2707 results about "Channel resource" patented technology

The invention relates to a method for paging a group of MTC devices, and for transmitting parameter information to the MTC devices using the paging mechanism. MTC devices are grouped together and a different group ID per group to which the MTC device belongs is assigned to the MTC device. A specific group paging resource indication is determined for each group wherein each MTC device is assigned one of the group paging resource indications. The network pages MTC devices of a group by transmitting a paging message at the corresponding channel resources and including the corresponding group ID. Additionally, the group paging resource indications of several groups of MTC devices can be aligned in such a way with the transmissions and re-transmissions by the network, that the different groups respectively receive the transmission and re-transmissions of the paging message.

A mapping scheme between a plurality of control channel element sets and a plurality of acknowledgement channel resource sets is established. Each of the control channel element sets includes at least one control channel element, and each of the acknowledgement channel resource sets includes at least one acknowledgement channel resource. In accordance with a scheduling grant transmitted using a control channel element set selected from the plurality of control channel element sets, a data packet is transmitted via a second node to a first node. Then, an acknowledgement channel message is transmitted via the first node to the second node by using at least one acknowledgement channel resource selected from the acknowledgement channel resource set that correspond to the control channel element set used for transmitting the scheduling grant in accordance with the mapping scheme. The acknowledgement channel message may be one of a positive acknowledgement message and a negative acknowledgement message.

The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for issuing paging messages and an MSC / VLR, the method includes: determining types of networks terminating the process. if the MS only accesses a 2G network; issuing, by the MSC / VLR, paging messages on an RNC, and terminating the process, if the MS only accesses a 3G network; and issuing, by the MSC / VLR, paging messages on both the BSC and RNC, if the MS accesses both the 2G network and the 3G network. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the MSC / VLR can choose to issue paging messages on the BSC or the RNC separately or on both the BSC and the RNC, since it can determine the types of networks accessed by the MS. Thus, unnecessary paging messages issued on the BSC same time, a great deal of radio paging channel resources on the BSC or the RNC is saved, which greatly reduces effects on the process of paging other MSs.

The present invention provides an improved channel quality indicator indicia for OFDM communication environments. In addition to taking into consideration carrier-to-interference ratios, the present invention also takes into consideration the degree to which the channel response varies among the sub-carriers throughout the OFDM frequency band. The carrier-to-interference ratio and the degree of channel response variation are directly or indirectly used by a base station to select coding and modulation schemes for transmissions from the base station to the mobile terminal reporting these factors. Further, scheduling of data sent to the mobile terminal and other mobile terminals competing for the same channel resources may also be based in part on the carrier-to-interference ratio and the degree to which the channel response varies.

The invention relates to a mobile terminal communicating resource requests for dedicated uplink channel resources in a mobile communication system. Further, the invention also relates to a method for communicating resource requests for dedicated uplink channel resources in a mobile communication system. To allow the serving cell to detect “DOWN” commands from non-serving cells during soft handover the invention suggests a new definition of criteria for setting the “happy bit” in the control information associated to data transmitted on dedicated uplink channels. According to these criteria the mobile terminal may not indicate an unhappy condition while ramping up resource utilization. Only if resources equivalent to the maximum serving grant are utilized, the transmission buffer status requires to and the power status of the terminal allows for the happy bit is set to indicate a unhappy condition.

A method and apparatus for transmission between a plurality of units of user equipment and a base station in a wireless communication system. For each of the units of user equipment, a plurality of control channel elements are mapped to a plurality of downlink acknowledgement channel resources in accordance with a first mapping scheme, and the plurality of control channel elements are mapped to a plurality of uplink acknowledgement channel resources in accordance with a second mapping scheme. The first mapping scheme and the second mapping scheme may be different for different units of user equipment. Alternatively, the first mapping scheme and the second mapping scheme may change over time.

A method for implementing an activity based resource assignment medium access control (MAC) protocol to allocate resources to subscribers in an interactive, multimedia, broadband satellite communications system. A plurality of channels is provided with at least one of said plurality of channels being assigned to each of a plurality of terminals. Utilization of the channel resources by the plurality of terminals is monitored and an evaluation is conducted of system needs based on the levels of activity and utilization of channel resources by the terminals. Requests for system resources by the terminals are communicated to a resource controller which calculates the system needs. The resource controller is utilized to adjust the channel resources based on the levels of activity and utilization of resources by the terminals. The adjustment provides active terminals as much resources as required during duration of their activity, subject to resource availability.

A method and apparatus for allocation of channel resources for relay stations operating in a multihop wireless communication system is provided for herein. The method and apparatus includes a signaling protocol between a base station scheduler and a relay station scheduler so as to achieve efficient utilization of the sector channel resources, while minimizing signaling overhead due to base station-relay station scheduler interaction.

The invention discloses a resource determination method and a device for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) of a large-band-width system. The method comprises the following steps that: user equipment obtains the channel resource index of the PUCCH, wherein the PUCCH is used for carrying the affirmative check / negative check (ACK / NACK) information of a physical downlink share channel (PDSCH) indicated with an enhanced physical uplink control channel (ePUCCH); and the user equipment determines the resources used by the PDSCH according to the obtained channel resource index. Through the method and the device provided by the invention, the normal proceeding of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process corresponding to the ePDCCH is ensured.

