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Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology in conjunction with the IEEE 802.11 standard enables simultaneous communication of data packets to or from multiple users in the same frequency. Spatial divisional multiple access (SDMA) is thus provided. In this way, system capacity can be increased to an extent that depends on available antenna resources and the multipath characteristics of the communication channel. Doubling or quadrupling of network throughput can be achieved.

In an exemplary embodiment, a phased array antenna comprises a bidirectional antenna polarizer and is configured for bidirectional operation. The bidirectional antenna polarizer may combine active implementations of power splitters, power combiners, and phase shifters. Furthermore, in another exemplary embodiment a bidirectional antenna polarizer has extensive system flexibility and field reconfigurability. In yet another exemplary embodiment, the bidirectional phased array antenna operates in “radar-like” applications where the transmit and receive functions operate in half-duplex fashion. Furthermore, in exemplary embodiments, the phased array antenna is configured to operate over multiple frequency bands and/or multiple polarizations.

A method is provided of providing a service to a user terminal. According to this method, a first network agrees with the user terminal to provide the service at a certain charge rate, then starts to provide the service. Subsequently at least one other network is invited by the first network to provide the service. The first network receives at least one offer from the other networks to provide the service to the user terminal. The first network then accepts one of the offers, such that the one of said other networks thereafter provides the service and charges the user terminal without the first network being involved.

The present invention has disclosed a method for setting an active period starting point for a User Equipment (UE) in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode, comprising steps of: a base station calculating and storing a position of the active period starting point for the UE based on predetermined parameters, so as to transmit data to the UE in a corresponding active period; the UE receiving Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration information from the base station, and detecting whether the DRX mode is configured in it or not; the UE calculating its active period starting point based on predetermined DRX parameters in the received RRC configuration information; and the UE starting DRX based on the calculated active period starting point. The present invention has also disclosed an apparatus for setting an active period starting point for a UE in a DRX mode.

The present invention is directed to wireless communication, and more particularly, to providing improved signal quality using antenna beam selection and/or switching techniques. Embodiments of the present invention may measure the carrier-to-interference (C/I) level for each channel and for each antenna. Embodiments of the present invention assign forward-link signals to antennas such that only one forward-link signal is transmitted from a respective antenna. Moreover, embodiments prioritize assignment to antennas by the forward-link power, i.e., the forward-link signal associated with the highest power is transmitted from the antenna associated with the best channel quality metric for reverse-link of the respective channel. Additionally, embodiments may employ the assignment scheme with antennas that possess spatial, polarization, and/or directional diversity to minimize the effects of shadow fading.

The Multi-Link Aircraft Cellular System makes use of multiple physically separated antennas mounted on the aircraft, as well as the use of additional optional signal isolation and optimization techniques to improve the call handling capacity of the Air-To-Ground cellular communications network. These additional techniques can include polarization domain and ground antenna pattern shaping (in azimuth, in elevation, or in both planes). Further, if code domain separation is added, dramatic increases in capacity are realized. Thus, the Air-To-Ground cellular communications network can increase its capacity on a per aircraft basis by sharing its traffic load among more than one cell or sector and by making use of multiple physically separated antennas mounted on the aircraft, as well as the use of additional optional signal isolation and optimization techniques.

Embodiments are described herein to provide an efficient, adaptive and distributed approach to wireless resource allocation that seeks to maximize system capacity and/or coverage on the reverse link. The general approach is for each cell (sector) base station to allocate (102) its mobile units to frequency subbands based on a local optimization objective. This objective takes into account the performance “costs” to the neighboring cells/sectors of transmissions by different mobile units in different subbands. An example of such an optimization objective can be the maximization of the “utility” of user transmission rates within the sector minus the cost of the transmissions to neighboring cells/sectors.

A method of performing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a multiple-antenna system includes receiving a plurality of codewords through an uplink channel, generating acknowledgment (ACK)/not-acknowledgment (NACK) signals respectively for the plurality of codewords, and transmitting the plurality of ACK/NACK signals through a downlink channel in association with a resource used in transmission of the uplink channel. ACK/NACK signals for each codeword in multiple antenna system can be transmitted.

