Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080212696 | Radio-Communication Device and Radio-Communication Method - The disclosed invention determines whether a reception packet is an MM packet or a GF packet with precision and avoids unnecessary decoding operations performed at the GF-packet-reception time and inefficient communications. | 09-04-2008 |
20090201901 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 08-13-2009 |
20090304119 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a receiving apparatus including a plurality of antennas, a power detection unit to detect received power of respective received signals received by the plurality of antennas, and a plurality of reception processing units that includes a first reception processing unit to perform reception processing with a first bit width on a received signal received by any one of the plurality of antennas and a second reception processing unit to perform reception processing with a second bit width smaller than the first bit width on a received signal detected by the power detection unit as having lower received power than the received signal to be processed by the first reception processing unit. | 12-10-2009 |
20090310695 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a communication apparatus, including a transmission pattern generation unit that generates a transmission pattern according to a modulation method, a metric calculation unit that calculates an inter-signal distance between a received signal vector of received signals and an estimation vector, which is a product of channel information and the transmission pattern, a maximum likelihood pattern determination unit that determines a maximum likelihood signal pattern from the inter-signal distance calculated by the metric calculation unit, and an error estimation unit that estimates a phase error component and an amplitude error component contained in the received signal vector, wherein the metric calculation unit calculates the inter-signal distance between the received signal vector and the estimation vector by reflecting the phase error component and/or the amplitude error component estimated by the error estimation unit. | 12-17-2009 |
20100091675 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless communication system which includes a transmitter and receiver each having two or more antennae, the system including: a channel condition determining unit which determines a condition of a channel between the transmitter and the receiver; and a system control unit which changes a transmitting system in the transmitter and a receiving system in the receiver in accordance with a determination result obtained by the channel condition determining unit. | 04-15-2010 |
20100095180 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A receiving device is provided that includes a radio receiving unit to receive radio signals transmitted from multiple transmitting antennas by multiple receiving antennas and output received signals being digital signals, a frequency control unit to detect and correct a frequency error contained in the received signals, a channel estimation unit to estimate a channel matrix of which each element corresponds to respective pair of each transmitting antenna and each receiving antenna, an equalization unit to equalize the received signals by using the estimated channel matrix, a demodulation and decoding unit to demodulate and decode the equalized received signals, and an error estimation unit to estimate a channel variation component indicating temporal variation of characteristics of each channel and a phase error component remaining in the received signals based on the channel matrix, the received signals, and a decoding result or an equalization result. | 04-15-2010 |
20100107042 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless communication apparatus that operates in a network environment with mixed different packet formats, includes: a first format detecting unit detecting a format by executing signal processing on a preamble of a received packet before decoding; an estimating unit using the preamble to carry out multiple types of estimations; a decoding unit decoding the received packet in accordance with the detected format based on the estimations; a second format detecting unit detecting the format of the received packet based on decoded control information in the preamble of the received packet; an error detection determination unit, when the format detected by the first format detecting unit differs from the format detected by the second format detecting unit, determining that the format detected by the first format detecting unit is error detection; and a control unit controlling operations of the estimating unit and the decoding unit based on a determined result. | 04-29-2010 |
20100111157 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless communication device includes: a channel matrix estimating unit estimating a channel matrix including channel response elements between antennas; a phase error estimating unit estimating a phase error in a received signal on the basis of a decoding result of encoded and transmitted information symbols of a preamble of a received packet; and a waveform equalizing unit equalizing a waveform of data symbols of the received packet using the channel matrix. Original channel response elements are derived by removing an error of an estimated channel value due to the phase error estimated by the phase error estimating unit from the channel response elements of the channel matrix supplied from the channel matrix estimating unit, and the waveform equalizing unit equalizes the waveform of the data symbols using the channel matrix including the original channel response elements. | 05-06-2010 |
20100185749 | Communication Device, Program and Communication Control Method - There is provided a communication device comprising: a detection unit that detects presence or absence of communication connection with a server storing data related to a communication environment of a communication area where a first communication service is provided; a data acquisition unit that acquires data related to a surrounding communication environment; and a determination unit that determines availability of usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to the first communication service based on the data acquired by the data acquisition unit, wherein when communication connection with the server is not detected by the detection unit, the data acquisition unit senses a communication environment surrounding the communication device or receives data related to a communication environment from another communication device located near the communication device. | 07-22-2010 |
