Abstract: A repeater that facilitates communication in a wireless environment comprises a scheduling component that analyzes a schedule relating to when communications are active in the forward link direction and when communications are active in the reverse link direction, the communications are subject to time division duplexing. An amplifier that amplifies received communications as a function of the schedule. The repeater can further comprise a configuration component that configures the amplifier to amplify the received communications in one or more of a forward link direction and a reverse link direction.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for method for providing cooperative reception diversity based on signal point rearrangement and superposition modulation performed at a relay station is discussed. A first technique performs superposition modulation at a relay station and a second technique employs signal point rearrangement at a relay station. The superposition modulation is a different type of superposition modulation than that employed by the transmitter of the signal. Similarly, the signal point rearrangement is a different type of signal point rearrangement than that employed by the transmitter of the signal. As a result of the superposition modulation or signal point rearrangement performed by the relay station, the reliability of a signal received by a reception unit at the destination receiver is improved.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data includes receiving at a first relay station first data from a parent station during a downlink period comprising a plurality of downlink zones. A network coding zone is one of the plurality of downlink zones and is located at an end of the downlink period, and the first data is received in at least one of the plurality of downlink zones other than the network coding zone. The method further includes receiving at the first relay station from a child station, second data during an uplink zone, and transmitting third data by the first relay station to the child station, during the network coding zone using a resource. The method further includes transmitting the third data to the parent station, during the network coding zone, using the resource. The third data results from the first data being effectively logically XOR-ed to the second data.

Abstract: A method of transmitting an electronic message to a handheld electronic device that is outside the coverage area of a wireless network having at least one Access Point. The method includes: attempting to wirelessly transmit the electronic message from the network to the handheld electronic device through the wireless access point; wirelessly transmitting the electronic message from the wireless access point to a peer handheld electronic device that is within communication range of the access point; and wirelessly transmitting the electronic message from the peer handheld electronic device to the handheld electronic device when the peer handheld electronic device is within communication range of the handheld electronic device.

Abstract: A terrestrial communications system which comprises one or more terrestrial transmitting nodes for transmitting a first set of signals, one or more terrestrial receiving nodes for receiving a second set of signals, and a plurality of user units, each of the user units including a transceiver for transmitting the second set of signals to the terrestrial receiving nodes and for concurrently receiving the first set of signals from the respective terrestrial transmitting node, wherein the first set of signals are in a first frequency band between 11.0 GHz-13.0 GHz and wherein said second set of signals are in a second frequency band between 0.7 GHz-3.0 GHz.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, systems, and methods for relaying data. An exemplary device includes a relay module comprising: a mast having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface defining a cavity; an antenna disposed within the cavity; and a mounting device coupled to the mast and engageable with a utility structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, systems, and methods for relaying data. An exemplary device includes a mast having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface defining a cavity; an antenna disposed within the cavity; and a radio housing engageable with a utility structure by a mounting bracket fastened to the radio housing.

Abstract: This invention concerns a repeater for radio frequency signals having a channel filter and an active filter connected to the channel filter output. The active filter covers the channels adjacent to the channel filter and includes an amplifier and; two bandpass filters in parallel connected as a negative feedback loop around the amplifier. The first bandpass filter covers the lower adjacent channels and the second bandpass filter covers the higher adjacent channels. The invention notably applies to the development of domestic repeaters for mobile terminals meeting the DVB-H digital television standard.

Abstract: A technique for self-interference suppression control for a relay node is provided. The relay node comprises a transmitter and a receiver, and is adapted to transmit and received simultaneously using the same frequency channel or using proximate frequency channels. The relay node further comprises an interference signal estimator having a first input adapted to receive a transmitter signal from the transmitter, a second input adapted to receive adaptation metric and an output adapted to output an estimated interference signal generated by the interference signal estimator based on the transmitter signal and the adaptation metric. A subtractor is coupled to the output of interference signal estimator and configured to subtract the estimated interference signal from a received signal in the receiver so as to actively cancel a signal transmitted from the relay node that leaks back into the receiver of the relay node to suppress self-interference.

