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 Mobile communication method, mobile station, and network device | 20130122919 | 20130516 |
 A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of a radio network controller of a first communication scheme transmitting an instruction signal to a mobile station UE in a case where a radio access capability of the mobile station UE is contained in the received connection setup request signal, the instruction signal instructing the mobile station UE to make an attempt to set up a connection in a cell of a second communication scheme, and a step of the mobile station UE setting up the connection in the cell of the second communication scheme in response to the received instruction signal, wherein in the mobile station UE transmits a connection setup request signal not containing the radio access capability of the mobile... |
| Method and apparatus for managing radio resources, radio network controller, and base station | 20130114407 | 20130509 |
 Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an system for managing radio resources, a radio network controller, and a base station. The method for managing radio resources mainly includes: acquiring respective resources occupied by at least two types of bearers in a cell; comparing the acquired respective resources occupied by the at least two types of bearers; and reducing a congestion threshold of the cell and/or reducing a service rate of the bearer with a low bearer level when it is determined that quality of service (QoS) of the services of different bearers is unfair. The method and the apparatus for managing radio resources, and the radio network controller in the embodiments of the present invention may improve QoS fairness of services of different... |
| Wireless communication method and system for configuring radio access bearers for enhanced uplink services | 20130107847 | 20130502 |
 A wireless communication method and system for controlling an enhanced uplink (EU) radio access bearer (RAB). The wireless communication system includes at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), at least one Node-B and a radio network controller (RNC). The RNC configures an EU RAB to operate on an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH). At least one of the WTRU and the Node-B report EU traffic statistics and EU performance statistics to the RNC. The RNC then adjusts the configuration of the EU RAB in accordance with the received EU traffic statistics, the EU performance statistics, and information collected by the RNC itself.
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| Mobile communication system and radio access network apparatus | 20130107858 | 20130502 |
 Provided is a mobile communication system wherein a radio base station eNB in E-UTRAN is configured to transmit barring information for each communication type applied in the E-UTRAN to a radio network controller RNC in UTRAN, and the barring information includes a barring factor, a barring time, and information indicating whether there is any barring to a priority call.
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| Method and system for updating air interface keys | 20130109347 | 20130502 |
 A method for updating an air interface key is disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: after a serving radio network controller makes a decision to perform relocation, the serving radio network controller sending key information to a destination radio network controller directly or via a core network node; or the serving radio network controller notifying the core network node to send the key information to the destination radio network controller. The present invention further discloses a system for updating an air interface key, which includes a serving radio network controller and a destination radio network controller; the serving radio network controller is configured to, send key information to the destination radio network controller directly or via a core network node after deciding to perform... |
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| Mobile communication system, radio access network apparatus, and mobile station | 20130109381 | 20130502 |
| Provided is a mobile communication system wherein a radio base station eNB in E-UTRAN is configured to transmit a downlink carrier frequency (EARFCN) and a physical cell ID (PCI) of a blacklisted cell, which is a cell to which access is forbidden in the downlink carrier frequency, to a radio network controller RNC in UTRAN.
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| Maintenance of high-speed channels by inserting channel maintenance data in a mobile data network to avoid channel type switching | 20130094394 | 20130418 |
| A mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A first service mechanism in the radio access network breaks out data coming from a basestation. When data is broken out by the first service mechanism, the data is delivered at the edge, which means the true activity of the channel is not visible to the core network. The reduction of data in the core network due to serving data at the edge risks causing a switch from a high-speed channel to a low-speed channel by the mechanism in the core network that monitors and assigns channel speeds. In order to maintain the high-speed channel, the on-going data rate for a subscriber session is monitored and channel maintenance traffic is injected towards and... |
| Method for updating and generating air interface key and radio access system | 20130078956 | 20130328 |
| The disclosure discloses a method for updating and generating an air interface key and a radio access system. The updating method comprises: a source Radio Network Controller (RNC) completes the static relocation towards a target RNC; the target RNC performs intra-Serving-RNC (SRNC) relocation; during the intra-SRNC relocation, the target RNC updates enhanced key of itself according to a key received from the source RNC or a core network node. With the disclosure, the enhanced air interface key can be updated during the SRNC static relocation process without increasing the time delay of the SRNC relocation, and security and efficiency of the system are improved.
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| Radio base station; radio network controller and methods therein | 20130079013 | 20130328 |
| Embodiments herein relate to a method in a radio base station (12,12′) for handling Uplink Closed Loop Transmit Diversity, UL CLTD. The radio base station (12,12′) is configured to control UL CLTD of a user equipment (10) served by the radio base station (12,12′). The radio base station receives from a radio network controller (15) an indication indicating removal of UL CLTD. The radio base station (12,12′) then removes UL CLTD related operation for the user equipment (10) based on the received indication.
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| Enhanced mobility to home base station cells | 20130079021 | 20130328 |
| Cell relocation procedures to address handover between a macro radio network controller (RNC) and a home base station in a wireless communication network, while accounting for access control or membership verification procedures needed to support a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) at the home base station. An example method begins with the receiving of a request for handover of the mobile terminal from an RNC of the macro wireless network. A closed subscriber group (CSG) identifier for the home base station and a cell access mode for the home base station are then sent, to a core network node associated with the macro wireless network, for use by the core network node in membership verification or access control for the mobile terminal. In response, the home base... |
| Maintenance of high-speed channels by inserting channel maintenance data in a mobile data network to avoid channel type switching | 20130070619 | 20130321 |
| A mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A first service mechanism in the radio access network breaks out data coming from a basestation. When data is broken out by the first service mechanism, the data is delivered at the edge, which means the true activity of the channel is not visible to the core network. The reduction of data in the core network due to serving data at the edge risks causing a switch from a high-speed channel to a low-speed channel by the mechanism in the core network that monitors and assigns channel speeds. In order to maintain the high-speed channel, the on-going data rate for a subscriber session is monitored and channel maintenance traffic is injected towards and... |
| Switching method and system of multiple input multiple output mode | 20130072179 | 20130321 |
| A switching method and system for a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) mode are provided by the disclosure. The method comprises that: a NodeB determines to perform MIMO mode switching for a cell (S302); through a NodeB Application Part (NBAP) layer of an lub port, the NodeB sends a message which carries the cell identifier of the cell and the MIMO mode status information of the cell (S304) to a Radio Network Controller (RNC); the RNC updates the MIMO mode status of the cell by using the cell identifier and the MIMO mode status information (S306). The disclosure ensures normal communication between a piece of User Equipment (UE) and a NodeB.
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| Power control method and radio network controller | 20130064183 | 20130314 |
| A power control method performing a power control operation between a radio network controller and a node B is provided. The method includes steps of: calculating a packet error rate threshold and a base received packet count according to a target block error rate (BLER) and a precision of the target BLER; obtaining an accumulated received packet count and an accumulated packet error count; increasing a target signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of the node B when the accumulated packet error count is greater than a product of the accumulated received packet count and the packet error rate threshold; decreasing the target SIR when the accumulated received packet count is greater than or equal to a product of the base received packet count and a threshold parameter; and... |
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| Power control method and radio communication system | 20130065629 | 20130314 |
| A power control method applied to a radio network controller (RNC), a node B and a user equipment is provided. The method include steps of: determining a target block error rate; identify an initial signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) from a history look-up table (LUT) according to the target block error rate; estimating a measured block error rate between the RNC and the node B via the RNC; adjusting the initial SIR with reference to the measured block error rate and the target block error rate to generate an updated SIR; and controlling a signal transmission power of the user equipment with reference to the updated SIR via the node B.
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| Implementation method for improving service call completion ratio and radio network controller | 20130053052 | 20130228 |
| The present invention provides an implementation method for improving a service call completion ratio and a radio network controller, wherein the method comprises: a radio network controller sending a radio bearer establishment message to a user equipment (302); the radio network controller judging whether a radio bearer response message from the user equipment is not received within a first predetermined period, and if YES, the radio network controller triggering the user equipment to report a cell update message (304); the radio network controller receiving the cell update message from the user equipment and determining a configuration status of the user equipment according to information carried in the cell update message and/or time when receiving the cell update message (306); and the radio network controller performing call... |
| Method for setting and adjusting a parameter dependent on a round trip time | 20130039208 | 20130214 |
| An arrangement (17) is provided for setting and adjusting at least one parameter in a radio communication network (11), which is used in control of communication in the radio communication network and which is dependent on a round trip time for a signal travelling from a radio network controller (13) to a user equipment (16) and back to the radio network controller. The arrangement comprises a module (17a) for initially estimating a maximum value of the round trip time; a setting module (17b) for initially setting the parameter depending on the initially estimated maximum value of the round trip time; a module (17c) for measuring the round trip time; and a module (17d) for adjusting the parameter depending on the measured round trip time, wherein the... |
| Capacity management of an asynchronous transfer mode interface in a wireless communication infrastructure | 20130040628 | 20130214 |
| Methods and apparatus that effectively manage capacity of a wireless-based communication infrastructure are presented herein. An evaluation component can generate configuration data associated with a base station of a cellular wireless network. Further, a radio network controller component can determine capacity of a physical port coupled between a radio network controller and the base station. The radio network controller component can configure the radio network controller to utilize an increase in capacity of the physical port based on the determined capacity of the physical port. A base station component can configure the base station to utilize the increase in capacity of the physical port based on the configuration data generated by the evaluation component.
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| Direct transition to cell dch | 20130040667 | 20130214 |
| The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for reducing the time delay associated with the initialisation of a data transfer in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems (UMTS) terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN). A Radio Network Controller (RNC) initiates a data transfer by transmitting a downlink paging message to a User Equipment (UE), wherein the UE is capable of being in the states URA PCH, CELL PCH or CELL DCH. The paging message comprises information for transferring the UE from the URA PCH or the CELL PCH state directly to the CELL DCH state by means of delay reducing information indicated in the paging message.
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| Assisted global navigation satellite system (agnss) with precise ionosphere model assistance | 20130021201 | 20130124 |
| Embodiments enable higher accuracy GNSS performance by generating local/regional ionosphere models tailored to specific local/regional areas of interest and by using location-based delivery of the local/regional ionosphere models to mobile GPS receivers. Different types and levels of reference locations (e.g., Cell ID (CID), Location Area Code (LAC), Radio Network Controller ID (RNC-ID), Mobile Country Code (MCC)) can be used to estimate the location of mobile GPS receivers and to deliver the appropriate local/regional ionosphere models to the mobile GPS receivers. According to embodiments, the local/regional ionosphere models are fit into the same 8-parameter set as the broadcast global ionosphere model, therefore being compatible with existing GPS receivers that accept the broadcast global ionosphere model.
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| Methods, user equipments and radio network controllers in a wireless network for controlling downlink communication | 20130010710 | 20130110 |
| The present disclosure relates to a method in a user equipment (100), configured for operation using a non-contiguous downlink carrier configuration within a first frequency band. Said non-contiguous downlink carrier configuration comprises at least two blocks wherein each block comprises one downlink carrier or several adjacent downlink carriers within the first frequency band and there is a gap between any two blocks among said at least two blocks. The method comprises receiving (502) a control signal indicating that compressed mode should be configured for a first block among said at least two blocks and that compressed mode should not be configured for a second block among said at least two blocks, and configuring (504) downlink compressed mode operation in the user equipment for the first block... |
| Method, device, system and software product for providing system information to enable packet switched handover | 20130003705 | 20130103 |
| A method, mobile device, network device, system, and software product are presented for providing an indication whether a source radio network controller requests to receive system information from a handover target, and for receiving the system information in a target to source transparent container, if the indication requests to receive the system information.
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| Method and system for transferring wireless transmit/receive unit-specific information | 20120314628 | 20121213 |
| The present invention is related to a method and system for transferring wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)-specific information to support enhanced uplink (EU) operation in a wireless communication system. A radio network controller (RNC) obtains WTRU-specific information, and transfers the WTRU-specific information to the Node-Bs. Each Node-B is configured to schedule uplink transmissions from a WTRU and utilizes the WTRU-specific information in operation of EU transmissions.
