Abstract: Embodiments relate to an apparatus for adjusting channel quality indicator measurements of a channel between a client device and a serving device within a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes a controller adapted to receive, from the client device, a first information and, when the client device is in a handover zone, a second information. The controller is further adapted to transmit according to a switching sequence either the first information alone or the first information together with the second information. The apparatus also includes an adjustment function entity adapted to receive the first information together with the second information and adapted to adjust the first information based on the second information by modifying it or keeping it unchanged. The first information is related to the CQI measurements, while the second information is related to a handover (HO).

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a network entity for selecting a communication relay from a plurality of communication relays within the service area of a base station covering a plurality of geographic positions, wherein each communication relay is able to retransmit a communication between the base station and a user equipment, wherein the network entity comprises a divider configured to divide the service area into a plurality of different regions based on an attenuation measure at each geographic position, a determiner configured to determine for each pair of regions a spatial isolation measure based on the attenuation measures at the geographic positions within the regions, and a selector configured to select a communication relay based on the spatial isolation measures associated with the geographic position of each communication relay.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication device and method. The example wireless communication device is configured to communicate with an energy distributor, where the wireless communication device includes a rechargeable energy storage configured to supply the wireless communication device with energy to maintain operation of the wireless communication device. The device also includes a transmitter configured to transmit an energy status message to the energy distributor. The device further includes a receiver configured to extract energy from a wireless signal received by the wireless communication device from an energy provider, the wireless signal received in response to the energy status message transmitted to the energy distributor. The receiver can then recharge the rechargeable energy storage using the energy extracted from the wireless signal.

Abstract: A method for estimating the speed of a user equipment connected to a base station of a wireless network, the method comprising the following steps: —performing signal strength measurements (S) of a radio signal transmitted between the user equipment and the base station; —performing a spectral analysis (11) of the signal strength measurements; —determining the frequency of a local maximum in the power spectrum of the signal strength measurements; —estimating (12), from previously established reference data, the speed of the user equipment that corresponds to the determined frequency, the reference data associating a given user equipment speed with a certain determined frequency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for adjusting handover parameters (TTT; OFF) used for handover detection within a given serving cell (CS). In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the method comprises, for respective ones of a plurality of mobile stations (UE1 . . . UEN) served by the serving cell, gathering measurement samples (M(i,CS,k); M(i,CN,k)) of the serving cell and of a respective neighboring cell (CN) carried out by a respective mobile station (UEi) at successive time instances (k), and determining delta values (?(i,CN,k)) indicative of the time-indexed difference between respective ones of the measurement samples of the serving cell and corresponding ones of the measurement samples of the neighboring cell. The method further comprises determining near-optimal values (TTTNO; OFFNO) for the handover parameters by statistical characterization of the ensembles of delta values for the plurality of mobile stations.

Abstract: A method for estimating the speed of a user equipment connected to a base station of a wireless network, the method comprising the following steps: measuring the power of a signal transmitted between the user equipment and the base station; computing the derivative of the measured signal power with respect to time; computing the standard deviation of the computed derivative; estimating, from previously established reference data, the speed of the user equipment that corresponds to the computed standard deviation, the reference data associating a given user equipment speed with a certain computed standard deviation.

Abstract: A method for estimating the speed of a user equipment connected to a base station of a wireless network, the method comprising the following steps: —performing signal strength measurements (S) of a radio signal transmitted between the user equipment and the base station; —performing a spectral analysis (11) of the signal strength measurements; —determining the frequency of a local maximum in the power spectrum of the signal strength measurements; —estimating (12), from previously established reference data, the speed of the user equipment that corresponds to the determined frequency, the reference data associating a given user equipment speed with a certain determined frequency.

Abstract: A method for attaching a user terminal to a base station of a network is disclosed, said network comprising base stations. The method including defining a global cost function which is a weighted sum of the user terminal transmission delays, over all the user terminals in the network, using a user terminal's context weighting factor representing a user terminal's characteristic; defining a local cost function for each user terminal from said global cost function, said local cost function taking into account said user terminal's context weighting factor for each user terminal, and being a function of the base station to which this user terminal is associated; running a Gibbs sampler with said local cost function for producing user-base station association probabilities; choosing the user-base station association probability which favors low local cost; and attaching said user terminal to a base station according to the user-base station association probability chosen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for adjusting handover parameters (TTT; OFF) used for handover detection within a given serving cell (CS). In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the method comprises, for respective ones of a plurality of mobile stations (UE1 . . . UEN) served by the serving cell, gathering measurement samples (M(i,CS,k); M(i,CN,k)) of the serving cell and of a respective neighboring cell (CN) carried out by a respective mobile station (UEi) at successive time instances (k), and determining delta values (?(i,CN,k)) indicative of the time-indexed difference between respective ones of the measurement samples of the serving cell and corresponding ones of the measurement samples of the neighboring cell. The method further comprises determining near-optimal values (TTTNO; OFFNO) for the handover parameters by statistical characterization of the ensembles of delta values for the plurality of mobile stations.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing cells (100i, 100j) of a telecommunication network (102), said cells (100i, 100j) being supported by radio base stations (104i, 104j) aimed to provide wireless communication support to mobile terminals ((106i) connected to said communication network (102), each radio base station (104i, 104j) being linked to a core (108) of the telecommunication network through an associated backhaul (105i, 104j), characterized in that it comprises the step of managing dynamically communications resources of the telecommunication base stations by considering a dynamical backhaul quality BQ parameter for each base station (104i, 104j) and comparing different backhaul quality BQ parameters of different base stations (104i, 104j) in order to optimize the communication resources operations of the telecommunication network (102).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for attaching a user terminal to a base station of a network, said network comprising a plurality of base stations, said method comprising: —defining a global cost function which is a weighted sum of the user terminal transmission delays, over all the user terminals in the network, using a user terminal's context weighting factor representing a user terminal's characteristic; —defining a local cost function for each user terminal from said global cost function, said local cost function taking into account said user terminal's context weighting factor for each user terminal, and being a function of the base station to which this user terminal is associated; —running a Gibbs sampler with said local cost function for producing user-base station association probabilities; —choosing the user-base station association probability which favors low local cost; and—attaching said user terminal to a base station according to the user-base station association probability chosen.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing cells (100i, 100j) of a telecommunication network (102), said cells (100i, 100j) being supported by radio base stations (104i, 104j) aimed to provide wireless communication support to mobile terminals ((106i) connected to said communication network (102), each radio base station (104i, 104j) being linked to a core (108) of the telecommunication network through an associated backhaul (105i, 104j), characterized in that it comprises the step of managing dynamically communications resources of the telecommunication base stations by considering a dynamical backhaul quality BQ parameter for each base station (104i, 104j) and comparing different backhaul quality BQ parameters of different base stations (104i, 104j) in order to optimize the communication resources operations of the telecommunication network (102).