Abstract: A bearer management node maintains specific bearers eligible for restoration of communication services, while removing other bearers.

Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a user equipment initiates autonomous cell reselection from a source cell to a target cell. Subsequent to the reselection, the user equipment transmits information relating to the source cell to the target cell. The network is in some embodiments configured to use the information for self-organizing network purposes by connecting source-target cell pairs as neighbors.

Abstract: A frame error concealment method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus using the same. The frame error concealment method includes setting a concealment method to conceal an error based on one or more signal characteristics of an error frame having the error and concealing the error using the set concealment method.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of transmitting a measurement report message in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobile station searches for at least one closed subcarrier group (CSG) cell included in a whitelist of the mobile station, and transmits to a GSM/EDGE radio access network (GERAN) cell the measurement report message including a toggling discriminator, which indicates an optimal CSG cell that satisfies a reporting criterion among the at least one found CSG cell, and a physical cell identify (PCI) and frequency of the optimal CSG cell.

Abstract: The invention discloses a method of mobility management in high speed railway, comprising: identifying whether a User Equipment (UE) is a high speed railway UE; if the UE is identified as a high speed railway UE, obtaining a high speed railway neighbor cell list for the UE, wherein the high speed railway neighbor cell list only includes high speed railway cell; and triggering a fast and earlier cell reselection, or cell handover, or both. This improves the mobility handling for high speed railway UE, decreased dropping risk and better user experienced performance are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for reporting channel state information. A method in which a terminal reports control state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of determining rank indicator (RI) report timing for cases where a value of a precoding type indicator (PTI) is 0; a step of determining wideband first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) report timing; a step of determining wideband second precoding matrix indicator report timing and wideband channel quality indicator (CQI) report timing; and a step of reporting said CSI based on the result of the determination on the reporting timing. The CSI which is reported firstly after the RI report timing in cases where the value of the PTI is 0 can be set to become said wideband first PMI.

Abstract: Method and arrangements in a first network node (101) and a user equipment (102) for handling replacement of a first area identifier (A1) of a cell (110) served by the first network node (101) with a second area identifier (A2) is provided. An area identifier replacement period has been introduced in order to allow the first and second area identifiers to be operated simultaneously in a cell that is being updated. Furthermore, a method and arrangement in a second network node for handling paging of user equipments during the area identifier replacement period is provided.

Abstract: A radio network controller, RNC, 614, and a method therein, for enhancing reception quality of transmissions on an uplink control channel from a user equipment, UE, 613 to a serving base station, BS, 610. The RNC, the UE and the serving BS are comprised in a communication system 600. The method comprises, when conditions for boosting the uplink control channel are fulfilled, determining a boosting factor based on a ratio of path gains of a channel from the UE to the serving BS and of a channel from the UE to a non-serving BS 611, respectively, which non-serving BS is comprised in the communications system. The method further comprises transmitting the determined boosting factor to the UE, whereby the reception quality of transmission on the uplink control channel from the UE to the serving BS is enhanced by the UE boosting the control channel by means of the boosting factor.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, includes: receiving uplink control plane signaling or uplink control plane signaling and uplink user plane media data sent by a UE; performing, encapsulation and conversion on the uplink control plane signaling or the uplink control plane signaling and the uplink user plane media data, and sending the uplink control plane signaling or the uplink control plane signaling and the uplink user plane media data after the encapsulation and conversion to a TCF; receiving downlink control plane signaling or downlink control plane signaling and downlink user plane media data sent by the TCF; and performing encapsulation and conversion on the downlink control plane signaling or the downlink control plane signaling and the downlink user plane media data, and sending the downlink control plane signaling or the downlink control plane signaling and the downlink user plane media data after the encapsulation and conversion to the UE.

Abstract: A method for calibrating a transmitter includes operating the transmitter using a first transmitter setting; obtaining, via an external reference measuring device, a transmit power reference value indicative of a first transmit power of the transmitter corresponding to the first transmitter setting, and obtaining, using an internal measuring device of the transmitter or of a receiver associated with the transmitter, a first uncalibrated transmit power measurement value corresponding to the first transmit power. The method further includes calibrating the internal measuring device using the transmit power reference value and the first uncalibrated transmit power measurement value to provide a calibrated internal measuring device, operating the transmitter using a second transmitter setting, and obtaining, using the calibrated internal measuring device, a second transmit power measurement value indicative of a second transmit power corresponding to the second transmitter setting.

Abstract: A UE gauges how many UEs are currently served in each of various coverage systems, by evaluating downlink control channel signaling in each coverage system to determine from the control signaling an extent to which the signaling provides for UE scheduling and to establish a corresponding relative measure of an extent to which the coverage system is serving UEs. In an example implementation, this evaluation may involve eliminating from consideration any control channel signaling that is not associated with UE scheduling, so as to determine by exclusion an extent to which the downlink control channel signaling is associated with UE scheduling. The UE then compares such relative measures of the various coverage systems as a basis to select a coverage system in which to operate, such as by favoring operation in the coverage that thereby seems to be serving the fewest number of UEs.

Abstract: An example method includes obtaining from an Access Network Discovery and Selection (ANDSF) server an ANDSF policy specifying a rule for access selection, the rule specifying one or more attributes to be compared to a corresponding one or more expressions, at least one of the corresponding one or more expressions being a sum of a corresponding threshold parameter and a corresponding offset parameter. The example method further includes obtaining one or more threshold parameter values, obtaining at least one offset parameter value, and determining the access selection based on the at least one rule, the one or more threshold parameter values, and the at least one offset parameter value.

Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, and machine-readable mediums in which the COC functionality is enhanced to provide for compensation of both a first cell that experiences an outage and a second cell that is being compensated for by the first cell upon an identified outage of the first cell. In some examples, messaging fields for messaging interfaces and database fields are modified to allow the compensation state of the first cell to be determined and/or saved.

Abstract: A wireless base station device includes a broadcast signal transmission unit that transmits a broadcast signal to a cell; a measurement signal communication unit that transmits to a mobile terminal device existing in the cell a measurement instruction signal and receives a measurement report signal from the mobile terminal device; a failure detection processing unit that detects a failure of a first cell with respect to a transmission function from the wireless base station to the first cell according to whether a measurement report signal including a measurement report of a wireless quality for a second cell measured by a mobile terminal device existing in a coverage area of the first cell is received or not; and an alarm signal transmission unit that transmits an alarm signal to notify a failure monitoring device of an occurrence of the failure of the first cell.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for focused communication is disclosed. The method includes a base transmitter array in communication with at least one client device at the same frequency. The base transmitter array provides a focused data communication to the client device.

Abstract: Provided is a method for reporting mobility information by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method includes generating mobility information and reporting the mobility information via a network. The mobility information includes mobility state information indicating the estimated mobility state of the terminal, and mobility history information relating to the mobility history of the terminal.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are described. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) generates data bits and piggybacked acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (PAN) bits and generates a plurality of symbols based on the data bits and the PAN bits. Each symbol of the plurality of symbols represents a plurality of bits and has a least significant bit (LSB) position, and no PAN bits are present in the LSB position of each of the plurality of symbols. The plurality of symbols are transmitted.

Abstract: A wireless communication device performs a method for determining when to trigger a handover of a communication session from a first access network to a second access network. The method includes determining, for an active communication session, a set of outgoing traffic statistics for outgoing traffic sent by the wireless communication device using the first access network and determining, for the active communication session, a set of incoming traffic statistics for incoming traffic received by the wireless communication device using the first access network. The method further includes analyzing the incoming and outgoing traffic statistics and determining when to trigger a handover of the active communication session from the first access network to the second access network based on the analysis of the incoming and outgoing traffic statistics.

Abstract: Described is a method for managing locally switched call connections in a wireless communication network comprising receiving, at a core network node, a first message indicating that a first user equipment connected via the locally switched call connection has been detected in a target radio access node and transmitting, triggered by the first message, a second message requesting a status change of the locally switched call connection to a second user equipment, such that a user plane data path from the first user equipment to the second user equipment is switched to a core network path. Moreover, the method is implemented in a network node, while the method steps can be executed by means of a computer program product comprising instruction sets performing each method step.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide adaptive monitoring of a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a first set of network data generated for a wireless communication network is analyzed. The first set of network data is a set of historical network data for the wireless communication network. A baseline for at least one operating characteristic associated with the wireless communication network is determined based on the analyzing. A second set of network data generated for the wireless communication network is received. The second set of call detail records that has been received is utilized to determine if the at least one operating characteristic corresponds to the baseline. A set of monitoring operations performed by a network management system with respect to the wireless communication network is dynamically adjusted based on the at least one operating characteristic failing to correspond to the baseline.

