29th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 27 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130182623 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING AN UPLINK DATA TRANSMISSION - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to schedule the uplink grant in a manner that efficiently utilizes uplink resources. In the context of a method from the perspective of the user equipment, an indication regarding data to be transmitted is received and a scheduling request is caused to be provided via a control channel. The scheduling request is configured to indicate a size of the data to be transmitted. In response to a grant, data may be caused to be transmitted via allocated uplink resource blocks. In the context of a method from the perspective of a base station, a scheduling request including an indication of the requested size of the uplink grant is received via a control channel. The method may cause the grant to be provided to a user equipment and, in response, may receive data from the user equipment via allocated uplink resource blocks. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182624 | TERMINAL BATTERY AWARE SCHEDULING - The present invention relates to a method and device ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130182625 | MECHANISM FOR CONNECTING A MOBILE DEVICE TO A NETWORK - A system and method are disclosed for offloading control of services in a mobile device to a non-cellular wireless network, such as Wi-Fi. The described system and method allow the overall connection management to be performed by an application processor, while services are handled in a modem using Wi-Fi connectivity. The Wi-Fi subsystem can be fully driven by the modem for time critical operations allowing the application processor to be off (or in low-power mode) when it is not involved in the delivery of services. Battery power is saved by being able to substantially power down the application processor. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING USER EQUIPMENT (UE) POWER CONSUMPTION IN THE RRC (RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL) CONNECTED MODE - A method and apparatus are disclosed for reducing UE power consumption in the RRC connected mode. The method includes the UE entering a dormant state in which the UE does not monitor PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) scheduling during On_Durations. The method also includes the UE leaving the dormant state upon reception of a paging message with a specific indication, such as downlink data arrival or transmission. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182627 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - In a wireless communication system, a method of transmitting control information, which is transmitted to a base station by a user equipment, includes the steps of receiving at least one of PDCCH and PDSCH from the base station via at least one serving cell configured in the user equipment and transmitting a 2nd control information to the base station together with a 1st control information resulting from performing a bundling on at least one portion of the control information on a reception of the PDCCH or a reception of the PDSCH indicated by the PDCCH, wherein the bundling is performed on each of the at least one serving cell configured in the user equipment by a prescribed time unit and wherein the 2nd control information includes information related to the PDCCH last detected by the user equipment from the received at least one PDCCH. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182628 | RECEPTION REPORT AGGREGATION - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a first service and determines a potential upload time period including an aggregation time period. The potential upload time period is for uploading a reception report for the first service. The apparatus receives a second service before expiration of the aggregation time period. The apparatus determines whether to generate first reporting information for the received first service and second reporting information for the received second service. The apparatus aggregates the first reporting information and the second reporting information based upon the determination to generate both the first reporting information and the second reporting information. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182629 | METHOD AND WIRELESS TRANSMIT/RECEIVE UNIT (WTRU) FOR RECEIVING MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST/MULTICAST SERVICE - A method and wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for receiving a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) data is disclosed. A WTRU receives MBMS data segments from a first MBMS transmitting source along with segmentation information. The WTRU receives MBMS data segments and segmentation information from a second MBMS transmitting source. The MBMS data segments from the first MBMS transmitting source and the MBMS data segments from the second MBMS transmitting source are received in different order. The WTRU reassembles the MBMS data segments based on the segmentation information received from the first MBMS transmitting source and the second MBMS transmitting source. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182630 | BASE STATION DEVICE - A base station device of the present invention includes: a downlink signal reception unit | 2013-07-18 |
20130182631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MULTI-MEDIA BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICES DATA TO USER EQUIPMENT OVER RELAY NODES - A method and apparatus for providing Multi-media Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) data to user equipment in a Multi-media Broadcast over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) environment over relay nodes are provided. The method includes periodically evaluating a synchronization delay associated with relay nodes in an MBSFN area by a DeNB, and assigning resources to the relay nodes for communicating MBMS data. The method also includes setting a time stamp in synchronization packets based on the synchronization delay. The time stamp information may indicate a start time for synchronized transmission of the MBMS data to user equipment in the MBSFN area over an air interface. The method may further include transmitting the synchronization packets including the MBMS data and time stamp information to the relay nodes using the allocated resources such that the MBMS data is synchronously transmitted to the user equipment by the relay nodes. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182632 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention has an object to provide a communication system capable of mitigating, even if a large number of terminal device groups to be served by a base station device are located, congestion of a core network in a situation in which data is required to be communicated from the large number of communication terminal devices or to the large number of communication terminal devices at the same time. In the present invention, when judging to have received an RRC message from a communication terminal device (UE) in Step ST | 2013-07-18 |
20130182633 | System and Method for Wireless Link Configuration - A method for operating a relay node during a handoff from a first controller to a second controller includes receiving a first instruction from the first controller to discontinue using a first set of wireless backhaul link resources allocated to the relay node by the first controller and to temporarily use a second set of wireless backhaul link resources dedicated by the second controller. The method also includes receiving a second instruction from the second controller to discontinue using the second set of wireless backhaul link resources and to begin using a third set of wireless backhaul link resources allocated to the relay node by the second controller. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182634 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, RELAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RELAYING DATA - A wireless communication system includes at least one first relay configured to forward data received from at least one of a plurality of base stations, and to reduce intra-cell interference between a plurality of sectors of the plurality of base stations. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182635 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RELAY NODE UNDER THE CONDITION OF CARRIER AGGREGATION - A resource allocation method and apparatus for a relay node under the condition of carrier aggregation are disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. By applying the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention, a relay node can determine information of cells, which are currently available for allocation, of a Un interface, and report the information to an eNB, so that the eNB can allocate corresponding Un interface resources for the relay node according to the information. Thus the eNB side can accurately obtain the information of the cell resources, which are available for allocation and currently correspond to the relay node, of the Un interface. Thus the problem is solved that the relay node cannot properly work under the condition of the carrier aggregation caused by the mismatching between the Un interface resources directly allocated by the eNB and the relay node in the prior art. