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20090088135 | Access control for base stations - The present invention relates to a method for controlling access to a private base station. An identifier indicating an operation area previously accessed or detected by a communications device requesting communication with a private base station is received. The access to the private base station is controlled on the basis of the identifier. | 04-02-2009 |
20100208682 | RECOVERY METHOD FOR LOST SIGNALING CONNECTION WITH HSDPA/FRACTIONAL DPCH - A method and apparatus are provided for defining terminal behavior in a case where the terminal detects that it cannot receive the HS-DSCH from a serving cell reliably when the DCCH is mapped to HS-DSCH (e.g. does not receive any radio link control (RLC) acknowledged mode feedback for the uplink measurement reports or in general the common pilot channel (CPICH) level drops too low in the serving HS-DSCH cell). The terminal is autonomously moved to a cell forward access channel (CELL_FACH) state and uplink signaling is initiated on a random access channel (RACH) to inform a network node and ask for HS-DSCH re-establishment in a suitable cell (preferably in the one being strongest one in the active set or according to the measurements done prior the connection from the serving HS-DSCH cell was lost), or setting up a regular R′99/R′5 DPCH in order to restore the RRC signaling connection in the CELL_DCH state. | 08-19-2010 |
20100285794 | Method for transmitting signals from a plurality of base stations to a mobile station - A method of transmitting signals from a plurality of first stations to the same second station, said method comprising the steps of transmitting first signals comprising a first communication and first associated information from one of said plurality of first stations to said second station; transmitting second signals comprising said first communication, a second communication and second associated information, said second associated information differing at least partially from said first associated information, from another of said plurality of first stations to said second station; and receiving at said second station said first and second signals, wherein said second station processes said first and second signals in accordance with the first and second associated information. | 11-11-2010 |
20120236747 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING RADIO RESOURCES, AND RADIO SYSTEM - There is provided a radio system, comprising: a receiver for receiving uplink channel traffic; a measuring unit for measuring periodicity of the received uplink channel traffic; and a control unit for controlling discontinuous uplink operation on the basis of the measured periodicity of the received uplink channel traffic. | 09-20-2012 |
20130336291 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING RADIO RESOURCES, AND RADIO SYSTEM - There is provided a radio system, comprising: a receiver for receiving uplink channel traffic; a measuring unit for measuring periodicity of the received uplink channel traffic; and a control unit for controlling discontinuous uplink operation on the basis of the measured periodicity of the received uplink channel traffic. | 12-19-2013 |
20140329542 | WIRELESS DEVICE LOCATION SERVICES - A system for determining location information for a wireless device is described. The system includes a UE, a LE and multiple LMUs. The LE sends, to the LMUs, reception instructions with characteristics of the signal transmission from the UE and each LMU receives, from the LE, the reception instructions. The UE sends a signal transmission. Each LMU receives the transmitted signal from the UE, determines locating information based at least in part of the received signal and sends the locating information to the LE. The LE receives the locating information regarding the transmitted signal and determines a location of the UE based at least in part on the received locating information. Methods, apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 11-06-2014 |
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20110268048 | Feedback For Inter-Radio Access Technology Carrier Aggregation - A method includes simultaneously receiving a first communication using a first radio access technology and a second communication using a second radio access technology, and using only the first radio access technology, transmitting first feedback information for the first communication and second feedback information for the second communication to a network device that performed the first communication. A method includes, using a first radio access technology, receiving first feedback information for a first communication that used the first radio access technology and second feedback information for a second communication that used a second radio access technology. The method also includes, using the first feedback information in association with a subsequent communication using the first radio access technology, and communicating the second feedback information to a network entity that performed the second communication. Program products and apparatus are also disclosed. | 11-03-2011 |
20110275359 | Carrier Aggregation For Two Radio Systems - A method includes enabling interoperability between different types of wireless communication systems operating with different types of air interfaces to provide downlink radio resource aggregation for a user equipment. Enabling includes establishing a first connection between a medium access control (MAC) protocol layer of a first wireless communication system and a physical layer of the first wireless communication system; establishing a second connection between the MAC protocol layer of the first wireless communication system and a MAC protocol layer of a second wireless communication system; using the first connection, performing wireless communications with the user equipment via one or more component carriers over a first air interface of the first wireless communication system; and communicating data over the second connection, the data used in wireless communications via one or more component carriers over a second air interface of the second wireless communication system. Apparatus and program products are also disclosed. | 11-10-2011 |
