Abstract: A household appliance comprises a high speed communication interface, a large volume data processing device linking up with a household appliance control device, and a low speed communication switching device. When the communication target of the household appliance control device is switched to the large volume data processing device, the large volume data processing device converts data entered via the high speed communication interface to a low speed communication format and outputs the data to the household appliance control device via the low speed communication switching device, and converts data entered from the household appliance control device via the low speed communication switching device to a high speed communication format and enters the data into the high speed communication interface.

Abstract: An infrastructure equipment for forming part of a mobile radio network includes a transmit and receive unit, to transmit and receive data to and from mobile communications devices via a wireless access interface, and a controller processing requests for communications resources from the mobile communications devices. Plural associated communications devices are arranged to form a group, and each of the associated communications devices of the group includes a same common identifier, with respect to which communications sessions can be established to communicate data via the mobile radio network, and the controller is arranged in combination with the transmit and receive unit to respond to a request from one of the communications devices of the group to establish a communications bearer using the common identifier.

Abstract: A method for performing random access by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless network, comprises configuring at least one UE transmit beam for a transmission of a random access signal, generating the at least one UE transmit beam using an antenna array according to the configuration, and transmitting the random access signal to a base station (BS) on the at least one UE transmit beam. An user equipment for performing random access in a wireless network, the User Equipment comprises a processing circuit configured to configure at least one UE transmit beam for a transmission of a random access signal, and generate the at least one UE transmit beam using an antenna array according to the configuration, and transmit the random access signal to the Base Station (BS) on the at least one UE transmit beam.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with improving resource allocation for distributed D2D synchronization in densely populated communications systems. In an example, a communications device is equipped to transmit a synchronization signal during a beacon period of a synchronization channel. In an aspect, the synchronization channel may include the beacon period, a paging period, and a TIB period. The communications device may further be equipped to monitor at least one of the beacon period, the paging period, or the TIB period of the synchronization channel for one or more signals from one or more UEs in a D2D network, and determine whether to transmit information during at least one of the beacon period, the paging period, or the TIB period based at least in part on the monitoring.

Abstract: A method for assessing the quality of a communication channel in a multi-domain network includes transmitting, from a device, a probe signal onto the communication channel. The transmitting coordinated with the transmission of at least one alien probe signal by another network node. Subsequently to the transmitting, receiving a mixed feedback signal. The mixed feedback signal including a first component corresponding to the probe signal and a second component corresponding to the at least one alien probe signal. The method further includes extracting the first component from the mixed feedback signal, and assessing the quality of the communication channel on the basis of the extracted first component. The probe signal and the at least one alien probe signal are designed to facilitate their separation after having been superimposed.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer products for pooling of wireless collection bandwidth are provided. Exemplary embodiments include a bandwidth management method, in a wireless device, the method, including querying for additional wireless devices within a communication range of the wireless device, the wireless device and additional wireless devices being in communication with a network having downloadable content, initiating communication between the wireless device and the additional wireless devices, establishing an ad-hoc network among the combination of the wireless device and the additional devices, establishing communication between the combined wireless device and additional devices as the ad-hoc network, and the network having the downloadable content and requesting the downloadable content from the network to the wireless device, wherein the downloadable content is transferred over a bandwidth collectively pooled among individual bandwidths of the wireless device and the additional wireless devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting control information regarding uplink multiple antenna transmission may comprise the steps of: transmitting DCI for scheduling the uplink transmission of a plurality of data blocks through a PDCCH; receiving the plurality of data blocks scheduled by the DCI; transmitting information which indicates positive acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement to each of the plurality of received data blocks through the PHICH; and receiving retransmission for the negative acknowledged data blocks. When the number of the negative-acknowledged data blocks is not equal to the number data blocks indicated in the PDCCH, a pre-coding matrix, which is for the number of transmission layers equivalent to that of layers corresponding to the negative-acknowledged data blocks, may be used for retransmission.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a gateway device that can be operatively coupled to a switch via a set of links. The gateway device can operatively couple a network node during a communication session with the switch, and can store an association between the communication session of the network node and a link such that data sent via the communication session of the network node is sent via the link. In such embodiments, the gateway device can receive, from a virtual port associated with the network node, a login request. The gateway device can send the login request to the switch to initiate a communication session between the virtual port and the switch. The gateway device can also associate the communication session of the virtual port with the link based on the communication session of the network node being associated with the link.

Abstract: Provided is a channel status information (CSI) transmission method performed by a user equipment in a carrier aggregation system. The method includes: allocating a plurality of serving cells; configuring a subframe predetermined to transmit CSI for a single serving cell among the allocated plurality of serving cells; and if uplink data transmission via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) region exists in the configured subframe and if the single serving cell is deactivated, transmitting deactivation confirmation information for indicating that the single serving cell is deactivated via the PUSCH region together with the uplink data.