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| Method, system and c-rnc for determining support capability of a local cell | 20120314684 | 20121213 |
| The present invention discloses a method, a system and a C-RNC for determining the support capability of a local cell, the method comprising the following steps of: a controlling radio network controller (C-RNC) receiving from a node B capability support information about the local cell of the node B, wherein the capability support information comprises uplink multi-carrier capability support information and shared interconnection of type B (IUB) transport bearer capability support information; and the C-RNC determining by default that the local cell supports a separate IUB transport bearer, and determining an uplink multi-carrier support capability and a shared IUB transport bearer support capability of the local cell according to the capability support information. The present invention accelerates the processing of the C-RNC, thereby improving the system... |
| Method and system for managing carrier information in multi-carrier system | 20120307754 | 20121206 |
| The present invention discloses a method for managing carrier information in a multi-carrier system, and the method includes: when an activated carrier of a User Equipment (UE) is changed, a base station (NodeB) informing a Radio Network Controller (RNC) of the change information of the activated carrier of the UE. The present invention also discloses a multi-carrier system and an RNC. The present invention triggers the RNC to perform resource re-allocation by the NodeB sending the change information of the activated carrier, which guarantees a rational allocation of network resources.
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| Transmission rate control method, mobile station and radio network controller | 20120302251 | 20121129 |
| The present invention can flexibly adjust trade-off between the radio network capacity and the radio quality by changing increase step of uplink user data in accordance with the congestion of uplink or the uplink user data type. A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes the steps of; notifying, at a radio network controller RNC, an increase pattern of the transmission rate of the uplink user data to a mobile station UE, when setting, with the mobile station UE, a user data channel connection for transmitting the uplink user data and increasing, at the mobile station UE, the transmission rate of the uplink user data in accordance with the increase pattern, when receiving, from a radio base station Node B, a relative rate... |
| Method and system for identifying transport bearer capacity of iur interface | 20120294242 | 20121122 |
| The disclosure provides a method for identifying the transport bearer capacity of the IUR interface, in which a serving radio network controller (RNC) identifies a cell as supporting “separated IUR transport bearer” and “shared IUR transport bearer” when determining the cell supports “uplink multi-carrier”, and identifies the cell as supporting the “separated IUR transport bearer” and not supporting the “shared IUR transport bearer” when determining the cell does not support the “uplink multi-carrier”. The disclosure also provides a system for identifying the transport bearer capacity of the IUR interface. The cell which does not support the uplink multi-carrier and the cell which supports the uplink multi-carrier may join in a same macro diversity of the soft handoff, thereby improving the system performance and increasing the macro... |
| Method and system for establishing enhanced air interface key | 20120294444 | 20121122 |
| The disclosure provides a method and a system for establishing an enhanced air interface key. During a serving Radio Network Controller (RNC) relocation process, a target RNC with an enhanced security capability enables a received legacy key to perform security protection on communication in the serving RNC relocation process when the target RNC cannot learn from a relocation request sent by a source RNC whether or not a user equipment supports the enhanced security capability (500); and when the target RNC receives a message from the user equipment and learns that the user equipment supports the enhanced security capability, the target RNC notifies a core network to establish and enable the enhanced air interface keys on the network side and in the user equipment respectively (501).... |
| Radio network controller and wireless communication method | 20120289238 | 20121115 |
| A radio network controller for a wireless communication system, in which a dedicated channel and an enhanced dedicated channel are switched and assigned for an uplink for each call, includes a throughput estimation unit that estimates a throughput, wherein the throughput is expected when the enhanced dedicated channel is assigned to a call to be transmitted by a mobile station to which the dedicated channel has been assigned and/or to a call to be transmitted by a mobile station that initiates a communication; a packet access scheme selection unit that selects the enhanced dedicated channel, when the throughput estimated by the throughput estimation unit is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and a packet access scheme setting unit that sets the enhanced dedicated... |
| System and method for multi-point hsdpa communication utilizing a multi-link pdcp sublayer | 20120281564 | 20121108 |
| A method and apparatus for wireless communication may provide a multi-link PDCP sublayer in a radio network controller capable of allocating PDCP PDUs among a plurality of RLC entities for use in a multi-point HSDPA network. Some aspects of the disclosure address issues relating to out-of-order delivery of the PDCP PDUs to a UE, such as unnecessary retransmissions. That is, the disclosed multi-link PDCP may be capable of distinguishing between sequence number gaps that are caused by physical layer transmission failures and those caused merely by skew.
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| Packet data unit, a receiving communication device, a radio network controller and methods therein for transmitting data from the radio network controller to the user equipment | 20120281651 | 20121108 |
| Some embodiments herein relate to a method in a radio network controller (14) for transmitting data to a user equipment (18) in a wireless communication system (10). The radio network controller (14) is communicating over a Radio Link Control layer with the user equipment (18). The radio network controller transmits a packet data unit to the user equipment (18). The packet data unit comprises a header with a first field, which first field comprises bits for a sequence number of the packet data unit. The header further comprises a second field comprising at least one bit indicating that a third field of the header comprises bits for the sequence number as an extension of bits to the first field for the sequence number.
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| Radio access network (ran) capacity/resource determination | 20110007706 | 20110113 |
| A device receives code division multiple access (CDMA) capacity/resource information via a first direct interface with a radio network controller (RNC) associated with a CDMA radio access network (RAN), and determines, based on the CDMA capacity/resource information, a capacity associated with the CDMA RAN. The device also determines, based on the CDMA capacity/resource information, a resource availability associated with the CDMA RAN, and determines, based on the capacity and the resource availability associated with the CDMA RAN, a CDMA RAN resource allocation.
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| Radio network controller and frame transmission adjusting method | 20110002310 | 20110106 |
| In adjusting transmission timings of frames sequentially transmitted from a radio network controller to a base transceiver station, the frame transmission schedule is changed in appropriate manner in response to a necessary Timing Adjustment control frame (TA). In a first period of time, which is a period of ignoring the received TA, the adjustment of the transmission timings of the frames is suspended. Also, out of the first period, the first period is varied in accordance with a variety of the delayed amount in transmission between the radio network controller and the base transceiver station. There is provided a period of ignoring a first control frame to be informed from the radio base transceiver station to the radio network controller. By setting the period to be... |
| Circuit switched fallback for mobile terminated calls | 20100331011 | 20101230 |
| In order to prevent a mobile terminated (MT) call to a user equipment (UE) from being lost by addressing a Location Area/Tracking Area (LA/TA) mismatch problem that could occur during a circuit switched (CS) Fallback, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a paging message from a mobility management entity, MME, where the paging message identifies suitable location areas, the paging message is sent because a first mobile switching center, MSC1, received a MT call request for the UE; determining that there are no 2G/3G cells belonging to the suitable location areas based on a current location of the UE; identifying a target 2G/3G cell in a location area associated with the current location of the UE but not part of the 2G/3G cells belonging to... |
| Radio network controller, mobile communication system, and method for avoiding a reduction in a call connection completion ratio for use therein | 20100317352 | 20101216 |
| A radio network controller (1) to be connected to a mobile terminal via a radio base station comprises: holding means (UE check list 15 for each system) for, when each mobile terminal has failed to make a radio connection to a cell (s) selected by a cell selection algorithm that assigns a cell (s) under the radio base station to the mobile terminal, holding information of the cell (s) to which the mobile terminal has failed to make a radio connection, for a predetermined period; and execution means (cell selection processor 11) for excluding a cell (s) to which the mobile terminal has failed a radio connection once in the past, from adjacent cell candidates of said mobile terminal, based on the cell information held by... |
| A method, system and base station for transmitting broadcast service data in a single frequency network | 20100315984 | 20101216 |
| A method for transmitting broadcast service data in a single frequency network including a Radio Network Controller and one or more base stations each with a cell including one or more sectors, the method includes: transmitting, by the Radio Network Controller, broadcast service data and a first transmission time to the base station; and transmitting, by the base station, the broadcast service data to each of its sector after the first transmission time, where the broadcast service data is transmitted to adjacent sectors sharing a common station address at different transmission times. Also, the present invention discloses a system and base station for transmitting broadcast service data in a single frequency network. With this technical solution, the phenomenon of fast fading of received signals in the... |
| Allocation and priority handling of uplink and downlink resources | 20100311433 | 20101209 |
| A telecommunication system comprises a radio network controller (RNC), and a Node-B (NB) for enabling wireless communication with a user terminal (UE). The RNC establishes an enhanced dedicated transport channel (E-DCH) which enables uplink data traffic with a determined maximum data rate from the user terminal (UE) to the NB. The RNC further establishes a high speed DL shared channel (HS-DSCH) which enables downlink data traffic with a determined maximum data rate from the NB to the user terminal. The NB comprises a HSDPA scheduler (HS-S) scheduling the data rate for the DL data traffic via the HS-DSCH and a EUL scheduler (EUL-S) scheduling the maximum data rate for the UL data traffic via the E-DCH. The NB exchanges data rate information between the HS-S and... |
| Dpcch and hs-dpcch control at low grants for e-dch | 20100303030 | 20101202 |
| Disclosed is a method and an enhanced uplink (UL) telecommunication system for power control. The system comprises at least one first radio network controller (RNC) and at least one first base station, which enables wireless communication with at least one first user terminal. The power for an uplink Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) in a first enhanced UL transport channel (E-DCH) is controlled. The control is made by the first base station on the basis of a signal to interference ratio (SIR) target value sent by the first RNC. Thereby, the SIR real time value for the UL DPCCH is controlled towards the target value. The first user terminal and the first base station further calculate a power for at least an Enhanced Dedicated Physical Data... |
| Method of uplink multi-cell joint detection in a time division-synchronous code division multiple access system | 20100296489 | 20101125 |
| The present invention discloses a method for uplink multi-cell joint detection in a Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access system to realize uplink multi-cell joint detection by a Node B. The method comprises: a radio network controller sending neighbor cell channel updating information to neighbor Node Bs of a cell where a user terminal is located when a Node B application part protocol process happens at an Iub interface to establish a radio link for the user terminal; and the neighbor Node Bs adding information of the user terminal into an uplink multi-cell joint detection information of the cell where uplink joint detection is required to be performed for the user terminal after receiving the neighbor cell channel updating information. The method of the present invention... |
| System and method for determining a reference location using cell table data mining | 20100285813 | 20101111 |
| A system and method for providing assistance data to a wireless device. A location request may be received for the wireless device, the location request identifying location information for the wireless device. A reference location for the wireless device may then be determined as a function of a comparison of the location information and a region determined as a function of at least one of a mobile country code (“MCC”), mobile network code (“MNC”), and an Area-Identification (“Area-ID”), such as a location area code (“LAC”) or a Radio Network Controller-Identification (“RNC-ID”). Assistance data may be provided to the wireless device as a function of the determined reference location.
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| Transmission rate control method, radio base station and radio network controller | 20100284475 | 20101111 |
| The present invention provides a transmission rate control method for controlling the transmission rate of uplink user data, including the step of; a radio network controller notifies to a radio base station and a mobile station an effective period of an absolute transmission rate control channel, when a call is established or when a serving cell is changed; a radio base station determines whether or not to transmit the absolute transmission rate control channel to each of mobile stations which is performing a communication with the radio base station; and each of the mobile stations determines the transmission rate of the uplink user data, based on a maximum allowable transmission rate mapped to the absolute transmission rate control channel notified by the radio base station.
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| Method for transmitting urgent alert messages to sets of mobile terminals located in cells of a radio communication network, and related radio network controller | 20100279646 | 20101104 |
| The invention concerns a radio network controller (BSCI), for a radio access communication network, comprising processing means (MT), upon receiving from an alarm centre (CA) a message of a first SMS-CB type associated with a selected class of alarm of a selected level, containing an alarm text message addressed to mobile terminals (T) located in at least one selected cell controlled thereby, for interrupting transmission to the mobile terminals, located in each selected cell, of any message of SMS-CB type associated with a class of level lower than that of the selected alarm class, and optionally all other communication of said terminals (for example, telephone calls thereof), so that the first message may be broadcast to the mobile terminals which are located in each selected cell... |
| Activation deactivation of secondary ul carrier in dc hsupa | 20100278130 | 20101104 |
| The present patent application discloses a method and apparatus for activating or de-activating a secondary carrier, comprising informing a serving radio network controller when a secondary carrier was activated or de-activated, receiving a confirmation from the serving radio network controller that non-serving NodeB cells have achieved synchronization, and scheduling a UE upon receiving confirmation. In another example, the present patent application discloses a method and apparatus for de-activating a secondary carrier, comprising controlling de-activation of the secondary carrier using high-speed shared control channel orders, receiving acknowledgement of said high-speed shared control channel orders, and informing a serving radio network controller when the secondary carrier was de-activated.
