Nokia Corporation

Nokia Technologies Oy

Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.

Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a R.l.

Anna-Mari Vimpari

Esa Mikael Malkamäki

Jukka Nauha

Karri Markus Ranta-Aho

Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen

Benoist Sebire

Antti Anton Toskala

Esa Mikael Malkamaki

Matti Jokimies

Jussi Olavi Numminen

Markku Kuusela

Esa Malkamäki

Mads Hintz-Madsen

Sebire Benoist

Esa MALKAMÄKI

The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for defining a preamble length of a preamble (e.g., a power control preamble) for a discontinuous control channel transmission using, e.g., a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) for transmitting the preamble. The preamble length can be optimized using a predetermined criterion depending on a transmission gap length (which can be variable) in the discontinuous control signal (e.g., transmitted on the DPCCH) or in a discontinuous data signal, e.g., transmitted on an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH), and/or on a length of a transmission timing interval (TTI) of the discontinuous data. Furthermore, a power in the preamble can be changed in time using a further predetermined criterion.

Preamble length for discontinuous control channel transmission

A method, apparatus, system, network element, and software product are used to provide a traffic signal, such as a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) signal, via high speed packet access. The traffic signal is prepared and provided via a high speed transmission, and a control signal is gated to produce a discontinuous transmission. This reduces interference, and therefore increases traffic capacity.

Method, system, apparatus and software product for combination of uplink dedicated physical control channel gating and enhanced uplink dedicated channel to improve capacity

The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for coordinating gating of an uplink (UL) control channel, e.g., a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH), with UL reporting in regard to a downlink channel using, e.g., high speed uplink packet access (HSDPA) channel quality indicator (CQI) reporting.

Coordinating uplink control channel gating with channel quality indicator reporting

The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for dynamic gating of an uplink (UL) control channel, e.g., dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) for increasing capacity of communications, e.g., wireless communications, wherein said gating is defined, using a predetermined criterion, by instructions provided by a network and by a transmission gap in a discontinuous data signal, e.g., transmitted on an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH).

Dynamic uplink control channel gating to increase capacity

A method and corresponding equipment by which a wireless terminal communicatively coupled to a radio access network adapts to gating in respect to a downlink signal from a radio access network carrying power control commands (e.g. the F-DPCH of UTRAN with WCDMA), including gating by the radio access network of either just the power control commands or the channel itself, or gating of reception of the power control commands by the user equipment. The adaptation can include changing values of parameters used in determining when the wireless terminal declares a radio link failure, or instead only changing the procedures used to determine whether a parameter value has been achieved and thus only effectively changing the parameter values (or one or more of the parameters can be actually and effectively changed).

Enhanced UE out-of-sync behavior with gated uplink DPCCH or gated downlink F-DPCH or DPCCH transmission

A system and methods for slow medium access control entity (MAC-e) for autonomous transmission during High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), and for service specific transmission time control in HUSPA, wherein a control parameter that is independent from the air interface transmission time interval (TTI), hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes or enhanced dedicated transport channel (E-DCH) scheduling is used. This control defines the minimum time interval between subsequent new transmissions. The control has no impact on retransmissions, which are performed normally.

Slow MAC-e for autonomous transmission in high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) along with service specific transmission time control

The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for communications, e.g., wireless communications, for defining a power in a discontinuous control signal after a transmission gap for an uplink control channel, e.g., dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH), wherein the power in the discontinuous control signal after the transmission gap is determined, using a predetermined criterion, by control information (e.g., regarding an allowed power window) and by a length of a transmission gap for the uplink control channel or of a further transmission gap in an uplink discontinuous data signal.

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Anna-Mari Vimpari