20100202387 | Communication Control Method and Communication System - There is provided a communication control method comprising the steps of: providing an instruction for determining availability of usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service from a first communication device to a second communication device; providing an instruction for sensing a communication environment from the second communication device to a communication device located nearby; transmitting sensed data obtained by sensing a communication environment from a third communication device located near the second communication device to the second communication device; determining availability of usage of the second communication service based on the sensed data by the second communication device; transmitting a determination result on availability of usage of the second communication service from the second communication device to the first communication device; and permitting usage of the second communication service in accordance with the determination result received from the second communication device by the first communication device. | 08-12-2010 |
20100208713 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 08-19-2010 |
20100208714 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 08-19-2010 |
20100271991 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication apparatus includes a packet-generating section and a transmission section. The generating section is provided for generating a packet and characteristically performing symbol repetition on a preamble of the packet. The transmission section is provided for transmitting the packet subjected to the symbol repetition as a wireless signal. | 10-28-2010 |
20100273428 | Wireless Communication Apparatus, Wireless Communication Method, Computer Program, and Wireless Communication System - A wireless communication apparatus includes: a first wireless communication section performing wireless communication on the basis of a first communication mode; a second wireless communication section performing wireless communication on the basis of a second communication mode using a different frequency band from the first communication mode; a beam learning signal generation section generating a beam learning signal for specifying a beam pattern at the time of the communication based on the second communication mode and transmitting the beam learning signal from the second wireless communication section; a response information acquisition section acquiring response information responding to the transmitted beam learning signal; and a preliminary information generation section generating preliminary information so as not to cause interference among a plurality of wireless communications using the second communication mode on the basis of the response information and transmitting the preliminary information from the first wireless communication section. | 10-28-2010 |
20100302948 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided a communication device including: a data acquisition unit that acquires sensed data related to a signal receiving condition in a spectrum assigned to a first communication service; a determination unit that determines which of a first area inside a service area of the first communication service where a signal receiving condition is suitable, a second area inside or in a peripheral part of the service area where a signal receiving condition is not suitable and a third area outside the peripheral part of the service area the communication device is located based on the sensed data acquired by the data acquisition unit; and a secondary usage starting unit that starts usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of the spectrum assigned to the first communication service by a procedure different depending on a kind of the area where the communication device is located determined by the determination unit. | 12-02-2010 |
20110013571 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a communication system comprising: a first communication device that senses a communication environment surrounding the first communication device; a second communication device that acquires sensed data sensed by the first communication device; and a third communication device that determines availability of usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service based on the sensed data transmitted from the second communication device. | 01-20-2011 |
20110028170 | TRANSMISSION POWER ALLOCATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided a method for allocating a transmission power to a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, in a node which is able to communicate with a secondary usage node, comprising the steps of: determining an interference power acceptable for two or more second communication services when the two or more second communication services are operated; distributing a transmission power depending on the interference power among the two or more second communication services according to a first rule; distributing the transmission power similarly according to a second rule; selecting one of the first rule and the second rule based on transmission powers distributed according to the first rule and transmission powers distributed according to the second rule; and allocating the transmission powers distributed according to the selected rule respectively to the two or more second communication services. | 02-03-2011 |
20110028179 | TRANSMISSION POWER DETERMINATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided a method for determining an acceptable transmission power for a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, comprising the step of determining the acceptable transmission power based on quality of a radio signal required in the first communication service, an interference level or a noise level in the first communication service, and a path loss on a communication path about one or more secondary usage node that transmits a radio signal of the second communication service. | 02-03-2011 |
20110028180 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided a method for controlling a transmission power in a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, with use of any node of one or more secondary usage node that transmits a radio signal of the second communication service, comprising the steps of: acquiring an acceptable interference power allocated to the second communication service; calculating a total sum of interference power levels on the first communication service based on transmission powers respectively required for the one or more secondary usage node; and excluding any secondary usage node of the one or more secondary usage node from allocation of the transmission power when the calculated total sum of interference power levels is larger than the acceptable interference power. | 02-03-2011 |
20110034204 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a communication device including: a communication unit that receives a beacon for a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service; and a control unit that controls a transmission power to be used for transmission of a radio signal of the second communication service from the communication unit based on location data included in the beacon and indicating a location of a transmission source node of the beacon and a location of an interfered node interfered by the second communication service. | 02-10-2011 |
