129 results about "Wireless traffic" patented technology

Unauthorized wireless access points are detected by configuring authorized access points and mobile units to listen to all wireless traffic in its cell and report all detected wireless devices to a monitor. The monitor checks the reported devices against a list of authorized network devices. If the reported wireless device is not an authorized device, the monitor determines if the reported device is connected to the network. If the reported device is connected to the network and is not an authorized device, the monitor alerts the network operator or network manager of a rogue device connected to the network and attempts to locate and isolate the rogue device.

A portable, low power base station is configured to convey wireless traffic between a mobile station and a conventional wireless network via the Internet. The base station is configured to connect to the Internet at a user-selected location and establishes a small area of wireless coverage within a greater macrocell network. The user sets the operating parameters of the base station.

In view of the foregoing, the present invention provides a unified software framework or architecture for distributed coordination of wireless devices and radios, referred to as Layer 2.5 Software MAC (or ‘SoftMAC’), which resides between the standard 802.11 MAC layer (Layer 2) and IP layer (Layer 3) to regulate and control the amount of traffic (both real-time and “best effort”) delivered to 802.11 MAC DCF interfaces. The software based design can be ported to different OS platforms and systems and is capable of handling new hardware interfaces and MAC mechanisms (e.g., 802.11e) with only a software upgrade. The invention thus provides a natural way to make end systems support coordination of different radios of device(s), achieving better performance. Advantages of the 2.5 layer software MAC in accordance with the invention include: (a) there are no hardware constraints; (b) heterogeneous wireless / radio support is provided at the 2.5 layer; and (c) an evolutionary and extensible solution with the ability to support future wireless MAC / PHY chip combinations.

A fixed wireless system (FWS) utilizing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication techniques is spectrally efficient and responsive to communications involving both voice and high speed data, such as Internet data. The FWS includes a wireless base unit; a plurality of fixed wireless remote units; a plurality of wireless data traffic channels available between the wireless base unit and the plurality of fixed wireless remote units; and a plurality of wireless voice traffic channels available between the wireless base unit and the plurality of fixed wireless remote units. Each wireless traffic channel is identifiable by a unique combination of frequency and time slots. Each wireless data traffic channel is used for carrying high speed data in addressed data packets to and from the plurality of fixed wireless remote units. On the other hand, each wireless voice traffic channel can be assigned and dedicated to a particular voice communication call involving one of the plurality of fixed wireless remote units for carrying voice data of the call.

The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications and more particularly to systems and methods for monitoring wireless traffic in wireless local area networks. The present invention addresses shortcomings of the prior art by providing methods and apparatus for the calculation of more meaningful performance values for a wireless network reflective of the consumption of time on the wireless medium. These performance values may then, for example, be used to control access to the network or displayed graphically to show a user the performance of the network.

Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating the management of wireless computer network environments and the detection of rogue and other devices that may affect the performance and / or security of the wireless computer network. The present invention enables accurate and cost effective WLAN airspace mapping. In one embodiment, the present invention allows any conforming access point the ability to routinely scan its airspace, collect data on all operating frequencies and report this information back to a management platform. In one embodiment, the management and reporting functionality described herein uses a standards-based vehicle, such as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). In one embodiment, the present invention allows for detection of all wireless traffic within or affecting an enterprise's computer network environment, picking up all active access points (Ad Hoc or Infrastructure) and all wireless clients data regardless of SSID, channel, or security settings. The management platform, according to an embodiment of the present invention, analyzes information received from the access points under management to detect and report the state of the computer network environment. In one embodiment, the present invention facilitates isolation of rogue wireless devices affecting the computer network environment and effective decision-making as to management of the detected device. The present invention also allows network administrators to optimize the configuration of the wireless network environment for performance and security.

The invention relates to the technical field of traffic control, in particular to a wireless traffic signal system and a method thereof cooperated with vehicle tracks at intersections. The invention adopts a special short-range communication mechanism. The system comprises intersection transmitting equipment, vehicle receiving equipment, a singlechip, voice output equipment, GPS (Global Position System) equipment and a vehicle display. The singlechip carries out data fusion processing on real-time traffic information and the longitude and the latitude of vehicles to obtain information of traffic signal lamps on the vehicle tracks and outputs the information to the vehicle display. The method comprises the step that the singlechip carries out data fusion on information of an electronic map, a real-time traffic lamp signal, vehicle track positioning and traveling direction and displays the traffic signal on the electronic map when the vehicles enter the communication range of a special short-range communication technology. The invention can ensure that the traffic signal is transmitted to the vehicles through the system under the condition that a driver cannot clearly see the front signal lamps and thereby the driver can clearly know about the current contents displayed by the traffic signal lamps by using a display or voice prompt system.

