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| 20110076964 | Re-Activation of a Base Station in Standby Mode - The present invention relates to methods, apparatuses, a system and a computer program product for reducing a power consumption in low load scenarios. An apparatus can include transmitting means, receiving means and determining means for determining whether a signal quality of a broadcast channel of a wireless network cell is insufficient, wherein the transmitting means may transmit on a wireless access channel an activation information to a further apparatus if the determination is affirmative. The activation information can indicate that disabled transmitting means of the further apparatus should be re-enabled. The further apparatus may include transmitting means, receiving means disabling means for disabling the transmitting means and enabling means for re-enabling the transmitting means, wherein the receiving means can be configured to receive the activation in-formation, and wherein the enabling means may be configured to re-enable the transmitting means if the activation information is received. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110129008 | Methods, Apparatuses, System and Related Computer Program Product for Cell Type Detection - It is disclosed a method comprising including transmitting indication information indicating network cells of a first type different from network cells of a second type, the transmitting comprising including a) broadcasting control information, the indication information to be transmitted being an indication flag, b) assigning a set of synchronization information to the network cells of the first type, and broadcasting control information, the indication information to be transmitted being the synchronization information, c) reserving at least one signaling code information for the network cells of the first type, the indication information to be transmitted being the signaling code information, d) transmitting signaling information subjected to modulation by at least one predefined phase modulation or scrambling by at least one predefined scrambling sequence, the modulation or scrambling being indicative of network cells of the first and second types, and/or e) transmitting i) a PSS and a RS, ii) a SSS and a RS, or iii) a PSS and a SSS, the PSS/RS, SSS/RS or PSS/SSS having at least one predefined phase relation to each other, the at least one phase relation being indicative of the network cells of the first and second types. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110158171 | Decentrallizing Core Network Functionalities - The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for providing network access, wherein a connection to a core network is established via a wireless access device and a gateway device. Connectivity of the wireless access device is restricted to a pre-defined group of core network address of a pool of gateway devices with multi-node connectivity to the core network, and a single address is selected to establish the connection to a one of the gateway devices. The gateway device is provided with a relay function for mapping a single input address to a plurality of core network addresses based on a location information of the wireless access device and with at least one co-located decentralized core network functionality. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110182213 | Network Node, Network and a Method for Waking Up a Network Node - A network node for connecting a network with a terminal is described, wherein the network node includes a sleep control device. The sleep control device includes a terminal linking device and a network linking device. The terminal linking device is adapted to connect to a terminal, wherein the network linking device is adapted to connect to a network. Furthermore, the network node is adapted to enter a standby mode, wherein the sleep control device is further adapted to switch on the network node on appearing of at least one trigger event of (i) appearing of a predefined signal sequence on the terminal linking device during a monitoring period of a listen cycle or (ii) appearing of a terminal paging signal sequence on the network linking device. The sleep control device is adapted to detect during the monitoring period the predefined signal sequence on the terminal linking device. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110190027 | Transmission of a Synchronization Signal within a Cellular Telecommunication Network with Temporarily Increased Transmitting Power - It is described a method for transmitting a synchronization signal within a cellular telecommunication network. The method includes activating a first base station of the cellular telecommunication network, informing at least one second base station, which is a potentially interfering base station with respect to the first base station, about the activation of the first base station, and broadcasting the synchronization signal by the at least one second base station with a temporarily increased transmitting power. It is further described a second base station for transmitting a synchronization signal to another base station of the cellular telecommunication network and a central network element, which is adapted to prompt a base station in order to transmit a synchronization signal. Furthermore, it is described a program element, which is adapted for controlling the described synchronization signal transmitting method. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110194493 | Method for Transferring a Base Station of a Wireless Communication Network from a Standby Mode to a Fully Activated Mode - It is described a method for transferring a base station of a wireless communication network from a standby mode to a fully activated mode. The method includes sending an activation signal from a user equipment (UE) to the base station. The method further includes receiving the activation signal by the base station and transferring the base station (BS | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110195707 | Apparatus, Method and Program Providing a Confidence Estimation of Coverage Hole Detection - Method, apparatus and software configured to detecting a radio coverage hole and providing a confidence information of a detected radio coverage hole. A coverage hole detection signal and confidence information may be received and evaluated, deciding on a potential coverage hole reducing or closing process depending on the evaluation. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110195719 | Configuration of Nodes for Local Data Transmission Which are Under an Overlay Wide Area Macro Network Operated on the Same Frequency Layer - At a node for local data transmission which is under an overlay wide area macro network operated on the same frequency layer, conditions of a wide area cell of the overlay wide area macro network are obtained, wherein the wide area cell is measured as a cell with a certain received signal level at a location of the node. Based on the conditions of the wide area cell, an allocation of channels for local area data transmission from the node is set such that interference of the channels for the local area data transmission with allocated wide area channels of the wide area cell is avoided or minimized. | 08-11-2011 |