Abstract: A system and method for a flexible number of lookups in pipeline-based packet processors. Pipeline-based packet processors can be configured to allow multiple lookups per physical table. In one embodiment, a start of packet (SOP) cell is assigned to a first slot of a packet processing pipeline, and a non-SOP cell is assigned to a second slot of a packet processing pipeline. Access of a table by the second slot can be usurped by the SOP cell in the first slot.

Abstract: Methods and systems for a network device. The network device includes a temporary memory storage device having a plurality of storage locations that are used to store packets received by a plurality of sub-ports. The network device includes a cut-through estimation circuit that estimates a cut-through threshold value based on which a certain portion of a packet has to be received and stored at one of the plurality of storage locations before the packet can be processed by one of the sub-ports that received the frame. The cut-through threshold value varies based on an operating speed of a network link the packet is received on, an operating speed of a network link the packet is transmitted on, and a protocol used for receiving and transmitting the packet.

Abstract: The present invention is designed to provide a radio communication terminal, a base station apparatus, a radio communication system and a radio communication method which can reduce the cost to be required for an MTC terminal when the LTE system is employed in the network domain of a machine communication system.

Abstract: In an embodiment the method includes, at a transmit side, grouping carriers into carrier groups, and selecting a group constellation diagram for modulation of the carriers of a given carrier group. The selected group constellation diagram is built as a hierarchical sum of I super-imposed constellations vectors having predefined decreasing powers with the P strongest and the Q weakest constellation vectors being omitted. The carriers of the carrier group are modulated by means of the selected group constellation diagram, and P and/or Q parameters per carrier group and per multi-carrier data symbol are adjusted.

Abstract: A method and a mobile station of transmitting beam information by a mobile station in a wireless communication system are provided. The mobile station determines whether a particular a particular event according to communication with a base station has occurred, and transmits information on at least one DownLink (DL) transmission beam among N number of DL transmission beams to the base station using a contention-based feedback channel according to a result of the determination.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel status information (CSI) for supporting 256 QAM in a wireless access system are disclosed. A method for transmitting a Channel Quality Indication (CQI) index for 256 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) in a wireless access system includes: receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a message including a 256 QAM indicator indicating use of a 256 QAM scheme; performing channel measurement of a downlink channel through which downlink data is transmitted; and transmitting a CQI index in response to the channel measurement result to a base station (BS), wherein the UE simultaneously manages a first CQI feedback table for supporting a legacy modulation scheme and a second CQI feedback table for supporting the 256 QAM scheme.

Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-frame and frame streaming in a Controller Area Network (CAN) with Flexible Data-Rate (FD). In some embodiments, a method may include creating, by a device coupled to a CAN network configured to support a CAN Flexible Data-Rate (FD) protocol, a data frame comprising a field that indicates a multi-frame or streaming transmission, and transmitting the data frame in the multi-frame or streaming transmission. A CAN node may include message processing circuitry configured to receive a data frame comprising a Data Length Code (DLC) field configured to indicate multi-frame operation or streaming operation. The message processing circuitry may be further configured to receive another data frame in the absence of an arbitration process between the data frames.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting periodic channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system. User equipment activates an uplink (UP) semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) session allocated to a secondary cell (SCell), periodically transmits the periodic CSI through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to a base station on the basis of the UL SPS session allocated to the SCell, and releases the UL SPS session allocated to the SCell.

Abstract: Provided are a base station apparatus and a communication method that can preclude the recognition mismatch in which the reference formats of different UL grants are recognized between a wireless communication terminal apparatus and the base station apparatus by using power headroom (PHR) calculation. For the PHR calculation of a PUSCH in a CC in which no UL grant is present, a UL grant, which was used for calculating the PHR in another CC having the same subframe number as the PUSCH, is used. For example, as to a subframe number=#1, the UL grant of CC #0 is used for calculating the PHR of CC #2 in which no UL grant is present.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for establishing a bearer supporting uplink Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) and a User Equipment (UE) thereof, and the method includes: an RRC entity of a UE parses an RRC connection reconfiguration message transmitted from an eNB to obtain logic channel configuration information, EPS bearer activation request information and RBID information, transmits the logic channel configuration information to an MAC entity of the UE and transmits the EPS bearer activation request information and the RBID information to an NAS of the UE; the MAC entity of the UE establishes an LC and an LCG between itself and an RLC entity according to the received logic channel configuration information, and establishes a mapping between the RBID and the LCG; the NAS of the UE establishes an EPS bearer between itself and an NAS of an EPC according to the received EPS bearer activation request information, and establishes correspondences between classifiers and LCs; and parses a QCI and the RBID from t

Abstract: Access devices may receive signals over a network and calculate a frequency spectrum of the received signals. An analyzer system may collect the frequency spectrum data from multiple access devices, and based on the collected data, detect, identify, and locate sources of anomalies in a communication network.