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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120106468 | RADIO NETWORK NODE DISCOVERY OF OPERATIONS NODE A domain name associated with a radio network node's operator or maintenance (OM) node is determined based on at least part of a radio node identifier and a radio network operator identifier. The radio network node sends the domain name to a domain name server. In respo... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120052902 | Method of Power Control In a cellular radio system the power control status of a mobile station is used in the base stations to generate power control commands. Hereby a radio base station can select a power control method that is optimal for the situation at hand. This is obtained by communic... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046065 | Automatic Planning and Handling of Random Access Root Sequences The present invention relates to a method and a communication network node for enabling automatic planning and handling of root sequences used at random access in a communication network system, wherein user equipments (18) are accessing a cell (19a... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120008524 | Method and Apparatus for Monitoring a Random Access Channel A user equipment for obtaining data for observing performance related to Random Access in a cellular radio system is provided. The user equipment can connect to the system. In order to provide the network/system with data for observing the random access procedure the us... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110286538 | DATA RETRANSMISSION SCHEME Disclosed are improved retransmission schemes. In one embodiment, a retransmission method includes: receiving, at a protocol layer in a receiver, a data block transmitted from a protocol layer in a transmitter; determining that it is not possible to decode the data bloc... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110235529 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM The present invention relates to a method and a communication network node for enabling automatic optimization of a random access preamble format usage in a communication network system. The network comprises the communication network node serving at least one cell to w... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110165874 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM A method and a communication network node for satisfying detection miss probability and false detection probability requirements in a random access channel used by mobile stations (MS) for accessing a communication network system comprising radio base stations (BS) each... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110159901 | Method and Arrangement, Cell ID Collision Detection The present invention relates to methods, a communication network node and a user equipment for detecting collision of physical cell identities in a communication network system comprising radio base stations each serving at least one cell through which user equipments ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158104 | Determining Preamble Sequences For Random Access The present invention relates to a method and a communication network node for enabling auto-tuning of preamble sequences used during random access procedures when user equipments (18) are accessing a communication network system comprising radio base stations (<... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110098045 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM A method of signalling a set cell identities in a cellular radio system from a transmitter to a receiver is provided. The method includes coding of a sequence of cell identities using a range indicator. The coded sequence is then signalling using the coded sequence. The... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110098035 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR AUTOMATIC TUNING OF THE RACH CONFIGURATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK The present invention relates to a method and a communication network node for automatically tuning a PRACH configuration parameter in a communication network system comprising radio base stations each serving at least one cell and with which user equipments are communi... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110075636 | RANDOM ACCESS WITH FULL COVERAGE ON SELECTED RESOURCES Random access coverage is assured while at the same time supporting high uplink data rates in a same service area served by a base station. A set of radio resources are shared by multiple mobile terminals for transmitting uplink to the base station including requests fo... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110065438 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR SUPPORTING FAST CARRIER RESELECTION In order to utilize uplink multi-carrier communication more efficiently and to support fast inter-frequency handovers and other types of carrier reallocations, carrier reallocation decisions are performed by the serving base station. Various non-limiting example embodim... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110026492 | Method and Arrangement for Handling Handover Related Parameters in a Mobile Communications Network The invention relates to methods and arrangements for handling handover-related parameters. A radio base station of a mobile communications network is arranged to serve at least a first cell, and to make handover decisions based on handover-related parameters. The radio... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110021223 | Method for Determining a Subsequent Time Interval Relationship, for Service Request Messages, from a User Equipment The invention relates to a method in a base station for handling a request from a user equipment for accessing a service in a radio communications network, the method comprising the steps of receiving a first wide time interval (305) of an incoming signal (300... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100317393 | METHOD OF UPLINK POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method, a mobile station and a computer program for controlling uplink transmit power of a mobile station capable of operating with scheduled uplink data transmissions. Uplink transmit power level for the mobile station is updated (304) based on received (30... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100290381 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR SAVING RADIO RESOURCES BY DETERMINING POWER OFFSET VALUES IN THE USER EQUIPMENT The present invention relates to an arrangement and a method in a user equipment of saving radio resources in a communication network system comprising a communication network node (15) communicating withto one or more user equipments (18) on uplink (17... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100273487 | AUTOMATIC HANDOVER OSCILLATION CONTROL A method and apparatus are provided for use in a cellular radio communication system for adjusting a handover parameter. Information is collected regarding actual handovers that have occurred between one or more pairs of cells as well as handover failures. The collected... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100238832 | UPLINK TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL Control of uplink transmit power for a first mobile station operating with scheduled uplink data transmissions. A change in uplink scheduled status for the first mobile station is detected (301). Filtering of uplink interference measurements for the first mobile ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100235704 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a wireless communication system, and in particular to uplink outer loop power control. A Node B identifies if a UE from which the Node B receives data is in a predetermined set of power challenged situations. ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100216456 | METHOD OF DETERMINING THE ACTIVE SET IN A CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEM In a method and a device for determining an active set for a mobile station cell individual offsets (CIO) is determined for a number of cells. The offsets are signaling to the mobile station, which adds corrections to the reference signal measurements based on the cell ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100210255 | RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL (RACH) RECONFIGURATION FOR TEMPORARILY EXTENDED CELL COVERAGE A device obtains a service change associated with a cell in a radio network, and identifies helper cells in the radio network that need new random access channel (RACH) parameters due to the service change. The device also determines a RACH parameters configuration for ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100178912 | Automatic Detection and Correction of Physical Cell Identity Conflicts A PCID conflict resolution procedure is implemented with the aid of a user terminal that is capable of detecting and reporting PCID conflicts between two neighboring neighbor cells. A base station in a serving cell configures measurement reporting by user terminals with... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100159970 | Method for Fast Acknowledgement and Identification of a Service Access Request Message or a Preamble Thereof A method is provided in a base station for handling a request from a first user equipment for accessing a service in a radio communications network. The method comprises the steps of receiving a first time interval of an incoming signal comprises a first signal sent fro... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100159838 | UPLINK MULTI-CELL SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION A node (e.g., base station, signal processing unit) is described herein that includes a symbol detector and a method which are capable of suppressing interference caused by one user device (which may be in softer handoff mode) to reduce performance degradation to other ... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100087154 | Adjustments of IUB Load Measurements A method may include determining whether a discrepancy exists between scheduling headroom computable by a first device and scheduling headroom computable by a second device, determining one or more load measurements that the second device bases its computation of the sc... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100002813 | Soft Scaling Method and Apparatus A received signal of interest is processed by determining timing of interference spikes in the received signal of interest. Receivers can determine when certain types of interference spikes are expected to occur, e.g., based on when different users are scheduled to tran... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090305636 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION In a method of interference mitigation in a multi user detection capable radio base station in a communication system, which radio base station comprises a set confined detection modules, at least one of which is capable of handling multiple user connections, first and ... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090186617 | Best-Effort Macro Diversity The present invention relates to a network node and a method for providing macro diversity in a radio telecommunications network comprising a radio base station providing a radio link to a mobile terminal, the radio base station comprises communication resources for sup... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090168906 | Methods and arrangements in a mobile telecommunication network The present invention relates to a first unit adapted to be used in a base station in a mobile telecommunication network adapted to use an identity for identifying a mobile terminal or for identifying a channel in the uplink. The first unit comprises means for managing ... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090149134 | POWER CONTROL FOR A RADIO TRANSCEIVER THAT USES INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION A signal power associated with a signal received in a current time period is determined. The determined signal power is combined with a predicted effective interference to form a predicted signal-to-interference indicator. The predicted signal-to-interference indicator ... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090059861 | BLIND HANDOVER USING LOAD COMPENSATED MEASUREMENTS A method of initiating handover in a cellular radio system with CDMA access technology. A mobile station is present in a serving cell and handover should be made from a serving cell to a target cell. Before the handover is made the signal quality from the target cell is... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090047955 | AUTOMATED AND SEAMLESS CHANGE OF REPORTING CELL IDENTITY The technology described here allows a cell to change a cell identity without disrupting ongoing communication in that cell. In one non-limiting example embodiment, a cell identity change message is sent by a base station to one or more UEs being served in that base sta... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090047956 | CELL IDENTIFIER CONFLICT RESOLUTION The technology described automatically resolves cell identity collisions/conflicts in a cellular radio communications network. A detecting node determines that a first cell identifier associated with a first conflicting cell is the same as a second cell identifier assoc... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090047960 | Closed subscriber group cell handover A radio terminal connection may be handed over from a serving base station associated with a serving cell to a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell served by a CSG base station in which only radio terminals belonging to the CSG are permitted to access and receive service ... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090047968 | NEIGHBOR CELL RELATION LIST INITIALIZATION Neighbor cell relation lists are initialized and managed in various ways that are especially beneficial to closed subscriber group (CSG) cells served by CSG base stations. Typically, only a radio terminal belonging to the CSG is permitted to access and receive service f... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20080279121 | Signal to interference ratio error as a load instability indicator for load control in cellular systems An uplink signal-to-interference ratio for each of multiple mobile radio terminal connections supported in a cell in a cellular communications system is estimated. A signal-to-interference ratio error is determined for selected ones of the estimated uplink signal-to-int... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080214197 | Technique for Radio Resource Management A radio resource management technique in a cellular telecommunication system is disclosed. The telecommunication system comprises at least one radio network controlling component and one or more base station components operable to implement an uplink scheduling scheme i... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080075030 | Power control method Methods for downlink power control in wireless communication systems are provided. In response to a transmitter power change request from a mobile terminal (110) over a wireless connection, a base station (122) determines a power control parameter based on... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20070191013 | Methods of and apparatuses for cell-differentiated handover in a mobile communications systems The present invention relates to handover procedures in a cellular communications system (1). The cells (10-70) of the system (1) are divided into multiple handover-related classes based on their respective radio coverage characteristics. Eac... | 08/16/2007 |
