Abstract: A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes receiving an assigned starting point index and an assigned reference signal bandwidth for a reference signal. The reference signal is then transmitted multiple times, beginning at an initial resource block that is associated with the assigned starting point index and in accordance with the assigned reference signal bandwidth, across a shared channel.

Abstract: A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes receiving an assigned starting point index and an assigned reference signal bandwidth for a reference signal. The reference signal is then transmitted multiple times, beginning at an initial resource block that is associated with the assigned starting point index and in accordance with the assigned reference signal bandwidth, across a shared channel.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of globally balancing the transmit power in a cellular radio system with tight reuse of frequencies, to a central controller node, and to an access point that in combination with conventional power control schemes balances the downlink transmission power on re-used frequencies in order to balance co-channel interference in a multi-cell environment. The power balancing scheme takes the instantaneous channel variation and co-channel interference into account and satisfies the throughput requirements of the different cells when allocating downlink power to the user equipments. Global power balancing dynamically assigns a token to or takes a token away from an individual reused radio channel based on quality of, or based on transmission power in the channel. The balancing of transmission power, along with the conventional power scheme, prevents a global increase or global decrease of interference in the multi-cellular system.

Abstract: The disclosure is related to configuration and mapping of uplink control channel resources. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to configuring and mapping uplink control channel resources for user equipment receiving downlink control information through a downlink control channel newly defined in a data region. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to configuring and mapping uplink control channel resources for uplink HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback of user equipment. Herein, the uplink HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback may be performed by the user equipment in response to a downlink data channel assigned according to downlink scheduling information transmitted through such new downlink control channel.

Abstract: A link scheduling apparatus and method based on inter-link interference information sharing technique for use in a Device to Device (D2D) communication system is provided. A link scheduling method of a transmission node in a wireless communication system supporting direct communication between the transmission and recipient nodes includes receiving interference information of at least one recipient node from at least one recipient node, the interference occurring from at least one transmission node to at least one reception node, scheduling links based on the interference information; and transmitting data according to the scheduled links.

Abstract: There is provided methods, devices and computer program products for automatically connecting an IEEE 802.11 terminal to a virtual IEEE 802.11 wireless network and thereby establishing a data connection to a remote data communications network. A terminal sends a service provider request to an access point. The service provider request is forwarded to a master server which searches for an association between the terminal and a service provider and a service provider server for available service providers. Acknowledgement information relating to a service provider server associated with available service providers capable of operatively connecting the terminal to the data communications network via the access point is sent by the master server to the access point. The access point establishes a virtual IEEE 802.11 wireless network based on this.

Abstract: A method of signaling in a wireless communication system (300) comprising a first network element (310) serving a wireless communication unit (325) with at least one packet data network (PDN) connection. The method comprises transmitting, by the first network element (310) to the wireless communication unit (325), a signaling message relating to a wireless communication unit (325) uplink (UL) PDN transmission, where the signaling message comprises a parameter indicative of at least one aggregate maximum bit rate (AMBR) value.

Abstract: A method for activating or deactivating an extended carrier and a base station are disclosed, and relate to the field of radio communications. The method includes: configuring an extended carrier of an independent carrier for a user equipment, where the extended carrier includes at least one of an adjacent extended carrier of the independent carrier and a non-adjacent extended carrier of the independent carrier; and activating or deactivating the extended carrier by using a bit in an original MAC CE and/or an extended MAC CE and corresponding to an index of the extended carrier. The base station includes a configuring module and an activating or deactivating module.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for controlling an operational status and terminal equipment. The method comprises: judging by terminal equipment whether a scheduling request procedure or a random access procedure initiated to a base station is finished, when on duration is terminated and an inactivity timer is overtime, or a DRX command transmitted by a base station is received; and keeping in an LTE operational status by the terminal equipment instead of entering into an ISM operational status when it is judged that the scheduling request procedure or the random access procedure is not finished. In the embodiments of the present invention, the waste of the resources of the LTE system may be lowered and the performance of the LTE system may be improved.

Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and at least one Node-B, a method and apparatus is used to selectively enable reception of at least one downlink (DL) enhanced uplink (EU) signaling channel established between the WTRU and the Node-B(s). During the operation of an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH), the WTRU monitors at least one DL EU signaling channel established between the WTRU and the Node-B(s) only when it is necessary, based on the WTRU's knowledge of at least one established standard procedure. The WTRU coordinates and consolidates DL signaling channel reception requirements of a plurality of channel allocation and/or data transmission procedures carried out by the WTRU in accordance with the established standard procedure. The WTRU determines whether to enable reception of at least one specific DL signaling channel based on the consolidated DL signaling channel reception requirements.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and system for determining resource indices in a wireless communication system, which explores and implements for at least two control channel elements (CCEs) for a user equipment (UE), maps the CCEs to at least two resource indices for the UE according to a predetermined mapping rule. It can determine multiple resource indices to a UE implicitly according to some embodiments of the present invention.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for data sending in a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system. The method includes: sending data to the primary user and the secondary user on the bandwidth on which the clear to send (CTS) sent by the primary user is received and a bandwidth on which the CTS sent by the secondary user is received. The bandwidth on which the request to send (RTS) is sent to the secondary user in this solution may be dynamically adjusted according to an available bandwidth of the primary user, so that sending of unnecessary RTSs on some secondary channels is avoided and send power of an AP and send power of a user are saved.

Abstract: A method for configuring resource, method for transmitting response signal, base station and user equipment. The method for configuring resource comprises: configuring a PHICH resource in a data region of a second slot in the data resources scheduled to user equipment in a current subframe. The base station may transmit a response signal via the configured data resource. As a new PHICH resource is configured, the problem of inadequate PHICH resources existed at present is solved.

Abstract: A cell identifier allocation apparatus and method, a base station, a readable program and a medium including acquiring location information of a macro base station and location information of each of a plurality of remote transmitting apparatuses connected to the macro base station; determining relative distances between the plurality of remote transmitting apparatuses and relative distances between the macro base station and each of the plurality of remote transmitting apparatuses; classifying the macro base station and the plurality of remote transmitting apparatuses into a plurality of sets, according to the relative distances between the plurality of remote transmitting apparatuses and the relative distances between the macro base station and each of the plurality of remote transmitting apparatuses; allocating cell identifiers to the plurality of remote transmitting apparatuses; and generating information to be transmitted to corresponding remote transmitting apparatus according to the allocated cell iden

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for ACK/NACK transmission. When a terminal device only receives a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in which a downlink assignment index (DAI) value is equal to 1 in a feedback window, the terminal device transmits ACK/NACK feedback information corresponding to the SPS PDSCH and ACK/NACK feedback information corresponding to the PDCCH on PUCCH format 1a/1b resource using PUCCH format 1b with channel selection or ACK/NACK bundling.

Abstract: An allocation of wireless resources is performed to avoid interference caused as an uplink and a downlink are mismatched between neighboring cells. When interference at a base station is desired to be reduced, in each portion causing interference at a base station side, an ABS is applied to any one of downlink and uplink sub frames. When interference at a terminal is desired to be reduced, in each portion causing interference at a terminal side, transmission or reception of a terminal is stopped. When both interference at a base station side and interference at a terminal side are desired to be reduced, basically, it is desirable to stop the same portion as when interference between base stations is reduced.

Abstract: In a system which performs wireless communication from an access point to stations using group identification information, the frequency of uses of group identification information that overlaps with that of another access point is reduced. An association between a station apparatus included in a group that is a target for simultaneous transmission and group identification information is stored, each station apparatus included in the group is notified of the group identification information, group identification information that is being used in the other access point apparatus is acquired, and if group identification information that is being used by the access point apparatus itself overlaps with the group identification information used by the other access point apparatus, the group identification information is changed so as to reduce the number of pieces of overlapping group identification information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a resource reservation method and system for reserving resources in a mobile multimedia system, and the method of the present invention comprises: a resource request step in which a terminal, which has negotiated communication conditions with another terminal, transmits a PDP context activation request message for reserving resources according to the communication conditions to a serving GPRS support node (SGSN); and a response step in which the SGSN transmits a response message including information on a determined QoS level to the terminal.

Abstract: There is provided a communication control apparatus including a communication controller that controls cooperative communication linked to other communication control apparatuses depending on whether the communication control apparatus or the other communication control apparatuses perform terminal grouping to distinguish an operation to a specific wireless terminal and to other wireless terminals.

Abstract: A method for processing data in a wireless communication network is provided, wherein at least two resource pools for an uplink control channel are provided for mobile terminals for a geographical area, and wherein the mobile terminals in the geographical area uses at least one of the at least two resource pools for the uplink control channel. In addition, a corresponding device and system are suggested.

Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus in which, a transmission control unit (204) controls the transmission power of a sounding reference signal (SRS) by use of an offset value relative to the transmission power of a data signal, and a transmission unit (206) transmits the SRS by use of the transmission power as controlled. If a subframe to be used for transmitting the SRS is a predetermined subframe, the transmission control unit (204) uses a first offset value to control the transmission power of the SRS. Otherwise, the transmission control unit (204) uses a second offset value to control the transmission power of the SRS. The second offset value is an offset value that has been established so as to be transmitted to the serving cell of the terminal (200), and the first offset value is greater than the second offset value.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a communication system capable of minimizing effects due to a delay among a plurality of base station devices as much as possible in scheduling for communication with a terminal device in cooperation among the plurality of base station devices. Cells1 to 3 can each perform scheduling without using information for scheduling notified from one or a plurality of cells among pieces of information for scheduling notified from other cells. For example, in a case where an interface between the cell1 and cell3 has a large delay amount, the cell1 performs scheduling without using information S13 notified to the cell1 by the cell3, and the cell3 performs scheduling without using information S11 notified to the cell3 by the cell1.

Abstract: A pico base station PeNB #1 in a mobile communication system that supports a carrier aggregation technology defined in a 3GPP standard, communicates with a macro base station MeNB via an X2 interface. The pico base station PeNB #1 requests the macro base station MeNB to limit use of a component carrier or to release the component carrier from the use limitation.

Abstract: There is provided an method, apparatus for performing the method and a computer program product, wherein the method includes allocating to a terminal device multiple terminal device-specific physical uplink control channel resources for a transmission of a scheduling request from the terminal device, wherein the transmission of the scheduling request comprises multiple physical uplink control channel transmissions taking place on the allocated resources.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for allocating a timing advance (TA) value, which is used in a wireless access system supporting carrier aggregation (CA), methods for adjusting a wireless frame transmission time using the TA value, and apparatuses for supporting same. The method for adjusting the transmission timing in the wireless access system supporting carrier aggregation, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises the following steps: receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal including a reservation bit (for example, a service cell indicator) for indicating at least one serving cell; receiving a media access control (MAC) message including the TA value on an uplink wireless frame; and transmitting an uplink signal by applying the TA value from a serving cell indicated by the reservation bit.

Abstract: A base station includes a precoding processor that conducts the same precoding process on a control channel and a reference signal, a controller that sets a plurality of regions including a region in which the reference signal is placed and a region in which the control channel is potentially placed. Different precoding processes are used among different regions. A transmit processor uses resources in a region to transmit the control channel and the reference signal. A mobile station device includes a controller that sets a region on the basis of announced information from the base station device, a propagation channel estimator that averages propagation channel variation estimation values from a plurality of reference signals within the region, and a control channel detector that uses the averaged propagation channel estimation values to detect the control channel that includes control information addressed to the mobile station device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for dynamically controlling the multiple transmission of control information in a wireless communication system. The method for controlling the transception of multiple physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs) in a wireless communication system comprises: a base station transmitting instruction information, which controls the transmission of multiple PUCCHs, to a user terminal that performs the transmission of multiple PUCCHs through either a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a medium access control (MAC) layer, or radio resource control (RRC) signaling; and receiving multiple PUCCHs from said user terminal according to a multiple transmission instruction in said instruction information.

Abstract: In a radio communication system in which a base station and a terminal communicate with each other, the base station is capable of efficiently notifying the terminal of control information. The base station sets monitoring of a second control channel in the terminal through RRC signaling that is higher-layer control information, the second control channel being transmitted using a second transmit port different from a first transmit port used for transmission of a first control channel. The base station transmits control information for the terminal by mapping the control information to the second control channel. The first transmit port is a transmit port used for transmission of a cell-specific reference signal that is a reference signal common within a cell, and the second transmit port is a transmit port used for transmission of a terminal-specific reference signal that is a reference signal specific to the terminal.