A traffic calming (broadly defined as methods and apparatus for the purpose of reducing or otherwise controlling vehicle speeds and improving safety appropriate to the state of the road), cautioning, early warning and emergency notification system using secure wireless transmitters, receivers and transceivers for localized point to point notification. Static, desktop, portable and vehicle mounted transmitters / transceivers are automatically or manually triggered to transmit cautioning, early warning or emergency alert messages within a specified range to desktop, portable or vehicular-mounted receivers / transceivers, notifying the user of the receiver / transceiver of an approaching traffic calming or cautioning situation (children crossing, train crossing, construction detour, accident scene, etc.) or emergency situation (approaching emergency responder vehicle, such as police, firefighters, ambulance, etc). The system utilizes secure, localized point-to-point wireless technology to overcome typical impediments to effective targeted traffic calming, cautioning, early warning and emergency notification at home, work and in a vehicle by allowing emergency responders and others responsible for cautioning, early warning and emergency notification, who have one or more transmitter / transceiver, to communicate directly and effectively with the immediately affected individual(s) within a specified range, who have at least one receiver / transceiver.

A wireless water flow monitoring and leak detection system and method are provided. The system includes a base station, a memory, and a central processing unit configured to control the operation of the system and to analyze stored data. A plurality of highly-sensitive wireless flow sensor nodes are each installed individually on a supply line of a water fixture in a facility having a plurality of water fixtures. The wireless flow sensor nodes can periodically read and store a data point corresponding to either a flow condition or a no flow condition occurring at the water fixture. A plurality of coordinator nodes are configured to wirelessly relay data between the plurality of wireless flow sensor nodes and the base station. The base station is configured to determine based on an analysis of the stream of data points whether a leak exists in any of the water fixtures, and if a leak is determined to exist, a maintenance alert is generated.

A common subscriber managing apparatus and method for use in an all Internet Protocol network integrating a circuit network for voice and a packet network for data. The apparatus comprises a portable user terminating unit satisfying media standards supported in the network, a wireless interfacing unit controlling wireless resources of the user terminating unit and wireless traffic, controlling handoff, realigning data from and to the packet network upon interface request of the user terminating unit, providing realigned data to the user terminating unit and transferring media to another user terminating unit, a call controlling unit controlling a call between the wireless interfacing unit and common subscriber managing unit, and common subscriber managing unit for providing Security Association setup function for voice processing and commonly managing mobility management, Quality of Service, authentication and authorization management, accounting management and service management functions for the user terminating unit through a common subscriber database.

A proactive networking system and method is disclosed. The network anticipates the user demands in advance and utilizes this predictive ability to reduce the peak to average ratio of the wireless traffic and yield significant savings in the required resources to guarantee certain Quality of Service (QoS) metrics. The system and method focuses on the existing cellular architecture and involves the design and analysis of learning algorithms, predictive resource allocation strategies, and incentive techniques to maximize the efficiency of proactive cellular networks. The system and method further involve proactive peer-to-peer (P2P) overlaying, which leverages the spatial and social structure of the network. Machine learning techniques are applied to find the optimal tradeoff between predictions that result in content being retrieved that the user ultimately never requests, and requests that are not anticipated in a timely manner.

Embodiments control access to a wireless network providing communication for wireless traffic and controlled by a wireless access point to assure quality of service for designated traffic by assigning all communication of the designated traffic to use one of the priorities on the wireless network, requiring that ones of the wireless traffic wanting to communicate using the one of the priorities and higher ones of the priorities and using a distributed medium access protocol submit bandwidth reservation requests to the wireless access point, granting a bandwidth reservation to one of the wireless traffic for communication by the wireless access point in response to a bandwidth reservation request upon bandwidth being available on the wireless network, and allowing other ones of the wireless traffic to communicate using lower ones of the priorities without requiring bandwidth reservation requests.