Abstract: A system comprising a source node (11) and a relay node (15a, 15b 15c). The relay node senses a radio spectrum to provide first sensing data indicating the availability of a signal channel at the relay node. The source node senses the radio spectrum to provide second sensing data indicating the availability of the signal channel at the source node. The source node or relay node generates a channel availability parameter based on the first or second sensing data, respectively. The channel availability parameter comprises fewer bits of information than whichever of the first or second sensing data is used to generate the channel availability parameter. The source node determines whether to send message information to the relay node based on a sensing result obtained by combining the channel availability parameter with whichever one of the first and second sensing data is not used to generate the channel availability parameter.

Abstract: A replay station and a method of operating the relay station in a multi-hop communication system are provided. A method of operating a relay station of a multi-hop communication system includes monitoring a delay of the relay station, determining whether the monitored delay exceeds a predetermined threshold, and controlling the relay station to be handed over to another upper relay station that is different from a connecting upper relay station.

Abstract: A control station apparatus performs wireless communication with a plurality of communication apparatuses and sends data to the communication apparatuses. The control station apparatus receives, from each of the communication apparatuses, identification information of other communication apparatuses with which the communication apparatus is capable of wireless communication; selects, from among the plurality of communication apparatuses, at least one relay apparatus that relays transmission of the data, based on the received identification information; determines a communication timing for the relaying performed by the selected relay apparatus; and notifies the selected relay apparatus of an instruction to perform data relay and the communication timing. The control station selects the relay apparatus so that a communication apparatus that receives the data from the control station apparatus via two or more transmission paths is present.

Abstract: A method includes receiving at a relay node a load status indicator from a subordinate relay node, determining a load status of the relay node and forwarding the received load status indicator to a super-ordinate node if the determined load status does not indicate an overload condition, otherwise if the determined load status does indicate an overload condition sending a load status indicator of the relay node to the superordinate node. Another method includes, in a multihop relay network having a plurality of relay nodes, receiving over a communication link at a network access node a load status indicator from a relay node, the load status indicator identifying a nearest relay node, if any, at which a current load exceeds a threshold; and using the received load status indicator at least when making a network admission decision for a user equipment.

Abstract: A radio access node is configured to digitize a first analog radio frequency signal in order to generate first digital data indicative of the first analog radio frequency signal and is configured to digitize a second analog radio frequency signal in order to generate second digital data indicative of the second analog radio frequency signal. The first analog radio frequency signal is broadcast from a first mobile unit using a first air interface. The second analog radio frequency signal is broadcast from a second mobile unit using a second air interface. The first and second digital data are transported from the radio access node to the base unit using a shared transport medium. The base unit is configured to produce information derived from the first digital data and the second digital data that is used in performing base station processing for the first mobile unit and the second mobile unit.

Abstract: A method for calculating the geographical position of a user equipment (UE) unit includes collecting position parameters conveying the relative position of the UE unit from two or more base stations using technologies mandated for the modern wireless networks. Particularly, know (predetermined) signals embedded in the downlink and uplink subframes, such as preambles, pilots, ranging codes are used for determining the coordinates of the UE unit. In addition, the methods and systems proposed here take advantage of the multiple antennas systems mandated at both the UE and BTS.

Abstract: A decision whether to perform a handover between a relay and a base station may depend, at least in part, on a backhaul link between the relay and the donor base station serving the relay. That is, the relay may provide information relating to a characteristic of the backhaul link to the user equipment, and the user equipment may utilize this information to bias its measurements of signals transmitted from the relay and the base station in accordance with the characteristic of the backhaul link. In this way, if the backhaul link suffers such that it becomes a bottleneck, the handover decision between the relay and the base station is better informed than a decision based solely on the transmissions from the relay and from the base station.

Abstract: Provided is a system for wireless communications including several base stations supporting a wide area wireless network and several mobile user equipment (UE) devices. Each mobile UE device may be configured to transmit a request to establish a local wireless connection with one or more of the UE devices. The mobile UE device may receive a response containing connectivity information from each of the mobile UE devices and then select one of the mobile UE devices based on the connectivity information received from each of the mobile UE devices. The mobile UE device may then establish a local wireless connection with the selected mobile UE device. The mobile UE device may then communicate with one of the base stations in the wide area wireless network through the selected mobile UE device, utilizing the local wireless connection.

