Abstract: A wireless communication system and, more specifically, a measurement method and apparatus for inter-cell interference coordination in a wireless communication system are disclosed. Herein, a method for supporting measurement of a User Equipment (UE) by a first base station in a wireless communication system includes the steps of acquiring information of downlink subframe configuration of a second base station, determining measurement objects of downlink resource of the first base station based on the downlink subframe configuration of the second base station; transmitting information of the measurement objects to the UE, and receiving measurement result for the measurement objects from the UE.

Abstract: A system adapted to process network traffic includes at least one processing engine configured to receive network data being transferred over a network and generate metadata relating to the data. The system includes at least one rule engine configured to receive and process the metadata to generate an output, and at least one selection engine configured to receive and process the rule engine output to determine whether the network data is to be processed by a further component and/or whether the network data is to continue to be transferred over the network. The processing engine, rule engine and selection engine can be implemented in system hardware or firmware, and the further component can be software for execution on another processor.

Abstract: Techniques for sending control information in a wireless network are disclosed. A multi-carrier user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink grant on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a first component carrier (CC). The UE may also receive a data transmission associated with the PDCCH on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on a second CC. In some examples, the UE determines physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources for acknowledging the data transmission based on the first CC on which the PDCCH is received, the second CC on which the data transmission is received, and a transmission mode of the second CC. The UE may send acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information for the data transmission based on the PUCCH resources.

Abstract: A user terminal (115, 200) for a wireless communications system, equipped with at least two antennas (205, 206, 207) for the reception and/or transmission of traffic from a higher node (105). The user terminal (115, 200) is arranged to receive (210) said traffic in one or more data streams (S1, S2) i.e. with a rank of one or higher. The user terminal is arranged (215, 216, 220) to choose with which rank the higher node (105) should transmit the traffic to the user terminal (115, 200) on, and to also signal this choice to the higher node (105). The user terminal (115, 200) is arranged to base its choice of rank on the estimated received data rate at the user terminal for different transmission ranks, the estimated power consumption in the user terminal for different transmission ranks and the Signal to Noise ratio, SIR, of the channel at the UE.

Abstract: A moving image transmission system determines adequate number of packets, which are corresponding to redundant portion, in accordance with a network state. The moving image transmission system estimates a correlation between a transmission bit rate and a packet loss rate based on both of information which indicates the packet loss rate and bit rate information, and determines the packet loss rate, which makes an encode bit rate of moving image data maximum, based on the correlation, and determines redundancy, which is applied to the moving image data, based on the determined packet loss.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for providing channel quality information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for transmitting channel quality information includes receiving a downlink signal, calculating a channel quality information index for the received downlink signal at least based on a number of resource elements for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), wherein the number of resource elements for the PDSCH is determined at least based on an overhead of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), and transmitting the calculated channel quality information index.

Abstract: An RST reason code is conveyed in a predetermined field of the TCP or IP header for a TCP RST packet in order to indicate the reason for the RST. In this way, an enhanced TCP device that receives the RST packet can access the RST reason code in machine-readable form and, unlike prior art implementations in which ASCII text is carried in the TCP payload to provide a RST reason, without having to process the payload of the TCP packet.

Abstract: Provided are a radio transmitting apparatus and a control signal transmitting method whereby the number of blind decodings on a control signal receiving side can be reduced without increasing the control signal allocation block rate. In a base station (100), a search space establishing unit (103) establishes two subsets into which a UE-SS established in a second transmission mode different from a first transmission mode has been divided and the number of which is the same as the number of the sub-modes of the first transmission mode, and an allocating unit (106) allocates the mutually different subsets to those two respective sub-modes. Each subset has a plurality of downstream control information allocation area candidates. In this way, the blind decoding area candidates related to DCI format corresponding to each sub-mode can be limited to the subset corresponding to each sub-mode.

Abstract: Nodes and methods are disclosed, including, circuitry of a source node in a mesh network retrieving information indicative of network topology; identifying a working path from the source node to a destination node; identifying potential protection segments of the working path, wherein a potential protection segment has at least one disjoint protection path available for the segment; creating a hypothetical network topology comprising the nodes of the working path and hypothetical links between the nodes, wherein the hypothetical links represents potential protection segments identified, and the links are assigned a weight; executing a Shortest Path Algorithm on the hypothetical network topology; identifying as optimal segments the potential protection segments represented by the hypothetical links determined as being in the shortest path by the Shortest Path Algorithm; generating and transmitting a message communicating need for resources in case of failure of the optimal segments.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a method for updating blocked port information. The method includes: when a node to which a ring protection link belongs in an Ethernet ring network is in a pending state and after a wait to restore timer expires, updating by the node to which the ring protection link belongs in the Ethernet ring network refreshing record information of an adjacent port of the ring protection link as: information identifying a blocked port of the node to which the ring protection link belongs in the Ethernet ring network. Also disclosed in the present invention is a system for updating blocked port information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus that makes improved routing decisions is provided that includes a receiver, a retriever, a proximity engine, and a transmitter. The receiver may be configured to receive a request from a source. The retriever may be configured to retrieve a plurality of providers capable of servicing the request. The proximity engine may be configured to rank the plurality of providers based on weights indicative of a network distance. The weights may correspond to a first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) community attribute associated with the source and at least a second BGP community attribute associated with at least one of the providers in the plurality of providers. The transmitter may be configured to transmit the request to the provider in the plurality of providers with the highest ranking.

