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20080207151 | Apparatus, methods and computer program products providing selective diversity operation and adjustment of transport format for a multiple-receiver unit - In one exemplary embodiment, method including: receiving a first wireless communication with at least a first and second receiver utilizing a diversity method; and, in response to determining that simultaneous reception of a second wireless communication is desired, signaling that at least the second receiver is to be unavailable for the first communication. In another exemplary embodiment, method including: receiving a first wireless communication with at least a first receiver; receiving a second wireless communication with at least a second receiver; and in response to determining that reception of the second communication is to end, signaling that at least the second receiver is to be available for use. In another exemplary embodiment, method including: receiving, by a first apparatus, a timing of a second apparatus' periodic reception; and adjusting a transport format of a wireless communication sent from the first apparatus to the second apparatus based on the timing. | 08-28-2008 |
20080268833 | System and Method for Self-Optimization of Interference Coordination in Communication Systems - In accordance with aspects of the present invention, a method, apparatus and system are provided for self-optimization of interference coordination in communication systems. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a measurement and reporting subsystem configured to perform measurements regarding a status of the apparatus and to provide a reliability report to a base station as a function thereof. The apparatus is configured to notify a strongest interferer about the status via the reliability report. In another embodiment, the apparatus includes a measurement report handler configured to process a reliability report received from a user equipment and an interference coordination subsystem configured to adjust interference coordination parameters based on the reliability report received from the user equipment. | 10-30-2008 |
20080274759 | System and Method for Controlling Base Stations for Multimedia Broadcast Communications - A method, apparatus and system are provided for controlling base stations for multimedia broadcast communications. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a reporting subsystem configured to compile an activity status report based on a counting report and a channel quality indicator report received from user equipment and to send the activity status report to an entity of the communication system. The apparatus also includes a dynamic single-frequency network subsystem configured to control a multimedia broadcast and multimedia multicast service provided by the apparatus as a function of a static contribution table associated therewith and the activity status report. | 11-06-2008 |
20090103484 | Designing Power Sequences - The invention relates to the design of power sequences for use in a group of sub-areas of a wireless communication system. Each power sequence defines for one of the sub-areas transmission power values for transmissions using a respective one of a plurality of medium access units. For each of the sub-areas of the group, reception quality values are determined for transmissions between an access station serving the sub-area and mobile stations located at an edge of the sub-area. The reception quality values allow meeting system. The reception quality values are then converted for each of the sub-areas into transmission power values of a power sequence. | 04-23-2009 |
20090143070 | Supporting an Allocation of Radio Resources - The invention relates to a method for supporting in a wireless communication system an allocation of radio resources to connections between mobile stations | 06-04-2009 |
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20130003707 | Apparatus, Method And Computer Program Product Providing Extended Measurement Control Signal For Handoff Measurement Under Interference Coordination - In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving radio resource control signaling with a user equipment, wherein the radio resource control signaling is indicative of at least one frequency sub-band to be measured by the user equipment for a particular cell in a manner transparent to at least one of an interference control scheme and a handover scheme implemented for the cell; performing at least one measurement of the at least one frequency sub-band; and reporting information descriptive of the at least one measurement. | 01-03-2013 |
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20120157119 | Processor, Apparatus and Associated Methods for Unlicensed Use of White Space - A processor for a device, the processor configured to determine a current geographical area for the current device location within which geo-specific spectrum usage data are known; determine a geographical margin for the current geographical area, the geographical margin defining an outer area of the geographical area; and obtain geo-specific spectrum usage data corresponding to an adjacent geographical area from a location remote to the device when the device location is within the geographical margin. | 06-21-2012 |
20120185429 | Method, Apparatuses and Computer Program for Maintaining Databases - There is disclosed a method, apparatus and a computer code to maintain databases. In the method a first database containing information of a usage of a frequency spectrum is maintained for a first geographical area by the apparatus. Information is received from a second database apparatus on a second geographical area. The first database apparatus determines whether said first geographical area and said second geographical area are at least partly overlapping. A linkage table is maintained to provide an indication on the result of the determination, wherein said indication is indicative of whether said first geographical area and said second geographical area are at least partly overlapping. | 07-19-2012 |