Abstract: A base station is capable of efficiently notifying a terminal of control information. The base station communicates with the terminal using a sub-frame including a plurality of resource block pairs. The base station sets a second control channel region in the terminal through RRC signaling that is higher-layer control information, the second control channel region being a region set differently from a first control channel region in which a first control channel is to be arranged. The base station transmits control information for the terminal by mapping the control information to a second control channel that is to be arranged in the second control channel region. The first control channel region is set in the sub-frame to be specific to the base station, and the second control channel region is set in the sub-frame to be specific to the terminal in units of the resource block pairs.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for transmitting/receiving a control channel in a downlink subframe, which divides into a control area and a data area. The present invention enables the downlink control channel transmitted from the data area of a specific carrier wave to be configured to carry scheduling information on another carrier wave.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for transmitting/receiving a control channel in a downlink subframe, which divides into a control area and a data area. In the present invention, a first downlink control channel is transmitted in the control area of the downlink subframe, and/or a second downlink control channel is transmitted in the data area of the downlink subframe. The first downlink control channel carries downlink control information having a predetermined format, and the second downlink control channel carries downlink control information having a format corresponding to a transmission mode of a user device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and more specifically, to a method for providing an improved communication environment for a terminal using a vehicle provided with antennas, and to an apparatus for executing same.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for assigning aggregated component carriers. For example, a method may include receiving from a user equipment (UE) a set of rules associated with timing advance groups (TAGs) comprising allowable combinations of frequency bands. The method may include determining frequencies of aggregated component carriers. The method may include assigning the aggregated component carriers to at least one timing advance group based on the allowable combinations of frequency bands and the determined frequencies of the aggregated component carriers.

Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for resource block-specific control signaling in a communication system. Communication data is transmitted using a transmission channel comprising a plurality of resource blocks defined by allocating time-frequency slots in a transmission resource. Resource block control information is transmitted in a “feed-forward” manner to a user end (UE) or group of UEs using channels physically mapped into scheduled resource blocks (RBs) for that user or group of users. Embodiments of the invention provide an RB-specific control channel that comprises RB control elements that are embedded within scheduled resource blocks. The invention, therefore, reduces the amount of control information that must be transmitted by common or shared control channels.

Abstract: Establishing a circuit-switched fallback (CSFB) call. A request to establish a CSFB call may be received. A first wireless link with a first cell may be released. The first cell may provide packet-switched services but not circuit-switched services. A second wireless link may be established with a second cell. The second cell may provide packet-switched services and circuit-switched services. The CSFB call may be established via the connection to the second cell. Packet-switched registration with the second cell may be performed after the CSFB call is established.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing information in a cellular wireless communication system, wherein each cell in said cellular wireless communication system is served by a base station, and said cellular wireless communication system employs a procedure in which a mobile station suffering from a radio link failure (RLF), when being connected to a cell, may attempt to re-establish a connection in another cell, comprising the steps of: detecting a radio link failure (RLF) for said mobile station while connected to a first cell; requesting a radio resource control (RRC) re-establishment for said mobile station in a second cell after said radio link failure (RLF); and providing information, whether said radio resource control (RRC) re-establishment for said mobile station was successful or not, to said first cell and/or to a third cell, wherein said third cell is the cell to which said mobile station was connected before said first cell.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing roaming of a Mobile Node in a Visited network. The Mobile Node is associated with a Home network. In the Visited network, a server selects a Gateway node for use by the Mobile Node based on selection criteria. The server then sends a message to an access node in the Visited network to which the Mobile Node is attached, the message identifying the selected Gateway node. This instructs the Mobile Node to communicate with its Home network via the selected Gateway Node.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and device for handling a failure of a mobility management device in an ISR activated scenario. The method includes: detecting, by a serving gateway, a failure of a first mobility management device; and when the serving gateway receives downlink user plane or control plane data of a user equipment, paging, by the serving gateway, the user equipment using a downlink data notification message including identity information of the user equipment, in a first radio access network connected to the first mobility management device.

Abstract: A method for performing handover in a first type of cell by a terminal supporting an inter-radio access technology (interRAT) handover includes the steps of searching for cells of a second type that are operating in accordance with a communication type different from that of the first type of cell; receiving a minimal reception signal quality value and signal quality offset information from a second type of base station which is found in the step of searching for cells of the second type; determining whether or not the found second type of base station is available for service based on a signal quality measurement value, a power compensation value, and the minimal reception signal quality value and signal quality offset information of the found second type of base station; and performing handover to the second type of base station when the latter is determined to be available for service.

Abstract: This invention concerns multiplexing in Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) in Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) wireless telephony. Joint processing down link coordinated multi-point reference signaling includes combining resource signal types at a user equipment, determining conflicts between resource signals of plural user equipment, puncturing resource signals of other cell upon determining conflicts between resource signals of plural user equipment and transmitting non-punctured combined resource signals from a user equipment.

Abstract: A system is provided for precoding in a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) joint transmission (JT) system. During operation, the system identifies, at a first base station (BS) of a first cell, a set of regular user equipments (UEs), which are located within the first cell and receive signals from the first BS; and one or more coordinated multipoint (CoMP) UEs, which are located within a second cell and receive signals. The CoMP UEs receive signals from both the first BS and a second BS of the second cell. The system obtains a first channel state information (CSI) associated with the regular UEs, receives a second CSI associated with the CoMP UEs from the second BS, and constructs a local precoder for the first cell in accordance with the first CSI and the second CSI.

