The system includes a processor configured to promote preventing a detachment of a user equipment (UE) from the network by preventing deactivation of at least one default bearer between the UE and the network when at least one bearer between the UE and the network is to be deactivated based on a quality of service parameter. | 09-24-2009 |
20090264119 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FUNCTIONAL TESTING OF A BASE STATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for function testing of a base station system in a wireless communication system, wherein the base station system comprises at least two antennas and at least two transceivers, and said antennas are intended to cover a target area. Function testing of the parts in the base station is based on measurements of performance variations caused by for example bad contact in feeders, misdirected or malfunctioning antennas, malfunctioning feeders, wear and tear of transceivers, and/or corrosion in feeder connections etc. By alternating between TRXs in the base station system for carrying BCCH messages the performance of each TRX is measured at each time period and stored for further analysis. Thereby a decrease or a fault in the base station system is easily detected. | 10-22-2009 |
20090280799 | RADIO-WAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTIC PREDICTION ASSISTING SYSTEM AND RADIO-WAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTIC PREDICTION ASSISTING METHOD - A radio-wave propagation characteristic prediction assisting system includes a storage section, an attribute information input section, and an output section. The storage section stores attribute information of a region and reference information useful for predicting a radio-wave propagation characteristic in the region in association with each other. The attribute information input section inputs attribute information of a region whose radio-wave propagation characteristic is to be predicted. The output section searches information stored in the storage section to specify a region having an attribute which matches with the attribute information input by the attribute information input section, and outputs reference information associated with the specified region. | 11-12-2009 |
20090325572 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK SERVICE IN A PORTABLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for providing a network service in a portable communication system are provided. A portable terminal for providing a network service includes at least two Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards for supporting networks different from each other, a network performance testing unit for measuring performance of network servers supported by the SIM cards, and a controller for identifying the performance of the network servers measured by the network performance testing unit and for selecting a SIM card supporting a network server having better performance. | 12-31-2009 |
20100029266 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE REPORTING - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method, comprising; verifying, by a user equipment, that one or more rules associated with a process of reporting quality of experience metrics are satisfied, said quality of experience metrics being associated with a multimedia telephony call; generating quality of experience metrics report, by the user equipment, according to configuration information related to the process of reporting quality of experience metrics if the rules associated with a process of reporting quality of experience method are satisfied; and sending the quality of experience metrics report to a server according to the configuration information, wherein the server is outside data links connecting the user equipment to at least another user equipment participating in the multimedia telephony service. | 02-04-2010 |
20100056134 | Base Station and Receiver Failure Diagnosing Method - A radio system has silence periods in which wave transmission from a terminal is stopped and in which a base station measures external noise power. The base station includes a receiver for receiving a signal from the terminal, and a controller that has preset frequency information representing a frequency of diagnosing the receiver to a measurement frequency of external noise power, and diagnoses normality of the receiver by using one silence period out of plural silence periods on the basis of the frequency information while measuring the external noise power by using the other silence periods. When the receiver is diagnosed, the external noise cannot be measured during this silence period, and thus during this silence period the external noise measured during the just preceding silence period is held and applied as external noise under the diagnosis of the receiver. | 03-04-2010 |
20100056135 | RADIO DEVICE, STATE DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A radio device in a first base transceiver station for communicating with a mobile station located in a radio propagation area of the first base transceiver station, the radio device includes a test target selection processing unit for identifying a mobile station located in an area covered with both the radio propagation area of the first base transceiver station and a radio propagation area of a second base transceiver station established adjacent to the first base transceiver station, and a test request processing unit for transmitting a test request signal having information concerned with the second base transceiver station to the mobile station identified by the test target selection processing unit so that the mobile station executes a connection test on the second base transceiver station, and for processing a test result signal responded by the mobile station. | 03-04-2010 |
20100062757 | SWITCHING ANTENNAS IN A WIRELESS DEVICE - A method for configuring a terminal in a wireless system comprising at least one terminal and at least one base station, comprising:
| 03-11-2010 |
20100069061 | METHOD FOR ACTIVATING RECORDINGS OF EVENTS CONCERNING TERMINALS AND EQUIPMENT THEREFOR - The invention concerns a method which consists, in a radio communication system comprising a core network, at least one radio network controller connected to the core network and configured to control radio communications with terminals and at least one operation center capable of supervising said radio network controller, in: transmitting from the operating center to a radio network controller, a coded list of terminal identifiers; transmitting the coded list to the control network from the radio network controller; decoding the coded list at the core network; detecting at the core network a radio communication under the control of the radio network controller, with a terminal identified in the decoded list; and instructing the radio network controller, from the core network, to start a recording of events concerning the detected communication. | 03-18-2010 |
20100075663 | METHOD FOR REPORTING A CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method of reporting channel quality information in a wireless communication system. A relay station (RS) measures an uplink signal of a mobile station (MS) to obtain a measurement result, and transmits a report message including the measurement result and identification information of the MS to a base station (BS). | 03-25-2010 |
20100081427 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR FINDING IMPERFECTIONS IN AN RF PATH - The invention discloses a method ( | 04-01-2010 |
20100087186 | HANDLING FAILURE SCENARIOS FOR VOICE CALL CONTINUITY - Receipt of a failure response message in response to a domain transfer attempt is cached at a mobile device. The mobile device retains information related to the domain to indicate that the domain does not support anchoring and, thus, does not support voice call continuity. The mobile device might not attempt domain transfer for subsequent calls in the same area. In an aspect, after expiration of a configurable interval, the mobile device can re-attempt domain transfer to determine if anchoring is now supported by the domain. If the domain now supports anchoring, the identification of the domain can be removed from the domain listing. | 04-08-2010 |
20100087187 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF REPORTING THE CAPABILITY OF A CELL TO SUPPORT UPLINK HIGH-ORDER MODULATION - A method and device for reporting the capability of a cell to support uplink high-order modulation, in which drift radio network controller is used for reporting whether the relative cell supports uplink high-order modulation, wherein the method includes the following steps: the DRNC, after receiving a request message from the serving radio network controller, reports via signaling to SRNC the information about the capability of the relative cell to support the uplink high-order modulation and to enable the SRNC to obtain the information to determine whether to use the uplink high-order modulation method on user equipment. | 04-08-2010 |
20100087188 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING LOCATION BASED USER QUALITY DATA - A mobile device executes software. The software collects realistic and accurate user quality information without degrading the user experience of the mobile device during the data collection process. The software operates as a background application, and may have a user interface, and the software is remotely controllable and updatable by an external server. | 04-08-2010 |
20100093339 | METHOD FOR DRIFT RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER TO REPORT THAT CELL DOES NOT SUPPORT TRANSMISSION INTERVAL - The present invention discloses a method for a drift radio network controller (DRNC) to report that the transmission interval is not supported, in which, the DRNC reports the information that the cell does not support enhanced-dedicated channel (E-DCH transmission interval to the service radio network controller (SRNC) through signaling when the DRNC detects that its administrative cell does not support E-DCH transmission interval. By reporting the information that the administrative cell of the DRNC does not support E-DCH 2 ms transmission interval to the SRNC by the DRNC, the present invention enables the SRNC to obtain the information and accordingly to take part in making decision of stopping a user equipment from using the E-DCH 2 ms transmission interval or deleting the cell link that does not support the E-DCH 2 ms transmission interval, thus ensures normal communication of the user equipment. | 04-15-2010 |
20100105377 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD USED IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A disclosed base station apparatus to be used in a mobile communication system includes a report signal receiving unit receiving a report signal from one or more user equipment terminals, a radio parameter adjustment unit adjusting radio parameters based on an analysis result of each report signal, a designation unit designating a report condition to be used for each user equipment terminal to determine whether to transmit the report signal and content to be reported in the report signal, and a report unit reporting the report condition and the content to be reported to the one or more user equipment terminals. Further, in the base station apparatus, the report condition is satisfied when a transmission source of a downlink reference signal is a specific cell, and the content to be reported includes a received quality value of the downlink reference signal. | 04-29-2010 |
20100120415 | ANTENNA AUTO-CONFIGURATION - A base station for use in a mobile telephony network includes an antenna arrangement coupled to a transceiver arrangement for producing a plurality of beams. A method of testing the base station comprises detecting at the transceiver arrangement the signal strengths of a test signal received via the beams; comparing and/or correlating the said signal strengths detected at the transceiver arrangement; and using the results of the comparisons and/or correlations to determine the configuration of the antenna arrangement and transceiver arrangement and/or to detect faults. The comparison of average signal strengths can be used to detect cabling faults, and beam errors. The correlation of un-averaged signal strengths can be used to determine which beams have the same polarisation. Beam pointing directions and the allocation of antennas to sectors can be determined by monitoring handovers of mobiles moving between cells. Frequencies may be allocated to sectors according to a frequency re-use scheme. | 05-13-2010 |
20100124919 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for receiving system information in a mobile communication terminal are provided. In the method, system information including scheduling information for at least one additional system information is received from a base station. Whether validity of the system information is determinable is determined. If it is determined that the validity of the system information is not determinable, system information including scheduling information for at least one additional system information is received again from the base station. | 05-20-2010 |
20100130192 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A CELLULAR DEVICE ON A USER SPECIFIED DISPLAY UNIT - Embodiments of the present invention include a method for displaying information associated with a cellular device on a display unit. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring for a signal transmitted by a cellular device. In response to detecting the signal from the cellular device, the method determines an identity and a call status of the cellular device from data associated with the signal. The method transmits the identity and the call status of the cellular device to a user specified device to display the identity and the call status on the display unit associated with the user specified device. | 05-27-2010 |
20100130193 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF USING A RELAY STATION TO ASSIST PROCESSING OF REQUESTS FROM USER ENDS - A method of uses a relay station to assist processing of requests from user ends. The relay station acquires and monitors channel resource information received from a base station. Upon receiving a request from the UEs via the channel resource, the relay station sends the request received to the base station if it detects no response from the base station to the request. An apparatus uses a relay station to assist processing of requests from UEs. A channel resource acquisition unit acquires channel resource information from the base station. A user monitoring unit monitors the channel resource acquired by the channel resource acquisition unit and for receiving requests sent from the UEs. A base station monitoring unit monitors response from the base station to the requests upon receiving the requests sent from the UEs. A transmitting unit sends the request to the base station when no response from the base station to the request is detected. | 05-27-2010 |
20100130194 | Self-Configurable Wireless Network With Cooperative Interference Measurements by Base Stations - Self-configurable wireless network with cooperative interference measurements by base stations. A mini-cell system comprises a plurality of mini-cells. Each mini-cell comprises a communications system for establishing communications with and among remote devices and a signal collection system that provides connectivity to a signal collection network. The signal collection system comprises a scanner and a signal analyzer. The communications system and the signal collection system communicate with a local network controller via the signal collection network to report information about the mini-cell and signals that are received at the mini-cell location. The local network controller may process information received from the mini-cell about its configuration and its own signal and information received from the signal collection system to determine whether to reconfigure the network to mitigate interference and to optimize the mini-cell system. | 05-27-2010 |
20100144339 | RADIO ACCESS POINT TESTING METHOD AND TESTING APPARATUS - The normality verification and radio characteristics test of a radio communication system are executed. RF-SWs (radio-frequency coaxial switches) change-over the paths of signals which are transmitted to and received from an access terminal function portion included in an access point. RF-SWs connect the access terminal function portion | 06-10-2010 |
20100159919 | Method of Reporting Radio Access Technology Capability and Related Apparatus - A method of reporting RAT capability for a mobile device of a wireless communication system includes including capability information only associated with a first RAT in a capability reporting message of the first RAT, and transmitting the capability reporting message to a network of a second RAT via the second RAT. | 06-24-2010 |
20100167720 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCAL LOOP INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for providing local loop information in a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request for local loop information pertaining to a transmission channel, and determines if the transmission channel has one or more local loops. The method retrieves data associated with the one or more local loops if the transmission channel has one or more local loops, and analyzes the data associated with the one or more local loops to determine at least one facility type that supports the transmission channel. | 07-01-2010 |
20100184425 | Automatic Fall Behind Warning Method And System - Disclosed relates to an automatic fall behind warning method and system applied in a group activity environment. Each individual in the group corresponds to a node and all of such nodes form an independent network. The method initializes an outside node table for the group and gets a link quality index table (LQI table) among the nodes on the network. A table specifying outside and inside nodes for the network topology is generated via an algorithm. Then the method checks if there is a node being disappeared from the outside nodes of the generated table. If not, it updates the outside node table and continues to get a newest LQI table. If so, the node falls behind is confirmed and a warning notice is automatically generated once the disappeared node is not an inside node is verified. Otherwise, the method returns to the step of updating the outside node table. | 07-22-2010 |
20100190488 | Method of Reporting An Aggregated Measurement in Wireless Communication System - Disclosed is the radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and the terminal, and more particularly, to a method of transmitting an aggregated measurement report to a network in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) evolved from the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. | 07-29-2010 |
