Abstract: A method of delivering downlink control information associated with downlink data transmission on an unlicensed channel includes, transmitting downlink control information to a user equipment (UE) on a second channel without knowing when the unlicensed channel is available for transmission, wherein the downlink control information corresponds to a later transmission of data on the unlicensed channel if the unlicensed channel is available; and transmitting the data to the UE on the unlicensed channel according to the downlink control information, if the unlicensed channel is available for transmission.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a severity of a network incident causing a network alarm in a communication network. The method comprises obtaining (201) a severity attribute associated with the network alarm, the severity attribute indicating an impact of the network incident on a communication service in the communication network, and relating (203) the severity attribute to a severity indicator from a predetermined set of severity indicators to determine the severity of the network incident.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for collecting the radio frequency (RF) feature of a wireless device in a wireless communication apparatus are disclosed herein. The RF feature extraction unit adds a tag having a unique value to a received radio signal, and extracts RF feature information from the radio signal. The MAC information extraction unit extracts the source MAC address and tag information of a MAC protocol frame from the received radio signal, and then removes the added tag. The tag comparison unit selects an source MAC address and RF feature information, when the tags have the same value, from the RF feature information and tag information from the RF feature extraction unit and the source MAC address and tag information from the MAC information extraction unit. The RF feature storage unit stores the selected source MAC address and RF feature information.

Abstract: Provided is a terminal device that is capable of improving the characteristics of a response signal having poor transmission characteristics when ARQ is utilized in communication using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. At the time of channel selection, a control unit (208) selects a resource used in sending a response signal from among specific PUCCH resources notified in advance from a base station (100) and PUCCH resources mapped to a CCE, and controls the transmission of the response signal. A response signal generating unit (212) supports implicit signaling with respect to any given response signal, and at the same time as supporting LTE fallback from 2CC, uses a mapping method that, between bits, smooths the number of PUCCH resources that can determine ACK/NACK simply by determining the PUCCH resource regarding which the response signal had notified.

Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication system that is capable of preventing interference with a primary use system caused by a CPE emitting radio waves at a frequency which is not a transmittable frequency before acquiring a list of transmittable frequencies based on its position information. In a wireless communication system that uses white space, a BS 10 and a CPE 22 store a specific frequency which is guaranteed to not interfere with a primary user. The BS 10 regularly switches between a first period when communication is performed at an operating frequency that uses white space and a second period when communication is performed at the specific frequency.

Abstract: A method for performing open discovery in a communications system includes determining, by a device-to-device (D2D ) device, resource allocation information for a discovery cycle including discovery resources allocated for transmission of discovery signals by D2D devices. The method also includes selecting, by the D2D device, a first discovery resource of the discovery cycle in accordance with the resource allocation information, and transmitting, by the D2D device, a discovery signal in the selected first discovery resource.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamic single-frequency-network-(SFN)-multicast symbol synchronization. In an embodiment, a wireless-communication device (WCD) receives an SFN-multicast transmission at least in part by receiving a respective SFN-multicast-transmission signal from each site in a plurality of sites in a given SFN-multicast area, where each such received SFN-multicast-transmission signal has a respective SFN-multicast cyclic prefix. The WCD calculates a multisource multipath delay spread (“MMDS”) that is characteristic of the received plurality of SFN-multicast-transmission signals, and determines whether that calculated MMDS exceeds a threshold MMDS. If so, the WCD selects a multicast timing point that is after the SFN-multicast cyclic prefix of a first-received one of the received SFN-multicast-transmission signals. If not, the WCD selects a multicast timing point that is within the SFN-multicast cyclic prefix of the first-received SFN-multicast-transmission signal.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for processing data transmission by a machine-type communication device. The method comprises: determining, by the network side, the mode for the machine-type communication device to transmit a small amount of user data using a control plane; instructing, by the network side, the machine-type communication device to transmit the small amount of user data using the control plane according to the determined mode; and transmitting, by the machine-type communication device, the small amount of user data using the control plane, according to instructions from the network side.

Abstract: Various aspects provide for mapping a plurality of signals to generate a combined signal. An aggregation component is configured for generating a combined signal that comprises a higher data rate than a data rate associated with a plurality of signals based on mapped data associated with the plurality of signals. The aggregation component comprises a mapper component. The mapper component is configured for generating the mapped data based on a mapping distribution pattern associated with a generic mapping procedure. In an aspect, a de-aggregation component is configured for recovering the plurality of signals from a pseudo signal transmitted at a data rate of the combined signal. In another aspect, the de-aggregation component comprises a de-mapper component configured for de-mapping the mapped data based on the mapping distribution pattern associated with the generic mapping procedure.

Abstract: A method for retransmitting reverse link data practiced by a media access control layer, the method comprising: buffering a plurality of data frames encapsulated in a first access probe in a memory; obtaining information regarding data frames encapsulated in the first access probe that are successfully decoded by a telecommunication network; selecting the buffered data frames that are required to be retransmitted, according to the obtained information; and passing down the selected data frames to a physical layer, to encapsulate the selected data frames into a second access probe and transmit the second access probe to the telecommunication network.

