Patents by Inventor Xiaofeng Tao

Xiaofeng Tao 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).

  • Publication number: 20190044634
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication system comprises multiple unlicensed carriers. The electronic device comprises: one or more processing circuits configured to: configure each of a plurality of unlicensed carriers to be a primary channel or a secondary channel, so as to obtain at least two primary channels and at least one secondary channel; perform a first channel detection process over each of the primary channels to detect whether each of the primary channels is idle, and perform a second channel detection process over each of the secondary channels to detect whether each of the secondary channels is idle; and perform downlink data transmission over the primary channel determined to be idle by means of the channel detection or over the primary and secondary channels determined to be idle by means of the channel detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Haowei WANG, Xiaofeng TAO, Bingshan HU
  • Publication number: 20180310337
    Abstract: A wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication device for use on a base station side includes one or more processors. The processor is configured to determine start time and end time of data transmission on one or more auxiliary carriers on an unlicensed frequency band. The processor is further configured to control to send indication information about the start time and the end time to other base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Haowei WANG, Jiahui LIU, Xiang ZHOU, Xiaofeng TAO, Bingshan HU
  • Publication number: 20180139615
    Abstract: A frequency allocation method and device for an unauthorized frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Jiahui LIU, Xiang ZHOU, Xiaofeng TAO
  • Publication number: 20180020437
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wireless communication equipment and a wireless communication method. According to the wireless communication equipment for a base station side in an embodiment, the wireless communication equipment comprises one or multiple processors, and the one or multiple processors are configured to: determine to-be-transmitted communication content of a user equipment for a base station on a target unauthorized frequency band and estimate a transmission progress; and generate indicating information about the transmission progress, and add the indicating information into a communication frame of the user equipment for transmitting the indicating information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Xiaofeng TAO, Xiang ZHOU, Jiahui LIU, Ningyu CHEN
  • Patent number: 9847825
    Abstract: A codebook based channel information feedback method, device and system are provided in the present invention. The codebook based channel information feedback method includes: measuring, by a terminal in a communication system, a parameter of a downlink channel between the terminal and a base station of the communication system; selecting a plurality of precoding matrixes from a precoding codebook by using the parameter of the downlink channel, wherein a plurality of the precoding matrixes can be used by both of single-user multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transport mode and multi-user MIMO transport mode, and the precoding codebook is an aggregation of precoding matrixes; and feeding back a first information for indicating a plurality of the precoding matrixes to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Shiyuan Li, Xiaofeng Tao, Chao Wang, Xianjun Yang
  • Patent number: 9763152
    Abstract: A device for controlling the fusion of a heterogeneous system, which receives a first data stream from a MAC layer of a WLAN through a LLC sub-layer and a second data stream from a MAC layer of a cellular network through a PDCP and a RLC sub-layer, and for fusing the first data stream and the second data stream into one data stream and transmitting the fused one data stream to a network layer. The device demultiplexes the data stream from the network layer into a third data stream corresponding to the MAC layer of the WLAN and a fourth data stream corresponding to the MAC layer of the cellular network, and transmits the third data stream to the MAC layer of the WLAN through the LLC and the fourth data stream to the MAC layer of the cellular network through the PDCP and the RLC sub-layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, Yulong Shi, Yu Gu, Tianpeng Yuan
  • Patent number: 9755806
    Abstract: A method and system for feeding back channel information to coordinated cells, the method including: measuring channel qualities of downlink channels between coordinated cells and user equipment; classifying the coordinated cells into different coordinated cell classes according to the measured channel qualities; based on different channel quality intervals corresponding to different coordinated cell classes, respectively selecting channel information feedback modes with different feedback enhancement degrees for different coordinated cell classes; and using the selected channel information feedback modes with different feedback enhancement degrees to determine the channel information to be fed back to the coordinated cells in each coordinated cell class according to a pre-determined order, and sending the determined channel information to the coordinated cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Hui Wang, Xiaofeng Tao, Shan Yang, Xiaona Li, Shiyuan Li
  • Patent number: 9532270
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wireless communication network system based on centralized control and content delivery, comprising a centralized controller, a core network data forwarding unit, a core network data cache unit, and at least one distributed base station. The centralized control and content delivery control can be performed by the wireless communication network system provided by the present disclosure. In this manner, the user experience can be guaranteed, the centralized control can be realized, and the load of the base station equipment can be reduced to the largest extent. At the same time, the data interaction between base station and internet can be reduced, and thus the occupancy of bandwidth resources can be reduced accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, Yulong Shi, Hui Wang, Yu Gu, Tianpeng Yuan
