Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods that can provide a coverage enhancement to a coverage limited device. According to an example a method can include repeating a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) data transmission multiple times over multiple sub-frames to a coverage limited Machine Type Communication (MTC) User Equipment (UE), or repeating the PBCH data transmission two or three times within one sub-frame to the coverage limited MTC UE.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide efficient support for the exchange of trigger information between wireless data communication devices and systems, including Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) devices and systems that may utilize Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). In accordance with one or more embodiments, a trigger information exchange mechanism is disclosed that transfers trigger data as part of a pre-existing data frame handshake. Such a system may offer improved capabilities such as a reduced channel overhead incurred due to the trigger information exchange.

Abstract: A method for power control includes: setting a transmission power for a small cell; determining periodically, when the small cell is operated with a low transmission power, whether a Reference Signal Receiving Quality RSRQ value corresponding to a User Equipment UE with worst channel quality in a serving cell is less than a preset RSRQ threshold; and augmenting the transmission power by a step value when the RSRQ value is less than the preset RSRQ threshold.

Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method for operating a first base station (BS1) in a radio communication system (RAN). The method contains transmitting first reference signals via a first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) being directed towards a first direction and at least second reference signals via at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . , BM5-BS1) being directed towards at least one second direction. The method further contains receiving for a hand over of a mobile station (MS) from a second base station (BS2) being a serving base station of the mobile station (MS) to the first base station (BS1) an indication for a radiation beam being selected from a group of radiation beams comprising the first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) and the at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . , BM5-BS1) for applying the selected radiation beam as an initial radiation beam at the first base station (BS1) for serving the mobile station (MS).

Abstract: A wireless communication device includes, in part, an analog interference cancellation circuit and a controller. The analog cancellation circuit includes a multitude of delay paths each including a delay element and a variable attenuator. The controller dynamically varies the attenuation level of each of the variable attenuators in accordance with the frequency response characteristic of that attenuator to remove a portion of a self-interference signal present in a signal received by the device. The device measures the frequency response characteristic of the communication channel, used in determining the attenuation levels, via one or more preamble symbols. A second portion of the self-interference signal is removed by the device using a multitude of samples of a transmitted signal and a multitude of samples of a signal to be transmitted.

Abstract: A device and method controlling working state change of a small cell and a base station including the device. The device includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires interference between a small cell to be controlled and an adjacent small cell and/or load of the small cell to be controlled or load distributed by other small cells and to be borne by the small cell to be controlled; and a state change determination unit that determines working state change to be performed by the small cell to be controlled according to the acquired interference and/or load. The working state includes multiple sleep levels from low to high. A sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a low sleep level is less than a sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a high sleep level, the working state change being performed among multiple sleep levels.

Abstract: A method for channel information feedback, a base station and a device, the method includes: a terminal performs a channel measurement, constructs an information matrix used for representing channel information according to a preset function, determines optimal channel parameters and feeds back the channel parameters to a base station; and the base station constructs quantization information of a characteristic vector of a channel matrix according to the received channel parameters and the channel matrix. In the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present document, since the most essential characteristic of a dual-polarized channel, i.e.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a first network element in local communication with a gateway of a core network portion of a mobility network. Establishment of a first logical network connection is facilitated between the first network element and a second network element in local communication with a remotely accessible system, such as a back-end system of an enterprise data center or cloud service provider. A request from a mobile device serviced by the mobility network is detected for access to a service of the remotely accessible system. The request and/or a translation of the request is forwarded to the second network element by way of the first logical network connection. The second network element forwards the translated request to the remotely accessible system. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates forwarding of packets with variable length names. During operation, the system receives a packet with a hierarchically structured variable length identifier (HSVLI) which comprises contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. The system performs a longest prefix match lookup by selecting an entry from a first data structure of entries. The entries indicate a name component, forwarding information for the name component, and a plurality of entry identifiers that chain an entry to another entry. If a size of the name component is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the system selects an entry based on the name component. If the size is greater, the system selects an entry based on a compressed key which can be a hash of the name component. The system also resolves collisions associated with the selected entry.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.