According to the present invention, a method in a base station is provided for predicting interference contribution, when scheduling an uplink data packet transmission from a first user equipment. The first user equipment is connected to the base station. The first user equipment is in the neighbor of a neighboring cell served by a neighboring base station. The method comprises the steps of: Obtaining signal strength measurements regarding the first user equipment. The signal strength measurements are based on a signal between the first user equipment and the neighboring base station; Receiving a resource scheduling request regarding the first user equipment for the uplink data packet transmission; Scheduling uplink resources for the requested uplink data packet transmission; Determining transmission power to be used for the scheduled uplink resources, and: Estimating an interference prediction contribution based on the determined transmission power and the obtained signal strength.

The invention discloses a data transmission method in a larger-bandwidth system. After a post-accumulative carrier frequency is divided to more than one component carrier frequency, data in a physical channel carrier or a measuring pilot signal is transmitted between component carrier frequencies in a frequency hopping manner. The invention has the advantages of ensuring the compatibility of an LTE-Advanced system and an LTE Releaste-8 system, facilitating the increase of the system capacity and the scheduling flexibility of the LTE-Advanced system, and enabling a LTE-Advanced terminal to acquire the selective gain of the biggest frequency.

The present invention discloses a resource scheduling method for multi-hop relay wireless network comprising: for each of a base station and relay stations, acquiring the minimal resource requirement of each of connections to all MSSs which are covered by said station and have direct signal transmission with said station, and then summing up the acquired resource requirement to obtain the minimal resource requirement of said station; and acquiring interference status between the relay stations, using different partition strategies to classify the relay stations into different independent sets, each of which can occupy the same resource, according to the minimal resource requirement of the base station and the relay stations as well as the interference status between the relay stations, and determining and comparing the total resource requirement under each of the partition strategies to obtain an optimized partition strategy for resource reuse scheduling. This resource scheduling method can meet the QoS requirement on each connection better and is applicable to dynamic and asymmetric multi-hop network.

Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating operation of a radio communication system that provides for multi rate data communications, such as a CDMA 2000 system that provides for 1xEV-DV communication services. A supplemental pilot, or control, signal generator embodied at a mobile station generates a supplemental pilot, or control, signal that is sent on a newly defined supplemental pilot, or control, channel. As the data rates of data communicated upon a reverse supplemental channel changes, corresponding changes are made to the power level of the reverse supplemental pilot, or control, signal.

This invention discloses a baseband processing method based on smart antenna and interference cancellation. The method includes the steps of: A. making a channel estimation to get a channel response; B. picking up useful symbolic level signals from received digital signals by smart antenna beam forming based on the channel estimation of step A; C. reconstructing the useful symbolic level signals and adding a scrambling code to get the chip level reconstructed signal; D. subtracting the reconstructed signal from the received digital signal; and E. executing steps B to D repeatedly to recover signals for all users. The method of the invention can solve problems associated with interference of multi-path propagation in CDMA systems with smart antennas with better results.

The invention relates to a system and a method for detecting high voltage transmission line faults. The system is provided with a fault analysis server and a detection device arranged on a three-phase high voltage transmission line, wherein the detection device consists of a first detection point device and two second detection point devices, the first detection point device is arranged on a B phase line, the second detection point devices are respectively arranged on an A phase line and a C phase line and transmit the detected data to the first detection point device, and the first detection point device transmits all of the detected data and the data transmitted by the second detection point devices to the fault analysis server. The method comprises the following steps of: arranging N detection points on one line, installing the detection device and synchronizing the time of each monitoring point; receiving monitored data of current, field intensity and temperature at any time transmitted by each detection device by the fault analysis server and carrying out statistic analysis. The invention can confirm the fault point of the high voltage transmission line in time, greatly improves the labor efficiency, and shortens the fault-checking time.

The method comprises: in the first, the system uses the baseband unit (BBU) to control Pico-remote radio unit (Pico-RRU) to transmit signals in order to make two neighboring co-frequency cells simultaneously cover one fixed area; then system controls the transmission power ratio of two cells to make the soft-switch for the mobile station in said fixed area. The invention also provides an indoor distribution system supporting the network real-time optimization.