20110039495 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a method of controlling communication of a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, with use of a communication device, including the steps of: receiving a radio signal transmitted for the first communication service in a first period on a time axis; determining a parameter value to be used for controlling communication of the second communication service based on the radio signal received in the first period; sensing a radio signal transmitted for the second communication service in a second period subsequent to the first period; and transmitting a beacon for the second communication service based on the parameter value in a third period subsequent to the second period when a radio signal for the second communication service is not detected in the second period. | 02-17-2011 |
20110105142 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A wireless communication device is provided which includes a transmission section for discretely increasing transmission power and transmitting wireless signals, and an estimation section for estimating that, when a response signal to a previous wireless signal is not received from a first wireless communication device but a response signal to a current wireless signal is received therefrom, the first wireless communication device exists in a hollow circular first area, which is a difference between a reachable area of the previous wireless signal and a reachable area of the current wireless signal, having the self device at a centre. | 05-05-2011 |
20110275322 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - To start secondary use of a spectrum without causing an adverse effect on a communication service for primary usage, provided is a communication control method including the steps of acquiring data related to a communication environment surrounding a first communication device at the first communication device, determining that a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service is available when the acquired data related to the communication environment satisfies a first condition, and permitting usage of the second communication service when the data related to the communication environment satisfies a second condition at the first communication device or a second communication device. | 11-10-2011 |
20110316744 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - By effectively utilizing the beam pattern used at the time of the last communication, a directional link can be efficiently established, thereby reducing overhead. When establishing a link, a communication apparatus | 12-29-2011 |
20120020420 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Suitable beam pattern control is performed while performing access control based on physical carrier sense. | 01-26-2012 |
20120149296 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY NODE, USER EQUIPMENT AND BASE STATION - A relay node in a mobile communication network for receiving a radio signal from a base station and forwarding the signal to a mobile station. The relay node including a control unit that manages first information corresponding to link between the relay node and the mobile station, and a transmitter that directly transmits the first information to another relay node in the mobile communication network. The relay node including a receiver that receives, from the another relay node, second information corresponding to a link between the another relay node and another mobile station. The control unit controlling resources used to communicate with the mobile station based on the first information corresponding to link between the relay node and the mobile station and the second information corresponding to the link between the another relay node and the another mobile station. | 06-14-2012 |
20120170507 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless communication system, using wireless base stations, and other devices, such as a relay node, interoperate with using spectrum aggregation and MIMO. Traffic usage is detected and based on channel utilization relative to capacity, spectrum aggregation is chosen over MIMO under certain conditions. On the other hand, under higher channel utilization system components switch to MIMO modes of operation to reduce demand on channel use, while providing good throughput for communications stations. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170508 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, RELAY NODE AND USER EQUIPMENT - A relay node in a mobile communication network for relaying communications between a base station and a mobile terminal. The relay node includes a communication interface that receives resource allocation information from the base station, the resource allocation information indicating a controllable range of communication resources available to the relay node. The relay node also includes a control unit that controls allocation of resources for communication between the relay node and the mobile station based on the received resource allocation information. The relay node then communicates with the mobile terminal based on the control performed by the control unit. | 07-05-2012 |
20120182930 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND BASE STATION - Provided is a communication system including a plurality of base stations, a plurality of communication terminals that communicates with one of the plurality of base stations, and a relay device, the relay device including a selection unit that selects a communication terminal to be relayed from among the plurality of communication terminals on the basis of communication quality information received from each of the plurality of communication terminals, and a relay unit that relays communication between the communication terminal selected by the selection unit and the corresponding base station. | 07-19-2012 |
20120201190 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - Provided is a communication system including a relay device that relays communication between a base station and a communication terminal, and a management server, the management server including a receiving unit that receives from each base station information about a communication terminal belonging to the base station and about the relay device, and a determination unit that determines, on the basis of the information received from each base station by the receiving unit, a relay device that is performing communication interfering with communication in an adjacent cell. When the relay device is determined as a relay device that is performing communication interfering with the communication in the adjacent cell, the relay device determines an interference avoidance control and executes the determined interference avoidance control. | 08-09-2012 |
20120202501 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING HANDOVER, USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method for performing a handover from a first base station to a second base station by a user equipment that is performing a radio communication over a communication channel formed by aggregating a plurality of component carriers. The method includes a step of transmitting a handover command for a component carrier for which a handover has been approved by the second base station among the plurality of component carriers from the first base station to the user equipment and a step of trying to make an access from the user equipment to the second base station for each component carrier in response to the handover command. | 08-09-2012 |
