APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USE IN IDENTIFYING PRESENCE OF WIRELESS TERMINALS IN MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:CA2366253C

    公开(公告)日:2005-10-18

    申请号:CA2366253

    申请日:2001-12-27

    Abstract: An unique arrangement including a so-called timing control order and timing control signals is employed to identify whether wireless terminals ar e reachable within a base station cell coverage area in a wireless communications system. To this end, detection of a particular wireless terminal being alive and well, and within the cell coverage area associated with a base station is effected by the base station transmitting a timing control order in a timing control time slot reserved for the particular wireless terminal. If the particular wireless terminal receives the timing control order, it transmits a prescribed timing control message at a prescribed time. If the base station does not receive the timing contro l message, it is an indication that communication with the particular wireless terminal has been lost.

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    公开(公告)号:DE60102920T2

    公开(公告)日:2005-04-28

    申请号:DE60102920

    申请日:2001-08-20

    Abstract: An unique arrangement including a so-called timing control order and timing control signals is employed to identify whether wireless terminals are reachable within a base station cell coverage area in a wireless communications system. To this end, detection of a particular wireless terminal being alive and well, and whitin the cell coverage area associated with a base station if effected by the base station transmitting a timing control order (601) in a timing control time slot reserved for the particular wireless terminal. If the particular wireless terminal receives the timing control order, it transmits a prescribed timing control message at a prescribed time. If the base station does not receive the timing control message, it is an indication that communication with the particular wireless terminal has been lost.

    Apparatus and method for acquiring an uplink traffic channel in wireless communications systems

    公开(公告)号:AU778564B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-12-09

    申请号:AU5794101

    申请日:2001-08-09

    Abstract: Uplink traffic channel allocation is realized by utilizing a dedicated control channel in which a prescribed portion of the control channel resource, for example, frequency, time slot or the like, is reserved for transporting the uplink traffic channel requests. Both the base station and the particular mobile unit know the prescribed portion of the control channel resource a priori. Consequently, when the particular mobile unit transmits an uplink traffic channel request via the prescribed portion of the control channel resource there is no need for adding any control header information, thereby minimizing overhead. Furthermore, the length of the uplink traffic channel requests can be optimally chosen without constraints imposed by other control message schemes. Reduced overhead coupled with the prescribed portion of the control channel resource arriving quite frequently reduces latency in the particular mobile unit acquiring an uplink traffic channel. In one example, delivery of adequate uplink traffic channel request information to the base station, while minimizing the adverse impact of losing requests, is ensured by persistently transmitting the requests. Specifically, after the mobile unit transmits a first request, it transmits a second or even a third request instead of waiting to receive a response message from the base station and/or waiting for a timer to time out. By the mobile unit using such a persistent request transmission scheme, the base station can readily determine the true value of the received request by eliminating the transmission loop delay effect, thereby allowing a sensible assignment decision to be made.

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    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE60101544T2

    公开(公告)日:2004-09-16

    申请号:DE60101544

    申请日:2001-08-20

    Abstract: In a unique paging time slot format, each of the allocated paging time slots occurs periodically and is split into several prescribed paging time slots including at least one first type paging time slot having a relatively short duration and at least one second type paging time slot having a longer duration. The at least one first type paging time slots is of relatively short duration and transports an indication whether a particular associated wireless terminal was paged. The second type paging time slot is of longer duration than the first type time slot and transports the entire paging message. Specifically, a wireless terminal that is normally in a standby mode only has to enter a monitor mode, i.e., "wake up", to monitor the relatively short first type paging time slot to determine whether it has been paged (502). If it has been paged, the wireless terminal then monitors the longer second type paging time slot to determine if it is transporting a valid paging message for the paged wireless terminal (503). If no valid paged indication is detected in the first type paging time slot or no valid paging message is detected in the second type paging time slot, the wireless terminal returns to the standby mode, i.e., returns to a "sleep" state, and waits for the next periodic occurrence of its assigned paging time slot (503).

