622 results about "Transmission opportunity" patented technology

A method for providing network access to a shared access communications medium for a plurality of users includes the steps of conducting predictive admission control by arbitrating user requests for access to the shared medium based on predicted aggregate demands, conducting lookahead scheduling for use in making user channel assignments by forecasting schedule transmission opportunities one or more channels of the shared medium, and balancing load by making channel assignments such that a plurality users are each assigned a respective channel of the shared medium based upon a predicted need. Congestion parameters can predicted for each channel of the shared medium and mapped to a congestion measure using a mathematical function that takes into account packet loss rate, packet delay, packet delay jitter, and available capacity.

A method for using buffer occupancy in uplink scheduling for a communication device includes a first step of sending buffer occupancy information and a time stamp indicating a last transmission opportunity provided to the communication device to an active set base stations. A next step includes utilizing the buffer occupancy information and time stamp to adjust a scheduling fairness setting for the communication device. A next step includes receiving scheduling information from a scheduler in accordance with the scheduling fairness setting. A next step includes transmitting on an uplink channel in accordance with the scheduling information.

A method of transmitting a data frame in a wireless local area network is provided. The method includes TXOP the step of: obtaining a transmission opportunity (TXOP) indicating a time interval during which a transmitter has a right to transmit at least one data frame and an available bandwidth for the TXOP and sequentially transmitting a plurality of data frames to at least one receiver during the TXOP, wherein a bandwidth of a subsequent data frame of the plurality of data frames is same to or narrower than a bandwidth of a preceding data frame of the plurality of data frames which is last previously transmitted before the subsequent data frame.

A hybrid device (100) includes both a IEEE-802.11e type WLAN client station (QAP) (102) and a BLUETOOTH piconet unit (104) interconnected such that the BLUETOOTH transmissions are scheduled to occur according to a transmission opportunity (TXOP) (126) that was granted by a quality of service (QoS) access point (QAP) (116) in a basic service set (BSS) (112). Requests for BLUETOOTH traffic are handled by the associated QSTA (102) which generates an add traffic service (ADDTS) (124) to the QAP.

A method and a system is disclosed for providing quality of service (QoS)-driven channel access within a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless network. A contention control (CC) frame is sent from a point coordinator (PC) station of the BSS. The CC frame contains information relating to a number of available centralized contention opportunities (CCOs) for receiving a reservation request (RR) in a centralized contention interval (CCI) following the CC frame. The CC frame also contains information relating to the identification of stations from which an RR was successfully received by the PC station in a preceding CCI. The CC frame is sent by the PC station during a contention-free period (CFP) of a superframe. The superframe includes a contention-free period (CFP) and a contention period (CP). The CC frame is received at a non-PC station in the BSS. An RR is then sent in a selected one of the available CCOs in the CCI in response to the received CC frame. The RR is sent from the non-PC station when the non-PC station has a burst of data frames to send, and the RR indicating an amount of bandwidth requested by the non-PC station sending the RR for transmitting the burst. The RR frame is received at the PC-station in one of the CCOs of the CCI. A multipoll frame is then sent from the PC station containing information relating to at least two transmission opportunities (TOs) assigned to at least one non-PC station in the BSS for data transmission. The information contained in the multipoll frame can include information relating to a length of each TO.

A system and method for coordinating electronic devices in a wireless communications system are provided. A method for transmitting information by a controller includes computing a beam cycle based on transmissions from a plurality of mobile devices, receiving resource-specific channel quality indicators from the plurality of mobile devices, scheduling a transmission opportunity for a mobile device in the plurality of mobile devices, and transmitting information to the mobile device based on the scheduled transmission opportunity. The mobile devices are being served by the controller, and the scheduling is based on the beam cycle and the channel quality indicators.

System and method for scheduling messages in a digital communications system with reduced system resource requirements. A preferred embodiment comprises a plurality of traffic queues (such as traffic queue 410) used to enqueue message of differing traffic types and a first scheduler (such as priority scheduler 430). The first scheduler to select messages from the traffic queues and provide them to a plurality of priority queues (such as priority queue 455) used to enqueue messages of differing priorities. A second scheduler (such as priority scheduler 475) then selects messages for transmission based on message priority, transmission opportunity, and time to transmit.

A power saving (PS) scheduling process is provided for scheduling uplink and downlink frame transmissions between a PS transmitter and at least one PS receiver using PSAD sequences in a wireless communication system. The power saving scheduling process involves determining a power saving schedule of transmission opportunities for communication between a PS transmitter and at least one PS receiver over a shared channel, wherein the schedule includes corresponding durations for uplink transmissions of frames from each PS receiver to the PS transmitter. A Power Saving Aggregation Descriptor (PSAD) frame containing said schedule is constructed. A PSAD sequence is initiated by transmitting the PSAD from the PS transmitter to each PS receiver.

