Abstract: The invention provides solutions of discovering/identifying a small cell in a heterogenous communication network. In one solution, a macro base station determines whether a user equipment UE has approached to one or more small cells based upon location range information of respective small cells in a macro cell and estimated location information of an UE and if so, then the macro base station transmits a dedicated signaling to the UE, and the UE triggers a search based upon the dedicated signaling to search for the one or more small cells periodically. In another solution the UE determines whether the UE has approached to one or more small cells based upon received location range information, broadcast from a macro base station, of alert zones of respective small cells and estimated location information of the UE, and if so, then the UE triggers a search for the one or more small cells periodically.

Abstract: The invention proposes a method and an apparatus for transmitting a buffer status report in a wireless network, where a user equipment is configured with a plurality of component carriers, the user equipment obtains an amount of data to be transmitted after respective media access layer protocol data units corresponding to the respective component carriers are generated, generates the uplink buffer status report message according to the amount of data to be transmitted, and reports the uplink buffer status report message to a base station serving the user equipment. The invention address the problem of how to report buffer status information when there are a plurality of media access layer protocol data units in a transport time interval. With the solution of the invention, the base station can definitively know how many uplink resources can be allocated for the user equipment to guarantee more efficient scheduling.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for optimizing a user plan operation in a wireless communication system based on carrier aggregation are provided in the present invention. Firstly, a user equipment receives a downlink carrier component removal signaling from a base station, the downlink carrier component removal signaling is used to indicate a removed downlink carrier component; then, the user equipment, according to the received downlink carrier component removal signaling, stops the pending HARQ procedures of the removed downlink carrier component and flushes the HARQ receiving buffer related to the removed downlink carrier component and/or stops a re-ordering procedure and/or generates a status report and sends the status report to the base station, wherein the status report is used to indicate the base station to perform retransmission and inform the base station of the data needed to be retransmitted.

Abstract: The invention proposes the method and device for delivery BSR information to assist efficient scheduling. It introduces at least one additional table (also called extended table) which indicates the buffer statues corresponding to the higher data rates than the existing table. The use of the at least one additional table is identified by new identification(s), more specifically one or more Logical channel ID. The signaling uses MAC layer signaling as in ReI.8/9. In an embodiment of the present invention, the new MAC CE is designed to guarantee the co-existence of ReI.8/9 and ReI.10 buffer status reporting depending on low or high data rates.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and corresponding device of processing and parsing a to-be-transmitted data packet in a communication network, such as a LTE system. A sub-header that is used for a header portion of a transmitted data packet is generated for each component data packet constituting the transmitted data packet, containing: original data packet ID for indicating an original data packet which the component data packet belongs to; segmentation processing ID for indicating times of segmentation happened to the original data packet in order to the component data packet, and a data segment which said component data packet belongs to after each segmentation; data amount IF for indicating a data amount of a data portion of the data packet. With the technical solution provided by the present invention, the header structure definition of a data packet is optimized, and the transmission resource utilization efficiency is improved.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method and device for transmitting and receiving a power headroom report, wherein the method for transmitting a power headroom report comprises: forming, at a user equipment, a power headroom report specific to each carrier component; and transmitting the power headroom report to a base station. By implementing the method and device disclosed by the present application, a complete power headroom reporting mechanism can be provided to a LTE-A system having multiple new features. In addition, by receiving the power headroom report specific to each carrier component, the base station can further derive how many resource units need to be allocated to the user equipment, and a corresponding modulation and coding scheme so as to perform an effective resource scheduling and guarantee transmission quality of wireless links.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a reporting strategy for uplink scheduling request information in wireless telecommunication network. Above all, a method for the user equipment to report the uplink scheduling request information to the base station in wireless telecommunication network is disclosed. Firstly, the user equipment computes the overall service data amount of all radio bearers in each group of radio bearers in the buffer of the user equipment; then the user equipment only reports group-related information of triggered one or more groups of radio bearers to the base station. The present invention further proposes a method in the user equipment in wireless telecommunication network for reporting the emergency information to the base station, that is, the user equipment judges whether each radio bearer is in the emergency, and when one or more radio bearers are in the emergency, the user equipment sends emergency indication information to the base station.

Abstract: The present invention proposes a distributed probabilistic dynamic interference coordination scheme to decrease or eliminate inter-cell interference, wherein the mechanism of ALOHA is introduced into the dynamic interference coordination. According to the first aspect of the present invention, a resource scheduling method is proposed, comprising: selecting resource to be scheduled from a scheduling list; selecting a first user equipment to be scheduled from the scheduling list; allocating the selected resource to the first user equipment by probability of p, wherein 0?p?1, if the first user equipment is of edge user. The present invention further proposes a scheduler implementing the aforesaid resource scheduling method and a base station (BS) comprising the aforesaid scheduler.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a reporting strategy for uplink scheduling request information in wireless telecommunication network. Above all, a method for the user equipment to report the uplink scheduling request information to the base station in wireless telecommunication network is disclosed. Firstly, the user equipment computes the overall service data amount of all radio bearers in each group of radio bearers in the buffer of the user equipment; then the user equipment only reports group-related information of triggered one or more groups of radio bearers to the base station. The present invention further proposes a method in the user equipment in wireless telecommunication network for reporting the emergency information to the base station, that is, the user equipment judges whether each radio bearer is in the emergency, and when one or more radio bearers are in the emergency, the user equipment sends emergency indication information to the base station.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and corresponding device of processing and parsing a to-be-transmitted data packet in a communication network, such as a LTE system. A sub-header that is used for a header portion of a transmitted data packet is generated for each component data packet constituting the transmitted data packet, containing: original data packet ID for indicating an original data packet which the component data packet belongs to; segmentation processing ID for indicating times of segmentation happened to the original data packet in order to the component data packet, and a data segment which said component data packet belongs to after each segmentation; data amount IF for indicating a data amount of a data portion of the data packet. With the technical solution provided by the present invention, the header structure definition of a data packet is optimized, and the transmission resource utilization efficiency is improved.

Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and apparatuses for fast resource scheduling at the base station and fast transport format combination selection at the UE by using different pointers in base station and user equipment of wireless network. The TFCS in base station and UE are divided into TFCsbs each of which is a set of TFCs with the same transmission rate or the same transmission power, in the resource scheduling process at the base station, a pointer is used to select a proper TFCsb according to the resource request information from the UE and then inform UE of the relevant information. UE select the proper TFC by using another pointer from the TFCsb chosen at the base station. Because each of the scheduling process at the base station and the TFC selection process at the UE uses a pointer separately, the two processes can go more efficiently individually.

Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and apparatuses for fast resource scheduling at the base station and fast transport format combination selection at the UE by using different pointers in base station and user equipment of wireless network. The TFCS in base station and UE are divided into TFCsbs each of which is a set of TFCs with the same transmission rate or the same transmission power, in the resource scheduling process at the base station, a pointer is used to select a proper TFCsb according to the resource request information from the UE and then inform UE of the relevant information. UE select the proper TFC by using another pointer from the TFCsb chosen at the base station. Because each of the scheduling process at the base station and the TFC selection process at the UE uses a pointer separately, the two processes can go more efficiently individually.