20140113612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a receiver configured to receive information from a mobile device, the information comprising at least an indication of a location of the mobile device, at least one processing core configured to determine availability information concerning a 5 cell based at least in part on the information received from the mobile device, the availability information defining the cell to be available or not available, a transmitter configured to transmit to the mobile device advice concerning the cell determined to be available or not available, the transmitter being further configured to transmit to the cell determined to be available or not available an instruction, wherein the instruction is 10 configured to cause the determined cell to become active or inactive. | 04-24-2014 |
20140153535 | HARQ TIMING SCHEME FOR SIGNLE-CARRIER UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION WITH INTER-SITE CARRIER AGGREGATION - There is a pattern for downlink almost blank sub frames ABSFs for a first network node (e.g., macro eNB) operating in a first component carrier (e.g., PCell). For a user equipment UE operating with the first network node on the first component carrier and also with a second network node on the second component carrier, then either or both of the following are imposed. The UE is scheduled on the first component carrier such that no uplinic control information UCI from the UE is scheduled for any uplink subframe in the first component carrier which maps from any of the ABSFs; and the UE is scheduled on the second component carrier such that UCI from the UE is scheduled only for an uplinic subframe in the second component carrier which maps from any of the ABSFs. By example, the UCI includes either/or ACKs and NACKs corresponding to data sent downlink to the UE. | 06-05-2014 |
20140185576 | PDSCH ASSIGNMENT INDICATION FOR FDD SCELL ACK/NACK TRANSMISSION - A pico network node sends to a UE an allocation of physical downlink shared channel PDSCH subframes on the SCell. The allocation has control signaling indicating a number of the allocated PDSCH subframes that lie within a multiplexing window. The pico network node sends to the UE data on each of the allocated downlink subframes. The UE is also configured for a PCell with a macro network node not co-located with the pico. The UE determines from control signaling the number of PDSCH subframes that are allocated; and checks the determined number against PDSCH subframes it's received, to detect whether any allocated PDSCH subframe is missed. In an embodiment the control signaling is two bits per allocated downlink subframe as an assignment indication. | 07-03-2014 |
20140248919 | PICOCELL RANGE EXPANSION CONFIGURATION ON AUTHORIZED SHARED ACCESS - An apparatus, system, and method for a communication network that includes a picocell range expansion configuration on authorized shared access. A method may include determining, in a controller, at least one allowable maximal range expansion bias value for at least one picocell within a coverage area of a macrocell. The method may also include sending the determined allowable maximal range expansion bias value for the at least one picocell from the controller to the macrocell. A further method may include receiving at least one allowable maximal range expansion bias value for at least one picocell from a controller. The method may also include updating, by a macrocell, a range expansion bias value for each picocell within a macrocell based on the received allowable maximal range expansion bias value. | 09-04-2014 |
20140256332 | INTERFERENCE COORDINATION BETWEEN MACROCELL AND SMALL CELL - Provided are methods, corresponding apparatus and computer program products for interference coordination between a macrocell and a small cell. A method comprises receiving respective position information from at least one small-cell base station and at least one macrocell user equipment; calculating a distance between the at least one small-cell base station and the at least one macrocell user equipment based upon the respective position information; and determining, based upon the distance, whether to allow the at least one small-equipment cell base station to reuse radio resources used by the at least one macrocell user equipment. With the embodiments, the interference coordination can be improved and thus interference in small-cell transmission will be diminished due to efficient allocation and usage of the radio resources. | 09-11-2014 |
20140287693 | SPECTRUM SENSING - Provided are methods, corresponding apparatuses, and computer program products for performing spectrum sensing on a spectrum. A method comprises receiving, at a user equipment, information regarding performing spectrum sensing from a base station; performing, based upon the information, the spectrum sensing by the user equipment in an idle mode; and transmitting, by the user equipment out of the idle mode, to the base station a result of the spectrum sensing. With the claimed inventions, transmission interruption caused by non-idle user equipments performing the spectrum sensing would be eliminated. | 09-25-2014 |
20140341187 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAFFIC OFFLOADING - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to support traffic offloading in a manner that relies upon,a wireless access point having a co-located local gateway (L-GW), but that does not require each access point to have a co-located L-GW. In the context of a method, the traffic offloading capabilities of at least one other access point is initially determined. The method may also cause a tunnel to be established with another access point with a co-located L-GW having traffic offloading capabilities. Further, the method cause communications with a network to be conducted via the tunnel established with the another access point so as to utilize the traffic offloading capabilities of the another access point. | 11-20-2014 |
