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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120021757 | DISTRIBUTED POWER ALLOCATION METHOD UNDER SERVICE QUALITY CONSTRAINT The present invention relates to a distributed method of power allocation in a wireless telecommunication system comprising at least a first couple of terminals, consisting of a first transmitting terminal and of a first receiving terminal, and of a second couple of ter... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120003986 | REVERSE LINK POWER CONTROL FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Assigning power spectrum density to access terminals within a wireless network environment is provided. Assignment information that includes assignment of reverse link transmission resources is determined and a power control instruction is created for the assigned rever... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120003985 | CO-CHANNEL INTERFERENCE REDUCTION IN FEMTOCELL NETWORKS Co-channel macrocell users will inherently produce co-channel interference at a nearby femtocell base station. To reduce the peak co-channel interference power, the femtocell users adjust their symbol timing with regard to the macrocell users so as to maximize a spreadi... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110312330 | DEVICE DISCOVERY ON WHITE SPACE FREQUENCIES A method of wireless communication includes receiving a first signal on a first channel, determining a second channel based on the first signal, receiving a second signal on the second channel, and communicating with a wireless device on the second channel based on a qu... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110312332 | REDUCING FEEDBACK OVERHEAD FOR MULTIPLE COMPONENT CARRIERS A wireless communication device configured for reducing feedback overhead for multiple component carriers is described. The wireless communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The wireless communication device receives signals on a plur... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110312331 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE SCHEDULING FOR NETWORK CONTROLLED D2D COMMUNICATIONS In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises obtaining at a network node a scheduling reference point with a fluctuation range based at least in part on at least one metric for a plurality of cellular user equipments (UEs) and at... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110306353 | CHANNEL ALLOCATION DEVICE AND METHOD USING WIRELESS ACCESS IN VEHICULAR ENVIROMENTS A device for allocating a channel by using wireless access in a vehicular environment in which an onboard unit is provided in a vehicle and at least one roadside unit is provided, receives a service announcement message from at least one roadside unit, uses the service ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110300874 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING TDMA AUDIO NOISE A system and method for removing time division multiple access (TDMA) noise from an audio signal during a silence interval and not during a non-silence interval. An audio silence interval may be a set of frames which have substantially no audible sound (i.e. no speech o... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110281591 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING ANTENNA COOPERATION SET, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING BASE STATION COOPERATION SET A method and device for determining an antenna cooperation set, and a method and device for determining a base station cooperation set in the mobile communication field are provided. The method includes that a signal joint processing system obtains the channel quality b... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110275382 | Measurements and Fast Power Adjustments in D2D Communications At a cluster head/first device there is received, from each of at least two other devices with which the cluster head has a respective wireless link, a quality indicator for the respective link observed by the respective other device. The cluster head compiles those rec... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110275378 | MULTI-CELL COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF A MOBILE TERMINAL, A MICRO BASE STATION, AND A MACRO BASE STATION Communication methods of a macro base station which collects position information about a mobile micro base station and that is served by the macro base station, predicts a channel between the macro base station and the micro base station, and performs a handover betwee... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110244877 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method for wireless communication is disclosed which includes selecting a first resource pattern comprising resource elements that are non-colocated with a second resource pattern and allocating the first resource pattern to a plurality of antennas for transmitting a ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110237273 | OFDMA Uplink Interface Impact Recovery in LTE System The present invention relates to methods and arrangements to estimate neighbour cell interference for admission control purposes. Information on at least the total estimated neighbour cell interference power and the own cell power for frequency subsets of tones ft is si... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110230200 | Intercell Interference Coordination for Radio Resource Control A system includes a first device (110) to classify data as one of a control message or a non-control message, and provide the classification of the data to a second device (122). The second device (122) receives the classification of the data, recei... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110217986 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SELECTING THE RESOURCE PROCESSING MANNER The present invention provides a method and device for selecting a resource processing manner, wherein the method is applied to a communication system including a user terminal, a relay station and a base station, and comprises the following operations: a configuring st... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110217984 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A CODING FORMAT In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, channel quality data is collected in a cellular communication network on a cell level. The channel quality data is used to determine a signal format for use in common downlink channels, wherein the signa... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110217985 | PREDICTIVE SHORT-TERM CHANNEL QUALITY REPORTING UTILIZING REFERENCE SIGNALS Providing for resource-specific interference reporting to facilitate short-term channel quality and transmission parameterization in wireless communications is provided herein. By way of example, a UE observing high interference can utilize reference signals of a second... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110159870 | WIRELESS BASE STATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD IN THE WIRELESS BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A wireless base station apparatus performing wireless communication with a mobile station apparatus includes: a transmission unit to transmit data to the mobile station apparatus; a reception unit to receive a delivery result for the data from the mobile station apparat... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110159883 | SIGNALING CONNECTION ADMISSION CONTROL IN A WIRELESS NETWORK A method for admission control of control plane signaling requests includes receiving a signaling request. Upon receipt of the signaling connection request, a first determination is performed to determine whether to provide admission to common resources. When the first ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110151887 | Secondary System Usage In Multicarrier Networks After an evolved Node-B (eNB) has selected primary component carriers and secondary component carriers, the eNB can transmit (for example, by broadcast), the information for secondary usage (such as certain conditions) to devices. The devices can also be machines or the... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110151888 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A PROGRAMMABLE INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION MODULE Aspects of a method and system for a programmable interference suppression module may include receiving a communication signal comprising one or more desired signal, and one or more undesired signals. The communication signal may be utilized to generate estimated channe... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110151872 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PERFORMING MULTI-CELL COMMON OPERATION A common operating set including a plurality of cells may be set, and common radio resources may be allocated to enable the plurality of cells to perform a multi-cell common operation. Unique uplink radio resources may be allocated to each of terminals in the common ope... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110143766 | Method And A Device In A Wireless Communication System In a wireless communication system, a base station adaptively schedule CQI reports form mobile stations. By adaptively prioritizing the CQI report from the mobile station against the uplink traffic and control data, the CQI reporting rate avoids unnecessary overhead in ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110136497 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CARRIER ADJUSTMENT TO MITIGATE INTERFERENCE An approach is provided for mitigating interference from Long Term Evolution (3GPP LTE) terminals to adjacent frequency bands. A platform determines whether a region associated with transmission of one or more resource blocks are an interfering region according to prede... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110136498 | RSSI ESTIMATION IN MULTI-TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION TERMINALS A method used in a receiver includes measuring first Received Signal Strength Indications (RSSIs) in respective first communication channels, which are located in a given frequency band and which each have a first channel bandwidth. Based on the first RSSIs, second RSSI... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110136499 | RADIO BASE STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD A radio base station allocates a large-interference channel or a small-interference channel to a radio terminal. The radio base station includes: a performance determination unit (121) which determines an interference can performance as a performance to cancellat... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110124345 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING COORDINATED MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and an apparatus for performing a Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission in a wireless communication system are provided. An operating method of a base station for the CoMP transmission in a wireless communication system includes performing a cell clusteri... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110124346 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION MOBILE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A wireless communication method includes, at each base station, respectively forming first and second communication regions at the edges of a cell of the each base station by changing the direction of a directional antenna in synchronization with other surrounding base ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110116410 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method for controlling inter-cell interference (ICI) in a mobile communication system by transmitting uplink control information from a base station in a home cell to a terminal of a neighboring cell based on ICI amount information measured at the base station. The IC... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110117915 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINATION OF WIRELESS DEVICE SPEED VIA CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR FADING CHARACTERISTICS A method for determining the speed of a wireless device includes the steps of receiving channel quality indicator data, determining the fast fading characteristics of the received channel quality indicator data, comparing the fast fading characteristics of the received ... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110111767 | METHOD OF CALL ADMISSION CONTROL FOR HOME FEMTOCELLS The present invention provides a call admission control method for use in a wireless communication network that includes a femtocell that is coupled to the wireless communication network via a wireline communication network. The method includes receiving, at a call admi... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110111766 | Techniques to control uplink power Techniques are described that provide uplink power control techniques that can support different uplink multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transmission schemes. Open and closed loop power control schemes can be used to prescribe the power level of the mobile station.... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110105138 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT METHOD In a mobile communication system including a first base station and a second base station, the first base station includes: a user information obtaining unit configured to obtain user information in the first base station, and the second base station includes: a user in... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110103365 | FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY REUSE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM An apparatus and method for fractional frequency reuse in a communication system. The method includes a first step 400 of partitioning a sub-frame into resource partitions, wherein at least one resource partition has frequency reuse of one and all other resource ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110098055 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR INTER-CELL COORDINATION System and methods for intercell coordination are provided. The system includes a macro terminal and a macro base station that allocate a radio resource for a sounding signal and determine a pattern of a sounding signal, in advance. The macro base station provides a fem... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110092220 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK A method for configuring a wireless telecommunications network adapted to operate according to at least one radio system, includes a plurality of re-configurable base radio stations, wherein each base radio station is adapted to manage one or more cells of the telecommu... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110081871 | CHANNEL-DEPENDENT SCHEDULING AND LINK ADAPTATION A mobile terminal measures interference over multiple measurement periods and generates interference probability data based on the statistical distribution of the interference measured. The interference probability data may describe, for example, the probability of each... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110077019 | Dynamically Allocating Carriers To determine which traffic and terminal types and in which parts of a call should be best served by a given carrier there is provided a method and system for dynamically allocating carriers in a MIMO network using S-CPICH. The consideration of which carrier to allocate ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110065447 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION USING INFORMATION FROM NON-LISTENED BASE STATIONS Aspects of a method and system for interference suppression using information from non-listened base stations are provided. In this regard, one or more circuits in a wireless communication device may be operable to receive a raw signal comprising one or more desired sig... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110065448 | System and Method for Supporting Antenna Beamforming in a Cellular Network The present invention is a method and system for supporting a beamfonming antenna system in a mobile broadband communication network with an improved beam pattern, beam sweep pattern, pilot channel design with feedback and reporting rules, and control signaling design. ... | 03/17/2011 |