Abstract: A wireless communication system for communicating via a wireless communication network, may include: a setting device configured to create a first information needed for joining a wireless device into the wireless communication network and set the first information in the wireless device to be joined into the wireless communication network, the setting device being configured to create setting information that correlates the first information with a second information containing at least one of information indicating a method of setting the first information and information indicating an operator who performed an operation of setting the first information; and a management device configured to select the wireless device, which is to be joined into the wireless communication network, by using the setting information that has been created by the setting device.

Abstract: A communication system, a relay station, a mobile station, a base station, and a method using a network coding scheme are provided. A communication system includes a relay station, a mobile station, and a base station. A relay station includes a message receiving unit to receive a downlink message transmitted from a base station and an uplink message transmitted from a mobile station, a message generation unit to generate a network coded message by coding the downlink message and the uplink message according to a network coding scheme, and a message transmission unit to transmit the network coded message to the base station and the mobile station during the same time slot.

Abstract: A method for accessing a hybrid network and a gateway communication system are disclosed. The method comprises: sensing by a gateway apparatus a relay request slot on a downlink common control channel of the wide area network; transmitting by a wireless terminal a relay request signal requesting to relay a data packet to be transmitted, in the relay request slot on the downlink common control channel; and if the relay request signal from the wireless terminal is sensed in the relay request slot, establishing by the gateway apparatus a connection with the wireless terminal in a distributed network environment. As such, the gateway apparatus accesses the wireless distributed network only when the surrounding wireless terminals require data relay, without sensing signals on both networks simultaneously.

Abstract: A method and relay for communicating a value of a parameter of a source to be monitored. The relay comprises an input sampling module for coupling to the source to be monitored, the sampling module configured to detect the value of a parameter of the source to be monitored; and an output module for communicating the value to a user.

Abstract: A communication destination device includes a transceiver configured to exchange communication with a first endpoint device via a first wireless communication channel and configured to exchange communication with a second endpoint device via a second wireless communication channel, the second wireless communication channel being distinct from the first wireless communication channel. The communication destination device includes a translator element configured to receive a message from one of the first endpoint device and the second endpoint device and to translate the message from a first message format into a second message format, the second message format being distinct from the first message format.

Abstract: A radio communication system including: a base station; a terminal; and a relay station, wherein the base station and the terminal perform radio communication via the relay station, the base station includes: a change unit which changes at least any of a radio resource allocation method for the relay station and the terminal, the radio resource allocation method and a scheduling method, or the radio resource allocation method, the scheduling method and a relay method in the relay station; and a transmission unit which transmits a change notice for notifying the relay station of the change by the change unit, the relay station includes a reception unit which receives the change notice, and the base station, the relay station, and the terminal perform radio communication using at least the radio resources allocating or allocated by the radio resource allocation method after the change.

Abstract: A wireless repeater includes a gain control metric computation block to compute a gain control metric for use in controlling the variable gain of the repeater. The gain control metric is computed by downsampling the gain control input signal to the gain control metric computation block and also downsampling the computed correlation and normalization terms. The gain control metric may be further enhanced by filtering the computed metric values using linear or non-linear filtering.

Abstract: A relay apparatus, comprises a reception section that receives real-time data, a monitoring section that periodically detects quality of a transmission path to be used for transmitting the real-time data toward a destination thereof, a determination section that determines a length of an interleaving cycle according to the quality of the transmission path, an interleaving section that interleaves the real-time data in the interleaving cycle having the determined length, and a transmission section that transmits the interleaved real-time data to the transmission path.

