Abstract: A method of decoding is provided comprising processing iterations. In each processing iteration, there is a first Max-Log-MAP decoding operation giving rise to a systematic error due to the Max-Log approximation, and a first weighting operation to weight extrinsic information from the first decoding operation to be applied as a priori information to the second Max-Log-MAP decoding operation. This is followed by a second Max-Log-MAP decoding operation, also giving rise to a systematic error due to the Max-Log approximation, and a second weighting operation to weight extrinsic information from the second decoding to be applied as a priori information to the first Max-Log-MAP decoding of the next iteration. The weights are applied to compensate for the systematic error due to the Max-Log approximation made in the last Max-Log-MAP decoding operation.

Abstract: Microfluidic optical sensor comprising: an optical waveguide capable of propagating light from an optical input port to an optical output port, the optical waveguide comprising an optical waveguide interaction region; a fluidic channel capable of conducting a fluid from a fluid input port to a fluid output port, the fluidic channel comprising a fluidic channel region; the fluidic channel region being separated from the optical waveguide interaction region by an interposed spacing material configured to transmit an evanescent field of the light through the spacing material between the optical waveguide interaction region and the fluidic channel region. Microfluidic optical sensor comprising an optical resonator. Methods for making microfluidic optical sensors.

Abstract: At the receiver in a wireless communications system, the likelihood of a false CRC pass that can occur when a weak received signal produces an all ZERO output from a convolutional or a turbo decoder is minimized. To prevent an all ZERO output, a convolutional decoder selects from among those determined equally most likely transmitted sequences of bits in a data block one that has a weight greater than the one having the minimum weight. A turbo decoder selects a ONE rather than a ZERO as the value of a transmitted bit in a data block when for that bit a bit value of a ZERO and a ONE are determined to be equally likely.

Abstract: Method for upgrading software in a network bridge that is part of a VLAN includes sending notification to other bridges of the VLAN that the bridge is scheduled for upgrading; suspending VLAN registration and membership information in the other bridges while upgrading the bridge; restoring a state of the updated bridge and sending notification to the other bridges that the upgrading has been completed. As a result of the notification, the other bridges do not expect additional messages from the upgrading bridge. The step of restoring a state of the bridge includes synchronizing a GVRP protocol running within the network to a current VLAN membership table. Apparatus includes a forwarding plane adapted to store VLAN membership information and a control plane adapted for issuing and executing instructions that control registration and de-registration of one or more ports of the bridge according to the VLAN membership information and the presented method.

Abstract: A method for conveying signaling information of a communication system that uses MIMO antenna systems. To enable a relatively larger amount of information to be conveyed over the communication system and thus exploit the use of the MIMO antenna system, forward link signaling channels are provided where such channels contain swapping information that allow the communication system to retransmit traffic information using any one of the antenna elements of a MIMO system. The forward link signaling channels also contain channel assignment information that indicate which particular groups of channels are available for use by particular users of the communication system.

Abstract: Consolidated billing in a wireless network is achieved by employing a processing node having storage capabilities for facilitating service creation and/or negotiation, and billing for those services in a wireless network, by associating user information and/or service information with network information. User information, service information, and network information, and their associated billing information, are provided periodically and dynamically into the storage. Using the processing node, user information and/or service information are associated with network information without having to access various network elements located throughout the network, to facilitate service creation and/or negotiation, and billing of services, to thus minimize network processing and network resources.

Abstract: Resource allocation in a wireless data system determines a load condition of the system and adapts a target quality of service (QoS) characteristic, accordingly. Data transmission parameters may be assigned, or adapted, for the wireless units based on the adapted target QoS characteristics. Resources are allocated to data transmissions between wireless units based on these parameters. As the system load decreases, the target QoS characteristic is adapted so that more resources will be allocated to the wireless unit, and the QoS will improve. The adapted QoS threshold may be a data error rate or target fill efficiency for each wireless unit.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for resolving URIs to IP addresses and port numbers in an intranet, in which the host processors of the intranet individually maintain a data store with entries indicating the status of service application ports provided by the other hosts of the intranet, and URIs within the intranet are resolved at the host processing nodes without DNS server consultation by local address resolution components that provide load shedding and load balancing according to the data store entries.

Abstract: Data generated at a telecommunications network switching node is selectively delivered to one or more data receiving device (e.g., data “collection box”) connected to the network, and command and control signaling is transmitted from the data receiving device to the switching node. This bi-directional communication is carried out in a manner compatible with voice grade lines. In an exemplary application, call identifying information, referred to in the TIA/EIA Standard as CDC (Call Data Channel) Messages, is delivered from an Intercept Access Point (IAP) switch that provides telephone service to a subject of an authorized surveillance order, to a law enforcement data collection box, utilizing Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) signals. Control signals are sent from the data collection box to the IAP switch utilizing Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) signaling.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a weight vector is generated based on a pre-distorted input signal and an output signal of an amplifier using a computation reduction technique. The computation reduction technique decomposes a number of multiplication operations between complex numbers such that a number of multiplications and a number of additions to generate the weight vector is reduced as compared to if the number of multiplication operations between complex numbers was not decomposed. An input signal for input to an amplifier is pre-distorted based on the generated weight vector.