20100197296 | Platform Test Environment and Unit Test Framework for a Telecommunications Gateway - A platform test environment is described for testing the functionality of a gateway. The platform includes a number of clients that simulate the functionality of a service provider application and a number of simulators that simulate the functionality of a telecommunications network component. These clients and simulators can be used to test functionality within a gateway that manages request traffic between the application(s) and the telecommunications network component(s). Once the platform test environment is configured, it can be used to execute a series of testing operations on the gateway by transmitting requests between the clients and simulators via the gateway. Furthermore, a unit test framework is provided that can be used to generate unit tests for the platform environment. These unit tests can be used to input data into the system, obtain a set of results and compare the results to expected values. | 08-05-2010 |
20100197297 | Apparatus and method for measuring uplink thermal noise power and uplink interference power in wireless communication system - An apparatus for use in a base station capable of checking whether a frequency is illegally used in a wireless communication system are provided. Operations of the base station for checking whether the frequency is illegally used includes setting a silence interval in which a resource is not allocated to a terminal, using silence interval setting information provided from a system manager; when the silence interval arrives, measuring RSSI; and transmitting the RSSI to the system manager to examine at least one of a frequency illegal use and a reception path error using the RSSI. | 08-05-2010 |
20100197298 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASUREMENT REPORT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK HAVING MACRO CELLS AND FEMTO CELLS - In a wireless communication network including several macro cells each having several femto cells, when a trigger event occurs for a measurement report, user equipment creates a measurement report message which includes a cell identifier of a target femto cell for the measurement report in response to the trigger event, measuring results for the target femto cell, and a neighbor cell identifier having a cell identifier of at least one neighbor femto cell around the target femto cell. Then the user equipment transmits the measurement report message to an evolved node B (eNB). When receiving the measurement report message, the eNB distinguishes the target femto cell from others in the femto cells based on the neighbor cell identifier in the received measurement report message. | 08-05-2010 |
20100210260 | METHOD FOR TESTING THE ALLOCATION OF A TRANSMISSION FREQUENCY, TESTER AND BASE STATION - A method for testing an assignment through a base station of transmission frequency(ies) from a total number of frequencies is provided. The method includes transmission of data-signal portion(s) on assigned frequency(ies) with a signal power and a phase position, and transmission of test-signal portion(s) on non-assigned frequency(ies), where respective test-signal portion for respectively one frequency or one frequency block with several frequencies is transmitted with an individually-adjusted transmission power and phase position for each frequency or each frequency block, which differ from one another. The method includes reception of test-signal portion(s) with non-assigned frequency(ies), evaluation of signal powers and/or phase positions for test-signal portions in an individual manner for non-assigned frequencies and/or frequency blocks and evaluation of signal power and/or phase position of the assigned frequency, determination of a frequency or a frequency block to be assigned and return of an assignment signal, and comparison with an anticipated value. | 08-19-2010 |
20100216453 | COMPENSATING FOR CELL OUTAGE USING PRIORITIES - A device receives information associated with multiple cells, and determines a priority for each of the multiple cells based on the received information. The device also assigns each of the determined priorities to a corresponding one of the multiple cells, detects an outage associated with one of the multiple cells, and provides a temporary service to the one of the multiple cells from one or more adjacent cells with priorities less than or equal to the priority assigned to the one of the multiple cells. | 08-26-2010 |
20100216454 | RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RADIO RECEPTION DEVICE, CELL SWITCHING METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - It is possible to provide a radio transmission device, a radio reception device, and a radio communication system which can effectively use a resource of a unicast/MBMS cell and prevent increase of a signaling amount accompanying a cell switching. A UE measures a reception level of an MEMS-dedicated cell. When the measured reception level is below a first threshold value, the UE switches the serving MBMS cell from the MBMS-dedicated cell to the unicast/MBMS cell. Moreover, when the reception level of the MBMS-dedicated cell exceeds a second threshold value obtained by adding an offset value to the first threshold value, the serving MBMS cell is switched from the unicast/MBMS cell to the MBMS-dedicated cell. | 08-26-2010 |
20100216455 | Method and Arrangement for Event Triggered Adaptive Cell Detection Activity Level in Discontinuous Reception - In a cellular communication network, a user equipment can adapt the intensity (or measurement activity) with which it attempts to identify a new neighbour cell, based on a comparison of the quality of the already identified neighbour cells with the quality of a reference cell. This intensity is lower provided that the downlink received signal level (e.g. in terms of CPICH Ec/No or/and SCH Ec/No) from an appropriate selection of neighbour cells (cells belonging to active or candidate set) is not weaker than the reference (e.g. serving) cell by a certain threshold. On the other hand the UE shall identify a new cell with higher intensity provided the downlink received signal level (e.g. in terms of CPICH Ec/No or/and SCH Ec/No) from said selection of neighbour cells is weaker than the reference cell by a certain threshold. | 08-26-2010 |
20100234016 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE PHYSICAL CELL IDENTIFIER COLLISION DETECTION - Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating collision detection are provided. In some embodiments, a method can include: receiving identifying information during one or more time intervals from a plurality of base stations; determining whether at least two different values of the identifying information from the plurality of base stations have been transmitted during the same time interval; and determining that a collision has occurred between at least two of the plurality of base stations in response to determining that the at least two different values of the identifying information from the plurality of base stations have been transmitted during the same time interval. | 09-16-2010 |
20100240357 | Method of Handling Radio link Failure Detection in a Wireless Communication System and Related Communication Device - A method of handling radio link failure detection for a communication device of a wireless communication system includes performing radio problem detection for a plurality of targets of interest, and managing at least a timer for detecting radio link failure of the plurality of targets of interest. | 09-23-2010 |
20100240358 | Method of Measurement Reporting and Related Communication Device - A method of measurement reporting for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of including a first indicator associated with a first cell in a measurement report and sending the measurement report to a network entity of the wireless communication system. The first indicator informs the network entity about accessibility information of the first cell corresponding to the mobile device. | 09-23-2010 |
20100240359 | Method of Handling Radio link Failure in a Wireless Communication System and Related Communication Device - A method of handling radio link failure for a communication device of a wireless communication system includes detecting radio link failure on a plurality of targets of interest, and sending a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message indicating at least a radio link failure in at least one of the plurality of targets of interest to the network according to the detection result. | 09-23-2010 |
20100248713 | NETWORK BACKHAUL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary system includes a mobile telephone switching office (“MTSO”) subsystem having a first aggregation router and a second aggregation router, and a mobile telephone cell site router communicatively connected to the MTSO subsystem via a network backhaul connection. The cell site router is configured to establish at least one communication tunnel from the cell site router to the first aggregation router, establish at least one backup communication tunnel from the cell site router to the second aggregation router, detect at least one traffic forwarding failure associated with the communication tunnel, and redirect network backhaul traffic directed to the first aggregation router via the communication tunnel to the second aggregation router via the backup communication tunnel in response to the detected traffic forwarding failure. In certain embodiments, establishment of the backup communication tunnel includes pre-signaling the backup communication tunnel as backup to the communication tunnel. | 09-30-2010 |
20100261470 | EMBEDDED WIRELESS BENCHMARKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for measuring the performance of a provider of communications service are described. A plurality of mobile communications devices measure average power received, signal to noise ratio, voice quality, blocked and dropped calls, or any combinations of such measurements. The device may also receive a set of data identifying the location of the device. The device may transmit one or more communications signals to a server computer system with such measurements and location data. The measurements and location data may be stored in a database, and new data may be created and transmitted illustrating a subset of the measurements and location data. | 10-14-2010 |
20100273474 | FEMTOCELL HANDSET ASSISTED CLOCK CORRECTION - A method of improving frequency accuracy of a clock unit adapted to clock a femtocell local cellular communication home base station is provided. The method comprising: providing a local cellular communication home base station having an oscillator adapted to operate as a clock therein, wherein at least one cellular communication device is camped thereto, and wherein the at least one camped cellular communication device is further in communication with at least one neighboring cellular communication base station which is associated with an oscillator adapted to operate as a clock therein; periodically applying a derivative operator over periodically obtained local communication parameters and periodically obtained neighboring communication parameters thereby generating derivative communication parameters over time; and correcting the accuracy of the frequency of the clock in the femtocell local cellular communication home base station using the derivative communication parameters over time. | 10-28-2010 |
20100279680 | SPECTRUM SHARING USING COGNITIVE RADIOS - Base stations and mobile devices have limited radio frequency spectrum through which they may communicate. Moreover, this spectrum is usually owned by a party having proprietary control. In order to allow for spectrum sharing, cognitive base stations (CBS) may be configured to select a radio frequency channel owned by another entity for its own use, and to determine how much additional noise it will create for such other entity. Based on this determination, the additional noise may be monetized, so that spectrum owners may be compensated for the additional noise created by use of their radio frequency channel. | 11-04-2010 |
20100279681 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MULTISERVICE TESTING - An approach is provided for a multiservice tester. A connection over an access link providing a customer premise with connectivity to a plurality of telecommunication services provided over a data network is established at a test device. Testing the plurality of telecommunication services is initiated by either physically connecting to one or more end devices or invoking an emulation application for emulating the one or more end devices. The plurality of telecommunication services are verified based on performance of the connection. A secure connection may be established with a provisioning system maintained by a service provider of the plurality of telecommunication services, wherein the secure connection may be established via the access link or via one or more wireless network access links. The provisioning system may facilitate verification of the plurality of telecommunication services and/or troubleshooting the plurality of telecommunication services. | 11-04-2010 |
20100285795 | Methods and Devices for Reducing Interference in an Uplink - There is provided a method of operating a communication system, the communication system comprising at least a macrocell base station and a femtocell base station that is within the coverage area of the macrocell base station, the method comprising providing an indication of the noise rise or interference at the macrocell base station to the femtocell base station; and the femtocell base station adjusting a maximum permitted transmission power based on the indication. | 11-11-2010 |
20100291919 | Closed-Loop efficiency modulation for use in Network powered applications - A method and a remote device such as a sealed expansion module (SEM) for reducing power dissipation from an input power source in a telecommunications system are disclosed. A SEM contains a network feed monitor that receives an input voltage and current on twisted wire pair cables. The input voltage is then transmitted to a DC/DC converter and the voltage is adjusted and then transmitted to a BUS feed monitor connected to an active load. A first I2C device is connected to the network feed monitor to provide information related to input voltage and current to a main microprocessor that calculates input power. A second I2C device is connected to the BUS feed monitor and the active load to provide information related to the output voltage and output current to the main microprocessor that calculates output power. The main microprocessor is further connected through a third I2C device to a digital power manager that provides a DAC trim output to the DC/DC converter for optimizing the efficiency of the system. | 11-18-2010 |
20100304736 | Method and apparatus to enable high availability UMTS radio access networks by dynamically moving Node B links among RNCs - An apparatus in one example, wherein the apparatus comprises a link monitor, wherein the link monitor reconfigures link paths of a telecommunications network if links comprising a link route list are marked out of service. | 12-02-2010 |
20100311411 | Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunication System - A user equipment, in a cellular telecommunication system having a plurality of downlink physical channels, detects radio link problems using a subset of said physical channels, where said subset is dynamically adjustable depending upon which channels are available at a particular instant. | 12-09-2010 |
20100311412 | Method and Device in a Communication Network - There is provided a method of method of estimating a quality of a signal, the method in a first device comprising measuring a signal transmitted from a second device to a third device; determining a value of a metric from an autocorrelation function of the measured signal; and determining an estimate of the quality of the signal from the determined metric. | 12-09-2010 |
20100317339 | OFDMA CELLULAR NETWORK AND METHOD FOR MITIGATING INTERFERENCE - Embodiments of an OFDMA cellular network and method for mitigating interference are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the scheduler assigns a common group ID to mobile stations based on interference levels of a common interference source and allocates bandwidth within a selected zone of an OFDMA uplink subframe to the mobile stations assigned the common group ID for uplink communications within the uplink subframe. In some joint-scheduling embodiments, a neighbor base station that is identified as the common interference source may refrain from assigning bandwidth within the selected zone to at least some of its associated mobile stations that have identified the serving base station as an interference source. | 12-16-2010 |
20100323687 | DETECTION OF FAILURES IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Determining a network transmitter that is more likely to cause handoff failures in a telecommunication service based on historical data records. The historical data records may be standard Call Data Records. A probability that a service provided by a first network transmitter will be handoffed to a second network transmitter is determined. An indication that a target network transmitter is overly busy is determined based on the number of failed services for each network transmitter that may handoff a service the target network transmitter and the probability that a service will be handoffed to the target network transmitter. Based on the indication, measures may be taken to increase quality level of the target network transmitter. | 12-23-2010 |
20100323688 | Network-Controlled E-UTRAN Neighbour Cell Measurements - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a telecommunication system for network-controlled bandwidth for neighbor cell measurements. An appropriate network unit in the serving cell signals measurement bandwidth values to the UE which uses the signal values to perform one or more downlink measurements on the serving as well as the neighbor cells. | 12-23-2010 |
20100330984 | USER EQUIPMENT AND CELL SEARCH METHOD FOR THE SAME BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION - A user equipment and cell search method for the same are disclosed. The user equipment supports two or more frequency bands. The cell search method for the user equipment includes: receiving intersection data through a first frequency band; and skipping, when the received intersection data is set to a search skip value, cell searching in a second frequency band | 12-30-2010 |
