Abstract: A base station and a method of configuring a base station are provided in a cellular telecommunication system, wherein the base station comprises an electrically tunable duplex filter with a tuning range covering at least two parallel sub-bands used in the telecommunication system. The electrically tunable duplex filter is tunable on site to a sub-band allocated to the base station, thus enabling an increased flexibility in selecting a fixed frequency band to be used in the lower frequency stages in the transceiver and the base band parts of the base station.

Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for variable filtering of a mobile station (MS) for supporting uplink communications using available capabilities of a network element in wireless communication systems (e.g., evolved GERAN). The MS may have at least two different pulse shaping filter capabilities providing at least two different bandwidths: one narrower being suitable for legacy transceivers and another wider and thus optimal for variable symbol rate from performance point of view.

Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for carrier frequency shifting in mobile communication systems, e.g., for eliminating or reducing interference, e.g., for a communication between a mobile station and a network element. The communication between the mobile station and the network element may be performed within a GSM/EDGE radio access network. A signal (e.g., a DSR or MDSR carrier) and at least one further signal (e.g., a speech carrier) are identified, wherein bandwidths of the signal and of the at least one further signal overlap. Then, a frequency shift for said signal may be determined according to a predetermined criterion and a carrier frequency of the signal may be shifted by the determined frequency shift, e.g., for eliminating or reducing the interference.

Abstract: An indicator of a strength of a signal comprising a training sequence portion received in a radio propagation environment is provided. Samples are taken from the training sequence portion, an energy value of the samples over an estimated channel impulse response is computed and the indicator of the strength of the signal is estimated from the energy value.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of measuring the quality of a service transmitted on a traffic channel and to a cellular radio network. In the method the transmitter transmits user data to the receiver, but does not transmit all data frames because the user data are missing. The transmitter transmits control data to the receiver using associated control channels, and calculates the number of frames transmitted to the receiver on the traffic channel during a certain period. The receiver calculates the number of all frames received and decoded correctly during a certain period. A quality value is calculated for a service to be transmitted on the traffic channel during a certain period by subtracting the number of frames transmitted during said period from the number of frames received during said period and by dividing the difference obtained by the number of frames transmitted during said period.

Abstract: A method and corresponding equipment for use by a mobile station and/or a radio access network, for altering one or more characteristics of transmissions of the mobile station to a base transceiver station of the radio access network in respect to power and/or modulation and/or coding of the transmissions, based on monitoring broadcast transmissions from other base transceiver stations of the radio access network and determining an estimate of the likelihood of transmissions by the mobile station interfering with communication between the other base transceiver stations and the mobile stations in communication with those other base transceiver stations.

Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for using a new modified dual symbol rate (MDSR) in an uplink direction in mobile communication systems. The communication between the mobile station and the network element may be performed within evolved GSM/EDGE radio access networks. The MDSR can be for example one and a half times a symbol rate of an uplink speech service, e.g., the current GSM/EDGE symbol rate (13/48 MHz) in the mobile communication system, thus the MDSR may be substantially 13/32 MHz or about 405 kHz. The uplink signal with the MDSR may be modulated, e.g., using a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), e.g., 16-QAM with 16 states and/or a quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK, or ?/4-QPSK) modulation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radio system and a transceiver method. The method comprises the steps of transmitting a signal of at least one type by a transceiver of the first type; receiving a signal by a transceiver of the second type with at least two differently polarized antennas; performing measurements of the received signal to determine its polarization by using the transceiver of the second type; determining the polarization of the transceiver of the first type; adjusting the signal transmitted by the transceiver of the second type in such a way that the polarization of the signal is matched with the polarization used by the transceiver of the first type; transmitting at least two orthogonally polarized, polarization-matched signals by the transceiver of the second type; and receiving the polarization-matched signals by the transceiver of the first type by using at least two antennas of different polarizations.

Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for a timeslot (TSL) reuse typically combined with a frequency reuse for a service based interference control in communication systems. TSL reuse method can be applied to a service with a wider spectrum or a higher symbol rate than for a normal channel bandwidth of a communication system to provide the way for controlling interference. The TSL reuse method can enable interference control for synchronized and unsynchronized networks in uplink (UL) or downlink (DL).