A wireless traffic control system and method for wirelessly communicating information using traffic control signs are provided. The method includes wirelessly transmitting at least one of traffic control information and vehicle information from a traffic control sign and wirelessly receiving the information transmitted from the traffic control sign by at least one other traffic control sign.

Network entity, method and computer-readable storage medium for use in a network that includes an arrangement of cell sites, each cell site being configured to provide wireless services to users within a respective coverage region. The network entity comprises an input configured to receive position information regarding occurrence of an event at an event site, and a processing entity configured to determine on a basis of the position information regarding occurrence of the event and policy information regarding the network, whether the event warrants coverage region reconfiguration and, if so, to generate a message commanding an adjustment to the coverage region of at least one cell site. An output is configured to release the message towards the at least one cell site, whereby application of the adjustment to the coverage region of the at least one cell site enables an increase in traffic to be accommodated in a vicinity of the event site.

A zero-configuration secure mobility networking technique for WLANs is provided, utilizing split link-layer and a Web-based authentication. The link-layer authentication process facilitates network-to-user authentication and generation of session-specific encryption keys for air traffic using digital certificates to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks without requiring users to have pre-configured accounts. Although any WLAN host can pass the link-layer authentication and obtain link connectivity, the WLAN only allows the host to obtain IP networking configuration parameters and to communicate with a Web-based authentication server prior to initiating the Web-based authentication process that is responsible for user-to-network authentication. The Web-based authentication server employs a Web page for initial authentication and a Java applet for consequent authentications. In the Web page, registered users can manually, or configure their Web browsers to automatically, submit their authentication credentials; new users can open accounts, make one-time payments, or refer the Web-based authentication server to other authentication servers where they have accounts. Once a user is authenticated to the WLAN, the user's mobile host obtains full IP connectivity and receives secure mobility support from the WLAN. The mobile host always owns a fixed IP address as it moves from one access point to another in the WLAN. All wireless traffic between the mobile host and the WLAN is encrypted. Whenever the mobile host moves to a new access point, a Java applet (or an equivalent client-side program delivered over Web) enables automatic authentication of the mobile host to the WLAN. In addition, the ZCMN method supports dynamic load balancing between home agents. Thus, a mobile host can change home agents during active sessions.

A wireless traffic control system and method for wirelessly communicating information using traffic control signs are provided. The method includes wirelessly transmitting at least one of traffic control information and vehicle information from a traffic control sign and wirelessly receiving the information transmitted from the traffic control sign by at least one other traffic control sign.

A communications base station is installed at a selected new location and the base station, prior to going “on line” monitors the wireless traffic from other base stations within interference range of the new base station's coverage area. The new base station also monitors the wireless traffic between mobile devices within its coverage area and these other base stations. Based upon these monitored conditions, as well as other known conditions, the new base station then determines the transmitting parameter configuration it should imply in order to achieve a desired optimization between capacity and coverage area. After the new base station is on line, a central control can monitor the entire network to determine if any additional changes are necessary and if so the new transceiver, or any other transceiver, can be instructed to monitor itself with respect to interference and to take corrective action to improve overall network coverage and capacity.

Various embodiments are described herein to address the need to have a method and apparatus that improve the resource efficiency of inter-PDSN (142 to 141) dormant mode handoffs. Promptly after the completion of signaling (218) for PPP connection establishment and MIP registration (if supported), as required for an inter-PDSN dormant mode handoff, an access network (AN) 121 expedites the release of communication resources such as the wireless traffic channel, the SCCP connection, and the A8 bearer connection. Thus, in an inter-PDSN dormant mode handoff the packet data session of an MS (101) is promptly transitioned back to the dormant packet data state. This enables communication resources to be freed for other calls and / or handoffs in a more timely manner than is enabled today.

The invention discloses a method and system for sharing wireless traffic. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a request from a request mobile device to share wireless traffic, wherein the request comprises a list about unique numbers of other mobile devices away from a request mobile device with a certain range; selecting at least one mobile device sharing the wireless traffic for the request mobile device in the received list; and sending the unique number of the at least one selected mobile device and a connection channel password thereof to the request mobile device. Through adoption of the method and device disclosed by the embodiment of the invention, the traffic sharing among users of mobile devices can be realized without participation of a mobile operator, thus the cost of the users is saved.

