Patents by Inventor Zhisheng Niu

Zhisheng Niu 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).

  • Patent number: 9942867
    Abstract: A synchronization apparatus in a control base station is disclosed. A GNSS synchronization unit receives a GNSS signal through a GNSS antenna to obtain time information. A clock generation unit adjusts a clock of the control base station based on the time information provided by the GNSS synchronization unit. A traffic base station synchronization unit transmits and receives information with a traffic base station through a wired connection. A user data sample generation unit generates data required by a mobile user including network time information, and transmits the data to the mobile user equipment through a control base station antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zhao, Miao Jiang, Lu Geng, Meng Zheng, Sheng Zhou, Zhisheng Niu
  • Patent number: 9801093
    Abstract: It is provided a dynamic association control apparatus comprising: an information acquisition part configured to acquire information related to an object relay node and to candidate base stations to be associated; a blocking probability calculation part configured to calculate respectively a candidate blocking probability in a case where the object relay node performs association with each of the candidate base stations to be associated according to the acquired information; and an association control part configured to select an object blocking probability from the calculated candidate blocking probabilities, and use a base station corresponding to the selected object blocking probability as an object base station to which the association is transferred, so that the object relay node changes to be associated with the object base station to which the association is transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Yang, Chunguang Liu, Zexi Yang, Sheng Zhou, Mika Mizutani, Zhisheng Niu
  • Patent number: 9635528
    Abstract: It is provided are a server including: a storage module for storing original files and characteristics of the original files; an encoding module for encoding the original files stored in the storage module to generate encoded symbols; an information acquisition module for communicating with at least one transmission node and acquiring state information from the at least one transmission node; a control module for calculating a number of the encoded symbols to be sent to the at least one transmission node for caching based on the characteristics of the original files stored in the storage module and the state information of the at least one transmission node acquired by the information acquisition module; and a communication module for sending the encoded symbols to the at least one transmission node based on the number of the encoded symbols calculated by the control module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunguang Liu, Peng Yang, Xiaolei Wang, Yanan Bao, Sheng Zhou, Mika Mizutani, Zhisheng Niu
  • Publication number: 20160353399
    Abstract: A synchronization apparatus in a control base station is disclosed. A GNSS synchronization unit receives a GNSS signal through a GNSS antenna to obtain time information. A clock generation unit adjusts a clock of the control base station based on the time information provided by the GNSS synchronization unit. A traffic base station synchronization unit transmits and receives information with a traffic base station through a wired connection. A user data sample generation unit generates data required by a mobile user including network time information, and transmits the data to the mobile user equipment through a control base station antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tao ZHAO, Miao JIANG, Lu GENG, Meng ZHENG, Sheng ZHOU, Zhisheng NIU
  • Patent number: 9369956
    Abstract: The base station includes: a determination unit for comparing states of traffic currently provided by the base station and other neighboring base stations and determining whether the base station has the lowest traffic; an information transmission unit for sending a sleep request and a handover request for handing over the user terminal associated with the base station to one of the neighboring base stations in case where the determination unit determines that the traffic currently provided by the base station is lowest; a receiving unit for receiving feedback information sent from the one of the neighboring base stations after admission control; and an executing unit for executing sleep decision after receiving handover request permitting information from the neighboring base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongheon Lee, Sheng Zhou, Peng Yang, Chunguang Liu, Zhisheng Niu, Mika Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9351170
    Abstract: It is provided a renewable energy base station, which is used in a wireless cellular system, including: an adjustment request determining part for determining whether an adjustment to a coverage area is required; an adjustment request transceiver in case where it is determined that the adjustment to the coverage area is required, sending a coverage area adjustment request to neighboring base stations in the wireless cellular system, and receiving an adjustment request response from the neighboring base stations; an adjustment request responding part for determining whether the coverage area adjustment request from the one of the neighboring base stations is allowed in case where receiving the coverage area adjustment request from one of the neighboring base stations; and a response transmitter for sending the adjustment request response to the neighboring base stations based on a result of the determination made by the adjustment request responding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunguang Liu, Peng Yang, Jie Gong, Sheng Zhou, Mika Mizutani, Zhisheng Niu
  • Patent number: 9271152
    Abstract: Provided is a micro base station to be used in a heterogeneous cellular network. The micro base station has resources including frequency bands and time slots and being available for a user to use. The heterogeneous cellular network includes a plurality of base stations including a macro base station and the micro base station. The micro base station includes: an information acquiring part configured to acquire configuration information and load information of the micro base station, and to acquire configuration information and load information of a neighboring base station adjacent to the micro base station from the neighboring base station; and a resource selection part configured to select a part of the resources from the resources to provide the selected part of the resources to the user based on the configuration information and the load information of the micro base station and the neighboring base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongxu Cao, Chunguang Liu, Sheng Zhou, Peng Yang, Zhisheng Niu, Mika Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9204363