The invention provides a method and a device for dynamically determining the polarization mode of a base station emitting antenna and the space coding mode in a multi-input and multi-output system. The base station of the multi-input and multi-output system firstly sends measurement auxiliary signals by at least one antenna polarization mode and one space coding mode to a mobile terminal under the management of the multi-input and multi-output system; the mobile terminal detects the quality of the signals after receiving the measurement auxiliary signals, generates the information correlative to the signal quality and feeds the information back to the base station; the base station determines the polarization mode of the emitting antenna and the space coding mode of data used when the base station sends subsequent signals to the mobile terminal according to the information after receiving the information correlative to the signal quality. Compared with the existing scheme of switching space coding modes in fixed antenna polarization mode, the invention can obviously improve the system capacity.

A method and system for determining whether to apply an inter-cell coordination procedure for a UE in the presence of inter-cell interference from cells, the cells including a serving cell and a plurality of interfering cells, are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving measurements of uplink signal quality of the UE from the cells. The method also includes calculating a combined metric based on the received uplink signal quality measurements. The combined metric is compared to a serving cell threshold to determine whether to implement the inter-cell coordination procedure.

The utility model discloses a dynamic dispatch method for carrier wave resource used in a multi-carrier HSDPA system, which is characterized in the following steps that: when the high-speed shared resource changes, the wireless link circuit parameters update indication information is sent form a NodeB to the affiliated RNC to trigger the wireless link circuit parameters update process; wherein, the wireless link circuit parameters update indication information comprises an information unit, which is used for indicating the RNC whether to switch the carrier frequency currently carrying the high-speed shared communication channel in the UE to the information unit of the new frequency point; the RNC configures the carrier frequency carrying the high-speed shared communication channel in the UE according to the received indication in the information unit comprised in the wireless link circuit parameters update indication information. The utility model has the advantages that the free port resource is effectively utilized; the system capacity is increased, and the multi-carrier HSDPA technology and system is optimized.

An add-on adapter 110 enables a single charging port 102 of an electric vehicle charging station 100 to simultaneously charge two electric vehicles. An adapter controller 120 determines the available charging rate offered by the charging station. Electric vehicle charging handles 150A, 150B are determined to be connected to the electric vehicles. A charge sharing control circuit 300 in the adapter controller, determines modified available charging rates to be offered for simultaneously charging the electric vehicles. The modified available charging rates are based on the connection states of the electric vehicles and the available charging rate offered by the charging station. The adapter controller controls two contactors 130A, 130B to switchably connect a charging station power socket to the electric vehicle charging handles, to provide shared power at the determined modified available charging rate to the electric vehicles, for simultaneous charging.

The invention discloses a big-power test programmable resonance wave voltage source which is based on superposition principle, the resonance wave voltage source includes three phase commutating bridge, dc-to-ac converter, transformer in series, three phase resistance-capacitance loop and current track control circuit, the three phase commutating bridge is connected with the electricity net via inlet inductance and three switch; the structure of the dc-to-ac converter is three single-phase H bridges, each of which composes four switching tubes IGBT, the big-power test programmable resonance wave voltage source which is based on superposition principle adopts principle of separating base wave and resonance wave, the electricity provides the voltage of base wave, voltage of resonance wave is provided by the resonance wave voltage source, they are combined to make tested equipment get required voltage wave, the resonance wave is generated by controlling the dc-to-ac converter, the control mode can decreases the current in the dc-to-ac converter, and increases the capability of system, it can replace the programmable power source under most conditions.

The invention discloses a technological scheme of self-adaptive multi-antenna great-diversity, which is characterized by the following: selecting fitful antenna for the same base station or different base stations according to positional information in different honeycomb deme regions of mobile terminal; adopting self-adaptive multi-output and input (MIMO) transmission technology to form self-adaptive compound multi-antenna great-diversity scheme; reducing adjacent regional interference problem effectively; obtaining superior entire system property than traditional multi-antenna.

A wireless communication system which combines transmissions which utilize vertically polarized signals and horizontally polarized signals to extend communication range and/or system capacity.

A wireless packet communications apparatus and method are disclosed that enable enhancing of the overall system capacity by reducing, at the time of transmitting a multiple number of packets, redundant waiting time periods and appending of redundant information items.

