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Tools and methods for optimizing the selection and placement of wireless radio devices in a wireless network within a geographic region using a remote database that includes a geographic mapping of existing wireless devices within the network and / or adjacent networks, device characteristics for the wireless devices within the network and / or adjacent networks, and radio frequency spectral information across times for a plurality of regions (e.g., corresponding to locations of existing wireless devices). A tool may include a local user interface, a remote database, and a processor that communicates with the user interface and remote database. The methods and tools described herein may receive user input indicating a desired location and / or operational characteristics of new wireless radio device and may determine and suggest an optimal type, location and / or operational parameters for the additional device, or may suggest other modifications to the current network to optimize the network including the new device.

Techniques for operating a personal communication structure (PCS) are described. A personal communication structure (PCS) may include a frame, a housing, and a mounting system coupling the housing to the frame. The mounting system may include a plurality of four-bar linkages. Each of the four-bar linkages may include two links, first pin joints coupling first ends of the respective links to the frame, and second pin joints coupling second ends of the respective links to the housing. Rotation of the links of the mounting system results in displacement of the housing relative to the frame along an arcuate path.

Techniques and apparatus for controlling access to a personal communication structure (PCS) are described. The PCS may include independently accessible compartments at least partially enclosing respective subsystems of the PCS. The independently accessible compartments include an electronics compartment, a communications compartment, and a display compartment. The electronics, communications, and display compartments at least partially enclose a power distribution subsystem, a communications subsystem, and a display subsystem, respectively. The PCS also includes an access controller operable to provide access independently to respective interiors of at least a subset of the compartments to authorized users.

Techniques and apparatus for controlling the distribution of power (e.g., current) and the temperature to individually accessible compartments enclosing subsystems of a personal communication structure (PCS) is described. The PCS includes a power distribution and temperature controller subsystem, including thermal sensors adapted to generate and transmit temperature measurement data to the temperature controller, which controls fans / blowers. The power distribution subsystem senses and controls the current delivered to the individually accessible compartments.

Techniques and systems for servicing a personal communication structure (PCS) are described. The PCS may include a servicing controller that schedules, initiates, and / or otherwise controls testing of the PCS components. The PCS may transmit the results of the tests to a remote entity. Based on the test results, the remote entity may detect faulty components and / or allocate servicing resources (e.g., technicians, replacement parts, etc.) to the PCS as part of a field service repair process. The tests may be initiated by the servicing controller or by a remote entity.

Techniques and apparatus for securing a structure to a support are described. A mounting device may releasably secure a structure to a support. The mounting device may include a first plate, a second plate proximate the first plate, and at least one frangible connection securing the first plate to the second plate. The frangible connection(s) may be adapted to break in response to application of a shear force or other loading above a predetermined value. The mounting device may further include a retention member connecting the first plate to the second plate. The retention member may be adapted to maintain coupling of the first plate and the second plate after breakage of the frangible connection.

Techniques for operating a personal communication structure (PCS) are described. In particular, a temperature control system for controlling the temperature of a PCS is described. The temperature control system may include a ribbed heat sink and first and second air circulation controllers. The heat sink may be coupled to the PCS's frame, adjacent to the back surface of a housing for a display module. The first air circulation controller may be configured to recirculate air in a cavity within the display module's housing. The second air circulation controller may be configured to move ambient air across the heat sink.

Techniques and apparatus for controlling access to a personal communication structure (PCS) are described. The PCS may include independently accessible compartments at least partially enclosing respective subsystems of the PCS. The independently accessible compartments may include an electronics compartment, a communications compartment, and a display compartment. The electronics compartment may be disposed along a lower portion of the PCS, and may at least partially enclose a power distribution subsystem. The communications compartment may be located proximate a top of the PCS, and may at least partially enclose a communications subsystem. The display compartment may be disposed along an upper portion of the PCS, and may at least partially enclose a display subsystem. Access to the interior of a compartment may be provided to authorized users without providing access to interiors of other independently accessible compartments.

Provided is a method for enabling a mobile device to subscribe and acquire services, including the steps of: detecting available services / connections or service / location tags which are selectable by the mobile device within the short-to-medium range from the mobile device; triggering the mobile device to connect to a corresponding service / connection provider and / or to issue related commands thereto based on the detected result; performing other actions required to be triggered to acquire services in the mobile device, so as to acquire services from the service / connection providers. The present invention also discloses an apparatus for enabling a mobile service to subscribe to and acquire services, and a mobile device capable of subscribing and acquiring services.

