Abstract: A wireless communication base station device, terminal device, and method have reduced signaling while maintaining high scheduling gain. A judgment unit pre-stores a correspondence between the number of code words and the number of clusters to reduce the maximum value for the number of clusters allocated to each terminal as the number of code words increases, and thus determines the maximum value for the number of clusters based on the number of code words acquired. Based on the number of code words for a transmission signal from a terminal, an estimated value for the reception quality, and the maximum value for the number of clusters that is output by the judgment unit, a scheduling unit schedules the allocation of the transmission signal transmitted by each terminal to a transmission band frequency (frequency resource) so as not to exceed the maximum value for the number of clusters.

Abstract: Directed inter-cell interference experienced by the downlink of a massive MIMO wireless communication network base station due to pilot contamination that occurs as a result of pilot signal reuse is significantly reduced by encoding signals to be transmitted over the downlink into robust signals. The robust signals along with corresponding beamforming vectors are transmitted over the downlink where the beamforming vectors are estimated by the base station using received fast fading pilot sequences. The encoding is performed by an interference cancellation algorithm whose use is proper when the communication network can be characterized as having one transmitter at each of its nodes (i.e., the base stations) and all the channel coefficients of the network are known by every node.

Abstract: Aspects of a method and apparatus for band separation for multiband communication systems are provided. One or more circuits for use in a transceiver may comprise a triplexer and a leakage processing module. The triplexer may comprise a multiband port, a Multimedia Over Coaxial Alliance (MoCA) port, a television upstream port, and a television downstream port. The leakage processing module may comprise a television downstream input port, a cable television downstream output port, a MoCA port, and a cable television upstream port. The leakage processing module may be operable to (1) process a MoCA signal to generate a first compensation signal; (2) process a cable upstream signal to generate a second compensation signal; (3) process a filtered signal based at least in part on the first and second compensation signals; and (4) output the processed filtered signal via the cable television downstream output port of said leakage processing module.

Abstract: A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user, including services for creating playlists, communicating with others, accessing other features, etc. is provided. In some exemplary embodiments, after a user is recognized, the jukebox system allows users to access a special front-end via an Internet-enabled device or on an actual jukebox. Then, the user may, for example, create playlists, share songs with friends, send messages to friends, and access other value-added content. Such a system preferably learns about networks of friends, and enables managers to send similar messages to regular customers and/or others known to the system. In some exemplary embodiments, changes via a first user interface on a first device are reflected on second user interface on other properly-configured devices.

Abstract: A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user, including services for creating playlists, communicating with others, accessing other features, etc. is provided. In some exemplary embodiments, after a user is recognized, the jukebox system allows users to access a special front-end via the Internet or on an actual jukebox. Then, the user may, for example, create playlists, share songs with friends, send messages to friends, and access other value-added content. Other exemplary embodiments allow users to become certified, charging them for services without requiring constant inputting of coinage or credit card information. Such a system preferably learns about networks of friends, and enables managers to send similar messages to regular customers and/or others known to the system.

Abstract: A throughput of information received from an access node at an application running on a wireless device is determined, and a modulation and coding scheme assigned to the wireless device to communicate with the access node is identified. Based on the throughput and the modulation and coding scheme, a number of free physical resource blocks per frame of the access node is estimated, to enable a determination of access node capacity.

Abstract: Communication systems and methods for enhancing communications between users featuring a central service which formats messages into a printer-friendly format. The format of the delivered message is based on preference settings established by the recipient or an authorized agent of the recipient. The messages are delivered to a device, such as a printer. Messages can be sent to the service in any format and can include text, photographs, URLs, and/or a variety of file types. The messages are then parsed by the service and formatted for delivery to the device.

Abstract: Data transmitted over different channels may be updated by receiving one or more input data streams containing data for one or more digital data services, wherein the data is in the form of a plurality of packets, wherein each packet includes information identifying a channel and a number of related downstream packets; determining from the plurality of packets a time that an update packet containing data for one of the digital data services will be transmitted as part of the signal; and generating a schedule packet containing the time that the update packet will be transmitted as part of a signal.

Abstract: A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user, including services for creating playlists, communicating with others, accessing other features, etc. is provided. In some exemplary embodiments, after a user is recognized, the jukebox system allows users to access a special front-end via an Internet-enabled device or on an actual jukebox. Then, the user may, for example, create playlists, share songs with friends, send messages to friends, and access other value-added content. Such a system preferably learns about networks of friends, and enables managers to send similar messages to regular customers and/or others known to the system. In some exemplary embodiments, changes via a first user interface on a first device are reflected on second user interface on other properly-configured devices.

Abstract: To establish an appropriate communication path of a mobile terminal to a local network in accordance with a connection configuration of a mobile base station. A mobile base station device of the present invention includes: a base station processing unit that receives a connection request from a mobile terminal accommodated by the mobile base station device; and a switching processing unit that switches connection of the mobile terminal to a local network to either of local IP connection or remote IP connection, in accordance with backhaul media to which the mobile base station device is connected, based on the connection request from the mobile terminal.

Abstract: A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user, including services for creating playlists, communicating with others, accessing other features, etc. is provided. In some exemplary embodiments, after a user is recognized, the jukebox system allows users to access a special front-end via the Internet or on an actual jukebox. Then, the user may, for example, create playlists, share songs with friends, send messages to friends, and access other value-added content. Other exemplary embodiments allow users to become certified, charging them for services without requiring constant inputting of coinage or credit card information. Such a system preferably learns about networks of friends, and enables managers to send similar messages to regular customers and/or others known to the system.

