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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180361 | Methods and systems for base station installation in distributed call processing networks Methods and systems are provided for establishing a logical flow path between a radio network controller (RNC) having multiple call processors that are operable in a distributed manner and a base station, in particular a Node B, being served by the RNC using an inte... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180362 | Multi-carrier load balancing scheme for voice and data A method for preventing the occurrence of overload conditions in a multi-carrier communication system such as, but not limited to, enhancements to 1xEV-DV by controlling the amount of voice and data users having access to the communication system in order to provide... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8165597 | Method and apparatus to facilitate partitioning use of wireless communication resources amongst base stations A central controller (300) receives (201), from each of a plurality of base stations certain operating information. This operating information can comprise, for example, a self-identifier, information regarding allowed wireless distance coverage, ident... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155661 | Method for automatic resource restriction distribution, a base station, a mobile terminal, a resource distribution device and a mobile network therefor The invention concerns a method for automatic resource restriction distribution for coordination of the interference between cells (C1, C2, . . . ) or sectors (S1, S2, . . . ) of a single frequency network with the frequency band being su... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150412 | Interference mitigation in a wireless communication system The present invention provides a method of interference mitigation in a wireless communication system. The method that may include reducing transmission power associated with at least one first channel provided by at least one first base station associated with at l... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150413 | Radio network designing apparatus and method Disclosed is a technology for easy balancing between cells by securing a cell balance, using an optimization process adopting a radio parameter as a parameter of an objective function. Objective function extractor 11 sets up optimizing condition at least incl... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145233 | Methods of power overload control in communication systems Methods of providing power overload control in a communication system having a least one base station serving one or more users of at least one cell are described which may avoid an overload condition in the system. In one aspect, a target signal-to-interference rat... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140091 | Boosting a signal-to-interference ratio of a mobile station In a cell of a cellular wireless communication system, the SIR of at least one user in a sector of the cell is altered by temporarily reducing transmissions on a forward link in at least one other sector of the cell or a sector in another cell in accordance with a p... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140090 | Method and system for estimating traffic distribution in a cellular mobile radio communications network A method for estimating a territorial distribution of traffic in a selected area of a cellular radio mobile communications network, includes: dividing the selected area into a plurality of traffic-generating area elements; determining overall traffic in respect of s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135412 | Wireless network self-adaptive load balancer A load balancer is provided for balancing distribution of wireless clients among wireless access points. The load balancer includes a tracking implementation for tracking at least one telemetry parameter of each wireless client's wireless link with each respective w... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8121607 | Mobile station initiated load balancing in wireless communication networks Techniques for load balancing across different access networks based on procedures initiated by a wireless terminal or mobile station and examples of using load balancing within the same access network to hand off a mobile station from one base station to another ba... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121608 | Method for dynamically monitoring a group of mobile entities A method for dynamically monitoring a group of wirelessly communicating mobile entities, characterized in that it comprises: assigning each entity a unique identifier; saving within a referring entity the list of t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112095 | Sum rate of broadcast channels with outdated 1-bit feedback A single-input single-output (SISO) downlink channel with K users is analyzed in the presence of Rayleigh flat fading. A limited channel state information (CSI) feedback scheme is included, where only an outdated 1-bit feedback per user is available at the base stat... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112094 | Radio access layer management Architecture that efficiently adds additional carrier(s) (e.g., UMTS) to a wireless operator's network which allows the additional carrier(s) network to co-exist with other technologies by sharing the spectrum in geographically adjacent sites. When employing UMTS, t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103284 | Method for reporting uplink load measurements The present invention provides a method for reporting load measurements. The method may include providing information indicative of a first load associated with at least one first channel type to a first scheduling unit. The first load represents a difference betwee... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099102 | Call admission control device and call admission control method A call admission control device efficiently controls admission of a new call. In a scheduling operation, a congestion state in a cell is estimated based on the number or ratio of the mobile stations whose average transmission data rates have been initialized, and ca... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086244 | Measurement control based on RBS processing capability A telecommunication system includes one or more radio access network controllers and one or more radio base stations. A radio access network controller supervises the operation of a radio base station. To facilitate the supervision process, the radio access network ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081985 | Load management for a mobility management entity of a cellular communication system A cellular communication system comprises a Mobile Management Entity, MME, 117 and a load characteristic processor 203 that determines an MME load characteristic for base stations 101-107 in response to a measured operating characteristic... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073458 | System and method for automated optimization of spectrum allocation The present disclosure describes systems and methods that facilitate the allocation of spectrum for wireless communications. A database may be maintained that includes spectrum that has been offered by spectrum holders for use by spectrum users. Portions of the offe... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073457 | Device and method for controlling overload An overload control device and a method thereof in a radio network controller are disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention includes i) a load measuring unit, measuring a load of a radio network controller every predetermined time, ii) an overload determini... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073456 | Methods and arrangements for estimating uplink coverage in wireless communication networks with dynamic cell coverage The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in cellular communication networks exhibiting dynamic cell coverage, in particular, to estimate the uplink coverage in a network in operation. According to the method of the present invention a received rate ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068845 | Transmission power level setting during channel assignment for interference balancing in a cellular wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method for balancing the distribution of interference between radio cells in a wireless communication system comprising cells in which subcarrier blocks are used for communication. A number of adjacent cells build a cell cluster. M... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8036675 | Load balancing in wireless networks A load balancing system for a wireless network comprises: a base station parameter extraction unit able to extract base station availability parameters of currently available base stations; and a base station quality of service selector associated with said base sta... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032148 | Method and system for wireless cellular indoor communications The invention relates to a method for wireless cellular indoor communications, the method comprising at least one base station connected to a cell management unit through a first digital connection interface, the cell management unit connected to at least one RF hub... | 10/04/2011 |
| RE42697 | Apparatus and methods for networking omni-modal radio devices A network and method of operating a network of wireless service providers adapted to interact with a plurality of omni-modal wireless products within a given geographic area in a manner to permit the wireless service providers to “borrow” radio frequencies from ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014786 | Distributed micro instruction set processor architecture for high-efficiency signal processing A wireless communication system hosts a plurality of processes in accordance with a communication protocol. The system includes application specific instruction set processors (ASISPs) that provided computation support for the process. Each ASISP is capable of execu... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005482 | Measurements in communications systems A method of performing compressed mode measurements for selecting communication means in a communication system. Statistics are collected on handovers from a cell in a communications system to a plurality of other cells in the communications system. A cell load of e... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000716 | Load balancing apparatus and method in wireless network hotspots Disclosed is a load balancing apparatus and method in wireless network hotspots, which comprises a resource allocation module and a load balancer. The resources reallocation module establishes the resources module and the relationship between access points (APs) and... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000717 | Apparatus, system, and method for managing reverse link communication resources in a distributed communication system An apparatus, system, and method efficiently manage reverse link communication in a communication system having geographically distributed base stations. Coupled load information is exchanged between base stations allowing a base station to determine an appropriate ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991404 | Congestion control method and device in mobile communication network A congestion control method in a mobile communication network includes the steps of recognizing by a base station control unit of the mobile communication network that the base station control unit or a base station or a cell under the same becomes in a congestion s... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991403 | Load balancing method for wireless network system A method for providing load balance to a wireless network system is disclosed, wherein a network management server (NMS) is used to group a plurality of access points into a plurality of groups. Each of the access points is pre-set with a plurality of water level va... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7979078 | Apparatus, system, and method for managing reverse link communication resources in a distributed communication system An apparatus, system, and method efficiently manage reverse link communication in a communication system having geographically distributed base stations. Coupled load information is exchanged between base stations allowing a base station to determine an appropriate ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974631 | Method and system for resource allocation based on distributed scheduling in a wireless communication system including heterogeneous mobile stations A method and system for efficient resource allocation based on distributed scheduling in a wireless communication system including heterogeneous mobile stations. The method includes receiving, by a base station, a first message including resource request quantity in... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962148 | Controlling and managing access to multiple networks The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device, and method for registering with a network from a mobile communications device. A processor in the mobile device may be used to establish a network connection with a server in a network. The mobile device m... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7941155 | Calculation and broadcast of cell-load ratio and intelligent cell selection for IEEE802.16M A method for data transmission, contemplates calculating a cell-load ratio by: r cl , n = | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941156 | System of wireless base stations employing shadow prices for power load balancing In one aspect, a system is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of wireless base stations that are located in a contiguous spatial coverage region of a cellular communication system. Each wireless base station that is configured to generate a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7929973 | Balancing wireless access based on centralized information A method and apparatus for managing and balancing wireless access based on centralized information is provided. A request to provide service to a wireless client is received from a first access node in a plurality of access node. An access policy, applicable to the ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929974 | Method and system for managing carrier frequencies in a wireless communication network A method and system are provided for managing a radio access network (RAN). The RAN defines one or more wireless coverage areas (WCAs) to serve one or more mobile nodes (MNs). Each MN requests data from the RAN at a requested forward-link data rate and the RAN trans... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925271 | Apparatus and method for arbitrary data rate ramp up after overload on wireless interface To prevent oscillation in load levels on radio interfaces between one or more user equipment devices and neighboring base stations after the base stations have reduced the data rates of the one or more user equipment devices connected thereto over said radio interfa... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912479 | Radio-channel connection controller and mobile communication network system The network system of the present invention comprises a plurality of base transceiver stations, a plurality of antenna systems, and a radio-channel connection controller. The radio-channel connection controller comprises a connection switching unit switching the con... | 03/22/2011 |
