Abstract:
The invention relates to methods and arrangements for an event triggered DRX cycle adjustment. A user equipment located in a serving cell of a mobile communications network monitors downlink communication at predetermined time intervals when operating in discontinuous reception mode. The user equipment also performs communication parameter measurements regarding at least one of the serving cell and one or more neighbor cells. After the occurrence of a first event, the user equipment sends at least one of measurement data and a first event report to the network. The sending is triggered by the occurrence of the first event. The monitoring is caused to be performed at shortened time intervals after the occurrence of a second event, wherein the second event is defined to indicate a higher probability of receiving a handover command than the first event.
Abstract:
A method for transmitting data flows between a network element and a number of receivers over a first channel. The method comprises the steps of: performing a link adaptation for the transmission of a data flow by said network element, and transmitting the data flow, transmitting an indication of a channel quality required for reception of the data flow on a second channel, receiving by said receivers said indication of channel quality, measuring a link quality by said receivers by monitoring a pilot channel, comparing said measured link quality with said received indication of the channel quality, and transmitting to said network element result of said comparison of said measured link quality with said received indication of the channel quality, if said result is lower than a predetermined value. The invention also relates to a network element and a user equipment.
Abstract:
A radio network resource controller directs a first network node associated with a first cell region, or a wireless terminal in communication through the first cell region, to measure and report radio resource-related data selected from the group consisting of: resource activity per channel; the number of transmitted power samples that exceed a threshold over a measurement period; and, channel quality samples that exceed a quality threshold. The controller then receives at least one measurement report of the radio resource-related data and, as a function of the radio resource-related data in the first cell region, dynamically reallocates the distribution of resources, such as radio-frequency channels associated with uplink and downlink communications, between the first cell region and at least a second cell region. The invention has a particular advantage in time division duplex (TDD) mode of operation where efficient and dynamic interference mitigation is needed to combat the inherent mobile-to-mobile and base station-to-base station interference.
Abstract:
The present application discloses systems and methods for automatically adding a unique identifier associated with a cell to a neighbor cell list associated with another cell. In some embodiments, the method includes: selecting a particular mobile terminal from a set of mobile terminals; instructing the particular mobile terminal to obtain and report the unique identifier; receiving from the particular mobile terminal the unique identifier; and adding the unique identifier to the neighbor cell list, wherein the step of selecting the particular mobile terminal from the set of mobile terminals comprises determining which of the mobile terminals in the set appears to have a relatively high probability of obtaining the unique identifier within a certain window of time and selecting that mobile terminal.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for power control of the F-DPCH (Fractional-Dedicated Physical Control Channel) in a 3rd generation mobile telecommunication system applying HSDPA, in particular for a user equipment in soft handover. The user equipment derives the TPC command error rate R to ad just the SIR target as the max weighted function of the TPC command error rates of all the radio links in soft handover. According to the choice of weights in t he weighted function, the user equipment can set its SIR target in a way that either all radio links are able to maintain the TPC BER below or equal to the target TPC BER that is set bThe present invention relates to a method and arrangemen for power control of the F-DPCH (Fractional-Dedicated Physical Control Channel in a 3rd generation mobile telecommunication system applying HSDPA, i particular for a user equipment in soft handover. Such user equipments may not experience the same bit error ratio (BER) on different radio uplinks and, thus, it is not specified how a user equipment in soft handover derives the SIR targe for the inner loop. The user equipment derives the TPC command error rate R adjust the SIR target as the max weighted function of the TPC command error rates of all the radio links in soft handover. According to the choice of weights i the weighted function, the user equipment can set its SIR target in a way that either all radio links are able to maintain the TPC BER below or equal to the target TPC BER that is set by the network. The user equipment can also choose the weights such that the target TPC error rate is met only on the serving HS-DSCH.
Abstract:
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a radio network node (12,13) for handling communication of a wireless device (10) in a wireless communication network (1). The radio network node (12,13) is configured to provide a serving cell for the wireless device (10) on a lean carrier where reference signals are transmitted with a bandwidth that is variable between a first bandwidth and a second bandwidth, the second bandwidth being narrower than the first bandwidth, and wherein the wireless device (10) is configured with a discontinuous reception cycle. The radio network node transmits reference signals over a bandwidth that alternates between the first bandwidth and the second bandwidth in accordance with the discontinuous reception cycle configured for the wireless device (10). The radio network node further obtains an indication from the wireless device (10) or from a second radio network node (12,13), which indication indicates that a signal strength or quality of the serving cell for the wireless device (10) is below a threshold; and transmits, in response to the obtained indication, one or more reference signals over the first bandwidth.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to methods, a user equipment and a radio base station in a communication network, in which a downlink out-of-coverage is detected based on measurements done on a common channel or on the combination of common and dedicated channels. The out-of-coverage is then reported to the network, either using resources proactively assigned to the user equipment, or by transmitting a predetermined pattern of signature sequences assigned to the user equipment.
Abstract:
According to some embodiments of the invention, a method is provided in a radio network node for scheduling data transmission and/or reception. According to the method, the radio network node predicts (530) at least one autonomous gap occurrence in which user equipments served by the radio network node will use autonomously created gaps for acquiring system information from a neighboring base station and during which the UE is not able to receive data from, and/or transmit data to, the radio network node. Furthermore, the radio network node schedules (560) a user equipment for data transmission and/or reception in a time period which does not overlap with any predicted autonomous gap occurrence.
Abstract:
In deployments where there is a mixture of new Node Bs capable of uplink multi-antenna transmission and legacy Node Bs not capable of uplink multi-antenna transmission some embodiments described herein enable a network node (e.g. a radio network controller, RNC) to configure an uplink control channel (e.g. dedicated physical control channel, DPCCH) to be decodable by both the new and the legacy Node 8s when the UE operates in uplink multi-antenna transmission.
Abstract:
A method in a user equipment for controlling transmission from the user equipment, a method in a first radio network node for selecting one or more radio emission control parameters and a user equipment, and a first radio network node configured to perform the methods are provided. The user equipment sends, to the first radio network node, one or more parameters associated with supported duplexer arrangement characteristics of the user equipment for a first operating frequency band. The first radio network node selects the one or more radio emission control parameters based on the one or more parameters associated with the supported duplexer arrangement characteristics of the user equipment for the first operating frequency band. The user equipment receives and applies the one or more radio emission control parameters from the first radio network node such as to control transmission from the user equipment.