Nokia Corporation

Other

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Jussi Tapani Kahtava

Kodo Shu

Gabor Bajko

Pekka Ojanen

Frank Frederiksen

Mika P Rinne

Preben Elgaard Mogensen

Ilkka Niva

Oguz Sunay

Tsuyoshi Kashima

An apparatus configured to determine one or more channels available for use by respective one or more white-space devices in a particular determined geographical location. The apparatus is configured to: receive geographic location signalling associated with the particular determined geographical location of one or more white-space devices; receive uncertainty indication signalling for the uncertainty associated with the particular determined geographic location of the one or more white-space devices; and determine the one or more channels available for use by the respective one or more white-space devices in the particular determined geographical location by using the geographic location signalling and uncertainty indication signalling.

Channel availability for white-space devices, associated apparatus and methods

There is disclosed a method, apparatus and a computer code to maintain databases. In the method a first database containing information of a usage of a frequency spectrum is maintained for a first geographical area by the apparatus. Information is received from a second database apparatus on a second geographical area. The first database apparatus determines whether said first geographical area and said second geographical area are at least partly overlapping. A linkage table is maintained to provide an indication on the result of the determination, wherein said indication is indicative of whether said first geographical area and said second geographical area are at least partly overlapping.

Method and an apparatus for maintaining a database containing information on frequency spectrum usage

A white space entity reserves spectrum in white space from a reservation system. Consequently, the white space entity may utilize television bands that are unused at a specified time period and geo-location in order to support different services such as wireless audio transmission, networking, video surveillance, and video conferencing. The white space entity requests reservation of spectrum resources from the reservation system by sending a reservation request. The request includes request parameters that may include geo-location, model number or manufacture code number, priority of entity, reservation time period, and maximum power level. The reservation system consequently verifies the request from the priority of the white space entity and the availability of white space spectrum for the desired time period. The white space entity then extracts confirmation parameters from a reservation confirmation message and subsequently transmits on white spectrum in accordance with the parameters.

Reservation of spectrum resources in white spaces

The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for varying a length of a radio link ID (RLID) of a user equipment for resource allocation in mobile communication systems. This allows the system to employ shorter RLID lengths than is necessary if all user equipments (UEs) in the active mode are uniquely identified simultaneously, thus providing considerable savings in the signaling resource on the physical layer.

Variable length radio link ID for resource allocation in mobile communication systems

In one exemplary aspect thereof the invention provides a method that operates to receive information through at least one input of a protocol layer packet segmentation unit and to dynamically vary packet segment size in accordance with the received information prior to transmission to a receiver. The information received through the at least one input may include information related to channel quality for a channel through which packet data are transmitted to the receiver. The information received through the at least one input may also be or may include information received from at least one of a higher protocol layer or a lower protocol layer.

Method, apparatus and computer program to dynamically adjust segmentation at a protocol layer, such as at the medium access control (MAC) layer

A wireless telecommunications system that includes at least one base station, at least one mobile station, and a data distribution system in the base station for non-uniformly distributing data amongst a plurality of subchannels that are overlaid upon underlying channels before transmission of the plurality of subchannels to the mobile station. The data distribution system non-uniformly distributes the data in accordance with a total load that is already present in each of the subchannels due to the presence of the underlying channels.

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Jussi Tapani Kahtava