20120230217 | USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user equipment includes radio communication unit that performs radio communication with a base station over a communication channel formed by aggregating a plurality of component carriers. The user equipment has a measurement unit that measures a channel quality of the communication channel, and a controller that creates a measurement report using a result of the measurement and sends the measurement report to the base station. Each data signal transmitted over the communication channel is classified into any of two or more classes depending on a QoS requirement thereof. The radio communication unit receives control information related to a mapping between each of the plurality of component carriers and the class of each data signal from the base station, and the controller controls at least one of the measurement and the sending of the measurement report, according to a procedure which varies depending on the control information. A base station performs associated functions, according to a communication method involving allocation of data to component carriers based at least in part on channel quality criteria for different data classifications. | 09-13-2012 |
20120243510 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING HANDOVER, USER EQUIPMENT, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile station in a wireless communication network. The mobile station includes a radio communication that transmits an access request message to a base station via a first communication resource, and receives a timing adjustment in response to the access request message from the base station. The mobile station also includes an adjustment value storage unit that stores the timing adjustment, and a control unit that adjusts access timing corresponding to a second communication resource based on the timing adjustment value stored in the adjustment value storage unit. The radio communication unit then communicates with the base station via the first communication resource and the second communication resource. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243522 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 09-27-2012 |
20120269129 | BASE STATION, TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - To adaptively interleave in accordance with communication channel conditions. Provided is a base station performing radio communication with a terminal apparatus on a communication channel formed by integrating a plurality of component carriers, including a quality acquisition unit that acquires channel quality of the communication channel for each of the component carriers and an interleaver that interleaves data signals transmitted on the communication channel in accordance with at least one of the channel quality acquired by the quality acquisition unit and available situations of communication resources for each of the component carriers. | 10-25-2012 |
20120287911 | BASE STATION, USER EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station includes a radio communication unit that establishes | 11-15-2012 |
20120309291 | MANAGEMENT SERVER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND RELAY DEVICE - Provided is a management server including a receiving unit that receives from each base station information about a communication terminal belonging to the base station and about a relay device that relays communication between the base station and the communication terminal, a determination unit that determines, on the basis of the information received from each base station by the receiving unit, whether or not interference is to be generated between communications controlled by different base stations, and a base station management unit that instructs at least one of the base stations that control the communication, for which the determination unit has determined that interference is to be generated, to execute an interference avoidance control. | 12-06-2012 |
20120309292 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND SMALL-OR-MEDIUM-SCALE BASE STATION - Provided is a communication control method for use in a small-or-medium-scale base station including the steps of: receiving a radio signal transmitted from a communication terminal or a large-scale base station; acquiring information of the communication terminal or the large-scale base station by analyzing the radio signal; selecting one operation range among a plurality of types of operation ranges based on the information of the communication terminal or the large-scale base station; and communicating with the communication terminal in accordance with the operation range selected from among the plurality of types of operation ranges. | 12-06-2012 |
20120309439 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided a method for controlling a transmission power in a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, with use of any node of one or more secondary usage node that transmits a radio signal of the second communication service, comprising the steps of: acquiring an acceptable interference power allocated to the second communication service; calculating a total sum of interference power levels on the first communication service based on transmission powers respectively required for the one or more secondary usage node; and excluding any secondary usage node of the one or more secondary usage node from allocation of the transmission power when the calculated total sum of interference power levels is larger than the acceptable interference power. | 12-06-2012 |
20120315936 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - A management server in a network including a first transmitting device that communicates with a first receiving device and a second transmitting device that communicates with a second receiving device. The management server includes a network interface that receives a parameter corresponding to a level of improvement of communication quality at the second receiving device, and a processor that calculates an allowable interference amount at the first receiving device based on the parameter. | 12-13-2012 |
20120322388 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - Provided is a communication control method including: determining whether or not reception quality of a second reception device satisfies a predetermined reference in a communication system including a first transmission device, a first reception device, a second transmission device secondarily using a frequency having been assigned to the first transmission device, and the second reception device; and, when it is determined that the reception quality of the second reception device does not satisfy the predetermined reference, additionally performing reception beam steering by the first reception device, beam steering by the first transmission device, reception beam steering by the second reception device, or transmission beam steering by the second transmission device in a predetermined order. | 12-20-2012 |
