Abstract: Disclosed is a mobility management method for use in a cellular mobile communication system. The mobility management method is configured to save radio resources and provide a stable service by detecting a cell in which a dwell time of user equipment (UE) is short as an island cell and performing a direct handover (HO) to an appropriate cell without handing over the UE to the island cell. There are provided three methods including a base station-based method, a UE measurement-based method, and a UE history-based method according to how to measure a dwell time in which the UE stays in a cell, a component in which obtained information is received within a network, and how to process an HO using the information.

Abstract: Provided is a bit calculation method, which accurately and easily calculates how many bits are transmitted by codeword per PDSCH in advance before a modulator performs modulation by TTI unit on a PCH or a DL-SCH transferred by a TrCH encoder, in a base-station modulator applied to an LTE-advanced system. Accordingly, the bit calculation method enables smooth data transmission, and easily checks data transmission error.

Abstract: Provided are a high-speed Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) apparatus and a method thereof. The high-speed DFT apparatus includes a zero padding unit, a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) unit, and a preamble index decision unit. The zero padding unit receives a first input signal having a length of a prime number and changes the first input signal into a second input signal having a length of an exponentiation of 2. The FFT unit performs a FFT on the second input signal outputted from the zero padding unit. The preamble index decision unit detects a preamble index from an output signal from the FFT unit.

Abstract: Provided is a subframe scheduling method in which a relay may transmit interval information of a service to a base station, and the base station may modify a location of a subframe based on the interval information, and thereby preventing a quality deterioration occurring due to a retransmission failure. The subframe scheduling method may include: setting and transmitting, by a base station, subframe information; setting and implementing, by a relay, a service based on the subframe information; transmitting, by the relay, interval information of the service to the base station; modifying, by the base station, the subframe information based on the interval information; and transmitting, by the base station, the modified subframe information to the relay.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for managing radio resources, capable of effectively managing radio resources. When a normal call and a handover call are attempted, radio resources are allocated and it is determined whether or not to perform an overload control based on received load related information and then it is determined whether or not to admit the call depending on an availability of a bandwidth for radio resources, a priority of real time traffic or a locking probability of data. The quality and efficiency of a mobile communication service is enhanced by pertaining an effective allocation on radio resources and controlling the load of radio resources in the mobile communication system. The radio resource managing apparatus and method using the same are applied to IMT (International Mobile Telecommunications)-Advanced system base station, thereby optimizing the efficiency of radio resources.

Abstract: There are provided a control channel managing apparatus of a base station, a control channel searching apparatus of a user equipment (UE) and a control channel allocating method in a mobile communication system. When an aggregation level is high and a plurality of UEs having the same starting address of a control channel search space are scheduled in a corresponding subframe, control information with respect to conflicting UEs which have lower priorities in terms of allocation of control information can be transmitted through the conflicting UE space. Hence, more control information can be transmitted and the number of available UEs corresponding to the control information increases, and thus an improvement in the performance of the entire network can be achieved.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of controlling transmission power of femtocells for interference control. The method includes (a) setting transmission power of femtocells to initial transmission power, (b) establishing inequalities between received signal to interference ratios (SIRs) of I user terminals and SIRs satisfying service requirements of the terminals as I simultaneous inequalities, (c) identifying whether the inequalities constituting the simultaneous inequalities are satisfied, and (d) maintaining currently adjusted transmission power and stopping transmission power adjustment of the femtocells if all the inequalities are satisfied in operation (c), wherein operations (c) and (d) are iterated while inequalities are sequentially selected one by one from at least some inequalities if at least some inequalities are not satisfied in operation (c) and transmission power is adjusted one by one in terms representing the transmission power of femtocells in the inequalities.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system and a method for receiving an MBMS broadcasting service. In the present invention, in a mobile communication/wireless communication system, an MBMS service is provided by synchronizing a unicast bearer with a multicast bearer through scheduling information mapping at the time of transmitting a broadcast/multicast service through a unicast. Further, the present invention presents even a method for improving quality of experience (QoE) of the service by providing the MBMS service through the multicast bearer and the unicast bearer simultaneously. According to the present invention, MBMS services of various service qualities can be provided depending on wireless quality of a terminal or the capability of the terminal at the time of providing the MBMS service.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mobility management method for use in a cellular mobile communication system. The mobility management method is configured to save radio resources and provide a stable service by detecting a cell in which a dwell time of user equipment (UE) is short as an island cell and performing a direct handover (HO) to an appropriate cell without handing over the UE to the island cell. There are provided three methods including a base station-based method, a UE measurement-based method, and a UE history-based method according to how to measure a dwell time in which the UE stays in a cell, a component in which obtained information is received within a network, and how to process an HO using the information.

Abstract: A method of controlling femtocell interference considering a macrocell is provided. The method of controlling the interference includes a method of setting transmission power of the femtocell and methods of avoiding the interference of the femtocell. The methods of avoiding the interference include a PRB rotation method, a PRB transmission power restriction method, a hybrid method and a UB rotation method. The method of setting the transmission power and the methods of avoiding the interference may be implemented independently or implemented in combination with each other. Hence, according to the present invention, the femtocell itself can control the interference without affecting an interface of an existing macrocell base station and without signaling through the interface with the macrocell.