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| Radio network controller, radio communication system, and communication path setting method | 20100278126 | 20101104 |
| Loss in a transmission path cost, transmission delay of user data, and load applied on a transmission path are suppressed between a transmission device and a base transceiver station to be selected for every call at the time of originating communication. There is provided a table in which an identical identifier is applied to the transmission device and the base transceiver station that are close to each other in distance including a consideration of a network topology. The transmission device and the base transceiver station to be used for setting up a communication path are selected on the basis of the identifier. The table is composed of: a table A indicative of a correspondence relationship between the identifier to be applied in accordance with a distance... |
| Method of configuring the absolute grant mapping table for base station | 20100278074 | 20101104 |
| A method for configuring an absolute grant mapping relationship table for a base station, comprises: a radio network controller notifying the base station of the absolute grant mapping relationship table used by an enhanced dedicated channel absolute grant channel (E-AGCH) through a signaling, and the base station returning a response message to the radio network controller after storing the configured information. The present invention allows the absolute grant mapping relationship table used by the base station to be consistent with an absolute grant mapping relationship table of which a user equipment is notified via the air interface to use, so as to ensure that the absolute grant values corresponding to the base station and the user equipment are obtained from the same absolute grant mapping relationship... |
| Method and system for frequency band allocation based on frequency band usage measurements | 20100260275 | 20101014 |
| A method for selecting a frequency band, from among a plurality of frequency bands controllable by a radio network controller (RNC), to carry a data communication. The method may include obtaining frequency band usage measurements for a plurality of frequency bands, and using the frequency band usage measurements to select a particular frequency band of the plurality of frequency bands to carry the data communication. Frequency band usage measurements may be based on how many idle slots (and/or data channels) are carried through each of the plurality of frequency bands during a measurement time period. A comparison of the frequency band usage measurements can be used to determine which frequency band sent the greatest number of idle slots (or the fewest number of data channels). The... |
| method of configuring the absolute grant mapping table for drifting radio network controller | 20100260104 | 20101014 |
| A method for configuring an absolute grant mapping relationship table for a drift radio network controller, comprises: a serving radio network controller informing the drift radio network controller of the absolute grant mapping relationship table used by an enhanced-dedicated channel absolute grant channel (E-AGCH) by signaling; and the drift radio network controller returning a response message to the serving radio network controller after storing the information configured. The present invention guarantees that absolute grant values corresponding to the Node B and the user equipment are obtained from the same absolute grant mapping relationship table, i.e. from the same table of relationships between absolute grant values and indexes, and the allocation and use of the power resource by them are consistent, so that efficient use of resources... |
| Hspa evolution architecture | 20100260099 | 20101014 |
| A telecommunications network, including an evolved base station node having a node controller and a first radio network controller (RNC), the node controller configured to communicate with user terminals, and the first radio network controller configured to communicate with a packet switched component of a core network, but not with a circuit switched component, may further include a second RNC that communicates with the node controller and also communicates with the packet switched component of the core network and a circuit switched component. A method of establishing communication between a user terminal and the core network via the second RNC, when the user terminal has a control plane connection with the evolved base station node, such that the first RNC is the serving RNC (SRNC), may... |
| Outer loop power control for e-dch | 20100246520 | 20100930 |
| The present invention relates to a method and an enhanced uplink (UL) telecommunication system for power control. The system comprises at least one first radio network controller (RNC) and at least one first and one second base station enabling wireless communication with at least one first user terminal. The first and the second base stations receive at least a first transport block (TB), the first TB being transmitted by the user terminal over an established communication channel. If the received first TB includes at least one error, the base station that found the error controls the number of decoding attempts for the first TB. If the first TB is a discontinuous transmission frame (DTX), the base station resets a decoding attempt counter and prepares the first... |
| Device and method of collecting and distributing reporting service measurement data in a wireless communications system | 20100246418 | 20100930 |
| A local radio network controller (RNC) includes one or more stage buffers, with each stage buffer including a database configured to receive and index service measurement data, and a plurality of service measurement data (SM) buffers configured to store the service measurement according to the index of the database, and to send at least one of the stored service measurement data to a next stage of processing at least one of during the receiving of the service measurement data by the stage buffer and before the stage buffer has completed receiving the service measurement data. A depth and number of the SM buffers and a buffer serving time are allocated such that the one or more stage buffers are scalable to support a service node of... |
| Enhanced ul rate violation detection | 20100240383 | 20100923 |
| The present invention relates to a method for grant violation detection in an enhanced uplink (UL) telecommunication system. According to the method a radio network controller (RNC) establishes a first enhanced UL transport channel (E-DCH) which enables uplink data traffic with a certain data rate from a user terminal UE at least to a first base station. At least a first downlink transmission is performed to the user terminal UE including a first E-DCH. A Node B NB detects the scheduled data rate on which the user terminal UE transmits and further controls if the scheduled data rate detected is higher than the maximum data rate defined by the first E-DCH channel scheduled grant. If this is the case the Node B NB performs at least... |
| Efficient flow control in a radio network controller (rnc) | 20100238803 | 20100923 |
| A mechanism is provided to resolve the Iub transport network congestion efficiently for HSDPA by dynamic adjustment of the transmit window of the RLC. The RLC protocol is extended with congestion control functionality. The Iub TN and Uu congestion detection method in the Node-B (120) signals the congestion to the RNC (110), and this congestion indication is used by RLC to react on the congestion situation. In the RNC (110), the transmission window of the RLC is adjusted to control the flow rate. When congestion is detected, the RLC transmission window size is decreased. When there is no congestion, then the RLC transmission window size is increased automatically. Different types of congestion are distinguished and are handled in different ways. Alternatively, congestion control is achieved without... |
| Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, radio network controller, radio base station and mobile station | 20100233990 | 20100916 |
| In a mobile communication system, the radio device RNC, Node B includes: a creation unit 11 configured to create, on the basis of the notification information received from the distribution server, simplified information indicating content of the notification information, and detailed information indicating content of the notification information with a greater amount of information than that of the simplified information; a simplified information transmitter unit 12, 34 configured to transmit the simplified information to the mobile station by use of a control channel for starting the broadcast communication; and a detailed information transmitter unit 15, 35 configured to transmit the detailed information to the mobile station by use of a traffic channel for broadcast communication, and the mobile station UE includes: a display unit 55, 58... |
| Radio network controller and transmission power control method | 20100222094 | 20100902 |
| The target calculation unit 32 sets the first time section, which indicates a time section from a detection of the block error to the notification of the target SIR is to the base station 20 when the block error is detected, shorter than a second time section, which indicates a time section from the detection of the block error to the notification of the target SIR to the base station 20 when the block error is not detected.
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| Method and apparatus for controlling rate of voice service in a mobile communication system supporting voice service via packet network | 20100220717 | 20100902 |
| A method for controlling a rate of a voice service in a mobile communication system supporting the voice service via a packet network. The method includes the steps of receiving a control message at a terminal from a radio network controller (RNC); if the control message indicates control of a downlink rate, determining a downlink rate according to the control message; setting a Change Mode Request (CMR) field of an uplink Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) packet according to the downlink rate, and transmitting the uplink VoIP packet from the terminal to the RNC; if the received control message indicates control of an uplink rate, determining an uplink rate according to the control message; and generating an uplink VoIP packet including uplink voice data generated according... |
| Efficient flow control in a radio network controller (rnc) | 20100220594 | 20100902 |
| In one aspect, a mechanism is provided to resolve the Iub transport network congestion in the uplink direction by using the transmission window of the RLC to control the transfer rate of the flow. The RNC (110) detects the Iub TN congestion for the flow in the uplink. The EUL flow control running in the RNC (110) calculates the RLC transmission window size for the UE for the flow and the calculated RLC transmission window size is signaled to the peer RLC entity in the UE (130) through an RLC STATUS PDU.
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| Methods and arrangements in a telecommunication system | 20100216473 | 20100826 |
| The present invention relates to exchanging a cell-specific parameter such as the A-MPR, comprising information related to a required additional maximum power reduction of a UE transmitter between networks nodes. The networks nodes may be radio base stations or other network nodes such as radio network controllers or core network nodes exemplified by access gateways (aGWs). By exchanging this cell-specific parameter with information of the required additional maximum power reduction between the network nodes, the cell-specific parameter is provided to the radio base station of the serving cell which implies that the serving cell can send the cell-specific parameter of the target cell to the UE prior to the handover from the serving cell to the target cell. This result in that the UE can start... |
| Method for dynamically setting the number of hs-scch channels to be used on a cell | 20100214988 | 20100826 |
| Embodiments related to a network entity comprising means for carrying out the above method are also disclosed.
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| Method, apparatus and system for transmitting information | 20100208688 | 20100819 |
| A method for transmitting information includes: by a NodeB, receiving a message for setting up/reconfiguring a shared Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) transmission channel from a Radio Network Controller (RNC); and setting up the shared E-DCH transmission channel according to parameters in the message, and exchanging information with the RNC through an established shared E-DCH transmission bearer. A system and NodeB for transmitting information are also provided. With the present invention, the NodeB and the RNC can share the E-DCH transmission bearer, thus saving the channel resources between the NodeB and the RNC while speeding up the information transmission between the RNC and the NodeB.
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| Enhanced flow control in a cellular telephony system | 20100203893 | 20100812 |
| The invention discloses a method (200, 300, 400) for traffic control in a cellular telephony system (100) comprising a number of cells, each cell comprising at least one Radio Base Station, RBS, (170). The system (100) comprises at least one Radio Network Controller, RNC, (110 130 150), for the control of a number of Radio Base stations. The traffic between an RBS and an RNC comprises a number of flows. The invention is intended for the control of flows from the Radio Base Stations to their RNC. The method uses one control function for each flow from each of said Radio Base Stations, and also comprises a congestion detection function (220) which detects the presence or absence of congestion in the traffic from an RBS to... |
| Apparatus and method for ciphering of uplink data in mobile communication system | 20100202614 | 20100812 |
| An apparatus and method for ciphering uplink data in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a Radio Network Controller (RNC) for, when receiving a Radio Bearer Setup Complete after a ciphering activation time, determining a Hyper Frame Number (HFN) value of a User Equipment (UE) and changing an HFN value of the RNC to the same HFN value determined of the UE.
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| Transmission power control method of uplink packet data transmission | 20090325627 | 20091231 |
| A mobile station (MS) transmits a first data flow to a first group of base stations with a first power offset, transmits a second data flow to a second group of base stations, and further transmits a pilot signal. A radio network controller (RNC) controls the power of the pilot signal power based on reception errors of the second data flow, calculates the first power offset based on signaled required level of the first power offset from base stations (BTS) of the first group which calculate the required level of the first power offset based on an occurrence of retransmission, and signals the calculated first power offset to the mobile station.
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| Mobile communication system, mobile terminal, base station, radio network controller, information rate control method therefor and program therefor. | 20090318176 | 20091224 |
| A method according to the present invention comprises determining an available information rate for communication, via a first base station, between a plurality of terminals and a second base station based on link capacity information for wireless communication between the first base station and the second base station, and controlling each of information rates for the communication between the plurality of terminals and the second base station based on the available information rate. Here, the plurality of terminals and the first base station being in a mobile object, the second base station being outside the mobile object.
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| Transmission power control method of uplink packet data transmission | 20090316663 | 20091224 |
| A mobile station (MS) transmits a first data flow to a first group of base stations with a first power offset, transmits a second data flow to a second group of base stations, and further transmits a pilot signal. A radio network controller (RNC) controls the power of the pilot signal power based on reception errors of the second data flow, calculates the first power offset based on signaled required level of the first power offset from base stations (BTS) of the first group which calculate the required level of the first power offset based on an occurrence of retransmission, and signals the calculated first power offset to the mobile station.
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| Mobile communication system, maintenance terminal, adjacent cell information optimizing method, program, and recording medium | 20090312025 | 20091217 |
| A maintenance terminal comprises a detected cell information collection unit that collects detected cell information including identification information of a handover original cell and identification information of a cell as an expected movement destination from a radio network controller, a detection count record unit that records the number of detection times that the relationship between the identification information of the handover original cell and the identification information of the cell as the detected expected movement destination is determined as not included in the relationship between the identification information of the handover original cell and the identification information of the adjacent cells recorded in the radio network controller, based on the collection of the detected cell information, and an adjacent cell information additional-registration unit that additionally registers... |
| Establishing a session in a packet switched wireless communications network | 20090310539 | 20091217 |
| A packet-switched wireless communications network includes a mobile station and a radio network controller that are able to establish a radio connection therebetween. Messages are exchanges over one or more traffic channels to establish a packet-switched services session between the mobile station and the radio network controller. The radio connection is not closed until all messages for establishing the packet-switched services session have been exchanged between the mobile station and the radio network controller.
