Nec Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Nec Commuication Systems Ltd.

Osamu Kurokawa

Yasuhiro Watanabe

Hiroaki Akiyama

Takayuki Kido

Kazuki Eguchi

Takuo Akimoto

Naoki Yoshida

Kazuyuki Matsumura

Kaoru Arai

Hiroki Sakuma

Shunichi Tsuboi

Ryuta Sugiyama

Shunsuke Yokouchi

Takaaki Hisashima

Ken Nakamura

Akira Ishikura

Yasuyuki Ueda

Yusuke Miyagawa

Yuki Nakanishi

Yoshihiro Nomura

Masakuni Hyodo

Toru Shiiba

Tomiharu Hamaguchi

Buntaro Sawa

Takuya Kanazumi

Takeshi B Nishimura

Hiroki Yoshida

Kiyoshi Wagai

Koki Hayashi

Yoshio Wada

Junichi Igarashi

Tsutomu Inaba

Masaaki Furusawa

Yasuhiro Tsukui

Masatomo Kanbara

Yuichiro Kameoka

Yoshimasa Takahashi

Naoki Kaji

Tomiharu Hamguchi

Daisuke Nakamura

Yasuo Kanazawa

Akatsuki Minami

A management apparatus in a time synchronization system includes a time variation information receiving unit configured to acquire time variation information and position information of a time synchronization apparatus, a position information classifying unit configured to classify time synchronization apparatuses into predetermined categories based on the acquired position information, a time variation analysis configured to determine majority based on whether patterns of time variation of the time synchronization apparatuses belonging to an identical category are identical to each other, and to analyze the time variation based on the determined results, and a filtering and delivery unit configured to output an instruction to block the time information received from the positioning satellite, to the time synchronization apparatus having abnormal time variation. A GPS-FW includes a filtering determination unit configured to blocks the time information received from a GPS satellite in a case where a block instruction is received from the management apparatus.

Time synchronization system, management device, time synchronization method, and program

[Problem] To monitor a frequency difference between an input clock and a synchronous clock synchronized with the input clock. [Solution] A clock frequency monitoring apparatus that monitors the frequency of an input clockincludes a phase comparatorthat compares a phase of a synchronous clockphase-synchronized with the input clockor a first frequency-divided clockobtained by frequency-dividing the synchronous clockwith the phase of the input clock, a filterthat low-pass filters an output signal of the phase comparator, an oscillatorthat generates the synchronous clockhaving a frequency corresponding to a control value from the filter, and a determinerthat determines that the frequency of the input clockis abnormal when the variation amplitude of the output signal of the filteris equal to or more than a predetermined range.

Clock frequency monitoring device and clock frequency monitoring method

[Problem] To select an optimal transmission path having a minimum total MTIE value of total MTIE values between a plurality of master apparatuses configured to transmit time information serving as a reference and a specific relay apparatus configured to receive the time information via a plurality of relay apparatuses to achieve time synchronization. [Solution] A time path selection apparatusselects a transmission path employed for time synchronization, on the basis of a MTIE value evaluated in each of relay apparatusesto, between master apparatusesandconfigured to transmit time information serving as a reference and a relay apparatusorat an edge configured to receive the time information via a relay apparatusorto achieve the time synchronization. The time path selection apparatusincludes a time information reception unitconfigured to receive the MTIE value evaluated in each of the relay apparatusesto, and an optimal path derivation unitconfigured to evaluate, on the basis of the received MTIE value, a total MTIE value for every transmission path in transmission paths between the relay apparatusand the master apparatusesandand to select and derive, as the transmission path employed for the transmission path for time synchronization, a transmission path where the total MTIE value is a minimum (170 ns).

Time path selection device and time path selection method

[Problem] It is possible to improve the quality of time information by suppressing a jump in time which arises when switching a transfer path in a BC apparatus to which transfer paths of time information of at least 2 systems are connected to an input side. [Solution] A time synchronization apparatusis mounted on a BC apparatusin which two systems of at least a 0-system route (0-system) and a 1-system route (1-system) are connected to an input side, and includes a time correction value holding unitconfigured to hold a 0-system correction value in which a time error resulting from delay of UTC due to performance inherent to the BC apparatus is the same value as a time error accumulated on the 0-system side and a 1-system correction value in which the time error is the same value as a time error accumulated on the 1-system side. Further, a failure restoration detection unitconfigured to detect a failure in the 0-system or the 1-system, a time calculation unitconfigured to perform correction by subtracting a 1-system correction value relating to a normal 1-system from UTC having time error accumulated on the normal 1-system side, when a failure in the 0-system is detected, and a path switching unitconfigured to switch to the normal 1-system side such that the UTC after correction is transferred, when the failure is detected, are included.

