Abstract: Various of the disclosed embodiments enable managing and augmenting “comfort noise” during a network call, such as a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) connection. Particularly, traditional systems typically send machine-generated comfort noise, or a command to generate comfort noise at the recipient, on a channel separate from the conversation content. Some embodiments reduce this overhead by embedding the comfort noise in the media stream. In other embodiments, audio encoding is stopped at the source when the speaker falls silent and the recipient, after detecting the cessation, will generate white noise at its end. These approaches may be used in conjunction with a determination of the available bandwidth and channel parameters.

Abstract: The disclosure involves wireless communication device and method. The device includes a communication unit configured to perform a first feedback operation corresponding to a first feedback configuration and to perform a second feedback operation based on a second feedback configuration. The first and second feedback configurations each include a selection for sub-table of a CQI table, and the second feedback configuration is determined based on result of the first feedback operation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting control information is provided for use in detection of interference an signal in a wireless communication system. An interference control method of a base station of a mobile communication system includes scheduling data to be transmitted to a terminal and transmitting control information including data channel information on the scheduled data and interference signal information to the terminal.

Abstract: Various of the disclosed embodiments reduce the impact of RTCP overhead by including RTCP information in the media packets themselves. The values in the RTCP headers may be selected based on the context and organized in a unique format for transport in the media packets. For example, RTT, packet loss, and bandwidth estimates may dictate when and how RTCP data is moved into the media packet. An interface may be provided for extracting the data so that clients may easily integrate the embodiments with existing RTCP-based systems. Inclusion of the RTCP information in the media packet may increase the media packet size, which may be anticipated in bandwidth assessments and accommodations.

Abstract: A method of transmitting a broadcast signal, the method includes generating, by a broadcast transmitter, service data of a service and service signaling information for acquiring the service and components of the service; generating, by the broadcast transmitter, signaling data for rapid service scan, the signaling data including: a first service identifier identifying the service, and protection information indicating whether a component of the service is protected; generating, by the broadcast transmitter, physical layer pipes (PLPs) carrying the service data and the service signaling information, the generated PLPs carrying the signaling data; and transmitting, by the broadcast transmitter, a broadcast signal carrying a signal frame carrying the generated PLPs, wherein the signaling data further includes information for identifying where the service signaling information is transmitted.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a user plane data transmission method, a mobility management entity, an evolved NodeB, and a system, where the method includes: setting up a radio access bearer connection with a radio access network node; and performing user plane data transmission with the radio access network node by using a user plane protocol stack, where the user plane protocol stack includes a physical layer, a data link layer, and a network layer, where the network layer includes an IPv6 header and a flow label of the IPv6 header carries a user plane tunnel endpoint identifier TEID, or the network layer carries a type identifier of a GTP-U header.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment transmission method and an apparatus. The hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment transmission method includes: receiving, by user equipment, on a first serving cell in a subframe n-k, a PDSCH or a downlink control channel indicating downlink SPS release; and sending, by the user equipment in a subframe n, an HARQ-ACK corresponding to the PDSCH or the downlink control channel that is of the first serving cell and that is in the subframe n-k, where an HARQ-ACK timing includes a first HARQ-ACK timing or a second HARQ-ACK timing.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for linear precoding in full-dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO) systems. According to aspects, an eNB may compress a larger number of antenna elements to a smaller number of antenna ports. The eNB may use a port precoding matrix to transmit reference signals to a UE, receive feedback regarding CSI based on the reference signals, and transmit data to the UE, based on a mapping of multiple data layers and mapping of antenna ports to the physical antenna elements. Further, aspects include performing elevation beamforming by dynamically forming one or more vertical sectors based on UE feedback in the elevation domain.

Abstract: A user equipment includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program. The program includes instructions to determine a frame structure of a serving cell. Each frame based on the frame structure comprises 2k subframes having at least: (N?1) downlink subframes, (N?1) uplink subframes, and one special subframe which is a first or second special subframe. N and k are each positive integers greater than or equal to 1. The program has instructions to send and receive information in frames based on the frame structure. Each frame has N downlink subframes, N uplink subframes, and (2k?2N) special subframes, where N is less than k, or N downlink subframes, (N?1) uplink subframes, and one second special subframe, where N is equal to k, or (N?1) downlink subframes, N uplink subframes, and one first special subframe, where N is equal to k.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is technology to reduce latency of frames through a network device supporting various priorities. In an implementation, a method comprises configuring one or more priorities with a preemptive right over other one or more of said plurality of priorities; receiving frames in a sequence, each of the frames having a frame priority comprising of one of said plurality of priorities; queuing the received frames in a predetermined order based on a frame arrival time and the frame priority; transmitting a current frame based on a current frame priority and current frame arrival time; stopping transmission of the current frame when a later frame in the sequence is received that has a later frame priority with preemptive right over the current frame priority; transmitting an invalid frame check sequence; transmitting the later frame; and restarting the transmission of the current frame after transmitting the later frame.