A station, such as a point coordinator (PC) or a non-PC station, in a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. The station includes a frame classification entity (FCE), a frame scheduling entity (FSE) and a QoS management entity (QME). The FCE is logically located in a logical link control (LLC) layer of the station and has a classification table containing at least one classifier entry. Each classifier entry contains a virtual stream identifier (VSID) and a frame classifier associated with a user session. The FCE receives a data frame associated with the user session, which can be one of a voice session, a video session, a data session and a multimedia session. The data frame contains in-band quality of service (QoS) signaling information for the user session. The FCE classifies the received data frame to a selected VSID contained in a classifier entry in the classification table based on a match between an in-band frame classification information contained in the received frame and the frame classifier contained in the classifier entry. The FSE is logically located in a medium access control (MAC) sublayer of the station and has a frame scheduling table containing at least one entry. Each entry in the frame scheduling table contains a VSID and a QoS parameter set associated with a user session identified by the VSID. The FSE is responsive to the classified data frame by scheduling a transmission opportunity (TO) for the classified data frame based on the at least one QoS parameter value associated with the VSID and characterizing the user session. The QME interfaces with the FCE and The FSE.

A radio base station apparatus used in a radio communication system in which an initiator holds a transmission opportunity (TXOP) period in a frame exchange sequence and a responder responds to the initiator in the frame exchange sequence is disclosed. The apparatus includes a setting device which sets a ratio between a first period necessary for transmitting a first frame from the initiator to the responder and a second period necessary for transmitting a second frame from the responder to the initiator. The apparatus also includes a calculation device which calculates the first period to be used by the initiator and the second period to be used by the responder, on the basis of the transmission opportunity period and of the ratio which is set.

A method for operating a first communications controller adapted for operation in a first communications band in a communications system with a plurality of communications bands includes signaling a first higher layer message to a user device in the first communications carrier, the first higher layer message including information regarding an activation of operations in a second communications carrier, coordinating with a second communications controller adapted for operations in the second communications carrier, an opportunistic transmission opportunity in the second communication carrier, generating a first physical layer message comprising an aperiodic trigger configured to prompt a channel measurement in accordance with a reference signal transmitted in the second communications carrier, the first physical layer message serving as an indication of the opportunistic transmission opportunity, and signaling the first physical layer message to the user device in the first communications carrier.

TTI bundling is included for Msg3 transmissions in LTE communications. A reserved group of preambles or reserved set of random access preamble transmission opportunities are used to indicate user equipment (UE) need of uplink (UL) transmission of a TTI-bundled Msg3. The UE transmits the same redundancy version for transmissions within a TTI bundle as the eNB expects even if any of the transmissions are dropped due to collisions with an Msg3 transmission. In addition, co-existence of TTI bundling and UL semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) for TDD DL/UL configurations is provided using SPS intervals which are multiples of various fixed time periods.

A method for granting a contention-free transmission opportunity in a wireless LAN system using a combined channel comprised of a plurality of subchannels, and a station supporting the method are provided. The method for granting transmission opportunity includes: transmitting a transmission opportunity granting frame granting a transmission opportunity of a plurality of target stations; and receiving a frame from each of the plurality of target stations which have acquired a transmission opportunity upon receiving the transmission opportunity granting frame. The station supports granting of a transmission opportunity by the foregoing method.

The disclosure relates to systems and methods for controlling a wireless power transfer system based upon Inductive Charging Technology using frequency based signaling communication protocol, operable to function in modes of Standby, Digital Ping, Identification, Power Transfer and End of Charge (EOC). The power transfer system comprising at least one wireless power outlet associated with a wireless power transmitter coil and at least one electrical device associated with a wireless power receiver coil, where the wireless power receiver coil is in multi-directional communication with the wireless power transmission of a message transmitter coil. The amount of power transferred is controlled by feedback communication between the receiver and the transmitter configured to increase or NO decrease power. More specifically, the present disclosure supports wireless power transfer incorporating transmission opportunity extended signaling supporting uni-directional and bi-directional communication enabling data transfer over extended range, higher power levels of power transfer and improved foreign object detection functionality.

An adaptive weighted round robin scheduling apparatus and method schedules variable-length frame transmissions from a plurality of output queues having different transmission priorities by first allocating, for each queue, a number of bandwidth segments for a bandwidth cycle and a number of transmission opportunities for a round robin cycle, and then processing the queues consecutively in a round-robin fashion, beginning with a highest priority queue, until none of the queues has any bandwidth remaining. More specifically, during each iteration of a round robin cycle, a queue is permitted to transmit a frame if the queue has at least one remaining transmission opportunity, the queue has a frame ready for transmission, and the queue has at least one remaining bandwidth segment, and furthermore the number of transmission opportunities for the queue is decremented by at least one. Upon transmitting a frame, the number of bandwidth segments for the queue is decreased by the number of bandwidth segments in the frame. If a queue has no frame ready for transmission, then the queue may be either penalized, in which case the number of bandwidth segments for the queue is reduced, or forced to forfeit its bandwidth segments, in which case any remaining bandwidth segments are reallocated to other queues and the number of bandwidth segments and the number of transmission opportunities for the queue are set to zero.

