Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090028096 | UPPER STATION, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - An upper node station includes a packet flow multiplexing portion that multiplexes packet flows that are identified by QoS, in accordance with a QoS requirement; and a transmission portion that transmits the multiplexed packet flows. | 01-29-2009 |
20090052407 | WIRELESS BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA COMMON TO USERS - A radio base station transmits user common data provided from a user common data control apparatus connected to a communication network to a plurality of mobile stations by radio. The radio base station includes a frame loss detection unit configured to detect loss of user common data that occurs on a transmission route between the radio base station and the user common data control apparatus, and a timing adjustment unit configured to change transmission timing of the user common data for the mobile station according to the loss of the user common data. | 02-26-2009 |
20090059835 | CENTRAL NODE, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - A disclosed base station includes a grouping unit configured to categorize mobile stations that are in the coverage area of the base station and in a multicast group into groups; and a content transmission unit configured to determine radio parameters for content based on at least supported frequency bands or transmission rates of the mobile stations in the respective groups and an available frequency band or a transmission rate of the base station and to transmit the content received from an upper node to the multicast group. | 03-05-2009 |
20090088134 | MOBILE STATION, RADIO ACCESS NETWORK APPARATUS MOBILITY SWITCHING STATION, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION SERVICE ACCESS METHOD - In order to decrease delay time until data sending and receiving for a mobile station that is registered and that is in an idle state, the system is configured such that, when the mobile station issues a request of a communication service, the mobile station specifies a requesting QoS identifier, and launches a validity verification procedure for the service request, and a procedure of a security mode setup is completed along with a response to the service request, and channel information assigned to the mobile station is reported. | 04-02-2009 |
20090088173 | CHANNEL ALLOCATION DEVICE AND CHANNEL ALLOCATION METHOD - The logical channels are made to include a logical channel for control and a logical channel for data transmission, the radio physical channel are made to be commonly used for a plurality of logical channels, and one logical channel is made to have a correspondence relationship with one radio physical channel, and the channel assignment apparatus includes: traffic monitoring detection means that detects occurrence of traffic of the logical channels; and logical channel assignment means that, according to occurrence of the traffic of the logical channels, sequentially assigns required resources on the radio physical channel to the logical channels, so that the object is achieved. | 04-02-2009 |
20090116433 | DATA TRANSMITTING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION NODE AND DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD - The present invention provides a data transmission system where MBMS data are transmitted to a mobile station in synchronization among multiple base stations without use of any central control node for controlling the multiple base stations. The data transmission system includes a communication node managing user common data, one or more radio base stations coupled to the communication node and one or more mobile stations. In the system, each of the one or more base stations is synchronized with absolute time commonly used by the base stations. The communication node includes a reception unit receiving the user common data for one or more users from a provider and a determination unit determining through communications with the one or more base stations a transmission timing when the one or more base stations transmit the user common data to the mobile stations. | 05-07-2009 |
20090141674 | Communication Path Switching System and Method - A communication path switching system comprises a wireless base station ( | 06-04-2009 |
20090154592 | DATA TRANSMITTING SYSTEM, DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD AND BASE STATION - A base station used in a packet transmission system in which shared user data to be selectively received by a user are transmitted using a shared data channel from one or more base stations to one or more mobile stations is provided. The base station includes means configured to provide user control data associated with transmission of the shared user data; means configured to provide notification data that include notification information used to select the shared user data and group identification information for specifying the notification information; and means configured to generate an associated control channel that is associated with the shared data channel and includes the user control data and the notification data, the associated control channel and the shared data channel being transmitted from the base station to the mobile station. The generated associated control channel is transmitted from the base station to the mobile stations. | 06-18-2009 |