20150063143 | LTE Advanced Service Indicator - In accordance with the exemplary embodiments there is at least an apparatus and method to perform receiving an indication of advanced services of an area associated with the communication network, in response to the indication of advanced services, determining a relative performance improvement of the advanced services for the device, and based on the determined relative performance improvement, setting an indication flag at the device. Further, in accordance with the exemplary embodiments, perform sending towards a user equipment information including an indication o f an advanced service area available to the user equipment, where the information is for use by the user equipment in determining whether accessing the advanced service area would provide a relative operational performance to the user equipment, and in response to the sending, receiving an indication of one of the user equipment displaying an indication of the advanced service area, and the user equipment accessing the advanced service area. | 03-05-2015 |
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20100172289 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UTILIZING A CIRCUIT SWITCHED SERVICE IN A PACKET SWITCHED DOMAIN AND COMNUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH DEVICE - A method and a device for utilizing a circuit switched service in a packet switched domain are provided, wherein a mobile terminal is connected to a first network, said first network comprises a first service and a second service, wherein the mobile terminal is connected to the first service of the first network via a first MAC-d flow, said method comprises the steps of (i) at least one second MAC-d flow is set up between the mobile terminal and the second service of the first network; and (ii) at least a connection is set up via the at least one second MAC-d flow. | 07-08-2010 |
20110002269 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADAPTING A BUFFER OF A TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE - A method and a device for adapting a buffer of a terminal are provided, said method comprising the steps of (i) a network provides data to the terminal; and (ii) the terminal adapts its buffer based on the data provided. Furthermore, a communication system comprising such a device is provided. | 01-06-2011 |
20110260863 | Wireless Device Locations Services - A system for determining location information for a wireless device is described. The system includes a UE, a LE and multiple LMUs. The LE sends, to the LMUs, reception instructions with characteristics of the signal transmission from the UE and each LMU receives, from the LE, the reception instructions. The UE sends a signal transmission. Each LMU receives the transmitted signal from the UE, determines locating information based at least in part on the received signal and sends the locating information to the LE. The LE receives the locating information regarding the transmitted signal and determines a location of the UE based at least in part on the received locating information. Methods, apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 10-27-2011 |
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 |
20120155410 | Apparatus and Methods for Transmitting Paging Messages for Peer to Peer Communication - Apparatus and method for communication are provided. The apparatus is configured to send a message to a network element, the message including information on the establishment of a device-to-device connection with at least one apparatus; and receive from a network element information regarding a timing reference for paging messages between the apparatuses establishing a device-to-device communication. | 06-21-2012 |
20120250604 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION - An apparatus and a method for communication are provided. The apparatus is configured to: communicate with a network via a cell created by a relay node; receive from the relay node information required in reception of backhaul transmission sent by a base station of the network to the relay node, the transmission including at least one data packet designated to the apparatus and in decoding of the at least one data packet; receive a backhaul transmission sent by a base station of the network to the relay node and decode the at least one data packet from the transmission. | 10-04-2012 |
20120282968 | Enhanced Network Performance Monitoring - There are disclosed measures for enhancing network performance monitoring. Such measures may for example comprise receiving a report on measurements of terminal-related network performance parameters from a terminal, acquiring information of access network-related network performance parameters, and combining the received terminal-related network performance parameters and the acquired access network-related network performance parameters into a combined network performance report. | 11-08-2012 |
20120322515 | Apparatus and Method to Indicate Power Saving Mode of a Network Element - A method of controlling the mode of a user equipment includes forwarding a message from the network element to the network indicating a request to move to a power saving mode/state; and moving the user equipment to a power saving state/mode. The method may including deciding at the network which state the network element is to move to; and indicating this and/or further data pertaining to said state/mode, to the network element. The mode may be an IDLE or Connected mode of LTE and includes an extended DRX cycle. | 12-20-2012 |
20130201892 | Discontinuous Reception Across Transmissions on Different Radio Access Technologies - In an embodiment there is established for a user equipment UE a first discontinuous reception DRX period of a first radio access technology RAT using at least one parameter that is common with a second DRX period of a second RAT for the UE. From the perspective of the network, transmission opportunities to the UE using the first RAT are arranged according to the established first DRX period. From the perspective of the UE, reception opportunities at the UE using the first radio access technology are arranged according to the established first DRX period. There may be one access node or two cooperating access nodes serving the UE with the different RATs. In different embodiments the DRX active periods may be purposefully aligned or misaligned. Examples of such a common DRX parameter include DRX cycle, DRX inactivity timer, and DRX on-duration time. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201904 | Handover of Connection of User Equipment - There is provided initiating a handover of a connection of user equipment, the connection including a path from an access network to a core network and switching the path to the core network on the basis of data received on the connection exceeding a threshold. | 08-08-2013 |