Abstract: In a mobile network, the transmission of downlink data blocks (303, 307) to one or more terminal devices (200, 210) is accomplished on the basis of a retransmission protocol with a first feedback time (F1) defining a time interval between transmission of a first data block (303) and transmission of a first feedback message (308) being different from a second feedback time (F2) defining a time interval between transmission of a second data block (307) and transmission of a second feedback message (309). The first feedback message (308) indicates whether the first data block (303) was successfully received, and the second feedback message (309) indicates whether the second data block (307) was successfully received. A base station (100) of the mobile network controls the terminal device (200, 210) to send the second feedback message (309) on other resources than used for transmission of the first feedback message (308).

Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system including a base station and terminal device, supporting a virtual carrier mode with downlink communications made by the base station using a radio interface spanning a system frequency bandwidth while the terminal device can receive at least some communications from the base station within a restricted subset of transmission resources selected from within the system frequency bandwidth providing a restricted bandwidth downlink. The terminal device can measure channel conditions across the system frequency bandwidth and transmit corresponding measurement reports to the base station. Measurement reports for transmission resources not including the restricted bandwidth downlink channel may be aperiodic while measurement reports for transmission resources including the restricted bandwidth downlink channel may be periodic.

Abstract: Data are transmitted from a secondary station to a master station along a segmented path, wherein two contiguous segments are respectively connected by a node and wherein the path has at least three segments with at least two nodes. The data from the secondary station are split into N data packets, where N is the number of nodes. The data packets are marked distinguishably, each marking corresponding to a particular node on the path. Each data packet along the path is forwarded only to the adjacent node or adjacent station. Each node checks to determine whether the marking of the packet corresponds to the respective node. If so, data from the node are added to the data packet. The data packets are collected in the master station. The data transmission is concluded successfully if all N data packets with data from all N nodes are present.

Abstract: A device operates in a cellular communications network by detecting a timing signal from a serving base station, obtaining timing information from at least one other base station, and setting a value for a transmission time offset based on the detected timing signals from the serving base station and the at least one other base station. The device then transmits signals to the serving base station using the set value for the transmission time offset. The device may obtain the timing information from at least one other base station by detecting a timing signal transmitted by the at least one other base station, and subtracting the timing difference between the detected timing signals from the serving base station and the one other base station from a predetermined baseline time offset.

Abstract: A communication method including transmitting, from a radio terminal connected to a cell to a base station managing the cell operated in a first frequency, a first message that a discovery signal is transmitted for public safety in a second frequency; receiving, by the base station, the first message; and transmitting, from the base station to the radio terminal, a second message including information on radio resources to be used in transmission of the discovery signal in the second frequency, based on the first message. The method further includes transmitting, from the base station to the radio terminal, first information and second information. The first information indicates a threshold value for determining whether or not the radio terminal transmits the first message. The radio terminal uses the second information to determine whether or not the radio terminal is allowed to transmit the first message.

Abstract: A communication control method according to a first aspect is used in a base station that operates in a power saving mode. The communication control method includes steps of: setting a threshold; receiving an uplink signal transmitted from a user terminal connected to a neighboring base station; and starting a process of transitioning from the power saving mode to a normal mode, in response to that a received power of the uplink signal exceeds the threshold. In the step of setting the threshold, the base station sets the threshold on the basis of information received from the neighboring base station.

Abstract: This invention presents Capacity Projectors (CaPs) for intelligent control and management that collect information on channel conditions, actual and/or predicted demand for connectivity, data throughput and its distribution for a first time period in the future using signaling and control messages, analyze the collected information to identify the configurations of the BSs and CaPs that are needed to produce desired MU-MIMO communication channels in the first time period to meet the connectivity and data throughput demand and its distribution in the first time period, and adaptively control and configure the CaPs to actively shape the MU-MIMO communication channels to meet the predicted demand and its distribution, wherein controlling and configuring the CaP comprises implementing which of the CaPs to switch to sleeping mode or work mode and adjusting one or more of transmitting power gain, antenna tilt, beam direction and/or pattern of the transmitter and/or receiver, filtering of the receiving and/or transm

Abstract: The present specification relates to a method for transceiving data in a wireless communication system, which is carried out by a UE, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a serving base station, timing information indicating the point of transmission of first quality information related to radio link quality; receiving the first quality information from the serving base station at the point of transmission; receiving within a specific time from the point of transmission, from one or more alternative base stations with which an alternative link has been set up, second quality information related to the radio link quality of the one or more alternative base stations; and switching the serving base station to one of the one or more alternative base stations, based on the first quality information and the second quality information.

Abstract: A communications device configured to receive data from a mobile communications network including one or more network elements providing a wireless access interface. The wireless access interface provides plural communications resource elements across a host frequency bandwidth, and includes, within the host frequency bandwidth, first communications resource elements within a first frequency bandwidth for allocation preferably to reduced capability devices to receive signals representing data transmitted by a transmitter within the first bandwidth forming a first virtual carrier, the reduced capability devices each having a receiver bandwidth greater than or equal to the first frequency bandwidth but less than the host frequency bandwidth.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present specification provides a method for allocating resources to user equipment (UE) supporting 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) demodulation. The resource allocation method can comprise the steps of: receiving a channel quality information (CQI) report from the UE; determining, by the UE, whether a backoff of transmission power has been applied to a downlink subframe from which CQI is measured; determining whether the backoff of the transmission power is to be applied to the downlink subframe which is supposed to allocate the resources; and determining a modulation coding scheme (MCS) level on the basis of the CQI and the results of the determination.