The invention relates to wireless control for traffic lights. The invention provides a wireless control system with the advantages of economy, flexibility, reliability and high efficiency through using the current latest micro-power wireless communication technology with high integration and reliability, in order to overcome the following shortcomings in the prior control system of traffic lights of large bulk, high cost, inconvenient assembly, maintenance and use. The invention uses a plurality of traffic light control modules with high integration directly connected with traffic lights and dispersedly mounted in different directions at the same intersection to replace a crossing machine performing concentrative control to the traffic lights of the whole intersection, and allows the dispersed control modules to organically connect together to realize working in harmony through the wireless way. The wireless control system not only significantly reduces construction cost and maintenance cost of the system, convenient to assemble and use, but also remarkably improves traffic management level of the whole city.

The embodiment of the invention provides a 24-hour electronic wireless system for indicating traffic information and a device thereof, which comprises a wireless launcher and a wireless receiver. The wireless launcher is arranged on a traffic light or a traffic guide board and used for directionally transmitting a first and a second digitally encoded wireless signals with varied spread velocities. The wireless receiver is arranged in a running vehicle and used for directionally receiving the first and the second wireless signals. The wireless receiver is also used for reading the contained digitally encoded information according to the received signals. Simultaneously, the wireless receiver calculates the distance between the vehicle and the traffic junction ahead and the relative velocity according to the phase time difference according to the received first and second wireless signals. The system of the invention is free of influence from weather condition and poor visibility. Therefore, the system is capable of providing 24-hour traffic information indication to the passing vehicles and controlling the running vehicles when necessary so as to prevent red light violation and dangerous driving. Simultaneously, the system can carry out relay transmission on the traffic information so that the succeeding vehicles can receive the relative information at the same time.

The invention relates to an actuarial calculation method for GMS mobile network capacity expansion. The method comprises the following steps: (1) data acquisition: a. collecting performance data of network-wide cells (that is dynamic data), and b. collecting configuration data of network-wide cells (that is static data); (2) data correction and integration; (3) prediction of network-wide traffic; (4) prediction of cell traffic; (5) prediction of cell configuration; (6) prediction of network-wide configuration; and (7) generation and display of results. The invention has the advantages that: the invention realizes the accurate prediction of the development of wireless traffic service and multi-stage implementation of wireless network capacity expansion, shortens the construction period, and realizes the on-time on-demand network construction; the inventive method involves each cell and each carrier frequency, approximating the reality as possible, and loads increased call traffic under the premise of ensuring a certain quality, thereby improving the prediction accuracy and precision and increasing the equipment utilization rate.

A method for real time accrual basis accounting may involve detecting a purchase made via a computer network and obtaining a guarantee for the payment via the network based on the determined method of payment. The guarantee may be an escrow account or an insurance policy that guarantees payment. The premium may be charged back to the client. At least a portion of the proceeds of from the sale may be recorded as income in a general ledger database in real time. Network-enabled assets may provide automated depreciation updates to further automate the accounting process.

A traffic calming (broadly defined as methods and apparatus for the purpose of reducing or otherwise controlling vehicle speeds and improving safety appropriate to the state of the road), cautioning, early warning and emergency notification system using secure wireless transmitters, receivers and transceivers for localized point to point notification. Static, desktop, portable and vehicle mounted transmitters / transceivers are automatically or manually triggered to transmit cautioning, early warning or emergency alert messages within a specified range to desktop, portable or vehicular-mounted receivers / transceivers, notifying the user of the receiver / transceiver of an approaching traffic calming or cautioning situation (children crossing, train crossing, construction detour, accident scene, etc.) or emergency situation (approaching emergency responder vehicle, such as police, firefighters, ambulance, etc). The system utilizes secure, localized point-to-point wireless technology to overcome typical impediments to effective targeted traffic calming, cautioning, early warning and emergency notification at home, work and in a vehicle by allowing emergency responders and others responsible for cautioning, early warning and emergency notification, who have one or more transmitter / transceiver, to communicate directly and effectively with the immediately affected individual(s) within a specified range, who have at least one receiver / transceiver.