20090156212 | DATA TRANSFER METHOD AND BASE STATION - A data transfer method according to the present invention transfers user data of a mobile station from a handover source base station to a handover target base station through a transmission path, when the mobile station performs a handover. The data transfer method according to the present invention includes: determining, at the handover source base station, a priority order of the user data; determining, at the handover source base station, a transfer speed of the user data based on the priority order; and transferring, at the handover source base station, the user data to the handover target base station based on the determined transfer speed. | 06-18-2009 |
20090168724 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR USE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user apparatus includes a handover request signal transmission unit configured to transmit a request signal to a source base station for handover to a target base station, a handover command reception unit configured to receive a handover command from the source base station, a PDCP reordering function execution unit configured to execute a PDCP reordering function of determining sequence of packets in a PDCP sublayer and deferring to deliver the packets to an upper layer until the packets become in-sequence, a handover complete signal transmission unit configured to report completion of the handover to the target base station, a PDCP reordering function activation unit configured to activate the PDCP reordering function, and a PDCP reordering function inactivation unit configured to inactivate the PDCP reordering function in response to expiration of a predefined time period or in response to receipt of a notification from the target base station. | 07-02-2009 |
20090170515 | BASE STATION AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - Embodiments of the present invention make it possible to reduce loss and delay of downlink user data transmitted at regular time intervals in a mobile communication system employing a hard handover method, and make it possible to easily perform high-quality handover solely by a handover-starting base station. A base station for transmitting downlink user data at regular time intervals to a mobile station is disclosed. The base station is configured to transmit a handover-command signal immediately after transmitting the downlink user data to the mobile station. | 07-02-2009 |
20090219862 | MOBILE STATION, WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORK APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND INTERMITTENT RECEPTION METHOD - A mobile station includes: means that performs discontinuous reception only for a signaling control channel, means that determines presence or absence of traffic data addressed to the own mobile station, and means that, when it is determined that there is traffic data addressed to the own mobile station, receives corresponding shared data channel. A radio access network apparatus includes: means that determines a discontinuous reception state, means that determines a discontinuous reception channel, means that reports the determined discontinuous reception channel to the mobile station, and means that, when transmission data arises, transmits a control signal using the determined discontinuous reception channel and that transmits traffic data using a corresponding shared data channel. | 09-03-2009 |
20090219906 | CHANNEL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND CHANNEL TRANSMISSION METHOD - A radio physical channel is available to multiple logical channels commonly, and multiple radio physical control channels are provided concomitantly with the radio physical channel and include a commonly usable common control channel. A channel transmission apparatus includes a logical channel type determination unit determining a type of a logical channel, and a channel transmission unit transmitting an identifier of the UE in the radio physical control channel depending on the type of the logical channel. A scheme of identifying the UE in the radio physical control channel is modified depending on the type of the logical channel. | 09-03-2009 |
20090239538 | BASE STATION AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - A base station includes data storing unit configured to store data addressed to a mobile station transmitted from a transfer route control apparatus, and data transfer unit configured to transfer the data addressed to the mobile station to a handover destination base station according to a request of the data addressed to the mobile station from the handover destination base station, wherein, when the base station receives a handover confirm complete report for reporting handover completion from the handover destination base station, the data storing unit ends storing the data addressed to the mobile station, so that the object is achieved. | 09-24-2009 |
20090262701 | DATA TRANSFER METHOD AND BASE STATION - The present invention relates to a data transfer method which transfers user data of a mobile station, which is stored in a buffer of the handover source base station, from a handover source base station to a handover target base station, when the mobile station performs a handover. The data transfer method according to the present invention includes: determining, at the handover source base station, a transfer order of the user data; and transferring, at the handover source base station, the user data to the handover target base station based on the transfer order. | 10-22-2009 |