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| Medium access control discard notification | 20090310534 | 20091217 |
| A method is provided for a base station set (NODE B) adapted for RLC and MAC-hs signaling in acknowledged mode (AM), the base station set at least forwarding protocol data units (MAC-d PDU) from a Radio Network controller (RNC) to a user entity (UE), the method comprising the steps of monitoring (1) the MAC layer of the transmission entity of the base station set (1), if a MAC discard has occurred in the MAC layer (3), that is, protocol data units (PDU's) have been deleted in the input buffer of the base station set (NODE B), transmitting (7) a discard notification message from the MAC transmission entity in the base station set to the RLC layer of the radio network controller (RNC), indicative of the discarding... |
| Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control message related to packet call service in an ip multimedia subsystem | 20090303971 | 20091210 |
| Apparatus and Method for transmitting control message related to a packet call service in an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) that transmits/receives an IMS control message using a control plane to reduce a delay caused by setting of a user plane in a packet call setup process. A user equipment (UE) determines whether an IMS service is registered in response to a radio resource control (RRC) connection request. The UE sets an SRB_IMS request parameter requiring that the IMS control message be processed through a signaling radio bearer (SRB) depending on whether the IMS service is registered. The UE transmits an RRC connection request message including the SRB_IMS request parameter to a radio network controller (RNC). The UE configures an SRB_IMS entity.
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| Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, distribution server, radio network controller and mobile station | 20090296633 | 20091203 |
| In a mobile communication system, a radio device is configured to transmit notification information transmitted from a distribution server, to a mobile station, by use of broadcast communication. The distribution server 10 includes a key transmitter unit 12 configured to transmit a public key of the distribution server 10 to the mobile station UE; the radio device RNC, Node B includes a notification information transmitter unit 22, 42, 42A configured to transmit, to the mobile station UE, the notification information transmitted from the distribution server 10; and the mobile station UE includes an authentication unit 36 configured to authenticate the validity of the received notification information in reference to an electronic signature for the notification information.
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| Method, communication system, and device for obtaining connection frame number | 20090285188 | 20091119 |
| A method, a communication system, and a device for obtaining a connection frame number (CFN) are provided to obtain the CFN under a situation of applying high speed package access (HSPA). The method includes the following steps. A downlink node synchronization request including radio network controller (RNC) time information is sent to a base station through a high-speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) frame protocol (FP). An uplink node synchronization response including base station time information sent from the base station through the HS-DSCH FP is received. A CFN is obtained according to a preset RNC frame number (FN), a preset frame offset, the RNC time information, and the base station time information.
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| Mobile communication system and method of data dispersion in said system | 20090285100 | 20091119 |
| In a mobile communication system, which has a plurality of radio network controllers and a number of radio base stations connected to each of the radio network controllers, for sending and receiving user data between a host network and mobile stations via the radio network controllers and radio base stations, a plurality of transmission paths that pass through one or more radio network controllers are set up between a base station, which sends and receives radio signals to and from a mobile station, and the host network. When data is being sent and received using one transmission path from the host network to a base station through a radio network controller, traffic conditions on this transmission path are monitored. When traffic has increased, the user data... |
| Wireless communication system counting mobile terminals using mbms | 20090280738 | 20091112 |
| According to the present invention, counting of UEs using an MBMS can be efficiently performed by using a predetermined sequence. Particularly, the counting process can be simplified by reducing complexity in access probability management of a network manager, thereby increasing efficiency in data transmission by reducing signaling for random access probability and omitting a random access probability calculation process.
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| Beam forming system and method for beam forming | 20090278743 | 20091112 |
| A beam forming method of a radio network controller includes receiving information related to beam forming, calculating a distance between the mobile terminal and a base station and velocity of the mobile terminal based on the information related to beam forming, determining whether to perform beam forming, and allocating second scrambling codes (SSCs) to sectors of a base station cell while performing beam forming. One SSC is allocated to only the sector in which the mobile terminal is located. A beam forming system to perform the method includes an information receiving unit to receive information related to beam forming, a position calculation unit to determine distance to and velocity of the mobile terminal, a beam forming determining unit, and a beam forming processing unit to allocate... |
| Wireless communication system counting mobile terminals using mbms | 20090280738 | 20091112 |
| According to the present invention, counting of UEs using an MBMS can be efficiently performed by using a predetermined sequence. Particularly, the counting process can be simplified by reducing complexity in access probability management of a network manager, thereby increasing efficiency in data transmission by reducing signaling for random access probability and omitting a random access probability calculation process.
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| Beam forming system and method for beam forming | 20090278743 | 20091112 |
| A beam forming method of a radio network controller includes receiving information related to beam forming, calculating a distance between the mobile terminal and a base station and velocity of the mobile terminal based on the information related to beam forming, determining whether to perform beam forming, and allocating second scrambling codes (SSCs) to sectors of a base station cell while performing beam forming. One SSC is allocated to only the sector in which the mobile terminal is located. A beam forming system to perform the method includes an information receiving unit to receive information related to beam forming, a position calculation unit to determine distance to and velocity of the mobile terminal, a beam forming determining unit, and a beam forming processing unit to allocate... |
| Mobile communications system, handover controlling method, radio network controller, and mobile terminal | 20090275337 | 20091105 |
| A radio network controller 3 is so constructed as to divide a plurality of base stations 2 into a group of base stations included in an E-DCH active set and a group of base stations included in an active set for soft handovers (i.e., a prior art active set) according to a status of reception of data in each of the plurality of base stations 2.
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| Radio base station and mobile communication method | 20090274108 | 20091105 |
| A radio base station according to the present invention includes: a determiner determining a transfer rate of data transferred from the radio network controller to the radio base station, based on a predetermined bandwidth of a wired transmission path, a bandwidth of the wired transmission path not being used, and a bandwidth of the wired transmission path being used by the mobile station; and a notifier notifying the radio network controller of the determined transfer rate.
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| Mobile communications system, handover controlling method, radio network controller, and mobile terminal | 20090275337 | 20091105 |
| A radio network controller 3 is so constructed as to divide a plurality of base stations 2 into a group of base stations included in an E-DCH active set and a group of base stations included in an active set for soft handovers (i.e., a prior art active set) according to a status of reception of data in each of the plurality of base stations 2.
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| Radio base station and mobile communication method | 20090274108 | 20091105 |
| A radio base station according to the present invention includes: a determiner determining a transfer rate of data transferred from the radio network controller to the radio base station, based on a predetermined bandwidth of a wired transmission path, a bandwidth of the wired transmission path not being used, and a bandwidth of the wired transmission path being used by the mobile station; and a notifier notifying the radio network controller of the determined transfer rate.
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| Data communication method and system, data sending/receiving apparatus | 20090268637 | 20091029 |
| A data communication method includes: a Radio Network Controller (RNC) sends a notification message to a Node B to instruct the Node B to perform proper operations after a specific event occurs on the User Equipment (UE). A data communication system, a data sending apparatus and a data receiving apparatus are also provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. Through the technical solution under the present disclosure, when specific events such as cell handover, disconnection and state transition occur on the UE, the RNC that obtains the event information may send a notification message to Node B to instruct the Node B to perform proper operations. Therefore, the Node B is prevented from continuing to send the buffered UE data from the source cell; and... |
| Data communication method and system, data sending/receiving apparatus | 20090268637 | 20091029 |
| A data communication method includes: a Radio Network Controller (RNC) sends a notification message to a Node B to instruct the Node B to perform proper operations after a specific event occurs on the User Equipment (UE). A data communication system, a data sending apparatus and a data receiving apparatus are also provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. Through the technical solution under the present disclosure, when specific events such as cell handover, disconnection and state transition occur on the UE, the RNC that obtains the event information may send a notification message to Node B to instruct the Node B to perform proper operations. Therefore, the Node B is prevented from continuing to send the buffered UE data from the source cell; and... |
| Method and system for telecommunications using layer 3 packets obtained from a sequence of layer 2 radio link control layer data frames | 20090252040 | 20091008 |
| A telecommunications system includes a first node. The system includes a base station that communicates with the first node. The system includes a radio network controller in communication with the base station. The system includes a computer in communication with the radio network controller that reassembles a sequence of layer 3 packets from a sequence of layer 2 radio link control layer data frames that originates from the first node. The system includes a network in communication with the computer and the radio network controller. The system includes a second node in communication with the network. A method for identifying performance of wireless packet communications.
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| Method and system for controlling transmission power of a downlink signaling channel based on enhanced uplink transmission failure statistics | 20090253453 | 20091008 |
| A method and system for controlling the transmission power of at least one downlink (DL) enhanced uplink (EU) signaling channel such that enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) DL signaling is delivered efficiently and reliably. The system includes at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), at least one Node-B and a radio network controller (RNC). At least one of the WTRU and the Node-B compute EU transmission failure statistics on the DL EU signaling channel and report the EU transmission failure statistics to the RNC. The RNC then adjusts a transmission power offset of the DL EU signaling channel to be used in determining transmission power level of the DL EU signaling channel at the Node-B based on the EU transmission failure statistics.
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| Method and system for telecommunications using layer 3 packets obtained from a sequence of layer 2 radio link control layer data frames | 20090252040 | 20091008 |
| A telecommunications system includes a first node. The system includes a base station that communicates with the first node. The system includes a radio network controller in communication with the base station. The system includes a computer in communication with the radio network controller that reassembles a sequence of layer 3 packets from a sequence of layer 2 radio link control layer data frames that originates from the first node. The system includes a network in communication with the computer and the radio network controller. The system includes a second node in communication with the network. A method for identifying performance of wireless packet communications.
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| Method and system for controlling transmission power of a downlink signaling channel based on enhanced uplink transmission failure statistics | 20090253453 | 20091008 |
| A method and system for controlling the transmission power of at least one downlink (DL) enhanced uplink (EU) signaling channel such that enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) DL signaling is delivered efficiently and reliably. The system includes at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), at least one Node-B and a radio network controller (RNC). At least one of the WTRU and the Node-B compute EU transmission failure statistics on the DL EU signaling channel and report the EU transmission failure statistics to the RNC. The RNC then adjusts a transmission power offset of the DL EU signaling channel to be used in determining transmission power level of the DL EU signaling channel at the Node-B based on the EU transmission failure statistics.
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| Method and apparatus for performing a serving hs-dsch cell change | 20090245203 | 20091001 |
| A method and apparatus for performing a serving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) cell change from a source cell to a target cell are disclosed. A radio network controller (RNC) may pre-load a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) with HS-DSCH configuration for the target cell. The WTRU receives and stores the pre-loaded HS-DSCH configuration. The WTRU may start monitoring a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) on the target cell using the pre-loaded HS-DSCH configuration for the target cell on a condition that a measurement report is triggered by the event 1D. The WTRU may initiate a timer when the WTRU starts monitoring the HS-SCCH on the target cell and stop monitoring the HS-SCCH on the target cell upon expiry of the timer.
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| Management of preemptable communications resources | 20090247205 | 20091001 |
| In a communications spectrum shared by public safety users and commercial users, in the event of an emergency condition, commercial users are preempted and corresponding resources are reallocated to authorized public safety users. When the emergency condition subsides, the reallocated resources are again made available for commercial use. In an example configuration, resources and associated attributes including preemptability status are maintained in a Base Station Controller (BSC), Radio Network Controller (RNC), and/or Radio Resource Control (RRC) of a communications network.
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| Method and apparatus for media access control -based fast cell switching for high-speed packet access | 20090238116 | 20090924 |
| Methods and apparatuses for facilitating switching HSPA (high speed packet access) serving cells from each of an RNC (radio network controller), base station, and access terminal are provided. The RNC pre-configures an access terminal and each base station in an active set for HS-DSCH operation by providing identification codes identifying each of the base stations. The RNC transmits data packets tagged with sequence numbers to each base station where they are synchronously buffered. The access terminal initiates a handover by transmitting a PDU (protocol data unit) to each of the base stations. The PDU is encoded with the identification code of a target base station and a sequence number of a subsequent packet. The target receives the PDU and directly completes the handover with the access... |
| Relocation method of serving radio network controller to avoid the interference caused by ue measurement report | 20090238138 | 20090924 |
| A relocation method of SRNC to avoid the interference caused by UE measurement report. For the relocation process of SRNC without other accompanying flow, or the relocation process accompanying with cell update or registration area update, firstly, by sending measurement control when start to relocate, UE does not report the measurement report in SRB2 during he interactive course of UE and UTRAN; then after finishing the relocation, set the UE measurement again. The present invention is easily to realize, the method of the invention can effectively avoid the interference to the relocation SRNC process caused by UE measurement report, and thus improves the stability of the WCDMA system.
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| Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, and radio network controller | 20090225715 | 20090910 |
| A mobile communication system is configured as a mobile station in a first communication state shifts to a second communication state when at least one high speed uplink packet communication compliant radio link is established by the mobile station.