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    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE60102920D1

    公开(公告)日:2004-05-27

    申请号:DE60102920

    申请日:2001-08-20

    Abstract: An unique arrangement including a so-called timing control order and timing control signals is employed to identify whether wireless terminals are reachable within a base station cell coverage area in a wireless communications system. To this end, detection of a particular wireless terminal being alive and well, and whitin the cell coverage area associated with a base station if effected by the base station transmitting a timing control order (601) in a timing control time slot reserved for the particular wireless terminal. If the particular wireless terminal receives the timing control order, it transmits a prescribed timing control message at a prescribed time. If the base station does not receive the timing control message, it is an indication that communication with the particular wireless terminal has been lost.

    106.
    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE60000193T2

    公开(公告)日:2002-12-12

    申请号:DE60000193

    申请日:2000-02-28

    Abstract: A base station within a cell of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based spread spectrum multiple access system employs sectorization as a way to reduce the intercell interference. The cell is sectorized from a transmission point of view by the directionality of the downlink antenna, and the OFDM tone set employed in each cell is correspondingly sectorized, i.e., each sector in the cell is allocated a set of tones within a sub-band of the available frequency bandwidth for use when transmitting into that sector. The sub-bands assigned to each sector are periodically changed, or "hopped", among the available sub-bands within the totally available bandwidth. Such sub-band hopping is a so-called "slow" hopping, in that it is not performed on a symbol-by-symbol basis but instead occurs only after more than one symbol has been transmitted in a sector on tones within the sub-band. Each sector employs its own pilot signal, which is assigned one or more tones within the sub-band currently employed by that sector. Similarly, for the uplink, the base station may employ a directional receiver antenna. Preferably, the mobile terminal only transmits on a tone that is within a sub-band that is allocated to the sector in which the mobile terminal is located. This, sub-band, however, need not correspond to the same location within the bandwidth as the sub-band used by the downlink to communicate with the mobile terminal.

    Apparatus and method for acquiring an uplink traffic channel in wireless communications systems

    公开(公告)号:AU5794101A

    公开(公告)日:2002-02-21

    申请号:AU5794101

    申请日:2001-08-09

    Abstract: Uplink traffic channel allocation is realized by utilizing a dedicated control channel in which a prescribed portion of the control channel resource, for example, frequency, time slot or the like, is reserved for transporting the uplink traffic channel requests. Both the base station and the particular mobile unit know the prescribed portion of the control channel resource a priori. Consequently, when the particular mobile unit transmits an uplink traffic channel request via the prescribed portion of the control channel resource there is no need for adding any control header information, thereby minimizing overhead. Furthermore, the length of the uplink traffic channel requests can be optimally chosen without constraints imposed by other control message schemes. Reduced overhead coupled with the prescribed portion of the control channel resource arriving quite frequently reduces latency in the particular mobile unit acquiring an uplink traffic channel. In one example, delivery of adequate uplink traffic channel request information to the base station, while minimizing the adverse impact of losing requests, is ensured by persistently transmitting the requests. Specifically, after the mobile unit transmits a first request, it transmits a second or even a third request instead of waiting to receive a response message from the base station and/or waiting for a timer to time out. By the mobile unit using such a persistent request transmission scheme, the base station can readily determine the true value of the received request by eliminating the transmission loop delay effect, thereby allowing a sensible assignment decision to be made.

    Transmission of mobile unit requests in wireless uplink systems

    公开(公告)号:AU5192301A

    公开(公告)日:2001-12-20

    申请号:AU5192301

    申请日:2001-06-14

    Abstract: Access request transmissions are effected in a wireless communications system by assigning each mobile unit a unique dedicated uplink resource. Specifically, each mobile unit is assigned channel segments with distinct time slot indices and/or waveform indices, where waveforms with distinct indices are orthogonal. A base station can identify the mobile that has made an access request from the dedicated uplink resource. Therefore, no mobile identification number is needed in the uplink request message. Then, the base station can transmit a request response message on a shared downlink resource that may include the identification number of the requesting mobile unit to acknowledge reception of the request. The mobile unit may transmit on a shared uplink resource an acknowledgment of reception of the downlink request response message.

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