    Abstract: A method of sending data from a source node in a wireless communications network is provided. In an example, the method includes selecting one of a plurality of available routing paths, from the source node to a destination node, on which to send data based on routing criteria specified by the source node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Zhi Zheng, Ling Qian, Lei Wang, Zhisheng Niu
  • Publication number: 20150312799
    Abstract: It is provided a dynamic association control apparatus comprising: an information acquisition part configured to acquire information related to an object relay node and to candidate base stations to be associated; a blocking probability calculation part configured to calculate respectively a candidate blocking probability in a case where the object relay node performs association with each of the candidate base stations to be associated according to the acquired information; and an association control part configured to select an object blocking probability from the calculated candidate blocking probabilities, and use a base station corresponding to the selected object blocking probability as an object base station to which the association is transferred, so that the object relay node changes to be associated with the object base station to which the association is transferred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Peng YANG, Chunguang LIU, Zexi YANG, Sheng ZHOU, Mika MIZUTANI, Zhisheng NIU
  • Patent number: 8942757
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication control device, a communication control method and the system thereof, which provide efficient multi-base station joint services in a mobile communication system using dynamic clustering. Optimal base station clustering is chosen according to the communication state between a terminal and each base station. The communication control device connects with multiple base stations through a network, and clusters the multiple base stations dynamically so that the clustered multiple base stations can provide services for the mobile terminal in union. The communication control device comprises: an interface, connecting with multiple base stations, receiving channel state information related to the mobile terminal from each base station; a memory unit, storing the channel state information of the mobile terminal received from the interface; a control unit, clustering each base station dynamically according to the channel state information of the mobile terminal stored in the memory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunjian Jia, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Hideya Yoshiuchi, Peng Yang, Yuanchen Ma, Lu Geng, Sheng Zhou, Zhisheng Niu, Jie Gong
  • Publication number: 20140297792
    Abstract: It is provided are a server including: a storage module for storing original files and characteristics of the original files; an encoding module for encoding the original files stored in the storage module to generate encoded symbols; an information acquisition module for communicating with at least one transmission node and acquiring state information from the at least one transmission node; a control module for calculating a number of the encoded symbols to be sent to the at least one transmission node for caching based on the characteristics of the original files stored in the storage module and the state information of the at least one transmission node acquired by the information acquisition module; and a communication module for sending the encoded symbols to the at least one transmission node based on the number of the encoded symbols calculated by the control module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunguang LIU, Peng YANG, Xiaolei WANG, Yanan BAO, Sheng ZHOU, Mika MIZUTANI, Zhisheng NIU
  • Publication number: 20140295839
    Abstract: Provided are a hyper-cellular communication system and a hyper-cellular communication method for associating a user to a macro cell base station or a micro cell base station. The hyper-cellular communication system includes: a gateway, which includes a user quality of service classification index table including two parameters, namely user mobility and signaling overhead; and a resource optimization function unit for making decisions on base station association and wireless resource allocation by referring to the quality of service classification index table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Jian WU, Peng YANG, Yanan BAO, Chunguang LIU, Sheng ZHOU, Zhisheng NIU, Mika MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20140256330
    Abstract: It is provided a renewable energy base station, which is used in a wireless cellular system, including: an adjustment request determining part for determining whether an adjustment to a coverage area is required; an adjustment request transceiver in case where it is determined that the adjustment to the coverage area is required, sending a coverage area adjustment request to neighboring base stations in the wireless cellular system, and receiving an adjustment request response from the neighboring base stations; an adjustment request responding part for determining whether the coverage area adjustment request from the one of the neighboring base stations is allowed in case where receiving the coverage area adjustment request from one of the neighboring base stations; and a response transmitter for sending the adjustment request response to the neighboring base stations based on a result of the determination made by the adjustment request responding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Chunguang LIU, Peng YANG, Jie GONG, Sheng ZHOU, Mika MIZUTANI, Zhisheng NIU
  • Publication number: 20140256329
    Abstract: Provided is a micro base station to be used in a heterogeneous cellular network. The micro base station has resources including frequency bands and time slots and being available for a user to use. The heterogeneous cellular network includes a plurality of base stations including a macro base station and the micro base station. The micro base station includes: an information acquiring part configured to acquire configuration information and load information of the micro base station, and to acquire configuration information and load information of a neighboring base station adjacent to the micro base station from the neighboring base station; and a resource selection part configured to select a part of the resources from the resources to provide the selected part of the resources to the user based on the configuration information and the load information of the micro base station and the neighboring base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Dongxu CAO, Chunguang LIU, Sheng ZHOU, Peng YANG, Zhisheng NIU, Mika MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20140219150
