Abstract: The method providing by a plurality of eNodeB wireless mobile connectivity to a plurality of User Equipment (UE) and aggregating by means of a node running in non-3GPP network, backhaul load information related to the access line of said plurality of eNodeB or any other remote equipment. The method also, retrieving by a Proxy Serving Gateway (Proxy S-GW) located in said non-3GPP node, said backhaul load information from said non-3GPP node of said plurality of eNodeB; then, communicating said Proxy S-GW with a Service Gateway (S-GW) pertaining to a 3GPP network by means of a standard S1 interface; and finally sending to said S-GW said backhaul load information through said standard S1 interface in order to assign radio resources to said plurality of eNodeB. The system is adapted for implementing the method of the invention.

Abstract: The method comprises: a user equipment measuring its proximity to one or more cells, or radio access nodes, by detecting the signal emission power thereof, and recognizing some cells as distinctive cells which radio section can be switched off when no user equipment is camping in it; determining that at least one of said cells is candidate for cell reselection or handover as a function of said signal emission power, and, if the cell is a distinctive cell, directly determining it as a candidate cell even if its signal emission power is not detected; and performing the cell reselection or handover between the user equipment and the candidate cell.

Abstract: Methods, a base station and computer programs for performing multiple access in wireless OFDM cellular systems over multipath wireless channels considering both space and frequency domains, The base station 100 comprises a large number of antennas 103 in the form of a two-dimensional array and transmits a given number of signals to a number of users 106, so that each one receives its intended signal (or set of intended signals) without interference to/from the other users 106. The base station 100 includes a scheduler in space-time-frequency dimensions 101 as well as an orthogonal space-frequency processing technique 102 for addressing the users 106. The cellular scenario is assumed where the wireless channel 105 presents significant multipath, thereby resulting in multiple signal components being received by each user 106.

Abstract: The method updating the status of a network by means of a protocol of the control plane of said network and in response to a path request from at least a path computation client (PCC) pre-reserving during a reserved period of time (Tres), by at least one path computation element (PCE), a plurality of network resources in at least one traffic engineering database (TED) of the at least one PCE. The method dynamically modifying by a timer policy said reserved period of time (Tres) by at least using information data regarding the delay of said control plane. The system of the invention is adapted to implement the method of the invention.

Abstract: A distributed health-check method for web caching in a telecommunication network, wherein a plurality of web caching nodes are coordinated to monitor a set of origin servers where web content is generated. The method includes associating to each user of the telecommunication network requesting the web content buckets as logical containers for holding the web content requested; generating a list of users of the telecommunication network requesting the web content; and performing the plurality of web caching nodes a number of health-checks to the set of origin servers to download the requested web content. A filtering of the set of origin servers is performed for grouping in different areas of interest and the number of health-checks are performed by a limited number of caching nodes receiving the web content requests. The limited number of caching nodes selected belonging to a specific area of interest of the set of origin servers monitoring them.

Abstract: A method for generating a model of a flat object from views taken by at least two calibrated cameras, which is capable of generating two-dimensional and volumetric representations of the object, where the representations can be a depth map, a volumetric representation or a mesh representation, method including the following basic steps: calibrating at least two cameras, calculating several 3D coordinates of at least three points belonging to the same plane of the flat object, calculating the equation of the plane of the flat object, selecting at least one region representing the surface of the flat object, in at least one view provided by at least one camera, and calculating the intersection between the selected region representing the surface of the object and the equation of the plane.

Abstract: Methods, a base station and computer programs for performing multiple access in wireless OFDM cellular systems over multipath wireless channels considering both space and frequency domains, The base station 100 comprises a large number of antennas 103 in the form of a two-dimensional array and transmits a given number of signals to a number of users 106, so that each one receives its intended signal (or set of intended signals) without interference to/from the other users 106. The base station 100 includes a scheduler in space-time-frequency dimensions 101 as well as an orthogonal space-frequency processing technique 102 for addressing the users 106. The cellular scenario is assumed where the wireless channel 105 presents significant multipath, thereby resulting in multiple signal components being received by each user 106.

Abstract: The method comprises coordinating the use of radio resources between different network elements including a macro base station and SCENs deployed in the coverage area of the macro base station, operating in FDD mode, by means of the sending of messages between part or all of the network elements through a synchronized TDD air interface, unidirectionally, by broadcasting, or bidirectionally, through dedicated channels. The system comprises: several network elements including: a macro base station operating in FDD mode; and a plurality of SCENs deployed within the coverage area of the macro base station and also operating in FDD mode; and means for coordinating the use of radio resources between different network elements by the sending of messages between part or all of the network elements through a synchronized TDD air interface.

Abstract: A network controller and a method for automatically define forwarding rules to configure a computer networking device, The network controller (100) is connected to a sub-network (A) of a communication network and comprises: a controller manager (101) that receives a request for a given service, defines forwarding rules related to said service and installs the defined forwarding rules into a computer networking device (120a) in order to configure it for said given service; a deciding module (102) configured to communicate with the controller manager (101) and configured to interact with a DNS server (150) to receive a determined resolution for a DNS request of said request for said given service, and with a database (300) to retrieve information supplementary for the DNS request, in order to assist the controller manager (101) in performing the defining of the forwarding rules; and a plurality of interfaces (SA, SB, SD) for allowing the communication between the different elements.

Abstract: The method comprising measuring by an interfered base station (BS2) the uplink interference and when said uplink interference exceeds a given threshold performing a cancellation process by: discovering and identifying a serving base station (BS1) to which an interfering user device (UE1) is wirelessly connected; requesting to the serving (BS1) the RF fingerprints of the one or more interfering user devices served thereby and using the same frequency resource blocks (RB) of said interfered (BS2); receiving the RF fingerprint of said interfering user device (UE1); consulting said received RF fingerprint in a register; selecting the RF fingerprint more similar to the received one and taking the information of level of interference associated thereto; and using said taken level of interference information for performing said cancelling of said uplink interference.