Systems and methods for replacing modules of a personal communication structure are provided. The modules are configured to be field replaceable, such that field service personnel are able to quickly and easily replace modules in locations with high pedestrian traffic. Embodiments of the personal communication structure include a frame and one or more field replaceable units supported by the frame. The field replaceable units may include an RF bay field replaceable unit, a display field replaceable unit, a user interface field replaceable unit, an environmental sensor field replaceable unit, an electronics bay field replaceable unit, and / or a network bay field replaceable unit.

Systems and techniques for vandalism detection in a personal communication structure (PCS) are described. The PCS may include one or more vandalism detection systems which may be located in different system compartments of the PCS. Each vandalism detection system may include (or being communicatively coupled to) an accelerometer and may be able to differentiate forces associated with acts of vandalism from other forces. The vandalism detection systems may transmit alerts with accompanying data to a remote entity. The data allows for an appropriate response to the alert. The alert may be transmitted to a remote security center over a wired or wireless communications system. The controller may transmit the alert again or to other locations if an acknowledgement is not received.

Embodiments of methods and systems for using both new and older modulation schemes in PLC networks—thereby supporting legacy systems—are disclosed. In one embodiment, common frames that need to be understood by all nodes to support the network will be sent two or more times using different modulation techniques. For example, all broadcast frames, such as beacon requests, beacons, and route requests may be transmitted once with differential modulation and once with coherent modulation. In one configuration, the beacons with differential modulation may be transmitted in one beacon period, and the beacons with coherent modulation may be transmitted in another beacon period. In another configuration, the differential and coherent beacons for a particular tone mask are transmitted one after the other and before any other tone mask beacon is transmitted.

The invention provides a resource allocation and interference suppression method based on non-cooperative game in an LTE system. First, a multi-cell LTE network interference model is established by adoption of soft frequency reuse, and then, a utility function based on the price mechanism is established through consideration on users' demand for quality of service and energy consumption based on the non-cooperative game theory, a power iteration algorithm maximizing the utility function is given, and resource allocation and interference suppression can be realized through iterative solution. Joint interference management and resource allocation in a multi-user multi-cell multi-carrier LTE system can be realized. Through ICI suppression and inter-cell signal interference noise ratio balancing, inter-cell interference is reduced while energy is saved. The throughput and the network coverage of cell edge users in the system can be effectively improved under the condition of without increasing additional power consumption. Only pricing information exchange is needed between the cells, and distributed implementation is easy in actual systems. Therefore, the resource allocation and interference suppression method of the invention has good application prospect.

Techniques for operating a personal communication structure (PCS) are described. A personal communication structure (PCS) may include a frame, a housing, and a mounting system coupling the housing to the frame. The mounting system may include a plurality of four-bar linkages. Each of the four-bar linkages may include two links, first pin joints coupling first ends of the respective links to the frame, and second pin joints coupling second ends of the respective links to the housing. Rotation of the links of the mounting system results in displacement of the housing relative to the frame along an arcuate path.

Methods and apparatus for estimating a Citizens Broadband Radio Service Device's (CBSD's) coverage area using user equipment (UE) timing advance and / or power headroom information and allocating resources based on the estimate. In an exemplary method embodiment a Spectrum Access System: (i) receives, from a CBSD, user equipment (UE) information including at least one of timing advance or power headroom information for one or more UEs in communication with the CBSD; (ii) estimates, based on the received first UE information, a first CBSD coverage area; and (iii) makes a first resource allocation to the CBSD based on the estimated CBSD coverage area, the first resource allocation including an allocation of at least one of a frequency bandwidth allocation or transmission power allocation to the CBSD.

The invention relates to an Internet of things information acquisition system. A wireless data information acquisition system based on Internet of things comprises an information transmission node, an information acquisition node and an information collection center, wherein the information transmission node comprises a networking initialization module for receiving an address mapping table transmitted by a central control platform and entering networking preparation, a node field intensity collection and measurement module for receiving a networking beacon and a field intensity collection command and performing field intensity collection, a data characteristic judgment module for extracting data information characteristics, and a configuration preprocessing module for performing field intensity operation and entering a route establishing stage; and the information acquisition node comprises a networking processing module for performing networking preparation, a field intensity information receiving module for receiving an information transmission node command and receiving the networking beacon and the field intensity collection command, and a configuration processing module for receiving a configuration table of the information transmission node, establishing a route and constructing a wireless self-organizing network. Through adoption of the wireless data information acquisition system, information is acquired timely and accurately, and the efficiency and reliability of data acquisition in a modern intelligent residential district can be increased and enhanced.