20130017776 | RELAY STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHODAANM Takano; HiroakiAACI SaitamaAACO JPAAGP Takano; Hiroaki Saitama JPAANM Sawai; RyoAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Sawai; Ryo Tokyo JPAANM Guo; XinAACI BeijingAACO CNAAGP Guo; Xin Beijing CN - Provided is a relay station relaying wireless signals between a base station and a mobile station, the relay station including: a communication unit configured to relay the wireless signals; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not it is necessary to change a cell ID of the relay station in order to avoid a collision between a cell ID of the relay station and a cell ID of the base station due to a movement of the relay station; and a control unit configured to cause a cell ID of an access point of the mobile station belonging to the relay station to be changed from a first cell ID of the relay station to a second cell ID of the relay station when the determination unit determines that it is necessary to change the cell ID. | 01-17-2013 |
20130100893 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Provided is a communication control device controlling communication of one or more secondary usage nodes respectively providing second communication services using a part of a frequency band assigned to a first communication service, the communication control device including a communication unit receiving access technique information indicating radio access techniques usable by the corresponding secondary usage nodes from the respective secondary usage nodes, a storage unit storing the access technique information received by the communication unit, and a control unit that, when at least a portion of a service area of a second-order second communication service is included in a service area of a first-order second communication service, determines whether at least a part of communication resources can be shared between the first-order and the second-order second communication services based on the radio access techniques of the first-order and the second-order second communication services indicated by the access technique information. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102344 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Provided is a communication control device controlling communication of multiple secondary usage nodes providing second communication services using a part of a frequency band assigned to a first communication service, including a communication unit receiving service area information for estimating service areas of the second communication services provided by the secondary usage nodes and access technique information indicating radio access techniques usable by the secondary usage nodes, a storage unit storing information on the service area and access technique received by the communication unit, an estimation unit estimating service areas of multiple second communication services, and a control unit notifying a secondary usage node providing one of the multiple second communication services of a radio access technique or a channel recommended to the at least one second communication service on the basis of a location relationship between the service areas estimated by the estimation unit and the access technique information. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102350 | TRANSMISSION POWER DETERMINATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided a method for determining an acceptable transmission power for a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, comprising the step of determining the acceptable transmission power based on quality of a radio signal required in the first communication service, an interference level or a noise level in the first communication service, and a path loss on a communication path about one or more secondary usage node that transmits a radio signal of the second communication service. | 04-25-2013 |
20130121284 | Communication System, Communication Device, Program and Communication Control Method - There is provided a communication system comprising: a first communication device that senses a communication environment surrounding the first communication device; a second communication device that acquires sensed data sensed by the first communication device; and a third communication device that determines availability of usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service based on the sensed data transmitted from the second communication device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130157581 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication apparatus includes: a first wireless communication section performing wireless communication on the basis of a first communication mode; a second wireless communication section performing wireless communication on the basis of a second communication mode using a different frequency band from the first communication mode; a beam learning signal generation section generating a beam learning signal for specifying a beam pattern at the time of the communication based on the second communication mode and transmitting the beam learning signal from the second wireless communication section; a response information acquisition section acquiring response information responding to the transmitted beam learning signal; and a preliminary information generation section generating preliminary information so as not to cause interference among a plurality of wireless communications using the second communication mode on the basis of the response information and transmitting the preliminary information from the first wireless communication section. | 06-20-2013 |
20130217429 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a communication control device including a communication unit configured to make communication with one or more secondary communication nodes operating a secondary system using at least one of a frequency channel allocated to a primary system and a frequency channel adjacent to the frequency channel, a determination unit configured to determine an upper limit number of secondary systems or secondary communication nodes to be allocated with transmission power, and a power allocation unit configured to allocate transmission power to each secondary system or each secondary communication node in each secondary system based on the determined upper limit number and the acceptable interference amount of the primary system. | 08-22-2013 |
20130242970 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 09-19-2013 |
20130310061 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a communication control apparatus including an information acquisition unit that acquires information about channels, among frequency channels assigned to a primary system, available to a secondary system, a generation unit that generates a list of channels, among the channels available, recommended for a secondary usage node operating the secondary system, and a notification unit that notifies the secondary usage node of the list generated by the generation unit to allow the secondary usage node to select a channel for secondary usage. | 11-21-2013 |