20140362798 | SHIFTING HARQ FEEDBACK FOR COGNITIVE-RADIO-BASED TD-LTE SYSTEMS - A method includes, in response to a determination one or more quiet periods conflict with specified hybrid automatic repeat request feedback timing, sending one or more indicators to one or more user equipment to indicate to the user equipment to shift the specified hybrid automatic repeat request feedback timing to a shifted hybrid automatic repeat request feedback timing. The method includes communicating hybrid automatic repeat request feedback based on the shifted hybrid automatic repeat request feed-back timing. Another method includes receiving at a user equipment one or more indicators indicating to the user equipment to shift specified hybrid automatic repeat request feedback timing to a shifted hybrid automatic repeat request timing, and communicating hybrid automatic repeat request feedback based on the shifted hybrid automatic repeat request timing. Apparatus, computer program product, and computer programs are also disclosed. | 12-11-2014 |
20140369313 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING RE-ESTABLISHMENT PROCEDURE IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - The present invention relates to method and apparatus for enabling re-establishment procedure in a heterogeneous network. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for a master node working with inter-site carrier aggregation in a heterogeneous network is provided. The method comprises: performing detection for whether there is a trigger for transferring UE context which is indispensable for a successful re-establishment procedure for a user equipment to at least one slave node; transferring, once said trigger is detected, said UE context to said at least one slave node. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided an apparatus of a master node, and corresponding computer program product. | 12-18-2014 |
20150036659 | Local Networks - 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: provide access to a network and needed bearers locally, and obtain offload bearer traffic from an umbrella node under control of the umbrella node in such a manner that a core network sees the offload bearer traffic as internal umbrella node traffic. | 02-05-2015 |
20150063139 | Apparatus and Method for Interference Management between Cellular and Local Area Networks - According to an example embodiment of this application, a method may include determining a distance from a network element; and assigning at least one of a downlink resource or an uplink resource to the network element based at least in part on the determined distance, wherein the assigned resource is used for both a downlink and an uplink communication of the network element. | 03-05-2015 |
20150156650 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR OUT-OF-BAND SENSING IN A COGNITIVE LTE SYSTEM - Provided are methods, corresponding apparatuses, and computer program products for performing out-of-band sensing on an unlicensed frequency band. A method comprises sending a configuration message for configuring measurement on at least one channel in a frequency band of a primary system; receiving a measurement report made based upon the configuration message; and determining the usability of the at least one channel based upon the measurement report, wherein the configuration message includes information regarding a respective predetermined threshold of energy detection or primary-system-feature detection, and the measurement report is for reception when a measured energy detection value or a measured primary-system-feature detection value of a received signal on the at least one channel is less than the respective predetermined threshold. With the claimed inventions, the spectrum efficiency would be improved and interference between a secondary system and an LTE system could be alleviated. | 06-04-2015 |
20150163815 | METHOD FOR UPLINK-DOWNLINK INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - Communication systems, such as the long term evolution (LTE) advanced (LTE-A) of the third generation partnership project (3 GPP) may benefit from various enhancements. These enhancements can include LTE time division duplex (TDD) enhancements for traffic adaptation and uplink (UL)-downlink (DL) interference management. A method can include determining whether a first cell, in a network including the first cell and a second cell, autonomously selects a time division duplex uplink-downlink configuration. The method can also include sending an authority indicator to a base station of the first cell regarding a determination of whether the first cell is to autonomously select the configuration. | 06-11-2015 |
20150237610 | NEIGHBOR CELL ASSISTED TDD CONFIGURATION - A method for neighbor cell assisted TDD configurations is described. The method includes receiving, from a serving cell, a first configuration. The first configuration is a cell specific configuration which indicates a first set of individual configurations for each of a plurality of SFs. A second configuration is received from the serving cell. The second configuration is a UE specific configuration which indicates a second set of individual configurations for each of the plurality of SFs. The method includes determining whether a given SF is configured differently in the first configuration than in the second configuration. In response to determining that the given SF is configured differently in the first configuration than in the second configuration, the method also includes communicating, with a neighbor cell, in the given SF as configured in the second configuration. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 08-20-2015 |
20150289307 | Method and apparatus for device-to-device communication - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus, comprising at least one processing core configured to determine an opportunity for device-to-device, D2D, communication, and at least one transmitter configured to cause transmitting of a D2D communication request, wherein the D2D communication request at least one of comprises a radio resource control signaling message and comprises an indication of a type of D2D communication that is requested. The indicated type may comprise D2D communication with no fallback to cellular connectivity, wherein such a D2D communication can be established without involving a core network, CN. | 10-08-2015 |
