Motorola Corporation

Airvana, Inc.

Codex Corporation

Airvana Network Solutions, Inc.

Ericsson Evdo Inc.

Solid Technologies Inc.

M Vedat Eyuboglu

Dae-Young Kim

Pierre A Humblet

Sae-Young Chung

Jian Yang

Gopal Harikumar

Fuyun Ling

Arthur J Barabell

Manickam R Sridhar

Sanjay Cherian

Mei Yong

Qin-Fan Zhu

Guozhu Long

Phillip D Rasky

David E Borth

Seung Hee Lee

Yong Hoon Kang

George D Forney, Jr

Dennis Ng

Michael Pollman

Firas Abi-Nassif

Michael P Chen

Ping Dong

Jin Hwa Ku

Oin-Fan Zhu

In connection with a mobile wireless subnetwork having multiple radio network controllers and multiple radio nodes, a session established for an access terminal is associated with a serving radio network controller. The association is maintained as the access terminal moves from the coverage area of one radio node to the coverage area of another radio node within the same subnetwork. Access channel packets are routed from an access terminal having an existing session to the serving radio network controller by determining the IP address of the serving radio network controller using a session identifier.

Radio network control

In a cell of a cellular wireless communication system, the SIR of at least one user in a sector of the cell is altered by temporarily reducing transmissions on a forward link in at least one other sector of the cell or a sector in another cell in accordance with a pattern.

Boosting a signal-to-interference ratio of a mobile station

In a cell of a cellular wireless communication system, the SIR of at least one user in a sector of the cell is increased by temporarily reducing transmissions on a forward link in at least one other sector of the cell or a sector in another cell in accordance with a pattern.

Data packets are received at a communications node. Each of the received data packets is associated with one of a set of different service classes. Packets corresponding to the received data packets are transmitted to recipients. The order in which the data packets are transmitted is controlled based on the transmission rate and the service class of the packets.

Communication of digital data over a wireless transmission medium

Techniques for transmitting encoded data packets to one or more mobile stations in a communication system including a cell that has sectors serving at least partially different geographic areas. The techniques include transmitting in a first sector an encoded data packet in one or more time slots to a mobile station; reducing transmission power in a second sector during one or more of the time slots in which the first sector transmits the data packet to the mobile station; decoding at the mobile station the encoded data packet after each time slot; transmitting by the mobile station a signal indicating acknowledgment of the packet reception when the decoding of the packet is successful; and in response to receiving the acknowledgement signal, ceasing transmission of the data packet in the first sector in subsequent time slots.

Capacity enhancement schemes are described for forward and reverse links of distributed cellular base stations consisting of a central unit and one or more remote units. In general, in one aspect, reverse link capacity is shared among remote units. The capacity sharing can be determined dynamically. The forward link capacity can also be enhanced by estimating the location of the mobile stations.

Capacity enhancement schemes for forward and reverse links of distributed cellular base stations

In a radio access network, multicast packets are delivered each identified by a multicast network layer address representing a multicast group of access terminals. The multicast packets are delivered in one or more air link frames using a common control channel that is shared among access terminals in a sector. Each airlink frame carries a multicast air link address that identifies the multicast group of terminals.

Broadcasting and multicasting in wireless communication

Data is sent in some time slots of a forward link from a base station to at least one remote station in a wireless communication system, and voice information is sent from the base station to the at least one remote station in some other time slots of the forward link, the data being sent in a time division multiple access (TDMA) mode, the voice data being sent in a code division multiple access (CDMA) mode.

Multi-user communication of voice and data

A device and method for preceding data signals for pulse code modulation (PCM) transmission includes a transmitter for transmitting a sequence of analog levels over an analog channel to a quantization device, wherein the analog channel modifies the transmitted analog levels, the transmitter comprising: a mapping device for mapping data bits to be transmitted to a sequence of equivalence classes, wherein each equivalence class contains one or more constellation points; and a constellation point selector interconnected to the mapping device which selects a constellation point in each equivalence class to represent the data bits to be transmitted and which transmits an analog level that produces the selected constellation point at an input to the quantization device.

Device and method for precoding data signals for PCM transmission

A device and method for precoding a sequence of analog levels transmitted over an analog channel to a quantization device, wherein the analog channel modifies the transmitted analog levels, including: a mapping device for mapping data bits to be transmitted to a sequence of equivalence classes, wherein each equivalence class contains one or more constellation points; a constellation point selector interconnected to the mapping device which selects a constellation point in each equivalence class to represent the data bits to be transmitted and which transmits a level that produces the selected constellation point at an input to the quantization device; and a filter device, operably coupled to the constellation point selector, which receives at its input previously transmitted levels and provides its output to the constellation point selector; wherein the filter device has a filter response which is based on the previously transmitted levels and a target response, and the target response is adapted using an analog channel error signal, the selected constellation point at an input to the quantization device.

The present invention provides a device (200, 300), system (400, 500) and method for real-time streaming of a multimedia file stored in a remote server over a packet network to a multimedia client connected to the same network via a low-speed access link such as an analog telephone line. The invention operates to provide significantly improved QoS with respect to both quality and delay.

Device, system and method for real-time multimedia streaming

A system and device for, and method of, detecting, characterizing, and mitigating deterministic distortion in a communication system. An exemplary communication system includes a digital adaptor for sending octets on to a backbone of a PSTN, which then sends, and potentially distorts the octets, received by a line interface. The line interface converts the octets to baseband signals received by an analog adaptor. Several mechanisms and methods are described in which the analog and digital adaptor cooperate to detect the presence of distortion, in particular, robbed bit signaling, on the communication system. The characterization may then be used to mitigate the effects of the distortion. Several receive constellations are provided, each constructed in view of the transmit constellation and in view of the manner in which the deterministic distortion will distort signals transmitted over the system. The receive constellations differ from the transmit constellation. The analog adaptor uses an appropriate receive constellation based on the type of distortion expected at a given interval. The digital adaptor may similarly include several constellation in view of the same considerations.

System and device for, and method of, detecting, characterizing, and

A transmitter for transmitting a sequence of octets over a digital network which digital network converts the octets into a sequence of levels for transmission over an analog channel to a receiver, the levels producing an analog signal having a predefined spectral shape, the transmitter including: a mapping device which receives at its input groups of data bits to be transmitted and outputs for each group an equivalence class of one or more levels, wherein at least one equivalence class contains more than one level; a level selector, operably coupled to the mapping device, for selecting the level in the equivalence class to represent the group of data bits to be transmitted; a filter device, operably coupled to the level selector and having a filter response corresponding to the predefined spectral shape, which receives at its input previously selected levels and provides its output to the level selector, wherein the level selector selects the level to be transmitted based on the output of the filter device; and an octet converter, operably coupled to the level selector, which receives the selected level at its input and transmits over the digital network an octet corresponding to the selected level to produce the analog signal having the predefined spectral shape when the transmitted octets are converted to levels in the digital network.

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M Vedat Eyuboglu