20090274124 | PACKET SCHEDULING METHOD, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A downlink packet scheduling method is disclosed for a shared channel or a common channel in a mobile communication system between a base station and a mobile station, the method including a step in which the base station determines whether there is a waiting packet to be transmitted to the mobile station other than a current transmission packet; a step in which when it is determined that there is no waiting packet to be transmitted, the base station sets a stop period “t” in which packet transmission is temporarily stopped after the current packet transmission; a step in which the base station transmits information indicating the stop period “t” through a schedule information channel transmitting schedule information of downlink packets; and a step in which the base station stops the packet transmission to the mobile station during the stop period “t” after the current packet transmission. | 11-05-2009 |
20090305704 | HANDOVER CONTROL APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND HANDOVER METHOD - A handover control apparatus includes a service determination unit determining a type of a service being communicated with by a mobile station and a handover processing unit performing handover in accordance with either a network initiative type handover procedure or a mobile station initiative type handover procedure based on the determination. If the service being communicated with by the mobile station belongs to a communication quality guaranteed type service, the handover is performed in accordance with the network initiative type handover procedure. | 12-10-2009 |
20100008238 | UPPER NODE STATION AND PACKET TRANSMISSION METHOD - An upper node station for transmitting received packets to a mobile station via a base station includes a quality information extracting unit configured to extract quality information from the received packets; and a multiplexing unit configured to assign each of the received packets to a bearer service based on the extracted quality information to multiplex the received packets. The upper node station may further include a quality information management table configured to associate a packet header with the bearer service for each mobile station, and the multiplexing unit may identify the bearer service based on a packet header in each of the received packets referring to the quality information management table. | 01-14-2010 |
20100029298 | TRACE REPORTING METHOD, TRACKING AREA ASSIGNING METHOD, USER TERMINAL, BASE STATION, AND TRACKING AREA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A trace reporting method, in which a user terminal reports to a tracking area management apparatus a trace along which the user terminal has moved in a mobile communication system, includes the steps of storing, by the user terminal, identifiers of base stations where the user terminal has performed cell selection in an identifier storage unit; and reporting, by the user terminal, to the tracking area management apparatus the identifiers stored in the identifier storage unit upon communicating with a base station. The tracking area management apparatus may compare the reported identifiers with a prestored pattern and assign a tracking area to the user terminal based on the comparison. | 02-04-2010 |
20100035642 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, AND PROPAGATION CONDITION COLLECTING METHOD - A disclosed mobile station is used in a system where a newly-installed base station sends a broadcast channel including information indicating a pre-operation state. The mobile station includes a broadcast channel receiving unit configured to receive a broadcast channel; a new base station determining unit configured to determine whether the received broadcast channel includes the information indicating the pre-operation state; and a reporting unit configured to report an identifier of the newly-installed base station (new cell) and/or reception quality of a pilot channel sent from the newly-installed base station if the new base station determining unit determines that the received broadcast channel includes the information indicating the pre-operation state. | 02-11-2010 |
20100035654 | BASE STATION, USER DEVICE, AND TRACKING AREA SETTING METHOD - A base station in a mobile communication system is disclosed. In the mobile communication system, user devices present in areas covered by existing base stations report tracking area identifiers of tracking areas to which the existing base stations belong. The base station includes a statistical processing unit configured to count the number of the tracking area identifiers reported by the user devices for each of the tracking areas; and a tracking area selecting unit configured to assign the base station one of the tracking areas corresponding to the largest number of the tracking area identifiers counted by the statistical processing unit. | 02-11-2010 |
20100046433 | LOGICAL INTERFACE ESTABLISHING METHOD, RADIO BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A plug-and-play radio base station autonomously establishes X2 logical interfaces and S1 logical interfaces with existing base stations and upper nodes. A new radio base station which is installed in a network advertises an IP address of the new radio base station over a transport network. An existing radio base station or an upper node which receives the IP address detects the number of hops from the new radio base station to the existing radio base station or the upper node. An initial logical interface with the new radio base station is established when the detected number of hops is below a predetermined threshold. | 02-25-2010 |
