Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for selecting a set of transport formats to be used for transmissions on a backhauling link (BL) between a base station (BS) and a relay node (RN) of a wireless communications cell (1), comprising: a) generating measurement signals (UL MS, DL MS), in particular a plurality of transport blocks or pilot signals, the measurement signals (UL MS, DL MS) having a transport format supported by the backhauling link (BL); b) transmitting the measurement signals (UL MS, DL MS) over the backhauling link (BL); c) evaluating a transmission quality for the transmission of the measurement signals (UL MS, DL MS) over the backhauling link (BL); repeating steps a) to c) for a plurality of transport formats, and, d) based on the transmission quality, selecting from the plurality of transport formats a set of transport formats to be used for subsequent transmissions of data packets on the backhauling link (BL). The invention also relates to a base station (BS) and to a relay node (RN) for implementing the method, and also to a communications cell (1) and a communications network (2) comprising the same.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a request is sent to a relay node (RN) requesting the RN to perform a signal measurement operation. The request includes an indication to measure a signal strength of a link between the RN and a user equipment (UE). A signal measurement value is received from relay node, a determination on whether to associate the UE with the RN is made based on the signal measurement value.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for selecting a set of transport formats to be used for transmissions on a backhauling link (BL) between a base station (BS) and a relay node (RN) of a wireless communications cell (1), comprising: a) generating measurement signals (UL MS, DL MS), in particular a plurality of transport blocks or pilot signals, the measurement signals (UL MS, DL MS) having a transport format supported by the backhauling link (BL); b) transmitting the measurement signals (UL MS, DL MS) over the backhauling link (BL); c) evaluating a transmission quality for the transmission of the measurement signals (UL MS, DL MS) over the backhauling link (BL); repeating steps a) to c) for a plurality of transport formats, and, d) based on the transmission quality, selecting from the plurality of transport formats a set of transport formats to be used for subsequent transmissions of data packets on the backhauling link (BL). The invention also relates to a base station (BS) and to a relay node (RN) for implementing the method, and also to a communications cell (1) and a communications network (2) comprising the same.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a base station (BS) for a communications cell (1) of a wireless network (2), the base station (BS) being adapted for generating a scheduling grant (SG1, SG2) to be transported from the base station (BS) to a relay node (RN) of the communications cell (1), the base station (BS) being further adapted for including a user equipment identifier into the scheduling grant (SG1, SG2), the user equipment identifier being indicative of a user equipment (UE1, UE2) to which a data packet (DP) to be transmitted by the base station (BS) should be forwarded by the relay node (RN). The invention also relates to a relay node (RN), to a communications cell (1), to a communications network (2), and to a method for cooperative relaying in a communications cell (1).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a miniaturized base station apparatus (100) comprising a plurality of active electronic components (104; 106), a housing (102) and an attachment means (112), wherein the housing comprises at least one metal component (108), wherein the plurality of electronic devices is connected to the metal component by means of at least one thermal conductor, wherein the attachment means is adapted for fixing the miniaturized base station apparatus to a mounting structure (110) such that the metal component is connected to the mounting structure and that a thermal connection is established between the plurality of active electronic components and the mounting structure.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method (MET1) for retransmitting data from a first network node (BS) of a radio communication system to a second network node (MS) of the radio communication system. The method (MET1) comprises the steps of transmitting (M1/1) a first data block (D1) from the first network node (BS) to the second network node (MS), the first data block (D1) comprise an information part (INFO-BITS), determining (M1/7) at the first network node (BS) a second data block (D2) with redundancy information of all data elements of the first data block (D1) by applying an information compression to all the data elements, and transmitting (M1/12) the second data block (D2) from the first network node (BS) to the second network node (MS). The invention further relates to the first network node (BS) for use in the radio communication system and to the second network node (MS) for use in the radio communication system.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for mitigating interference on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) used by at least two cells (C1, C2), the method comprising: distributing a number of control channel elements of the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) among the cells (C1, C2), and determining a set of cell identifiers (cell ID1, cell ID2) for the cells (C1, C2) based on a number of collisions of the control channel elements in a downlink sub-frame (SF) of the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), a location of the control channel elements in the downlink sub-frame (SF) being dependent on the cell identifiers (cell ID1, cell ID2). The invention also relates to a computer program product and to an arrangement (BS1) for implementing the method, as well as to a heterogeneous network (1) comprising at least one such arrangement (BS1).
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for beam coordination between a first base station (M1) and a second base station (P1), wherein interfering beams (B2-B4) transmitted from the first base station (M1) are determined based on measured reference signals, dependent on a ranking of interfering beams (B2-B4) which shall be restricted in use, a restriction of a use of radio resources in the first base station (M1) in at least one ranked interfering beam (B3) is performed, and user terminals (UE1, UE2) served by the second base station (P1) are scheduled on radio resources which are restricted in use in the first base station (M1) in said at least one ranked interfering beam (B3), a base station and a user terminal therefor.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method (MET1 ) for transmitting data from a first network node (BS) of a radio access network of a radio communication system to a second network node (MS) of the radio access network, and wherein the method (MET1 ) comprises the steps of transmitting (M1/6) a first negative acknowledgement (N1) from the second network node (MS), if the second network node (MS) cannot recover error free first data (D1 ), the first data (D1 ) being data from a single data source of the radio access network or for a single data sink of the radio access network, determining (M1 /11 ) a combination (COMB1) of the first data (D1) and of at least second data (D2) by applying a superposition of the first data (D1) and the at least second data (D2), the at least second data (D2) being further data from the single data source or for the single data sink, and transmitting (M1/18) the combination (COMB1 ) to the second network node (MS). The method further relates to the first network node (BS) for use in the radio communication system and to the second network node (MS) for use in the radio communication system.
Abstract:
The present invention refers to Method (101) for.transmitting (111) at least, one pilot sequence (79) over a radio communication link (25) of a radio cell (15) of a cellular communication network (11) from a relaying node (.21). The relaying node (21) Is assigned to a base station (17) of the cell (15), radio resources (53) of the link (25) are subdivided with, respect to frequency (f) and time:(t) into multiple resource elements (65) one or mere of said resource elements (65) being assigned to a control channel of the link (25). In order to provide a method which allows that a terminal can discover one or more relay nodes (21) possibly present in a certain radio cell (15) and perform link quality measurements, it is suggested that the method (101) comprises.; selecting (103} at least, one of said resource element (71) assigned to said control channel as a selected resource element (81) for transmitting said one pilot sequence and transmitting (111) the pilot sequence within the at least one selected resource element (81).