Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080205323 | Apparatus and method for resource allocation considering buffering in relay wireless communication system - A relay wireless communication system is provided. A Relay Station (RS) includes a buffer for storing packets to be sent to at least one Mobile Station (MS); a scheduler for allocating resources to the at least one mobile station of which the packets are stored to the buffer; a generator for generating a message which comprises information about at least one mobile station of which packets are not stored to the buffer; and a communicator for sending the message to a Base Station (BS) and sending the packets stored to the buffer to the at least one mobile station allocated the resources. | 08-28-2008 |
20080207117 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A RELAY MODE IN A MULTIHOP RELAY BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for selecting one of a plurality of relay modes in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes checking a channel state between a Mobile Station (MS) and each of at least one Relay Station (RS), selecting the relay mode for supporting a relay service using the determined channel state between the MA and each of the at least one RS, and providing the relay service to the MS using the selected relay mode. Thus, system throughput and outage performance can be enhanced by using the appropriate relay mode based on the MS distribution or the channel condition. | 08-28-2008 |
20080207193 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION IN MULTI-HOP RELAY BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for transmitting control information to a Relay Station (RS) in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a generator, a controller, and a communication unit. The generator generates control information to be transmitted to a lower RS. The controller controls and transmits the control information during a first relay link transmission interval among at least one relay link transmission interval distributed within a frame. The communication unit transmits the control information to the lower RS. | 08-28-2008 |
20080209299 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RETRANSMITTING REQUEST IN WIRELESS RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Data retransmission apparatus and method in a wireless relay communication system are provided. It is checked whether an Acknowledgement (ACK) message or a Negative ACK (NACK) message for data is received from a Relay Station (RS), which receives the data from a Mobile Station (MS). Scheduling information for transmitting the data is transmitted to the RS, when the ACK message is received from the RS. Errors are checked for in of the data, when the data is received from the RS. The RS is requested to retransmit the data, when the data has an error. Accordingly, since the RS retransmits only the error-free data to the BS, the BS can enhance the data reliability. | 08-28-2008 |
20080209301 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL MESSAGE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING RELAYING - An apparatus and method for transmitting an ACK/NACK message from an RS in a wireless communication system using relaying is disclosed, in which the RS checks scheduling information for data transmission from a lower node, receives data from the lower node according to the scheduling information, checks errors in the data, generates error report information indicating whether the data has errors, and transmits the error report information to an upper node. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212516 | Appartus and method for negotiating frame offset between base station and relay station in broadband wireless communication system using multi-hop relay scheme - Provided are an apparatus and method for negotiating a frame offset between a Base Station (BS) and a Relay Station (RS) in a wireless communication system using a multi-hop relay scheme. A communication method of a superordinate station includes, upon detecting an initial access of an relay station, determining an offset value between a frame number used in the superordinate station and a frame number to be used in the relay station; generating a message including RS frame offset information corresponding to the offset value; and transmitting the generated message to the relay station. Accordingly, since the base station and the relay station share the frame offset, the base station can transmit a specific broadcast message in advance to the relay station by considering the frame offset, and the relay station can transmit data, which has to be transmitted in synchronization with the base station at the same time point or at the same frame number, to a Mobile Station (MS) at an exact time point. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219205 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RELEASING MOBILE STATION INFORMATION IN WIRELESS ACCESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTI-HOP RELAY SCHEME - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for releasing MS information in a wireless access communication system using a multi-hop relay scheme. In a method for a communication operation of a BS, when a data transmission path of an MS changes, one or more RSs from which information about the MS is to be removed are determined. Thereafter, a path removal message is generated and the path removal message is transmitted to the one or more RSs. | 09-11-2008 |
20080240014 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASYNCHRONOUS CONTROL MESSAGE TRANSMISSION FOR DATA RETRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for data retransmission in a multihop relay wireless communication system are provided. The retransmission method includes determining whether an error is detected in data received from an upper node; generating a message indicative of the data error; and sending the message to the upper node at a time that is not appointed with the upper node. Therefore, it is possible to reduce a retransmission delay time that occurs during synchronous retransmission. | 10-02-2008 |
20080248793 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DATA RETRANSMISSION IN MULTIHOP RELAY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for sending a control message for retransmission in a multihop relay wireless communication system are provided. Data received from a lower node is checked for errors. The data is transmitted to an upper node, when the data has no errors. When two or more messages, which include at least one of Acknowledgement (ACK) messages and Negative ACK (NACK) messages in response to a data reception are received from one or more lower nodes, the two or more messages are transmitted to the upper node at the same time. Accordingly, the RS can transmit the control messages for the ARQ provided from the lower nodes, to the upper node at the same time. | 10-09-2008 |
20090011784 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TRANSMISSION INFORMATION OF BROADCAST MESSAGE CONSTITUTED BY RELAY STATION (RS) IN MULTIHOP RELAY BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS (BWA) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for processing transmission information of a broadcast message constituted by a Relay Station (RS) in a multihop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. A communication method of the RS includes composing a message to be sent to a Mobile Station (MS); transmitting a scheduling request message which includes information required to schedule the composed message, to a Base Station (BS); and receiving an allocation message which includes information to transmit the composed message, from the BS in response to the scheduling request message. | 01-08-2009 |
20090043895 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method is provided for allocating resources by a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system. The method includes persistently allocating one or more resource slots among a plurality of resource slots, the persistently allocated one or more resource slots being allocated to corresponding one or more Mobile Stations (MSs), de-allocating at least one persistently allocated resource slot of the one or more persistently allocated resource slots, determining whether a hole is created due to the de-allocation among the one or more persistently allocated resource slots not de-allocated, and shifting a location of at least one of the one or more non-de-allocated persistently allocated resource slots when it is determined that the hole is created due to the de-allocation. | 02-12-2009 |
