Alcatel Lucent

Nokia Technologies Oy

Dongyao Wang

Gang Shen

Xiaobing Leng

Qi Jiang

Jun Wang

Jiyong Pang

Jimin Liu

Wu Zheng

Junrong Gu

Dawei Wang

Shan Jin

Wei Wang

Feng Han

Teck H Hu

Wei Zou

Jianguo Liu

Erwu Liu

Erwu2c/o Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell CoLtd Liu

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to resource scheduling between network nodes. In example embodiments, a method comprises allocating, at a first network node, a first set of resources from a first resource pool for backhaul communication with a second network node in a network via a first link, the first resource pool comprising uplink and downlink resources shared with a first terminal device served by the first network node; transmitting a first indication of the first set of resources to the second network node; and receiving a second indication of a second set of resources from a second resource pool for the backhaul communication with the second network node via a second link, the second resource pool comprising uplink and downlink resources shared with a second terminal device served by the second network node. In this way, it is possible to achieve flexible resource scheduling among the network nodes.

Resource scheduling between network nodes

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device and a computer-readable medium for guaranteeing communication service. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a source network device that currently serves the terminal device transmits, to a target network device which will serve the terminal device, information about the amount of resources of network slices utilized by the terminal device. The target network device configures the amount of resources based on the information. In this way, successful handover of the terminal device from the source network device to the target network device is guaranteed, so as to ensure continuity of communication services of the terminal device. In addition, embodiments of the present disclosure creates a network slice in the target network device, which avoids possible interruptions of communication service caused by mapping from the terminal device to the slices supported by the target network device.

Method, device and computer-readable medium for guaranteeing communication service

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, device and computer readable storage medium implemented at a relay device. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the relay device determines whether a terminal device served by a network slice has to be handed over. In a case of determining that the terminal device has to be handed over, the relay device sends a request for local information to at least one candidate relay device, and the local information includes at least one of information associated with a backhaul link from a candidate relay device to a network device and slice configuration information of the candidate relay device. Based on the received local information, the relay device determines a candidate relay device for handover of the terminal device. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the relay device determines the candidate relay device to which the terminal device has to be handed over, based at least on the information associated with a backhaul link and the information associated with a network slice, so as to satisfy network slice configuration requirement and ensure backhaul quality of the terminal device.

Communication method, device and computer readable storage medium for relay device

The present invention aims to provide method, apparatuses and systems for providing UE with biasing adjustment parameters about cell range expansion in a heterogeneous network. Herein, a current eNB determines, based on attribute information of one or more user equipments to be handed over, biasing adjustment parameters about cell range expansion of the one or more user equipments corresponding to their target eNB, and sends the biasing adjustment parameters to the one or more user equipments; the one or more user equipments adjust, based on the biasing adjustment biasing adjustment parameters, its report trigger condition of measurement report on measurement report on the current eNB and the target eNB, and report, the measurement report on the current eNB and the target eNB to the current eNB when the report trigger condition is satisfied; the current eNB makes a handover decision for corresponding user equipment(s) based on the measurement report. The present invention realizes a more flexible handover setting for the CRE load balancing and enhances the network efficiency and user QoS.

Method, apparatus, and system for biasing adjustment of cell range expansion

The present invention discloses a method of requesting resource from a resource allocating apparatus by a request requesting apparatus, a resource allocating apparatus, a resource requesting apparatus and a communication system. The method comprises the following steps: sending a resource request message from the resource requesting apparatus to the resource allocating apparatus; after receiving the resource request message, if resource cannot be allocated within a set time interval with respect to the resource requesting apparatus, sending an acknowledgement for the resource request message from the resource allocating apparatus to the resource requesting apparatus; and if the resource is allocated to the resource requesting apparatus within the set time interval, not sending the acknowledgement for the resource request message from the resource allocating apparatus to the resource requesting apparatus. Utilizing the method and structure of the present invention, the resource allocating apparatus sends additional acknowledgement message only if needed, therefore overhead is reduced much more. Moreover, since the solution of the present invention does not change any signaling exchanged between the resource allocating apparatus and the resource requesting apparatus, it is able to meet the requirement of backward compatibility.