20110021186 | RECTIFIER CIRCUIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, SUCH AS FOR USE IN CELL SITE POWER SYSTEMS - Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for conserving power in a communications system such as a communications service cell site or cell site. The methods include adjusting the RF coverage of the cell site antenna, selective control of the RF output transmit power, selective control of the communications bit rate, transfer of communications to other cell sites, adjustment of indicators such that mobile devices transfer communications to other cell sites, and reallocation of logical slots between radios in the cell site. In some examples, the cell site employs a power controller. The power controller may utilize a switching circuit to produce two different voltages from a single battery string during a commercial power failure with improved conversion efficiencies. In another example, a power controller may manage multiple rectifiers so that the rectifiers operate more efficiently, such as with approximately equal runtime and with regular testing. | 01-27-2011 |
20110039550 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, TERMINAL, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A radio communication system of the present invention includes a terminal and a base station. The terminal includes: an adjacent base station information report unit in which the base station and adjacent base stations report each other about its own power information; and an adjacent base station information delivery unit for delivering power information about the adjacent base stations to the terminal. | 02-17-2011 |
20110039551 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile communication system including a mobile station device and a base station device, wherein the mobile station device includes: a reception quality measurement unit which measures reception qualities based on signals transmitted from neighboring base station devices; a determination unit which determines a base station device with which the mobile station device communicates, based on a service tried to receive by the mobile station device and the reception qualities measured by the reception quality measurement unit; and a communication unit which communicates with the base station device determined by the determination unit. | 02-17-2011 |
20110045820 | Method for recovering connectivity in the event of a failure in a radio communications system and controlling node thereof - A first controlling node controlling a first group of controlling nodes in a radio communications system has a control link established by a control unit based on accessing a database storing information relating to connectivity relationships between the first controlling node and the first group is accessed by a control unit. When a detecting unit detects the failure of the first controlling node on the control link, a transceiver uses the information in the database to connect to the first group and restore connectivity to the first group of nodes. | 02-24-2011 |
20110045821 | SAMPLING AND REPORTING PERFORMANCE OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - An apparatus and method for sampling and reporting performance of a communication network includes a first step | 02-24-2011 |
20110045822 | RADIO TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio terminal according to a present invention comprising a communication judgment unit ( | 02-24-2011 |
20110045823 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING INFORMATION OF RELATION BETWEEN HOME BASE STATIONS - An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving information regarding the relation between home base stations. The method includes sending, by a first entity, a message to a second entity, wherein the message comprises an identity of the first entity, and sending, by the second entity, a message to the first entity, wherein the message comprises information indicating whether an adjacent home base station and the first entity are serviced by a same gateway. | 02-24-2011 |
20110053588 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALL RE-ESTABLISHMENT - A method for implementing call re-establishment using a user equipment (UE) configured to communicate with a wireless communication network includes detecting at least one of a radio link failure and a protocol failure of a connection between the UE and a serving cell. A target cell of the wireless communication network is selected and a received signal level for the target cell is compared to a signal level threshold. When the received signal level for the target cell exceeds the signal level threshold, call re-establishment is initiated on the target cell. The signal level threshold may be encoded within a system information type 21bis message, or a system information element. In some cases, the signal level threshold is equal to a minimum signal level required on the target cell. | 03-03-2011 |
20110053589 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station used in a communication system wherein user terminals are classified into cell center terminals and cell edge terminals, based on reception quality and includes a receiving unit that receives cell edge band information transmitted from another base station and indicative of a cell edge band allocated to a cell edge terminal in a nearby cell; a determining unit that determines a cell edge band for a cell of the base station, based on the cell edge band information for a plurality of nearby cells and received by the receiving unit; and a communicating unit that, via the cell edge band determined by the determining unit, communicates with the cell edge terminals in the cell of the base station. | 03-03-2011 |
20110059736 | IDENTIFICATION OF A MANIPULATED OR DEFECT BASE STATION DURING HANDOVER - A method of and arrangement for detecting a manipulated or defect base station of a communication network is disclosed, wherein a target base station, having selected one or more algorithms on the basis of a prioritized algorithm list (PAL) and a UE security capabilities (SCAP), reports UE SCAP related information to a core network node. The core network node having knowledge of the UE SCAP compares this information or parts of this information with the retrieved UE SCAP related information in order to be able to identify a manipulated or defect base station when a comparison fails to match. | 03-10-2011 |
20110059737 | Exclusive Wireless Service Proposals - Provided herein are systems and methods for providing exclusive wireless service proposals to subscribers. A method for providing an exclusive wireless service proposal to a subscriber includes the steps of conducting measurements of at least one metric; sending measurement data acquired during the step of conducting to a measurement analysis machine (MAM), the MAM being configured to analyze the measurement data; analyzing the measurement data; predicting performance of at least one of wireless voice and wireless data services based upon the results of the analysis step; generating a proposal for exclusive wireless services based upon the measurement data and the performance prediction; and providing the proposal to a subscriber. Systems for performing this and additional or alternative methods are also disclosed. | 03-10-2011 |
20110070882 | MOBILE PHONE WITH MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER CALIBRATION - A mobile phone utilizes a radio frequency (RF) chip transceiving RF signals via a front end circuit. A power detector detects power output from a power amplifier and converts the power to voltage to transmit to a central processing unit (CPU). A base station tester measures output power of the mobile phone and transmits to the CPU in a test mode. A microwave chamber measures power radiated by the antenna in an operation mode. A high voltage circuit provides a high voltage signal continuously. A detection circuit detects a connection status of the base station tester and the testing connector and outputs the high voltage signal to the CPU according to the connection status. The CPU determines an operating mode of the mobile phone based on output of the detection circuit, and outputs a maximum output power according to the test mode and operation mode maximum output power calibration tables. | 03-24-2011 |
20110070883 | System and Method for Automatic Carrier Change Detection in a Wireless Communications System - A system and method for automatic carrier change detection in a wireless communications system are provided. A method for centralized carrier change detection includes detecting a carrier change in a carrier deployment of a cell, determining at least one inter-frequency neighbor cells of the cell, and updating the at least one inter-frequency neighbor cells regarding the carrier change. | 03-24-2011 |
20110077000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PASSING INFORMATION THROUGH A NETWORK DURING OVERLOAD - A method is provided for passing information through a network during overload and subsequent actions to reduce congestion. An exemplary method includes receiving an origination request from a mobile device of a calling party, detecting an overload condition, transmitting a message request to a terminating network element associated with a called party in response to the origination request during the overload condition, receiving an acknowledgement of receipt of the message request, and denying the origination request. In this manner, high resource requests (e.g. a voice call) may be converted into lower resource requests (e.g. text or voicemail messages), or the resource request may be deferred to a more appropriate time. | 03-31-2011 |
20110081903 | Determining Link Quality For Networks Having Relays - A device configured to calculate a cell quality ranking criterion for a measured cell, wherein calculating is performed by taking into account at least a signal quality of a backhaul link between a relay node (RN) and an access node. The device may be one of a user equipment (UE), RN, an access node, and a component in a network. | 04-07-2011 |
20110092200 | INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE ON COMMON CHANNELS IN UNCOORDINATED NETWORK DEPLOYMENTS WITH FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USE - A network access node selects one chunk of spectrum from a plurality of chunks of spectrum to be a primary chunk for a particular cell; transmits in the primary chunk from a broadcast channel BCH that contains information needed by a terminal to at least perform initial cell access; and uses a synchronization channel SCH to indicate which chunk of the plurality of chunks is the primary chunk. A user equipment receives a SCH in a particular chunk of spectrum; determines from it that one chunk is a primary chunk for a particular cell; tunes its receiver to a BCH in the primary chunk and uses information received on the BCH to obtain initial access to the particular cell. In various embodiments the SCH is only in the primary chunk or the SCH has some indication (e.g., cell ID or relative position of primary chunk) telling which chunk is primary. | 04-21-2011 |
20110092201 | Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunication System - The present invention comprises a method and an arrangement for priority handling between a measurement gap procedure and an uplink data transmission procedure in an evolved UTRAN. The user equipment (UE) detects an active measurement gap. When the UE receives data into the transmission buffer the received data triggers an uplink data transmission procedure such as a scheduling request procedure or a random access procedure. An evaluation on characteristics information associated with the received data is performed and based on the performed evaluation the UE proceeds with the uplink data transmission procedure or the measurement gap procedure. In case the characteristics information associated with the received data is of high priority, the UE proceeds with the uplink data transmission procedure and cancels the measurement gap procedure. However, if the characteristics information associated with the received data is of low priority, it proceeds with the measurement gap procedure and postpones the uplink data transmission procedure to a later occasion. | 04-21-2011 |
20110098036 | MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR RADIO RESOURCES IN A RADIO TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a management method for radio resources in a radio telecommunication system, in which a first radio telecommunication system has a first decentralized functional unit for managing radio resources, and a second radio telecommunication system has a second decentralized functional unit for managing radio resources. The first and the second decentralized function unit signal information with respect to a work load of the radio resources to a central functional unit for common radio resource management. The central functional unit evaluates this information and signals information with respect to load targets to at least one of the decentralized functional units, said information being taken into consideration by the decentralized functional unit in an intersystem handover. | 04-28-2011 |
20110105112 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING INTER-FREQUENCY AND/OR INTER-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY MEASUREMENTS - Techniques for performing inter-frequency and/or inter-radio access technology (RAT) measurements are disclosed. A multi-receiver wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive downlink transmissions via a plurality of downlink carriers simultaneously. The WTRU may perform inter-frequency and/or inter-RAT measurements using an inactive receiver without measurement gaps if at least one receiver is inactive. If the WTRU receives a measurement order on a disabled carrier, the WTRU may perform measurements on the disabled carrier without measurement gaps using an inactive receiver while maintaining a status of the disabled carrier as disabled. The WTRU may perform the measurements autonomously if a trigger condition is met and at least one receiver is inactive. If all receivers are active, the WTRU may perform the measurements using measurement gaps, that may be configured on a downlink carrier, or alternatively, on an unpaired downlink carrier, or alternatively, on a subset of associated downlink uplink carrier pairs. | 05-05-2011 |
20110105113 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio base station ( | 05-05-2011 |
20110111752 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING BASE STATION EFFICIENCY IN A NETWORK - A method and apparatus evaluating base station efficiency in a network. The method may comprises: obtaining, from a plurality of base stations, cell performance measurements, wherein the cell performance measurements include a transmitted carrier power value and a dedicated channel (DCH) power value, generating a plurality of cell efficiency coefficients for each of the plurality of base stations by processing the obtained cell performance measurements, determining if at least one of the plurality of base stations is an inefficient base station from at least one of the plurality of cell efficiency coefficients, and transmitting at least one network modification suggestion, wherein the at least one network modification suggestion is based on the at least one of the plurality of cell efficiency coefficients used in determining the at least one inefficient base station. | 05-12-2011 |
20110124329 | Sensing Wireless Transmissions From a User of a Spectral Resource - Wireless transmissions from a user of a spectral resource are sensed by operating receiver equipment within a user equipment to receive signals within a given bandwidth around a given carrier frequency. If the user equipment is not readily capable of analyzing the received signals to ascertain whether the signature pattern of the user is present in the received signals, then it works cooperatively with a remote unit to analyze the received signals to ascertain whether a signature pattern of the user is present in the received signals. Results of the analysis are reported to a main node. The remote unit can provide software to the user equipment and/or perform at least part of the analysis for the user equipment. | 05-26-2011 |
20110124330 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE RELAY STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication system in which a mobile relay station includes a notification unit configured to notify the mobile station of mobility state information of the mobile relay station determined based on a number of base stations selected within a specified time, and the mobile station includes a base station selection processing unit to select the base station based on the mobility state information when the mobile station switches a device to be communicated with from the mobile relay station to the base station. | 05-26-2011 |
20110130137 | Outage Recovery In Wireless Networks - Embodiments are described herein to provide a general approach to wireless outage recovery. One general approach involves network equipment detecting ( | 06-02-2011 |
20110136485 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENSITIVITY MEASUREMENT IN WIRELESS MOBILE STATIONS - A system and method is provided for performing a wireless reception performance test between a wireless device and a base station emulator. The method comprises generating a path loss correction factor. The path loss correction factor compensates for path loss from an antenna port of the base station emulator to an antenna port of the wireless device. The method further comprises transmitting from the base station emulator at least a further signal transmission. The further signal transmission includes the path loss correction factor such that the transmission power of the further signal transmission removes the effect of path loss from the wireless reception performance test. | 06-09-2011 |
20110136486 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SILENT GAPS IN WIRELESS NETWORK SERVICE - In one embodiment, the present disclosure is a method and apparatus for detecting silent gaps in wireless network service. In one embodiment, a method for detecting gaps in the service of a wireless network includes monitoring a series of control messages exchanged between a first mobile switching center and a second mobile switching center in the wireless network, where the series of control messages relate to a handoff of a wireless device being served by the wireless network and logging any errors detected during the exchange of the control messages. | 06-09-2011 |