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| Mobile communication method, mobile communication system, and radio base station | 20090225726 | 20090910 |
| A radio base station includes an assignment unit that selects a transmission rate control channel channelization code assigned to a fewest mobile stations, upon receipt of a communication start request from a mobile station, from among a plurality of transmission rate control channel channelization codes specified by a radio network controller and then assigns a selected transmission rate control channel channelization code to the mobile station.
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| Methods for handing over calls between communication networks using dissimilar air interfaces | 20080318574 | 20081225 |
| A call in progress in a first communication network is handed over to a second communication network which uses a different air interface. To facilitate the handover, the present serving base station commands the mobile communication device to take measurements of surrounding cells of the second communication network. The measurements are sent along with a handover request from the serving base station to a radio network controller of the second network, which decides upon a cell to which the cal will be handed. A grant message including an identifier to be used by the mobile communication device and an identifier of the base station receiving the handover is transmitted back to the first network, and used by the mobile communication device in handing over the call.
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| Radio control device, mobile station, and mobile communication method | 20080318582 | 20081225 |
| A radio network controller 30 includes a selection decision unit 31 for deciding whether or not the selection of cells to be used by mobile stations after data reception is to be performed, and a mobile station controller 32 for instructing the mobile stations to select cells to use after the data reception according to a result of a decision by the selection decision unit 31.
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| Communications system, communications apparatus, communications terminal and communications method | 20080318586 | 20081225 |
| According to a communications method according to the present invention, data is transmitted from a base station to two or more terminals via a common channel, and transmission power, with which the data is transmitted from the base station to the two or more terminals, is controlled according to a reception state of at least one of the two or more terminals. Furthermore, the terminal transmits reception capability information at a time of selection combining, and at least one of the two or more base stations receives the reception capability information at the time of selective combining and notifies the reception capability information to a radio network controller (RNC) which controls the two or more base stations. When a connection request is issued to the terminal,... |
| Local switching in radio access networks | 20080310404 | 20081218 |
| The invention relates to a telecommunication system, to a local media gateway, to an MSC server, to a radio base station and to a radio network controller for set-up, release and control of local calls in the telecommunication system. The telecommunication system comprises a core network and at least a radio access network (10, 11, 12), an MSC server (18), a central media gateway (MGW) (20) having a point of interconnection to the public switched telecommunication network and at least a radio access gateway (25, 26, 27) to each respective radio access network. A characteristic feature o the invention is that it comprises at least a local MGW (22; 23; 24) provided with switch means and geographically separated from the central MGW. The radio access gateway... |
| System, method and terminal for multimedia broadcast/multicast service data transmission | 20080305739 | 20081211 |
| The present invention relates to a system, a method and a terminal for multimedia broadcast/multicast service data transmission. The system includes: a radio network controller (RNC), a service general packet radio service supporting node (SGSN), gateway general packet radio service supporting node (GGSN), a broadcast/multicast service center, an UE type inquiry module, a database, and a processing module. The method includes: acquiring feedback UE type information; calculating the number of UEs matched with the type of the to-be-transmitted media resource; determining whether the number of UEs is greater than a preset threshold, if the number of UEs is greater than the preset threshold, a bearing means of point-to-multi-points is adopted for sending the media resource; if the number of UE is not greater than the preset... |
| Device and method for controlling overload | 20080299986 | 20081204 |
| 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 determining unit, determining whether an overload is generated by comparing the measured load with a predetermined critical value, iii) a parameter setting unit, setting a parameter of a call admission ratio according to an overload level if the overload is generated as the result of determining, the call admission ratio indicating a ratio of a maximum transmitting output as compared with an admitted transmitting output of a base station and iv) a call connection setting control unit, transmitting to the radio network controller a call... |
| Uplink synchronous control method and apparatus of the high speed shared information channel | 20080291878 | 20081127 |
| The present invention discloses an uplink synchronization control method and system for the high speed shared information channel. The method includes: S102, a radio network controller assigns resources associated with the high speed downlink packet access for a user equipment and sends the information associated with the resources to Node B and the user equipment; S104, Node B configures uplink synchronization parameters for the high speed shared information channel for the user equipment using the uplink synchronization parameters which are assigned by the radio network controller for the radio link for the high speed shared information channel; the user equipment configures the uplink synchronization parameters for the high speed shared information channel of the user equipment using the uplink synchronization parameters for the uplink associated dedicated... |
| Method and apparatus for generating security key in a mobile communication system | 20080285749 | 20081120 |
| Disclosed is an apparatus and method for generating a security key in a mobile communication system that performs security key generation. An Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) server generates a Master Session Key (MSK) and an Enhanced MSK (EMSK) from a Long Term Credential key, and a Device-MSK (D-MSK), a User-MSK (U-MSK) and a Device and User-MSK (DU-MSK) from the MSK and the EMSK. An Access Gateway (AG) generates a Root-MSK (R-MSK) from the MSK and EMSK received from the AAA server. A Signaling Radio Network Controller (SRNC) generates a Pairwise Master Key (PMK) from the R-MSK received from the AG, and a Traffic Session Key (TSK) from the PMK. A Base Station (BS) sets up a radio connection to a Mobile Station (MS) using the... |
| Method for managing radio resources in an utran radio access network | 20080279139 | 20081113 |
| The invention relates to a method for managing radio resources allocated by a radio network controller of a UTRAN radio access network, said resources supporting a plurality of service requests each identified by a radio access bearer service request sent by the core network and describing the QoS required in the form of a set of RAB parameters defined by mapping with corresponding QoS parameters of the core network, said controller being provided to distribute the resources amongst the various bearer services and to modulate the allocation of said resources according to the priority level associated with each of said bearer services, said priority level being defined by the “priority level” sub-parameter of the “Allocation Retention Priority” RAB parameter, whose value is determined by taking into... |
| Harq failure indication over iub-interface | 20080273454 | 20081106 |
| The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for improving the performance of an uplink communication utilizing a hybrid automatic repeat protocol (HARQ) by an HARQ failure indication over Iub-interface (e.g., from a node B to a radio network controller, RNC) in mobile communication networks including a number of HARQ retransmissions before said failure occurred.
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| Wireless communication method and system for controlling data bit rates to maintain the quality of radio links | 20080273502 | 20081106 |
| A wireless communication method and system for controlling the current data bit rate of a radio link (RL) to maintain the quality of the RL. The system includes a core network (CN), a radio network controller (RNC) and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The RL is established between the RNC and the WTRU. The RNC establishes a guaranteed data bit rate, a maximum data bit rate and a current data bit rate associated with the RL. When the RNC senses an event which indicates that the quality of the RL has substantially deteriorated, the RNC reduces the value of the current data bit rate. Then, in a recovery process, if a similar event does not occur during an established waiting period, the RNC restores... |
| Method and apparatus in a telecommunication system | 20080268864 | 20081030 |
| The present invention relates in general to the radio communications field and, in particular, to a method and apparatus for detecting congestion in a spread spectrum Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) cellular communication system. By measuring the number of Signal-to-Interference Ratio Error reports being received at the Radio Network Controller a potential congestion can be detected in the cell when the number of reports being received is above a threshold. Further can a differentiation be made between a potential or a serious congestion and different actions be performed dependant on if a potential or a serious congestion is detected.
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| Method and a system for optimizing radio network layer to implement the network interconnection, and a method for interconnection between the radio network and the wired network | 20080260389 | 20081023 |
| A method for optimizing a radio network layer to implement a network interconnection is provided. A radio network controller is divided into radio access network servers and wireless adapters configured in a base station. The wireless adapters are adapted to process related radio interface protocols, and are connected to an optical access network via an adaptation function. The radio access network servers and a core network are respectively connected to optical network units to implement the interconnection between an optical network and a radio communication network. Therefore, the single-point failure is effectively prevented, the flexibility and extensibility are improved, it is convenient for networking, and the network coverage is enlarged. It is suitable for the service development and radio access applications in the future, and facilitates... |
| Method and arrangement for activity detection in a telecommunication system | 20080261530 | 20081023 |
| The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for efficient use of network resources, in particular for continuous connectivity services. The present invention introduces a set of established rules for uplink and/or downlink activity detection such that a Node B and/or a UE is enabled to detect active and inactive transmission periods on links for reception of packet data transmission and can independently arrange for inactivity/activity state transitions without any need of further signalling. Such a set of rules can be communicated to the Node B and the user equipment, e.g., from the radio network controller (RNC), or can consist of a predefined set of fixed rules that is readily implemented in said units.
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| Transmission rate control method, mobile station and radio network controller | 20080261606 | 20081023 |
| The present invention can flexibly adjust trade-off between the radio network capacity and the radio quality by changing decrease stop of uplink user data in accordance with the congestion of uplink or the uplink user data type. A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes the steps of; notifying, at a radio network controller RNC, a decrease pattern of the transmission rate of the uplink user data to a mobile station UE, when setting, with the mobile station UE, a user data channel connection for transmitting the uplink user data; and decreasing, at the mobile station UE, the transmission rate of the uplink user data in accordance with the decrease pattern, when receiving, from a radio bass station Node B, a relative rate... |
| Resource partitioning in a cellular communication system | 20080261610 | 20081023 |
| A cellular communication system (100) a first Radio Network Controller (107) supporting different communication service types. A first resource controller (203) controls resource allocation for a first communication service type from a first resource partition and a second resource controller (205) controls resource allocation for a second communication service type from a second resource partition. A partition processor (207) partitions a shared resource into at least the first and second resource partition in response to a first admission failure measure for the first communication service type. Optionally, the partition processor (207) may partition the shared resource into at least the first and second resource partition in response to a second admission failure measure for the first communication service type.
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| Method for transitioning radio resource control state of user equipment to idle state, system therefor, and the same user equipment | 20080253312 | 20081016 |
| In a WCDMA mobile communication system, when the amount of packet traffic transmitted to or received from a UE decreases during a predetermined time in a CELL_DCH state in which a WCDMA packet data connection has been established, the UE transitions to a CELL_FACH state by a radio network controller (RNC). Thereafter, it is determined if there is no transmitted or received packet traffic during a certain time in the CELL_FACH state (which is an RRC state in which an RRC connection has been connected, and the dedicated physical channel has been released). When it is determined that there is no transmitted or received packet traffic during the certain time, the UE requests a network to release the RRC connection by utilizing a Signaling Connection Release... |
| Handover method and system | 20080254798 | 20081016 |
| Systems and methods are described which provide cell data between radio network controllers including monitoring at least one cell being controlled by a first radio network controller, compiling cell data based on configuration changes to the at least one cell and transferring the compiled cell data to at least a second radio network controller connected to the first controller over an inter controller link.
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| User equipment, radio network controller, and method for controlling user equipment | 20080248791 | 20081009 |
| The present invention relates to user equipment that includes a transmitting/receiving unit that transmits/receives information to/from a base transceiver station of a cell where the user equipment is located. Also included is a control unit that controls a specific operation while the user equipment is located in the cell by receiving specific operation information to start the specific operation via the transmitting/receiving unit.
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| System and method for real-time correlation of aal2 and aal5 messages for calls in utran | 20080240060 | 20081002 |
| System and method for correlating multiple frames of data associated with a single call into a call record. One embodiment comprises correlating data in a radio access network by capturing data passing to and from a radio network controller, identifying ATM Adaptation Layer type 5 (AAL5) frames within the data, assigning a first call identifier to the AAL5 frames, identifying ATM Adaptation Layer type 2 (AAL2) frames within the data, assigning a second call identifier to the AAL2 frames, and combining AAL2 frames and AAL5 frames having a same first call identifier and a same second call identifier into a call record. The data passing to and from the first radio network controller may be data passing over an Iub interface between a Node B and... |
| Method and apparatus for delivery of high rate data as part of a multimedia broadcast/multicast service | 20080242224 | 20081002 |
| A communication system (100) is provided that comprises a Radio Access Network (110) having a Radio Network Controller (RNC) (114) coupled to each of a cellular Node B (112) and a Digital Broadcasting Video-Handhelds (DVB-H) Node B (120). When the communication system delivers low rate Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) user information, the user information is conveyed via the cellular Node B and a low data rate channel. When the communication system delivers high rate MBMS user information, the user information is conveyed via the DVB-H Node B and a high data rate channel. Thus the communication system provides high rate MBMS data services without imposing the system capacity constraints resulting from the employment of HSDPA by a cellular Node B.