Abstract: A mechanism for radio systems co-existence on secondary carriers may be of particular value to radio systems that that operating on the same bands as Wi-Fi™ (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, or the like) or the bands of similar radio systems. A method providing such a mechanism may include operating Provide Wireless a first network node of a first radio network on a primary channel. The method may also include identifying a secondary channel for expanded operation of the first network node. The method may further include providing a second network node with an opportunity to capture the secondary channel.

Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided. A first radio module communicates with a first communications device in compliance with a first protocol to provide a first wireless communications service. A second radio module communicates with a second communications device in compliance with a second protocol to provide a second wireless communications service. The first radio module further estimates time remaining for the second radio module before a next operation of the first radio module and transmits information regarding the estimated remaining time to the second radio module. The second radio module further schedules operations of the second radio module according to the information regarding the estimated remaining time received from the first radio module.

Abstract: Provided are a method for controlling uplink transmission power and a wireless device. The wireless device decides a first transmission power of a first uplink channel, which is transmitted through a first wireless resource from a first serving cell, and decides a second transmission power of a second uplink channel, which is transmitted through a second wireless resource from a second serving cell. The first serving cell belongs to a first timing advance (TA) group, and the second serving cell belongs to a second TA group that differs from the first TA group. All or a portion of the first wireless resource and the second wireless resource overlap, wherein the sum of the first and second transmission powers in the overlapping portion is decided so as not to exceed a maximum transmission power.

Abstract: Provided is a method and an apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal in a carrier aggregation system. The method comprises: transmitting via a first serving cell a synchronization signal setting information with regard to a second serving cell; and transmitting the synchronization signal via the second serving cell, wherein the synchronization signal is variably set by means of the synchronization signal setting information.

Abstract: An efficient method for providing both dedicated and simulcast services over a common wireless infrastructure is described. The services can be available to a single terminal as well as to a multiplicity of terminals simultaneously. The method uses time division multiplexing and orthogonal frequency division multiple access for simulcasting information and transmitting dedicated message information from a plurality of base stations forming a cellular pattern over the same wireless frequency channel. The method comprises the steps of constructing frames for transmission by the plurality of base stations comprising control information, simulcast information and dedicated message information within predetermined time slots of the frames and allocating the simulcast information and the dedicated message information to time slots of the same frame predetermined by the control information of the frame. The underlying modulation technology used is OFDM and thereby the channel delay-dispersion is minimized.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a WLAN gateway (WGW) receives a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) request from a WLAN controller for an IP address of a user equipment (UE). In one embodiment, DHCP server within the WGW assigns a local IP (LIP) address to the UE from a pool of local IP addresses maintained by the DHCP server. The WGW communicates the UE LIP address to the WLAN controller, wherein the UE LIP address is used by the WLAN controller to identify traffic to/from the UE while the UE is communicatively coupled to the WLAN and exchange the DE traffic between WGW and WLAN controller. In one embodiment, the WGW is configured to perform network address translation between the UE LIP and an external IP address assigned by one or more networks of the mobile network operator (MNO) to allow the UE to reach the network(s) in addition to the Internet.

Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus receiving or storing an indicator relating to an access point, the indicator indicating whether the first access point supports joint association and address provisioning. The apparatus is configured to transmit a request for joint association and address provisioning toward the access point, and to receive from the access point a response to the request for joint association and address provisioning.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a method for creating probe requests. The method is used when positioning is required. A short probe request is constructed with SSID set to GPS SSID_NAME. Another method continues after a short probe response is received. It is determined if a SSID of the probe response matches the SSID of the short probe request. If it does send an ACK.

Abstract: Beamforming feedback frame formats within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A transmitting wireless communication device (TX) transmits a sounding frame to one or more receiving wireless communication devices (RXs) using one or more antennae and one or more clusters. Any antenna/cluster combination may be employed in communications between TXs and RXs. The one or more RXs receive/process the sounding frame to determine a type of beamforming feedback frame to be provided to the TX. Any one of a variety of beamforming feedback frame types and a types of information may be contained within a respective beamforming feedback frame including various characteristics of the respective communication channel between the TX and each of the various RXs. A common beamforming feedback frame format may be supported and employed by all such wireless communication devices (e.g., TX and RXs) when performing MU-MIMO operation such as in accordance with IEEE 802.11ac/VHT.