Lucent Technologies Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel-lucent USA Inc.

Pengfei Zhu

Liwa Wang

Ming Lu

Ashok N Rudrapatna

Robert Caiming Qiu

Yang Yang

Teck H Hu

Nandu Gopalakrishnan

Frances Lin Jiang

Tomas S Yang

Ming-Hsu Tu

Lawrence J Merboth

A method and system for selecting traffic processors for processing and transmitting broadcast/multicast service flow in a cellular network includes evaluating processor occupancy of a plurality of traffic processors and selecting the traffic processors with the highest available processor occupancy. The cellular network has one or more base stations that are connected to a radio network controller, the radio network controller having a plurality of traffic processors to process the radio signals and data traffic to be transmitted to the base stations. A required processor occupancy for transmitting the broadcast/multicast service flow to the base stations is estimated and the traffic processors are selected such that their combined available processor occupancy is greater than the required processor occupancy for the broadcast/multicast service flow. The method and system optimizes resource utilization and distribution among the plurality of traffic processors.

Method and system of traffic processor selection for broadcast/multicast service in a wireless network

In a method for processor overload control in a wireless or other network, a processor occupancy level ('PO') of a network processing unit is monitored and compared to a target PO. If the measured PO exceeds the target PO, one or more network load sources are controlled to reduce the data load of the processing unit, until the measured PO falls below a designated PO. 'Load source' refers to a source of extant and/or potential data traffic through the processing unit, and/or a network control factor relating thereto, the control of which results in a reduction (or prevents an increase) in the data traffic handled by the processor. Examples include existing data flows, new calls, and BE flow window size. The load sources are controlled according to differentiated QOS levels, wherein non delay-critical data flows (e.g., BE flows) are reduced before delay-critical data flows, e.g., EF or AF flows.

Method and system of overload control in packetized communication networks

In a method to support geo-location emergency services in a wireless network, a request message is transmitted from a source base station of one vendor to a target base station of another vendor. For example, the request message might be sent subsequent to a wireless unit initiating an emergency services communication, where it is desired to determine the location of the wireless unit by radiolocation, or otherwise at the network level. Upon receiving the request message, the target base station transmits a report message to the source base station, which includes a one-way transmission delay (or other propagation delay information) of the wireless unit as measured at the target base station. Communication protocols in the network are configured so that there are no automatic transmissions of propagation delay information. Instead, base stations transmit propagation delay information only upon the receipt of request messages requesting the information.

Signaling method to support geo-location emergency services

A power sharing process for base station to allocate un-utilized power from a 1x system to an EVDV system is shown. In this process, a power sharing module receives input signals that relate to predicted power allocation for the 1x system and current power allocations for the 1x system and the EVDV system. From these input signals, the power sharing module may determine whether non-utilized power from the 1x system may be allocated to the EVDV system. The power sharing module may provide an indication corresponding to the determination to a scheduler that may allocate the non-utilized power for different forward channels. This technique allows the non-utilized power to be used by the EVDV system to operate the cellular communication system.

Power sharing process in cellular network architecture

There is provided a system and method for compressing voice-over-IP headers. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising receiving a voice-over-IP packet including at least one packet header that contains a set of one or more packet header field values, selecting a content identifier that corresponds to the one or more packet header field values of the received packet, replacing at least one of the packet-header field values in the received packet with the selected content identifier, thereby to create a compressed voice-over-IP packet, and transmitting the compressed voice-over-IP packet across a network connection.

System and method for compressing voice over IP headers

In a method and system for controlling base station processing unit overload and buffer overflow in a unified manner, one or more processing units of the base station are monitored to determine if the processing unit(s) has entered an overload condition. If so, on a per flow basis, the system generates an advertise window for controlling the amount of data in the data flow, as transmitted to the processing unit from an upstream entity. The advertise window is generated taking into consideration both processor overload and buffer overflow factors. By incorporating these factors, the advertise windows collectively serve to limit both processor overload and buffer overflow, on a system wide basis.

Method and system for unified overload and overflow control to support VoIP and multiple QOS flow traffic in communication network

A method and apparatus are provided for dynamically controlling a high speed wireless communication system to optimize utilization of system resources and increase system throughput. The invention operates to determine an allocation of wireless transmission resources to each user application served by the wireless system in a manner to optimize transmission resources while meeting required QoS criteria for the served user application. After all user applications have been provided a transmission resource allocation in this manner, the total transmission resources so allocated are determined and compared with a ceiling transmission resource level for the wireless system. A portion of the difference between the ceiling and currently allocated transmission resource levels is then made available, according to the invention, to the served user applications in proportion to the initial allocation provided each user application. An admission control methodology is also provided which is implemented in a cooperative relationship with the further resource allocation process of the invention.

Method and apparatus for admission management in wireless communication systems

A method and an apparatus for a channel estimator comprising a plurality of distinct filters each of which has a set of different coefficients and each of which is selectively coupled to the input and output of the channel estimator. The channel estimator further comprises a switching circuit that receives an error signal and switches to one of the plurality of filters based on the value of the error signal relative to an established threshold. The error signal is from a decoder coupled to a communication channel whose response is being estimated by the apparatus and method of the present invention.

Apparatus and method for channel estimation used for link adaption with error feedback

A method and apparatus are provided for dynamically controlling a high speed wireless communication system capable of transmitting a message via a communication channel, to minimize the transmission power necessary for a single job and thereby increase system capacity. The communication channel is characterized by performance characteristics curves and physical channel characteristics curves. Channel conditions are sampled to model the performance characteristic curvers. Upon determining a minimum throughput to meet a Quality of Service requirement for user application, a first set of data pairs that correspond to the minimum throughput are determined from the performance characteristics curves. That first set of data pairs is in mapped to the physical channel characteristic curver and the data pair corresponding to minimum transmission power is then selected.

Method and apparatus for multi-layer resource management in wireless communications systems

A method for adjusting the power of a probe signal to be transmitted by user equipment to system equipment of a wireless communication system. The power of the probe signal is adjusted based on information received by the user equipment from the system equipment. The information is a local mean of RSSI at the system equipment. The adjusted probe signal is transmitted and thus has an increased likelihood of being detected by the system equipment. Also, the power available for transmitting the probe signal is used more efficiently when the probe signal is adjusted in accordance with the local mean information received by the user equipment from system equipment of the wireless communication system.

Method of improving user access performance by adjusting power of user probe signal

A method and apparatus are provided for dynamically controlling a high speed wireless communication system to optimize utilization of system resources and thereby increase system throughput. The invention operates to determine an allocation of wireless transmission resources to each user application served by the wireless system in a manner to optimize transmission resources while meeting required QoS criteria for the served user application. After all user applications have been provided a transmission resource allocation in this manner, the total transmission resources so allocated are determined and compared with a ceiling transmission resource level for the wireless system. A portion of the difference between the ceiling and currently allocated transmission resource levels is then made available, according to the invention, to the served user applications in proportion to the initial allocation provided each user application.

Method and apparatus for multi-user resource management in wireless communication systems

A method and apparatus for adaptively adjusting the power of a probe signal to be transmitted by user equipment based on a characteristic of received signals and system constants so as to increase the likelihood that the probe signal will be detected by system equipment of a communication system. The Doppler shift of a received pilot signal is derived and an adjustment parameter is calculated based on the Doppler shift, time interval between successive probe transmissions, and system constants. The adjustment parameter is applied to the probe signal to be transmitted to compensate for the effects of fading to be experienced by the probe signal to be transmitted.

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