Uplink traffic channel allocation is realized by utilizing a dedicated control channel in which a prescribed portion of the control channel resource, for example, frequency, time slot or the like, is reserved for transporting the uplink traffic channel requests. Both the base station and the particular mobile unit know the prescribed portion of the control channel resource a priori. Consequently, when the particular mobile unit transmits an uplink traffic channel request via the prescribed portion of the control channel resource there is no need for adding any control header information, thereby minimizing overhead. Furthermore, the length of the uplink traffic channel requests can be optimally chosen without constraints imposed by other control message schemes. Reduced overhead coupled with the prescribed portion of the control channel resource arriving quite frequently reduces latency in the particular mobile unit acquiring an uplink traffic channel. In one example, delivery of adequate uplink traffic channel request information to the base station, while minimizing the adverse impact of losing requests, is ensured by persistently transmitting the requests. Specifically, after the mobile unit transmits a first request, it transmits a second or even a third request instead of waiting to receive a response message from the base station and / or waiting for a timer to time out. By the mobile unit using such a persistent request transmission scheme, the base station can readily determine the true value of the received request by eliminating the transmission loop delay effect, thereby allowing a sensible assignment decision to be made.

The present embodiments provide methods and systems for use in controlling and / or optimizing resource usage of reverse channel (142) wireless communications. Some embodiments determine a starting time (1014) of an access channel slot (628) of a reverse channel. Prior to the starting time of the slot, resource usage is reduced (1024) for reverse channel resources by at least one of a plurality of communications over the reverse channel. Upon detecting an absence (1030) of an access channel communication the resource usage of at least one of the plurality of communications over the reverse channel are increased (1034). Some methods provide for the transmitting of non-access channel communications over a reverse channel and determine an offset threshold (1222) defined by a time duration (632, 648) prior to a starting time of an access channel slot. Upon detecting an occurrence of the offset threshold, transmission resource usage of the non-access channel communication is reduced (1228).

Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for multiplexing and transmitting data and uplink control information, and receiving the data and control information in a wireless communication system. In the system multiplexing an uplink packet data channel and a control channel, a transport format of the control channel for transmission of the control information is changed according to the transport format of the data channel. The disclosed method and apparatus can control the quantity of resources for the control channel in the case of transmitting high speed data, and thus can the efficiency of the data channel resources.

Systems and methods for automatically building a deadlock free inter-communication network in a multi-core system are described. The example embodiments described herein involve deadlock detection during the mapping of user specified communication pattern amongst blocks of the system. Detected deadlocks are then avoided by re-allocation of channel resources. An example embodiment of the deadlock avoidance scheme is presented on Network-on-chip interconnects for large scale multi-core system-on-chips.

An apparatus and method for determining an uplink channel used for a random access procedure are provided. An exemplary method by a User Equipment (UE) includes transmitting a preamble to a Base Station (BS) on at least one channel of a plurality of channels, receiving a response from the BS, and distinguishing the response based on an identifier unique to a channel resource to identify the channel in which the preamble is transmitted.

Methods and apparatus are described for enabling downlink transparent relay in a wireless communication network. In a wireless communications network, a base station and a mobile station may communicate with each other via a relay station, as needed. Transparent relay may allow for relay communication between a base station and a mobile station although the mobile station is unaware of the relay station. However, non-contiguous transmission of a relay station may lead to channel quality measurement and channel estimation degradation during downlink transparent relay. According to some aspects, a base station may schedule a mobile station to a transmission mode that utilizes dedicated pilot signals for downlink transparent relay, and a relay station may transmit data and dedicated pilot signals over the same channel resources as the base station. According to some aspects, the relay station may null common pilot signals transmitted by the base station.

Systems and methods for the configuration of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) are disclosed. The systems and methods include providing user equipment with the locations of CSI-RS reuse information. Several encoding patterns and exemplary methodology for both the identification of the CSI-RS resource element locations are provided in exemplary embodiments. In addition, exemplary embodiments provide muting methods and systems for a physical downlink shared channel resource elements.

The invention discloses a group switch method based on a mobility prediction. Multi-service group user ends which move along fixed routes in a major public transportation system need to apply to a target base station for group switch according to detected changes of a wireless channel. The method further provides a mobility prediction based on location information, which comprises the following steps: the process of reselecting a target cell is simplified by using a mobile historical database; and the target cell is enabled to obtain relative information of all group users in advance through a backup backbone network. Required channel resources are reallocated through strategies such as borrowing channels, etc. Therefore, the system switch speed of the group user terminal is greatly improved, and QoS of broadband wireless communications in the switch process is guaranteed. The method further discloses a group switch system based on the mobility prediction, which mainly comprises a location information unit, a switch judging unit, a channel borrowing and resource allocating unit and a channel allocating unit.

Apparatus including a transmitter arranged to transmit an indicating acquisition indication channel signature wherein said indicating signature is used to indicate an enhanced dedicated channel resource to be used by a user equipment.

