King's College London

Uniloc Luxembourg S.a.

Uniloc Usa, Inc.

Fortress Credit Co LLC

Abdol Hamid Aghvami

Paul Anthony Pangalos

Fatin Said

Mischa Dohler

Andrej Mihailovic

George Kamel

Dev Pragad Audsin

Seyed Ali Ghorashi

Afzal Mahmood Lodhi

Nima Nafisi

Francesco Saverio Ostuni

Oliver Damian Holland

Don Dilshan Weerakoon

Jianjun Wu

In a wireless network environment comprising first and second packet-switched access networks, each access network using a tunnelling-type micro-mobility protocol and a Quality of Service (QoS) routing protocol to route packet data to and from mobile nodes attached thereto, and each access network comprising an access router to which a mobile node may attach, a mobility agent with which said mobile node may register and a gateway, a method of facilitating network layer handover of said mobile node from said first access network to said second access network, said mobile node registered in said first access network with a serving mobility agent, which method comprises the steps of: said mobile node receiving a router advertisement from said second access network, which router advertisement comprises a network-layer address of a target mobility agent in said second access network with which said mobile node may register; and said mobile node forwarding said network-layer address to said serving mobility agent, whereby said serving mobility agent may communicate with said target mobility agent to facilitate network-layer handover of said mobile node to said second access network.

Inter-access network handover

In a wireless network environment comprising a mobile router serving a moving network, said mobile router for attaching to a packet-switched access network that uses a micro-mobility protocol and a Quality of Service (QoS) protocol to route packet data to and from said mobile router, wherein said mobile router has a QoS aggregate requirement generated by nodes attached thereto, a method of handover of said mobile router to a mobility agent in said access network, which method comprises the steps of: (i) said mobile router sends a QoS request message to said mobility agent, which QoS request message comprises a QoS parameter representing said QoS aggregate; (ii) upon receipt by said mobility agent, said access network takes a QoS admission decision on the basis of said QoS parameter; and (iii) said mobility agent sends a QoS acknowledgement to said mobile router whereby said mobility agent informs said mobile router of the outcome of said QoS admission decision; characterized by the step of (iv) if said QoS admission decision is that said mobility agent cannot handle all of said QoS aggregate, said QoS acknowledgement comprises an identity of one or more alternative mobility agent that might meet at least a part of said QoS aggregate that will not be provided by said mobility agent.

Network mobility

For a mobile node visiting a packet-switched wireless access network, said access network using a tunnelling-type micro-mobility protocol and a Quality of Service (QoS) routing protocol to route packet data to and from said mobile node, and comprising an access router to which said mobile node may attach, a mobility agent and a gateway, a method of configuring said access network to route packet data toward said mobile node which method comprises the steps of: (a) receiving in said access network a handover indication of said mobile node or a login request therefrom; (b) in response to said handover indication or login request computing a QoS route for said mobile node, which QoS route is useable to route packets between said mobility agent and said mobile node; (c) performing step (b) at a location in said access network remote from said mobility agent; and (d) transmitting said QoS route and said handover indication or login request from said remote location toward said mobility agent; whereby upon receipt of data transmitted in step (d) said mobility agent may handle both mobility configuration and QoS route configuration for said mobile node as part of said network layer handover.

Systems and methods for improved mobility and quality of service in a wireless network

A method of transmitting data across an electronic data communication system comprising a plurality of terminals that can send and receive data in the form of electromagnetic waves to and from at least one of the terminals, which method comprises the steps of: (a) identifying at least one control terminal, at least one target terminal and at least two relaying terminals from the plurality of terminals; and (b) using the control terminal to instruct the at least two relaying terminals to receive and relay data intended for the at least one target terminal, so that the at least one target terminal can receive data directly from at least one terminal and from the at least two relaying terminals, thereby increasing capacity of the system.

Method and system for frequency relaying

A diversity transmitter for use in an OFDM transmission protocol which diversity transmitter comprises:

Cyclic delay diversity and space coded-hybrid diversity transmitter

A method of discovering multi-mode mobile terminals () in a heterogeneous network environment, each multi-mode mobile terminal () having at least one interface for sending packet data to and/or receiving packet data from a home radio communication network () and a foreign radio communication network (), said home radio communication network having a different access technology from said foreign radio communication network, each multi-mode mobile terminal () performing the steps of:

Method of discovering multi-mode mobile terminals

Virtual antenna array

In mobile communication and radio systems there is a pre-emptive bandwidth allocation by dynamic partitioning the total spectrum available to allow mobile user groups with high priority services to access greater amounts of bandwidth than mobile user groups with lower priority services when the network is overloaded.

Pre-emptive bandwidth allocation by dynamic positioning

In the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), an improvement in estimating the channel impulse response (CIR) is obtained by starting up two channel estimators using the midamble and obtaining channel estimations with split burst. The two estimations are then cross-correlated to obtain the estimated CIR.

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