Abstract:
The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) for configuring/implementing full-duplex communications between UEs and a network on a partial frequency domain in wireless communications, e.g., in LTE systems. This may allow UEs with different transmission capabilities to operate on the same deployment bandwidth and to use time dependence of an operational mode. According to an embodiment, a network element, such as eNB, may configure a deployment bandwidth in a frequency domain for wireless communications between UEs and the network, wherein one or more full-duplex regions of the deployment bandwidth are allocated for full-duplex communications and one or more half-duplex regions of the deployment bandwidth are allocated for half-duplex communications.
Abstract:
There are provided measures for enabling an inter-cell device discovery in device-to-device communication. Such measures may exemplarily include observing, at a device residing in a cell representing a serving cell of said device, a device-to-device discovery signal from another device residing in another cell representing a non-serving cell of said device, and modifying at least one of one or more cell reselection parameters referring to the serving cell of said device and one or more cell selection parameters referring to the non-serving cell of said device on the basis of the observed device-to-device discovery signal.
Abstract:
An apparatus receives from a first device a first broadcast message/beacon which comprises an identifier for an enabling station, then uses the identifier to associate with the enabling station to obtain from it a list of at least one license-exempt channel (e.g., TV whitespaces). In one embodiment the apparatus can then join an ad hoc network (IBSS) with the first device and transmit a second beacon which comprises the identifier for the enabling station. If the apparatus hears multiple beacons advertising different IBSSs, it can select to join the first device's ad hoc network over the other(s) based on a service offered or the first device's network being trusted. Various examples are detailed for where in the beacon frame the identifier (e.g., SSID) might be placed. In one example the apparatus and first device are Mode I devices and the enabling station is a Mode II device under (draft) IEEE802.11af.
Abstract:
A wireless backhaul link is established by sending from a mobile first access node to a second access node a priority request message requesting high priority for a link between them. The established wireless backhaul link is utilized as part of a wireless multihop connection between the second access node and at least one user device attached to the mobile first access node. In various embodiments the high priority is requested by indicating a priority class (e.g., highest priority, at least higher than any current priority, and at least as high as a highest current priority) and may also indicate how many user devices are attached and/or an amount of data waiting to be sent. A first timer may be initiated upon inactivity on the wireless backhaul link and continuous inactivity through expiry of that automatically results in a reduction of the priority class for the wireless backhaul link.
Abstract:
Downlink control signaling from a network to a user equipment UE associates at least a first logical channel or radio bearer with a first component carrier in a licensed frequency band and associates at least a second logical channel or radio bearer with a second component carrier in an unlicensed frequency band. The UE uses the associations to select which uplink data is sent on the first and on the second component carriers by multiplexing the uplink data on the at least first and the at least second logical channels or radio bearers. By example the downlink control signaling may be a MAC control element in a RRC_Connection_Reconfiguration message which semi-statically defines a multiplexing allowance for each of the logical channels or radio bearers. An example MAC control element has an information tuple giving the association and multiplexing status per channel/bearer. Certain embodiments also adapt transmit power scaling for licensed/unlicensed band operation.
Abstract:
A network support node collects information about unlicensed spectrum in use by a first access node; and provides at least some of the information to a user equipment via a second access node which utilizes licensed spectrum. In various exemplary embodiments: the information is collected via an interface between the first access node and the support node which does not pass through the second access node; the support node sends a query for the information when previously collected information is outdated; the support node sends to the first access node a preferred set of whitespace channels and/or virtual channelization; and the support node sends parameters for either/both access nodes to report on the unlicensed spectrum. Example parameters are: frequency/bandwidth range for the unlicensed spectrum in use by the first access node, and/or frequency range for a common control channel transmitted by the first access node in the unlicensed spectrum.
Abstract:
A position of a device within a cluster of multiple devices is determined and stored in a memory. An uplink radio resource is mapped from a downlink radio resource in dependence on the determined position of the device within the cluster of multiple devices. In an embodiment the respective uplink and downlink radio resource is a PUCCH and PDCCH of a cellular network, and the cluster is a D2D network. In one embodiment the device position is an index j which is used to offset from a predetermined mapping pattern. In another embodiment the position of the device corresponds to an individual field of a transmission on the PDCCH and the mapping is in dependence on a bit value in the individual field.
Abstract:
In one, non-limiting exemplary embodiment, a method includes: sending a multicast transmission from a source device to a base station in a wireless communication system, where the multicast transmission is for a plurality of receiving devices including a local receiving device, where the source device and the local receiving device are members of a local cluster that is at least partially located in a cell serviced by the base station; receiving, by the source device, a transmission of feedback information as it is transmitted from the local receiving device to the base station; and in response to the source device determining that the feedback information includes an indication that the local receiving device did not correctly receive the multicast transmission, sending a retransmission of the multicast transmission from the source device directly to the local receiving device.