The invention discloses a transmitting method for acknowledgment / negative acknowledgment (ACK / NACK) in a time division duplex (TDD) system and a user terminal, and is used for feeding back the ACK / NACK of various downlink service cells and downlink subframes through user equipment (UE) in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH)-format 1b combined channel selection mode in the TDD system. When the number of downlink subframes contained in a downlink subframe window corresponding to an uplink subframe is more than 1, a feedback mode when the UE adopts a format 1b combined channel to selectively feed back the ACK / NACK is determined according to a high-layer signaling configuration mode or according to whether the UE receives a judged result of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from an auxiliary downlink service cell. In the feedback mode 1, the UE adopts a mapping table defined by long-term evolution-A; hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) in the mapping table is generated by employing a time domain bundling mode; and corresponding PUCCH channel resources in the mapping table are determined by employing a preset PUCCH resource determining method.

The invention is concerned with the data transmission method and the system, it is: the user's terminal or the base station as the sending side, the corresponding base station or the user's terminal as the receiving side, the sending side process code for the information bit in order to get the code block number equal with the biggest resend time, the sending side divides the code block number into at least two groups, and at least the first group includes two code block; sets the transmission time slot of each code block in the group, and sends to the receiving side; the receiving side receives code block and decode, after receiving a group of code block, if the decode is still incorrect, feedbacks once NACK. The invention can reduce the feedback signaling overhead effectively, improve the utilance of the channel resource.

A method and system for optimizing channel quality indicator (CQI) transmissions by mobile devices in a cellular network allows transmission of CQIs at a slower rate and with fewer bits during voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) sessions than during non-real-time (NRT) data transmissions. A VoIP transmission typically includes “talkspurt” periods, during which VoIP packets are transmitted, and silence periods, which start with a silence indication (SID) packet and continue with periodic SID packets until a VoIP packet is received. When the base station is transmitting NRT data, the mobile device transmits CQIs to the base station at a first rate, with each CQI having a first fixed number of bits. When the base station is transmitting VoIP to the mobile device, then during a talkspurt period, the mobile device may transmit CQIs to the base station at a second rate slower than the first rate, and each CQI may have a second fixed number of bits less than the first fixed number of bits. However, during a silence period, the mobile device does not transmit CQIs to the base station, and uplink channel resources allocated for the CQIs can be reallocated to other mobile devices.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of wireless communications, in particular to a method, a system and equipment for transmitting data, which are used for transmitting data through enhanced physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The method for transmitting data comprises the following steps that: a network side configures transmission information of the enhanced PDCCH and / or channel resources of a candidate PDCCH, wherein the frequency of blind test of the PDCCH in a configured PDCCH search space is not higher than that of the PDCCH in a dedicated PDCCH search space of user equipment; and the network side transmits data through the configured PDCCH. Because the frequency of blind test of the PDCCH in the configured PDCCH search space is not higher than that of the PDCCH in the dedicated PDCCH search space of the user equipment, the frequency of blind test of the PDCCH, and the complexity of implementing the user equipment can be further reduced effectively on the basis of the enhanced PDCCH.

A method for transmitting Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback information is provided. The method includes obtaining HARQ-ACK feedback information, a total number of bits of which is less than or equal to four through performing group bundling on the HARQ-ACK feedback information of all sub-frames in a current HARQ-ACK bundling window of two Component Carriers (CCs), determining a number of Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources provided for transmission of the HARQ-ACK feedback information according to data transmission modes of the two CCs, and a number of elements in the bundling window, and transmitting the HARQ-ACK feedback information after the group bundling to a base station on PUCCH channel resources adopting a PUCCH format 1b of channel selection according to the PUCCH channel resources mapped from the HARQ-ACK feedback information after the group bundling and modulation symbols.

A broadband cellular network (BCN) provides a user equipment (UE) access to TVWS resources. The BCN authorizes the UE to access TVWS resources by conveying a mobile device identifier received from the UE, and a cell identifier associated with the UE's coverage area, to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-certified Database and receiving, from the Database, and storing an FCC ID associated with the UE and a set of available TVWS resources. The BCN then conveys, to the UE via a broadband cellular technology, a channel resource information element (CRIE) that includes the cell identifier and identifies the set of available TVWS resources. Subsequently, the BCN re-authorizes the UE to access TVWS resources based on the stored FCC ID and without re-conveying the mobile device identifier to the Database. The BCN further utilizes broadband cellular technology procedures to provide a “virtual” contact verification signal (VCVS) to the UE.

A scheduler for providing quality of service in a local area network, wherein the local area network includes a plurality of stations, and wherein data flow moves over the network in superframes, includes a mechanism for governing channel resources in the local area network, including a transmit specification controller for granting a transmit specification to a data flow from one station on the network to another station on the network; and a TXOP mechanism for terminating transmits opportunities for stations which have successfully completed data transmission, thereby changing the length of a superframe. A method of providing quality of service in the local area network, includes governing channel resources in the local area network, including controlling transmit specifications for granting a transmit specification to a data flow from one station on the network to another station on the network; and terminating transmits opportunities with a TXOP mechanism for stations which have successfully completed data transmission, thereby changing the length of a superframe.