Relay device, relay method, and relay program

    公开(公告)号:US11923950B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-05

    申请号:US17291254

    申请日:2019-10-25

    IPC分类号: H04B7/155 H04W28/16 H04W88/12

    摘要: A relay device that relays between a plurality of radio devices that perform radio communication with terminals, and at least one radio control device that controls the radio devices, the relay device including: a replication necessity determination unit that determines whether or not to replicate a downlink signal received from the radio control device; a signal replicating unit that makes the same number of copies of a downlink signal as the number of destination radio devices only when the replication necessity determination unit determines that the downlink signal is to be replicated; and a downlink signal assignment unit that transfers a downlink signal that has been determined by the replication necessity determination unit as a signal that is not to be replicated, and downlink signals replicated by the signal replicating unit, to the radio devices respectively corresponding thereto.

    Communication system, subscriber line terminal apparatus and communication method

    公开(公告)号:US12063289B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-13

    申请号:US17435189

    申请日:2020-03-02

    IPC分类号: H04L7/00 H04L12/44

    摘要: A communication system includes a first processor that performs processing for transmitting a signal to and receiving a signal from a communication destination device and a second processor that performs processing of an additional function. The second processor includes a decoding unit that decodes a transmission signal encoded by the first processor or a reception signal encoded by the communication destination device, an information acquiring unit that acquires information from the transmission signal or the reception signal decoded by the decoding unit, an additional function executing unit that performs the processing of the additional function using the information acquired by the information acquiring unit, and an encoding unit that performs processing for encoding the decoded transmission signal and outputting a resulting signal to the communication destination device or processing for encoding the decoded reception signal and outputting a resulting signal to the first processor.

    Relay apparatus and relay method
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11509357B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-22

    申请号:US17261814

    申请日:2019-07-23

    摘要: A relay device for relaying communications between a plurality of radio devices that perform radio communications with a terminal and a radio control apparatus that controls the plurality of radio devices, the relay device including a plurality of signal combiners that are each provided for one of functional splitting points between the plurality of radio devices and the radio control apparatus, and are each configured to convert signal data transmitted from one of the plurality of radio devices based on a signal format in accordance with the one of the functional splitting points, and transmit the converted signal data to the radio control apparatus, and a signal switcher configured to output the signal data transmitted from the one of the plurality of radio devices, to one of the plurality of signal combiners supporting one of the functional splitting points that corresponds to the one of the plurality of radio devices.

    Relay device, relay method, and relay program

    公开(公告)号:US12047848B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US17291259

    申请日:2019-10-25

    IPC分类号: H04W4/06 H04B7/155

    CPC分类号: H04W4/06 H04B7/155

    摘要: A relay device including: an information storage unit that stores conversion-target header information; a downlink signal dividing unit that divides a downlink signal received from the radio control device into a header and a payload; a signal replicating unit that makes the same number of copies of the payload of the downlink signal as the number of the plurality of destination radio devices; a downlink signal header information conversion unit that performs conversion on the header of the downlink signal for each destination radio device based on the header information stored in the information storage unit; and a signal addition assignment unit that adds the header converted by the downlink signal header information conversion unit to each of the payloads of the downlink signal replicated by the signal replicating unit, and transfers the payloads to the radio devices respectively corresponding thereto.

    Communication system, communication device, and terminal device

    公开(公告)号:US12058557B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-06

    申请号:US17603464

    申请日:2020-04-02

    IPC分类号: H04W28/02 H04W92/04

    CPC分类号: H04W28/0252 H04W92/04

    摘要: An object is to provide a communication system, a communication apparatus, and a terminal apparatus capable of integrating communication paths of both of mobile access and fixed access while addition of a new function to a mobile network is reduced.
    In a communication system 100 according to the present invention, a communication path of one mobile bearer between a base station master station apparatus 300 and a user gateway 600 includes a split bearer configuration including a mobile access communication path being connected from the base station master station apparatus 300 to the user gateway 600 via a mobile access slave station apparatus 400 and a non-mobile access communication path being connected from the base station master station apparatus 300 to the user gateway 600 via a non-mobile access slave station apparatus 500.