Abstract: A method and a satellite communication system are provided. At least one satellite gateway earth station receives at least one multicast stream from an external network. In a static forwarding mode, the at least one satellite gateway earth station replicates and forwards traffic from the at least one multicast stream over at least one first respective outroute carrier of at least one first respective spot beam of a satellite regardless of whether any terminal is arranged to actively receive any of the at least one multicast stream. In a dynamic forwarding mode, the at least one satellite gateway earth station replicates and forwards second traffic from any of the at least one multicast stream over at least one second respective outroute carrier of at least one second respective spot beam only when at least one respective terminal is arranged to actively receive the any of the at least one multicast stream.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and a device for measuring a channel in a wireless communication system, and comprises a step of, during a handover, receiving information on a specific time interval from a first cell, receiving a signal from a second cell through the specific time interval, and measuring the second cell using the received signal, wherein the first cell and the second cell are different from each other.

Abstract: A mobile station (MS) obtains a parameter, performs transmission of a preamble, and sets a counter incremented based on transmission of the preamble. The MS is able to indicate a random access problem corresponding to one transmission timing cell group in a case where the counter reaches the parameter +1 and the transmission of the preamble is performed on the one transmission timing cell group, where the one transmission timing cell group being one of the plurality of transmission timing cell groups, and the MS is able to not indicate a random access problem corresponding to another transmission timing cell group in a case where the counter reaches the parameter +1 and the transmission of the preamble is performed on the another transmission timing cell group, where the another transmission timing cell group being one of the plurality of transmission timing cell groups.

Abstract: To provide a mobile terminal test apparatus and a mobile terminal test method capable of setting the setting items more easily and more accurately than in the related art and testing mobile terminals. A mobile terminal test apparatus 10 includes a registered item display screen control unit 32 that performs a display control operation of displaying a registered item display screen including registered items, a history display screen control unit 33 that performs a display control operation of displaying a history display screen for displaying the history of the setting items set in the past and test parameter values, and a setting item display processing unit 35 that performs at least one of a process related to the display order of the setting items and a process related to the deletion of the setting items.

Abstract: An in-vivo device may allocate a sensing window in a work cycle for sensing and processing localization signals to determine the location/orientation of the in-vivo device. The in-vivo device may use a timing unit to schedule transmission of data frames and the sensing of the localization signals relative to a reference time embedded in work cycles. The timing unit may produce a clock signal based on which the in-vivo device may measure time specifics, which define the sensing window, relative to the reference time. A receiver may use data embedded in data frames to restore the clock signal and the reference time, and, from them, and using identical or similar time specifics, generate a synchronization signal for a localization signals source (LSS) to enable the LSS to generate localization signals in synchronization with the sensing windows.

Abstract: A method of connecting to a network by a terminal in a communication system, the communication system including the terminal, one or more access points, and a network controller controlling the one or more access points is provided. The method includes establishing a connection with a first access point, setting and storing wake-up information, configured to selectively transceive with the first access point, in the first access point and the network controller, performing hand off to a second access point connected to the network controller, and selectively transceiving data with the second access point based on the wake-up information set and stored in the network controller.

Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of controlling radio resources includes calculating multiple sets of scaled load estimates based on a single set of initial load estimates associated with estimated radio resource loads of multiple base stations. Each of the sets of scaled load estimates includes the single set of initial load estimates scaled by one of multiple scale factors. The method further includes determining multiple objective function results. Each objective function result is based at least in part on a result of an objective function for an individual set of scaled load estimates of the multiple sets of scaled load estimates. The method further includes determining an operating set of radio resources for multiple base stations based at least in part on the multiple objective function results.

Abstract: A first base station may transmit a first physical downlink channel associated with one or more wireless devices in communication with the first base station, wherein the first physical downlink control channel is transmitted in fewer than all subframes of a frame and begins in time at a first symbol number in a series of symbols of a subframe. A second base station may transmit a second physical downlink control channel associated with one or more wireless devices in communication with the second base station. Second radio resources of the second physical downlink control channel may be configured based on the first symbol number of the first physical downlink control channel to manage overlap with first radio resources of the first physical downlink control channel.

Abstract: In a transmitting device, each of the plurality of mapping candidates that make up the search space is configured from the same number of control channel elements as an aggregation level value, the control channel elements are obtained by dividing each physical resource block into a predetermined number, and the quantity of resource elements contained in each of the predetermined number of control channel elements in each physical resource block adopts at least two types of values. A search space setting unit (102) sets a search space of which the aggregation level value is 2 or more so that, between a plurality of mapping candidates, variation in the total quantity of resource elements contained in the control channel elements that make up the mapping candidates is as small as possible.

Abstract: A method and device for updating a routing lookup tree are provided. When it is determined that a routing lookup tree needs to be updated, a layer update indication table and node update information are determined according to updated entries; a layer is selected from the routing lookup tree as a current layer in sequence according to levels of layers, and if it is determined that the current layer needs to be updated according to the layer update indication table, the previous layer of the current layer in the routing lookup tree is locked, the node update information is synchronized to the current layer in the routing lookup tree, and so on, until it is determined that the current layer is the last layer needing to be updated according to the layer update indication table, and then this update of the routing lookup tree is ended.