20100048141 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, ACCESS GATEWAY, AND TRACKING AREA SETTING METHOD - A disclosed mobile communication system includes a newly-installed base station configured to send its identifier and a pilot channel; existing base stations; user devices configured to send reception quality measurements of the pilot channel to the existing base stations; and an upper node. Each of the existing base stations includes a statistical processing unit for performing statistical processing on the reception quality measurements; and a statistical processing result reporting unit configured to send a result of the statistical processing to the upper node. The upper node includes a tracking area selecting unit configured to select a tracking area to be assigned to the newly-installed base station based on the results of the statistical processing; and a tracking area reporting unit configured to report the selected tracking area to the newly-installed base station. The newly-installed base station includes a tracking area setting unit configured to set the reported tracking area. | 02-25-2010 |
20100062774 | HANDOVER METHOD AND RADIO BASE STATION - A handover method according to the present invention includes the steps of: forwarding, at a handover-source radio base station (eNB), user data (A) for a mobile station (UE) to a handover-target radio base station (eNB) when it is determined that a handover processing is to be performed, the user data (A) being stored in the handover-source radio base station (eNB); activating, at the handover-target radio base station, a predetermined timer when transmitting a path switch request to a path control apparatus, and storing second user data for the mobile station received from the path control apparatus until the predetermined timer expires; and forwarding, at the handover-target radio base station, the stored second user data to the mobile station after the predetermined timer expires. | 03-11-2010 |
20100075684 | CELL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND USER APPARATUS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method of transmitting cell information is disclosed. The method includes the steps of transmitting a primary broadcast channel at constant intervals in a cell of a mobile communications system; broadcasting, in the primary broadcast channel, scheduling information indicating a location of a first scheduling unit, including information to be broadcast in the cell; and broadcasting, in the first scheduling unit, information indicating whether the cell is a dominant cell or a subordinate cell. | 03-25-2010 |
20100105377 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD USED IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A disclosed base station apparatus to be used in a mobile communication system includes a report signal receiving unit receiving a report signal from one or more user equipment terminals, a radio parameter adjustment unit adjusting radio parameters based on an analysis result of each report signal, a designation unit designating a report condition to be used for each user equipment terminal to determine whether to transmit the report signal and content to be reported in the report signal, and a report unit reporting the report condition and the content to be reported to the one or more user equipment terminals. Further, in the base station apparatus, the report condition is satisfied when a transmission source of a downlink reference signal is a specific cell, and the content to be reported includes a received quality value of the downlink reference signal. | 04-29-2010 |
20100113022 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO BASE STATION AND UPPER NODE - An upper node and a handover source radio base station store setup information on an access bearer having been set up between the upper node and the handover source radio base station. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: (A) informing, from the handover source radio base station to a handover target radio base station, the access bearer setup information; (B) storing, at the handover target radio base station, the access bearer setup information informed of by the handover target radio base station; and (C) setting up, at the upper node, an access bearer between the upper node and the handover target radio base station by using the stored access bearer setup information without performing reallocation processing of new access bearer setup information, the access bearer being set up in response to a path switching request from the handover target radio base station. | 05-06-2010 |
20100118779 | RETRANSMISSION REQUEST TRANSMITTING METHOD AND RECEIVING-SIDE APPARATUS - In a retransmission request transmitting method, an RLC sublayer of a receiving-side apparatus determines whether or not an RLC-PDU-data (or an RLC-data-Sub-PDU) not received yet is under retransmission control processing in a MAC sublayer; and generates and transmits a STATUS-PDU (NACK) including only a RLC-data-PDU which has neither been received yet nor is under the retransmission control processing in the MAC sublayer, on the basis of the determination result, at a timing when the STATUS-PDU is generated. | 05-13-2010 |
20100120448 | TRACKING AREA SETTING APPARATUS, USER EQUIPMENT, AND TRACKING AREA SETTING METHOD - A tracking area setting apparatus is disclosed that includes a service request measurement unit measuring a frequency of occurrence of a service request transmitted by a user equipment terminal to a cell where the user equipment terminal is located based on a paging channel transmitted in all cells belonging to a tracking area where the user equipment terminal is located, the user equipment terminal being a target user equipment terminal to receive a call, the tracking area including one or more cells and a tracking area determination unit determining whether a number of the frequency of occurrence of the service request in a predetermined cell is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value based on the frequency of occurrence of the service request and, when determining yes, separate the predetermined cell from the tracking area to which the predetermined cell belongs. | 05-13-2010 |