20130272221 | Methods and Devices for Exchanging Data in a Communications Network - Methods and devices for exchanging data in a communications network. The present invention refers to a method of exchanging data in a communications network, the method including establishing a plurality of connections between a network device and a mobile station; splitting a flow of data from a data source into a plurality of data flows corresponding to a number of said connections; and transmitting each of said plurality of data flows over a different one of said connections. The present invention further refers to a network device and a mobile station involved in the disclosed method. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272280 | Inter-System Carrier Aggregation - The invention relates to apparatuses, a method, computer program and computer-readable medium. | 10-17-2013 |
20130287008 | Channelization Code Sharing Between Multiple Users - A method of exchanging data in a communications network is provided. A control channel channelization code is assigned for transmitting user specific data channel allocation information to a particular mobile station (MS). The data channel allocation information indicates which part of the transmission time interval (TTI) available for data can be used by that particular MS. The control channel channelization code is shared in a TDMA fashion between the MSs during the TTI in a proportion equal to that in which the data channel channelization code is shared between the MSs such that each MS is allocated a share of the control channel channelization code in that part of the TTI. The control channel channelization code is then transmitted in a part of the TTI corresponding to that in which the data channel channelization code is transmitted for a particular MS. | 10-31-2013 |
20130294415 | Dynamic Spectrum Refarming with Multiple Carriers - The present invention relates to dynamic spectrum refarming with multiple carriers. At a first communication system of a first radio access technology, a request is received in a first signaling message from a second communication system of a second radio access technology, the request including information on availability of spectrum blocks shared between the first and second communication systems. The availability of the spectrum blocks may have been determined based on a load of the second communication system. The first communication system performs carrier aggregation mechanisms based on the information with respect to the spectrum blocks, and may transmit a response to the request in a second signaling message to the second communication system, the response including an acknowledgment of an activation/deactivation of at least one additional carrier and/or a corresponding carrier aggregation. | 11-07-2013 |
20140031043 | Method and Apparatus - A method comprises includes receiving information indicating a user equipment is to be handed over from a source base station and scheduling transmission of a control channel for said user equipment in dependence on identity information associated with said user equipment. | 01-30-2014 |
20140038613 | Method and Apparatus - A method including determining a user equipment which is interfering with a target base station from a reference signal transmitted by said user equipment; and causing a message to be sent to a source base station including information identifying said user equipment. | 02-06-2014 |
20140045494 | Control Mechanism for Autonomous Mobility of Terminal Device - There is provided a mechanism for controlling an autonomous mobility procedure of a user equipment. A list of candidate communication cells usable as target cells for the autonomous mobility procedure conducted by the UE is transmitted by the network to the UE. Furthermore, when the list is sent to the communication element, preparation information is sent to the candidate communication cells contained in the list sent to the user equipment for preparing the candidate communication cells for a potential autonomous mobility procedure conducted by the user equipment. When a cell is detected, the user equipment uses the list to determine whether the detected cell is a candidate cell for the autonomous mobility procedure. When the cell receives an access request, it uses the preparation information for determining that the requesting UE is conducting an autonomous mobility procedure, and obtains configuration date for immediately providing service to the user equipment. | 02-13-2014 |
20140071958 | Apparatus and Method for Allocating Resources for Coordinated Transmissions from Multiple Cells - Apparatus and method for communication are provided. The apparatus is configured to receive from an upper scheduler data for user terminals served by the apparatus, wherein a first set of terminals is connected to more than one cell and a second set of user terminals is not connected to more than one cell; receive from an upper scheduler physical layer resources to be allocated for the first set of user terminals; determine physical layer resources for the second set of user terminals and allocate the received and determined resources for the user terminals. | 03-13-2014 |
20140200011 | LTE/HSDPA Carrier Aggregation - It is provided an apparatus, including deciding means adapted to decide, based on an availability indication received directly from a slave base station of a second radio access technology, if data to be transmitted to a user equipment are to be transmitted by the slave base station; distributing means adapted to distribute, based on the decision by the deciding means, the data to the slave base station for a transmission to the user equipment; transmitting means adapted to transmit the data to the user equipment according to a base station functionality of a first radio access technology if the data are not to be distributed to the slave base station. | 07-17-2014 |
20140349650 | Temporarily Serving a User Equipment by a Second Cell - A method includes receiving, by a first base station, a request for a service from the user equipment, determining a needed capacity for the requested service, and determining a need to use capacity being provided by a second base station based on the needed capacity for the requested service. The method includes handing over the user equipment from the first base station of the first cell to the second base station of the second cell. The method also includes handing over the user equipment back from the second base station of the second cell to the first base station of the first cell in response to an end of the need to use capacity being provided by the second base station. | 11-27-2014 |
20150055539 | Reporting for MBMS - The invention relates to an apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including a 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: obtain information concerning signal quality, obtain information on location of a cell in relation to a multimedia service area, wherein the information concerning signal quality is created, and control utilizing the information concerning signal quality in a network based on the information on the location of a the cell in relation to the multimedia service area. | 02-26-2015 |