The invention discloses a method, system and device for carrying out service relay for a first standard terminal, and relates to the technical field of wireless communication. According to the embodiment of the invention, a first standard / second standard dual-mode terminal is selected for carrying out service relay for the first standard terminal to a second standard base station, the first standard / second standard dual-mode terminal reports the first standard terminal and relay information thereof to the second standard base station so as to enable the second standard base station to distributed relay configuration information used by the service relay based on the reported information, and the first standard / second standard dual-mode terminal is communicated with the first standard terminal based on the relay configuration information, so that relay of devices different in standard is realized, conventional relay nodes are not needed, the network covering performance of a first standard user is improved under the condition that the disposition scope of a first standard base station is limited, and the cost and the workload of a service provider are saved. In addition, the second standard base station has a control force over the whole relay process, and the stability and the performance of the system are ensured.

Method for controlling a multi-hop transmission it is described a method for controlling a multi-hop transmission of a data packet between a base station and a user equipment via at least one relay node. A maximum allowable time period for transmitting the data packet between the base station and the user equipment via the at least one relay node is specified. The method includes calculating, based on a time information associated with a time period, which has been needed for a transmission of the data packet to the at least one relay node, and the maximum allowable time period, a remaining time period being available for the at least one relay node for transmitting the data packet, and controlling the transmission of the data packet from the at least one relay node to the base station or the user equipment based on the calculated remaining time period.

The application provides a data processing method and terminal. When the uplink transmission rate of the terminal is limited, the uplink transmission data size is reduced, and the uplink transmissionspeed is improved, thereby improving the downlink sending rate and the network coverage rate. The method provided by the application comprises the following steps: the terminal judges whether a QUIC data packet is an ACK only packet according to the packet length of the QUIC data packet when the QUIC data packet is sent to a data link layer of the terminal; the terminal records a cache address forstoring the QUIC data packet in a cache region if the QUIC data packet is the ACK only packet; and the terminal determines the un-encapsulated ACK only packet in the data link layer and deletes the un-encapsulated ACK only packet from the cache region when a new ACK only packet arrives the data link layer.

The provided method to improve access effect of personal wireless telephone system comprises: a. according to BS power type and BS self type, pre-setting the BS selection strategy; b. recording former type data in BS-sent honeycomb BS mark; c. receiving BS control channel signal by phone, and generating the BS selection table according to BS power and BS self types; and d. querying the type data in table to select the access BS as the selection strategy. This invention just needs updating software, decreases interference among BS, and improves network performance.

The invention provides a wireless network coverage optimization algorithm based on a Dijkstra method. An energy transmission model is improved through computing energy loss between nodes, and meanwhile energy constraint and channel selection of a sensor network are used as constraint conditions. The Dijkstra algorithm in a graph theory is used for converting global optimum into optimum between thenodes, an existing network layered framework problem is converted into sub-problems of corresponding problems of each layer of a network layered framework, the influence of energy and channel on thewireless sensor network design is embodied, and the optimal coverage is achieved. Analysis on availability and complexity of the optimization algorithm is also provided herein. Simulated tests and data analysis show that compared with the same kinds of algorithms, the algorithm provided by the invention can achieve larger network coverage rate, faster convergence speed and short consumed time, andthus the network performance of the wireless sensor can be effectively improved.

The invention provides a communication control device, a method and a mobile terminal. The device comprises a determination module for determining the current network state; the transmitting module isconfigured to send a control command to the switch control module if the current network state satisfies a preset condition, so that the switch control module switches from the first path to the second path between the control signal input terminal and the signal output terminal of the switch control module. A bypass circuit is provided in the communication control device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Filter and Switch Control Module, after the determination module determines the current network state, if the sending module judges that the current network state satisfies the preset condition, the switch control module can connect the bypass circuit to the signal input terminal and the signal output terminal according to the received control command, and disconnectsthe circuit path of the filter in the communication control device, thereby avoiding the insertion loss of the filter and improving the network coverage of the communication device.