Abstract: Traffic associated with user equipment that are served by a first radio access network is steered to a second radio access network based on a rate of congestion criterion. Network load is monitored by an access point to determine rate of congestion data associated with the access point. As an example, the rate of congestion represents a change in network load of the access point over a defined time period. The rate of congestion data is then transmitted to one or more neighboring access points that can utilize the rate of congestion data to facilitate traffic steering, load balancing, and/or neighbor relationship management.

Abstract: Disclosed are a link control method and apparatus. The method includes that: link information and/or machine frame information in a system is acquired; and link control is performed according to the acquired link information and/or machine frame information. According to the technical solutions described in the disclosure, the problems of local congestion and packet loss in a three-level asymmetrical switching system can be effectively solved, the traffic level of the system is ensured, and the performance of the system is improved.

Abstract: A method for predicting operational lifetime of a node in a communication network is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining an expected operational lifetime for the node (22), monitoring at least one of hardware identification data, operational data or operating environment data for the node (24), obtaining historical failure data for a subset of nodes in the communication network having monitored data corresponding to the monitored data of the node (26) and adjusting the expected operational lifetime for the node according to the obtained historical failure data (28). Also disclosed are a computer program product for carrying out the above method and a network element (500, 600) configured to carry out the above method.

Abstract: A method in a wireless device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving one or more resource pool configurations for a particular discovery carrier, the one or more resource pool configurations comprising information indicating one or more of resource elements and subframes that the wireless device should use to monitor for incoming discovery messages and transmit outgoing discovery messages, the received one or more resource pool configurations comprising at least a first resource pool configuration received from a serving network node of the wireless device operating in Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode. The method comprises determining which of the received one or more resource pool configurations that the wireless device should use to monitor for incoming discovery messages and transmit outgoing discovery messages.

Abstract: Disclosed are a frame transmission method using a selective beamforming and a communication apparatus to perform the frame transmission method. The communication apparatus may determine a beamforming matrix based on classification information in which a plurality of subcarriers used for communication is classified into a plurality of frequency units, may map a long training field (LTF) sequence to the beamforming matrix, and transmit a beamforming training (BF-T) frame including the mapped LTF sequence to a plurality of stations, may receive, from the plurality of stations having receiving the BF-T frame, feedback information generated based on a reception strength of the BF-T frame, and may allocate frequency units to data frames to be transmitted to the plurality of stations based on the feedback information, and transmit the data frames using the allocated frequency units. The reception strength of the BF-T frame may be determined at each station for each frequency unit.

Abstract: A method includes selecting a particular access point for performing service corresponding to a client device that is associating or associated with a different access point. The particular access point is selected based on historical usage pattern and/or a future scheduled event corresponding to the client device.

Abstract: The disclosure is related to a method of selecting one of access points based on multiple quality parameters in different frames. The method may include receiving a probe response frame from access points, analyzing quality parameters included in the received probe response frame to estimate wireless link quality of each access point, and selecting one of the access points based on the analysis result.

Abstract: A wireless communication device, a wireless communication method, and a program capable of contributing to improvement of wireless communication technology related to IDMA. The wireless communication device includes: a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication using interleave division multiple access (IDMA) with another wireless communication device; and a controller that controls an interleave length in an interleave process for IDMA by the wireless communication unit.

Abstract: A method for offloading mobile data may include determining a micro-cell performance parameter associated with a micro-cell of a mobile communication system. Further, the method may include determining whether to offload mobile data operations to a micro-cell access point that corresponds to the micro-cell based on the micro-cell performance parameter.

Abstract: A method and system for data communication in a Multi-user Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first UE of the plurality of UEs, first and second channel information relating to first and second subsets of antennae; generating first and second sub-precoders according to the first and second channel information; generating a precoder according at least in part to the first and second sub-precoders; and transmitting data to the first UE using the precoder.