Lucent Technologies Inc.

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Telcordia Licensing Company, LLC

Kirk K Chang

Krishna Balachandran

Sunil Samtani

John Sucec

Sanjiv Nanda

Kiran Meghashyam Rege

Wei Luo

Gi Tae Kim

John Unger

Daniel R Jeske

Richard P Ejzak

John Lee

Harshad Tanna

Yung-Terng Wang

On-Ching Yue

Enrique Hernandez-Valencia

Byron H Chen

Tung Ching Chiang

Abdulkadir Dinc

Victor A Abramsky

John Freidenfelds

Yogendra Champaklal Shah

Zhendong Cao

In a secure network where the network characteristics are not known, a call admission control algorithm and a preemption control algorithm based on a destination node informing the source node of the observed carried traffic are used to regulate the amount of traffic that needs to be preempted by the source. The amount of traffic that needs to be preempted is based on the carried traffic measured at the destination node. The traffic to be preempted is based on the priority of the traffic, where the lowest priority traffic is the first to be preempted until the amount of traffic preempted is sufficient to allow the remaining traffic to pass through the network without congestion.

Call admission control and preemption control over a secure tactical network

Without using additional probing packets, estimates of the narrow link bandwidth and available bandwidth of a network path are computed based on existing traffic. The network can be of different types such as a wireless battlefield network context or a wired or wireless commercial network environment. 'Fast packets', i.e. those packets which do not experience any queuing delay in the network, are identified. Fast packets are identified to resolve end-to-end packet delay into its constituent components (deterministic, transmission and queuing delays), estimate path utilization and eliminate the uncertainty (false alarms) that causes the prior art method to lose its effectiveness. An estimation algorithm computes end-to-end transmission delay and end-to-end deterministic delay of fast packets traveling along a path in a network. Examples of deterministic delay include satellite propagation delays and clock effects. Then, based on the results of the fast packet identifying algorithm, two logic branches are followed. A first branch calculates utilization and a second branch calculates narrow link bandwidth. The narrow link bandwidth is determined from the packet pair dispersion. The available bandwidth is obtained from the narrow link bandwidth and the utilization. Estimation of available bandwidth for an end-to-end network path allows traffic sources to judiciously regulate the volume of application traffic injected into the network.

Estimating available bandwidth and enhancing narrow link bandwidth estimations in telecommunications networks using existing user traffic

Methods and apparatuses for allocating control and data time slots to a plurality of wireless mobile stations in a wireless communication system using time division multiplexing. The methods and apparatuses assign such time slots by first placing the wireless mobile stations into a number of different groups. Then, control time slots and anchor data time slots are assigned to the groups in the uplink and downlink frames of a carrier such that the uplink control time slot for each group is maximally spaced in time relative to the downlink control time slot for the same group. Data time slots are subsequently assigned to a particular mobile station by assigning time slots in the uplink and downlink frames which are as close as possible to the group's uplink or downlink anchor data time slots, as the case may be, according to a 'grow from center' technique.

Methods and apparatuses for allocating time slots to half duplex wireless mobile stations

In a mobile station-mobile receiver arrangement a method and apparatus for a radio link control (RLC) protocol that allows partial recovery of data for streaming services. The maximum number of retransmissions allowed by the method for each RLC block is a function of the maximum delivery delay required by the streaming service and the round trip delay.

Radio link control with limited retransmissions for streaming services

Uplinked and downlinked transmissions in an interference-limited system, such as a cellular network, are prioritized and authorized by channel quality/data rate to minimize interference.

Methods and devices for scheduling transmissions in interference-limited networks

The location of a mobile wireless communication unit in the service area of a CDMA communications system is predicted utilizing two likelihood functions that define maximum likelihood estimators of the mobile unit's location, based on attribute measurements, such as but not limited to pilot signal strength, being made at the location of the mobile unit and reported back to a base station. One of the likelihood functions comprises a frequentist likelihood function and the other comprises a Bayesian-modified likelihood function. The likelihood functions are based on the assumption that there is an RF model which provides the probability a mobile unit is able to detect one or more attributes associated with an arbitrary base station, given it is located at an arbitrary location within the service area. Each of the likelihoods are also incorporated into a sequential Bayesian procedure which outputs a posterior distribution indicative of the location of the mobile unit.

Likelihood-based geolocation prediction algorithms for CDMA systems using pilot strength measurements

A time division multiplexed communications method and system in which time is divided into a number of frames and each frame is divided into N data bursts. The method and system further has a first multiplexer by which a half rate channel is formed as a series of bursts that occur periodically every N bursts once per frame, a second multiplexer in which a full rate channel is formed as two half rate channels on consecutive timeslots, and a transmitter transmitting the full rate channel from a first wireless station to a second wireless station. The full rate channel provided by two half rate channels on consecutive timeslots yields a significantly larger resource pool available for assignment of communication traffic. For full rate channels, the interleaving 0246/1357 method that is used by the system is just as good as the known 0123/4567 method when ideal frequency hopping is used, and the 0246/1357 method performs better when non-ideal frequency hopping or no frequency hopping is used.

Method and system for interleaving of full rate channels suitable for half duplex operation and statistical multiplexing

A Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (&ldquo;UMTS&rdquo;) is modified to provide location-determining services similar to Wireless-Assisted-GPS (&ldquo;WAG&rdquo;) services to mobiles without requiring the deployment of a GPS receiver inside the UMTS network. The resulting network is known as a UMTS Network Assisted GPS (&ldquo;UNAG&rdquo;) network. A UNAG network is created by deploying a UNAG server inside a UMTS network. The UNAG server provides WAG-like services to mobiles. Only one UNAG server is needed in an entire system, allowing the cost of the UNAG server to be amortized over a number of Mobile Switching Centers (&ldquo;MSCs&rdquo;) in the UMTS network. The UNAG server provides excellent location-prediction accuracy and reduces the amount of time required to determine the location of a mobile in a UMTS network.

Methods and systems for determining the location of mobiles in a UMTS telecommunications system

Unlike earlier methods and systems in which Radio Link Control (RLC) performance was characterized in terms of the throughput, and the size of the higher layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) or packets to be transferred was ignored, a method and apparatus is provided that is based on the delay of a higher layer PDU or packet. A method and apparatus so based have less delay than a method and apparatus based on employing adaptive coding and modulation to achieve the greatest mean throughput of a data block.

Method and apparatus for packet size dependent link adaptation for wireless packet

The location of a mobile unit in the service area of a CDMA cellular telephone system is predicted from a spatial probability distribution that is generated over a region of sub-cells within the service area. The spatial distribution, and hence the predicted location, is updated sequentially based on RF measurements provided by the mobile unit through the use of a Bayesian-update method.

Bayesian-update based location prediction method for CDMA systems

Demodulator assignment logic is provided that confirms the presence and quality of a multipath before assigning a parallel demodulator to that multipath. Multipath presence and quality are confirmed when at least two power measurements of a multipath at least equal a selectable power threshold. Before permitting demodulated data from an assigned demodulator to be processed, demodulator assignment logic further reconfirms the presence and quality of a multipath via another more reliable power measurement that at least equals another selectable power threshold.

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