Abstract: Disclosed is an indoor location recognition system capable of providing location based services indoors. The indoor location recognition system includes a portable terminal including a short range location recognition system and a wireless communication system using an RFID technology and a two-dimensional bar code technology, a geomagnetic sensor, a camera, an RFID reader or tag, an indoor navigation device calculating a moving distance from revolutions of a wheel of a shopping cart to transmit the calculated moving distance to the portable terminal, shopping mall map information transmitted to the portable terminal, and shopping mall application programs providing location based services. The shopping mall to which the indoor location recognition system according to the exemplary embodiments of the present invention is applied can reduce initial installation costs and operation costs while providing high accuracy of location estimation.

Abstract: Provided is a base station. The base station includes a transceiver, a frequency allocation unit, and an orthogonal code allocation unit. The transceiver communicates with a terminal. The frequency allocation unit allocates a frequency resource to the terminal through the transceiver. The orthogonal code allocation unit generates an orthogonal code index table including a plurality of orthogonal code combinations, and allocates one of the orthogonal code combinations included in the orthogonal code index table to each terminal, to which the frequency resource has been allocated for a service request of the terminal, through the transceiver not to multiply be allocated. At least one of a plurality of orthogonal codes included in the orthogonal code combination is orthogonal to at least one of a plurality of orthogonal codes included in an orthogonal code combination allocated to another terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for reducing zapping delay, which may transmit base layer data for each burst in a time-slicing scheme, and output the base layer data of a channel to be changed at the time of changing the channel, thereby reducing the zapping delay.

Abstract: Disclosed are a subscriber station authentication method, a protocol configuration method, and a device thereof in a wireless portable Internet system. In the subscriber station authentication method, an authentication mode between a subscriber station (10) and a base station (20) is negotiated, and the authentication mode is negotiated by the base station (20) according to the authentication mode negotiation. The authentication modes include an authentication mode based on the IEEE 802.16 privacy standard protocol and an authentication mode based on the standardized authentication protocol of the upper layer. Authentication is performed by the base station (10) in the case of the authentication mode based on the IEEE 802.16 privacy standard protocol, and the authentication is performed through message transmission using a diameter protocol between a base station (10) and an authentication server (40) in the case of the authentication mode based on the standardized authentication protocol of the upper layer.

Abstract: Provided is a method of admission control for a hybrid femtocell in a wireless communication system, in which the method is applied to a wireless communication system including a hybrid femto base station and a core network performing admission control of a mobile station terminal in a femtocell of the hybrid femto base station.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a security association negotiation method of extensible authentication protocol (EAP) for authenticating a subscriber station user in a wireless portable Internet system. An exemplary security association negotiation method using a user authentication in a wireless portable Internet system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes following steps. A base station generates an authentication key for authenticating a user of a subscriber station. The base station receives a security association capability request message including security association capability information of the subscriber station from the subscriber station after generating the authentication key. The base station determines whether the base station is able to accept a security association capability of the subscriber station included in the security association capability request message.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus that may control a configuration and operation of a network including a base station to support a multicast and broadcast multimedia service in a cellular system and may control an operation of a terminal and the like, and thus, may effectively provide a multimedia service in the cellular system.

Abstract: When a call is attempted from a terminal that can transmit/receive data by connecting to different plurality of networks, a radio routing agent that is positioned at a core network selects an optimum wireless route from a plurality of wireless routes and provides the optimum wireless route based on an entire radio resource and a route state. Therefore, when a normal response is received by attempting a call to a call receiving terminal through the optimum wireless route that is selected by the radio routing agent, a call processing apparatus transmits the optimum wireless route to a terminal in which a call is attempted through a base station.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vertical handoff method. According to the present invention, a serving network of a mobile station is determined. Herein, the mobile station that can access a first network having relatively wide service coverage and a second network having relatively narrow service coverage in an area where service coverages of heterogeneous networks are overlapped. When accessing the serving network of the first network, it is determined whether a received signal strength received from the second network is greater than a first threshold value. In addition, a first vertical handoff is decided by using a result of prediction of a transition pattern of the received signal strength that is greater than the first threshold value. When the serving network is the second network, it is determined whether the received signal strength received from the second network is less than a second threshold value.

Abstract: An FFT/IFFT apparatus and method are provided. The FFT/IFFT apparatus includes a storage unit, a first FFT/IFFT unit, a second FFT/IFFT unit, and a third FFT/IFFT unit. The storage unit has as many addresses as the number of bits of input data. The first FFT/IFFT unit sequentially stores half of the input data in the storage unit, performs a first-point FFT/IFFT operation while sequentially receiving the other half of the input data, and stores the first-point FFT/IFFT operation result in the storage unit. The second FFT/IFFT unit performs a second-point FFT/IFFT operation on the first-point FFT/IFFTed data, and stores the second-point FFT/IFFT operation result in the storage unit. The third FFT/IFFT unit performs a third-point FFT/IFFT operation on the second-point FFT/IFFTed data, and stores the third-point FFT/IFFT operation result in the storage unit.