Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of determining handoff parameters. One embodiment of the method includes determining values of a hysteresis for a handoff from a serving cell, one or more pairwise offset values for hand off between the serving cell and one or more neighbor cells, and one or more times- to- trigger (TTTs) for hand off between the serving cell and the neighbor cell( s). The values may be determined so that hand off is triggered beyond a first distance from the serving cell selected to avoid ping-ponging and within a second distance from the serving cell selected so that a mobile unit moving at a selected velocity does not travel beyond a third distance within the TTT.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates generally to supporting bonded services at non-anchor nodes. A non-anchor gateway device is configured to support service bonding for a user device and communication with an anchor node of the user device. The non-anchor gateway device is configured to associated a set of user device data plane connections of the user device to form a bonded session for the user device where the set of user device data plane sessions includes a first user device data plane connection associated with a first access network and a second user device data plane connection associated with a second access network. The non-anchor gateway device is configured to map user device traffic of the user device between the user device data plane connections of the bonded session and a user device data plane session between the gateway device and the anchor node for the user device.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention include a system for transmitting a precoding codebook over an air interface. The system includes a first station configured to signal a set of indicators via at least one antenna to a second station from which the precoding codebook is derived at the second station based on the signaled set of indicators. The set of indicators includes less information than the precoding codebook.
Abstract:
In one example embodiment, a first network element includes a memory storing computer-readable instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to cause the first network element to, obtain user equipment (UE)-side parameter values from a user domain of the UE, convert a first data stream received from a second network element into multiple second data streams over multiple data communication paths between the UE and the first network element and allocate the multiple second data streams to at least one of the multiple data communication paths based on the UE-side parameter values.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to supporting a maximum fill link capability for a bonded session. The maximum fill link capability is configured to control allocation of user device traffic of a user device across multiple bearers of a bonded data plane session supported for the user device. The maximum fill link capability is provided at a gateway device associated with the bonded data plane session, which is a network gateway device for downstream user device traffic or a customer gateway device for upstream user device traffic. The maximum fill link capability is configured to determine an allocation of the user device traffic of a user device data plane session to multiple bearers of the user device data plane session based on policy information associated with the user device data plane session and based on active traffic monitoring performed for the user device traffic of the user device data plane session. The system (100) includes, inter alia, a User Equipment (UE) (102), a Residential Gateway / Customer Premises Equipment (RG/CPE) (110), a Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN) (120), a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) (130), an evolved NodeB (eNodeB) (140), a combined Packet Gateway (PGW) / Serving Gateway (SGW) (150). PGW/SGW (150) and RG/CPE (110) establish a user device data plane session therebetween in which the data plane provides two default bearers. For example, a first bearer tunnel traversing the xDSL access network comprises bearer link B11 between the RG/CPE (110) and the MSAN (120), bearer link B12 between the MSAN (120) and the BNG (130), and bearer link B13 between the BNG (130) and the PGW/SGW (150). A second bearer tunnel traversing the 3GPP/LTE access network comprises bearer link B21 between the RG/CPE (110) and eNodeB (140) and bearer link B22 between the eNodeB (140) and the PGW/SGW (150). The PGW/SGW (150) forwards downstream traffic to the RG/CPE (110) via the multiple access network technologies in accordance with a policy-driven allocation between multiple downstream tunnels or bearers forming a bonded service. The use of active traffic monitoring may convert policies that might otherwise be static or substantially static into policies that are dynamic or potentially dynamic.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for cost-effectively providing protection in a PON. Protection ports, usually on a protection LT card, are configured to communicate with a selectable one of the downstream ODN splitter/combiners associated with the primary ports on the remaining LT cards of the OLT. Each protection port includes at least a splitter for distributing a transmitted signal from a light source to a plurality of switched protection fibers, and may have an optical amplifier to provide for lossless or low-loss distribution. Each port may also have a combiner for combining received signals from a plurality of switched protection fibers. When a failure is detected at a primary port, traffic is re-directed from the primary port to the protection port after the protection port has been configured to communicate with the same ODN splitter/combiner as the failed primary port.
Abstract:
The present disclosure generally discloses improvements in computer performance for supporting troubleshooting in a remote management service (RMS) based on an RMS troubleshooting capability. The RMS troubleshooting capability may be configured to enable troubleshooting within the context of an RMS configured to support remote management of a managed device(s) by a managing device(s). The RMS troubleshooting capability may be configured to support troubleshooting for an RMS by isolating traffic of managed devices for which troubleshooting is not being performed (e.g., which traffic is directed to managing devices of the RMS) from traffic of managed devices for which troubleshooting is being performed (e.g., which traffic is directed to troubleshooting devices of the RMS). The RMS troubleshooting capability may be configured to support troubleshooting for an RMS by directing traffic of a managed device to a troubleshooting server, rather than to a managing device (e.g., a device management server), under various conditions.
Abstract:
A server receives signals indicating an alert condition for a location that is defined by a set of location attributes and Identifies one or more base stations that serve one or more cells that overlap with the location, which encompasses less than ail of the cells. The server transmits a message to the one or more base stations identifying the alert condition and including the set of location attributes. A user equipment receives the message identifying the alert condition and including the set of location attributes that define the location of the alert condition. The user equipment compares a location of the user equipment to the set of location attributes and generates an alert in response to the location of the user equipment being within the location of the alert condition.
Abstract:
A method is provided for assisting data transmission on a first carrier by indicating a termination point of data transmission in a transmitting device and apparatus thereof, wherein the method comprises the steps of: A. transmitting data on the carrier to a receiving device in a first subframe; and B. transmitting downlink control information to the receiving device; wherein the downlink control information includes a termination point indication for indicating a termination point of the data in the first subframe. The method and apparatus could improve the utilization of subframe and transmission capacity, and enable LTE to satisfy the regulations for unlicensed operation with high spectral efficiency.
Abstract:
The present invention is to provide a suitable scheme for triggering to activate or deactivate NAICS so as to overcome the defect in the prior art. According to a further aspect of the present invention, a method in an UE of a wireless network for triggering NAICS is provided, wherein said method comprising: - receiving a first set of NAICS information from the base station of serving cell of the UE, which comprises the cell ID of the neighboring cells in a Interfering NAICS Cell list ( INCL); - determining the NAICS cell(s) among the neighboring cells based on the first set of NAICS information; - sending the cell ID of NAICS cell(s) to the base station, for triggering to activate NAICS. In another embodiment, the method in UE further comprises: - detecting the information of degradation of the UE operating in NAICS with a NAICS cell; and - deactivating NAICS with the NAICS cell upon the determination of the detected information of degradation of UE meeting the predefined criterion. With the present invention, the following advantages are achieved: 1) the flexibility of the NAICS interfering cell's schedule is enhance due to the suitable scheme for triggering to activate or deactivate NAICS; 2) the system performance of the wireless network is not impacted too much while involving NAICS with the NAICS interfering cell, by the suitable scheme for triggering to activate or deactivate NAICS.