Abstract: According to the present invention, traffic control in an IP based network is provided. For this purpose, traffic situation in the network is measured, and the traffic flow is controlled on the basis of the measured traffic situation. Moreover, an operator may define rules for different measured situations, and the traffic flow is controlled on the basis of these rules.

Abstract: The invention relates to a power control method and a power control system used in a transmitter of a radio system comprising an amplifier means and a modulation means, which modulates a signal to be transmitted to the radio path. The control system also comprises a control means, which forms an amplification control signal used to adjust the transmission power of the signal to be transmitted to the radio path. The control system further comprises a means which forms a reference signal following the changes in the envelope of the modulated signal, and a means which samples the amplified signal in order to form a sample signal. The control means forms a control signal, which adjusts the amplification of the amplifier means, from the reference signal and the sample signal.

Abstract: A transmission method and a base transceiver station applying antenna hopping between at least two antenna elements are provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, a carrier carrying a first signal and a second signal is transmitted. At least a portion of the first signal is subjected to a measurement for adjusting receive characteristics of a mobile station for the reception of at least a portion of the second signal. Antenna hopping is applied to the carrier such that the at least a portion of the first signal and the at least a portion of the second signal are transmitted during an interval between two consecutive antenna hops between the at least two antenna elements.

Abstract: Test circuitry for a transceiver is described which allows tests to be conducted on a transmission loop without requiring decoding by rake fingers. According to one embodiment, a receiver for receiving a test signal includes a detecting circuit set up in accordance with a test spreading code for detecting whether or not signals received by the receiver include the test signal incorporating the test spreading code. In the embodiment, a matched filter set up according to the test spreading code is utilized as the detecting circuit. According to another embodiment, circuitry for adjusting the power level of a test signal is described in which power control information is transferred between first and second storage locations at the transceiver to allow otherwise normal control circuits to implement the power control.

Abstract: A data transmission system compensates Doppler shift in a telecommunication system in which system at least one user terminal is moving in relation to a network element. The system includes means for measuring a received uplink signal, and means for estimating the amount of Doppler frequency compensation for at least one downlink signal related to the user terminal on the basis of the measured received uplink signal. Means are provided for compensating the Doppler shift for at least one downlink signal related to the user terminal by shifting the frequency of the signal according to the estimated amount of Doppler frequency compensation.

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 multiplexing method and a transceiver used in a TDMA radio system. The transceiver sets up a connection to another transceiver by transmitting modulated signals in time slots. The transceiver comprises coding means for channel-coding a signal that consists of bits and that is formed into a communication signal, and interleaving means for interleaving the bits of the channel-coded Signal into blocks of a predetermined size. The transceiver also comprises multiplexing means that receive blocks from the interleaving means and that multiplex the interleaved blocks of at least two channel-coded signals together. The transceiver further comprises modulation means for modulating the blocks multiplexed by the multiplexing means with at least four-level modulation before the modulated signal blocks are transmitted as a communication signal in a time slot, so that the transmission speed of the communication signal and the number of the connections to be established can be increased.

Abstract: The invention relates to a data transmission method and radio system. In particular, the invention relates to a method and system in which both the GMSK and the m-PSK modulation methods are available for the signal to be transmitted an in which the modulation method used at a given time can be changed to another modulation method. In the solution of the invention, the m-PSK modulator of the transmitter includes a multiplier adapted to multiply the signal to be transmitted by a given coefficient making the signal constellations of the received signal similar regardless of the modulation method. Thus, the processing of the signal in the receiver becomes easier and the quality of the transmission improves in connection with m-PSK modulation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radio system and a transceiver method. The method comprises transmitting (402a) a signal of at least one type by a transceiver of the first type; receiving (404a) a signal by a transceiver of the second type with at least two differently polarized antennas; performing (406a), by the transceiver of the second type, measurements of the received signal to determine its polarization; determining (408a) the polarization of the transceiver of the first type; adjusting (410a) 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 (412a) at least two orthogonally polarized, polarization-matched signals by the transceiver of the second type; receiving (414a) the polarization-matched signals by the transceiver of the first type by using at least two antennas of different polarizations.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for synchronising clocks of base transceiver stations in a telecommunications system and a mobile communications system. According to the invention, in either some or in all base station sites of the telecommunications network a location measurement unit is installed, which receives an accurate clock including an extra-system signal. The clock information is transmitted further to base transceiver stations, whose frame transmissions are synchronised in accordance with the clock information. By using the implementation in accordance with the invention both economic and functional advantages are achieved, e.g. the capacity can be increased by up to 50-300%, depending on the manner of implementation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining speed of terminal in a radio system, and to a receiver in a radio system, the receiver comprising means for taking samples from a received signal at given intervals, means for determining a signal instantaneous strength by measuring a signal strength of each sample, and means for calculating a mean strength for a sampled signal within a given time window. For preferably determining the terminal speed the receiver of the invention comprises the means for comparing instantaneous strength values with a calculated mean strength and for calculating how frequently an instantaneous strength moves above or below a mean value within the given time window, and the means for determining an apparatus speed based on the number of transitions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting signals with transmit diversity from a base station of a radio access network of a communications system to a mobile terminal of said communications system. In order to allow for an improved performance of the transmission, it is proposed that signals are transmitted by at least one antenna providing different polarization planes. Signals can then be forwarded to the different polarization planes with a respective phase and/or amplitude determined according to a current feedback signal from the mobile terminal, thus providing signals of optimized quality to the mobile terminal. The invention equally relates to a radio communications system and to a base station for such a system which are suited to realize the proposed method.

