Abstract: A communication system optimizes cell edge performance and spectral efficiency by determining an adaptive power control parameter based on system performance metrics measured by a serving Node B and further measured by, and reported to the serving Node B by, neighboring Node B's. The adaptive power control parameter is then used to determine an uplink transmit power of a user equipment (UE) served by the serving Node B. The uplink transmit power may be determined by the Node B and then conveyed to the UE, or the Node B may broadcast the adaptive power control parameter to the UE and the UE may self-determine the uplink transmit power. In addition, as a frequency reuse factor of one has been proposed for such communication systems, interference levels may be even further improved by employment of an intra-site interference cancellation scheme in the sectors serviced by the Node B.

Abstract: A communication system is provided that minimizes access message collisions when multiple mobile stations attempt to access a network after updating configuration information and/or access parameters information via a same overhead message by providing for each such mobile station to determine whether, or when, to convey an access message based on a time period corresponding to a wait for the overhead message by the mobile station.

Abstract: A distributed switching system comprising a call controller, multiple source modules, and multiple destination modules provides circuit switching functionality without using a centralized circuit switch. When a source module of the multiple source modules receives inbound data, the source module broadcasts the data to each destination module of the multiple destination modules via an inbound time slot of multiple inbound time slots. The call controller selects a destination module of the multiple destination modules to process the data and informs the selected destination module of the inbound time slot. The selected destination module then receives the broadcast via the inbound time slot and processes the broadcast data. The distributed switching system further provides for a transfer of data in an outbound direction by allocating an outbound time slot in which the selected destination module embeds tagged data for receipt and forwarding by the source module.

Abstract: A packet data communication system that includes a mobile station having a jitter buffer and a wireless infrastructure having a base site serving the mobile station controls a size or dept of the jitter buffer. The size or depth is controlled based on a number of retransmissions of erroneously received data employed by the system, a radio frequency load of the base site, and a round trip time period for acknowledgments and corresponding retransmissions. The jitter buffer size may be further controlled by use of a supplemental channel to expedite the transmission of data and thereby fill up the jitter buffer more quickly and by reduction of a waiting period for retransmission of the acknowledgments, thereby reducing the round trip time period.

Abstract: A communication system provides for an active handoff of a voice call between a packet switched network and a circuit switched network. An active handoff from the packet switched network to the circuit switched network is accomplished by multicasting the call over forward links of both networks during the handoff. An active handoff from the circuit switched network to the packet switched network is accomplished by multicasting the call over reverse links of both networks during the handoff. The former handoff further may be facilitated by routing the call for each network through a same packet data control switch, and the latter handoff further may be facilitated by routing the call for each network through a same mobile switching center. In order for a subscriber unit to operate concurrently in both networks, the subscriber unit may comprise multiple transceivers or a single transceiver that is rapidly switched between the networks.

Abstract: A communication device encrypts symbols at a physical layer in order to improve encryption of data transmitted over a wireless link. A symbol mapper of the communication device receives a bit stream comprising multiple bits and maps the multiple bits to multiple symbols. An amplitude and phase adjuster of the communication device receives the multiple symbols and encrypts the symbols by applying at least one of a phase shift and an amplitude adjustment to each symbol of the multiple symbols to produce multiple encrypted symbols for transmission over a wireless link. In another embodiment of the present invention, a communication device is provided that is able to decrypt the encrypted symbols by applying at least one of a phase shift and an amplitude adjustment to each encrypted symbol that corresponds to a phase shift or an amplitude adjustment applied to the symbol by a transmitting communication device.

Abstract: A communication system, upon receiving an instruction to transfer deferrable data, determines whether an air interface is congested and, when the air interface is congested, defers a transfer of the deferrable data or transfers the deferrable, lower priority data as higher priority data. When, during a transfer of deferrable data, the system determines that the air interface is congested, the system may terminate the call and save a state of a partially completed deferred data transfer. Subsequent to the termination of the call, the system establishes another data connection over the air interface and transfers any remaining, not yet transferred deferrable data. In order to discourage subscribers from transferring higher priority data as lower priority data, the system may further restrict a transfer of lower priority data to designated time periods while allowing a transfer of higher priority data during the designated time periods and other time periods.

Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises a mobile station in communication with an infrastructure that supports multiple radio frequency (RF) band classes. When the infrastructure receives a request to originate a call from the mobile station via a first radio frequency (RF) band of the multiple RF bands, the infrastructure determines whether to attempt to assign the mobile station to an RF band other than the first RF band. In response to determining to attempt to assign the mobile station to an RF band other than the first RF band, the infrastructure retrieves RF traffic channel decision-related data maintained by the infrastructure before performing further call processing and determines whether the mobile station may be inter-band re-directed based on the RF traffic channel decision-related data. When the mobile station may be inter-band re-directed, the infrastructure re-directs the mobile station to a second RF band of the multiple RF bands.

Abstract: A communication system is provided that allows a Hybrid Access Terminal (HAT) that is monitoring, or is engaged in a circuit voice call in, a circuit switched network and has a dormant packet data session anchored on a packet switched network, to send packet data to, and to receive packet data from, a packet data network connected to the packet switched network without having to switch to the packet switched network and even though a packet data session is not established in the circuit switched network.

