Patents by Inventor Hirantha ABEYSEKERA
Hirantha ABEYSEKERA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230224737Abstract: An information processing method includes: an association step of associating pieces of wireless signal information that are respectively transmitted by a plurality of base stations and are measured at a plurality of measurement positions with cells of the base stations, for each of the measurement positions; and an interference calculation step of calculating interference between cells of the plurality of base stations based on the pieces of wireless signal information associated with the cells of the base stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230142888Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which one or more terminal stations are connectable, and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the base station control device includes an information collection unit configured to collect connection information regarding the terminal stations connected to the base stations from each of the base stations, a list generation unit configured to generate a white list indicating the terminal stations which are allowed to be connected to the base stations for each of the base stations based on the connection information, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the white list generated by the list generation unit to each of the base stations, and each of the base stations includes a reception unit configured to receive the white list transmitted by the transmission unit, and a setting unit configured to perform setting so as to allow or inhibit connection of each of the terminal stations to the baseType: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2020Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20230137745Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a wireless base station that performs wireless communication with a wireless terminal; and a wireless communication control station that is communicably connected to the wireless base station. The wireless communication control station includes a determination unit that determines a requirement that is prioritized among multiple types of requirements in wireless communication, a setting unit that sets the information indicating the parameter to be used for communication control by the wireless base station, and a transmission unit that transmits the information set by the setting unit to the wireless base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Patent number: 11641659Abstract: [Problem] A base station includes a plurality of radio communication units individually supporting a plurality of communication capabilities, and controls a terminal station to be connected with the base station to select a radio communication unit according to a communication scheme of the terminal station. [Solution] Provided is a radio communication method of a radio communication system. The radio communication system includes a plurality of base stations mounted with a plurality of radio communication units for which different communication schemes are settable, a terminal station configured to perform radio communication in a certain communication scheme, and a centralized control station configured to control the plurality of base stations.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Akiyoshi Inoki, Keisuke Wakao
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Publication number: 20230121752Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable, and a monitoring station which monitors each of the base stations, the monitoring station includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information including a plurality of information items indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations, from each of the base stations, a defect detection unit configured to detect whether or not one or more defects occur based on a combination of the information items, and a defect determination unit configured to determine estimated occurrence probabilities of the defects detected by the defect detection unit based on a combination of the information items.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2020Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20230113366Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable, and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the base station control device includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations from each of the base stations, and a policy calculation unit configured to calculate policy for connecting the base stations and the terminal stations based on the wireless environment information collected by the information collection unit, each of the base stations includes a reception unit configured to receive the policy calculated by the policy calculation unit, a transition destination calculation unit configured to calculate a transition destination to which a terminal station left unaccommodated is to be connected based on the policy received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured toType: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2020Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20230102173Abstract: According to an information processing method of associating a plurality of base stations serving as transmission sources with pieces of information of beacons in a one-to-one manner, the beacons being transmitted by the plurality of base stations in an environment in which cells of the plurality of base stations overlap each other and measured at a plurality of measurement locations, the method includes performing first processing of associating an MAC address and a signal intensity of a beacon transmitted by one or more of the base stations with each of the measurement locations, performing second processing of associating, as a transmission source candidate of the beacon, one or more of the base stations located around each of the measurement locations that have undergone the first processing with the measurement location in ascending order of distance to the measurement location, performing third processing of associating one of the base stations closest to each of the measurement locations as a transmissType: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20230087262Abstract: There are provided a collection unit that collects priority information indicating priority of radio communication set for each base station and route information for specifying a wired communication route for each base station, a radio parameter calculation unit that calculates a radio parameter of radio communication of each base station to reflect the priority indicated by the priority information, a wired parameter calculation unit that calculates, for each wired communication route specified by the route information, a wired parameter of wired communication of a corresponding base station based on the radio parameter calculated by the radio parameter calculation unit to reflect the priority indicated by the priority information, and a setting unit that sets the radio parameter calculated by the radio parameter calculation unit for each base station and sets the wired parameter calculated by the wired parameter calculation unit for each wired communication route.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Patent number: 11601879Abstract: [Problem] The base station includes a plurality of radio communication units configured to individually support a plurality of communication capabilities, and performs, for a terminal station that is connected to the base station, control for selecting a radio communication unit based on a communication scheme supported in the terminal station. [Solution] Provided is a radio communication method for a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations provided with a plurality of radio communication units for which different communication schemes are settable, and a terminal station configured to perform radio communication with the radio communication unit of the base station by using a specific communication scheme.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Akiyoshi Inoki, Keisuke Wakao