  • Patent number: 9490888
    Abstract: A codebook based channel information feedback method, device and system are provided in the present invention. The codebook based channel information feedback method includes: measuring, by a terminal in a communication system, a parameter of a downlink channel between the terminal and a base station of the communication system; selecting a plurality of precoding matrixes from a precoding codebook by using the parameter of the downlink channel, wherein a plurality of the precoding matrixes can be used by both of single-user multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transport mode and multi-user MIMO transport mode, and the precoding codebook is an aggregation of precoding matrixes; and feeding back a first information for indicating a plurality of the precoding matrixes to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Shiyuan Li, Xiaofeng Tao, Chao Wang, Xianjun Yang
  • Publication number: 20160119049
    Abstract: A codebook based channel information feedback method, device and system are provided in the present invention. The codebook based channel information feedback method includes: measuring, by a terminal in a communication system, a parameter of a downlink channel between the terminal and a base station of the communication system; selecting a plurality of precoding matrixes from a precoding codebook by using the parameter of the downlink channel, wherein a plurality of the precoding matrixes can be used by both of single-user multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transport mode and multi-user MIMO transport mode, and the precoding codebook is an aggregation of precoding matrixes; and feeding back a first information for indicating a plurality of the precoding matrixes to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Shiyuan Li, Xiaofeng Tao, Chao Wang, Xianjun Yang
  • Patent number: 9301271
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of LTE-A, and discloses a method for air interface synchronization between base stations. A base station to be synchronized, which simultaneously monitors a plurality of neighboring base stations, can select one neighboring base station to perform time-service synchronization in accordance with different criteria in order, such as whether CoMP is necessary, the time-service hop count, time-service delay, and the CQI level (channel quality indicator) and the like. That is, the most suitable synchronization source is determined according to a certain priority order. Such solution both applies to a phase of initial establishment of air interface self-synchronization between base stations, and also to a phase of periodic synchronization maintenance. In addition, the technical effect of such solution is particularly prominent in the case of intensively arranged Small Cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignees: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Wuxi BUPT Sensing Technology and Business Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, Liang Zeng, Yingni Zhang, Ningyu Chen
  • Patent number: 9287939
    Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and provides a method for joint optimization of schedule and resource allocation based on a genetic algorithm, which is applied in a CoMP communication system. The method includes steps of: S1, encoding chromosome; S2, initializing setting; S3, computing fitness value; S4, determining whether the optimal solution is better than an elite: if yes, updating the elite and executing S5, and if no, turning to S5; S5, determining whether a predetermined generation of population has been generated or not, if no, executing S6, otherwise, turning to S8; S6, participating reproduction process to generate two offspring chromosome individuals; S7, determining whether a predetermined number of offspring chromosome individuals have been generated, if yes, turning to S3 to compute again; otherwise keeping on reproduction; S8, performing schedule and resource allocation according to a solution corresponding to the elite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xu, Xiaofeng Tao, Da Wang, Qimei Cui, Ping Zhang, Xin Chen, Dezhuang Wu
  • Patent number: 9288678
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and discloses a method for frequency reuse based on cellular network. The method comprises the following steps: dividing the whole cellular network into a plurality of different cell clusters, wherein each cell cluster comprises three cells, every two of them being adjacent to each other; for each cell in a cell cluster, dividing the cell into a central area and an edge area according to the coverage of the cell; dividing the whole available frequency band of the network according to the user distribution and service distribution in the cell cluster; allocating divided frequency bands to the central area and the edge area in the cell cluster respectively according to preset rule; and applying the method for frequency reuse to other cell clusters, thus achieving the frequency reuse of the whole network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tao, Ping Zhang, Xiaona Li, Qimei Cui, Xiaodong Xu, Yingyue Xu, Waheed ur Rehman
  • Publication number: 20150334773
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wireless communication network system based on centralized control and content delivery, comprising a centralized controller, a core network data forwarding unit, a core network data cache unit, and at least one distributed base station. The centralized control and content delivery control can be performed by the wireless communication network system provided by the present disclosure. In this manner, the user experience can be guaranteed, the centralized control can be realized, and the load of the base station equipment can be reduced to the largest extent. At the same time, the data interaction between base station and internet can be reduced, and thus the occupancy of bandwidth resources can be reduced accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, Yulong Shi, Hui Wang, Yu Gu, Tianpeng Yuan