20100273496 | TRANSMISSION PROCESS RESTRICTION METHOD, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND MOBILE STATION - A transmission process restriction method according to the present invention includes the steps of transmitting a notification information notifying of a restriction rate for each access class and a restriction rate for each traffic class, causing the mobile station to determine a restriction rate of the mobile station on the basis of the notification information received by the mobile station, an access class of the mobile station, and a traffic class of the mobile station, causing the mobile station to compare a random number generated by the mobile station to the restriction rate of the mobile station, and causing the mobile station to decide whether or not to block the connection request transmission processing in accordance with a result of the comparison. | 10-28-2010 |
20100291956 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND CELL DETERMINATION METHOD - One feature of the present invention relates to a base station for operating multiple cells each having a predefined bandwidth, including: a load measurement unit configured to measure traffic status in each of the cells; a selection probability computation unit configured to compute a selection probability used to select a preselected cell based on the traffic status, the preselected cell being accessed by a mobile station in transition from an idle state to an active state; a transmission unit configured to transmit the selection probability; and a control plane control unit configured to connect to the preselected cell being accessed by the mobile station. | 11-18-2010 |
20100297998 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO BASE STATION - A radio base station (T-eNB) according to the present invention is configured to set up a data forwarding tunnel for forwarding user plane data to the radio base station (T-eNB) only for an access bearer for which the user plane data to be forwarded exists, when receiving a notification from a handover-source radio base station (S-eNB) as to whether or not the user plane data to be forwarded exists for each access bearer, the notification being made by using a handover request message for the mobile station (UE), and the access bearer being set up between the radio base station (T-eNB) and a upper level node (SGW); and | 11-25-2010 |
20110044241 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND MOBILE STATION - A transmission according to the present invention includes: (A) determining a maximum allowable data size for an uplink user IP packet in accordance with a type of a transmission path connected to a radio base station ( | 02-24-2011 |
20110230183 | MOBILE STATION - In a mobile station (UE) according to the present invention, an AS function is configured to notify, when detecting a failure in a radio link established with the radio base station is detected or when discovering a cell subject to a location registration by a cell selection process, a NAS function of the detection or the discovery; and the NAS function is configured to transmit, in response to the notification, a location registration request signal to a mobile switching center (MME). | 09-22-2011 |
20110230185 | MOBILE STATION - In a mobile station (UE) according to the present invention, an AS function is configured to notify, when detecting a failure in a radio link established with the radio base station is detected or when discovering a cell subject to a location registration by a cell selection process, a NAS function of the detection or the discovery; and the NAS function is configured to transmit, in response to the notification, a location registration request signal to a mobile switching center (MIME). | 09-22-2011 |
20110237245 | MOBILE STATION - In a mobile station (UE) according to the present invention, an AS function is configured to notify, when detecting a failure in a radio link established with the radio base station is detected or when discovering a cell subject to a location registration by a cell selection process, a NAS function of the detection or the discovery; and the NAS function is configured to transmit, in response to the notification, a location registration request signal to a mobile switching center (MME). | 09-29-2011 |
20120113977 | VPN DEVICE AND VPN NETWORKING METHOD - A VPN device capable of eliminating situations where cross calls occur is provided. The VPN device includes: an identification information acquisition unit that acquires first identification information which is identification information of a communication terminal ( | 05-10-2012 |
20120294785 | ACIDIC GAS ABSORBENT, ACIDIC GAS REMOVAL DEVICE, AND ACIDIC GAS REMOVAL METHOD - An acidic gas absorbent having a high acidic gas absorption capacity, that is, a high acidic gas absorption amount and a high acidic gas absorption rate, an acidic gas absorption device, and a method for absorbing an acidic gas, are provided. An acidic gas absorbent containing an azabicyclo compound and a primary or secondary amine compound; an acidic gas absorbent containing a heteroaromatic ring compound and a primary or secondary amine compound; an acidic gas removal device using these acidic gas absorbents; and a method for removing an acidic gas are disclosed. | 11-22-2012 |