20090068944 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING A DEDICATED ACCESS ZONE TO RELAY STATION (RS) IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS (BWA) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for allocating a dedicated access zone to a Relay Station (RS) in a multihop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. A communicating method of the RS includes relaying communications between a Base Station (BS) and a Mobile Station (MS), determining whether a dedicated resource is necessary for the communications with the MS, when the dedicated resource is necessary, generating a dedicated access zone request message which comprises necessary bandwidth information and transmitting the dedicated access zone request message to the BS. | 03-12-2009 |
20090103487 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for allocating resources by a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining use/nonuse of each of a plurality of Resource Blocks (RBs), which are allocated using a persistent allocation scheme, and transmitting resource allocation information indicating use/nonuse of each of the plurality of RBs to a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs) according to a result of the determination. | 04-23-2009 |
20090191860 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION MESSAGE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for operating a base station and a mobile station in a communication system are provided. The operation of the base station includes persistently allocating resources to at least one mobile station and transmitting, in a current frame, a control information message including a change counter flag indicating whether persistent resource allocation information, transmitted in a previous frame, is changed. An operation of the mobile station includes receiving a control information message, including a change counter flag indicating whether persistent resource allocation information included in a control information message transmitted in a previous frame is changed, from a base station in a current frame and checking a value of the change counter flag. | 07-30-2009 |
20090219878 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERSISTENT ALLOCATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for persistent allocation in a wireless communication system are provided. An operation method of a Base Station (BS) includes determining if decoding information for one or more persistent allocations assigned to one or more corresponding Mobile Stations (MSs) is updated, if the decoding information is updated, generating a signaling message to signal the update of the decoding information, and transmitting the signaling message through a DL MAP. The signaling message includes an R_CID and ACID associated with at least one persistent allocation to which the updated decoding information is to be applied. | 09-03-2009 |
20090221290 | System and method for transmitting and receiving a signal using multiple frequency bands in a wireless communication system - Disclosed is a system and a method of signal transmission/reception by a mobile station in a wireless communication system. The method includes: transmitting a first sub-band preparation indicator, which indicates that the mobile station has been prepared for transmission/reception of a signal through a first sub-band, to a base station through a primary band; transmitting a first sub-band failure indicator to the base station through the primary band upon detecting failure in transmitting the first sub-band preparation indicator; receiving sub-band information on a second sub-band, which is different from the first sub-band, from the BS through the primary band; and acquiring synchronization with the second sub-band, so as to enable transmission/reception of a signal through the second sub-band based on the sub-band information. | 09-03-2009 |
20090310694 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MAP INFORMATION IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A broadband wireless communication system and method are provided. The method includes allocating an orthogonal sequence to a MAP that requires ACKnowledge (ACK) transmission, transmitting the MAP that does not comprise allocation information of the orthogonal sequence, determining whether the orthogonal sequence is detected in an ACK channel allocated for a subframe that carries the MAP, and determining that the MAP is successfully received when the orthogonal sequence is detected. | 12-17-2009 |
20090323620 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RELOCATING PERSISTENTLY ALLOCATED RESOURCE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Apparatuses of a base station and terminal in a wireless communication system and their operating methods are provided. An operating method of a base station in a broadband wireless communication system includes determining whether to relocate at least one persistently allocated resource, when it is determined to relocate the at least one persistently allocated resource, relocating the at least one persistently allocated resource, generating a resource relocation Information Element (IE) indicative of the resource relocation using an offset of a Resource Block (RB), and transmitting the resource relocation IE. | 12-31-2009 |
20100061314 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method and apparatus for allocating resources in a wireless communication system is provided. A Base Station (BS) allocates persistent resources in a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) region to a Mobile Station (MS), changes a location of the HARQ region, changes location of persistent resources in the HARQ region to location of persistent resources in a new HARQ region, and allocates the persistent resource to the MS. The new HARQ region is the location-changed HARQ region. | 03-11-2010 |
20120269114 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING FRAME INFORMATION IN MULTI-HOP RELAY BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An upper node is provided for use in a wireless communication system using a relay scheme. The upper node includes means for transmitting, upon a request of a lower relay station for an initial connection of the lower relay station, downlink section information for communication with the lower relay station for a relay service to the lower relay station; and means for transmitting, after the initial connection with the lower relay station, frame configuration information for communication with the lower relay station for a relay service to the lower relay station through the downlink section. The downlink section information includes configuration information of the downlink section for communication with the lower relay station for a relay service. | 10-25-2012 |
20130288683 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL USING MULTIPLE FEQUENCY BANDS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a system and a method of signal transmission/reception by a mobile station in a wireless communication system. The method includes: transmitting a first sub-band preparation indicator, which indicates that the mobile station has been prepared for transmission/reception of a signal through a first sub-band, to a base station through a primary band; transmitting a first sub-band failure indicator to the base station through the primary band upon detecting failure in transmitting the first sub-band preparation indicator; receiving sub-band information on a second sub-band, which is different from the first sub-band, from the BS through the primary band; and acquiring synchronization with the second sub-band, so as to enable transmission/reception of a signal through the second sub-band based on the sub-band information. | 10-31-2013 |