A common subscriber managing apparatus and method for use in an all Internet Protocol network integrating a circuit network for voice and a packet network for data. The apparatus comprises a portable user terminating unit satisfying media standards supported in the network, a wireless interfacing unit controlling wireless resources of the user terminating unit and wireless traffic, controlling handoff, realigning data from and to the packet network upon interface request of the user terminating unit, providing realigned data to the user terminating unit and transferring media to another user terminating unit, a call controlling unit controlling a call between the wireless interfacing unit and common subscriber managing unit, and common subscriber managing unit for providing Security Association setup function for voice processing and commonly managing mobility management, Quality of Service, authentication and authorization management, accounting management and service management functions for the user terminating unit through a common subscriber database.

The invention discloses a gesture identification-based multifunctional wireless traffic police gesture identification system. The gesture of a traffic police is hard to identify in severe weather and under special conditions. The system comprises a signal acquisition module with a triaxial acceleration sensor; the signal acquisition module worn on gloves of the traffic police transmits the acquired signals to a receiving module of a core processing module through a wireless module; the signals are sent to a microprocessor through a serial port; and the microprocessor filters the forward signals by a software algorithm, then identifies, processes and compares the filtered signals to acquire an identification result, and transmits the identification result to a driving module mounted on a bus through an IO port. The system is applied to highway intersections, accident handling scenes, traffic control sections, serious traffic jam sections and rod sections under severe weather conditions of rain, snow, fog and the like, and the road sections without signal lamps or with failed signal lamps.

In view of the foregoing, the present invention provides a unified software framework or architecture for distributed coordination of wireless devices and radios, referred to as Layer 2.5 Software MAC (or ‘SoftMAC’), which resides between the standard 802.11 MAC layer (Layer 2) and IP layer (Layer 3) to regulate and control the amount of traffic (both real-time and “best effort”) delivered to 802.11 MAC DCF interfaces. The software based design can be ported to different OS platforms and systems and is capable of handling new hardware interfaces and MAC mechanisms (e.g., 802.11e) with only a software upgrade. The invention thus provides a natural way to make end systems support coordination of different radios of device(s), achieving better performance. Advantages of the 2.5 layer software MAC in accordance with the invention include: (a) there are no hardware constraints; (b) heterogeneous wireless / radio support is provided at the 2.5 layer; and (c) an evolutionary and extensible solution with the ability to support future wireless MAC / PHY chip combinations.

The invention provides a traffic information detecting system, wherein a vehicle detector has similar principle with a magnetic resistance vehicle detector and has better performance than the magnetic resistance vehicle detector; by using giant magneto-impedance variation of a magnetic sensitive material-amorphous wire, the variation of a disturbance geomagnetic field during the passing of a vehicle is detected; a single chip 542 program of an intelligent processing interface board 54 (including an A / D (Analog to Digital) converter 541, a single chip 542 and an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) 543) has a dynamic threshold voltage used for filtering adverse effects of the ambient environment of an amorphous wire probe 532 on the amorphous wire probe 532. Through the vehicle detector and a wireless traffic flow dynamic parameter collecting, storage and receiving system, a traffic flow (including availability, speed, traffic flow, road occupancy, model and the like of the vehicle) can be detected in real time under the situation of wireless communication and can store data in an embedded memory and output the data to external equipment, so that a purpose of directing or improving the traffic is achieved by using a network. According to the invention, the amorphous wire probe 532 manufactured from the magnetic sensitive material has the advantages of low cost, small volume, high response speed, low power consumption and high sensitivity. By using a solar cell 3 to supply power, the usual problem of power consumption is solved; by using a super capacitor and a rechargeable battery 52, the problem of severe environments of rainy weathers as well as sandy and windy weathers is solved; by using a thumbtack structure, the contradict between the burying of the vehicle detector and the pavement protection is solved; and with no fear of rolling of the vehicle, the traffic information detecting system provided by the invention can be used for remote monitoring of traffic conditions, traffic management and traffic statistics and comprises road flow monitoring, vehicle speed monitoring, crossing traffic guidance and vehicle parking management.

A relay station to relay wireless traffic between a base station and mobile stations. The relay station receives incoming subframes of OFDM symbols and transmits outgoing subframes of OFDM symbols. The relay station comprises a timing offset controller configured to control the transmission of a first outgoing subframe with respect to reception of a first incoming subframe, such that the first outgoing subframe either leads or lags the reception of the first incoming subframe by a first time offset. The first time offset is equal to at least one OFDM symbol.