    Signal transfer system, signal transfer method, and path control device

    公开(公告)号:US12010521B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-11

    申请号:US17602893

    申请日:2020-03-26

    IPC分类号: H04W16/04 H04W40/02

    CPC分类号: H04W16/04 H04W40/02

    摘要: Signal transfer devices that relay base stations of service providers that perform communication with radio terminals and an aggregation station that controls the base stations, and a route control device that controls signal distribution to user network interfaces (UNIs) and network network interfaces (NNIs) of each of the signal transfer devices, are included. The route control device includes an allocation information acquisition unit that acquires allocation information of frequency to each of the base stations; a band adjustment unit that adjusts an MBH band for each of the UNIs, on the basis of correspondence relation information representing a correspondence relation between the UNIs and the service providers, band information indicating a maximum MBH band of each of the UNIs, and the allocation information; and a distribution determination unit that determines signal distribution to each of the NNIs, on the basis of the MBH band adjusted by the band adjustment unit and configuration information representing a connection configuration of each of the signal transfer devices. The signal transfer device transmits a signal from each of the NNIs on the basis of the signal distribution to each of the NNIs determined by the distribution determination unit.

    Multiplex transmission system and multiplex transmission method

    公开(公告)号:US11804897B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-31

    申请号:US17602954

    申请日:2020-03-26

    摘要: An uplink transmission band and a downlink transmission band that are allocated to each of a plurality of users are determined based on allocation information indicating allocation of a frequency bandwidth available to each of the plurality of users, and are output as uplink transmission band allocation information and downlink transmission band allocation information, respectively. Based on the downlink transmission band allocation information, downlink signals output from a plurality of wireless control devices toward a plurality of wireless devices for each of the plurality of users, and the uplink transmission band allocation information are multiplexed, and the multiplexed signal is demultiplexed into downlink signals for each of the plurality of users and the uplink transmission band allocation information. Based on the demultiplexed uplink transmission band allocation information, the uplink transmission band allocated to each of the plurality of users is changed, and uplink signals output from the plurality of wireless devices toward the plurality of wireless control devices for each of the plurality of users are multiplexed according to the changed uplink transmission band and then, the multiplexed signal is demultiplexed into the uplink signals for each of the plurality of users.

    Control apparatus and control method

    公开(公告)号:US11490289B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-01

    申请号:US17261272

    申请日:2019-07-19

    摘要: Provided is a control apparatus that controls any one or all of a plurality of slave station apparatuses communicating with a terminal apparatus, a plurality of master station apparatuses that control the slave station apparatuses, and a transfer apparatus that transfers data transmitted and received between the master station apparatuses and the slave station apparatuses, the control apparatus including an information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding traffic of the data transmitted and received between the master station apparatuses and the slave station apparatuses, and a switching control unit that performs, on the basis of the information regarding the traffic acquired by the information acquisition unit, switching-control of an assignment relationship between the master station apparatus and the slave station apparatus and switching-control of a transfer path of data between the master station apparatus and the slave station apparatus.

    RELAY APPARATUS AND RELAY METHOD
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210344381A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US17261814

    申请日:2019-07-23

    IPC分类号: H04B7/026 H04W88/08 H04B7/155

    摘要: A relay device for relaying communications between a plurality of radio devices that perform radio communications with a terminal and a radio control apparatus that controls the plurality of radio devices, the relay device including a plurality of signal combination units that are each provided for one of functional splitting points between the plurality of radio devices and the radio control apparatus, and are each configured to convert signal data transmitted from one of the plurality of radio devices based on a signal format in accordance with the one of the functional splitting points, and transmit the converted signal data to the radio control apparatus, and a signal switching unit configured to output the signal data transmitted from the one of the plurality of radio devices, to one of the plurality of signal combination units supporting one of the functional splitting points that corresponds to the one of the plurality of radio devices.