20150312811 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER IN HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for handover in a heterogeneous network. According to the method, a candidate radio connectivity mode for use after handover from a source BS to a first target BS and/or a second target BS is determined; a first handover related message which comprises the candidate radio connectivity mode is sent to the source BS; and in response to receiving a second handover related message, the first target BS and/or the second target BS may be accessed, wherein the source BS is not associated with the first target BS, and wherein the first target BS is a LPN and is associated with the second target BS. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312892 | METHODS FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE CONNECTION RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND RELATED USER EQUIPMENTS AND RADIO ACCESS NODE - Methods for D2D connection re-establishment and related user equipments and radio access node are disclosed, wherein the D2D connection is established between a first user equipment and a second user equipment under the control of a radio access node. In one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving, by the first user equipments, a first message from the second user equipments, the first message comprising a first credential which is calculated by the second user equipment; verifying the first credential by the first user equipment; and sending a second message indicating acknowledgement of the D2D connection re-establishment from the first user equipment to the second user equipment upon successful verification of the first credential. | 10-29-2015 |
20150365207 | PUCCH RESOURCE MANAGEMENT MECHANISM FOR COORDINATED MULTI-POINT OPERATION - A method for uplink control signaling in CoMP operation is described. The method includes allocating a first set of CCEs for an associated transmission from an AP to an associated UE. The method also includes transmitting, to a RRH, a message including an indication of the first set of CCEs. The message including the indication of a first set of CCEs is received at the RRH. The method also includes allocating, by the RRH, a second set of CCEs for an associated transmission from the RIM to an associated UE. A UE receives the transmission of downlink control information beginning at a first CCE. The method includes receiving a PUCCH resource offset parameter, the PUCCH resource offset parameter indicating the reception point for the UE. The UE determines an uplink control channel resource based on the first CCE and the PUCCH resource offset parameter. | 12-17-2015 |
20160044663 | Dynamic Uplink-Downlink Configuration - A method and apparatus can be configured to determine an uplink-downlink configuration. The method also transmits an indication of the uplink-downlink configuration. The transmitting the indication of the uplink-downlink configuration includes using physical layer signaling. The transmitting the indication of the uplink-downlink configuration also includes reusing an existing physical layer channel. The transmitting the indication of the uplink-downlink configuration is performed without extending physical layer associations | 02-11-2016 |
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20140362691 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTONOMOUS OPERATION IN CELLULAR-BASED LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises configuring an autonomous mode for traffic offloading; and indicating the autonomous mode towards at least one terminal, wherein said autonomous mode supports local area radio access connectivity by internet protocols to reduce control from a core network. Related apparatus and computer program product are also described. | 12-11-2014 |
20150103775 | FLEXIBLE HARQ ACK/NACK TRANSMISSION - A method including utilizing HARQ process grouping and subframe grouping to carry ACK/NACK transmissions, wherein the HARQ process grouping divides HARQ processes into one or more groups, and the subframe grouping divides a radio frame into one or more groups. The method may further include carrying ACK/NACK transmissions. | 04-16-2015 |
20150126210 | INTERFERENCE-AVOIDANCE ORIENTED CARRIER REUSE OF DEVICE-TO-DEVICE (D2D) COMMUNICATION IN CELLULAR NETWORKS - An apparatus and method for interference-avoidance in a hybrid communications network is provided. The method includes obtaining related information for interfering cellular user equipment in the hybrid network, reporting the related information for the interfering cellular user equipment to an evolved Node B (eNB), receiving a list of component carriers and competition related information for the component carriers, and selecting one or more proper component carriers from the list of component carriers according to certain rules. | 05-07-2015 |
20150195854 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENTION BASED TRANSMISSION - Systems and techniques for contention based transmission in a cellular network. A physical uplink shared channel is used for contention based transmission by a device such as a user equipment, based at least in part on information provided by a physical uplink control channel associated with the physical uplink shared channel. In addition, a base station such as an eNodeB may respond to a physical uplink shared channel by providing a common physical downlink shared channel providing acknowledge ment/negative acknowledgement information. In addition, the base station may provide a physical downlink control channel indicating the common physical downlink shared channel. | 07-09-2015 |