Abstract: A method, system and devices for optimizing the discontinuous reception by a mobile terminal of signals transmitted from its serving base extension so battery and other user equipment resources can be saved by using an extended DRX period several orders of magnitude longer with respect to what is achievable in the current standard, without the terminal losing synchronization.

Abstract: Method, system and computer program for determining matching between two time series. They use an improved algorithm partially based in Dynamic Time Warping and Information Retrieval techniques, but solving the problems (as computational complexity, memory requirements . . . ) observed in these matching techniques.

Abstract: A method for cell reselection and cell handover in a wireless communication system. The method comprises performing a cell reselection or handover between a user equipment connected to a radio access node and a neighbor cell, said neighbor cell having a subscriber list of subscribed user equipments. Said user equipment is not in said subscriber list and the method further comprises: a. generating, said radio access node, a closed subscriber group (CSG) list containing said user equipment and at least one neighbor cell detected; b. communicating, said radio access node, said CSG list to a management entity; c. reporting, said management entity, to said at least one neighbor cell included in said CSG list an invited neighbor subscriber group list, or INSG list, containing said authorized user equipment; and d. performing said cell reselection or handover between said authorized user equipment and the neighbor cell if said authorized user equipment is included in said INSG list.

Abstract: A method and a system for providing communication between at least one wireless client device through a connectivity to a corresponding dedicated access point, as well as locating and recognizing a plurality of neighboring access points, the method including notifying, by the dedicated access point, a predetermined absence period to a wireless client device to which the dedicated access point communicates, the dedicated access point becoming a client to a second access point during the predetermined absence period, receiving, by the dedicated access point as a client, data corresponding to a backhaul bandwidth of the at least second access point and aggregating the received backhaul data from the second access point to the dedicated access point's own backhaul data, and sending, by the dedicated access point, the aggregated backhaul bandwidth data to the wireless client device after the predetermined absence period has lapsed.

Abstract: The method comprising a base station equipped with a large number of antennas according to a two-dimensional rectangular array and a number M of cell users, said rectangular array comprising N1 antenna elements along one axis with a regular spacing dx and N2 antenna elements along a perpendicular axis with a regular spacing dy, said users being characterized by angles (?,?) in a spherical coordinate system, where in order to achieve orthogonal multiple access the method comprises: selecting a grid spacing (?u,?v) in the (u, v) domain; discretizing the (u, v) domain; constructing a set of signals ST[k,l,f]; calculating time-domain excitations AT[n,m,t]for the antenna elements in the array given by coordinates (ndx,mdy) for generation of the downlink transmit signals; and obtaining the frequency contents SR[k,l,f] of the complex baseband signals received from the M users in the uplink. The system implements the method of the invention.

Abstract: The at least one distributed virtual CPE comprising at least one IP Edge node, at least one Carrier Grade NAT node, at least one User Configuration Server and at least one Line Configuration Server, the method creating said at least one distributed virtual CPE upon the reception of traffic from a home in the access line corresponding to said home; modifying said at least one distributed virtual CPE upon a customer request; removing said at least one distributed virtual CPE, upon a traffic inactivity timeout detected in said access line or upon an administrative command; and associating a line identifier and a customer identifier to said at least one distributed virtual CPE, wherein said association, termed vCPE context, is known partially or totally by the at least one IP Edge node, the at least one Carrier Grade NAT, the at least one User Configuration Server and the at least one Line Configuration Server, and is kept active during the whole life cycle of said distributed virtual CPE from the creation to the

Abstract: A Method for increasing coverage and robustness against frequency offsets in wireless networks, user device and computer program products In the method, a user device (171) that wirelessly communicates with a base station (172) through a wireless network employing a Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access, SC-FDMA, comprises: applying a number of calculated repetitions of a block of complex information symbols prior to a SC-FDMA modulator (176), said number of repetitions being an integer submultiple of a number of subcarriers scheduled for uplink transmission according to the expression: NscUL=L×M with L and M integers; and applying, when mapping to scheduled resources in the SC-FDMA modulator (176), a frequency shift equal to a subcarrier width multiplied by one half of said number of repetitions.

Abstract: A system including a live streaming optimizer server for optimal distribution of live media content, and a method for implementing the system. The system including at least one user provided with a computing device requesting a live media content; and a controller located in the distribution network of a content delivery network being adapted to receive said requesting and to transmit said requested live media content to said at least one user, and a live streaming optimizer (LISTO) server located in the transport network of said content delivery network and adapted to request said live media content to an identified content delivery network end point in a certain domain and adapted to transmit said live media content to said at least one user.

Abstract: Methods and systems to perform textual queries on voice communications. The system has an index service for storing a audio content data sets for voice communications. The audio content data sets include at least three audio content data sets for each voice communication. The three audio content data sets include a first audio content data set generated using a speech-to-text conversion technique, a second audio content data set generated using a phoneme lattice technique, and a third audio content data set generated using a keyword identification technique. The system includes a search engine configured to: receive search criteria from a user, the search criteria having at least one keyword; search each of the first, second and third audio content data sets for at least a portion of the plurality of voice communications to identify voice communications matching the search criteria; and combine the voice communications identified by each search to produce a combined list of identified voice communications.

Abstract: In the method, a user device detects interferences a single dominant interferer of a neighbor base station, said user device provided with at least two antennas and said user device connected to a main base station, said main base station introducing a pattern of transmission gaps for certain Resource Elements in the Resource Element mapping function by switching off the transmission, being said certain Resource Elements in the Resource Element mapping function introduced for the PDSCH complex symbols.