20110143748 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING SERVICE METRICS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method and system for determining service metrics in a communications network are disclosed. The method measures a speed of a wireless endpoint device in an ongoing call, and collects call performance data. The method deems the ongoing call as being associated with a user who is mobile if the speed of the wireless endpoint device exceeds a speed threshold at any time during the ongoing call, or as being associated with a user who is stationary if the speed of the wireless endpoint device does not exceed or is equal to the speed threshold over a call duration. The method adds the call performance data to an aggregate service metrics for mobile users if the ongoing call is deemed as being associated with a user who is mobile, or to an aggregate service metrics for stationary users if the ongoing call is deemed as being associated with a user who is stationary. | 06-16-2011 |
20110143749 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL MEASUREMENT REPORTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for aperiodic CQI/PMI/RI reports in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The wireless communication system supports carrier aggregation that enables a user equipment of the wireless communication system to perform transmission and/or reception using multiple component carriers. The method includes reporting CQUPMURI for multiple component carriers. When the user equipment needs to report CQUPMURI for a deactivated component carriers, a special value may be used to signal the condition. Alternatively, the user equipment indicates with the reported CQUPMI/RI which component carriers are measured. | 06-16-2011 |
20110151861 | SMART ALL-IN-ONE BASE STATION AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a smart all-in-one base station and an operation method thereof including: an interface unit that includes a plurality of interfaces supporting different communications protocols; a control unit that selects one of the plurality of interfaces included in the interface unit in consideration of user terminal information, interface information, and quality of service information and controls the connection of the user terminals and the selected interfaces; and a core network connection unit that connects the interfaces selected by the control unit to a wired network. | 06-23-2011 |
20110151862 | PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A performance management method is operable for use with a performance management system linked to a telecommunication network. The method comprises receiving a problem report from a femtocell of a plurality of femtocells communicatively coupled to the telecommunication network. The femtocell is configured to provide communications from at least one mobile device to the telecommunication network through a broadband connection. The problem report identifies a fault being exhibited by a femtocell and a performance parameter identifying a degradation in the performance of the femtocell. The method includes analyzing the performance parameter for determining a corrective action to be performed in an environment linked to the femtocell. The method includes performing the corrective action in the environment linked to the femtocell. | 06-23-2011 |
20110165871 | INTER-CELL COORDINATION FOR FEEDING RELAY NODES. - It is described a method for distributing network characteristic information within a cellular telecommunication network, which includes a first cell including a first base station and a first relay node and a second cell including a second base station. The method comprises includes carrying out an interference measurement by the first relay node, wherein the interference measurement yields a measurement value being indicative for the inter cell interference between the second base station and the first relay node, and forwarding the measurement value from the first relay node to the second base station. Further, it is described a relay node and a base station, which are adapted, in conjunction with each other, to carry out the described distributing method. Furthermore, computer program for controlling the described distributing method is described. | 07-07-2011 |
20110195708 | Optimized Handover Configuration - A method for power measurements in a cellular communication system comprises receiving measurement configuration orders. Operation of a power meter is controlled in dependence on the measurement configuration orders. Reference signal received powers are measured. A measurement report is compiled and transmitted. The measurement configuration orders comprise cell status information associated with neighbouring cells and measurement instructions that are dependent of the cell status of respective cell. The cell status information comprises information about whether the neighbouring cell is of a different type than the serving cell. Controlling of the operation of the power meter and/or compiling of the measurement report is performed in dependence on the cell status of the neighbouring cell. A method for handover based on such measurement reports is also disclosed as well as Node Bs and user equipments configured to perform such methods. | 08-11-2011 |
20110207453 | Methods for Coordinating Radio Activities in Different Radio Access Technologies and Apparatuses Utilizing the Same - An apparatus for coordinating radio activities in different radio access technologies (RATs) is provided. A first RAT module performs a first channel activity, related to a first RAT, for transmitting or receiving information to or from a first cellular network by using an antenna, and requests that a measurement activity, related to the first RAT, is to be performed for measuring signal power of a serving cell and/or at least one neighbor cell in the first cellular network by using the antenna. A second RAT module requests that a second channel activity, related to a second RAT, is to be performed for transmitting or receiving information to or from a second cellular network by using the antenna. An arbiter schedules performance of the measurement activity between the first and second channel activities. | 08-25-2011 |
20110223906 | Handover for Cellular Radio Systems - In a cellular wireless system, power thresholds used for determining whether or not to add or drop servers held in a set of servers, such as an active set, for serving a user equipment are determined on the basis of the motion of the respective user equipment. A lower threshold may be used with respect to the adding or dropping of a given server to or from a set of servers for serving a fast moving user equipment than would be used for the same server with respect to its adding or dropping to or from a set of servers for serving a slow moving user equipment, while maintaining a given quality of service. As a result, the average number of servers held in sets is reduced in a typical network that comprises a plurality of user equipments moving at different speeds, compared to a situation in which the threshold is set irrespective of the motion of a user equipment. A reduction in the average number of servers held in sets of servers for serving the user equipment has the benefit of reducing data traffic loading in a backhaul network, since the need to send duplicated data to each member of sets of servers is reduced and/or increasing network capacity, since the radio resource is used more efficiently because the proportion of servers sending duplicate data is reduced. | 09-15-2011 |
20110250883 | Monitoring of Network Call Activity in a Satellite-Based Communication System - A network monitoring system includes data source routers, data servers, and user interface modules for depicting visual data presentations that show call activity within a satellite-based communication network. The data source routers capture signaling data from a terrestrial portion of the network and supply the signaling data to the data servers. The user interface modules request selected data from the data servers based on selected display filtering settings and generate the visual data presentations, including a geo view, a satellite activity grid, and a message view. The geo view shows a time progression of live or recorded call activity data on a map. The satellite activity grid organizes a time-progression of live or recorded call activity on a two-dimensional grid representing each satellite spot beam in the system. The message view shows a detailed listing of individual messages that have occurred within selected call flows in the network. | 10-13-2011 |
20110256863 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS RADIO FREQUENCY TEST SIGNAL GENERATION - Generating a radio frequency test signal for a mobile wireless communication device from a set of scanned radio frequency data that represents a plurality of radio frequency channels over a sequence of time intervals. A segment of the set of scanned radio frequency data over a time interval is classified into one of several radio frequency environments. A subset of the segment of scanned radio frequency data is selected based on the classified radio frequency environment. A segment of the radio frequency test signal is generated using the selected subset of scanned radio frequency data. The steps of classifying, selecting and generating are repeated for each time interval in the sequence of time intervals. Classifying the segment of scanned radio frequency data into a radio frequency environment includes comparing a set of statistics extracted from the segment of scanned radio frequency data to pre-defined classification ranges. | 10-20-2011 |
20110269452 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND DISSEMINATING MOBILE DEVICE TAG DATA - A computer-implemented method for aggregating and disseminating tag data is provided. The method includes receiving a tag generated at a particular time from a particular mobile device. Data indicative of a particular location of the particular mobile device is received corresponding to the particular time. The tag is associated with the location indicative data of the particular mobile device. Data indicative of a location of one or more other mobile devices is received, and data indicative of the tag is transmitted to the one or more other mobile devices in response to the location indicative data of the one or more other mobile devices corresponding to the location indicative data of the particular mobile device. | 11-03-2011 |
20110269453 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTER-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY CARRIER AGGREGATION MOBILITY ENHANCEMENT - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for inter-radio access technology carrier aggregation mobility enhancement. The apparatus receives a mobility reporting parameter from a first network node. The apparatus measures parameters of signals received from the first network node and one or more second network nodes based on the measurement reporting parameters. The apparatus generates a measurement report based on the measurement reporting parameters and the measured parameters of the signals, transmits the measurement report to the first network node, and receives a mobility parameter from the first network node based on the measurement report. The measurement reporting parameters include report configuration information for configuring the measurement report based on measured parameters obtained for designated signals received from the first network node and for signals received from the one or more second network nodes. | 11-03-2011 |
20110269454 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING CELL SELF-HEALING OF BASE STATION IN LONG TERM EVOLUTION SYSTEM - A method and system for implementing self-healing of base station cells in long term evolution system, and the method comprises: when a base station detects that there is one baseband board abnormal, it judges whether there are redundant baseband resources in the base station that satisfy the minimum bandwidth demand of cells in the abnormal baseband board or not, and if yes, a cell establishment process is initiated to reestablish the cells in the abnormal baseband board; otherwise, redundant bandwidth of the cells from a normal baseband board is acquired as available baseband resources to reestablish the cells in the abnormal baseband board. Said system comprises: a detection unit, a judgment unit, a cell establishment unit and an available baseband resources acquisition unit. | 11-03-2011 |
20110281579 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND MEASURING UPLINK TRAFFIC IN SIGNAL REPEATING SYSTEMS - A signal repeating system for a wireless network includes an antenna configured for transceiving signals between a base station and a user equipment device. Repeating circuitry is coupled to the antenna and defines an uplink path for signals from the user equipment device to the base station and a downlink path for signals from the base station to the user equipment device. The repeating circuitry includes gain circuitry and gain control circuitry that is coupled to the gain circuitry. The gain control circuitry is operable for varying the gain of the repeating circuitry according to a waveform. Measurement circuitry measures the receive power in the uplink path over time from the user equipment device. Processing circuitry cross-correlates the inverted gain variation waveform with the measured receive power for determining the existence of traffic from user equipment devices in the uplink path. | 11-17-2011 |
20110287762 | Enabling Improvement in Cellular Network Coverage - A method that has cellphones report to the cellular network signal strength and location information when the signal strength falls below a chosen threshold. Each cellphone maintains a log file of entries, each of which specifies a location and a signal strength (that is below the chosen threshold) and on a regular basis sends the information in the log file to the cellular network's provider. The provider uses the information sent by the cellphones to identify geographic regions where signal conditions are poor, and that enables the provider to upgrade its network. | 11-24-2011 |
20110319071 | PROACTIVE LATENCY-BASED END-TO-END TECHNOLOGY SURVEY AND FALLBACK FOR MOBILE TELEPHONY - A system and methodology that facilitates dynamically determining an end-to-end response of a network prior to the selection of a technology for an application, is provided. Moreover, a user equipment (UE) can perform a proactive latency-based end-to-end technology survey to select appropriate technologies for different applications based in part on application requirements, UE and network infrastructure capabilities, network load, concurrent uses, or other factors as determined by the service provider. The results of the survey can be compared with pre-established criteria, as broadcast by the network operator, to determine a network that can be utilized to support an application at a particular location, or to determine whether fallback to another technology provides better quality and/or efficiency can be performed. | 12-29-2011 |
20120028636 | APPARATUS FOR MULTI-CELL SUPPORT IN A NETWORK - An apparatus for providing multi-cell support in a telecommunications network is described. The apparatus includes a modem board and a multi-core processor having a plurality of processor cores attached to the modem board. A single partition is defined with all of the processor cores included in it. The single partition is used to execute all control plane functions and all data plane functions. Typically, the multi-core processor is configured to include a core abstraction layer that hides any core specific details from application software running on the processor cores in the single partition and to serve at least three cells in the telecommunications network, each cell having a corresponding uplink scheduler and a corresponding downlink scheduler. In this configuration there is no need to use a hypervisor, since there is only one OS instance running (a potential cost saving). | 02-02-2012 |
20120058758 | BIAS REMOVAL OF RADIO LINK QUALITY ESTIMATES - A method for compensating the bias in estimates by utilizing the configured channel estimation filter bank. The method comprises selecting a filter from a predefined set of filters based on channel parameters, and producing at least one radio channel coefficient by applying the selected filter. An input to the filter comprises raw channel estimates, and an output of the filter comprises at least one biased channel coefficient after filtering. The method further comprises producing a radio link quality based on the at least one biased channel coefficient and/or the selected filter. During the estimation, the method comprises removing bias based on the selected filter and/or a filter configuration. | 03-08-2012 |
20120058759 | MONITORING CELLULAR RADIO ACCESS NODE PERFORMANCE - The technology in this application reduces the maintenance effort and expense to monitor the performance of a cellular radio access node (e.g., a relay or repeater) by having the cellular radio access node automatically perform radio performance monitoring on itself and providing some kind of indication of its status to an operations and maintenance node. The cellular radio access node monitors performance of a set of one or more radio characteristics of a received radio signal received by the cellular radio access node or a transmitted radio signal transmitted by the cellular radio access node and determines whether the performance exceeds an associated predetermined threshold. The cellular radio access node indicates a condition of the cellular radio access node for the operations and maintenance node based on the monitored performance. The cellular radio access node may take independent action, e.g., shutdown, restart, reduce transmit power, etc., if a monitored condition is exceeded, e.g., transmitted noise exceeds a threshold. | 03-08-2012 |
20120071158 | Browser on Test Equipment - A portable telecommunication test set with a web browser incorporated therein is provided. A standard Hyper Text Mark-up Language or Wireless Application Protocol browser may be incorporated within the portable test set, allowing a network technician to access the Internet as well as other remotely-located sources of information to retrieve data and other useful technical information while in the field for communication network or telephone line maintenance, troubleshooting or repair. The test set may contain memory to locally store certain technical information that may be retrieved and “read” by the built-in browser module when prompted by the network technician. The web browser may display the content of the requested information on a display provided on the test set. Line-specific (as well as manufacturer-specific) test information need not be in a manufacturer-dictated proprietary format. Testing-related data may thus be supplied by a vendor other than the manufacturer of the test set. | 03-22-2012 |
