Abstract: A method includes determining, at a first transmitter, a clear channel access (CCA) threshold associated with reuse of a first transmit opportunity (TXOP) of a message. The method further includes sending, from the first transmitter to a first receiver, at least a portion of the message, wherein the portion of the message indicates the CCA threshold.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide systems and methods for recovering from a stall on a mobile communication device. A mobile communication device may receive a data block from a network through a communications channel, where the data block has a block sequence number. The mobile communication may determine whether the block sequence number of the data block is within a receive window and increment a stall counter when the block sequence number is outside of the receive window. The mobile communication device may perform an abnormal release from the communications channel when the stall counter reaches a threshold.

Abstract: The method is used in the AP, including: the AP suspending a high-speed bus directly when the terminal enters a standby state; the AP resuming the high-speed bus and inquiring a network connection state of the BP when the terminal is wakened; and if connection, the AP continuing to use a wireless data link, otherwise, the BP re-establishing a wireless data link. The method is used in the BP, including: the BP entering a standby state directly when the BP detects that a high-speed bus is suspended; the BP entering a wakening state after detecting that the high-speed bus is resumed, inquiring and feeding back a network connection state of the BP to the AP after receiving an instruction of inquiring the networking state of the AP; re-establishing a wireless data link or maintaining a wireless data link of a current networking after receiving a networking instruction of the AP.

Abstract: A technique for operating a network node in a heterogeneously deployed network comprising network nodes of different nominal transmit powers and at least partially overlapping coverage areas is described. A method implementation of this technique comprises a step of operating the network node in a base mode in which the network node is configured to transmit terminal-specific demodulation reference signals for a first set of terminal devices. The method comprises the further step of selectively activating or deactivating operation of the network node in a Single Frequency Network (SFN) mode in which the network node is configured to transmit, for a second set of terminal devices, the same cell-specific reference nodes as another network node of the heterogeneously deployed network that has a larger nominal transmit power.

Abstract: A method for configuring a physical resource block of a user equipment search space includes: a system side configuring a Physical Resource Block (PRB) pair of a default User equipment specific Search Space (USS), and notifying the user equipment of positions of the PRB pairs of the default USS, or the system side agreeing with the user equipment on the positions of the PRB pairs of the default USS. The user equipment obtains the positions of the PRB pairs of the default USS according to the notification from the system side, or agrees with the system side on the positions of the PRB pairs of the default USS. The embodiments of the present document further provide the system side and the user equipment.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus used for in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a method of controlling uplink transmission and an apparatus therefore, in which the method comprises: receiving a signal including information related with an assignment of a TAG for SCell; and considering SCell as having no valid uplink timing if TAT of the TAG is not running.

Abstract: A network node operates in accordance with a first radio access technology in a frequency band, wherein communication according to a second radio access technology may occupy one or more of the radio resources of the frequency band. A method comprises receiving a beacon signal associated with the second radio access technology and determining whether or not the beacon signal comprises information indicative of which of the radio resources of the frequency band are used as primary and secondary channels, respectively, in accordance with the second radio access technology. The method also comprises determining a communication activity rate of at least one of the radio resources of the frequency band and selecting one or more of the radio resources of the frequency band based on the determined communication activity rate, and allocating one or more of the selected radio resources to communication in accordance with the first radio access technology.

Abstract: A communication apparatus selects, among a plurality of control information, the control information matching a packet received and which is highest in a priority level. The communication apparatus processes a packet received based on the selected control information. The control apparatus includes a control information generation unit that generates a plurality of control information having match conditions overlapping at least partially one with another, a ranking in a priority level different one from another and processing contents different one from another, and a control unit that sets the plurality of control information in the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus performs the processing of modifying the control information, among the plurality of control information, which is highest in a priority level, based on a modifying condition previously set on the control information basis. Communication policies may be changed over by modifying the priority level.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for evaluating performance of a wireless network capillary channel are described, and relate to the field of mobile communications. The method may include: it is determined whether a network packet includes a payload or not, after obtaining the network packet on the wireless network capillary channel; when determining that the network packet includes the payload, retransmission rate and packet loss rate statistic processing, disorder rate statistic processing, and packet capture process packet loss rate statistic processing are performed; and when determining that the network packet does not include the payload, the packet capture process packet loss rate statistic processing is directly performed. The disclosure can evaluate channel performance better in a finer layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for controlling contention period channel access, and in particular, to a system and method for controlling priority-based contention period channel access for reducing complexity in a WBAN MAC protocol which grants levels according to the importance of data and preferentially transmits data in a next beacon period having higher levels than data, the transmission of which was delayed in a previous beacon period. The present invention is supported by: a national research and development project, unique number 2011-0015744, with a research period of Jun. 1, 2011 to May 31, 2014; a WBAN core algorithm research project for an efficient smart medical space as a basic research project/staff researcher support project/core research support project supervised by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, unique project number NIPA-2011-(C1090-1121-0003), with a research period of Nov. 1, 2006 to Dec.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of, and device in the form of a radio access network supervising entity for, adapting to delay in a communication link established between the radio access network supervising entity and at least one radio base station communicating with a mobile terminal. The method comprises associating a target Connection Frame Number (CFN) to each transmitted data frame, said target CFN being calculated by offsetting an expected CFN with a counter value corresponding to a current communication link delay, repeatedly determining delay of the communication link, and adapting to the delay of the communication link by adjusting transmission time of the transmitted frame, and/or adjusting the target CFN of the transmitted frame, said target CFN being calculated by offsetting the expected CFN with a counter value corresponding to a determined new delay.