Method, apparatus and communication system for requesting resource

The herein described device and method facilitate inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) in a relay-assistant cellular network by: determining, with respect to a sector, whether the sector is relay overloaded or neighboring sectors of the sector are relay overloaded according to load information of the neighboring sectors of the sector; enabling the sector to borrow relay resources released by the neighboring sectors of the sector if the sector is relay overloaded with respect to the neighboring sectors of the sector; and releasing relay resources allocated to the sector according to load information of the neighboring sectors of the sector if the neighboring sectors are relay overloaded with respect to the sector.

Device and method for inter-cell interference coordination in relay-assistant cellular network

The present application describes embodiments of methods and apparatuses for controlling communications within a first cell that is overlapped by a second cell. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a signal at the second cell indicating a number of devices selected to communicate with the first cell and identifying a set of subframes during which communications are permitted to take place within the first cell based on the number of devices selected to communicate with the first cell. This embodiment of the method also includes delivering an indication of the set of subframes to the first cell.

Method and apparatus for allocating almost blank subframes

A relay method and device, wherein the control signal and the data signal which are in the same subframe are directly sent to a lower level device respectively by an upper level device and a relay function device. In one example, the relay function device transmits data signal using subscriber special reference signal to make the lower level device estimate an access channel correctly; in another example, the relay function device carries out precoding of the data signal correlative with the access channel so as to cancel the influence of the access channel, thereby make the lower level device receive data signal correctly. Retransmission control signaling is sent to the lower level device in each subframe by the upper level device to ensure the fixed sequential relationship of feedback retransmission.

Methods and devices for wireless relays

Disclosed are a method for identifying a connection, mobile station and base station. The method comprises the steps of: assigning a MS ID to the mobile station when the mobile station enters into the coverage area of the base station; and assigning a connection ID to a connection when the connection is established between the base station and the mobile station. With the proposed solution, the data overhead could be reduced due to short Connection ID instead of 16-bit CID in 802.16e, especially for VoIP traffic. In addition, due to adjustable bit-length of Connection ID, the tuple &#x3c;MS ID, Connection ID&#x3e; could flexibly support different numbers of connections while keeping overhead in minimal.

Method for identifying connection, mobile station and base station

The present invention proposes new method(s) and apparatus(es) used for request and allocation of uplink transmission resource in wireless access network, which enables the mobile terminal to use non-contention resources closely spaced on time domain to trigger or adjust reallocation of uplink resource, so that quick response of the base station to the resource allocation request of a mobile terminal is effectively realized, and the demand of delay sensitive service is satisfied.

Method and apparatus for requesting and handling uplink resource allocation in wireless access network

A method and a device for data relay transmission in a wireless relay communication network are provided, in which, the relay station directly obtains corresponding egress CID related information based on input MAC PDUs, then generates output MAC PDUs including the egress CID related information, and at last, according to the egress CID related information, performs QoS scheduling for the output MAC PDUs, so as to output them in an sequence of QoS. The invention omits the steps of de-cascading, de-segmenting or de-capsulating the MAC PDUs in order to obtain MAC SDUs, and the steps of scheduling by category, cascading, segmenting, and encapsulating the MAC SDUs in order to re-generate the MAC PDUs in the prior art, and the invention simplifies the data processing procedure and achieves the goal of decreasing the relay latency.

Method and device for data relay transmission in wireless relay network

The invention relates to methods and devices for setting up connection for wireless relay network, wherein, mobile station utilizes the primary transmission path from itself and relay stations in the initial ranging and network entry procedure to send a request signal to base station. After the base station receives the request signal, it allocates a transmission path for the mobile station, and sends the information to the relay station on the path along the primary transmission path, and sends a response message to the mobile station. When the mobile station and the related relay stations obtain the corresponding response message and transmission path information, the signal sent by the mobile station is sent to the base station via relay stations along the transmission path.

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