Abstract: The present disclosure may include a method of handling test packets in an apparatus with a first unit communicatively coupled with a second unit. The method may comprise designating a test packet with type information, the type information indicating whether the test packet is handled by the first unit, the second unit, or either unit. The method additionally may include setting one or more bits of a register of the first unit to select whether the first unit will handle all of the test packets with type information designating either unit. The disclosure further includes associated systems and apparatuses.

Abstract: A relay communications system is described in which a base station is able to dynamically vary or semi-statically vary the number of resource blocks used to carry relay control data within a transmitted sub-frame. Default resource blocks are used to include a first part of the control data and if additional control data is provided, then the first part of the control data identifies that there is additional control data and provides information to allow the additional data to be located within the sub-frame.

Abstract: A wireless communication device comprises a transceiver to communicate directly with one or more separate wireless devices in accordance with a WiFi communication protocol, and a controller. The controller is configured to initiate transmission of information using the transceiver upon expiration of a first contention window (CW) count value, detect whether the transmission is successful, change the CW count value to a second CW count value when the transmission is unsuccessful, and change the CW count value from the first CW count value to a third CW count value when the transmission is successful, wherein the third CW count value is a maximum value of one of the first CW count value divided by a specified binary number or a specified minimum CW count value.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a service scheduling method and apparatus, relates to the field of communications systems, and implements communication between user equipments while saving resources of a communications network. The method includes: receiving, by a base station, an amount of data which is sent by a user equipment in paired user equipments by using a buffer status report and needs to be uploaded by the user equipment; then sending, by the base station on a same physical downlink control channel, a transmission resource grant to the user equipment and sending receiving resource allocation allocated by the base station to another user equipment except the equipment; and finally, performing, by the user equipment and the another user equipment, data communication in terminal direct mode respectively according to the transmission resource grant and the receiving resource allocation. The present invention is applied to the field of communications systems.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of monitoring a control channel in a wireless communication system and a wireless device using same. The wireless device monitors a first downlink control channel having an uplink grant in a first slot, and a second downlink control channel having a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) positive-acknowledgement (ACK)/negative-acknowledgement (NACK) in a second slot.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed to handle UL information. The method includes configuring a UE (User Equipment) with multiple serving cells. The method further includes transmitting, from the UE, in a subframe i a first UL control information on a physical channel of a first UL serving cell. The method also includes transmitting, from the UE, in the subframe i a second UL control information on a physical channel of a second UL serving cell, wherein if the total transmit power of the UE exceeds {circumflex over (P)}CMAX(i), the UE would scale down the transmit power of the physical channel with lower power priority based on types of the first UL control information and the second UL control information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for multi-scale network traffic generation. In one embodiment of the invention, a network traffic generation method can be provided. The method can include defining multiple, different scales in an n-state MMPP model to accommodate a full characteristic response of a modeled traffic scenario. The method further can include establishing a transition window for each of the scales and determining a state through the transition window for selected ones of the scales. Finally, the method can include computing an inter-packet time according to the determined state for each of the selected ones of the scales and generating and transmitting packets for the selected ones of the scales utilizing a correspondingly computed inter-packet time.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to providing default gateway virtualization in a distributed overlay virtual environment. One embodiment includes a method that includes creating a packet by a first virtual machine (VM) including a first destination address. The packet is received from the first VM by a first virtual switch. A second destination address for a second VM is obtained by the first virtual switch based on information in the packet. The first destination address in the packet is replaced with the second destination address. The packet is encapsulated using a header that is addressed for a second virtual switch.

Abstract: Measures for moving an established communication session in a telecommunications network, the communication session being established between a first device in a plurality of user devices associated with a user and a remote user device associated with a remote party, to a second device in the plurality of user devices associated with the user. At the second user device, a message is received from the first user device indicating that a communication session has been established between the first user device and the remote user device, the message comprising contact information for the remote user device. The second user device transmits, to the remote user device using the contact information comprised in the message, a request to replace the communication session established between the first user device and the remote user device with a communication session between the second user device and the remote user device.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a first subsystem having a first data module configured to provide a first signal, a second data module configured to provide a second signal, the first signal and the second signal are different types of signals, and a first aggregator unit coupled to the first data module and the second data module, and a second subsystem coupled to the first aggregator unit via a first aggregated signal line. The first aggregator unit receives the first signal from the first data module and the second signal from the second data module, aggregates, based upon a first aggregation algorithm, the first and second signals to create a first aggregated signal. The first aggregation algorithm aggregates the first signal and the second signal based on a specific type of each signal and provides the first aggregated signal to the second subsystem via the first aggregated signal line.