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| Radio telecommunications network management | 20080242302 | 20081002 |
| Management of a radio telecommunications network, in which a plurality of a radio network controllers (RNCs) are served with a gateway support node having a given configuration. An added RNC connected to the radio telecommunications network is detected and then it is detected the serving gateway support node if the added RNC is a flat radio access node. If the added RNC is detected as a flat radio access node, it is verified whether the configuration allows serving the added RNC and if yes, the added RNC is connected with the serving gateway support node and correspondingly the configuration is modified. Alternatively, if the added RNC is detected as not being a flat radio access node, connecting the added RNC with the serving gateway support node... |
| Base station synchronization | 20080227474 | 20080918 |
| A method, implemented in a user equipment (UE), of maintaining base station synchronization, comprises receiving a measurement message from a radio network controller (RNC) directing the UE to measure a time difference of arrival (TDOA) between signals transmitted from a first and second base station. The UE receives a transmission from the first and second base stations and measures the TDOA of the transmission from the first and second base station. The UE transmits the measurement of the TDOA of the transmission from the first base station to the first base station, and the measurement of the TDOA of the transmission from the second base station to the second base station.
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| Method for managing communications and related core network node | 20080220783 | 20080911 |
| A first group of core network (CN) nodes are arranged for transmitting a change request from a source to a target radio network controller (RNC), to a CN node selected from the set of CN nodes to which the target RNC is connected. Relating to a communication in progress with a first RNC (11) and a first CN node (13), for which a change from the first to a second RNC (12) is requested: the change request is transmitted from the first CN node to a second CN node (14) of the first group, and is forwarded from the second to a third CN node (15) selected, according to predetermined criteria, from the set of CN nodes to which the second RNC is connected.
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| Method for efficient radio resource management | 20080220792 | 20080911 |
| An improved admission control procedure for an admission control entity (e.g., Radio Network Controller (RNC), Node B, etc.) in a network that admits a terminal (mobile station, user equipment, etc.) having a certain receiver performance. Without improperly assuming one receiver performance or referring to a reference minimum receiver performance to calculate the resources that will be used, more accurate radio resources that should be used by the terminal when admitted to the cell can be determined by using appropriate information about the receiver performance of the terminal to be admitted.
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| Srb enhancement on hs-dsch during cell change | 20080212528 | 20080904 |
| The present invention relates to a radio network controller and a radio base station for prioritisation of signalling radio bearers (SRB) with regard to their content to achieve an efficient resource usage. The radio network controller can retrieve knowledge about the resource status in a Node B serving a certain user equipment and request this Node B to prioritize signalling radio bearers (SRB) carrying signalling information with regard to radio resource control that is of particular importance and intended to be efficiently forwarded to said user equipment. The Node B then prioritises such signalling radio bearers and schedules the prioritized signalling radio bearers with respect to their priorities using sufficient radio resources.
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| Method and apparatus for enhancing rlc for flexible rlc pdu size | 20080212561 | 20080904 |
| Enhancements are provided for the radio link control (RLC) protocol in wireless communication systems where variable RLC packet data unit (PDU) size is allowed. When flexible RLC PDU sizes are configured by upper layers, radio network controller (RNC)/Node B flow control, RLC flow control, status reporting and polling mechanisms are configured to use byte count based metrics in order to prevent possible buffer underflows in the Node B and buffer overflows in the RNC. The enhancements proposed herein for the RLC apply to both uplink and downlink communications.
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| Radio network controller and transport network control method for performing relocation | 20080214194 | 20080904 |
| Setting unit 103 stores a first call. When communication unit 101 receives a relocation request, management unit 104 generates a new call different from the first call, and new call information, and adds the new call information to the new call.
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| Radio network relocation | 20080214195 | 20080904 |
| There is disclosed a method for serving radio network subsystem relocation from a first radio network controller to a second radio network controller for an established call to a user equipment, comprising transmitting a transmission power control combination index of a radio link established between the user equipment and the first radio network controller to the second radio network controller.
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| Transmission power control method, mobile station, radio base station, and radio network control station | 20080214227 | 20080904 |
| The present invention performs an outer loop transmission power control in a more stable manner by preventing a status of being unable to detect an Enhanced Dedicated Physical Control Channel (E-DPCCH). A transmission power control method according to the present application includes: generating, at a mobile station UE, a transport block having a predetermined minimum transport block size, when information to be transmitted to a radio base station Node B does not exist; transmitting, from the mobile station UE to the radio base station Node B, the transport block by a transmission timing predetermined by a mobile communication system or a transmission timing notified from a radio network controller RNC; receiving, at the radio base station Node B, the transport block in accordance with the transmission... |
| Radio network controller and radio communications method | 20070298796 | 20071227 |
| A radio network controller can set up a connection with a mobile station located in a specific cell under control of the radio network controller. The radio network controller includes a connection setup request transmitter configured to transmit a connection setup request for request to set up the connection to the mobile station located in the specific cell; and a judger configured to judge whether or not to need to acquire information of the mobile station located in the specific cell. The connection setup request transmitter is configured to transmit the connection setup request to the mobile station located in the specific cell, when the judger judges to need to acquire the information of the mobile station.
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| Content distribution system, method for distributiong content and computer program thereof | 20070293145 | 20071220 |
| In a content distribution system, when distributing content to a plurality of user equipment, a multicasting channel is assigned between the user equipment and the distribution system, content being multicasted using this multicasting channel. If a user equipment fails to receive distributed content, the radio network controller allocates an individual channel between the user equipment and the distribution system to perform re-distribution of the content in response to the user's request.
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| Mobility handling | 20070287392 | 20071213 |
| The invention relates to an improved mobility handling within a radio access network (3) of an MBMS-joined mobile terminal (7) in a state in which the location of the mobile terminal is stored only at cell group (e.g. URA) level, e.g. a URA_PCH state. A context information transfer is performed at certain trigger events via the Iur-interface (8a, 8b) between a serving radio network controller (SRNC) and all potential drift radio network controllers (DRNCs) for the mobile terminal.
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| Paging control method, paging control apparatus, and radio access network | 20070281715 | 20071206 |
| In a radio access network in which a radio network controller is subjected to load distribution by a plurality of controllers, one of the controllers is set as a page controller that processes a paging message transmitted from a core network to the radio access network. When the paging control apparatus receives the paging message transmitted from the core network to the radio access network, the paging control apparatus judges a transmission destination of the paging message and transmits the paging message to the controllers that control a base station at the transmission destination.
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| Method and system for data transmission of multimedia broadcast/multicast service | 20070275742 | 20071129 |
| A method for transmitting Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) data, comprising: sending, by a Broadcast/Multicast-Service Center (BM-SC), a Session Start Request with information of an MBMS service area to a Base Station Controller/Radio Network Controller (BSC/RNC) through a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) and a Serving GPRS Support Nodes (SGSN) of a core network; receiving the Session Start Request by the BSC/RNC, and building an Iu bearer plane by the core network and the BSC/RNC whose covering area overlaps the MBMS service area in the Session Start Request; allocating transmission resources for a data transmission of a MBMS service by the BSC/RNC whose covering area overlaps the MBMS service area in the Session Start Request, so as to provide the MBMS service to a user terminal. And... |
| Hdspa flow control, control frames rtt measurement | 20070275760 | 20071129 |
| A radio base station (104) is described herein that measures a round-trip-time (RTT) which is the time it takes an uplink (UL) control frame (109a) to travel to a radio network controller (102)) and a downlink (DL) control frame (109b) to travel back from the radio network controller (102). If the measured RTT is greater than a predetermined threshold, then the radio base station (104) can correct a problem associated with too long of a RTT by reducing the bit rate of a certain high-speed (HS) user flow or by reducing the maximum bit rate for all of the HS traffic which is going to be sent by the radio network controller (102) over the transport link (106) to the radio base station (104.
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| Enhanced unlicensed mobile access network architecture | 20070268855 | 20071122 |
| An Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) network architecture. In a specific embodiment, the network architecture includes a mobile station and an access point in communication with the mobile station. A UMA Controller (UNC) communicates with the access point. A Service GateWay (SGW) communicates with the UMA controller. The SGW includes functionality to route user-plane packets in the UMA. In a more specific embodiment, the functionality includes UNC user-plane functionality offloaded from the UNC to the SGW; Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) user-plane functionality; access-authentication functionality sufficient to enable the SGW to enable the SGW to bypass a legacy SGSN control plane; and/or Radio Network Controller (RNC) user-plane functionality sufficient to enable communications between the SGW and the RNC.
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| Access control in a mobile communication system | 20070270152 | 20071122 |
| A method and radio network controller (RNC) in a radio access network (RAN) for controlling access to a cellular telecommunication system. Upon receiving an access request from a given user equipment (UE) through a given radio base station (RBS), the RNC retrieves authorization information from an access control database within the RAN. The authorization information indicates whether the given UE is authorized to access the system through the given RBS. The RNC alternatively grants access or denies access to the UE based on the retrieved authorization information. The RBS is particularly useful for controlling access through small cells with limited capacity.
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| Ip switching based distributed radio network controller | 20070263636 | 20071115 |
| The invention provides an IP switching based radio network controller. The radio network controller comprises a plurality of functional modules, at least comprising: an ATM interface module, an interface management module, a radio signaling management module and a radio bearer processing module, characterized in that, the radio network controller replaces an ATM switch with an IP switching network to achieve data and signaling exchange among the above functional modules in the radio network controller. Said functional modules respectively comprise at least one functional board, and the functions of each of the functional modules are respectively achieved in different functional boards. The radio network controller of the invention has the advantages of low cost, simple configuration and management, and easy to achieve the system.
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| Radio base station device, radio control system, and operation control method | 20070258360 | 20071108 |
| A radio base station device (3) comprises: a call processing control unit for transferring a signaling control signal, and transmitting a failure detection packet to a plurality of transmission paths (5) connected to a radio network controller so as to detect failure of each of the transmission paths (5); a baseband signal processing unit for transferring a user data control signal; a channel management table storing a currently set up channel and a transmission path used by the channel, as being associated with each other; and a channel management control unit for, in response to detection of failure of a transmission path (5) by the call processing control unit, receiving information indicating a state of each of the transmission paths from the call processing control unit,... |
| Method for handover between asynchronous communication network and synchronous communication network | 20070258405 | 20071108 |
| A handover method for a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. In the handover method, a radio network controller periodically measures the wireless environment of a mobile communication terminal, determines whether handover is required, and informs the asynchronous mobile switching center of the asynchronous communication system that the handover is required. The asynchronous mobile switching center requests the handover and a synchronous mobile switching center assigns a forward channel to the mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal prepares for communication with a synchronous mobile communication system according to the direction of the asynchronous mobile switching center, and causes a backward channel with respect to the synchronous communication system to be assigned to the mobile communication terminal. The synchronous mobile switching center informs the asynchronous mobile switching... |
| Reducing the effect of signal interference in null areas caused by overlapping antenna patterns | 20070249405 | 20071025 |
| A wireless communication system for transmitting and receiving wireless communications using at least one beam is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of WTRUs, at least one beam-forming antenna, and at least one radio network controller (RNC). The antenna is capable of beam-forming and beams emanating from the antenna may be adjusted in accordance with actual conditions in the wireless communication system. The antenna is further capable of dithering beams in the azimuth and/or elevation plane for breaking up null areas due to beam overlap.
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| Signaling for push-to-talk | 20070238442 | 20071011 |
| In addition to other aspects disclosed, a data over signaling message that identifies a recipient access terminal is transmitted from a radio network controller to the sector in response to an attempt by an access terminal on a sector of a wireless network to access a service of the wireless network.
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| Radio network control device, radio network control method, and communication system | 20070238469 | 20071011 |
| A radio network controller which includes radio resource administration means for administrating a state of the use of radio resource, rack information administration means for administrating a state of the use of resource at base band signal processing unit in base transceiver station, and control means for selecting a call frequency used in base transceiver station and allocating it to a certain rack of base band signal processing unit. In the above configuration, a percentage of loss calls which occurred due to an insufficiency of empty amount with the radio resource, or of empty amount with the base band resource, can be lowered.
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| System and method for selecting a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission mode | 20070230380 | 20071004 |
| A system and method in a wireless telecommunication system such as a Universal Mobile Telephone System, UMTS, for selecting whether to utilize either a point-to-multipoint, PTM, or a point-to-point, PTP, connection to send media content to User Equipments, UEs, (11) present in a cell in the wireless telecommunication system. A Controlling Radio Network Controller (25) makes this decision and notifies an involved Serving RNC (26). The SRNC receives the PTM/PTP decision from the CRNC and determines whether the PTM/PTP decision is valid for a given UE connection.
