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| 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 |
| 20090067364 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TIME TO RESPONSE OF RETRANSMISSION IN A MULTIHOP RELAY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A multihop relay wireless communication system is provided. A Base Station (BS) includes a calculator for calculating an ACKnowledge (ACK)/Non ACK (NACK) transmission time of at least one Relay Station (RS) using retransmission parameter values, and a transmitter for transmitting the ACK/NACK transmission time information to the at least one RS. | 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 |
| 20090122746 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACK CHANNEL TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for transmitting ACKnowledge (ACK) channels by a Relay Station (RS) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes, when receiving one or more ACK information from one or more lower nodes, checking ACK channel constitution information provided from an upper node, arranging one or more ACK channels to transmit corresponding ACK information according to the ACK channel constitution information by distinguishing ACK information of one or more data scheduled by the upper node and ACK information of one or more retransmission data not scheduled by the upper node, and transmitting the one or more ACK information to the upper node in the arranged ACK channels. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090207809 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING HANDOVER DELAY IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for reducing a handover delay in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In a method for operating a terminal to reduce a handover delay in a broadband wireless communication system, a handover procedure is performed with a serving Base Station (BS) to obtain a dedicated ranging code and a Connection ID (CID). The dedicated ranging code is transmitted to one or more target BSs using the CID. Whether the dedicated ranging code is received is determined. Therefore, a handover delay and a chance of malfunction can be reduced. | 08-20-2009 |
| 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 |
| 20090225691 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICE CHANNEL OF TERMINAL IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for changing a Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) channel of a terminal in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the method, an overall channel scheduling information message comprising group information for Connection Identifications (CIDs) of all channels in service is received from a base station. Transmission information of an MBS channel scheduling information message corresponding to a group to which a CID of a current channel belongs is extracted from the overall channel scheduling information message. A relevant MBS channel scheduling information message is received from the base station using the extracted transmission information of the MBS channel scheduling information message. Transmission information of an MBS MAP message for a relevant CID is extracted from the MBS channel scheduling information message. Therefore, an MBS channel change of a terminal can be easily performed. | 09-10-2009 |
| 20090232044 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RETRANSMITTING OF DATA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING RELAY - An apparatus and method for retransmitting of data in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting data to at least one lower node, temporarily storing the data transmitted to the lower node, if ACKnowledgement (ACK) information of a relay link is not received for a predetermined time after data transmission or if the ACK information of the relay link is received from a lower Relay Station (RS), identifying if error occurrence information of an access link is received from the lower RS, and, if the ACK information of the access link is received from the lower RS, recognizing that data transmission to a Mobile Station (MS) succeeds. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090252081 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING VARIOUS SYSTEMS IN A MULTIHOP RELAY BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile station compliant with a legacy system and a mobile station compliant with a new system are both supported in a multihop relay broadband wireless communication system. A DownLink (DL) period of the Base Station (BS) includes a legacy zone for communicating with entities of a legacy system and a new zone for communicating with entities of a new system. Operations of the BS include transmitting DL data to entities of the legacy system via the legacy zone, and transmitting DL data to entities of the new system via the new zone which follows the legacy zone in a time axis. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090252082 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS IN MULTI-HOP RELAY BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for supporting heterogeneous systems in a multi-hop relay wireless communication system are provided. In a method of transmitting and receiving a DownLink (DL) frame of a Base Station (BS) in a multi-hop relay wireless communication system employing heterogeneous systems, the DL frame of the BS includes a legacy zone for communication with a legacy Mobile Station (MS), an access zone of a new zone for communication with a new MS, and a relay zone of the new zone for communication with a new Relay Station (RS). The method includes transmitting DL data to the legacy MS in the legacy zone, transmitting the DL data to the new MS in the access zone of the new zone, and transmitting the DL data to the new RS in the relay zone of the new zone. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090252083 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DIFFERENT SYSTEM IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTI-HOP RELAY SCHEME - An apparatus and method for supporting a different system in a broadband wireless communication system using a multi-hop relay scheme are provided. A DownLink/UpLink (DL/UL) frame of a Base Station (BS) includes a legacy access zone for communicating with a legacy Mobile Station (MS), a relay zone for communicating with a legacy Relay Station (RS), and a new zone for communicating with a new MS. A DL/UL frame of an RS includes a legacy access zone for communicating with a legacy MS and a legacy relay zone for communicating with a new BS by legacy standards. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090268658 | Apparatus and method for relay service in wireless communication system - An apparatus and a method for relay service in a wireless communication system are provided. A method for constituting a frame for a relay service in a wireless communication system includes configuring Downlink and Uplink subframes for a Base Station (BS) to transmit and receive signals to and from a Mobile Station via one or more relay stations over one or more communication zones. Thus, the frames for the multihop relay service can be constituted with ease, the multihop relay service can be provided not to drive the relay service data into a particular part of the frame, and the service coverage of the MS can be extended. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090303919 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PREAMBLE CHANGE OF RELAY STATION IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTIHOP RELAY - An apparatus and a method for processing a change of a preamble of a Relay Station (RS) are provided. An operating method of a Base Station (BS) includes providing a relay service via an RS, determining whether a preamble of the RS needs to change, when it is necessary to change the preamble of the RS, sending a preamble change command message to the RS and, when the preamble of the RS is changed, sending a preamble change notification message informing of the preamble change to at least one lower node of the RS. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090303953 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING IDLE MODE OF MOBILE STATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for supporting an idle mode of a Mobile Station (MS) in a superframe-based wireless communication system are provided. In a method for operating an MS to support an idle mode in a superframe-based wireless communication system, a paging listening interval is determined based on a Broadcast CHannel (BCH) information Transmit (TX) interval. BCH information including paging information is received during the paging listening interval. The inclusion/non-inclusion of a paging advertisement (MOB_PAG-ADV) message is detected based on the BCH information. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100003985 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING HANDOVER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for handover in a wireless communication system are provided. The handover method includes, when handing over to another Base Station (BS) while being serviced by a serving BS, determining whether there exists data to transmit in an uplink, and, when the data to transmit in the uplink exists, requesting bandwidth from the serving BS before commencing a network re-entry to a target BS for the handover. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100008327 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING MOBILE STATION IDENTIFIER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for providing a handover using an Mobile Station IDentifier (MS ID) in a wireless communication system are provided. In the method, at least one Base Station (BS) ID index assigned to a serving base station by at least one neighbor base station is confirmed. A target base station for a handover is confirmed. A temporary MS ID is formed using a BS ID index assigned to the serving base station by the target base station, and an MS ID index assigned to the mobile station by the serving base station. A network re-entry procedure with the target base station is performed using the temporary MS ID. Communication with the serving base station is performed until the network re-entry procedure with the target base station is completed. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100040011 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIONALLY USING SECONDARY FREQUENCY ASSIGNMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE BAND - A broadband wireless communication system using multiple bands is provided. A method includes determining to stop using a first Secondary (S)-Frequency Assignment (FA) of one or more S-FAs while communicating with a correspondent node over a Primary (P)-FA and the one or more S-FAs, sending a first message which requests to suspend the first S-FA, to the correspondent node, communicating over at least one FA excluding the first S-FA, and when resumption of the first S-FA is determined, sending a second message which requests to resume the first S-FA. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100054189 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MAC PROTOCOL DATA UNIT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for generating a Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes reconstructing at least one MAC Service Data Unit (MSDU) according to scheduling information of the MAC layer and generating at least one MPDU data portion, adding control information to each MPDU data portion and generating at least one MPDU payload, adding a General MAC Header (GMH) to each MPDU payload and generating at least one MPDU, and transmitting the MPDU to a receive end. The control information includes at least one piece of MSDU information constituting each MPDU data portion. The GMH includes length information on the MPDU and Connection IDentifier (CID) information. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100110972 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING THE RELAYED DATA IN A MULTIHOP RELAY BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for processing the relayed data in a multihop relay broadband wireless access communication system are provided. A method for an operation of a Relay Station (RS) includes determining whether a packet received from an upper node comprises a Relay Media Access Control (MAC) Header (RMH), when the RMH is comprised in the received packet, determining whether the RMH comprises access RS information, and when the access RS information is not comprised in the RMH, removing the RMH from the received packet and transmitting the packet to a lower Mobile Station (MS). | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100195576 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE PUSH SERVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and a system for providing a push service in a wireless communication system adopting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme or an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) scheme are provided. The method includes when receiving a message from another network or another messaging server, transmitting, at a messaging server, a push service request message to a push server; when a Mobile Station (MS) of which the push service is requested using the push service request message of the messaging server, operates in an awake mode, transmitting, at the push server, a first push deliver message comprising a message designated for the MS, to a Base Station (BS), and when receiving the first push deliver message, transmitting, at the BS, a second push deliver message based on a Media Access Control (MAC) layer comprising the message designated for the MS, to the MS. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100208692 | Apparatus and method for supporting intra-base station handover in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless communication system - An apparatus is capable of supporting an intra-BS handover of a Mobile Station (MS) that can distinguish a Relay Station (RS) and a Base Station (BS) in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless communication system. A handover of an MS in a multi-hop relay wireless communication system includes receiving a neighbor advertisement message. When a handover command message that initiates a handover to a target node is received, information on a target node is acquired, and an upper BS of the target node is identified. When the identified upper BS of the target node is the same as an upper BS of the serving node, control information that has been previously used in a serving node is used in the target node, and communication with the target node is performed. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100220641 | METHOD FOR OPERATING CONTROL SLEEP MODE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for controlling a sleep mode operation by a Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system. The MS includes transitioning to an awake state in a listening interval of the sleep mode; performing any one of a first operation, a second operation and a third operation in the awake state; and after any one operation is performed, transitioning to a sleep state upon detecting that there is no data to transmit to the BS and there is no data to be received from the BS. The first operation is a process of receiving data from the BS, the second operation is a process of transmitting data to the BS, and the third operation is a process of receiving data from the BS and receiving data from the BS. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100232331 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SLEEP MODE OPERATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for controlling a sleep mode operation of a Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system, in which the sleep mode operates according to a sleep cycle including a listening window corresponding to an awake mode and a sleep window corresponding to a sleep state. The method includes starting a preset timer if there is a transmission of data between the MS and a Base Station (BS) during the listening window, restarting the timer upon receiving at least one of UpLink (UL) data, DownLink (DL) data and MAP Information Element (IE) indicating resource allocation from the BS during the listening window, maintaining the listening window until the timer expires, and transitioning to the sleep window if the timer expires. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100251081 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ARQ FEEDBACK POLLING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) feedback polling in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for ARQ feedback polling includes transmitting at least one ARQ block to a receive end, polling ARQ feedback to the receive end using an extended header, determining if ARQ feedback information is received from the receive end within a lifetime of ARQ feedback, determining success or failure of transmission of the at least one ARQ block through the ARQ feedback information if it is determined that the ARQ feedback information is received within the lifetime of ARQ feedback, and polling ARQ feedback again to the receive end if it is determined that the ARQ feedback information is not received within the lifetime of ARQ feedback. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100254293 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SLEEP CYCLE SYNCHRONIZATION OF SLEEP MODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for controlling sleep cycle synchronization of a sleep mode in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a Mobile Station (MS) in a sleep mode state includes, if a traffic indication message and unicast data are not received during a listening window, transmitting one of a request message and a header to a Base Station (BS) to request a location of a next-scheduled listening window, and if a response for the one of the request message and the header is received, performing synchronization for a next sleep cycle. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100290372 | METHOD FOR MULTIPLE TDD SYSTEMS COEXISTENCE - The method for multiple TDD systems coexistence comprising steps of: a newly deployed system calculating a relative time offset Δt for a corresponding frame; the newly deployed system transmitting uplink and downlink signals based on a time reference information obtained by a summation of the relative time offset Δt and a time reference of an existing system. With the method proposed in present invention, uplink and downlink interference from adjacent frequency bands and from adjacent carriers in the same frequency band can be greatly reduced and a transmission time utility can be guaranteed for a newly deployed system. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100316007 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION OF PLURAL BROADCAST MANAGEMENT MESSAGES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for supporting simultaneous transmission of a plurality of broadcast management messages in a wireless communication system are provided. A method in a Base Station (BS) for supporting transmission of a broadcast management message in a wireless communication system includes generating one or more broadcast management messages whose transmission is required, and constructing an Advanced-MAP Information Element (A-MAP IE) of a number, which is predefined on the basis of a predefined position within a subframe, as a Broadcast A-MAP IE. Here, the Broadcast A-MAP IE comprises allocation information of a broadcast burst for transmission of the generated one or more broadcast management messages. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110103281 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NEGOTIATING SLEEP CYCLE SETTING BETWEEN BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for negotiating sleep cycle setting between a base station and a mobile station in a wireless communication system are provided. A method for operating a transmitter to negotiate sleep cycle setting of a mobile station in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a DSx request message including sleep cycle setting information to a receiver, and receiving a DSx response message, which includes at least one of acceptance/refusal information about DSx and acceptance/refusal information about sleep cycle setting change, from the receiver. Herein, the DSx is one of a Dynamic Service Addition (DSA), a Dynamic Service Change (DSC), and a Dynamic Service Deletion (DSD). | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110103329 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF REQUIRING UPLINK RESOURCES FOR TRANSMITTING RANGING REQUEST MESSAGE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus of requiring uplink resources for transmitting a ranging request message in a communication system are provided. The method includes allocating an uplink bandwidth from a base station, and fragmentizing a Ranging Request (RNG-REQ) message into plural fragmented RNG-REQ messages, when the allocated bandwidth does not accommodate an entire RNG-REQ message, requesting an additional uplink bandwidth by transmitting one fragmented RNG-REQ message, and allocating an requested additional uplink bandwidth from the base station and transmitting a next one fragmented RNG-REQ message. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110110301 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for transmitting control information in a small base station of a wireless communication system are provided. In the method, when the small base station operates in a Low Duty operation Mode (LDM) in a superframe, a control signal including LDM operation information is generated. Only a subframe via which a preamble, a control signal including the LDM operation information, and a SuperFrame Header (SFH) are transmitted is transmitted during the superframe. When the small base station operates in a normal operation mode in a superframe, at least one of the control information and data is transmitted via at least one subframe of the superframe. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110128935 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDOVER OF MS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for handover of a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes, if a ranging request signal is received from the MS attempting access through a handover, determining if the BS and a serving BS of the MS are the same BS based on the ranging request signal, and, if the BS and the serving BS are the same BS, determining the effectiveness of a Cipher-based Message Authentication Code (CMAC) included in the ranging request signal using previous authentication information of the MS. The serving BS denotes a BS from which the MS has been serviced before the handover. The previous authentication information of the MS denotes authentication information that the serving BS has used for authenticating the MS. | 06-02-2011 |