20130315187 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a communication control apparatus including a parameter acquisition unit that acquires parameters to calculate coverage of secondary systems from a secondary usage node operating the secondary systems on a frequency channel allocated to a primary system, a calculation unit that calculates the coverage of the secondary systems using the parameters acquired by the parameter acquisition unit, and an interference control unit that notifies a detection node that detects neighboring secondary systems of the secondary systems, of coverage information representing the coverage of the secondary systems calculated by the calculation unit. | 11-28-2013 |
20130316756 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a communication device including: a communication unit that receives a beacon for a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service; and a control unit that controls a transmission power to be used for transmission of a radio signal of the second communication service from the communication unit based on location data included in the beacon and indicating a location of a transmission source node of the beacon and a location of an interfered node interfered by the second communication service. | 11-28-2013 |
20130322420 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322421 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 12-05-2013 |
20130329641 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 12-12-2013 |
20130329716 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 12-12-2013 |
20130329717 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 12-12-2013 |
20130329827 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 12-12-2013 |
20140036825 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless communication system, using wireless base stations, and other devices, such as a relay node, interoperate with using spectrum aggregation and MIMO. Traffic usage is detected and based on channel utilization relative to capacity, spectrum aggregation is chosen over MIMO under certain conditions. On the other hand, under higher channel utilization system components switch to MIMO modes of operation to reduce demand on channel use, while providing good throughput for communications stations. | 02-06-2014 |
20140036826 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless communication system, using wireless base stations, and other devices, such as a relay node, interoperate with using spectrum aggregation and MIMO. Traffic usage is detected and based on channel utilization relative to capacity, spectrum aggregation is chosen over MIMO under certain conditions. On the other hand, under higher channel utilization system components switch to MIMO modes of operation to reduce demand on channel use, while providing good throughput for communications stations. | 02-06-2014 |
20140045542 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided a method for controlling a transmission power in a second communication service making secondary usage of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service, with use of any node of one or more secondary usage node that transmits a radio signal of the second communication service, comprising the steps of: acquiring an acceptable interference power allocated to the second communication service; calculating a total sum of interference power levels on the first communication service based on transmission powers respectively required for the one or more secondary usage node; and excluding any secondary usage node of the one or more secondary usage node from allocation of the transmission power when the calculated total sum of interference power levels is larger than the acceptable interference power. | 02-13-2014 |
20140057668 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication apparatus includes: a first wireless communication section performing wireless communication on the basis of a first communication mode; a second wireless communication section performing wireless communication on the basis of a second communication mode using a different frequency band from the first communication mode; a beam learning signal generation section generating a beam learning signal for specifying a beam pattern at the time of the communication based on the second communication mode and transmitting the beam learning signal from the second wireless communication section; a response information acquisition section acquiring response information responding to the transmitted beam learning signal; and a preliminary information generation section generating preliminary information so as not to cause interference among a plurality of wireless communications using the second communication mode on the basis of the response information and transmitting the preliminary information from the first wireless communication section. | 02-27-2014 |
20140065978 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a communication device comprising: a detection unit that detects presence or absence of communication connection with a server storing data related to a communication environment of a communication area where a first communication service is provided; a data acquisition unit that acquires data related to a surrounding communication environment; and a determination unit that determines availability of usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to the first communication service based on the data acquired by the data acquisition unit, wherein when communication connection with the server is not detected by the detection unit, the data acquisition unit senses a communication environment surrounding the communication device or receives data related to a communication environment from another communication device located near the communication device. | 03-06-2014 |
20140105013 | USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user equipment includes radio communication unit that performs radio communication with a base station over a communication channel formed by aggregating a plurality of component carriers. The user equipment has a measurement unit that measures a channel quality of the communication channel, and a controller that creates a measurement report using a result of the measurement and sends the measurement report to the base station. Each data signal transmitted over the communication channel is classified into any of two or more classes depending on a QoS requirement thereof. The radio communication unit receives control information related to a mapping between each of the plurality of component carriers and the class of each data signal from the base station, and the controller controls at least one of the measurement and the sending of the measurement report, according to a procedure which varies depending on the control information. A base station performs associated functions, according to a communication method involving allocation of data to component carriers based at least in part on channel quality criteria for different data classifications. | 04-17-2014 |