Abstract: Provided are a system and method for transmitting and receiving Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages. The system includes user equipment (UE) including an SIP client configured to generate an SIP message, and an external transport configured to receive the SIP message from the SIP client, generate a packet by combining a tunneling header with the received SIP message, and transmit the generated packet to an SIP broker server, and the SIP broker server configured to receive the packet from the external transport in the UE, remove the tunneling header from the packet, and transmit the SIP message from which the tunneling header has been removed to a communication counterpart.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for using packet-transport metrics for setting DRCLocks. In an embodiment, an access node provides packet-data service to access terminals, which comprises (a) providing wireless service over an air interface in a wireless coverage area and (b) providing transport service over a packet-data network. The access node measures, over at least the packet-data network, each packet-transport metric in a set of one or more packet-transport metrics. The access node sets a DRCLock for at least one of the access terminals based at least in part on the one or more measured packet-transport metrics.

Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: when an S-CSCF in an IMS receives a terminating signal directed to a UE, sending the terminating signal from the S-CSCF to an SCC-AS in the IMS, the terminating signal including call-type information indicating whether the terminating signal is for voice communication or AV communication; sending an inquiry signal including the call-type information from the SCC-AS to an HSS; and determining, by the SCC-AS, a domain to which the terminating signal is to be transferred, based on the call-type information and a response signal received from the HSS as a response to the inquiry signal.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transceiving a preamble in a wireless access system that supports a carrier aggregation/multi cells, and an apparatus for the same. More particularly, the method of the present invention comprises a step of transmitting a preamble to a terminal via an extension carrier that does not operate as a single carrier but operates only as a portion of a carrier aggregation. The preamble is generated based on a pseudo-random sequence.

Abstract: A communication relay apparatus in which when an operation state of a first board is an active system and a fault in the first board is detected, a first transmission control circuit gives an instruction to an IF unit as to whether usage of a first transmission path is allowed and notifies a second transmission control circuit and a first communication state control unit that the fault is detected, the second transmission control circuit gives an instruction to the IF unit as to whether usage of a second transmission path is allowed, and when an evaluation is made to switch the operation state of the first board to the standby system, the first communication state control unit starts to take over the communication state of the communication data, which has passed through the first transmission path, to the second communication state control unit.

Abstract: Discrete time compensation mechanisms include a channel component configured for determining which channel of a plurality of channels to process time slots of sampled data that are time stamped in a discrete time and processing the time slots of the sampled data to the plurality of channels. A common channel clock component is configured for time stamping the time slots of the sampled data in the discrete time domain that is faster than a non-discrete reference time stamp of continuous data from which the time slots are sampled from and for processing the sampled data through the plurality of channels faster than the continuous data is being received. Compensations for one or more gaps are generated based on a set of predetermined criteria and a corrected time stamp is applied to the sampled data for processing among different processing channels.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method of cooperative MIMO wireless communication, and a base station using the same. A base station would have a plurality of radio remote units (RRUs), and each of the RRUs may have a specific radio coverage and a plurality of antennas coupled to each of the RRUs. The function of the base station may include receiving a UE information, receiving a service flow, deriving a service type of the service flow, and determining a MIMO scheme, modulating the service flow into a MIMO stream according to the MIMO scheme, allocating a plurality of resource blocks, wherein the resource blocks may correspond to a portion or all of the RRUs, distributing the MIMO stream into a plurality of downlink sub streams and transmitting the downlink sub streams through the resource blocks by the RRUs corresponding to the resource blocks.

Abstract: Feedback information is conveyed between a wireless device and a base station in a cellular communications network via selection and detection of radio resources utilized for an uplink reference signal transmitted from a wireless device to a base station. In this manner, additional feedback information may be sent from the wireless device to the base station without sacrificing any bandwidth available for data transfer between the wireless device and the base station. The radio resources utilized for the uplink reference signal may include cyclic shift and/or time and frequency resources. The uplink reference signal may be an uplink sounding reference signal for a long term evolution network (LTE), or its evolution, such as LTE-Advanced.

Abstract: A method and device that interrogates the availability of a called party before placing a communication from the calling party to the called party. A callback may be initiated so that both communications are completed simultaneously. The routing of communication may take place through any one of a number of different networks and at another time of the day, even if the caller does not otherwise have access to those networks.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of wireless communication includes determining, at a compressor component, whether to transmit a current data packet as a compressed current data packet or an uncompressed current data packet. Further, these aspects include determining whether a data sequence in the current data packet matches a first or second data sequence when determining to transmit the uncompressed current data packet, wherein the first data sequence indicates a first compression state and the second data sequence indicates a second compression state. Also, these aspects include adding the second data sequence to the uncompressed current data packet for transmission when the data sequence in the current data packet matches the first or second data sequence. Additionally, these aspects include transmitting the uncompressed current data packet with the second data sequence when the data sequence in the current data packet matches the first or second data sequence.