Abstract: A mobile communication terminal (100) has a path (T1) that supplies first and second upward link modulated transmission signals from a modulator-demodulator circuit (200) via a transmission filter (110A) to an adder (150), and a path (T2) that supplies signals via transmission filter (110B) to adder (150) depending on frequencies of signals. The adder (150) adds transmission signals supplied from the path (T1) and from the path (T2) and simultaneously sends them out via a transmitting and receiving antenna (101). The mobile communication terminal (100) supplies first and second forward link modulated reception signals received by transmitting and receiving antenna (101) via a reception filter (120) to the modulator-demodulator circuit (200).

Abstract: An LTE uplink soft demapper includes an SC-FDMA symbol noise power meter (22) configured to individually determine a noise power measure for each SC-FDMA symbol in a slot by exploiting information contained in modulated data symbols of the corresponding SC-FDMA symbol. A bit soft value normalizer (24) connected to the SC-FDMA symbol noise power meter (22) is configured to normalize bit soft values, representing reliability of received bits obtained from the SC-FDMA symbols in the slot, based on the determined noise power measures.

Abstract: A method for random access to a base station by a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system using carrier aggregation in which communication is conducted over a plurality of component carriers, and a terminal for the method are disclosed. When the UE performs a contention-based random access procedure in the mobile communication system to which CA technology is applied, the UE considers an uplink grant signal as a contention resolution message when receiving the uplink grant signal from a eNB only when the uplink grant signal is received through a downlink CC corresponding to an uplink CC used to transmit a random access preamble or a third message, to thereby prevent contention resolution from being erroneously ended.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating unicast PQoS DFID information in a MoCA network are disclosed. In a transmitting apparatus, values are assigned in a first set of fields of a reservation request element, the first set adapted to indicate a unicast PQoS flow with a DFID value. Values are assigned in a second set of fields of the reservation request element, the second set adapted to represent the DFID value. A message comprising the reservation request element is transmitted to a network coordinator. In a receiving network coordinator, a message comprising a reservation request element is received, the reservation request element comprising a first set of fields and a second set of fields. It is determined whether the first set is indicative of a unicast PQoS flow with a DFID value. The DFID value is determined from the second set if the first set is indicative of a unicast PQoS flow with a DFID value.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for an aperiodic transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS), which is performed by a user equipment (UE), in a wireless communication system. The UE aperiodically transmits an SRS through a certain uplink (UL) component carrier (CC) of a plurality of UL CCs. The determination of the certain UL CC is based on a downlink (DL) grant, wherein the downlink grant contains a message that triggers the aperiodic transmission of the SRS.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for a foreign controller to receive a handoff message including information for a multicast group that is used to forward network control information originating from an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) network router by a home wireless controller to one or more foreign wireless controllers for mobile client devices that were first associated with the home controller. The foreign controller joins a multicast group based on the information contained in the handoff message and establishes a communication path with a mobile client device. The foreign controller extracts network control information addressed to the mobile client device received from the home wireless controller via a multicast stream associated with the multicast group, and forwards the network control information to the mobile client device via the communication path.

Abstract: A moving image transmission system determines adequate number of packets, which are corresponding to redundant portion, in accordance with a network state. The moving image transmission system estimates a correlation between a transmission bit rate and a packet loss rate based on both of information which indicates the packet loss rate and bit rate information, and determines the packet loss rate, which makes an encode bit rate of moving image data maximum, based on the correlation, and determines redundancy, which is applied to the moving image data, based on the determined packet loss.

Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a transceiver configured for communication using multiple communication modes, the transceiver comprising a transmitter and a receiver. A plurality of antennas is coupled to the transceiver. The plurality of antennas includes a first antenna and a second antenna. The multiple communication modes include a multiple input multiple output (“MIMO”) mode and a single antenna receive mode. The device further includes a control circuit configured to detect selection of the single antenna receive mode as an active one of the multiple communication modes and to automatically alter a configuration of the plurality of antennas and transceiver by configuring the first antenna as a transmit only antenna and the second antenna as a receive only antenna responsive to detection of the selection of the single antenna receive mode. Related methods of operation are also discussed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for network port and network address translation. Several problems with limited addressability may occur when transmitting data packets between a terminal in a first network and a terminal in a second network that is outside the first network. Data forwarding rules are used to define if and how identifiers of data packets to be forwarded between the two networks correlate with each other. According to embodiments, a data forwarding rule includes a first identifier associated with the first network and a second identifier associated with the second network, wherein each identifier has two parts: a source address and source port number corresponding to a source network node, and a destination address and destination port number corresponding to a destination network node.