A scheduling technique for wireless multihop relay communication systems is provided. With spatial separation caused by the shadowing effect of surrounding buildings, a base station and its relay stations in a single cell are divided into several groups by following the rule that stations with severe potential interference are separated into different groups. The base station arranges the scheduling of these groups and serves these groups sequentially in the time domain. To take advantage of shadow effect, the same radio resources can be scheduled for relay stations within the same group due to the isolation of interfering signals. In the present invention, base stations and relay stations are equipped with directional antennas or sector antennas to further exploit the advantage of spatial separations. Different relay groups can also reuse the radio resource through appropriate power control. The cell capacity can be enhanced substantially because of aggressive radio resource reuse.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an interference coordination method and a base station. The method includes determining interfering cell base stations and interference levels of the interfering cell base stations and receiving power coordination information sent by the interfering cell base stations. The power coordination information is used to indicate a power headroom of an interfering cell base station on a specific channel resource or indicate a minimum transmit power of an interfering cell base station on a specific channel resource. A base station requiring interference coordination among the interfering cell base stations is determined according to the interference levels and power coordination information of the interfering cell base stations. A power adjustment request is sent to the base station requiring interference coordination so that the base station requiring interference coordination adjusts a transmit power on the specific channel resource.

The present invention relates to a method of forming a random beam, and a beam forming apparatus. A quantization preprocessor and a random unitary matrix having a predetermined pattern are used to form a beam on a mobile terminal. A base station forms a beam using a codeword index of a quantization codebook received from a mobile terminal and channel quality information corresponding to the codeword index, and the mobile terminal generates the codeword index and the channel quality information using pilot signals generated by the base station. The number of pilot signals is equal to the number of transmitting antennas. Therefore, a codebook that has been known to both the mobile terminal and the base station is used, and the mobile terminal can select the codeword index for quantization, which makes it possible to selectively give diversity and thus improve the system efficiency.

The invention discloses a starting point setting method for discontinuously-receiving long cycle period, and a control method for user equipment to start the long discontinuous reception, and a device thereof. In the control method, when a discontinuous reception inactive timer of the user equipment is at the time, a timer for a discontinuously-receiving short cycle period is started at the preset starting point of the discontinuously-receiving cycle period, wherein the duration of the timer for the discontinuously-receiving short cycle period is integral multiple that of the discontinuously-receiving short cycle period; when the discontinuously-receiving short cycle period timer is at the time, the user equipment starts the discontinuously-receiving long cycle period, and adopts the stopping time of the discontinuously-receiving short cycle period timer as the starting point of the discontinuously-receiving long cycle period. By the invention, when the DRX Short Timer is at the time, the starting point of the Long DRX Cycle just begins.

An apparatus and a method for selectively scheduling channels in mobile communication systems adopting Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, are provided. In an exemplary apparatus and method, the channels are scheduled with a pilot for measuring the signal-to-noise ratio in order to support the selective schedule of the channels in a reverse direction. At a base station in the mobile communication systems, the method includes requiring a terminal to transmit a pilot, receiving the pilot from the terminal within a specified frequency band or over the whole frequency band, and selectively scheduling channels, requiring the terminal to transmit data having a result of the scheduling therewith and receiving from the terminal the data having the result of the scheduling therewith.

The invention discloses a method and system for inhibiting overlapping interference between wave beams in a multiple address system and relates to mobile communication technology. Space division and code division are effectively combined, spatial information of wireless channel is fully utilized, correlation detection is carried out on accessed user in real time, strong correlation users are dynamically grouped, and beam forming is carried out for dynamic tracking and covering on user grouping; and correlation detection is carried out on the formed wave beams in real time, orthogonal code is distributed for adaptation of relevant wave beams, so as to effectively inhibit mutual interference between wave beams. The formed wave beams are identified by spatial and orthogonal code characteristic, thus realizing improvement of system capacity, communication quality and frequency spectrum utilization.

A method for exchanging satellite-carried route of sky based network includes judging whether source user and destination user of data are in the same wave beam or not and carrying out data link layer exchange on data if it is or otherwise judging whether multi-protocol countermark is carried by data or not according to data packet formed frame sequence number data in connection head, carrying out multi-protocol countermark exchange on data if it is or otherwise carrying out IP route exchange on data.