20140200044 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided is a communication control device including an information acquisition unit acquiring first information concerning a position a guard area for a first wireless communication system and second information concerning a position of a master node of a second wireless communication system which is secondarily operated using a frequency channel used by the first wireless communication system, a determination unit determining, using the first information and the second information acquired by the information acquisition unit, whether or not an interval between a reference point of the first wireless communication system and the master node meets a condition which depends on a width of the guard area and a communication distance assumed for the second wireless communication system, and a control unit causing the second wireless communication system to be operated with a given transmission power if the determination unit determines the interval meets the condition. | 07-17-2014 |
20140219235 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM - There is provided a communication control device including a power distribution unit configured to distribute, to one or more secondary systems, a transmission power accepted for a secondary usage of a frequency channel which is protected for a primary system, and a notification unit configured to notify each secondary system of a value of a second transmission power which is decided depending on a value of a first transmission power distributed by the power distribution unit. Upon updating the transmission power, only in a case where a value of the second transmission power which is previously notified and a value of the first transmission power which is newly distributed by the power distribution unit satisfy a predetermined condition with respect to a certain secondary system, the notification unit notifies the secondary system of a new value of the second transmission power. | 08-07-2014 |
20140233438 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An electronic device, a method, and a computer-readable medium. The electronic device includes a circuitry configured to receive a radio communication signal for another device, configured to determine, based on the radio communication signal, one or more features that can reflect the difference between an uplink transmission mode and a downlink transmission mode, and configured to judge whether the radio communication signal is for the uplink transmission or the downlink transmission according to the one or more features. | 08-21-2014 |
20140341150 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, TRANSMISSION POWER ALLOCATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided a doing apparatus including a communication control device including a power allocation unit configured to allocate transmission power for secondary use of a frequency channel protected for a primary system to a secondary system. The power allocation unit switches power allocation methods between a first group of secondary systems of which a distance from the primary system is less than a prescribed threshold and a second group of secondary systems of which a distance from the primary system exceeds the prescribed threshold. | 11-20-2014 |
20140362844 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded. | 12-11-2014 |
20150017996 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - Provided is a communication control device including an allocation unit that allocates transmit power to each of one or more small cells so as to moderate interference on a macro cell of a radio communication system from each small cell that at least partially overlaps with the macro cell, a judgment unit that, in a case in which there exists a second small cell that exerts interference exceeding an allowed level on a first small cell, judges whether the interference is unidirectional or bidirectional, and a control unit that controls the interference between the first small cell and the second small cell with a technique that differs according to a judgment result by the judgment unit. | 01-15-2015 |
20150036654 | BASE STATION, TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - To adaptively interleave in accordance with communication channel conditions. Provided is a base station performing radio communication with a terminal apparatus on a communication channel formed by integrating a plurality of component carriers, including a quality acquisition unit that acquires channel quality of the communication channel for each of the component carriers and an interleaver that interleaves data signals transmitted on the communication channel in accordance with at least one of the channel quality acquired by the quality acquisition unit and available situations of communication resources for each of the component carriers. | 02-05-2015 |
20150043375 | BASE STATION, USER EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station includes a radio communication unit that establishes communication with a mobile communication terminal using a plurality of component carriers. The base station further includes a determination unit that determines a handover factor. The base station also includes a control unit allocates to the mobile communication terminal a measurement time interval for at least one component carrier from the plurality of component carriers according to the handover factor. A channel quality of the at least one component carrier of another base station is measured during the measurement time interval. | 02-12-2015 |
20150045049 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided is a communication control device including a performance acquisition unit that acquires a parameter indicating communication performance on a signaling path of a base station of a small cell that at least partially overlaps with a macro cell in a wireless communication system, a selection unit that selects an interference control scheme for controlling interference between the macro cell and the small cell, based on the parameter acquired by the performance acquisition unit, and an interference control unit that transmits an interference control signal to the base station of the small cell in accordance with the interference control scheme selected by the selection unit. | 02-12-2015 |
20150078265 | Communication System, Communication Device, Program and Communication Control Method - There is provided a communication system comprising: a first communication device that senses a communication environment surrounding the first communication device; a second communication device that acquires sensed data sensed by the first communication device; and a third communication device that determines availability of usage of a second communication service using a part or whole of a spectrum assigned to a first communication service based on the sensed data transmitted from the second communication device. | 03-19-2015 |