20120088498 | COVERAGE HOLE DETECTION IN CELLULAR WIRELESS NETWORK - An automated coverage hole detection (CHD) method based on modifying the setting of a specific parameter of a UE in, e.g., an LTE-based cellular wireless network. Physical RLF events of the UEs, possibly indicative of a coverage hole, are monitored. At least some of the UEs in a given cell are selected for modifying their parameter setting. For UEs that do not have advanced logging and reporting capabilities upon the physical RLF, the existence of a coverage hole is detected by analyzing the correlation between the settings of a timer and the probability for the UE to transit to RRC_IDLE mode. The settings of the timer are systematically adjusted via eNB signalling to evaluate the characteristics of the observed RLFs. | 04-12-2012 |
20120100846 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASSESSING CELL FAILURE BASED ON NON-ACQUISITION OF SYSTEM INFORMATION - Methods of assessing a cell to be a failed cell are provided that are based on the non-acquisition of system information. The method involves assessing whether or not a cell has failed as a function of whether, upon determining that system information needs to be acquired, the system information is acquired or not within a defined time period. | 04-26-2012 |
20120100847 | PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSIS OF WIRELESS EQUIPMENT AND A WIRELESS NETWORK OVER OUT-OF-BAND COMMUNICATION - System(s), apparatus(es), and method(s) are provided for diagnosing performance issues of wireless equipment (WE) or a wireless network through an alternative communication channel enabled by an alternative wireless network available to the WE. A service platform (SP) probes performance condition of the WE through a mobility control node (MCN) and, in response to a fault condition, collects data related to operation of the WE. Based at least on part of the data, the SP diagnoses the fault condition and related performance issue(s). To probe performance, the SP requests the MCN to collect data related to performance metric(s) of the WE. The alternative communication channel is established, and such data is collected therefrom, in response to low-grade connectivity amongst the MCN and the WE. The SP notifies the WE of at least the fault condition through the MCN or, in case of network fault condition, via the alternative communication channel. | 04-26-2012 |
20120108232 | Self-Optimization of Cell Overlap - An apparatus includes a report configuration controller configured to command reporting an event defined by receipt of a plurality of signals of different senders, wherein the signals are received at a same location, the signals are received with a strength above an absolute threshold, and a difference of the strengths is within a relative threshold. Another apparatus includes an aggregator configured to aggregate information reflecting an event defined by receipt of a plurality of signals of different senders, wherein the signals are received at a same location, the signals are received with a strength above an absolute threshold, and a difference of the strengths is within a relative threshold; and an aggregated information provider configured to provide the aggregated information. | 05-03-2012 |
20120115462 | RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY CONFIGURATION IN FEMTO-CELL BASE STATIONS - A method and apparatus for operating a femto-cell base station are disclosed. The femto-cell base station is configured to provide coverage to a User Equipment by connecting it to a core telecommunications network using a first frequency belonging to a first radio access technology. The method includes detecting that a fixed network connection of a femto-cell base station is not operative, and, in response to such failure, scanning frequencies in a second radio access technology available to a wireless network interface of the femto-cell base station, said second radio access technology being different than the first radio access technology. If there is any frequency available in said second radio access technology, said frequency in said second radio access technology is established as the operational frequency of a cellular wireless network connection established by the wireless network interface. | 05-10-2012 |
20120122448 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONFIGURATION OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for configuration of a mobile communication system with a mobile communication network and a mobile terminal, which comprises determining a communication service quality required by a software application running on the mobile terminal for the transmission of data to be transmitted via a communication connection between the mobile communication network and the mobile terminal; and determining at least one of a base station of the mobile communication network to provide the communication connection and a radio frequency region to be used to provide the communication connection based on the required communication service quality. | 05-17-2012 |
20120135727 | METHOD OF REJECTING RADIO LINKS BASED ON TIMING INFORMATION REGARDING A DETECTED CELL - An exemplary method of controlling wireless communications includes providing a list of cell identifiers to a mobile station. The list comprises a target active set of a controller that indicates candidate cells for possible communication with the mobile station. An indication received from the mobile station indicates that the mobile station has detected a cell identifier on the provided list. A determination is made whether timing information regarding the cell corresponding to the detected cell identifier is within a predetermined acceptable range. The cell corresponding to the detected cell identifier is allowed to remain in the controller target active set and added to the active set of the mobile station only if the determined timing information is within the predetermined acceptable range. | 05-31-2012 |
20120142337 | TEMPORARY ACTIVATION OF INTER-RAT FEATURES IN BASE STATIONS - Systems and methods are disclosed for temporarily activating inter-RAT features in neighboring base stations when a base station becomes out of service. A system in one embodiment receives a notification message from a base station that the base station becomes out of service. The system then identifies other base stations that are neighbors of the out-of-service base station, and generates instructions to activate inter-RAT features in the neighboring base stations while the base station is out of service. The system then transmits the instructions to the neighboring base stations to activate the inter-RAT features. When the base station becomes operational again, the system deactivates the inter-RAT features in the neighboring base stations. | 06-07-2012 |
20120142338 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING LOCAL CALL LOCAL SWITCH - A method for implementing local call local switch (LCLS) is provided in the present invention, and the method includes that: a mobile switching center (MSC) at a calling side receives a call establishment request of a calling user, and a MSC at a calling side transmits the local reference to a base station system (BSS) at the calling side and a MSC at the called side; the MSC at the called side transmits the received local reference to the BSS at the called side; and a BSS judges whether the local switch can be triggered according to the received local reference, and executes the local switch when determining that the local switch can be triggered. The present invention also provides a system for implementing LCLS. With the method and system provided by the present invention, the problem of unsuccessful local switch resulted by the BSS connecting multiple MSCs is solved. | 06-07-2012 |
20120142339 | INTERFERENCE CONTROL METHOD, MACRO TERMINAL, MACRO BASE STATION, AND FEMTOCELL BASE STATION - Provided is an interference control method that, in the case where a macro terminal does not exist close to the femtocell terminal, improves the coverage performance and bit rate of femtocell terminals, and also prevent deterioration in the performance of femtocell base stations, femtocell terminals, or macro terminals. In this method, the macro terminals ( | 06-07-2012 |
20120157089 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LONG TERM EVOLUTION SERVICE OUTAGE AND DEGRADATION MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus for enabling a wireless communication service provider to remotely provide wireless network service outage and/or degradation detection, isolation, and restoration relating to a base station are disclosed. For example, the method detects a wireless service problem, and isolates the wireless service problem to a base station of a plurality of base stations of the wireless communication network, wherein the wireless service problem comprises a wireless service degradation. The method then performs a recovery task remotely on the base station to address the wireless service degradation. | 06-21-2012 |
20120157090 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING A BROADCAST CONTROL CHANNEL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and device for automatically optimizing the send parameters in a mobile communication system wherein, in order to optimize the BCCH reception performance, a terminal stores information relating to BCCH reception failure reasons or the number of instances of packet combination for BCCH reception, and this information is reported to a base station. | 06-21-2012 |
20120157091 | NETWORK BACKHAUL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary system includes a first mobile telephone switching office subsystem configured to receive and forward network traffic, a second mobile telephone switching office subsystem configured to receive and forward network traffic, and a hub router communicatively connected to the first and second mobile telephone switching office subsystems via at least one network backhaul connection. The hub router configured to establish at least one communication tunnel from the hub router to the first mobile telephone switching office subsystem and establish at least one backup communication tunnel from the hub router to the second mobile telephone switching office subsystem, wherein the at least one backup communication tunnel is pre-signaled as a backup to the at least one communication tunnel. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed. | 06-21-2012 |
20120178438 | CONTROL OF MEASUREMENT MESSAGING IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A method to control measurement messaging is performed at a mobile wireless device. The mobile wireless device transmits a first measurement message to a radio access network in a wireless network and stores the first measurement message pending receipt of an acknowledgement from the radio access network. Before receiving the acknowledgement to the first measurement message, the mobile wireless device determines at least one parameter included in the first measurement message requires updating. The mobile wireless device deletes the stored pending first measurement message and transmits a second measurement message to the radio access network including an updated value for the at least one parameter in the first measurement message. | 07-12-2012 |
20120178439 | RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN A MOBILE DEVICE - Managing radio resources between a mobile device and a wireless network includes at least the following. An application processor in the mobile device classifies radio resources available into at least two distinct sets, a first set of active connections and a second set of potential connections. The application processor forms a measurement message that includes information about the measured radio resources and communicates the measurement message to a wireless network through a transceiver. Before receiving an acknowledgement of the measurement message from a radio network subsystem in the wireless network, the application processor determines at least one parameter included in the measurement message requires updating. The transceiver stops transmitting the measurement message in response to commands from the application processor. | 07-12-2012 |
20120184265 | Inter-Modulation Distortion Reduction in Multi-Mode Wireless Communication Terminal - A multimode wireless communication terminal that communicates using a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT determines whether the first and second RATs are in an active state, and when the wireless communication terminal is transmitting on the first and second RATs concurrently, transmitting UCI on a PUSCH on the first RAT if there is a scheduled PUSCH transmission or an uplink scheduling grant indicating a periodic CSI reporting, wherein the UCI would otherwise be transmitted on a PUCCH when the wireless communication terminal is not transmitting using the second and the first RAT simultaneously and there is a scheduled PUSCH on the first RAT. | 07-19-2012 |
20120208530 | PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A performance management method is operable for use with a performance management system linked to a telecommunication network. The method comprises receiving a problem report from a femtocell of a plurality of femtocells communicatively coupled to the telecommunication network. The femtocell is configured to provide communications from at least one mobile device to the telecommunication network through a broadband connection. The problem report identifies a fault being exhibited by a femtocell and a performance parameter identifying a degradation in the performance of the femtocell. The method includes analyzing the performance parameter for determining a corrective action to be performed in an environment linked to the femtocell. The method includes performing the corrective action in the environment linked to the femtocell. | 08-16-2012 |
20120220292 | Preventing Dropped Calls Using Voice Services Over Adaptive Multi-User Channels on One Slot (Vamos) Mode - Embodiments of the present invention include devices, systems and methods for prevention of dropped calls. For example, a method for preventing dropped voice calls can be performed by a base station. Multiple reports are received from multiple wireless communication devices. A first wireless communication device having a poor received signal is identified using the reports. A sub-channel power imbalance ratio is adjusted so that the base station gives favorable power imbalance to the first wireless communication device over a second wireless communication device. The second wireless communication device is paired with the first wireless communication device. Adjusting the sub-channel power imbalance ratio prevents a voice call by the first wireless communication device from being dropped that would otherwise be dropped. Other aspects, embodiments and features are also claimed and described. | 08-30-2012 |
20120231786 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING ANCHOR PLACEMENT IMPACT PLACEMENT ON LOCATION ACCURACY - A computer implemented method for determining geometric impact of anchor placement on localization accuracy and the subset of anchors which mitigates the impact of measurement-induced noise. | 09-13-2012 |
20120270537 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FREQUENCY SCAN USING A DIFFERENTIAL POWER METRIC - Described herein are methods and devices for use in telecommunication cell selection and re-selection for which there may be multiple different sizes of transmission bandwidth configurations in a telecommunications operating band. For each of a plurality of channel hypotheses, in which each channel hypothesis has a hypothetical occupied portion and a hypothetical guard band portion, a respective metric is calculated based on a power value for the hypothetical occupied portion and a power value for the hypothetical guard band portion. Based on the metrics determined for the plurality of channel hypotheses, at least one channel hypothesis is selected for further processing for cell selection or re-selection. The metric is calculated by determining a difference between the power value for the hypothetical occupied portion and the power value for the hypothetical guard band portion. | 10-25-2012 |
20120282919 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MAINTAINING THE PERFORMANCE QUALITY OF A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN THE PRESENCE OF NARROW BAND INTERFERENCE - A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for analyzing a wide frequency band with respect to signal power levels in specified narrow frequency bands, detecting narrow band signal power levels received in the specified narrow frequency bands, determining an average composite wideband power level from the narrow band signal power levels, and determining an adaptive threshold from the narrow band signal power levels for detecting narrow band interferers in the wide frequency band. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 11-08-2012 |
20120289224 | Method and a Radio Base Station for Handling of Data Traffic - The invention relates to an arrangement ( | 11-15-2012 |
20120295611 | COMPENSATING FOR COVERAGE HOLES IN A CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEM - In a method and a device for automated compensation for a cell/sector outage parameters of uplink power control are adjusted in order to tradeoff coverage versus quality. The uplink power control parameters can be continuously optimized in response to traffic and network characteristics thereby providing for an optimized performance degradation in cells surrounding the coverage hole. | 11-22-2012 |
20120302231 | COMPUTATIONAL SYNDROME DETECTOR - Example methods disclosed herein to monitor wireless system operation include processing a plurality of session records describing characteristics of wireless sessions in a coverage area of a wireless system to determine a first time interval for a first wireless device to propagate from a first access point in the coverage area to a second access point in the coverage area, determining a coverage area traversal rate for the first wireless device based on the first time interval, the coverage area traversal rate corresponding to a rate at which the first wireless device is traversing the coverage area, and providing a wireless service advisory for the coverage area to a second wireless device based on the coverage area traversal rate for the first wireless device. | 11-29-2012 |