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182636 | REPEATING METHOD OF WIRELESS REPEATING DEVICE, AND WIRELESS REPEATING DEVICE - The present invention is applicable to the field of communications technologies, and provides a repeating method of a wireless repeating device and a wireless repeating device. The method includes the following steps: synchronizing network connection information of an upstream AP to a downstream WLAN AP interface of the wireless repeating device; obtaining, according to the downstream WLAN AP interface corresponding to the synchronized upstream AP, downstream wireless STA MAC address information, and establishing an upstream WLAN Client interface which is in a mapping relationship with an STA MAC address; and performing, according to the mapping relationship between the STA MAC address and the established upstream WLAN Client interface, management on data forwarded between the upstream AP and a downstream wireless STA. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182637 | SENSOR NETWORK AND METHOD OF LINK EXTENSION BASED ON TIME SLOT RELAYING IN THE SAME - A sensor network includes: a network coordinator that broadcasts a first beacon frame; a sensor device that receives a frame from the network coordinator or transmits a frame to the network coordinator; and at least one repeater that relays the frame of the network coordinator to the sensor device or relays the frame of the sensor device to the network coordinator and that broadcasts a second beacon frame that is synchronized with the first beacon frame, wherein the sensor device is synchronized with the second beacon frame to transmit/receive the frame, the cyclic-superframe includes a plurality of slotted-superframes corresponding to the first beacon frame and the second beacon frame, and the network coordinator, the sensor device, and the repeater operate in a periodically repeated cyclic-superframe structure. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182638 | Enhancements to Support Mobility Load Balancing for Relay - The present invention provides methods, apparatuses, and a computer program product for enhancements to support Mobility Load Balancing for Relay. The present invention discloses receiving a message including first parameters regarding a link between a relay entity and a base station entity, calculating second parameters regarding the link between the relay entity and the base station entity, placing the calculated second parameters into the message, and forwarding the message including the first and second parameters to nodes that are connected to the base station. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182639 | Routing Information Through A Blocking Splitter-Combiner Network - Concepts and technologies disclosed herein for routing information through a blocking splitter-combiner switching network. A control system can execute a control module and communicates with one or more satellites. The control module can generate and transmit control data for controlling traffic or other communication over a channelizer at a satellite. A satellite network operator can generate a cross-connection request that is processed by the satellite control at a ground control station or a processor on the satellite. The cross-connection requests a cross-connection for transmitting satellite user information within or across satellite beams. The control system can attempt to identify an output channel. If the output channel is found, the connection can be established. If the output channel is not found, the control system can execute various operations to partially or fully preempt other communications to accommodate a higher priority connection request. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182640 | FEEDBACK METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HEADER COMPRESSION FEEDBACK INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a feedback method and device for header compression feedback information: After RN is introduced in LTE-A system, user data transmitted at Un interface possesses a complex header structure with nesting double-IP containing GTP. Through application of the technical solution put forward by the embodiments of the present invention, different types of header compression feedback information carried in control PDU can be analyzed and processed with corresponding strategies according to the information in control PDU, thus effectively realizing separate compression and feedback for double headers and improving data transmission efficiency at Un interface. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182641 | System and Method for Distance-Dependent Data Exchange Between Wireless Communication Devices - In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a plurality of data types; identifying a plurality of communication ranges for data transmission, wherein a first communication range of the plurality of communication ranges is less than a second communication range of the plurality of communication ranges, and wherein the first communication range corresponds to a first data type of the plurality of data types and the second communication range corresponds to a second data type of the plurality of data types; transmitting data in the first data type to a first wireless communication device located within the first communication range; and transmitting data in the second data type to a second wireless communication device located within the second communication range. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182642 | COMMUNICATION TRANSMISSION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Communication transmission methods and systems are provided. Firstly, a base station broadcasts a message to a user equipment, wherein the message includes a priority threshold value. Then, the user equipment compares a priority value of the user equipment with the priority threshold value. Then, an initiation of an access procedure of the user equipment is disabled when the priority value of the user equipment is below the priority threshold value. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182643 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSITIONS OF BROADCAST DASH SERVICE RECEPTIONS BETWEEN UNICAST AND BROADCAST - Techniques are provided for receiving one or more representations of content wirelessly. The method may involve receiving a media presentation description (MPD) that includes parameters for reception of data segments for multiple representations of content via broadcast transmission and unicast transmission. The method may involve determining whether the broadcast transmission or the unicast transmission is appropriate for reception of the data segments, and selecting a given representation from among the multiple representations of the content based on a criteria of the mobile entity. The method may involve receiving the data segments for the given representation based at least in part on the parameters for the determined one of the broadcast transmission and the unicast transmission. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182644 | CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON MULTIPLE PRIORITIES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication system is disclosed. More particularly, a control method and device based on multiple priorities in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method of controlling a back-off timer in a terminal configured with multiple priorities, which includes transmitting a first non-access stratum (NAS) request message set to a first priority level, starting the back-off timer configured by a network, and transmitting a second NAS request message, which is not set to the first priority level, while the back-off timer runs. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182645 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CONTENT FROM A MOBILE DEVICE TO A WIRELESS DISPLAY - A method of transmitting content to a wireless display device is disclosed. The method may include receiving multimedia data, encoding the multimedia data, and writing encoded multimedia data into a first predetermined memory location of a shared memory. Further, the method may include encapsulating the encoded multimedia data and writing encapsulation data into a second predetermined memory location of the shared memory. The method may also include calculating error control encoding and writing the error control encoding into a third predetermined memory location of the shared memory. Further, the method may include transmitting the encoded multimedia data, the encapsulation data, and the error control encoding to the wireless display device. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182646 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system including a transmitting and receiving device that performs communications with the transmitting device, using a radio frame containing control information and data, wherein the transmitting device includes: a first generating unit that generates first control information able to be estimated by the receiving device; a second generating unit that generates second control information used for control of communication from the receiving device to the transmitting device and unable to be estimated by the receiving device; a multiplexing unit that multiplexes the control and data information so that the first control information is allocated in the control information and the second control information is allocated in the data in the radio frame; a transmitting unit a signal multiplexed by the multiplexing unit; the receiving device includes a receiving unit that receives the signal wherein the second control information is allocated in the data from the transmitting device. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF UNCOMPRESSED VIDEO HAVING BEACON DESIGN - A system and method for efficiently communicating messages over a low-rate channel between multiple devices in a system for wireless communication of uncompressed video is disclosed. The method includes various control bits in a beacon control field of a beacon frame to improve the efficiency of the beacon processing, thereby reducing beacon processing time and size of the beacon frame itself. The transmitting device can use one or more of the various control bits to indicate whether there are changes in various MAC payload information fields. The receiving station can use one or more of the control bits to eliminate the need to parse one or more MAC payload information fields whose values have not changed from the previous beacon frame. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182648 | SIGNALING METHOD, BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - To provide a signaling method for enabling position information of muting resources to be signaled with a simplified configuration, base station apparatus and mobile terminal apparatus, the signaling method is characterized by having the steps of setting blank resources for a CSI-RS (Channel State Information-Reference Signal) that is a reference signal for downlink channel estimation, and transmitting a bitmap indicative of a position of the blank resources to a mobile terminal apparatus. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182649 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING A COMPONENT CARRIER IN A MULTIPLE COMPONENT CARRIER SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for activating a component carrier in a multiple component carrier system including the steps of: receiving component carrier setting information about a first uplink component carrier, which is connected with a first downlink component carrier corresponding to a secondary serving cell of a UE, from a base station; setting the first uplink component carrier on the basis of the component carrier setting information; and activating the initial state of the set first uplink component carrier according to the activation state of the first downlink component carrier. Accordingly, the ambiguity of the initial state of an uplink component carrier additionally set between the UE and the base station can be removed. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182650 | Scheduling Transmission of Traffic Treated Less Preferentially Despite Timing Requirements - A source device has a wireless communication interface. Through the wireless communication interface, the source device establishes a communication session over a wireless medium with a sink device and determines a maximum capacity of a buffer at the sink device for receipt of audio samples to be transmitted in packets from the source device to the sink device in an asynchronous connectionless link over the wireless medium. Scheduling access to the wireless medium by the wireless communication interface for transmission of audio samples on the link takes into account the maximum capacity of the buffer. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182651 | Virtual Private Network Client Internet Protocol Conflict Detection - The present disclosure discloses a network device and/or method for virtual private network client Internet Protocol (IP) address conflict detection in the wireless network. The network device receives, from a VPN client, a message that includes a first private IP address corresponding to a VPN client, and re-allocates a second private IP address corresponding to the same VPN client. The second private IP address resolves an IP address conflict between a tentative private IP address allocated for the VPN client by the VPN server within the wireless network and the first private IP address allocated for the VPN client by an ISP server external to the wireless network. The network device also transmits the first private IP address and the second private IP address in a single message, such as a single IP data packet, to the VPN client. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182652 | METHODS AND APPARATUS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Methods and apparatus are described for a wireless local area network. In order to improve network throughput for networks with a high number of stations and with wide network coverage, stations are divided into groups, with wireless resources for communications between access points and stations divided and allocated on a group-by-group basis. The stations are then able to compete for usage of the resources allocated to their respective group(s). | 2013-07-18 |
20130182653 | Method and System for Handling of a Transport Block Size Change in an Adaptive Retransmit Order - A method and apparatus for handling a downlink control information indication for retransmission, the method receiving a downlink control information indication for retransmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process; and if a transport block size in the downlink control information has changed compared with a transport block size associated with the HARQ process or a previous uplink grant for the HARQ process: handling the downlink control information indication for retransmission. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182654 | TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL SIGNALING FOR COMMUINICATION SYSTEMS USING CARRIER AGGREGATION - This invention relates to methods for transmitting and receiving transmit power control commands from a base station to a group of mobile terminals in a OFDM based mobile communication system using component carrier aggregation of plural component carriers. Furthermore, the invention also relates to an implementation of these methods in hardware and software. The invention suggests an efficient scheme for signaling transmit power control commands. In one signaling format multiple TPC commands are sent for the uplink component carriers of a mobile terminal in one TPC message. In another signaling format, the TPC commands for the mobile terminal are signaled in respective TPC messages. A further aspect of the invention is the reduction of signaling overhead by signaling carrier group TPC commands that control the transmit power of a group of component carriers. Similarly, an all carrier TPC command is provided to control the transmit power on all uplink component carriers of a mobile terminal. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182655 | FLEXIBLE BANDWIDTH SMALL CELLS - Methods, systems, and devices for utilizing flexible bandwidth carriers for small cells are provided. Bandwidth scaling factor(s) for a small cell may be determined. A flexible bandwidth carrier may be generated for the small cell utilizing the bandwidth scaling factor. Some embodiments provide assistance with active hand-in due to more available PN offsets in the flexible bandwidth domain. Some embodiments enhance small cell discovery with high bandwidth scaling factor beacon-like small cells with little more power than that corresponding to the same power spectral density for normal bandwidth small cell. Some embodiments reduce the interference caused by small cell to macrocell users using an adaptive bandwidth scaling factor for small cells based on number of users supported and their traffic demand, to control the extent of overlap the macrocell has with small cell and the interference to macrocell mobiles. Some embodiments utilize self-configuration for small cells utilizing flexible bandwidth channels. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182656 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PREAMBLE, SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD OF WIRELESS NODE AND APPARATUS THEREOF - The embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus that synchronize radio nodes using preambles in a radio communication system. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of transmitting preambles by a radio node. The method includes generating a first preamble indicating a system bandwidth and a carrier configuration, generating a second preamble indicating a segment identifier used for obtaining a node identifier, allocating the first preamble to a first preamble carrier set, allocating the second preamble to a second preamble carrier set corresponding to the segment identifier, and transmitting the first preamble to a receiving node through the first preamble carrier set and the second preamble to the receiving node through the second preamble carrier set. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182657 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MOBILITY EVENTS IN A DUAL-FREQUENCY DUAL-CELL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method operable at a user equipment configured for wireless communication over a dual-frequency, dual-cell network is disclosed includes a primary carrier and a secondary carrier. The method includes maintaining an active set corresponding to the primary carrier; maintaining a virtual active set corresponding to the secondary carrier; and transmitting a control signal including a virtual mobility event corresponding to a change in the virtual active set. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182658 | PHR PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a PHR processing method and device in carrier aggregation system, and the method comprises the following steps: user equipment (UE) acquires pathloss change corresponding to uplink carrier in activation state at present; said user equipment judges whether PHR is triggered according to said pathloss change; if it is triggered, said user equipment shall acquire the power headroom (PH) information to be reported and report said PH information. In embodiments of the present invention, UE can trigger PHR according to pathloss change on uplink carrier in activation state at present in carrier aggregation system. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182659 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING CONTROL CHANNEL ACQUISITION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A technique of operating a wireless communication system includes determining respective geometries of multiple subscriber stations, which include a first subscriber station and a second subscriber station, with respect to a serving base station. Respective control channels, which include a first control channel associated with the first subscriber station and a second control channel associated with the second subscriber station, for the multiple subscriber stations are then scheduled based on the respective geometries. The first control channel is scheduled to be encountered earlier in a control channel search procedure, of the one or more control channel symbols, than the second control channel. The first subscriber station has a lower geometry than the second subscriber station. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182660 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RECEIVING DEVICE - In a wireless communication system for performing wireless communication using a white space, a receiving station includes an interference suppression processing part which performs processing to reduce interference which is received by the signal transmitted from a transmitting station at a frequency of the white space, a receiving quality estimation part which estimates communication quality of the communication using the frequency of the white space based on the signal processed by the interference suppression processing part, and a receiving quality informing part which transmits to the transmitting station the communication quality information estimated by the receiving quality estimation part. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182661 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINATION OF ADDITIONAL MAXIMUM POWER REDUCTION TABLE BASED ON CONTROL CHANNEL LOCATION INDICES - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive first signaling from a wireless network specifying that stricter co-existence limits are in use for uplink transmissions; receive second signaling from the wireless network specifying at least one resource block index defining a location of an uplink control channel; and determine, responsive to the first signaling, at least one region of an additional maximum power reduction table based on the signaled at least one resource block index. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182662 | DATA UNIT FORMAT FOR SINGLE USER BEAMFORMING IN LONG-RANGE WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLANS) - A method includes generating a preamble of a first data unit according to a first format. Generating the preamble of the first data unit according to the first format includes generating a first preamble portion of the first data unit and generating a second preamble portion of the first data unit. The first preamble portion of the first data unit includes information indicating to a receiving device that the first data unit is a single-user data unit, and the second preamble portion of the first data unit follows the first preamble portion of the first data unit. The method also includes applying a beamforming steering matrix to the second preamble portion of the first data unit but not to the first preamble portion of the first data unit. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182663 | MAXIMUM POWER REDUCTION FOR INTERFERENCE CONTROL IN ADJACENT CHANNELS - Techniques for determining power relaxation values are disclosed. The power relaxation values may be determined according to an ending resource block (RB) and a number of RBs in a contiguous allocation. In one aspect, the power relaxation values are arranged into regions based, at least in part, on transmission channel bandwidths and the distance from a protected adjacent channel. A user equipment (UE) can determine a power relaxation value for its current allocation using the ending RB index and contiguous RB length and can adjust its transmission power accordingly. Evolved NodeBs may estimate the power relaxation that a particular UE has selected in order to more accurately determine the transmit power available to the UE. Using the more accurate estimate of transmit power, the eNB may schedule the UE for uplink transmissions accordingly. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182664 | Resource Configuration for EPDCCH - A system and method for providing both localized and distributed transmission modes for EPDCCH is disclosed, where one EPDCCH comprises of one or multiple CCEs. Localized versus distributed transmission may be defined in terms of the EPDCCH to CCE resource mapping. In a localized transmission CCEs are restricted to be contained within one PRB. In a distributed transmission a CCE spans over multiple PRBs. A UE can be configured to either receive the EPDCCH only in localized or only in distributed transmissions. A UE can also be configured to expect EPDCCH transmissions in both localized and distributed transmissions. In each PRB configured by the higher layer as an EPDCCH resource, 24 REs that may be used for any DMRS transmission are always reserved and not used for EPDCCH transmission. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182665 | Method and Apparatus for Candidate List Generation for Uplink V-MINO - A method selects mobile station candidates for use with virtual multiple-input multiple-output (“V-MIMO”) in a communication system. The communication system includes at least one base station and a plurality of mobile stations. At least one downlink metric is determined for a first mobile station. The at least one downlink metric is used to determine eligibility for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection. Responsive to determining that the first mobile station is eligible for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection, the first mobile station is paired with a second mobile station eligible for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182666 | BIDIRECTIONAL ITERATIVE BEAM FORMING - Bidirectional iterative beam forming techniques are described. An apparatus may include a wireless device having an antenna control module operative to initiate beam formation operations using an iterative training scheme to form a pair of communications channels for a wireless network, the antenna control module to communicate training signals and feedback information with a peer device via the transceiver and phased antenna array using partially or fully formed high rate channels, and iteratively determine antenna-array weight vectors for a directional transmit beam pattern for the phased antenna array using feedback information from the peer device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182667 | HIGHLY DETECTABLE PILOT STRUCTURE - Aspects describe a Highly Detectable Pilot that allows a mobile device to detect more base stations and, thus, can provide more accuracy in location estimate. A highly detectable pilot can be transmitted in a portion of one or more data symbols that are not currently being utilized for transmission of data. Transmission of the highly detectable pilot in two data symbols provide a receiver with more convergence time, however, it can take the receiver a longer amount of time to acquire an adequate number of pilots for a location estimate. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182668 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING CARRIER STATE IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SYSTEM, AND USER EQUIPMENT - A method for processing carrier state in a carrier aggregation system and a User Equipment (UE) are provided, so as to avoid the random access failure caused by current deactivation mode of the Secondary Component Carrier (SCC). In one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes: performing a random access on a SCCs pair; stopping or ignoring a deactivation timer of a downlink SCC of the SCCs pair before the random access succeeds. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182669 | RADIO TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND RADIO TRANSMISSION METHOD - Provided is a communication device, which is enabled to improve the throughput of a communication system by reducing the difference of a transmission power between an SCCH and an SDCH thereby to satisfy the required quality of a PAPR. In this device, an MCS selection unit ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130182670 | METHOD FOR MULTIPLEXING DATA AND CONTROL INFORMATION - A method for multiplexing a data information stream, including a systematic symbol and a non-systematic symbol, and a control information stream of at least three types in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes mapping the data information stream to a resource area so that the systematic symbol is not mapped to a specific resource area to which the control information stream is mapped, and mapping the control information stream to the specific resource area. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182671 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - To notify the control information necessary for uplink MIMO transmission while reducing overhead, generated is a UL grant having the PMI/RI field and non-transmission/swap flag field of 1 bit indicative of a transport block made non-transmission and the presence or absence of a swap of control information between two transport blocks corresponding to a value of the PMI/RI field, a downlink control channel signal including the UL grant is transmitted to a mobile station apparatus, and the transport block made non-transmission and the presence or absence of a swap of control information between two transport blocks is determined from the non-transmission/swap flag of the UL grant. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182672 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention provides a mobile terminal apparatus and a radio communication method which can feed back precoders that are essential to generate precoding weights in downlink MIMO transmission. With the present invention, in the first mode to feed back subband second PMIs that are selected per bandwidth part through a physical uplink control channel, a subband second PMI and a wideband second PMI are selected from a second codebook, the subband second PMI and the wideband second PMI are multiplexed on a subframe, and the multiplex signals is transmitted to a radio base station apparatus through the above physical uplink control channel. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182673 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a base station apparatus, a mobile terminal apparatus and a communication control method capable of preventing the increase in amount of signaling for uplink scheduling when allocation resource blocks are allocated in a discontiguous manner. The base station apparatus ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130182674 | Transmission of Reference Signals - Resources for reference signalling on at least one component carrier of a plurality of aggregated component carriers can be determined by a station. Information indicative the at least one component carrier and the associated resources is then communicated to another station for configuration of the other station. A trigger is then sent for reference signalling, and in response to the trigger, at least one reference signal is sent from the other station using the indicated at least one component carrier and resources. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182675 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting uplink control information and to an apparatus for the same. The present invention relates to a method and to a device for said method which comprises the steps of selecting one uplink control channel resource corresponding to a plurality of HARQ-ACKs from among a plurality of uplink control channel resources, and transmitting a bit value corresponding to the plurality of HARQ-ACKs by using the selected uplink control channel resource. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182676 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation (CA). The present invention provides a method for allowing a terminal to transmit control information to a base station in a wireless communication system, and the method comprises receiving from said base station at least one physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and one physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) through at least one serving cell that is configured in said terminal; and transmitting to said base station first control information which has bundled at least a portion of the control information for said PDCCH reception or the PDSCH reception that is indicated by said PDCCHs, wherein said first control information is transmitted using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource corresponding to a second control information, and said second control information can be related to a PDCCH which was last detected by said terminal among said received PDCCHs. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182677 | Methods and Arrangements for Transmission of Paging in a Communication System - The present invention relates a radio network node ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130182678 | BASE STATION AND CONTROL METHOD OF BASE STATION - A base station dynamically changes a CQI report format of a communication terminal under control thereof. A base station | 2013-07-18 |
20130182679 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING DEACTIVATION OF SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING - A method and apparatus for performing semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) deactivation in a wireless mobile communication system are disclosed. A base station (BS) transmits a downlink control channel to a user equipment (UE), and deactivates the SPS when a binary field indicating resource allocation information contained in the downlink control channel is entirely filled with ‘1’. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182680 | METHOD FOR MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION USER EQUIPMENT TO CONNECT TO EVOLVED NODE-B AND APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SAME - Provided are a method for machine type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) to connect to an evolved Node-B (eNB) in a random access procedure, and an apparatus employing the method. The method for MTC UE to connect to an eNB includes receiving, at the MTC UE, system information or a handover command from the eNB, transmitting, at the MTC UE, a random access preamble to the eNB, receiving, at the MTC UE, a random access response message from the eNB, and transmitting, at the MTC UE, a connection request message or a handover confirm message including information about a dedicated bandwidth of the MTC UE to the eNB such that the MTC UE can be allocated the dedicated bandwidth. Using this method, an eNB is notified of a dedicated bandwidth of MTC UE, and thus can effectively utilize radio resources. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182681 | METHODS TO CONTROL MULTIPLE RADIO ACCESS BEARERS IN A WIRELESS DEVICE - A method to control multiple radio access bearers is performed at a mobile wireless communication device when the mobile wireless communication device is connected to a radio network subsystem in a wireless communication network by first and second bidirectional radio access bearers. The mobile wireless communication device transmits a data packet on an uplink of the first bidirectional radio access bearer to the radio network subsystem. When the data packet is not correctly received by the radio network subsystem, the mobile wireless communication device retransmits the data packet repeatedly. After N retransmissions of the data packet, the mobile wireless communication device releases the first bidirectional radio access bearer while maintaining the second bidirectional radio access bearer. The first bidirectional radio access bearer provides a channel to transport packet switched data, and the second bidirectional radio access bearer provides a channel to transport circuit switched data. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182682 | DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS COMMUNICATIONS USING BUFFER URGENCY FACTOR - A code division multiple access (CDMA) user device configured to dynamically allocating at least at least one wireless communication channel to permit a more efficient allocation of wireless communication channels when providing high speed data service. The CDMA user device is configured to receive data traffic from at least one data buffer in a base station. The CDMA user device is dynamically allocated at least one wireless communication channel based on an urgency factor. The urgency factor indicates the urgency of traffic data to be transmitted from the at least one data buffer in the base station to the CDMA user device. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING UPLINK BEAMS IN BEAMFORMING-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus perform Uplink (UL) beam tracking in a beamforming-based wireless communication system. A Mobile Station (MS) repeatedly transmits code sequences mapped respectively to MS transmit beams through each MS transmit beam as many times as the number of Base Station (BS) receive beams while sweeping the MS transmit beams. The MS receives, from a BS, transmit beam information indicating at least one best transmit beam selected from the MS transmit beams by the BS, and allocation information used to allocate UL resources for UL feedback. The MS transmits best beam information indicating the at least one best transmit beam and a MS identifier to the BS using the UL resources. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182684 | CDMA MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication system having a base station and a plurality of radio terminals, wherein each radio terminal having a transmission request transmits a reservation packet at arbitrary timing through a reservation channel in accordance with a CDMA scheme, and the base station assigns a traffic channel and a time slot to be used to each radio terminal requesting a reservation through a reply packet outputted onto a reply channel. On the reservation channel, a short spreading code corresponding to a matched filter is applied. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182685 | Uplink Control Signal Design for Wireless System - The present disclosure generally relates to an uplink control signal design for wireless system. One example method includes establishing communication with a mobile station in a multi-carrier wireless communication system using a primary carrier, providing a first control signaling via the primary carrier, the first control signaling assigning at least one secondary carrier, and receiving a channel quality indication of the secondary carrier via the primary carrier using a control channel. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182686 | OPTIMIZATION OF DUAL BSS SCHEDULING - An integrated circuit includes logic configured to determine a communication schedule of a device configured to perform Wi-Fi communications in a first Basic Service Set (BSS) network and in a second BSS network. The logic determines the communication schedule based at least in part on a first BSS network communication load of the device and on a second BSS network communication load of the device. The communication schedule defines the service time allocation of the device in the first BSS network and the service time allocation of the device in the second BSS network. At least one of the first and the second BSS networks is supportive of a peer-to-peer connection. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182687 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SECONDARY CELL UPLINK SYNCHRONIZATION STATES - A user equipment (UE) is configured to perform a method for controlling synchronization with a secondary cell (SCell). The method includes receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order from an eNodeB associated with an SCell. The method also includes, in response to receiving the PDCCH order, transitioning from a first state where the UE considers the SCell in sync for an uplink transmission to a second state where the UE considers the SCell out of sync for the uplink transmission. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182688 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING RANDOM ACCESS ON A SECONDARY CARRIER - Methods and apparatus are described herein for synchronizing timing when using a secondary component carrier (SCC) in a carrier aggregated wireless network. A user equipment (UE) may determine that it is out of synchronization with respect to an SCC used to communicate with a network element. The UE may inform the network element of the out of synchronization status, and may perform a random access procedure to synchronize the timing. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182689 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING A RATE SPLIT SCHEME BASED ON COOPERATION BETWEEN RECEIVERS - Each of a first transmitter and a second transmitter uses a rate split scheme. Each of the first transmitter and the second transmitter may transmit at least four sub-messages, and different transmission powers may be allocated to the at least four sub-messages. Also, each of receivers may cooperate with each other, may share sub-messages that act as interferences, and may extract desired messages using the shared sub-messages. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182690 | Carrier Selection - The invention relates generally to mobile communication networks. More particularly, the invention relates to interference management and carrier selection for transmitting data. There is provided a solution for improved selection of a cell-specific base carrier, the solution utilizing a timing framework for the carrier selection. The solution includes determining a maximum allowed time duration, and performing within the determined maximum allowed time duration: obtaining information related to one or more selected carriers from at least one neighboring base station, selecting the at least one cell-specific base carrier for data transmission on the basis of the obtained information, and informing the at least one neighboring base station of the selected cell specific base carrier. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182691 | Method of and Base Station for Configuring a Data Transmission Scheme Based on Data Frames in a Communication Network - A method of configuring a data transmission scheme based on data frames in a communication network is provided, wherein communication in the communication network includes a data transmission including downlink and uplink data transmissions via first and second data transmissions paths, the first and second data transmission paths including respective first and second downlink data transmission paths and respective first and second uplink data transmission paths, the downlink data transmission via the second data transmission path being delayed to the downlink data transmission via the first downlink data transmission path, the method being executed by a base station, the method including configuring the data transmission scheme such that a reduction of a base station processing time associated with processing payload data of the data transmission is prevented | 2013-07-18 |
20130182692 | Method and User Equipment for Transmitting Feedback Information - A method for transmitting feedback information and a user equipment are disclosed in the present document, wherein, one method includes: a User Equipment (UE) performing time domain extension on feedback information within one subframe; and mapping respectively data which go through the time domain extension and demodulation reference signals corresponding to the data which go through the time domain extension to multiple uplink Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbols within the subframe, and transmitting the data which go through the time domain extension and the demodulation reference signals corresponding to the data which go through the time domain extension in the same frequency domain position in a way of time division multiplexing; wherein, each uplink SC-FDMA symbol occupies n successive physical resource blocks in the frequency domain, and n is a positive integer. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182693 | Enabling a Mobile Broadband Hotspot by an Auxiliary Radio - There is provided a method of enabling a mobile broadband hotspot by an auxiliary radio. By utilizing a commonly available auxiliary radio, such as a Bluetooth radio, hotspot connectivity using a primary radio, such as Wi-Fi, can be readily enabled. Accordingly, device connections, guest access, and device disconnections can be easily requested on demand from a mobile broadband hotspot. Additionally, the mobile broadband hotspot may be configured to enable or disable connections using a predetermined schedule. The pre-determined schedule may provide Internet access only when necessary, such as during scheduled device updates. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182694 | Femtocell/WLAN Communication Device - An Femtocell/WLAN communication device, comprising a Femtocell module for cellular wireless communications, the Femtocell module having an input for receiving a first electrical input signal and an output for outputting a first electrical output signal, a WLAN module for WLAN communications, the WLAN module having an input for receiving a second electrical input signal and an output for outputting a second electrical output signal, an optical interface having a first conversion path connected to the output of the Femtocell module, a second conversion path connected to the output of the WLAN module, a third conversion path connected to the input of the Femtocell module, and a fourth conversion path connected to the input of the WLAN module, and a common port for receiving the first optical input signal and the second optical input signal, and for outputting the first optical output signal and the second optical output signal. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182695 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK LINK BETWEEN PORTABLE TERMINALS - A method of connecting a plurality of portable terminal over a wireless local area network (WLAN), the method including: a user selecting at least one contact from a contact list displayed on a screen of a first portable terminal, transmitting, from the first portable terminal to an external server over a cellular network, connection information necessary for establishing a WLAN link to the first portable terminal; pushing the connection information from the external server to a second portable terminal corresponding to the selected contact; a user pressing a connection authentication button on a selection menu displayed on the second portable terminal, and establishing the WLAN link to the first portable terminal from the second portable terminal by using the connection information. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182696 | WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BY USING WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - The present invention provides a wireless local area network WLAN and a method for communicating by using the WLAN, which includes at least one radio module and an access controller. The radio module converts a first air interface wireless signal from a station into a first baseband signal, and bears the first baseband signal on an Ethernet and sends the first baseband signal to the access controller. The access controller processes the first baseband signal to generate first service data, and forwards the first service data. The access controller further receives second service data, processes the second service data to generate a second baseband signal, and bears the second baseband signal on the Ethernet and sends the second baseband signal to the at least one radio module. The present invention can increase the efficiency and utilization rate of a spectrum. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING ACCESS POINT INFORMATION - In a non-limiting and exemplary embodiment, a method is provided for arranging wireless communications, comprising: establishing, by an apparatus, a connection with an access point, detecting location of the access point, detecting accuracy of the detected location of the access point, and in response to detecting the detected location of the access point to be more accurate than an earlier stored location of the access point, updating the detected location to a location database of the apparatus. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182698 | PN Selection for RF Repeaters, Bi-Directional Amplifiers or Distributed Antenna Systems - Presented herein are methods and systems for providing network access at a slave node based on a signal transmitted by a master BTS. In one example, a pseudorandom code (PN code) selection is described, in which each slave node has a known associated time offset and data is transmitted with a PN code advanced by the known time offset and the propagation delay. Using an example slave base station transceiver architecture (or just slave node for short), the “traditional” BSC can be removed from at least one base station (e.g., “slave nodes”) and a master base station may be configured to control the signal being transmitted from each slave node. Each slave node then may transmit and receive RF signals. The master BTS head end may receive signal portions from the slave nodes and mobile devices, and combine them for relay back into the network. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182699 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - There is provided a wireless communication apparatus for conducting communication between a high-order apparatus and a low-order apparatus, including a beacon reception unit and a beacon transmission unit. The beacon reception unit receives a first regular beacon signal ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130182700 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK MONITORING AND TESTING USING A GENERIC DATA MEDIATION PLATFORM - Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for network monitoring and testing using a generic data mediation platform between one or more probes and one or more dashboards. The generic data mediation platform performs data correlation, filtering enrichment and aggregation of events obtained from monitored networks. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182701 | Communications Links - A system including a plurality of remotely configurable telephone network communication terminals ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130182702 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING INTER-CARRIER IP-BASED CONNECTIONS USING A COMMON TELEPHONE NUMBER MAPPING ARCHITECTURE - A system includes a network entry point configured to receive and process internet protocol (IP) based connection requests originating from outside the communications network, and a telephone number mapping (ENUM) database configured to store a uniform resource identifier (URI) of the network entry point and to respond to a request for routing information for a subscriber terminal within the communications network received from a remote entity outside the communications network by providing a naming authority pointer resource (NAPTR) record including the URI of the network entry point to the remote entity in response to the request for routing information. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182703 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF A CALL TYPE IN TELEPHONY SERVICES OVER A DATA NETWORK - A system and method for providing automatic determination of a call type in a voice over Internet Protocol data network is provided. A 10-digit telephone number for making a telephone call is entered and a look up of the telephone number is performed in a database comprising at least known long distance numbers. If no match exists, the telephone number is transmitted over the data network to a local Call Management Server. If the local call is not successful, the number is automatically transmitted with a pre-pended “I” to a Long Distance Call Management Server. Advantageously, a VoIP system is provided for automatically determining that a number is a long distance call, upon which it will automatically pre-pend a leading “1” to the number and re-transmit the resultant 11 digit number to the appropriate Long Distance Call Management Server. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182704 | PRIORITIZATION AND PREEMPTION OF DATA FRAMES OVER A SWITCHING FABRIC - Network switching and/or routing devices can use multiple priority data streams and queues to support prioritized serial transmission of data from line cards (or the like) through a fabric switch to other line cards (or the like). Preemption logic is used to insert within a data stream commands indicating a switch from one priority level data to another. Delimiter commands and combination switch/delimiter commands can also be used. Multiple crossbars are implemented in the fabric switch to support the various data stream priority levels. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182705 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING ENCODED VIDEO SIGNALS - A method and systems are provided for transmitting encoded video data over a packet switched network, by: (i) providing a plurality of encoded copies of video data, each encoded at a bitrate different from that of the others; (ii) transmitting one of the copies encoded at a first bitrate from a first end of a communication channel towards a second end of the communication channel; (iii) receiving the encoded copy at the second end and detecting the channel error rate associated therewith; (iv) at the first end, providing an indication associated with the detected error rate to enable transmitting from the first end another encoded copy having a different bitrate; and (v) transmitting a second copy encoded at a second bitrate, wherein the second bitrate is substantially equal to a maximal rate at which that encoded copy is recoverable at the second end with no noticeable apparent errors. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182706 | REQUESTING MULTICAST MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION IN A DISTRIBUTED SWITCH IN RESPONSE TO A MISS EVENT - Apparatuses and methods to request multicast membership information in a distributed switch are provided. A particular method may include requesting multicast membership information of a group identified by a multicast destination address in a distributed switch. The distributed switch may include a plurality of distributed switch elements with a plurality of switch forwarding units. The method may generate a miss event indicating that the multicast destination address is unregistered in a switch forwarding unit of a distributed switch element and there is a need for the multicast membership information. The method may also request the multicast membership information of the multicast destination address in response to the miss event. The method may further initiate a query for the multicast membership information of the multicast destination address in response to the request. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182707 | MANAGING A GLOBAL FORWARDING TABLE IN A DISTRIBUTED SWITCH - Apparatuses and methods to manage a global forwarding table in a distributed switch are provided. A particular method may include managing a global forwarding table in a distributed switch. The distributed switch may include a plurality of switch forwarding units. The method may start a timer for an entry in the global forwarding table, and the entry may include a multicast destination address and corresponding multicast membership information. The method may also, in response to expiration of the timer of the entry, check at least one hit status to determine whether at least one switch forwarding unit of the plurality of switch forwarding units has forwarded multicast data to the corresponding multicast membership information of the multicast destination address of the entry. The method may further determine whether the entry is a cast-out candidate based on the hit status. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182708 | Network Appliance with Integrated Local Area Network and Storage Area Network Extension Services - Techniques and a network edge device are provided herein to extend local area networks (LANs) and storage area networks (SANs) beyond a data center while converging the associated local area network and storage area network host layers. A packet is received at a device in a network. It is determined if the packet is routed to a local or remote storage area network or local area network. In response to determining that the packet routed to a remote storage area network, storage area network extension services are performed with respect to the packet in order to extend the storage area network on behalf of a remote location. In response to determining that the packet is routed to a local local area network traffic, local area network extension services are performed with respect to the packet in order to extend the local area network on behalf of the remote location. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182709 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RBRIDGE HOP-BY-HOP COMPRESSION AND FRAME AGGREGATION - Some embodiments relate to a network comprising two RBridges connected by a link where the two RBridges are not the ingress and egress RBridge for said frames, wherein said RBridges automatically exchange information as to their support of hop-by-hop reversible frame aggregation, reversible header compression, and reversible data compression, and wherein if both RBridges support any or all of these features in the same fashion, one or more of said features are automatically applied to appropriate frames at the transmitting RBridge and removed at the receiving RBridge, increasing the throughput of the link. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182710 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MANIPULATE PACKET ROUTING - Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to manipulate packet routing are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a first route advertisement from a first provider edge router, the first route advertisement including next-hop routing information associated with a destination and a label associated with an interface of the first provider edge router; modifying the next-hop routing information to form first modified next-hop routing information, the first modified next-hop routing information to redirect a packet addressed to the destination; and sending a second route advertisement to a second provider edge router, the second route advertisement including the first modified next-hop routing information and the label. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182711 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND FRAME COMMUNICATION METHOD - A network system has: a communication device configured to perform frame transmission and reception; a network configured to transfer the frame; a gateway connected between the communication device and the network; and a controller configured to perform management of the communication device and the network. The frame is classified into a control frame for communicating control information necessary for communication and a data frame for communicating data between communication devices. The gateway determines whether a frame received from a source communication device is the control frame or the data frame, forwards the control frame to the controller, and forwards the data frame to the network. The controller performs the management based on the control frame received from the gateway. The network transfers the data frame received from the gateway to a destination communication device without through the controller. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182712 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SITE-TO-SITE VPNS OF A CLOUD MANAGED NETWORK - A management server includes a configuration and management module processing server configuration information, including a VPN peer list and VLAN/subnet settings. The management server automatically calculates the VPN configuration information, including the VPN peer subnet route information identifying which of the subnets participating in the VPN are behind which of the routers and keys to establish VPN tunnels between those routers participating in the VPN. Each of the routers participating in the VPN includes a VPN tunnel with the other routers participating in the VPN, a set of data structures storing data identifying contact information for each of the subnets participating in the VPN, a combination of an IP address and port to reach one of routers that that subnet is behind, and a forwarding module to forward traffic between the subnets. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182713 | STATE MANAGEMENT USING A LARGE HASH TABLE - Systems, methods, and devices are provided for managing state lookup data in a hash table. A network device handling incoming and outgoing packets may implement a state management hash table with a number of buckets selected such that an average number of open network socket connections associated with each bucket is between about 0 and about 10. The hash table may implement fine-grained locking by associating a separate lock with each bucket, thereby allowing for parallel state management threads to access multiple buckets of the hash table simultaneously. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182714 | REDUNDANCY OF NETWORK SERVICES IN RESTRICTED NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and devices are described for managing virtual network services provided to a network. Network services may be provided to a client network having a first network fabric at a self-contained network services system implementing a number of redundant instances of a network service application. The self-contained network services system may have a second network fabric. The second network fabric may be adapted to distribute network service tasks received from the client network which are associated with the network service application among the redundant instances of the network service application. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182715 | POLICY AND CHARGING RULES NODE EXPIRED MESSAGE HANDLING - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable storage medium including a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) receiving a plurality of related service requests from different devices. The PCRN may proceed to generate a policy and charging control (PCC) rule based on at least one service request and other information stored in the PCRN if a mate service request does not arrive during the duration of a waiting timer. If the mate service request arrives subsequent to the expiry of the waiting timer, the PCRN may then generate a subsequent PCC rule to replace the previously generated rule, with the new PCC rule incorporating information from both of the mate service requests. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182716 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING DATA TRAFFIC IN A DIGITAL TRANSMISSION NETWORK - A network element for a digital transmission network is proposed. The network element contains two switching matrices for switching data cells, as well as ingress ports that receive TDM traffic flow and packet traffic flow and segment the traffic flows into cells. A control system for controlling the configuration of the ingress ports and the switching matrices controls the ingress ports, in case of no failure of the switching matrices, to forward the TDM traffic flows to both switching matrices and to split the packet traffic flow over the two switching matrices. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182717 | Method And System For A Power Reduction Scheme For Ethernet PHYS - Aspects of a method and system for a power reduction scheme for Ethernet PHYs are provided. An Ethernet PHY in a link partner may disable transmission via a transmit DAC integrated during an inactive connection, 10Base-T autonegotiation operation, and/or active 10Base-T connection with no data packet transmission. The DAC may be a voltage mode or current mode DAC. The PHY or a MAC device may determine when to disable transmission via the DAC. In this regard, the PHY or the MAC device may generate appropriate signals for disabling the transmission. The DAC may be enabled for transmission by the PHY or the MAC device when a connection becomes active or when an active 10Base-T connection is ready to transmit data. Moreover, the PHY may enable transmission via the DAC when operating in a forced 10Base-T mode of operation and the connection to the link partner is active. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182718 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS USING SUPER FRAME TO RECONFIGURE DYNAMIC PROTOCOL, AND MESSAGE EXCHANGING METHOD OF SENSOR NODE AND HUB DEVICE TO RECONFIGURE DYNAMIC PROTOCOL - Provided is a super frame that may be used to reconfigure a dynamic protocol to synchronize a sensor node with different protocols of a hub device. The super frame enables a hub device to provide a real-time quality of service (QoS) with respect to a plurality of sensor application programs. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182719 | Adaptive Sub-Band Algorithm for Point-To-Point Communication in PLC Networks - Embodiments of methods and systems for adaptive sub-band point-to-point communication are presented. In one embodiment a method includes performing functions using a power line communication (PLC) transmitter device. The method may include generating a first data packet having a first adaptive sub-band information set, the first sub-band information set comprising information to be used by a PLC receiver for determining a sub-band hopping pattern. The method may also include transmitting the first data packet on a first PLC sub-band. Additionally, the method may include hopping to a second PLC sub-band, and generating a second data packet having a second adaptive sub-band information set, the second sub-band information set comprising information to be used by the PLC receiver for determine the sub-band hopping pattern. The method may further include transmitting the second data packet on the second PLC sub-band. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182720 | FRAME CONCATENATION APPARATUS - A frame concatenation apparatus includes a storage unit to store a plurality of frames to be transmitted, a generation unit to generate a concatenated frame including the plurality of frames read out from the storage unit and serially concatenated, and including frame length information on each frame attached thereto, and an attachment unit to attach information for establishing synchronization with a receiver of the concatenated frame, to the concatenated frame. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182721 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MAC ADDRESS TABLE - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for managing a MAC address table. The method includes: receiving a packet and obtaining MAC address information carried in the packet; matching the MAC address information with a MAC address table; and if the matching succeeds, prolonging an aging time of the MAC address information in the MAC address table. | 2013-07-18 |
20130182722 | MANAGING MAC MOVES WITH SECURE PORT GROUPS - A method includes determining that a source MAC address is associated with a particular port that is a member of a secure group ( | 2013-07-18 |