    Abstract: It is provided a base station included in a cellular network system together with other neighboring base stations, which provides information service to a user terminal. The base station comprising: a determination unit for comparing states of traffic currently provided by said base station and other neighboring base stations and determining whether said base station has the lowest traffic; an information transmission unit for sending a sleep request and a handover request for handing over the user terminal associated with said base station to one of the neighboring base stations in case where the determination unit determines that the traffic currently provided by the base station is lowest; a receiving unit for receiving feedback information sent from the one of the neighboring base stations after admission control; and an executing unit for executing sleep decision after receiving handover request permitting information from the neighboring base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Dongheon LEE, Sheng ZHOU, Peng YANG, Chunguang LIU, Zhisheng NIU, Mika MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20120094710
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication control device, a communication control method and the system thereof, which provide efficient multi-base station joint services in a mobile communication system using dynamic clustering. Optimal base station clustering is chosen according to the communication state between a terminal and each base station. The communication control device connects with multiple base stations through a network, and clusters the multiple base stations dynamically so that the clustered multiple base stations can provide services for the mobile terminal in union. The communication control device comprises: an interface, connecting with multiple base stations, receiving channel state information related to the mobile terminal from each base station; a memory unit, storing the channel state information of the mobile terminal received from the interface; a control unit, clustering each base station dynamically according to the channel state information of the mobile terminal stored in the memory unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yunjian Jia, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Hideya Yoshiuchi, Peng Yang, Yuanchen Ma, Lu Geng, Sheng Zhou, Zhisheng Niu, Jie Gong
  • Publication number: 20120014272
    Abstract: A communication control server of the present invention comprises: a network interface; a memory unit in which a cluster information table and a channel state information table are stored; a channel state information recovery unit acquiring a feedback message of a user equipment within a cluster from a base station via a network interface, wherein the cluster information table holds a joint codebook shared by the base stations within the cluster, wherein the joint codebook holds an identifier for determining channel state information and a distribution of the channel state information, and wherein the feedback message includes an identifier corresponding to the channel state information of the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng ZHOU, Yunjian Jia, Peng Yang, Jie Gong, Zhisheng Niu, Lu Geng
  • Patent number: 7889758
    Abstract: A subchannel scheduling method in a multi-user MIMO-OFDM environment modifies proportional fairness scheduling specifications and maximizes a system throughput under conditions that a minimum data transmission rate required by a multimedia user be ensured. In a method for allocating subchannels in a wireless network, plural users are subscribed in the wireless network, a base station has NT transmission antennas, a user i has NR reception antennas, a network capacity determined by the NT transmission antennas and K subcarrier groups is divided into K transmission subchannel groups, and a network bandwidth determined by the NT transmission antennas is divided into the K subchannel groups. The base station sequentially allocates channels to the users on the basis of a proportional value of a data transmission rate supported to each user and an average throughput of each user in a predetermined time and a service quality required by each user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Lei Li, Zhisheng Niu, Takashi Yano, Shiro Tanabe, Satoshi Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20070286139
    Abstract: Methods of routing data within a wireless communication system are provided. In the example methods and system, data packets may be routed to and/or between any node within a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET), such as a network running Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) protocol, and an external connection or device (e.g., an Internet entity) if at least one node within the MANET includes a connection to the external connection or device. Accordingly, a single “connected” MANET node may share its external connections with non-connected nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Zhisheng Niu, Ling Qian, Lei Wang, Zhi Zheng
  • Patent number: 7289472
    Abstract: A handoff method of wireless LAN comprises the steps of: 1) immediately starting by a mobile terminal to count time from a time point of entering the wireless LAN or building the new association, that is, when building association with a certain access point; 2) always tracking a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the old access point by the mobile terminal, and once the mobile terminal starts getting weak, starting to search for a near access point and making a preparation for handoff, and issuing a probe request signal to a new access point, and always responding to a probe response message by the new access point after receiving the probe request signal; and 3) judging by the mobile terminal whether or not to associate the new access point according to a signal strength and an association time of each of the access points, and if a judging result is yes, issuing the reassociation request signal to the new access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Yano, Hui Deng, Lan Wang, Zhisheng Niu