20150215838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILITY CONTROL IN HETEROGENOUS NETWORK - Methods, corresponding apparatuses, and computer program products for mobility control in a heterogeneous network are provided. The method comprises sending, by a source local area base station (e.g., a source access point), a handover request for handing over a user equipment to a target local area base station (e.g., a target access point), wherein the source and target local area base stations are connected with a same wide area base station and the user equipment is connected with the same wide area base station via the source local area base station. The method also comprises handing over, based on a handover request acknowledgement from the target local area base station, the user equipment to the target local area base station for continuing with at least one of an ongoing local area service and an ongoing wide area service without changing security keys of the same wide area base station. With the claimed inventions, the handover latency and service continuity during the inter-AP mobility would be efficiently improved in a secure manner. | 07-30-2015 |
20150230098 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING RADIO RESOURCES - Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for scheduling radio resources in a communication system. According to the method, in response to receiving a request for accessing a target frequency band utilized by a Macro BS and a LPN from a frequency-shared system, a first notification is transmitted to the Macro BS, such that the Macro BS deactivates the target frequency band, and a second notification is transmitted to the LPN, such that the LPN extends its coverage. Then, information on the extended coverage is received from the LPN. | 08-13-2015 |
20150230153 | LOCAL CELL DISCOVERY IN MACRO-ASSISTED ENHANCED LOCAL AREA - A macro eNB (MeNB) triggers a small cell (eLA eNB) to transmit a sequence on a second frequency band using a triggering command that indicates a time to transmit the sequence. On a first frequency band the MeNB triggers at least one user equipment UE to detect the sequence on the second band, and this trigger also has a first indication of when the sequence will be transmitted. From a second indication the MeNB receives on the first band from the at least one UE in response to the triggering of the UE the MeNB can determine whether the UE is located proximate to the small cell. The indication may be as little as a single bit indicating whether the UE detected or not the sequence. The first and second bands may be on first and second component carriers that may not be synchronized to one another, and the aperiodic nature of the triggered sequences and detection reports saves UE power. | 08-13-2015 |
20150237610 | NEIGHBOR CELL ASSISTED TDD CONFIGURATION - A method for neighbor cell assisted TDD configurations is described. The method includes receiving, from a serving cell, a first configuration. The first configuration is a cell specific configuration which indicates a first set of individual configurations for each of a plurality of SFs. A second configuration is received from the serving cell. The second configuration is a UE specific configuration which indicates a second set of individual configurations for each of the plurality of SFs. The method includes determining whether a given SF is configured differently in the first configuration than in the second configuration. In response to determining that the given SF is configured differently in the first configuration than in the second configuration, the method also includes communicating, with a neighbor cell, in the given SF as configured in the second configuration. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. | 08-20-2015 |
20150312811 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER IN HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for handover in a heterogeneous network. According to the method, a candidate radio connectivity mode for use after handover from a source BS to a first target BS and/or a second target BS is determined; a first handover related message which comprises the candidate radio connectivity mode is sent to the source BS; and in response to receiving a second handover related message, the first target BS and/or the second target BS may be accessed, wherein the source BS is not associated with the first target BS, and wherein the first target BS is a LPN and is associated with the second target BS. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312892 | METHODS FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE CONNECTION RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND RELATED USER EQUIPMENTS AND RADIO ACCESS NODE - Methods for D2D connection re-establishment and related user equipments and radio access node are disclosed, wherein the D2D connection is established between a first user equipment and a second user equipment under the control of a radio access node. In one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving, by the first user equipments, a first message from the second user equipments, the first message comprising a first credential which is calculated by the second user equipment; verifying the first credential by the first user equipment; and sending a second message indicating acknowledgement of the D2D connection re-establishment from the first user equipment to the second user equipment upon successful verification of the first credential. | 10-29-2015 |
20150327144 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CELL RESELECTION - Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method for cell reselection, comprising: receiving, at a user equipment, system information from a network node that is shared by two or more operator networks, wherein the system information comprises first information associated with at least one operator network related to one or more neighboring cells for the user equipment; determining whether there is an operator network accessible to the user equipment in the at least one operator network, based at least in part on the first information; and performing a cell re-selection procedure only when one or more accessible operator networks are determined. | 11-12-2015 |