Abstract: A method for managing power consumption of a radio access network. The method includes: defining a cluster including at least two radio resource units of the radio access network; defining a parameter indicative of a performance of the cluster and of a power consumption of the cluster, the parameter being expressed as a function of traffic throughputs carried by the radio resource units of the cluster; calculating optimum traffic throughputs as values of the traffic throughputs carried by the radio resource units of the cluster which optimize the parameter; and distributing traffic amongst the radio resource units of the cluster such that the radio resource units of the cluster carry the calculated optimum traffic throughputs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for testing mobile terminals in an OFDMA system, in which all or part of available downlink radio resources in a cell are transmitted. A processing unit in a test apparatus splits a set of contiguous resource blocks into separate contiguous portions. A first contiguous portion of the set of resource blocks is allocated to users of a first type, and a second contiguous portion of the set of resource blocks is allocated to users of a second type. A transmitter in the test apparatus transmits test signals to the users of the first type and the second type using the at least one contiguous set of resource blocks.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method in a mobile communication network for configuring the network for downlink multicarrier data transmission from a network node to a mobile terminal. The method includes the step (210) of receiving a mobile terminal capability signalling in a network node. In a subsequent step (220) at least two carriers are assigned to the mobile terminal in a downlink multicarrier assignment based on information received in the mobile terminal capability signalling. The method also includes a further step of allocating (230), in each radio block period, one or more of the assigned carriers for communication with the mobile terminal. The disclosure also relates to a mobile terminal configured to receive downlink multicarrier data transmission, and a network node configured for downlink multicarrier data transmission.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for providing information for enabling different types of access points to coexist. The information providing method includes: receiving frequency information for broadcasting from a broadcast database server; obtaining information regarding different types of access points located in a certain area; generating information regarding one or more frequency bands that may be used by the different types of access points located in the certain area based on the frequency information for a broadcast; and transmitting information regarding the one or more available frequency bands to the different types of access points.

Abstract: A method and system for reporting performance and controlling mobility between multiple different radio access technologies are disclosed. According to one aspect, a controller in a network collects performance data concerning at least a first network operating according to a first radio access technology, RAT, and a second network operating according to a second RAT, the first RAT being different from the second RAT. The controller includes a performance monitoring collector, PMC, configured to collect performance data from at least a node of the first RAT and from at least a node of the second RAT. The collected performance monitoring data is analyzed to trigger selection of at least one serving radio cell for a user equipment, UE, connection based on the analysis.

Abstract: A method for real-time calibration of an air to ground two-way communication system. The method includes calibrating a ground base station antenna array according to forward link calibration coefficients received from an aircraft as part of a communication signaling protocol during operation of the air to ground two-way communication system. The method may also includes communicating between the ground base station antenna array and the aircraft over a narrow beam.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of allocating an IP address in a mobile communication system.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include devices, systems and methods for optimized camping on a cell. One method can include beginning a power scan of a range of radio-frequency channel numbers as part of an acquisition. Power can be measured for a first set of radio-frequency channel numbers at a time using adjacent channel interference detection. An average power can be computed for each radio-frequency channel number once the range has been scanned a predetermined number of times. Other aspects, embodiments and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: A method of setting an almost blank subframe (ABS) duty cycle in a heterogeneous network including a macro cell and one or more small cells, the one or more small cells being underlaid with respect to the macro cell includes obtaining, at a network element, loading information corresponding to each of the macro cell and the one or more small cells, the loading information including, for each of the macro cell and the one or more small cells, an indication of an amount of information buffered at the cell for each user attached to the cell; and determining the ABS duty cycle based on the obtained loading information.

Abstract: A capability for determining an offset of a wireless access node is presented. The determined offset of the wireless access node may be used by a location determination process associated with the wireless access node and configured to determine locations of mobile wireless devices that are communicating via the wireless access node. The offset of a wireless access node may be determined by determining a known location of a device when the device communicates via the wireless access node, determining an estimated location of the device when the device communicates via the wireless access node where the estimated location of the device is determined using the location determination process associated with the wireless access node, and determining the offset of the wireless access node based on the known location of the device and the estimated location of the device.

Abstract: The present invention reduces the amount of frequency resources required for uplink cooperative communication. There is provided a base station device that is applied to a communication system in which a plurality of base station devices establish cooperative communication with at least one mobile station device and includes a base station-to-base station communication section 220 and a control information determination section 216. The base station-to-base station communication section 220 communicates with another base station device when establishing cooperative communication. The control information determination section 216 allocates a band for communication use by the mobile station device in such a manner that a signal received cooperatively by another base station device and a signal received uncooperatively by another base station device overlap with each other at certain frequencies.