Abstract: A communication system includes: a core network including a lower layer switch that holds control information associating match condition(s) including lower layer header information, and processing content, and processes a received packet using control information having a match condition that matches the received packet; an upper layer switch, disposed at an edge of the core network, which rewrites a prescribed region of a header of a lower layer of a packet with content associated with communication content of an upper layer; and a control apparatus that instructs the upper layer switch to rewrite the header region of the lower layer, and also sets control information including, in a match condition, header information after the rewriting, in the lower layer switch.

Abstract: A device may control a network based on the position of a client, and may be configured to determine a position of a client within the network. The device may determine whether the client is located inside a zone from a plurality of established zones based on the determined position of the client, and then identify a zone in which the client is located upon determining that the client is located inside one of the established zones. The device may apply a profile associated with the identified zone to the client, and then determine a logical network identifier for the client based on the identified zone. The network may appear to the client as an isolated network for the identified zone.

Abstract: A telecommunication system including a class 4 long distance softswitch network with one or more a core routing engines and one or more class 5 application servers. The class 4 long distance softswitch network further includes at least one edge device, which may be in the form of a session border controller or media gateway, with at least one connection, including PRI, SS7 and TDM connections, to at least one customer premise equipment of at least one retail customer, which may be an enterprise customer. The class 5 application server is configured to provide the customer with class 5 services within the class 4 network.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for a terminal to receive an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) from a based station in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the method includes the steps of: defining a first number of enhanced resource element groups (EREGs) for each resource block for the EPDCCH; monitoring EPDCCH candidates consisting of one or more enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs) in resource blocks so as to receive the EPDCCH, wherein each of the one or more ECCEs consists of a second number of EREGs included in different resource blocks, and the indexes of the resource blocks including the second number of EREGs are determined on the basis of a specific value obtained by dividing the number of resource blocks by the second number.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for activating uplink closed loop transmit diversity (UL CLTD). The method comprises: a NodeB receives configuration information for the UL CLTD from a radio network controller, wherein the configuration information for the UL CLTD comprises an information element carrying the initialized UL CLTD active status, and the information element carrying the initialized UL CLTD active status is used for indicating an active status to be used when the NodeB activates the UL CLTD of a user equipment (UE); the NodeB activates the UL CLTD of the UE using the active status indicated by the information element carrying the initialized UL CLTD active status. The disclosure solves the problem in the prior art of the unclearness of which active status is to be used as the initialized active status, so as to ensure the implementation of the UL CLTD function.

Abstract: A method for encoding a transport block in a wireless communication system, and a wireless apparatus therefore are discussed. The method according to one embodiment includes determining, at a transmitting device, a size of the transport block based on a size of an allocated resource, a number of layers, and modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the transport block, wherein the size of the transport block is determined from among a plurality of predetermined sizes, wherein the plurality of the predetermined sizes include 305976 bits, 324336 bits, and 391656 bits when the transport block is mapped to four-layer spatial multiplexing and when 256 Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is used for the transport block; and attaching at the transmitting device, a first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code to the transport block to configure a first CRC-attached transport block.

Abstract: A method for adjusting bandwidth in a communications network having a plurality of nodes connected over multiple links with a plurality of services running on the links includes detecting an impairment of a link wherein the impairment invokes a reduction in bandwidth available to the services running on the link, communicating information about the impairment to other nodes in the network and redistributing services between the links to limit a bandwidth required by services running on the impaired link to a value not exceeding the bandwidth available on the impaired link.

Abstract: A dynamic spectrum arbitrage (DSA) system may include a dynamic spectrum policy controller (DPC) and a dynamic spectrum controller (DSC) that together dynamically manage the allocation and use of resources (e.g., spectrum resources) across different networks. The DSC and/or DPC components may be configured to monitor a congestion state of an eNodeB, and intelligently allocate resources, manage user traffic of the eNodeBs, select target eNodeBs for handovers, determine the quality of service (QoS) levels that are to be given to wireless devices attached to the eNodeBs, and/or perform other similar operations to intelligently manage the allocation and use of resources by the various networks. The DPC and/or DSC components may be also configured to perform these and other operations based on the transitions, changes, transition rates, or rates of change in the congestion levels of the network components.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, network element and terminal of achieving identity and location separation and interface identifier allocation. The method of achieving an identity and location separation network includes: an EPS network side network element acquiring an Access Identifier (AID) of a User Equipment (UE), and transmitting the acquired AID to the UE; a Packet Data Network Gateway (P-GW) to which the UE is attached allocating a subnet prefix for the UE, and transmitting the subnet prefix to the UE; and the UE combining into an IPv6 address using the AID as an interface identifier part of the IPv6 address and the subnet prefix as a subnet prefix part of the IPv6 address, and using the IPv6 address to configure the IPv6 address of the UE itself.