The present invention discloses systems and methodologies that facilitate coordinating and conducting transmissions to multiple stations in a wireless communication system during a single transmission opportunity. A holder of a transmission opportunity can communicate a request-to-send message or a self-addressed clear-to-send message to one or more stations to establish the transmission opportunity. Subsequently, data transmissions with respective stations can be initiated by transmitting request-to-send messages to the respective stations. At each receiving station, the source address of a received request-to-send message is compared to the address of the holder of the transmission opportunity. If the addresses match for a given request-to-send message, the receiving station transmits aclear-to-send message to the holder of the transmission opportunity in response to the request-to-send message.

Provided is a communication technology of an access point and a terminal that may decrease power consumption by changing an operation state of the terminal from an awake state to a sleep state when a data stream to be transmitted to the terminal is absent or has completed in a transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration.

A method and devices for allowing communications between a central station and subscriber terminals along a frequency channel in a wireless network comprising a central station and a plurality of subscriber terminals, out of which at least one uses a scheduled based protocol. The method comprises: providing a plurality of time domain frames each comprising at least one first time interval for implementing schedule based protocol, and at least one second time interval for implementing a contention based protocol; scheduling a plurality of unconditioned transmissions in a plurality of present and/or future frames during the first time interval of corresponding time domain frames to/from the subscriber terminal(s) operating under the schedule based protocol; scheduling a plurality of conditioned transmission opportunities in a plurality of present and/or future frames during the second time interval of corresponding time domain frames to/from the terminals operating under the schedule based protocol; determining, prior to sending a conditioned transmission, whether the value of received power level is below a pre-defined threshold value and transmitting communications during the second time interval upon determining that this value does not exceed a pre-defined threshold.

The invention discloses a sounding reference signal transmitting method and device, a sounding reference signal receiving method and device, UE and a base station. The sounding reference signal transmitting method comprises the steps of determining a resource used for transmitting sounding reference signals (SRS) on an unlicensed carrier; and transmitting the SRS according to the determined resource. According to the invention, a problem of little transmission opportunity for transmitting the SRS on the unlicensed carrier in related technologies is solved, and thus the effect of improving the opportunity for transmitting the SRS on the unlicensed carrier is achieved.

In order to provide a wireless communication system capable of improving the throughput of wireless communication by effectively using frequency resources, in a wireless communication system in which a first wireless access point which communicates with one or more wireless stations within a first cell by orthogonal frequency-division multiple access and a second wireless access point which is capable of performing carrier sensing with the first wireless access point and communicates with one or more wireless stations within a second cell by the orthogonal frequency-division multiple access operate in cooperation with each other, the first wireless access point includes a transmission opportunity acquiring unit which acquires a transmission opportunity when data to be transmitted is generated; and a transmitting unit of permission for use which transmits permission for use of channels which are not scheduled to use within the first cell, to the second wireless access point in a period in which the transmission opportunity is acquired, and the second wireless access point includes a communication unit which communicates with the wireless station within the second cell via the channel in which the permission for use is acquired from the first wireless access point.

A method of transmitting data is performed by detecting a triggering of a first event, further detecting a triggering of a second event until a third event occurs, and performing a first action if the triggering of the second event is not detected, wherein the first action is based on the detected first event. The first event may be the expiry of a poll retransmit timer, the second event may be a detecting whether a ACK or NACK is not received, the third event may be a next transmission opportunity, and the first action may be setting a polling bit of a data PDU to be transmitted.

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for use in a communication device. The method may add a transmission type identifier to a transmission opportunity (TXOP) request packet, wherein the transmission type identifier includes one or more bits indicating a request for either Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) operation or for non-HARQ operation. The method may further causes the communication device to transmit the TXOP request packet to a TXOP responder and receives a subsequent transmission from the TXOP responder indicating acceptance, modified acceptance, or rejection of the request. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

A power saving method and apparatus are provided for saving power by reducing the number of changes between active mode and sleep mode using multiple channels. A process for negotiating which of multiple channels will be assigned a transmission opportunity (TXOP) is performed. A TXOP MAP is configured by exchanging a packet through a common channel during a predetermined time at every monitoring time according to a negotiated channel. The TXOP is allocated to each channel according to the TXOP MAP. As a change between the active mode and the sleep mode is reduced, power can be saved, resources of the mesh network can be efficiently used, and interference between nodes can be reduced.

A method for multiple frame transmission in a wireless communication system and a transmitter are provided. The transmitter transmits a request to send (RTS) frame to a receiver. The RTS frame has a first bandwidth. The transmitter receives a clear to send (CTS) frame as a response of the RTS frame from the receiver to establish a transmission opportunity (TXOP) indicating an interval of time when the transmitter has the right to transmit at least one data frame. The CTS frame has a second bandwidth. The transmitter transmits a plurality of data frames sequentially to the receiver during the TXOP.