Abstract: An arrangement for controlling transfer of information, comprising a radio system and a terminal equipment, which radio system comprises at least two base stations and is configured to set up simultaneous connections between the terminal equipment and at least two base stations, the terminal equipment being configured to measure properties of the connections between the terminal equipment and the base stations, and to select at least one of the base stations as a primary base station, information transfer between the primary base station and the terminal equipment being activated, and the radio system comprising a combining-splitting point, which is configured to carry out combining/splitting functions on information flows transmitted via connections set up over different physical transmission paths.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of allocating Abis interface transmission channels in a packet cellular radio network, and to a network part utilizing the method. The method comprises (502) allocating fixedly a certain number of transmission channels to base-station-specific operations and maintenance signalling and to transceiver-specific telecommunication signalling; and (504) allocating dynamically, using in-band signalling, a necessary number of transmission channels to packet data transfer, the amount of packet data varying according to the modulation and coding scheme used on a Um interface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a downlink connection in a cellular network. A feedback information indicating a selected cell is transmitted to a central network element (20) controlling at least two network elements (N1–N3) serving cells (C1–C3) of the cellular network. The at least two network elements are controlled by the central network element based on the feedback information so as to establish the downlink connection. Thus, the downlink transmissions of the non-central network elements (N1–N3) are controlled by the network so as to decrease performance loss due to reception errors of the feedback information. The feedback information may be a temporary ID obtained in a site selection diversity transmission control scheme.

Abstract: A user terminal of a radio system arranged to operate a frequency band subdivided into one or more carrier bands, each of which carries a cyclic set of consecutive time slot. The user terminal comprises a first receiver part adjustable to a defined carrier band, and a second receiver part adjustable to a defined carrier band; wherein the first and the second receiver parts are separately operable. The user terminal comprises also allocation means for allocating to a radio channel at least a first timeslot and a second timeslot, wherein the first timeslot and the second timeslot may belong to different carrier bands. The first receiver part and the second receiver part are adjusted to the carrier bands of the first timeslot and of the second timeslot according to a predetermined scheme. The invented structure improved data throughput of the transmission by providing improved quality of transmission through diversity and added capacity through the multicarrier operation.

Abstract: A method of controlling a transmission power for a communication connection in a communication network is provided. The communication network comprises a user equipment communicating with the communication network, at least one transceiver station for providing a connection with the user equipment, wherein a serving transceiver station is provided for the user equipment, and a controller for controlling the at least one transceiver station. A connection value used at the communication connection between the user equipment and the serving transceiver station is determined, and on the basis of the determined connection value, power control parameters are adjusted wherein at least one change of power control parameters is possible between respective connection value ranges.

Abstract: A solution for transporting data in a GSM system is provided. According to the solution a network assigns a number of frequency channels to a subscriber terminal, which may then use multiple frequency channels for simultaneous transport of data. If the subscriber terminal is capable of transporting data using multiple input multiple output transmission, this capability could also be used in the transport of data.

Abstract: There is provided a radio system comprising a controller for controlling at least one base stations, a user terminal communicating with one or more base stations, and a serving base station for controlling data transmission of the user terminal over a control channel. The controller is configured to detect one or more interfering base stations of the user terminal, and to provide information on suppression of downlink transmission for the one or more interfering base stations of the user terminal; and the one or more interfering base stations are configured to suppress downlink transmission by controlling downlink transmission power of the interfering base stations at predetermined time intervals on the basis of the provided information from the controller when the user terminal receives downlink control channel transmission from the serving base station.

Abstract: Game data and speech transfer to and from a wireless portable game terminal is disclosed. The wireless portable game terminal includes a radio transceiver configured to transfer speech and game data through a radio connection to a telecommunication system, a loudspeaker, a microphone, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to process the game data, to transfer the game data to and from another game terminal or a game server through the radio connection, to receive captured speech of another user through the radio connection, to output audio part of the game data and the captured speech of the other user through the loudspeaker, to capture speech of an user with the microphone, and to transfer the captured speech of the user to another game terminal or to a game server through the radio connection.

Abstract: A base station and a method of configuring a base station are provided in a cellular telecommunication system, wherein the base station comprises an electrically tunable duplex filter with a tuning range covering at least two parallel sub-bands used in the telecommunication system. The electrically tunable duplex filter is tunable on site to a sub-band allocated to the base station, thus enabling an increased flexibility in selecting a fixed frequency band to be used in the lower frequency stages in the transceiver and the base band parts of the base station.

Abstract: There is provided a radio system comprising a base station, a packet control unit and a mobile station, the radio system being configured to communicate control and data blocks between the mobile station, the packet control unit and the base station, the control blocks controlling data transmission in the packet radio system. The packet control unit is configured to determine which given packet control unit functionalities related to the transmission of given control or data blocks are to be distributed from the packet control unit to the base station, and to provide to the base station control information on which packet control unit functionalities are distributed to the base station; and the base station is configured to perform the given packet control unit functionalities for given control or data blocks on the basis of the control information received from the packet control unit.

Abstract: There is provided a radio system comprising a remote network element, a packet control unit and a mobile station, the radio system being configured to communicate control blocks and data blocks between the mobile station, the packet control unit and the remote network element, the control blocks controlling data transmission in the radio system. The packet control unit is configured to determine which given packet control unit functionalities related to the transmission of given control or data blocks are to be distributed from the packet control unit to a remote net-work element, and to provide to the remote network element control information on which packet control unit functionalities are distributed to the remote network element; and the remote network element is configured to perform the given packet control unit functionalities for given control blocks or data blocks on the basis of the control information received from the packet control unit.