  • Publication number: 20150312797
    Abstract: A device for controlling the fusion of a heterogeneous system, which receives a first data stream from a MAC layer of a WLAN through a LLC sub-layer and a second data stream from a MAC layer of a cellular network through a PDCP and a RLC sub-layer, and for fusing the first data stream and the second data stream into one data stream and transmitting the fused one data stream to a network layer. The device demultiplexes the data stream from the network layer into a third data stream corresponding to the MAC layer of the WLAN and a fourth data stream corresponding to the MAC layer of the cellular network, and transmits the third data stream to the MAC layer of the WLAN through the LLC and the fourth data stream to the MAC layer of the cellular network through the PDCP and the RLC sub-layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, Yulong Shi, Yu Gu, Tianpeng Yuan
  • Patent number: 9143972
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for establishing a CoMP cooperating set in coordinated multi-point communication, the method comprising the steps of: triggering and starting a coordinated multi-point communication process; according to channel state information of all cells in a measurement cell set measured by a UE, determining a candidate CoMP cooperating set; sending a CoMP cooperating set establishment request to eNodeBs of the cooperating cells in the determined candidate CoMP cooperating set; the eNodeBs being of the cooperating cell and receiving the CoMP cooperating set establishment request responding to the CoMP cooperating set establishment request to the eNodeB of the serving cell of the UE, and sending a CoMP cooperating set establishment response to the eNodeB of the serving cell of the UE; the eNodeB of the serving cell of the UE determining a CoMP cooperating set of the UE according to information of the CoMP cooperating set establishment response; and according to a coordinated multi-point communicatio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tao, Xiaodong Xu, Qimei Cui, Ping Zhang, Xin Chen, Hongjia Li, Qiang Wang, Jie Ni
  • Patent number: 9130729
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication and of mobile communication, and more particularly to a method for spectrum resource allocation and interference avoidance of femtocell in a heterogeneous environment consisting of macro cell and femtocell, and specifically to a spectrum allocation method based on interference suppression and user difference bandwidth requirements. According to the spectrum allocation method based on interference suppression and user difference bandwidth requirements of the present invention, spectrum resource can be allocated reasonably according to the priority level of bandwidth requirements in combination with graph coloring algorithm and chromaticity preference algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xu, Xiaofeng Tao, Zhou Xu, Huixin Zhang, Ping Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150200719
    Abstract: A codebook based channel information feedback method, device and system are provided in the present invention. The codebook based channel information feedback method includes: measuring, by a terminal in a communication system, a parameter of a downlink channel between the terminal and a base station of the communication system; selecting a plurality of precoding matrixes from a precoding codebook by using the parameter of the downlink channel, wherein a plurality of the precoding matrixes can be used by both of single-user multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transport mode and multi-user MIMO transport mode, and the precoding codebook is an aggregation of precoding matrixes; and feeding back a first information for indicating a plurality of the precoding matrixes to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Shiyuan Li, Xiaofeng Tao, Chao Wang, Xianjun Yang
  • Patent number: 9007995
    Abstract: A codebook based channel information feedback method, device and system are provided in the present invention. The codebook based channel information feedback method includes: measuring, by a terminal in a communication system, a parameter of a downlink channel between the terminal and a base station of the communication system; selecting a plurality of precoding matrixes from a precoding codebook by using the parameter of the downlink channel, wherein a plurality of the precoding matrixes can be used by both of single-user multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transport mode and multi-user MIMO transport mode, and the precoding codebook is an aggregation of precoding matrixes; and feeding back a first information for indicating a plurality of the precoding matrixes to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Shiyuan Li, Xiaofeng Tao, Chao Wang, Xianjun Yang
  • Publication number: 20150055645
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of LTE-A, and discloses a method for air interface synchronization between base stations. A base station to be synchronized, which simultaneously monitors a plurality of neighboring base stations, can select one neighboring base station to perform time-service synchronization in accordance with different criteria in order, such as whether CoMP is necessary, the time-service hop count, time-service delay, and the CQI level (channel quality indicator) and the like. That is, the most suitable synchronization source is determined according to a certain priority order. Such solution both applies to a phase of initial establishment of air interface self-synchronization between base stations, and also to a phase of periodic synchronization maintenance. In addition, the technical effect of such solution is particularly prominent in the case of intensively arranged Small Cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, Liang Zeng, Yingni Zhang, Ningyu Chen