20120315893 | INTELLIGENT NETWORK MANAGEMENT OF SUBSCRIBER-RELATED EVENTS - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at the network node, an indication of an event from a network monitor, the event associated with a subscriber; identifying, based on the event, an applicable rule of a plurality of rules, the applicable rule specifying at least one action; and initiating performance of the at least one action with respect to at least one session associated with the subscriber. Various embodiments additionally include one or more of the following: identifying a group of sessions associated with the subscriber, wherein the steps of identifying an applicable rule and initiating performance of the at least one action are performed for each session of the group of sessions. | 12-13-2012 |
20120315894 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING DESENSITIZATION OF A BASE STATION TRANSCEIVER FOR MOBILE WIRELESS REPEATER SYSTEMS - A repeater system including bi-directional amplifier circuitry that is configured for repeating signals between at least one device and a first signal source. Receiver circuitry is coupled with the amplifier circuitry provides at least one signal associated with at least one of a device or the first signal source or a second signal source. Controller circuitry is configured for monitoring a parameter of a provided signal that is reflective of a property of a signal source or a device. The monitored parameter is used to make a determination of whether repeated signals associated with the first signal source will desensitize the operation of the second signal source. The controller circuitry is also operable for adjusting the power level of the signals that are repeated by the bi-directional amplifier circuitry based on the determination that repeated signals will desensitize the operation of the second signal source. | 12-13-2012 |
20120315895 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MISSING NEIGHBORS AND FOR UPDATING CURRENT NEIGHBORS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - A method for identifying a missing neighbor in a wireless network includes receiving a report about two or more pilot signals measured by a mobile station; determining that one or more of the reported pilot signals is a missing neighbor not comprised in a current neighbor list of the mobile station; choosing one or more candidate sectors having a pilot signal with the same pilot identity as the missing neighbor; and selecting a most likely sector as the missing neighbor from the one or more candidate sectors, based on calculated distances between the mobile station and a source sector, between the mobile station and at least one of the one or more candidate sectors, and between the source sector and at least one of the one or more candidate sectors, so as to identify the missing neighbor in the wireless network. | 12-13-2012 |
20120322438 | Method of and an Operating Support System for Providing Performance Management in a Mobile Telecommunications System - A method of and an Operating Support System, OSS, system ( | 12-20-2012 |
20130005330 | Method and system for determining reason for too late handover to Home eNB - The present disclosure provides a method for determining a reason for too late handover to a Home eNB (HeNB), and the method includes that: after completing the re-establishment link of Radio. Resource Control (RRC) with User Equipment (UE), the HeNB confirms that a Radio Link Failure (RLF) event occurs when the UE is connected with a cell of another eNodeB; the HeNB generates an RLF Indication message and transmits the RLF Indication message to the another eNodeB, wherein the RLF Indication message includes information of a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell currently accessed by the UE; the another eNodeB determines the reason for too late handover of the UE to the HeNB according to the RLF Indication message. The disclosure also provides a system for determining the reason for too late handover to the HeNB. The present disclosure can determine a specific reason for the RLF, and thereby, can be more useful for improving the configuration of related parameters at the network side. | 01-03-2013 |
20130017823 | PICO CELL ERROR RECOVERY IN HETNETAANM Mao; JieAACI BeijingAACO CNAAGP Mao; Jie Beijing CNAANM Lei; ZhipingAACI BeijingAACO CNAAGP Lei; Zhiping Beijing CNAANM Li; LeiAACI BeijingAACO CNAAGP Li; Lei Beijing CN - A method is provided for performing handover of at least a first User Equipment from a first cell to a second cell in case of failure of the first cell. | 01-17-2013 |
20130017824 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF SERVICE OF A CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKAANM Rouffet; DenisAACI VelizyAACO FRAAGP Rouffet; Denis Velizy FRAANM Calin; DoruAACI Murray HillAAST NJAACO USAAGP Calin; Doru Murray Hill NJ US - The invention relates to a method for improving the quality of service of a cellular telecommunication network wherein cells ( | 01-17-2013 |
20130053024 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HANDLING CELL OUTAGE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for handling a cell outage. The method for handling a cell outage includes: receiving, by a first base station, an energy saving activation message sent by a second base station when a cell outage happens to a second cell, where the energy saving activation message is used to disable the energy saving function; transferring, by the first base station, the first cell from the energy saving state to the normal state according to the energy saving activation message, or keeping a third cell in the normal state until learning that the cell outage of the second cell is solved. This method prevents a coverage blind area in the network when a cell outage happens to a second cell that covers the area of a first cell which is in the energy saving state. | 02-28-2013 |
20130078993 | RADIO BASE STATION AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A radio base station eNB#1 comprises: a storage unit 130 which stores a handover parameter for controlling handover, in association with location information indicating a location in a communication area of the radio base station eNB#1; and a controller 120 which detects handover failure and control the storage unit in such a way as to adjust the handover parameter associated with the location information indicating a failure-detected location being a location of a radio terminal of which the handover failure is detected. | 03-28-2013 |
20130084851 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING STATE OF BASE STATION REVERSE DIVERSITY LINK AND BASE STATION - A method, apparatus and system for detecting a connection state of a reverse secondary link of a base station, including a base station setting that the reverse primary link of the base station is connected and the reverse secondary link of the base station is disconnected, and then determining a minimum first transmission power value of a testing terminal; while the station setting that the reverse primary link of the base station is connected and the reverse secondary link of the base station is disconnected, and then determining a minimum second transmission power value of the testing terminal; and determining whether the connection state of the reverse secondary link of the base station is normal or not according to the minimum first transmission power value and the minimum second transmission power value. | 04-04-2013 |
20130090113 | Methods and Arrangements in Wireless Communication Systems - Methods and arrangements for reporting of measurement information from a user equipment to a receiving entity via a network node comprised in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The embodiments relate to measurement logging function and immediate reporting function called Minimizing Drive Tests (MDT). The problem of reporting measurements in another RAT than in the RAT in which the measurements were collected in is addressed by a solution where a UE includes the measurement information collected in a first RAT in a message which is sent | 04-11-2013 |
20130095819 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING NEIGHBORING CELL MEASUREMENTS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Methods and apparatuses are provided that include selecting measurement types for measuring neighboring cells based in part on a change in device location. Where a change in location is relatively small, a device can perform less precise more efficient measurements of the neighboring cells to conserve power and/or processing time than where the change in location is larger. The neighboring cells can operate on a difference frequency than a serving cell; thus, measuring the neighboring cells using more precise measurements can utilize radio frequency (RF) calibration over the different frequency. Where a change in device location is below a threshold, however, less precise measurements that do not use RF calibration can be utilized to measure the neighboring cells. | 04-18-2013 |
20130130675 | METHOD OF SELECTING WIRELESS BASE STATIONS - A method of selecting a wireless carrier system using a vehicle telematics unit includes identifying the system identity of a first base station with which a vehicle telematics unit is presently registered; detecting the presence of a second base station having a different system identity using the vehicle telematics unit; determining that the system identity of the first base station is preferred by the vehicle telematics unit with respect to the system identity of the second base station; and registering the vehicle telematics unit with the second base station when the signal strength of the second base station is greater than the signal strength of the first base station. | 05-23-2013 |
20130143550 | METHODS AND RADIO BASE STATIONS FOR DETERMINING PERFORMANCE STATE OF A CELL - The invention relates to a method in a first radio base station for determining a performance state of a first cell served by the first radio base station, which first radio base station is comprised in a radio communications network. The method comprises determining traffic statistics of the first cell, comparing the traffic statistics with a threshold value, when the determined traffic statistics goes beyond the threshold value, transmitting a data request to a second radio base station requesting data retrieved in or associated with a second cell to be used to determine performance state of the first cell, receiving a data response indicating the requested data from the second radio base station, and determining the performance state of the first cell based on the data response. | 06-06-2013 |
20130165109 | RECOVERY TECHNIQUES IN MOBILE NETWORKS - A technique for protecting location information of a subscriber in a mobile network is disclosed. A User Mobility Server (UMS) receives a first query from a first call state control function (CSCF). The UMS transmits a call setup and a subscriber identity to a servicing-call state control function (S-CSCF). The S-CSCF may have no record of the subscriber identity due to a restart are some other event. The UMS receives a second query from the S-CSCF based in part of the subscriber identity. The UMS transmits a home address of a mobile station to the S-CSCF. The UMS may also transmit a profile download to the S-CSCF. | 06-27-2013 |
20130183962 | METHOD FOR DETECTING MESSAGE LOOP, ROUTING AGENT APPARATUS AND NETWORKING SYSTEM - A method for detecting a message loop, a routing agent apparatus, and a networking system. The method for detecting a message loop includes: receiving a request message sent by a network element apparatus; acquiring routing information for sending the request message to a server apparatus; detecting whether a next-hop link for sending the request message in the routing information and a link for receiving the request message belong to a same link set; and sending a response to the network element apparatus that a message loop is detected, when it is detected that the link for sending the request message in the routing information and the link for receiving the request message belong to a same link set. The technical solutions disclosed herein can improve the efficiency of detecting the message loop and thus have strong practicability. | 07-18-2013 |
20130196650 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, RADIO TERMINAL, RADIO BASE STATION, AND OPERATION ADMINISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE SERVER DEVICE - Provided is a system in which a radio station, measures and records in accordance with the measurement instruction information, and reports to the radio station, wherein the radio terminal, in case of a first condition on selection or detection of a first cell (allowed cell) in which the radio terminal is allowed to be served for a predetermined service being satisfied, and a second condition on measurement or logging being satisfied, logs information on a second cell (not allowed cell) in which the radio terminal is not allowed to be served for the predetermined service. | 08-01-2013 |
20130203405 | HUMAN-READABLE, SEMI-PERSISTENT OVERLAY THAT DYNAMICALLY DISPLAYS A CHANGEABLE OPERATIONAL STATE OF A RADIO BASE STATION - A radio base station for performing radio communication functions includes a human-readable, semi-persistent overlay fixed to a surface of the radio base station. A nonvolatile memory stores a current operational state of the radio base station. The human-readable, semi-persistent overlay indicates at least with text characters or symbols on the current state. If the current state of the radio base station changes, then the text characters or symbols on the human-readable, semi-persistent overlay are updated to reflect the changed state. The indication of the changed radio base station state on the human-readable, semi-persistent overlay remains human-readable even if the radio base station is powered-down. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203406 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING MINIMIZATION OF DRIVE TESTS - A user equipment is configured to operate in an idle mode according to an MDT configuration. When receiving a stop signal from a base station, the user equipment is configured to switch off one or multiple ongoing logged MDTs in the idle mode according to the stop signal. | 08-08-2013 |
20130244644 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR CELL OUTAGE COMPENSATION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an arrangement, a communication network node and method for cell outage compensation in a communication network system comprising a plurality of communication network nodes ( | 09-19-2013 |
20130324111 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK PERFORMANCE ANOMALY EVENTS DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION - In order to provide an early and more accurate determination of network problems, current NPI OMs are compared with samples of recent historical NPI OMs so that changes in the NPI OM are detected based on current overall network conditions rather than on conditions that may have existed at statistically insignificant earlier operational periods. By constantly adjusting a performance threshold, against which the current NPI OM is compared, by using a smaller and very recent sampling of NPIs (in the case of sudden and abrupt performance-NPI degradation detection) or a larger and greater number of NPIs over a wider time priod (in the case of slow and persistent NPI degradation detection) to establish the threshold, detection results are more accurate and meaningful. | 12-05-2013 |
20140018064 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GEOGRAPHIC REDUNDANCY FOR MOBILE WIRELESS DATA NETWORK COMPONENTS - A system includes redundantly configured resources designated as active geo-redundant nodes (AGNs) and standby geo-redundant nodes (SGNs), a set of covered agents (CAs) that rely upon the redundantly configured resources, and a geographic redundancy coverage issuer (GRCI) configured to manage the geo-redundant nodes. The GRCI maintains a CA list identifying a set of subscribers to redundancy management services supported by the GRCI, an AGN list identifying a set of active geo-redundant nodes, and an SGN list identifying a set of standby geo-redundant nodes. The GRCI provides the AGN list and the SGN list to subscriber CAs. In response to receiving a message identifying a failed AGN, the GRCI updates the AGN list to reflect a failed status for the failed AGN and issues an update message to CAs reflecting the failed status for the failed AGN and a transition of an activated SGN to the AGN list. | 01-16-2014 |
20140018065 | Post-deployment calibration for wireless position determination - Methods and apparatuses are directed to calibrating a misconfigured wireless access point. One method may include receiving a position of mobile station(s) and wireless signal model measurements derived from packets exchanged between the mobile station(s) and a plurality of wireless access points, receiving positions and/or identities of the plurality of wireless access points used in determining the position of the mobile station(s), comparing a position of the mobile station(s) with wireless signal model measurements, and identifying a misconfigured wireless access point based upon the comparing. Another method may include receiving positions associated with a plurality of wireless access points, determining a position of a mobile station based upon a wireless signal model, comparing the position of the mobile station and the wireless signal model with the positions associated with the plurality of wireless access points, and determining whether at least one wireless access point is misconfigured. | 01-16-2014 |
20140045490 | RECOVERY TECHNIQUES IN MOBILE NETWORKS - A technique for protecting location information of a subscriber in a mobile network is disclosed. A User Mobility Server (UMS) receives a first query from a first call state control function (CSCF). The UMS transmits a call setup and a subscriber identity to a servicing-call state control function (S-CSCF). The S-CSCF may have no record of the subscriber identity due to a restart are some other event. The UMS receives a second query from the S-CSCF based in part of the subscriber identity. The UMS transmits a home address of a mobile station to the S-CSCF. The UMS may also transmit a profile download to the S-CSCF. | 02-13-2014 |
20140051431 | Self-Optimization of Cell Overlap - An apparatus comprises a report configuration controller configured to command reporting an event defined by receipt of a plurality of signals of different senders, wherein the signals are received at a same location, the signals are received with a strength above an absolute threshold, and a difference of the strengths is within a relative threshold. Another apparatus comprises an aggregator configured to aggregate information reflecting an event defined by receipt of a plurality of signals of different senders, wherein the signals are received at a same location, the signals are received with a strength above an absolute threshold, and a difference of the strengths is within a relative threshold; and an aggregated information provider configured to provide the aggregated information. | 02-20-2014 |