Abstract: A method of operating a relay station is provided. The method includes: receiving a beacon signal transmitted by a user equipment; measuring the beacon signal and transmitting a measurement result to a base station; and receiving routing information for the user equipment determined based on the measurement result, wherein the routing information indicates whether the user equipment communicates with the base station via the relay station or communicates with the base station directly. Accordingly, data can be transmitted through a proper path according to a channel state between the user equipment and the base station or the relay station in a wireless communication system employing the relay station, and thus cooperative transmission can be easily achieved between the base station and the relay station, which results in increase of efficiency of using radio resources.

Abstract: A mobile station which connects to a base station having a plurality of relays belonging thereto is provided. The mobile station includes a receiving unit which receives a first preamble signal from a first relay and receives a second preamble signal from a second relay, the first relay belonging to a first cluster including an N1 number of relays and the second relay belonging to a second cluster including an N2 number of relays, a control unit which selects the first cluster as an access cluster to connect to the base station, based on the first preamble signal and the second preamble signal, and a transmission unit which transmits an access request message to the first relay, wherein the access request message is transmitted to the base station via the first relay.

Abstract: A system and method for communicating through a host repeater. Data is received from a remote repeater communicating with a wireless device. The host repeater registers as the wireless device on a wireless network. The data is reformatted for transmission between the wireless devices and the wireless network.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for reduces an overhead caused by an operation transition gap in a Relay Station (RS) of a relay wireless communication system. The method includes identifying a signal delay time with an upper node. A transmission/reception operation transition time is determined through a negotiation with the upper node. An idle time is identified. An overhead caused by a transmission/reception operation transition is determined with consideration of a start time point of an Uplink (UL) subframe dependent on the signal delay time, the transmission/reception operation transition time, and the idle time. And communication is performed considering the overhead. The start time point of the UL subframe is set earlier than a start time point of a UL subframe of the upper node in consideration of the idle time.

Abstract: An electronics device, which is connected to a host apparatus via a wireless communication, includes a communication section configured to perform a wireless communication, and a communication control section configured to, if a start-up timing of the electronics device is earlier than any start-up timing of at least one electronics device other than the electronics device, perform control, as a master device, so as to cause the communication section to perform relaying of a wireless communication between the host apparatus and the at least one electronics device other than the electronics device, and if a start-up timing of the electronics device is later than any start-up timing of the at least one electronics device other than the electronics device, perform control, as a sub device, so as to cause the communication section to perform a wireless communication with the host apparatus via the master device.

Abstract: Various systems, computer program products, and methods are disclosed for user experienced remote monitoring of a communications network. For example, a method may include receiving air interface information from a mobile device. The air interface information may originate from signals communicated between the mobile device and the communications network. The air interface information may indicate an actual communication quality between the mobile device and the communications network. The method may further include receiving user experience information. The user experience information may indicate a perceived communication quality at the mobile device. The method may further include associating, by the server device, the air interface information and the user experience information with one another.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for “early” triggering of a BSR in a relay node. Doing so is advantageous, for example, in reducing the overall time between a UE's transmission of data to a relay node on an access link and the corresponding transmission of that data from the relay node to a donor base station on a backhaul link. Of course, that example is non-limiting. More broadly, in at least one embodiment, the present invention provides for triggering a BSR in the relay node right after learning that there is at least one UE connected to the relay node that wants to transmit UL data. Further, one or more embodiments provide a simple method and apparatus for using a relay node BSR to inform a donor base station about the scheduled status of UEs supported by the relay node.

Abstract: A test apparatus ensures to establish communication. A test apparatus including a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus, where the transmitting section of the first communication apparatus transmits the first linkup code to the receiving section of the second communication apparatus, the transmitting section of the second communication apparatus transmits, instead of the first linkup code, the second linkup code in response to communication having being established between the receiving section of the second communication apparatus and the transmitting section of the first communication apparatus, and the receiving section of the first communication apparatus starts communicating with the transmitting section of the relay apparatus, in response to communication having being established with the transmitting section of the relay apparatus and reception of the second linkup code from the transmitting section of the relay apparatus.