Abstract: An advance over the prior art is achieved through an efficient method for an admission control algorithm and a scheduling mechanism that complement each other in providing the following three classes of service. A first class of service is termed Class 1 where users specify a nominal amount of bandwidth desired. A second, lower tier service class is termed Class 2, wherein users specify a nominal and minimum amount of bandwidth desired when entering into a network connection. A third server class is Class 3, where Class 3 users are treated as best effort users. For Class 1 users the methodology of the present invention provides a guaranteed nominal amount of bandwidth. The admission control procedure ensures that Class 1 users are admitted only if resources exist to satisfy the nominal bandwidth requirements of the Class 1 users. Class 2 users are admitted if resources exist to satisfy the minimum bandwidth requirements of the user.

Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for providing updated VOIP terminal location information to emergency call service providers, in which RFID tags are positioned at various locations within an enterprise and coded with unique tag data. A database is provided with a mapping of RFID tag data and tag locations in the enterprise, and the VOIP phone terminals are equipped or otherwise connected with RFID tag readers. The VOIP phones read the tag data upon initiation of a 911 or other an emergency call and report the tag data to a network server that determines the VOIP phone location according to the tag data and provides the phone location to the emergency call service provider.

Abstract: A method for dynamically reconfiguring wireless network capacity purchased by a service provider from a network equipment/software provider. The method includes: a) determining if a current demand for network capacity exceeds a first value, b) if the current demand exceeds the first value, reconfiguring network capacity for the wireless network to a higher purchased network capacity, c) determining if the current demand is less than a second value, and d) if the current demand is less than the second value, reconfiguring network capacity for the wireless network to a lower purchased network capacity. In another embodiment, usage data associated with a selected network capacity is accumulated and provided to the network equipment/software provider's billing system.

Abstract: Fibers having an electrically conductive outer surface and having an average diameter of less than about 5 millimeters; and a dielectric polymeric layer comprising a polymer having a main polymer chain on the outer surface, the dielectric polymeric layer having a thickness of less than about 50 microns, the main polymer chain comprising carbon. Fiber transistors having an on/off ratio of at least about 10. Techniques for making fibers and fiber transistors.

Abstract: A method of transmitting or retransmitting a packet in a communication system. The method includes determining a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) to reduce the packet error rate (PER) for transmission, where the MCS is an aggregate of M redundant packet transmissions as a function of at least one of determined past channel conditions and/or allocated resources, determinable current channel conditions and/or allocated resources, future statistical channel conditions and/or allocated resources, and/or a cost function; and transmitting the packets in the communication system according to the MCS.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for measuring samples of the electric field of light propagated through a device under test and determining a nonlinear property of the device, such as self-phase modulation or cross phase modulation, using the measured samples.

Abstract: In a wireless communication system, there is a method of transmitting over a reverse link, where a medium access control layer multiplexes data from upper level layers onto transport channels that are used based on whether the user is in a scheduled transmission mode or an autonomous transmission mode. The transport channels may be mapped to one or more physical channels associated with a particular transport channel, based on whether the transport channel is dedicated for use in the scheduled or autonomous mode.

Abstract: An apparatus in one example comprises a substitute manager component that upon failure of a first manager component, obtains management responsibility for a distributed software application from the first manager component and queries one or more software components of the distributed software application for state information of the one or more software components. The substitute manager component employs the state information to determine whether one or more recovery actions are needed for the distributed software application to recover from the failure of the first manager component.

Abstract: In a wireless communications system, multicast messages are transported to groups of wireless terminals by employing a common control channel to transmit a multicast paging message indicating that multicast traffic data is to be transmitted to a particular group of wireless terminals. In an embodiment of the invention, the essential information transmitted in the common control channel is the identifier of the group of wireless terminals intended to receive the multicast traffic data and the location of a traffic channel on which the multicast traffic is to be transported in a channel resource which may include a representation of bandwidth and time interval. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, the common control channel is associated with a traffic channel in a prescribed fixed manner. Further, the traffic channel used for the purpose of multicast can be the same traffic channel used for the normal point-to-point transmission of traffic data.

Abstract: In a method of canceling interference, a base station selects a known highest data rate user transmission from a received first signal containing a group of user transmissions. The known highest rate user transmission may be configured as one or more frames, each frame including a control preamble and a plurality of encoded sub-frames. The control preamble and encoded sub-frames may be decoded, and the decoded sub-frames may be used for removing interference caused by the known highest rate user transmission to all remaining transmissions of the group.