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| Method for measuring airlink transmission latency in a 1x-evdo wireless network | 20070230413 | 20071004 |
| In a method for determining transmission latency in a wireless network, data packets addressed to a wireless unit are received at a radio network controller (RNC) and forwarded to a base station in communication with the wireless unit for transmission over the forward link. The RNC keeps track of when it receives the packets. Periodically, the base station sends messages back to the RNC. Each message identifies a data packet and the time it was transmitted to the wireless unit. The RNC uses the messages to calculate a data transfer rate, e.g., the number of packets between the first packet received by the RNC and the packet identified in the message, divided by the time difference between the message and when the first packet was received... |
| Qos signaling to support fairness | 20070230419 | 20071004 |
| A radio network controller allocates a share of network resources to an access terminal that may be used by more than one user. The share is based on a parameter received from the access terminal and that identifies a number of users using the access terminal.
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| Method for multimedia broadcast multicast service linking for pmm idle mobiles | 20070232308 | 20071004 |
| A method and arrangement in a mobile telecommunication system for initiating a Multimedia Broadcast Multimedia Service (MBMS) to a User Equipment (UE) in Packet Mobility Management-idle (PMM-idle) mode controlled by a Radio Network Controller (RNC). The RNC is connected to a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN). The RNC indicates to the SGSN that the UE is transiting to a Circuit Switched connected mode. The RNC receives an MBMS UE context from the SGSN. The MBMS UE context is added to the RNC to make it aware that the RNC controls UEs connected to the MBMS.
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| Communication control method, mobile communication system, base station, and radio network controller | 20070224987 | 20070927 |
| When a request is submitted from a base station (2) to a radio network controller (1) for S-CPICH for use as a phase reference, the S-CPICH are set in the radio network controller (1) in accordance with the request from the base station (2) and the set S-CPICH are reported to the base station (2) and mobile stations (3). In the base station (2), the antenna beams of the S-CPICH that were reported from the radio network controller (1) are used to transmit and receive data, and in the mobile stations (3), the S-CPICH that were reported from the radio network controller (1) are used as a phase reference to demodulate data that are transmitted in from the base station (2).
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| Initial downlink transmit power adjustment for non-real-time services using dedicated or shared channel | 20070225027 | 20070927 |
| A system for initial downlink transmit power adjustment for non-real time (NRT) services in a wireless communications network includes a controlling radio network controller and a Node B. The controlling radio network controller includes a medium access controller and an initial NRT transmission power determining device. The Node B includes a physical layer processor, an initial NRT transmission power adjustment device, and an amplifier.
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| Optimised iub transport | 20070217350 | 20070920 |
| A common lub transport for transmitting identical multimedia service data blocks over an lub interface (9) from a radio network controller (RNC) (4a-c) to a base station device (5a-e) within a radio access network (3), to be forwarded to multimedia service joined mobile terminals (7) located in cells (6a-h) served by said base station device.
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| Radio network controller and channel assignment method by the same | 20070217359 | 20070920 |
| A radio network controller for assigning, to each wireless terminal connected to a wireless network, one of an individual channel exclusively used by the wireless terminal and a common channel shared with at least one wireless terminal different from the wireless terminal as a communication channel, includes: a determination portion for determining that an individual channel is to be assigned to a wireless terminal; and an assignment portion for, when the assignment of the individual channel has been determined, assigning an individual channel resource secured and held before the determination to the wireless terminal.
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| Avoiding hsdpa transmission during idle periods | 20070211670 | 20070913 |
| The invention refers to a method and a system for a MAC-hs scheduler in a mobile data transmission system for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA). The system comprises a Radio Network Controller (RNC) for control of at least one Base Transceiver Station (BTS) operating a cell comprising at least one user equipment (UE); where the Radio Network Control (RNC) schedules idle periods (IPDL) in the transmission from the BTS (BTS); where the MAC-hs scheduler is placed in the Base Transceiver Station (BTS) and determines for every High-Speed Transmission Time Interval (HS-TTI) if the UE will be granted High-Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel (HS-PDSCH) data transmission.
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| Method and apparatus for supporting routing area update procedures in a single tunnel gprs-based wireless communication system | 20070213057 | 20070913 |
| A method and apparatus for supporting routing area update procedures in a single tunnel general packet radio services (GPRS)-based wireless communication system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) sends a routing area update request message to a serving general packet radio service (GPRS) support node (SGSN) via a radio network controller (RNC). The SGSN sends an update packet data protocol (PDP) context request message to a gateway GPRS support node (GGSN). The GGSN sends an update PDP context response message to the SGSN. The SGSN sends a tunnel establishment request message to the RNC and a single tunnel is established between the RNC and the GGSN. For handover operations, a previous single tunnel established between the GGSN and another RNC is released and the routing... |
| Controlling base station router device definition codes | 20070213066 | 20070913 |
| A wireless communication system (20) allows for using base station router devices (30, 32) for in building communications using a mobile station (22). Automatically configuring a definition code such as primary scrambling codes or pseudo random noise offsets of the base station router devices (30, 32) facilitates minimizing or avoiding false handovers between a macrocell base station (24) and one of the base station router devices (30, 32). In a disclosed example, a controller (26) such as a radio network controller communicates with at least one of the base station router devices (30, 32) for automatically changing a definition code used by such a device to avoid correspondence between definition codes within a selected range.
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| Radio network controller, mobile communication system, and method of controlling radio base station device | 20070213097 | 20070913 |
| In a radio network controller for controlling a radio base station device for making a communication with a movable terminal through a radio link, first control means for controlling a transfer of a control signal or signalling is provided separately from second control means for controlling a transfer of user data related to the terminal. A control dependent on a particular radio transmission scheme is conducted in the second control means.
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| System and method for handover of an access terminal in a communication network | 20070206539 | 20070906 |
| In one embodiment according to the present disclosure, a system for implementing handover of a mobile IP session in a cellular communication network generally includes a processor and a memory for storing one or more context information rules associated with an access terminal. The processor is operable to receive a registration request message from the target radio network controller and in response to receipt of the registration request message, transmit a context information request message to query context information from an anchor IP gateway. The processor is also operable to receive a context information response message from the anchor IP gateway and apply the context information response message to the mobile IP connection. The context information response message including at least one context information rule that... |
| Transmission rate control method, mobile station, and radio network controller | 20070207814 | 20070906 |
| A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data to be transmitted by a mobile station, based on a maximum allowable transmission rate, include: instructing, at a radio network controller, to change a serving cell of the mobile station, to the mobile station; and controlling, at the mobile station, the maximum allowable transmission rate without following an increase command of the maximum allowable transmission rate which is notified from a current serving cell to which the mobile station is connected, between a timing when the mobile station receives the instruction from the radio network controller and a timing when a change process of changing the serving cell of the mobile station is completed.
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| Transmission of filtering/filtered information over the iur interface | 20070202877 | 20070830 |
| In a radio access network, a drift radio network controller (DRNC) [262] transmits to a serving radio network controller (SRNC) [261] either (1) a filtering rule for a candidate cell [so that the serving radio network controller (SRNC) can generate a measurement list for a user equipment unit having a connection controlled by the serving radio network controller (SRNC)], or (2) a list of cells qualifying [according to filtering rules stored at and applied by the drift radio network controller (DRNC)] for inclusion in the measurement list for the user equipment unit. The filtering rule provides criteria useful for determining whether the candidate cell qualifies for inclusion in the measurement list of cells for the user equipment unit. If the candidate cell is a shared cell... |
| Network controller, receiving terminal device, content delivery system, network control method, and content receiving method | 20070195770 | 20070823 |
| In a radio network controller for delivering an identical content to plural receiving terminal devices, a content delivery unit delivers the content in the P-t-M mode to the receiving terminal devices. A reception-content-information managing unit receives information indicative of an amount of content that has been received by each of the receiving terminal devices in a P-t-P mode from each of the receiving terminal devices.
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| Preserving sessions in a wireless network | 20060294241 | 20061228 |
| A radio network controller and methods for reestablishing sessions in a wireless network are described. At least a portion of session information associated with a first session is saved; and in response to detecting an unexpected degradation of the first session, reestablishment of the first session is triggered using the portion of the session information.
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| Method for triggering handover of mobile terminal and system thereof | 20060281463 | 20061214 |
| A method for triggering a communication event of a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes transmitting a message from the mobile terminal to a radio network controller (RNC) to request a specific event be performed; and re-transmitting the message from the mobile terminal to the RNC based on a predetermined condition exists.
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| Method and apparatus for constant envelope orthogonal frequency division multiplexing in a wireless system | 20060274641 | 20061207 |
| In a wireless communication system comprising at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), a base station, and a radio network controller (RNC), a method for constant envelope orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CE-OFDM) modulation comprises the WTRU performing an inverse transform on the data. The WTRU next performs constant envelope (CE) modulation on the data and transmits the CE-OFDM data to the base station. The base station receives the data and CE demodulates the data. The base station performs a transform on the demodulated data.
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| Telecommunications apparatus and method | 20060274706 | 20061207 |
| A telecommunications system communicates internet packet data, carrying payload data including a plurality of different data types, with a mobile communications user equipment. The system comprises a gateway support node (GGSN), a service support node (SGSN) and a radio network controller (RNC). At least one of the gateway support node (GGSN) and the user equipment (UE) are operable to: parse the payload data in each data packet; generate a radio access bearer sub-flow indicator indicating the number of different types of data in the payload and the number of symbols in each different data type; and form a transport frame including the sub-flow indicator. The data packets are communicated between the radio network controller and the user equipment by detecting the sub-flow indicator, and in accordance... |
| Channel capacity optimization for packet services | 20060268717 | 20061130 |
| A radio network controller (RNC) application controls packet communications through base stations serving wireless remote stations. In the embodiments, the RNC stores each packet received for a wireless remote station in a buffer and maintains a BCN counter value representing the amount of buffered data. The RNC maintains a maximum accumulation timer (Timeracc), and it restarts an inter-packet arrival timer (Timerint) upon receipt of each packet for the station. The RNC initiates transmissions to the station in response to certain events, including expiration of either of the timers Timerint and Timeracc, and if the BCN counter value exceeds a threshold. However, the transmissions use either a dedicated channel cell-state or a forward access channel state, depending on which event triggered each transmission. The RNC also may... |
| Radio telecommunications apparatus and method for communcations internet data packets containing different types of data | 20060268818 | 20061130 |
| A telecommunications system communicates internet packet data, carrying a plurality of different types of data, to and/or from a mobile communications user equipment. The system comprises a gateway support node (GGSN), a serving support node (SGSN) and a radio network controller (RNC). The mobile user equipment (UE) is operable to communicate a context application request to the serving support node (SGSN) specifying main quality of service parameters and at least one other data field representing a request for a different set of quality of service parameters, each of the quality of service parameters being provided for one of the different types of data in the data packet. The serving support node (SGSN) is responsive to the context application request to establish a virtual channel between the... |
| Mac multiplexing and tfc selection procedure for enhanced uplink | 20060268821 | 20061130 |
| A method implemented in a wireless communication system including a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), a Node-B and a radio network controller (RNC) for quantizing multiplexed data allowed by grants to closely match a selected enhanced uplink transport format combination (E-TFC) transport block size is disclosed. The amount of scheduled and non-scheduled data allowed to be transmitted is quantized so that the amount of data multiplexed into an enhanced uplink (EU) medium access control (MAC-e) protocol data unit (PDU) more closely matches the selected E-TFC transport block size. In an embodiment, the amount of buffered data allowed to be multiplexed by at least one grant, (a serving grant and/or a non-serving grant), is quantized so that the sum of scheduled and non-scheduled data including MAC header and... |
| Mac multiplexing and tfc selection procedure for enhanced uplink | 20060268938 | 20061130 |
| A method implemented in a wireless communication system including a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), a Node-B and a radio network controller (RNC) for quantizing multiplexed data allowed by grants to closely match a selected enhanced uplink transport format combination (E-TFC) transport block size is disclosed. The amount of scheduled and non-scheduled data allowed to be transmitted is quantized so that the amount of data multiplexed into an enhanced uplink (EU) medium access control (MAC-e) protocol data unit (PDU) more closely matches the selected E-TFC transport block size. In an embodiment, the amount of buffered data allowed to be multiplexed by at least one grant, (a serving grant and/or a non-serving grant), is quantized so that the sum of scheduled and non-scheduled data including MAC header and... |
| Hard handover method and radio network controller therefor in a mobile telecommunication system | 20060270406 | 20061130 |
| A hard handover method and a Radio Network Controller (RNC) therefor in a mobile telecommunication system are provided which can improve the performance of an interfrequency hard handover. The RNC stores information about a timing difference between first and second Node Bs for supporting a soft handover. When receiving, from a User Equipment (UE), a request for a hard handover from the first Node B to the second Node B, the RNC computes information about a timing difference between the Node Bs for the hard handover using the information about the timing difference between the Node Bs stored at a soft handover time. The RNC commands the second Node B and the UE to operate for the hard handover using the computed timing difference information.
