Abstract:
Frames of information are communicated between a base station (28) of a radio access network (RAN) and plural types of wireless terminals (30). Frame handlers of the base station and of certain types of wireless terminals (30-2) process differing portions of the frame according to respective differing multiple access technologies. In differing embodiments and implementations, modulation techniques of the differing multiple access technologies can be apportioned to differing portions of the frame in various manners, such as (for example) to differing subframes of a multi- sub-framed frame or to differing burst fields or sections of an uplink (UL) burst.
Abstract:
592061 Disclosed is a communications network (20). The network includes a server (24) configured to use authentication capabilities information of a terminal (30), or a value derived from the authentication capabilities information, as input to a function to determine a first cryptographic value. The authentication capabilities information provides an indication of authentication capabilities of the terminal (30). An authentication node (22) makes verification of an authentication procedure for the terminal (30) using the first cryptographic value to complete the authentication procedure before security capabilities are used.
Abstract:
Mechanisms to interlace multiple legacy frames to enhance radio resource utilization are described. Also described are mechanisms to modify a low- latency frame structure to appear as legacy frames. In one aspect, partially blanked-out legacy frames are interlaced with time offsets so that they complement each other to leave no idle system time. To a legacy user equipment (920), the interlaced frame appears as normal legacy frames used by multiple legacy cells. In another aspect, the low-latency frame is modified to appear as an interlaced frame. Again to the legacy user equipment (920), the low-latency frame appears as legacy frames from multiple legacy cells. To the low-latency user equipment, the modified low-latency frame still appear as normal low-latency frame. In this manner, radio resources of the legacy base stations are optimally utilized. Also, low-latency base stations (910) are enabled to provide serves to the legacy user equipments (920) without wasting radio resources.