Abstract: The technology described in this application provides a way for an O&M node or system to configure, monitor, and manage relay nodes efficiently. A base station serves a relay node in a cellular communications system that also includes the O&M node. A relay node O&M data context for the relay node is established in a memory associated with the base station. O&M data pertaining to the relay node is stored in the relay node O&M data context. The information in the relay node O&M data context is different than O&M data pertaining to the base station. The base station performs, on behalf of the relay node, O&M-related communications using the O&M data in the relay node O&M data context.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a user interface for facilitating communications between devices are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device provides communications between a first device and a second device. The interface device has an input for receiving data in a first format from the first device. Logic within the interface device is configured to receive a request to interact with the interface device and to provide a user interface in response to receiving the request. The logic identifies a second device for receiving the data from the first device. The logic identifies a second format that is compatible with the second device and translates the data to the second format. The interface device further has an output for transmitting the translated data to the second device.

Abstract: To improve throughput by reducing the resource used for transmitting a parameter relating to retransmission control and decreasing the overhead of retransmission control signaling. In a case where a retransmission control method is employed in consideration of adaptive MCS control in which the encoding rate can be changed, the scheduling section sets the MCS in accordance with CQI notified from the communication counterpart apparatus. When transmission data is encoded, the RV parameter bit-number setting section sets the number of bits used for signaling the RV parameter to decrease as the encoding rate of the first transmission is decreased and sets the RV parameter based on the number of bits. For example, in a case where the encoding rate R is R>2/3, two bits are set. In a case where the encoding rate 1/3<R?2/3, one bit is set. On the other hand, in a case where R?1/3, zero bits is set.

Abstract: Technologies are presented for an architecture and infrastructure for a scalable, very high bandwidth, wireless network that can accommodate arbitrarily high geographic concentrations of high-bandwidth users. The architecture may include a network of highly localized service areas that communicate with a central access point through a hierarchy of aggregate-and-relay stages. Communications may be mediated by a hybrid combination of ad-hoc and infrastructure-network features that are supported separately within the framework of a standardized system, for example in the 60 GHz (millimeter-wave) band.

Abstract: A method for circulating a message to a group of people, including sending a circulated message by a 1st mobile communicator, and sequentially receiving the circulated message by an nth mobile communicator and sending the circulated message to an (n+1)st mobile communicator, n=2, 3, . . . , N?1, wherein each one of the N mobile communicators has a distinct phone number. A system is also described and claimed.

Abstract: There is provided a content reproduction apparatus including a reproduction request receiving unit that receives from a first external device conforming to a first communication standard a request to reproduce content data selected by the first external device, a content data obtaining unit that obtains from a second external device conforming to the first communication standard, which stores the content data selected by the first external device, the content data in response to the received request, a content reproduction unit that reproduces the obtained content data, and a data converting unit that converts data which can be transmitted according to the first communication standard into data which can be transmitted according to a second communication standard different than the first communication standard.

Abstract: In one general aspect, a repeater can include an input terminal configured to be coupled to a first portion of a MIPI signal path. The MIPI signal path being a unidirectional path between a receiver and a transmitter, the input terminal configured to receive a set of signals from the receiver via the MIPI signal path. The repeater can include an output terminal configured to be coupled to a second portion of the MIPI signal path, the first portion of the MIPI signal path and the second portion of the MIPI signal path having a combined distance greater than 30 centimeters.

Abstract: There is provided a relay station including a base station-relay station resource allocation request-transmission section which transmits a base station-relay station resource allocation request indicating that allocation of a base station-relay station resource is requested, the base station-relay station resource being a resource used by a radio signal transmitted/received between a base station and the relay station, to the base station using a radio signal, a base station-relay station resource allocation response-reception section which receives base station-relay station resource information indicating the base station-relay station resource from the base station using a radio signal, as a base station-relay station resource allocation response which is a response with respect to the base station-relay station resource allocation request, and a base station-relay station resource information storage section which stores the base station-relay station resource information received by the base station-rel