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| Mobile communication method and radio network controller | 20060270410 | 20061130 |
| A mobile communication method, including: keeping, at the mobile station, both Enhanced Dedicated Physical Channels and Dedicated Physical Channels connected to same cells, when the mobile station is performing soft-handover.
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| Method and system for preventing high speed downlink packet access transmissions loss | 20060251014 | 20061109 |
| The present invention is related to a method and system for preventing high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) transmission loss due to transmission gap in compressed mode in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). In accordance with one embodiment, a Node-B receives a compressed mode transmission gap schedule of a WTRU, identifies HSDPA transmission time intervals (TTIs) that are affected by the WTRU compressed mode transmission gap schedule and schedules the HSDPA transmissions not to overlap the WTRU compressed mode transmission gap schedule. In accordance with another embodiment, the Node-B may inform the HSDPA transmission schedule to a radio network controller (RNC) and the RNC coordinates the HSDPA transmission schedule and a compressed mode transmission gap schedule of the WTRU.
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| Method and apparatus for transmitting packet data | 20060251079 | 20061109 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting packet data over an uplink channel in a mobile communication system in which retransmission of a packet is possible using a hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) technique. A base station receives a packet data unit (PDU) from a terminal and determines whether the base station can calculate a retransmission number (RSN) indicating the number of retransmissions for the PDU. If the base station cannot calculate the RSN for the PDU, the base station sets the RSN to a special value indicating that the number of retransmissions for the PDU is unknown, and transmits the set RSN to a serving radio network controller (SRNC) along with the PDU.
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| Method and apparatus for setting a power limit for high speed downlink packet access services | 20060252446 | 20061109 |
| The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for setting a power limit for high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) services. In a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of cells, each cell supports transmissions via at least a dedicated channel (DCH) and a HSDPA channel and is subject to a maximum downlink transmission power limit. In accordance with one embodiment, a radio network controller (RNC) estimates a ratio between the average total downlink transmission power level used by DCHs and the average total downlink transmission power level used by HSDPA services in each cell and sets the maximum HSDPA transmission power limit based on the estimated ratio. In accordance with another embodiment, the RNC estimates an average total power consumed by DCHs in... |
| Aal2 profiles for umts iuup | 20060245437 | 20061102 |
| A profile for bearer data as found in IuUP and NbUP so that it can be signaled over SDP. The present invention provides AAL2 profiles that can be used to describe AAL2 bearer connections in a radio access network between a radio network controller (RNC) and a media gateway, or between two media gateways in a core network. In an embodiment, the call agent is a wireless call agent, such as a mobile switching center (MSC). The profiles provided by the present invention are used by the call agent to set up AAL2 bearer connections on the media gateway.
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| Scheduling apparatus and scheduling apparatus method | 20060246935 | 20061102 |
| A scheduling apparatus is provided that enables user throughput and system throughput to be improved in a radio communication system. In this apparatus, a management section (100) distributes a reception power resource set by a radio network controller (10) to a plurality of transmission schemes used in uplink data transmission based on information reported from mobile station apparatuses (30-1 through 30-N). A first transmission scheme scheduling section (110) and second transmission scheme scheduling section (120) execute uplink data transmission scheduling in accordance with reception power resources distributed to the plurality of transmission schemes.
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| Apparatus, method and computer program providing fast, zero data loss high speed data packet access (hsdpa) serving cell change | 20060240830 | 20061026 |
| To handover a mobile terminal from a serving base station BTS to a target BTS, a radio network controller RNC: 1) informs the mobile terminal of the pending handover so it can preconfigure to communicate with the target BTS; 2) indicates to the serving BTS which will be the last data packet prior to handover; and 3) informs the target BTS of the pending handover and the mobile terminal's identity. The serving BTS indicates which is the last data packet and sends it to the mobile terminal. Upon receiving an acknowledgement, the serving BTS informs the RNC. The BTS automatically switches to the target BTS after receiving the last data packet from the serving BTS, informs the target BTS that it is ready to receive data... |
| Communication system, communication unit and method of power saving therein | 20060234718 | 20061019 |
| A communication system (200) comprises a system management function (246) for managing base-site resources and system throughput of data. The system management function (246) defines a number of resources. The system management function (236), such as a radio network controller, comprises a data throughput identification function to identify one or more bottleneck resources from a sub-set of system resources involved in the system's data throughput. A method of reducing power consumption (MIPS) in a system management function (236) and a radio network controller (236) are also provided. The identification of a bottleneck resource helps determine whether MIPS could be saved by not performing one or more QoS management algorithms, the benefit from which is reduced due to the bottleneck resource.
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| Transmission rate control method, transmission rate control system, and mobile station | 20060227707 | 20061012 |
| A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of a channel to which the transmission rate control method is applied, include: notifying, at a radio network controller, at a timing of a call setup or the like, a primary allowable transmission rate of the channel to which the transmission rate control method is applied; starting, at a mobile station, after the call setup, transmission at a transmission rate below the primary allowable transmission rate, when data to be transmitted is generated; and controlling, at the mobile station, the transmission rate of the channel to which the transmission rate control method is applied, based on an Absolute Grant Channel transmitted from a radio base station.
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| Stored radio bearer configurations for umts networks | 20060229102 | 20061012 |
| A scheme is provided for indexing and storing radio bearer configurations for a UMTS wireless communication network, such as a UTRAN. A radio network controller maintains a list of radio bearer configurations and an identifier for each configuration. One or more of these configurations and their identifiers are sent to a mobile terminal in the network. The mobile terminal stores these configurations and identifiers for future reference. This enables an on-the-fly configuration scheme in which the network controller can reference a particular stored configuration by its identifier to cause the mobile terminal to use that configuration to setup wireless transmitter and/or receiver. The identifiers may have contiguous values so that the network controller can transmit a range (e.g., starting identifier and ending identifier) to the mobile... |
| Method and apparatus for load balancing in a wireless network | 20060221821 | 20061005 |
| A method and apparatus for load balancing in a wireless network is provided. For example, this invention is directed to a technique for balancing bearer load across a bank of traffic processors associated with a high-availability radio network controller (RNC). Instantaneous measures (e.g. processor occupancy) are used as one parameter for such load balancing. Predictive measures are used as another parameter. The predictive measures indicate the degree to which a given processor can become busy in the next few intervals of time and is based on the unrealized potential as derived from the established data rate of bearer sessions. The overall technique described herein allows for an even distribution of highly bursty traffic, with an objective of preserving call quality during periods of increased network congestion.
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| Transmission rate control method, mobile station, and radio base station | 20060221892 | 20061005 |
| A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data, includes: notifying, at a radio network controller, to a radio base station and a mobile station, an effective period to an Absolute Grant Channel which includes an absolute value for the transmission rate of the uplink user data, transmitting, at the radio network controller, the Absolute Grant Channel per Radio Network Temporary Identity based on the notified effective period; and determining, at the mobile station, the transmission rate of the uplink user data based on the notified effective period, when receiving the Absolute Grant Channel per Radio Network Temporary Identity from the radio base station.
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| Transmission rate control method, mobile station, radio base station, and radio network controller | 20060221923 | 20061005 |
| A transmission rate control method for controlling transmission rate of layer-2 control information, including: notifying, at a radio network controller, a correspondence of a transmission data block size of the layer-2 control information to a transmission power ratio between an enhanced dedicated physical data channel and a dedicated physical control channel on the layer-2 control information, to a mobile station; determining, at the mobile station, a transmission power ratio of the layer-2 control information to be transmitted based on the correspondence; and transmitting, at the mobile station, the layer-2 control information using the determined transmission power ratio.
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| Method for user equipment mobility management and communication system | 20060223532 | 20061005 |
| The present invention relates to a method of UE mobility management and a mobile communication system of implementing this method, where the system includes: a core network communicating with the universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) via the Iu interface; UTRAN consisting of multiple radio network systems (RNS) and communicating with one or more UE via the Uu interface, and each said RNS comprising a radio network controller (RNC) and one or more nodes communicating with said RNC via the Iub interface, while communication between RNC being performed via the Iur interface; UTRAN controlling UE mobility management through radio resource control (RRC) signalling of the Uu interface; and said method includes: UE transmitting uplink RRC signalling information to a first RNC to request UE mobility management;... |
| Mobile communication system, relief method of competition between downlink rrc message and inter-cell movement of user equipment, and radio network controller | 20060223537 | 20061005 |
| The present invention provides a relief method of competition between a Down Link RRC message and inter-cell movement of user equipment which can continue communication even when acknowledgment of the Down Link RRC message cannot be performed. An RLC layer of the radio network controller (RNC) divides a Down Link RRC message into RLC AMD_PDU and transmits them, and gives an RLC error notice to an RRC layer from the RLC layer when a number of RLC AMD_PDU resending is exceeded because RLC ACK cannot be received from user equipment (UE). An RRC layer of the radio network controller activates a timer. When receiving CELL UPDATE within a fixed period, the RRC layer regards the RLC error as competition with inter-cell movement of the user equipment... |
| Mobile communications system, radio network controller, and active set control method | 20060223538 | 20061005 |
| An active set control method for handover operation in a CDMA communications system in which propagation conditions of an uplink channel and a downlink channel for an access link of cell are different, provides that when a cell is deleted from the active set based on a request of a base station which has detected a degraded signal of the uplink channel, a predetermined period of time is to be counted for inhibiting addition of the same cell in the active set based on a request of a mobile terminal which has detected a satisfied signal of the downlink channel, thereby preventing the deletion and addition of the cell in the active set from successive operations in a short time.
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| Transmission rate control method, mobile station, and radio base station | 20060223543 | 20061005 |
| A transmission rate control method for controlling transmission rate of uplink user data, including: notifying, at a radio network controller, a first correspondence of a transmission data block size of the uplink user data to a transmission wave amplitude ratio between an enhanced dedicated physical data channel and a dedicated physical control channel for the uplink user data, to a mobile station; generating, at the mobile station, a second correspondence of a transmission data block size of the uplink user data to a transmission power ratio between an enhanced dedicated physical data channel and a dedicated physical control channel for the uplink user data based on the notified first correspondence; notifying, at a radio base station, the transmission power ratio to the mobile station; and determining,... |
| Flow control in a cellular communication system | 20060223585 | 20061005 |
| A base station comprises an RNC message receiver which receives data packets from a Radio Network Controller, RNC. The data packets are transmitted over air interface channels by a transmitter. Buffer memory buffers the data packets prior to transmission and a scheduler schedules the data packets for transmission over the air interface channels. A memory allocator determines a first memory allocation of the buffer memory for a first air interface communication with a first user equipment. A flow controller determining a transfer allowance for transferring of data from the RNC to the base station in response to the first memory allocation and a current buffer memory usage of the first air interface communication. The transfer allowance is transmitted to the RNC by an RNC message transmitter.... |
| Transport resource control system and method, and radio network controller used in the same | 20060223586 | 20061005 |
| A W-CDMA mobile communication system, capable of providing, between T-plane and C-plane, a control system for transport resources with high independency and simplicity, which controls transport resources through respective interfaces between RNC and CN, RNC, Node B by linking a call in mobile terminal with call information “1” to “4” in CID unit of ALCAP and defining single identifiers “1” to “4” of single identifiers (call information) in a call of the mobile terminal.
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| Transmission rate control method, transmission rate control system, and mobile station | 20060215602 | 20060928 |
| A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of a channel to which the transmission rate control method is applied, include: notifying, at a radio network controller, at a timing of a call setup or the like, a primary allowable transmission rate of the channel to which the transmission rate control method is applied; starting, at a mobile station, after the call setup, transmission at a transmission rate below the primary allowable transmission rate, when data to be transmitted is generated; and controlling, at the mobile station, the transmission rate of the channel to which the transmission rate control method is applied, based on an Relative Grant Channel transmitted from a radio base station.
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| Managing scrambling codes during serving radio network subsystem relocation | 20060215625 | 20060928 |
| The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for managing relocation of one or more scrambling codes in a spread spectrum wireless communications system. The method comprises detecting an indication for a serving radio network subsystem relocation that causes a user equipment to leave a first radio network controller and selectively transiting, through an intermediate transition, at least one scrambling code of the one or more scrambling codes associated with an uplink from the first radio network controller to a second radio network controller for the user equipment in response to the indication. The first radio network controller may maintain three pools of scrambling codes, namely, a first pool of one or more relocated scrambling codes (SCs), a second pool of one or more free... |