20140057627 | EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR GEOGRAPHIC LOAD BALANCING USING A DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are presented for balancing non-uniformly distributed network traffic in a wireless communications system having a plurality of digital remote units (DRUs). In some embodiments, a method comprises partitioning the plurality of DRUs into a plurality of DRU sectors, and dynamically repartitioning the plurality of DRU sectors depending on traffic conditions in at least one of the DRU sectors, such that the repartitioning satisfies at least one of a soft capacity constraint or a hard capacity constraint. The dynamic repartitioning may be based on at least one optimization algorithm. | 02-27-2014 |
20140057628 | AUTOMATIC NEIGHBOUR RELATION - A mobile device operable to perform automatic neighbour relation functions in a wireless telecommunications network, a radio network controller, methods and a computer program product are disclosed. The mobile device is operable to perform automatic neighbour relation functions in a wireless telecommunications network in which neighbour relations derived by the mobile device are provided to a network node of the wireless telecommunications network and comprises: measurement logic operable, in an automatic neighbour relation mode, to measure characteristics of a neighbouring cell; and determination logic operable to determine, from the characteristics and from an indication of previously provided neighbour relations, whether a neighbour relation based on the characteristics has been provided previously to the network node and, if not, to generate a new neighbour relation to be provided to the network node. Hence, only neighbour relations which are not indicated as having been provided previously need be generated. Accordingly, no neighbour relation may be generated when an indication is provided that that neighbour relation has already been provided. This avoids transmitting redundant information, which reduces traffic in the network and reduces the unnecessary use of resources to transmit and process such duplicated information. This reduces the load in the network and in the mobile device. Furthermore, the power consumption of the mobile device may be reduced as a consequence. | 02-27-2014 |
20140073317 | UE-ASSISTED NETWORK OPTIMIZATION METHODS - A UE or mobile entity in a wireless communication may assist network optimization by determining a location uncovered by a wireless network, generate a coverage hole detected message if one or more conditions associated with the uncovered location are satisfied, and determining a time to transmit the coverage hole detected message to a covered wireless network. The covered network may act on the message to add covered in a second network so that the second network covers the UE. In other aspects, a UE or mobile entity may detect cell congestion in a first cell and assist the network in offloading congestion from the congested cell. In other aspects, a UE or mobile entity may detect backhaul congestion on a first cell, and assist in offloading backhaul communication for the first cell via a second cell. | 03-13-2014 |
20140080479 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR STATE SUSPENSION IN HYBRID NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus for suspending session state during hybrid network operation. In one exemplary embodiment, a cellular device uses a single-radio solution to support circuit-switched calls on a CDMA 1× network and packet-switched calls on LTE. Periodically, the cellular device tunes away from LTE and monitors CDMA 1× activity, and vice versa. During these tuned-away periods, the client device may suspend operation on the tuned away network for extended tune away intervals. | 03-20-2014 |
20140099942 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING CELL OUTAGE AND CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION POWER - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for detecting a cell outage and controlling transmission power. The method of detecting the cell outage includes: receiving a Radio Link Failure (RLF) message from a User Equipment (UE) or an adjacent BS; acquiring Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) and Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) of the UE with respect to a serving cell and adjacent cells before RLF generation, which are included in the RLF message; calculating a Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) of the serving cell by using the acquired RSRP and RSRQ; calculating an SINR of a best adjacent cell having a largest RSRP among the adjacent cells of the UE by using the acquired RSRP and RSRQ; and comparing an SINR of a best cell having a largest SINR between the serving cell and the best adjacent cell with a preset reference value and determining whether the cell outage has been generated. | 04-10-2014 |
20140106742 | RESTORATION OF MOBILE TERMINATING CS SERVICES IN CASE OF FAILURE OF A CORE NETWORK ENTITY IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In an embodiment, a method for restoration of MT (Mobile Terminating) CS services in case of failure of a PS Core Network CN entity, referred to as original CN entity, originally identified as to be contacted for a paging request towards a User Equipment UE for said MT CS services, in a mobile communication system, comprises:
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20140141769 | FACILITATION OF ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT BY A POWER-LIMITED MOBILE DEVICE - Facilitation of adaptive traffic flow management by a power-limited device during uplink-limited conditions is provided. A method can include: detecting that power emitted from the device satisfies a first defined condition; evaluating a defined characteristic of a network with which the device is associated and an application being executed by the device, wherein the evaluating is in response to the detecting; and determining whether to transmit information to the network to cause the device to be transferred by the network, wherein transferring is from a first wireless communication system to a second wireless communication system, and wherein the determining is performed based on the evaluating. In various embodiments, the first wireless communication system can be a long-term evolution system and the second wireless communication system can be a universal mobile telecommunications system. | 05-22-2014 |
20140171063 | BASE STATION APPARATUS - A method of transmission power control is performed by a radio device along with another radio device being connected to a radio control device, the radio device forming a second cell overlaid with a first cell which is formed by the another radio device and a first frequency band is used. The method comprises monitoring a failure state of the other radio device, and reducing transmission power of radio waves to be transmitted to the second cell when the failure state of the another radio device is detected. | 06-19-2014 |
20140187237 | Mechanism for Interference Mitigation in Short-Range Communication PICO Networks - There is provided an interference mitigation or frequency channel collision mitigation scheme usable for a short range communication network where a network element of a cellular network is used as a coordinator or controller for the collision mitigation. Communication information regarding a communication in the short range communication network and concerning a frequency selection for a communication are processed so as to determine collision mitigation data for reducing interference in the communication in the short range communication network. The collision mitigation data regarding the communication in the short range communication network are sent to a communication network element such as a UE acting as a master node of the short range communication network. | 07-03-2014 |
20140235233 | PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSIS OF WIRELESS EQUIPMENT AND A WIRELESS NETWORK OVER OUT-OF-BAND COMMUNICATION - Performance issues of wireless equipment (WE) or a wireless network are diagnosed through an alternative communication channel enabled by an alternative wireless network available to the WE. A service platform (SP) probes performance condition of the WE through a mobility control node (MCN) and, in response to a fault condition, collects data related to operation of the WE. Based at least on part of the data, the SP diagnoses the fault condition and related performance issue(s). To probe performance, the SP requests the MCN to collect data related to performance metric(s) of the WE. The alternative communication channel is established, and such data is collected therefrom, in response to low-grade connectivity amongst the MCN and the WE. The SP notifies the WE of at least the fault condition through the MCN or, in case of network fault condition, via the alternative communication channel. | 08-21-2014 |
20140248869 | HSS FAULT RECOVERY FOR NON-3GPP ACCESS - A method for restoring faulty subscriber-related data in an Evolved Packet System (EPS) network including a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) and a 3GPP AAA server, be characterized by comprising the following steps performed at the 3GPP AAA server: receiving an indicator from the HSS, the indicator identifying one or more subscribers having the faulty subscriber-related data stored in the HSS; and for an interaction with an access from a non-3GPP network, if the access corresponding to one of the identified subscribers, instructing the HSS to restore the faulty subscriber-related data for one or all of the identified subscribers. | 09-04-2014 |
20140256311 | Methods and Arrangement for Handling a Data Transferral in a Cellular Network - A method in a first base station ( | 09-11-2014 |
20140274029 | CELL IDENTIFICATION COLLISION DETECTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Detecting local cell identifier collision by a base station may be achieved by receiving, at a first base station from a user device, a dedicated identifier associated with a second base station. The dedicated identifier may include or otherwise map to a user device identifier associated with the second base station and a local cell identifier associated with the second base station. Based on the dedicated identifier, it may be determined, at the first base station, that there is a local cell identifier collision between the first base station and the second base station. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274030 | MANAGING SECONDARY CELL CONNECTIONS - In wireless communication networks using carrier aggregation, a user equipment (UE) may monitor a downlink radio link quality of secondary cells for an event indicating failure of the communication link with the secondary cell. When a failure event is detected, the UE declares a failure state on the secondary cell. In response to the failure state, the UE may adjust operations related to the secondary component carrier in order to save power and resources. | 09-18-2014 |
20140287742 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION CONTROL METHOD, AND BASE STATION CONTROL SYSTEM - A base station apparatus includes plural functional blocks made up of hardware and formed according to function; and a processor that that is configured to determine based on an input/output state of a control signal and of user data performed by the functional blocks and a state of data processing, an increase/decrease or a replacement of the functional blocks and output a determination result to an external destination. | 09-25-2014 |
20140295824 | METHOD OF SETTING ATTACH ATTEMPT COUNTER VALUE, USER EQUIPMENT USING THE SAME, AND NETWORK CONTROL ENTITY USING THE SAME - The present disclosure proposes a method of setting an attach attempt counter value by a network applicable under the circumstance when a UE attempts to attach to a network control entity of the network. The proposed method would include the UE transmitting an attach request message to a network. After transmitting the attach request message, the UE may receive an attach reject message in response to an attach failure. The attach reject message would contain an attach attempt counter value set by the network so as to generate a received attach attempt counter value which would overwrite whatever value that was currently stored in the attach attempt counter. The UE could then determine whether to continue attempting to attach to the network according to the attach attempt counter value received from the attach reject message. | 10-02-2014 |
20140315539 | RADIO PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEM, RADIO PARAMETER CONTROL APPARATUS, RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO PARAMETER CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - An apparatus for controlling a radio parameter of radio cells, includes: an evaluation targeted radio cell selection unit configured to decide evaluation targeted candidate radio cells based on a change of a connection target radio cell of a radio terminal, which takes a control targeted radio cell as a serving cell or surrounding radio cells of the control targeted radio cell as a serving cell, associated with a change of a connection range of the control targeted radio cell by control of the radio parameter of the control targeted radio cell, and select at least one of the evaluation targeted candidate radio cells as an evaluation targeted radio cell for evaluating the radio parameter of the control targeted radio cell; and a radio parameter control unit configured to control the radio parameter of the control targeted radio cell based on quality of the evaluation targeted radio cell. | 10-23-2014 |
20140335851 | Method and Telecommunications Network for Deactivating or Activating a Cell in Such a Network - The invention relates to a method for deactivation of at least one first cell of a plurality of cells in a telecommunications network. User devices in the at least one first cell are triggered to report measurement information regarding one or more second cells of the plurality of cells to the telecommunications network. The measurement information is received in the telecommunications network and analyzed in order to determine whether one or more user devices in the at least one first cell are eligible for being served by a second cell of the one or more second cells when the at least one first cell would be deactivated. When the one or more user devices are determined to be eligible for being served by the second cell of the one or more second cells, the one or more user devices are transferred and the at least one first cell is deactivated. | 11-13-2014 |
20140357260 | MOBILE PHONE NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A system and methods for maintaining or optimising a mobile phone network by spatially correlating geolocated radio access network (RAN) performance measurement data and geolocated subscriber account data, which in embodiments provides additional technical information on the RAN performance. These data are integrated in a spatial data structure and provided with a spatial querying and data correlation system for identifying, and addressing problem areas of the RAN. | 12-04-2014 |
20140364114 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING NETWORK ELEMENT STATE - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for processing a network element state. The method includes: obtaining a network element by monitoring network element performance data or an accepted operation request, where the network element is a base station or a cell or a subnet; then obtaining target data corresponding to the network element, where the target data includes at least one of trace data, manual minimization of drive tests data, radio link failure data, a user equipment error report, alarm data, and performance data; subsequently, according to the target data, determining whether the network element is out of service or needs to compensate another network element; and finally, when the network element is out of service or needs to compensate another network element, indicating whether the network element can enter an energy saving state. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications systems. | 12-11-2014 |
20140378126 | MOBILE STATION - In order to control transmission of an uplink signal appropriately even when an “Inter-band CA” is performed, a mobile station UE according to the present invention includes a monitoring unit | 12-25-2014 |
20150031354 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATING CELLULAR NETWORKS OPERATION - A SON element which is operative to carry out at least two different SON functions is provided, wherein each of the SON functions is associated with at least one SON related action, and wherein a SON related action, initiated by triggering a SON function, would have been adversely affected by another SON related action, initiated by triggering another SON function, had the SON element not affected a modification in operating conditions of the cellular network, wherein the SON element is operative to: (a) assign priorities to the different SON functions; (b) assign different weights to the SON related actions; and (c) coordinate execution of SON related actions, that when executed are carried out in a way that does not breach the priorities hierarchy and the weights' order assigned to the SON related actions, thereby improving operation of the cellular network. | 01-29-2015 |
20150045015 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH RADIO INTERWORKING CAPABILITY AND RELATED USER EQUIPMENT - A user equipment of a communication system includes a first communication circuit configured to operably receive ANDSF rule set and RAN rule transmitted from a communication station; a second communication circuit; and a control circuit configured to operably: select a target ANDSF rule out of the ANDSF rule set; determine whether the user equipment fulfills all validity conditions of the target ANDSF rule; select a target access network out of a prioritized network list defined by the target ANDSF rule if all validity conditions of the target ANDSF rule are fulfilled; determine whether the target access network fulfills all validity conditions of the RAN rule if the target access network is present; and control the second communication circuit to steer traffic specified in the target ANDSF rule or traffic specified in the RAN rule to a target access point of the target access network. | 02-12-2015 |