Abstract: A communication system provides in-band speaker arbitration in a multi-participant communication session by use of RTP floor control messages that include a speaker arbitration command embedded in a data packet header extension.

Abstract: A communication system that includes a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) service provides re-broadcasts of an event to subscribers to the MBMS service. An infrastructure included in the communication system and comprising a server coupled to a RAN controller via a support node receives a first set of MBMS data from an MBMS content provider and conveys the first set of MBMS data along with an associated first Session Description to a subscribed mobile station. The infrastructure then receives a second set of MBMS data from the MBMS content provider, wherein the second set of MBMS data comprises a re-conveyance of the first set of MBMS data, and conveys an MBMS notification along with an associated second Session Description to the mobile station. The mobile station may then determine whether to receive the re-conveyance based on the first and second Session Descriptions.

Abstract: A communication device is provided that is capable of operating in an OFDM or communication system and that provides for cancellation of in-band spurs. The communication device identifies a bin of multiple bins associated with an output of an inverse transformer and comprising a spur and estimates one or more spur phase parameters and a spur amplitude in association with the identified bin. In one embodiment of the present invention, the one or more spur phase parameters includes a spur initial phase and a spur change rate. When the communication device receives a signal from another communication device, the communication device transforms the received signal to produce a multiple parallel output signals that are each associated with a bin of the multiple bins and cancels a spur in an output signal associated with the identified bin based on the estimated one or more spur phase parameters and spur amplitude.

Abstract: A communication system provides separate subscription keys for a non-subscriber version of a broadcast-multicast flow and a subscriber-only version of the flow, thereby controlling who may store or render the flow. In one embodiment, separate subscription keys may be assigned to a same broadcast-multicast flow. The communication system may then switch the keys used to encrypt the flow, or may use different keys to encrypt different copies of the flow, in order to allow at least non-subscribers to view one version of the flow and only subscribers to view another version of the flow. In another embodiment, the communication system may assign a group subscription key to a group of broadcast-multicast flows that is separate from the keys assigned to each individual flow. The group subscription key may then be used to encrypt a non-subscriber version of any broadcast-multicast flow in the group of broadcast-multicast flows.

Abstract: In a packet data communication system, a first communication device and a second communication device, connected to each other by an A8/A9 interface, exchange software version information informing of the version of software that is stored in, and executed by, each communication device. The software version information is included in independent, self-contained software version messages and software version acknowledgment messages that may be exchanged at any time between the first communication device and the second communication device, such as during call set up or in response to a disruptive event.

Abstract: A communication system adds transport layer protocol independent address labels to data packets. The communication system then routes the data packets based on the address labels rather than routing addresses, such as IP, UDP, and ATM headers, and thus can multiplex and transport data packets that are formatted based on a variety of transport protocols.

Abstract: A communication system utilizes an interface terminating at a base station (BS) of a circuit services network and a wireless packet data node in a packet data network and DOS over DBM signaling between the BS and an access terminal (AT), thereby permitting the communication system to tunnel SIP messaging between the AT and an IMS network via the BS and a packet data node and to tunnel HRPD traffic channel information and an HRPD identifier from the packet data network to the AT via the BS. Thus, a handoff of a voice call involving the AT may be initiated from the circuit services network to the packet data networking prior to the AT establishing a call dialogue with the packet data network.

Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises an infrastructure that includes a first network element that is upstream of a second network element, wherein the first network element comprises a first transcoder and the second network element comprises a second transcoder. The communication system controls a transcoding of voice by determining a first bearer type supported by the first transcoder, determining a second bearer format type mutually supported by the infrastructure and a mobile station serviced by the infrastructure, and selecting one of the first transcoder and the second transcoder to transcode the voice based on the first bearer format type and the second bearer format type.

Abstract: A communication system provides network-based battery power management that may be transparent to a user of a mobile station (MS). When one or more elements of a network of the communication system determines that the MS is operating at a low power supply charge level and/or has experienced a significant change in a charging level of the power supply, the one or more network elements may arrange for postponement of delivery of a delay-tolerant service to the MS or for adjustment of one or more of a characteristic of a service provided to the MS and a parameter of a radio communication with the MS, including restoration of full services to an MS whose power supply charge level has been restored.

Abstract: A communication device converts a bit stream to multiple symbols and provides encryption at a physical layer by shifting a phase of each symbol of the multiple symbols to produce multiple encrypted symbols. Each encrypted symbol of the multiple encrypted symbols is modulated with an orthogonal subcarrier to produce at least one modulated subcarrier and the at least one modulated subcarrier is then transmitted via a wireless link. On a receive side, a receiving communication device receives the transmitted, encrypted symbols and provides decryption at a physical layer by shifting a phase of each encrypted symbol in correspondence with the phase used to encrypt the symbol at the transmit side.

Abstract: A communication system transitions from a high velocity mode of operation to a non-high velocity mode of operation based on a movement of a mobile station. When the communication system is in a high velocity mode of operation, the communication system promotes pilots from a High Velocity Neighbor Set of the mobile station or a controller. When the communication system is in a non-high velocity mode of operation, the communication system promotes pilots from a Neighbor Set of the mobile station or the controller. The communication system may further include a high velocity repeater that, when co-located with the mobile station, is capable of providing a communication link between the mobile station and a radio access network servicing the mobile station.