Abstract: Embodiments enable quick PHY re-training when the link is restarted due an event such as EMI, for example. In particular, embodiments recognize that, in the case of such events as EMI, a substantial portion of the training process as prescribed in the standard can be bypassed during the link restart without affecting subsequent link performance. In particular, embodiments recognize that a substantial amount of previously learned link parameters may still be used after link restart, and thus eliminate the need to re-learn them thereby speeding up the link restart process. Further, embodiments recognize that the standard prescribed link start up procedure can be accelerated in the case of link restart by reducing standard prescribed periods for transitioning between states of the link start up process. Additionally, embodiments provide a mechanism that relies on the auxiliary bit (AUX) of LDPC coded user data frames to pre-emptively and dynamically notch out troublesome EMIs before they cause the link to fail.

Abstract: In a receiver provider edge (PE) router, a method for supporting protocol independent multicast source-specific mode (PIM-SSM) using multicast resource reservation protocol-traffic engineering (mRSVP-TE) comprising the steps of receiving a protocol independent multicast (PIM) join message, in response to receiving the PIM join message sending a path message to a source PE router, wherein the path message is a multicast resource reservation protocol-traffic engineering (mRSVP-TE) message, and sending the PIM join message to the source PE router, wherein the path message and the PIM join message trigger setup of a data multicast data tree (MDT), creating a PIM state, and receiving multicast data traffic via the data MDT using the PIM state.

Abstract: A technique for handling mobile terminating connection attempts for a mobile terminal for which a change of an association from a first routing node to a second routing node is accompanied by a Circuit Switched (CS) fallback is described. A method implementation of this technique comprises the following steps carried out by the first routing node: receiving a first mobile terminating connection attempt to the mobile terminal, in response to receipt of the first mobile terminating connection attempt, determining that the mobile terminal cannot be reached by the first routing node, determining an identity of the second routing node, and transmitting, to the second routing node, a second mobile terminating connection attempt for a CS connection to the mobile terminal.

Abstract: Systems and methods for paravirtualized Internet Protocol over Infiniband (IPoIB) bridging for virtual machines. An example method may comprise associating, by a hypervisor executing on a host computer system, an Infiniband (IB) interface of the host computer system with a paravirtualized IPoIB interface of a virtual machine executing on the host computer system; receiving, via the paravirtualized IPoIB interface, a paravirtualized IPoIB packet originated by the virtual machine, the paravirtualized IPoIB packet comprising an IP packet and a first header including an IPoIB hardware address; translating the paravirtualized IPoIB packet into an IPoIB frame comprising the IP packet and a second header including the IPoIB hardware address; and forwarding the IPoIB frame via the IB interface to one of: an IB switch, an external IB node.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data packets from a first node to a second node. The method includes transmitting the data packet from the first node to the one second node where each data packet is determined to be sent according to a first or a second transmission mode, where, in the first transmission mode, the data packet is transmitted to the second node according to a prescheduled scheme, where the prescheduled scheme defines a cyclic one-to-one assignment between first and second node over time slots so that the data packet is forwarded to the second node during that time slot the one-to-one assignment of which assigns the first node with the one second node and in the second transmission mode, the data packet is transmitted during an actual time slot to the second node while overruling the prescheduled scheme.

Abstract: Intelligent services are provided in a storage network using intelligent service modules that can be cabled to a switch external to the switch chassis and yet be managed as part of the switch's logical domain. Data and management communications between the intelligent service module and the core switch are provided through a “soft-backplane” implemented using in-band communications through cabling attached between the switch and the intelligent service module rather than through hardwired backplane within the chassis. Management communications from management software is directed to the switch, which handles the management functions relating to the intelligent service module or forwards the management requests to the intelligent service module for processing.

Abstract: There are provided a power amplifying circuit and a front end module including the same. The power amplifying circuit includes a signal amplifying unit amplifying and outputting a plurality of wireless signals having different frequency bands, and a diplexer circuit transferring at least one of the plurality of wireless signals output from the signal amplifying unit to an antenna, wherein the signal amplifying unit and the diplexer circuit include impedance matching circuits having different impedance matching ranges, respectively, and the impedance matching range of the diplexer circuit is continuous with that of the signal amplifying unit.

Abstract: A mobile station apparatus has established a first bearer that communicates with a home network and a second bearer that communicates with a core network. In the transmission of a multicast join request, the mobile station apparatus transmits the multicast join request by selecting the first bearer if the multicast join request is addressed to the home network, or by selecting the second bearer if the multicast join request is addressed to the core network. In this way, a mobile communication system is provided where the mobile station apparatus connected to a home base station apparatus determines whether a multicast group is based on a Local IP Access and then transmits the multicast join request, and the home base station apparatus appropriately establishes a multicast session to the home network or the core network in response to a determination of the mobile station apparatus.

Abstract: The aggregation of packets in a network controller is described. A packet, destined to a station, is received at a network device having a plurality of processors. The packet is queued into a selected queue of a plurality of queues based at least on an identifier of the station and a category associated with the packet. The packet is aggregated with other packets in a selected queue to create an aggregated packet if the selected queue has reached a predetermined size, and the aggregated packet is transmitted to the destination station.