20150065121 | ADAPTIVE MONITORING FOR CELLULAR NETWORKS - Various embodiments provide adaptive monitoring of a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a first set of network data generated for a wireless communication network is analyzed. The first set of network data is a set of historical network data for the wireless communication network. A baseline for at least one operating characteristic associated with the wireless communication network is determined based on the analyzing. A second set of network data generated for the wireless communication network is received. The second set of call detail records that has been received is utilized to determine if the at least one operating characteristic corresponds to the baseline. A set of monitoring operations performed by a network management system with respect to the wireless communication network is dynamically adjusted based on the at least one operating characteristic failing to correspond to the baseline. | 03-05-2015 |
20150065122 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO STATION, NETWORK OPERATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND NETWORK HEALING METHOD - A radio communication system, a radio station, a network operation management apparatus, and a network healing method are provided that can suppress system performance degradation caused when a failure occurs in a radio base station, a network apparatus, or the like. In a radio communication system which includes multiple radio stations ( | 03-05-2015 |
20150079973 | RECOVERY TECHNIQUES IN MOBILE NETWORKS - A technique for protecting location information of a subscriber in a mobile network is disclosed. A User Mobility Server (UMS) receives a first query from a first call state control function (CSCF). The UMS transmits a call setup and a subscriber identity to a servicing-call state control function (S-CSCF). The S-CSCF may have no record of the subscriber identity due to a restart are some other event. The UMS receives a second query from the S-CSCF based in part of the subscriber identity. The UMS transmits a home address of a mobile station to the S-CSCF. The UMS may also transmit a profile download to the S-CSCF. | 03-19-2015 |
20150105067 | LONG TERM EVOLUTION INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN UNLICENSED BANDS FOR WI-FI OPERATION - Systems and methods for improved interference management by Wi-Fi devices are disclosed. The interference management may be achieved by monitoring, by the Wi-Fi device, signaling energy on a communication channel in a frequency band associated with the Wi-Fi device, comparing the monitored signal energy with a known waveform signature corresponding to Long Term Evolution (LTE) operation, and identifying a presence of an LTE interferer on the communication channel in the frequency band associated with the Wi-Fi device based on the comparison. | 04-16-2015 |
20150105068 | SMALL CELL CONFIGURATION AND MAINTENANCE IN MOBILE TERMINALS - The claimed subject matter is directed to defining a framework that enables wireless communicability between base stations for maintenance and configuration purposes, even while disconnected from an operator network, and/or deployed in the field. Embodiments are particularly applicable in the cases of small-cell base transceiver stations deployed in inconvenient, secluded, elevated and/or difficult to reach locations. The small cell base transceiver station is operable to communicate wirelessly to wireless terminals and mobile computing devices by emulating select functionality from dedicated components in an operator network. | 04-16-2015 |
20150140997 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTOCOL-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF ROGUE BASE STATIONS - A rogue base station detection system that establishes a communication session with a suspected base station, and verifies whether the base station is rogue or innocent by testing which advanced communication features are supported by the base station. The detection system holds a definition of one or more communication features that are supported by innocent base stations and not by rogue base stations. During a communication session with a suspected base station, the detection system requests the base station to activate these communication features. If the base station does not support the features in question, it is likely to be rogue. | 05-21-2015 |
20150140998 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING NAS SIGNALING REQUEST IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for processing a NAS signaling request. A method for performing a non-access stratum (NAS) signaling process by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of receiving a first message that includes information indicating a network failure from a network node of a first network; a step of starting a timer relating to a network selection; and a step of selecting a second network from among network candidates excluding the first network during the operation of the timer relating to a network selection. | 05-21-2015 |
20150140999 | LINK FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a link failure recovery method and apparatus. The method includes: first receiving, by a primary base station, failure report information sent by a user equipment, acquiring, according to the failure report information, an identifier of a DRB that needs to be reconfigured, and reconfiguring a parameter for the DRB that needs to be reconfigured; and then sending, by the primary base station, a first reconfiguration message to the user equipment, so that the user equipment reconfigures a failed DRB according to the first reconfiguration message. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications systems. | 05-21-2015 |
20150312781 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESPONDING TO A POTENTIAL MASS RANDOM ACCESS EVENT - A radio controller monitors a radio channel for a first period of time and determines a first indication of signals received without detecting synchronization or with detecting synchronization but failing error correction during that time. Responsive to determining that the first indication is above a predetermined threshold indicative of an interference condition, causing an instruction to be broadcast identifying a subset of subscriber devices allowed transmitting random access requests on the radio channel. The radio controller monitors the radio channel for a second period of time and determines a second indication during that time. If the second indication is an improvement over the first indication, the radio controller determines that the interference condition is caused by the mass random access event. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312782 | METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR VALIDATION OF SLEEPING CELLS IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method for detecting a malfunction in a cell of a telecommunication network is disclosed. The cell is adapted to serve a plurality of user devices identified by user identities and to handle signaling and/or data traffic between the network and the user devices. A lack of traffic is detected in the cell. Further, at least one user identity which identifies a user device is selected. The selected user device is served by the cell. Then a paging message is sent to the user device which is identified by the at least one selected user identity. Finally the malfunction of the cell is validated in case no response message is sent by the user device to said paging message. | 10-29-2015 |
20150327087 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING CONNECTION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN ANTENNA FEEDING PORT OF BASE STATION AND AN ANTENNA PORT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for determining a connection relationship between an antenna feeding port of a base station and an antenna port. The method includes: receiving, via one antenna port, a signal sent by a base station, and acquiring the signal via a Smart Bias-Tee in an antenna and a port of a remote control unit in the antenna, where the antenna port, the Smart Bias-Tee, and the port of the remote control unit are in a one-to-one correspondence; determining, according to the Smart Bias-Tee and the port of the remote control unit that acquire the signal, the antenna port that receives the signal; and sending, to the base station, identification information of the antenna port that receives the signal, and/or identification information of an antenna corresponding to the antenna port. Then accuracy and convenience in determining the connection relationship can be improved. | 11-12-2015 |
20150333849 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for estimating the electric field strength associated to a radio wave emitted by an electromagnetic source of a cellular radio communication network within an area. The method includes: identifying a set of obstacles; determining at least one of: a direct visibility polygon of points in line of sight with the source; a reflection visibility polygon of points reachable by the wave after reflection by the obstacles; a diffraction visibility polygon of points reachable by the wave after diffraction by the obstacles. The visibility polygons are associated to respective values of the electric field computed therein. The method further includes: subdividing the area into pixels; for each pixel, determining if it belongs to at least one of the visibility polygons; and in the affirmative, determining the electric field strength at the pixel as a value proportional to the electric field computed at the at least one visibility polygon. | 11-19-2015 |
20150341802 | RAN PERFORMANCE THROUGH DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING BETWEEN BASEBAND UNIT AND REMOTE RADIO HEADS - Digital signal processors (DSPs) process the digital baseband signals associated with CPRI links between BBUs and RRHs. The DSPs may be implemented at the RRH nodes (e.g., at the link leading to the BBU node), at the BBU node (e.g., at the links leading to the RRH nodes), or at both. The DSPs may be used to increase performance of the RAN. For example, the DSPs may implement digital filters designed to enhance the performance of the RAN. | 11-26-2015 |
20150350935 | MONITORING DEVICE AND MONITORING SYSTEM - A monitoring device includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, and a determining unit. The transmitting unit transmits, to a plurality of base stations, instructions on mutual monitoring among the base stations. The receiving unit receives, from a base station that has detected abnormality of a base station serving as a monitoring target in accordance with the instruction among the base stations, information indicating a base station determined as having abnormality. The determining unit determines a level of a fault that has occurred in the base station indicated by the information received by the receiving unit. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350982 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING VOICE AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Methods and apparatuses relating to wireless communication of a user equipment (UE) are provided including initiating an access procedure for a first radio access technology (RAT) and tuning a receiver to a second RAT for a duration during the access procedure for the first RAT. The methods and apparatuses further include receiving a paging signal via the second RAT during the duration, and tuning the receiver to the first RAT following the duration to continue the access procedure for the first RAT. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. | 12-03-2015 |
20150382210 | MOBILE PHONE NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A system and methods for maintaining or optimising a mobile phone network by spatially correlating geolocated radio access network (RAN) performance measurement data and geolocated subscriber account data, which in embodiments provides additional technical information on the RAN performance. These data are integrated in a spatial data structure and provided with a spatial querying and data correlation system for identifying, and addressing problem areas of the RAN. | 12-31-2015 |
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20160072594 | Systems and Methods for Performing Tester-less Radio-Frequency Testing on Wireless Communications Circuitry - Radio-frequency performance of wireless communications circuitry on an electronic device under test (DUT) may be tested without external test equipment such as signal analyzers or signal generators. A first DUT may transmit test signals to a second DUT. External attenuator circuitry interposed between the DUTs may attenuate the test signals to desired power levels. The second DUT may characterize and/or calibrate receiver performance by generating wireless performance metric data based on the attenuated test signals. A single DUT may transmit test signals to itself via corresponding transmit and receive ports coupled together through the attenuator. The DUT may generate performance metric data based on the test signals. The DUT may include feedback receiver circuitry coupled to an output of a transmitter via a feedback, path and may characterize and/or calibrate transmit performance using test signals transmitted by the transmitter and received by the feedback receiver. | 03-10-2016 |
20160073398 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PAGING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT USING TIMING INFORMATION UPDATE IN MULTI-SIM-MULTI-STANDBY USER EQUIPMENT - Methods and apparatus for of tracking network system timing are provided. In one aspect, a method for updating system timing information comprises determining a first periodicity of a plurality of first windows for a first radio access technology of a user equipment to access a radio frequency chain of the user equipment. The method further includes identifying a time between the plurality of first windows for a second radio access technology of the user equipment to access the radio frequency chain. The method further includes allocating a portion of the time between the first windows for the second radio access technology to update timing information of the second radio access technology. | 03-10-2016 |
20160087831 | PREDICTING ONE OR MORE SYSTEM LOSS EVENTS AND PROACTIVE SYSTEM RECOVERY - Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to predicting a system loss event and/or proactive system recovery. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for system loss event (e.g., radio link failure event) geo-coding and proactive system recovery. According to certain aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate and store information about one or more system loss events associated with the UE. The UE may then predict one or more other system loss events associated with the UE based on this information and take action, based on the prediction to continue communication of the UE. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088501 | PROCESSING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE EVENTS FROM A PLURALITY OF SOURCE SYSTEMS - There is provided improved management of a communications network including a plurality of sub-systems for providing services to subscribers. Data is received from a plurality of source systems in a communications network, said source systems encoding data according to different data models. Rules of processing the data received data from each of the source systems are defined. At least one customer experience event of the communications network is generated on the basis of the rules. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088516 | CELL IDENTIFICATION COLLISION DETECTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Detecting local cell identifier collision by a base station may be achieved by receiving, at a first base station from a user device, a dedicated identifier associated with a second base station. The dedicated identifier may include or otherwise map to a user device identifier associated with the second base station and a local cell identifier associated with the second base station. Based on the dedicated identifier, it may be determined, at the first base station, that there is a local cell identifier collision between the first base station and the second base station. | 03-24-2016 |
20160142252 | HealthCheck Access Point - A wireless configuration network may be provided by a Wi-Fi hotspot active at the wireless access station. The Wi-Fi hotspot may be connected to by a wireless network-capable device, such as a tablet computer, e.g., an Apple iPad, or a Wi-Fi enabled smartphone, e.g., an Android or Apple iOS device. This allows a technician to stand on the ground below the wireless access station but still have access to various configuration features of the wireless access station. The wireless configuration network may also be referred to herein as a “debug SSID” or a “debug access point.” | 05-19-2016 |
20160150436 | User Equipment Reporting of Connection Loss - Provided are methods for handling reports on lost connections in a terminal device which is capable of being in communication connection with a plurality of network access nodes, wherein the terminal device generates, after having lost connection to a first network access node, a report on the loss of connection. The terminal device stores the report when the terminal device is reconnected to a third network access node comprising one of a different access technology, a different network, and a different network operator than the first network access node to which the terminal device was connected before the loss of connection. The terminal device also sends, upon or after reconnecting with one of the first and a second network access node, sending the report to one of the first and second network access nodes. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150567 | RADIO COMMUNICATION STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND METHODS OF OPERATING SAME - A radio communication station in a radio communication system having a plurality of radio communication devices, derives a quantization parameter from control indications received from respective radio communication devices and transmits the quantization parameter to the radio communication devices on at least one downlink channel. The radio communication devices receive the quantization parameter, determine respective channel state metrics for the downlink channel, respectively quantize the determined respective channel state metrics by applying quantization ranges indicated by the quantization parameter, determine respective control indications indicative of the respective quantized channel state metrics, and transmit to the radio communication station respective signals indicating the determined respective control indications as respective random access transmissions on an uplink channel. | 05-26-2016 |
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