France Telecom

Orange

Thomas Derham

Patrice Coupe

Jason Eacott

A method for scheduling pairs in a plurality of pairs of devices for pair communication in a telecommunication network, each pair of devices including a transmitter and a receiver. The method includes: allocating a different time interval to each of the transmitters for emitting training signals, the training signals allowing determining channel estimates; obtaining channel information from at least one receiver having received training signals emitted by at least one of the transmitters, the channel information being determined by the receiver by analysis of the received training signal, the channel information including a channel estimate of a channel between the receiver and the transmitter that emitted the received training signal; and scheduling for pair communication, in the same time interval, the pairs for which a quality indicator verifies a predefined criterion, the quality indicator being determined using channel estimates obtained from receivers of the pairs in the set.

Device scheduling method and system

A method and apparatus are provided for detecting an object to be detected. The object is associated with a profile, wherein the profile characterizes the reflection of a signal on the object. The method includes, for a device in a telecommunication network, the acts of selecting a first profile corresponding to a first object to be detected; requesting, based on the first profile, a resource allocation to the communication network; receiving the resource allocation from the communication network; transmitting a signal in the direction of a second object using the allocated resource; receiving a reflected signal, corresponding to the reflection of the transmitted signal on the second object; computing a second profile using the received reflected signal; and indicating the detection of the first object to be detected when the second profile matches the first profile.

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Tokyo, Japan

Thomas Derham