Time synchronization device and time synchronization method

[Problem] To synchronize timings of transmitting and receiving a pulse signal (1 PPS signal) at a constant interval between communication apparatuses even in a case where an optical fiber connecting the communication apparatuses fluctuates in an optical characteristic and an optical fiber length. [Solution] The time synchronization systemtransmits and receives a pulse signal at a constant interval between a local apparatus L (apparatus L) and a remote apparatus R (apparatus R) connected through the two-core bidirectional optical fibers Fand Fto synchronize time. A propagation delay amount &#x3c4;in the fiber Fis calculated, from a proportional relationship between Tand Tand a proportional relationship of &#x3c4;ud and &#x3c4;, where Trepresents a propagation delay time difference between a pulse signals Pand Pof an identical wavelength &#x3bb;returned after transmitting a pulse signal Pof wavelength &#x3bb;and a pulse signal Pof wavelength &#x3bb;different from &#x3bb;to the remote apparatus R, Trepresents a propagation delay time difference between the pulse signal Pof wavelength &#x3bb;and a pulse signal Pof wavelength &#x3bb;, and &#x3c4;ud represents the round-trip delay time between the apparatuses L and R. The pulse signals Pand Pare transmitted with a time difference td corresponding to a difference between the current and last calculated propagation delay amounts &#x3c4;being set so that the difference is zero.

Time synchronization system and time synchronization method

A local device of a time synchronization system includes a path switching unit that connects respective remote devices using individual optical fibers and switches the respective optical fibers sequentially in a cyclic order, a counter unit, a phase difference memory unit, and a table unit. The counter unit counts a pulse signal Pdemodulated by a PPS demodulation unit to obtain a count value. The phase difference memory unit stores the count value as path information in association with a phase difference detected by a phase detection unit, and outputs the phase difference associated with this path information indicated by the count value to the variable delay unit. When the count value is input, the table unit outputs a path switching signal for switching to the next optical fiber in the cyclic order to the path switching unit and the path switching unit performs switching to the next optical fiber.

When a representative PS server receives a P-TMSI contained in a PDP context succession request signal from a UE according to a handover communication procedure prescribed in an applicable standard after the UE moves, if the PS server identified with the identification information contained in the received P-TMSI is not its own representative PS server, the representative PS server identifies the PS server identified with the identification information as a PS server that manages a femtocell base station to which the UE belonged before it moved and forwards the PDP context succession request signal to the identified PS server.

Communication system

When a femto cell base station used for a communication system provided with a function of providing a predetermined supplementary service receives first information indicating supplementary service control from a radio terminal, the femto cell base station converts the received information to a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) message including the first information and transmits the SIP message to a higher apparatus in the communication system.

Communication system and apparatus for providing supplementary service in femto cell

When a representative service control device receives a PDP context succession request signal according to a handover communication procedure prescribed in an applicable standard, the representative service control device transmits a P-TMSI contained in the PDP context succession request signal as an address request to a database device. When the representative service control device receives address information of a service control device from the database device, the representative service control device forwards the PDP context succession request signal received from the request transmission means to the received address.

In order to enable a communication system introduced with a femtocell base station using an IMS network, to perform PS service similar to that of the existing 3G network, a service control apparatus (SGSN functional unit), based on the UE's message transmitted to the femtocell base station (FAP), acquires UE's subscriber information for PS (Packet Switching) service, from a HLR and registers the subscriber information in a VLR that is present on the IMS network. Then, service control apparatus performs PS service based on the subscriber information registered in the VLR.

Service control apparatus, relay apparatus, femtocell base station, communication system, control method and program

A communication system of the present invention is a communication system connected to a public communication network including emergency organization communication apparatus (), the communication system includes femto base station () wirelessly connected to wireless terminal (), wherein femto base station () includes a first communication controller that attaches first location information, which is information for identifying a location of femto base station () or for identifying a location of an assembly of a plurality of base stations including femto base station (), to a SIP message in order to notify the first location information to emergency organization communication apparatus () when there is a call from wireless terminal (), and transmits the SIP message to another apparatus.

Communication system, femto base station, call session control server, home subscriber server, communication method, and program

A femto cell base station includes a generating part that generates a SIP message including a terminal ID of a radio terminal and a check request for the terminal ID at a predetermined time, and a first transmitting part that transmits the SIP message generated by the generating part to a higher level apparatus in the communication system.

Communication system for checking for unauthorized use of a terminal

A femtocell base station (FAP) converts, when information concerning a SMS is received from UE (User Equipment), the received information concerning the SMS into a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) message including the received information concerning the SMS and transmits the converted SIP message to the core network side. The femtocell base station converts, when a SIP message including information concerning the SMS is received from the core network side, the information concerning the SMS included in the received SIP message into a message that can be recognized by the UE and transmits the converted information concerning the SMS to the UE.

Femtocell base station, gateway system, MAP-GW apparatus, communication system, control method, and program

A communication system for solving a problem, in which secure communications security cannot be ensured in communications between a femtocell base station and UE, is provided. The communication system includes UE (User Equipment) and an HLR (Home Location Register) used in an IMS (IP Multimedia subsystem) network and a femtocell base station (Femto AP) that constructs a predetermined communication area. The femtocell base station exists between the UE and the HLR, acquires a concealment key corresponding to the UE from the HLR during authentication of the UE, and executes a concealment process to conceal the identity of the UE based on the concealment key.

Communication system, femtocell base station, authentication apparatus, communication method, and recording medium

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Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Kurokawa