Abstract: A method for measuring network operation related parameters in a mobile communication network with a core network and a radio-access network, preferably in form of a LTE- or UMTS-network, includes the steps of a) configuring an entity in the mobile communication network for measuring including network operation related parameters to be measured, b) selecting a measuring entity, c) measuring the network operation related parameters by the measuring entity, and d) analyzing the measured parameters wherein a filtering is performed prior to step d), wherein the filtering is performed on an entity in the radio access network of the mobile communication network and wherein the filtering reduces the amount of data of the measured network operation related parameters for step d). A system for measuring network operation related parameters is also described.

Abstract: A communications apparatus includes a radio frequency signal processing device, a baseband signal processing device, a memory device and a processor. The RF signal processing device processes RF signals to generate baseband signals. The baseband signal processing device processes the baseband signals. The processor determines whether a first predetermined threshold value related to cell reselection is greater than a second predetermined threshold value related to cell measurement, and performs cell measurement on a predetermined neighbor cell when the first predetermined threshold value is greater than the second predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided that may provide a scheme for measurement reporting for minimization of drive tests (MDT) data. In the context of a method, an indication of a handover of a user terminal from a first cell associated with a first public land mobile network (PLMN) to a second cell associated with a second PLMN may be received by the user terminal. Responsive to the handover, an indication of availability of MDT measurement logged data may be provided to the second PLMN. A determination may then be made at the user terminal as to whether to provide the MDT measurement logged data to the second PLMN based on an identity of the second PLMN.

Abstract: The present invention relates to wideband wireless access system, and more particularly to an effective method for transmitting control information during the combination of multiple carriers. As one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method by which a base station allocates a carrier to a terminal in a wideband wireless access system supporting multiple carriers, the method comprising: transmitting, to the terminal, a terminal specific or terminal group specific carrier allocation information that includes information about at least one of control information and data; and transmitting, to the terminal, a carrier combination control information that includes information about a change in the at least one candidate carrier available.

Abstract: A method and radio access network device includes a processing unit configured to: separate a network measurement configuration command into at least first network measurements and second network measurements; forward the first network measurements of the network measurement configuration command over an air interface to a user equipment; receive, from the user equipment, the first network measurements on downlink communication channels to form first network measurement results; perform, in the radio access network device, the second network measurements on uplink communication channels to form second network measurement results; and combine, in the radio access network device, the first network measurement results from the user equipment with the second network measurement results from the radio access network device to form an aggregated network measurement report.

Abstract: A management of storage of measurement Data is provided. A method of managing storage of a set of measurement data comprises the steps of determining whether a value of at least one of said plurality of parameters has changed by more than a threshold amount from a value of the parameter in a previously stored set of measurement data and storing the set of measurement data, dependent upon the determination being affirmative.

Abstract: Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a network node (401A, 401B) (e.g., a source or target base station), and corresponding method therein, for managing a user equipment time offset measurement by accounting for a user equipment mobility profile. The management may involve a source network node (401A) delaying or preventing the sending of a user equipment timing offset measurement to a target network node (401B) or sending an indication or a reliability of the user equipment timing offset measurement. The network node (401A, 401B) may further apply a compensation to the user equipment timing offset measurement to account for an expected behavior of the user equipment based on the mobility profile. The network node (401A, 401B) may also adapt an uplink search window based on the user equipment mobility profile.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for automated data collection using geofence-based triggers. In one embodiment, the location of a vehicle can be monitored by a variety of computing entities. By using the vehicle's location, it can be determined when the vehicle enters and/or exits defined geofences. After a determination that a vehicle has entered or exited a defined geofence, one or more events can be automatically triggered/initiated.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for concealing frame erasure and a voice decoding apparatus and method using the same. The frame erasure concealment apparatus includes: a parameter extraction unit determining whether there is an erased frame in a voice packet, and extracting an excitement signal parameter and a line spectrum pair parameter of a previous good frame; and an erasure frame concealment unit, if there is an erased frame, restoring the excitement signal and line spectrum pair parameter of the erased frame by using a regression analysis from the excitement signal and line spectrum pair parameter of the previous good frame. According to the method and apparatus, by predicting and restoring the parameter of the erased frame through the regression analysis, the quality of the restored voice signal can be enhanced and the algorithm can be simplified.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the radio frequency scanner includes a detector configured to receive signals for transmission by the base station, and to detect a presence metric for each carrier expected in the received signals. A processor is configured to determine if the base station is operating improperly based on the detected presence metrics.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a packet switch and a packet switching method. An example embodiment of the present invention comprises at least three network ports, at least one instrument port, a mux-switch, a packet switch fabric, and an address table. The embodiment updates the address table to include the source address of each ingress packet of each network port and associate the source address with that network port. The mux-switch routes the ingress packet traffic of each network port according to the identity of the network port so that at least a copy of the packet traffic of one of the network ports is routed to an instrument port. The packet switch fabric routes the packets from the instrument ports to the network ports according the destination address of the packet and the identity of the network port that is associated with the destination address as recorded in the address table.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to network communications, and more particularly to machine-to-machine (M2M) data communications. The present invention provides for a method, apparatus and computer program product for allocating and assigning a first APN used in the M2M network which is utilized to provide a M2M control message, to provide satisfactory service levels to a user of the network without overburdening the assigned APN. A control APN approach using M2M control messaging is provided.

Abstract: A method for reducing collisions during the initial access by a plurality of mobile-terminal devices to a base station which comprises a control unit, wherein the control unit administers at least one random-access resource, wherein the method contains the following method steps: setting (S1) by the control unit of a priority which specifies which mobile-terminal device is allowed to connect to the at least one random-access resource; broadcast (S2) of the priority by the base station on at least one known channel.

Abstract: An apparatus for updating a database for wireless LAN based positioning includes a database for storing grid cells divided by pCell ID and base station-derived environment information and wireless LAN environment information matched to the grid cells; a grid cell determining unit for determining an information-unmeasured grid cell among the grid cells, the information-unmeasured grid cell being a grid cell that has unmeasured information among parameters of the wireless LAN environment information matched to the grid cells; an unmeasured parameter checking unit for checking an unmeasured parameter in the information-unmeasured grid cell; a radiowave environment estimating unit for generating radiowave environment estimation information by estimating the unmeasured information based on the unmeasured parameter checked; and a database updating unit for reflecting the radiowave environment estimation information in the information-unmeasured grid cell determined.

Abstract: A system and method for locating a mobile device are presented. A mobile device is configured to transmit a beacon signal encoding an identifier of the mobile device. A relay device has a known location and is configured to receive the beacon signal from the mobile device, the beacon signal having a signal level, encode the identifier of the mobile device, the signal level, and an identifier of the relay device into a message, and transmit the message. A console device is configured to decode the message received from the relay device to identify an approximate location of the mobile device.

Abstract: A method for managing uplink communication in a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes selecting one or more Mobile Stations (MSs) from a plurality of MSs based on a first signal parameter corresponding to each MS of the one or more MSs, one or more second signal parameters corresponding to each MS of the one or more MSs, and one or more threshold parameters. The first signal parameter is associated with a Base Station (BS) serving a MS. Further, the one or more second signal parameters are associated with one or more BSs neighboring to the MS. The one or more threshold parameters are associated with a communication parameter. Thereafter, the method includes modifying an uplink Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level of the one or more MSs.

Abstract: A base station includes a communicating unit that relays communication between a network and a mobile terminal that is capable of using plural communication schemes that respectively use differing transmission routes to a network; a measuring unit that measures a delay amount in the transmission route of each of the communication schemes; and a switching unit that among the communication schemes and based on predetermined information that includes the measured delay amount, switches the communication scheme used for relaying the communication.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a cell reselection method and a mobile terminal. In the embodiments of the present invention, whether a cell where signal measurement needs to be performed exists is determined according to a neighboring cell list and a reselection prohibited list; if a cell where signal measurement needs to be performed exists, signal measurement is performed on the cell where signal measurement needs to be performed and a current serving cell to obtain a measurement result; and if the measurement result satisfies a trigger condition of cell reselection, cell reselection is triggered. Therefore, when cell reselection needs to be performed, signal measurement is no longer performed on a cell in the reselection prohibited list and unnecessary signal measurement and cell reselection are avoided, thereby decreasing power consumption of a mobile terminal and prolonging standby time of the mobile terminal.

Abstract: Devices, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods scheduling subscription procedures on a wireless communication device are described. According to some embodiments, the wireless communication device communicates with a first subscription. The wireless communication device can perform a concurrent burst-level tune-away procedure with a second subscription. The wireless communication device also returns to communication with the first subscription. The tune-away procedure enables a communication device to interact with multiple subscriptions (e.g., multiple SIM-based subscriptions). Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.