Abstract: A signalling method in a wireless digital telecommunication system, where the signals between a base station and a terminal comprise bursts generated from symbols. The symbols comprise at least one stealing symbol indicating, if necessary, the use of a traffic channel for signalling. The symbols are generated from several bits by modulating and the stealing symbol is used for transmitting various signalling messages. A signalling message to be transferred is coded into a code word which is placed into one or more stealing symbols. The code word may be interleaved into the stealing symbols of several bursts. The method can be used, for example, for controlling the transmission power of the mobile station and the base station.

Abstract: A signalling method in a wireless digital telecommunication system, where the signals between a base station and a terminal comprise bursts generated from symbols. The symbols comprise at least one stealing symbol indicating, if necessary, the use of a traffic channel for signalling. The symbols are generated from several bits by modulating and the stealing symbol is used for transmitting various signalling messages. A signalling message to be transferred is coded into a code word which is placed into one or more stealing symbols. The code word may be interleaved into the stealing symbols of several bursts. The method can be used, for example, for controlling the transmission power of the mobile station and the base station.

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.

Abstract: The invention relates to a transmission method and a radio system comprising a transmitter and a receiver that communicate with each other by means of signals they have transmitted. The signals propagate along different paths from the transmitter to the receiver, which comprises means for combining the signals that have propagated along different paths after the reception. The radio system comprises transmitting means for transmitting for each connection at least two signals that are combined in the means into one signal, and measuring means for measuring the combined signal and for estimating the optimality of the transmission. The radio system also comprises control means that adjust, on the basis of the measurement and estimation, the phase of at least the signal that is to be transmitted in the downlink direction in the signal transmission by the transmitting means in order to decrease accumulation of signals during the combining of the signals.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reception method and a receiver used in a TDMA radio system. The receiver receives signals placed in time slots allowing the receiver to establish connections. The receiver receives the signals, which are placed in time slots and vary in strength. The receiver comprises amplification means amplifying the received signals with an amplification coefficient of a particular size. The receiver is arranged to receive connection establishing signals from time slots and to form at least two sets of time slots from the time slots, and the amplification means amplify the signals in different sets of time slots with an amplification coefficient of a different size. The amplification means amplify the signals in the same set of time slots with an amplification coefficient of the same size.

Abstract: The invention relates to a data transmission method and a radio system implementing method. A transmitter has at least two modulation methods by which it can modulate a signal. One or more demodulators (106) of the receiver demodulates the received signal in a manner which corresponds to each modulation method used. The modulation method used for the signal is inferred in a reference block (110) from the impulse response estimate. The signal according to the inferred modulation method is detected in a detector (114).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for modulating a signal to be transmitted, the arrangement comprising an encoder and a frequency modulator. In order to enable high rate transmission in a flexible manner in a narrow frequency band, the encoder (104) is a differential encoder and before the frequency modulator, the arrangement comprises means for multiplying the signal to be transmitted by a factor of the form &pgr;/(2m), where m is a positive integer greater than one.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting data between a GRPS/EDGE radio access network and user equipment of a mobile system, and to user equipment using the method, and to GERAN. In the method, the data to be transmitted in encrypted using an encryption algorithm at the transmitting end, the encrypted data is transmitted from the transmitting end to the receiving end, and the transmitted data is decrypted using an encryption algorithm at the receiving end. The used encryption algorithm is an encryption algorithm of the radio access network UTRAN employing the wideband code division multiple access method of the universal mobile telecommunications system, in which case the input parameters of agreed format required by the encryption algorithm are created on the basis of the operating parameters of the GPRS/EDGE radio access network GERAN.