Abstract: A report message may be transmitted with collaborated information related to the occurrence of an emergency event. A plurality of devices, such as mobile communications devices, that are out of range of a communications network can communicate via direct communication, such as device-to-device communication, to corroborate characteristics that are indicative of an occurrence of an emergency event. Information related to the occurrence may be collaborated amongst the plurality of devices. A transmitting device, which may be one of the plurality of devices that corroborates characteristics or collaborates information, may generate and transmit the report message comprising the collaborated information. A receiving device may provide the message over a communications network, or the report message may continue to be handed off between devices capable of direct communication, the message eventually reaching a device that is within range of the communications network.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a Channel Quality Information (CQI) in a communication system are provided. A Mobile Station (MS) receives first information indicating a representative MS selected from a group of MSs located within a preset range and in similar channel statuses, the group including the MS, determines from the first information whether the MS is designated as the representative MS, and transmits a CQI of the MS as a representative CQI of the MSs included in the group to a Base Station (BS), if the MS is designated as the representative MS.

Abstract: A method and apparatus that allows off-the-shelf equipment to be installed in a wide range of physical sites having a wide range of distances between a master system unit and each of a plurality of remote units. The master system unit has an integrated active combiner/splitter. The active combiner/splitter provides bi-directional gain or attenuation in each of the individual inputs/outputs to allow control of the signal level.

Abstract: A wireless telephone system may be provided with a relay device, first and second wireless telephone devices. The relay device may receive a call request from the first wireless telephone device, determine whether the second wireless telephone device is being located within a wireless communication area of the relay device, and send connection information of the second wireless telephone device to the first wireless telephone device on a condition that it is determined that the second wireless telephone device is being located within the wireless communication area of the relay device. The first wireless telephone device may send a connection request for a direct communication with the second wireless telephone device with the connection information of the second wireless telephone device as a destination thereof. The second wireless telephone device may receive the connection request.

Abstract: Power management is provided in an Internet protocol (IP) telephone and system to provide energy savings during times that the IP telephone is not in use or use is not expected. A low-power operating mode disables at least a portion of the IP telephone. The low-power operating mode may be initiated by a command received by the IP telephone from the IP telephone controller according to a schedule, which may be modified locally by the user to individualize the user's schedule. The low-power operating mode may alternatively be activated manually by a user pressing a special key, sequence or combination. The low-power operating mode is canceled upon an indication that a user either is or should be present at the IP telephone.

Abstract: A two conductor hard wired communications link accepts an actual value of at least one parameter of interest from an environmental sensor in the form of data encoded on the conductors via current modulation. The sensor is mounted in location remote from an irrigation controller. A circuit connected to the sensor transmits an RF signal representing an actual value of a parameter of interest detected by the sensor. A data relay is connected to the hard wired communication link of the irrigation controller. The data relay includes a receiver that receives the RF signal, and circuitry configured to extract the actual value of the parameter of interest and emulate a predetermined set of physical and protocol properties of the hard wired communication link of the irrigation controller.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of using relay that may continuously transmit data without time division based on superposition coding in a communication system. When transmission of a relay-supported user signal via a base station-relay link is performed, the method of using relay based on the superposition coding reuses a resource allocated to a direct-transmission user based on the superposition coding to perform the transmission. According to example embodiments, a separate resource for the base station-relay link may not be needed, and continuous relay transmission is possible without time division, thereby substantially increasing frequency efficiency and reducing a transmission delay caused by the use of the relay.

Abstract: An EV-DO terminal module is made up of hardware and software for implementing the function as an EV-DO terminal. A W-LAN terminal module is made up of hardware and software for implementing the function as an AP of W-LAN. An information exchange terminal module has a function equal to that of the W-LAN terminal module. A control module has a dialup function and a function based on PPP protocol and is a hardware and software module for controlling the EV-DO terminal module, the information exchange terminal module, and the W-LAN terminal module.

Abstract: A relay station includes a signal generation unit configured to generate a signal in the relay station and a receiving unit configured to receive a signal from a first communication station. The relay station further includes a signal generating node identifying unit configured to identify whether a signal to be transmitted to a second communication station is a received signal received from the first communication station or a generated signal generated by the signal generation unit. The relay station further includes a signal transmission unit configured to transmit both or one of the received signal and the generated signal associated with a radio bearer to the second communication station.