Abstract: It is described a method for changing the data load distribution within a telecommunication network comprising including a first base station, a second base station and a relay node being connected to the first base station and/or to the second base station. The described method includes (a) establishing for each of a plurality of user equipments a first indirect connection to the first base station via the relay node, (b) establishing in a collective manner for each of the plurality of user equipments a second indirect connection to the second base station via the relay node, and (c) terminating in a collective manner for each of the plurality of user equipments the first indirect connection. It is further described a network element, which is adapted to carry out the above described data load redistribution method, and a computer program, which is adapted for controlling the above described data load redistribution method.

Abstract: A method is provided for adapting the data transfer rate of a data flow in a communication device according to which: the data flow can be subdivided into at least one data block containing transmission bits to be transmitted; the transmission bits are formed by a coding process from information-carrying input bits; transmission bits determined from a data block of the data flow are removed (punctured) in order to adapt the data transfer rate; a puncturing pattern stipulates which transmission bits are to be removed, and; the puncturing pattern is constructed in such a manner that transmission bits are preferably removed that, during the coding process, depend on few input bits. The present invention also relates to a corresponding communication device.

Abstract: A mechanism for controlling resources and/or settings of an access network element like a base station is provided which allows an autonomous reconfiguration of, for example, the antenna configuration based on a set of performance indicators in a base station. The base station can reconfigure itself without the need of operator control so that during periods with low capacity demands the base station will reconfigure correspondingly, which may include a reduction of active cells by turning off the power for a part of the installed equipment.

Abstract: It is disclosed a method including creating inquiry information related to an evaluation of at least one network terminal, and transmitting the created inquiry information in a long-range reference signal; a method including receiving the inquiry information in the long-range signal, establishing, based on the received inquiry information, report information related to a quality of the long-range reference signal, and transmitting the established report information; and a method including receiving the report information, and evaluating, based on the received report information, at least one network terminal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data via a physical channel in a communication system, the channel being used by at least one first communication device and one second communication device and transmitting data with a defined bit rate. According to the present invention, the data to be transmitted (TD) is composed of load data (LD) and identification data (ID) for identifying the second communication device, the load data (LD) and identification data (ID) are coded separately from one another, the respective coding (C_LD, C_ID) takes place in such a way that an identical bit rate is achieved after the coding operation for the load data (LD) and the identification data (ID) and the rate is matched to the bit rate that has been defined for the physical channel by a rate matching mode, which defines which bits are punctured or repeated in a data stream. The rate matching model for load data (LD) and identification data (ID) is identical.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for transmitting control data on a physical channel between a mobile radio device and a base station in a cellular network. In particular, in a mobile radio network according to the UMTS standard (UMTS=Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) a packet-oriented data transmission between the mobile radio device and the base station is controlled using control data, wherein the control data includes a packet number for identifying a data packet.

Abstract: In a method for communicating by radio, a frequency band divided up into a plurality of subcarriers is used for the communication. Messages are sent from a base station to a user station and/or from the user station to the base station. Messages are processed at some times using a first FDMA method such as for example OFDMA and at other times using a second FDMA method such as for example IFDMA. A transmitter and a receiver implement the method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting data between a transmitter and a receiver via a wireless data channel of a communication network (CN). The transmitter transmits data to the receiver, where the transmission includes at least one transmission parameter which is selected based on a first channel quality that is known to the transmitter. The receiver receives the data, and the receiver determines the first channel quality known to the transmitter from said data via the at least one used transmission parameter as well as a second, current channel quality via the quality of the received data; and the receiver compares the first channel quality with the second channel quality.

Abstract: A method is provided for rate matching a number of input bits in a time interval to a fixed number of output bits in the time interval, whereby the input bits consist of a set of at least two different bit classes, each of the classes having a certain number of bits in the time interval, whereby the rate matching is performed in two rate matching stages, whereby the first rate matching stage operates only on a selection out of the set of different bit classes, thus establishing a proportion between the number of bits of the different classes, and the second rate matching stage operates on all bit classes such that the proportion is exactly or approximately maintained after the second rate matching stage and the fixed number of output bits consisting of bits of the different bit classes is achieved.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data via a data transmission channel in a communication network. The transmission channel is made available for the wireless transmission between a transmitter and a receiver. The data transmission is carried out while taking into consideration the channel quality in such a manner that the channel quality data available during transmission is as current as possible and no unnecessary transmission of channel quality data is required.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data via a physical channel in a communication system, the channel being used by at least one first communication device and one second communication device and transmitting data with a defined bit rate. According to the present invention, the data to be transmitted (TD) is composed of load data (LD) and identification data (ID) for identifying the second communication device, the load data (LD) and identification data (ID) are coded separately from one another, the respective coding (C_LD, C_ID) takes place in such a way that an identical bit rate is achieved after the coding operation for the load data (LD) and the identification data (ID) and the rate is matched to the bit rate that has been defined for the physical channel by a rate matching mode, which defines which bits are punctured or repeated in a data stream. The rate matching model for load data (LD) and identification data (ID) is identical.

Abstract: According to the invention, a method for allocating resources in a radio communication system is proposed wherein a frequency carrier is subdivided into a number of sub carriers. The invention is characterised in that with a single information element transmitted between a base station of the radio communication system and at least one user terminal, at least two resource units (chunk,scheduling unit) are addressed.

Abstract: A transmission method is provided whereby data of different classes are transmitted and different reliability positions exist, with the bits of the different classes being mapped to respective reliability positions.

Abstract: A method and communication device are provided for matching the bit rate of a bit stream to be transmitted in a communication system. For bit rate matching in a communication system the bits of a bit stream are punctured or repeated so that for a specific number (N) of consecutive bits (x) of the bit stream to be transmitted, the sum of the importances (w) of the bit stream which features the relevant bits (x) of the bit stream for a recovery of a message containing the relevant bit are in a specific relationship to the sum of the reliabilities (v) of the corresponding bits actually used for transmission (y) with which these bits after execution of bit rate matching can transfer a specific information content.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an ARQ method, especially a hybrid-ARQ-method, in order to carry out a reliable packet orientation data transfer, preferably, using a mobile radio system. When requesting a transmission data packet for the bits of the retransmission data packet, a different rate adaptation model is used in comparison with the bits corresponding originally sent data packets. A particular advantage of the present method is that the bit-rate adaptation is carried out by dividing the bits which are to be transferred into a number of partial bit flows with respectively separate bit rate adaptation.

Abstract: In a method for communicating by radio, a frequency band divided up into a plurality of subcarriers is used for the communication. Messages are sent from a base station to a user station and/or from the user station to the base station. Messages are processed at some times using a first FDMA method such as for example OFDMA and at other times using a second FDMA method such as for example IFDMA. A transmitter and a receiver implement the method.