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Publication number: 20230035101Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable, and a monitoring station which monitors each of the base stations, the monitoring station includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information including a plurality of information items indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations, from each of the base stations, a point calculation unit configured to calculate a total point of points to be respectively provided to a plurality of defect items determined in advance in a case where a determination condition determined in advance for each of the information items is satisfied, and a defect detection unit configured to detect whether or not a defect listed as one or more of the defect items occurs based on the total point calculated by the point calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20230035896Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the base station control device includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations from each of the base stations, a parameter calculation unit configured to calculate a parameter for correcting radio wave interference relationship among the base stations based on the wireless environment information collected by the information collection unit and priority set in advance for each of the base stations, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the parameter calculated by the parameter calculation unit to each of the base stations, and each of the base stations includes a reception unit configured to receive the parameter transmitted by the transmission unit, and a setting unit configured tType: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20230034313Abstract: In a wireless communication system including an intermediate processing device which performs processing between a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the intermediate processing device includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information which includes information regarding the terminal stations connected to the base stations and which indicates wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations, from each of the base stations, a first conversion unit configured to convert the wireless environment information collected by the information collection unit into first information which is equally processable by the base station control device without distinction for each of the base stations, a transmission unit configured to transmit the first information to the base station control device, a reception unit configured to receive a parameterType: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Patent number: 11528628Abstract: Provided is a wireless base station which uses distributed antennas and selects a combination of a plurality of wireless terminals and the distributed antennas of a wireless base station that performs multi-user transmission with respect to the plurality of wireless terminals in a multi-BSS wireless environment. The wireless base station includes: a scheduling unit that measures reception power (RSSI) from each wireless terminal at each of the distributed antennas and selects a combination of a plurality of wireless terminals and a plurality of antennas having approximately the same RSSIs in descending order for respective wireless terminals; and a transmission power control unit that sets minimum transmission power corresponding to the RSSI of the antenna when multi-user transmission is performed between the plurality of wireless terminals and the plurality of antennas combined by the scheduling unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Toshiro Nakahira, Yasushi Takatori, Takafumi Hayashi
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Publication number: 20220338256Abstract: In a wireless communication system wherein wireless terminal stations, each belonging to one of a plurality of wireless base stations, transmit on a shared frequency band, each of the wireless terminal stations includes means for notifying a control device of environmental information that indicates a communication status of the wireless terminal station itself via a wireless base station to which the wireless terminal station belongs, and for setting a transmission power value and a CCA threshold notified by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating the transmission power value and the carrier sense threshold according to a predetermined control procedure based on the environmental information collected from the wireless terminal station via the wireless base station, and for notifying the wireless terminal station of the transmission power value and the carrier sense threshold via the wireless base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Takafumi HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220330116Abstract: In a wireless communication system wherein wireless stations transmit on a shared frequency band, each of the wireless station includes means for notifying a control device of environmental information that includes information on interference from outside, and for switching from an operational channel to an evacuation channel notified by the control device when interference from outside is detected on the operational channel, and the control device includes means for calculating an evacuation channel for each wireless station according to a predetermined control procedure based on the environmental information collected from the wireless station, and for notifying the wireless station of the evacuation channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Hirantha Abeysekera, Toshiro Nakahira, Takafumi HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220299620Abstract: A spatial image generation apparatus includes: a propagation channel information measurer that measures propagation channel information of a target area from radio signals delivered between transmitting and receiving stations; a learned model generator that generates a learned model for generating a spatial image of the target area from the newly input propagation channel information using the propagation channel information and image information obtained by imaging the target area with a camera; and an image generator that generates the spatial image of the target area by inputting the propagation channel information newly input from the propagation channel information measurer to the learned model. The object detection apparatus includes: the spatial image generation apparatus; and an object detector that detects an object in the target area from the spatial image generated by the image generator using an image analysis method.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki MURAKAMI, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shunsuke SARUWATARI, Takeru FUKUSHIMA, Yusuke IWASAKI, Takashi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20220286955Abstract: Included are a plurality of base stations to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable and a control station that controls each of the base stations. The control station includes a network communication unit that receives, from each of the base stations, base station information indicating the base station, wireless environment information indicating a reception signal received by the base station from another of the base stations and a signal intensity thereof, and terminal station information indicating the terminal station connected to the base station and a signal intensity and a calculation unit that calculates, based on the base station information, the wireless environment information, and the terminal station information each received from each of the base stations, connection control information for controlling a connection permission from each of the base stations to each of the terminal stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
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Publication number: 20220279426Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a base station to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable and a control unit that controls the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
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Patent number: 11432235Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication control method, in which a management server manages line selection of an unlicensed band/licensed band of a UE and manages parameters of the unlicensed band, including a control step of excluding the UE that uses the licensed band from an optimization target in an unlicensed band system and optimizing the parameters of the unlicensed band in consideration of existence of an STA and the UE that uses the unlicensed band, which is caused by the management server. Furthermore, a pattern when a total of a communication capacity in the unlicensed band and a communication capacity in the licensed band after the optimization of the parameters of the unlicensed band becomes high is adopted for the line selection of the UE, and the parameters of the unlicensed band after the optimization of the line selection are set for an AP, the STA, and the UE of the unlicensed band.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyoshi Inoki, Keisuke Wakao, Hirantha Abeysekera, Munehiro Matsui, Kenichi Kawamura, Yasushi Takatori
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Publication number: 20220248252Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, and setting frequency channels in the plurality of wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified of the frequency channels by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating a frequency channel of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the frequency channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI