Abstract:
A method of communicating information in a communication system wherein a fixed host (162) is operably coupled to a communication network (350) via a gateway general packet radio server (GPRS) service node (GGSN) (174). The method includes the steps of transmitting (450) a message to the GGSN (174), by the fixed host (162), which is preferably a console. The message is sent using a GPRS transport protocol tunnel and includes an access point name (APN). The message requests (455) an Internet Protocol address relating to the APN, from a database (410). The method includes transmitting (460, 465) the Internet Protocol address from said database to the fixed host (162), and the fixed host (162) initiates a communication session (425) with the communication network (350) using the Internet Protocol address. A communication system and fixed host for use in the method are also provided. In this manner, a fixed host such as a console is able to obtain IP address information without requiring maintaining two (or multiple) IP addresses belonging to two (or multiple) different IP spaces that the fixed host communicates with.
Abstract:
An RF (radio frequency) transmitter (100) includes: a forward path (102); an RF power amplifier (126); a feedback path (104), coupled from the power amplifier to the forward path to form a linearising loop; an RF power meter (135) for measuring an output power level of an RF signal produced by the power amplifier and for providing a signal indicating the output power level and a processor (101) for applying periodically to the forward path in a training mode of the transmitter a training signal including an I component including a first ramped waveform portion (405) and a Q component including a second ramped waveform portion (411), and for sampling the signal indicating output power level to find minima corresponding to optimal positions on the first and second ramped waveform portions and for issuing correction signals indicating corresponding DC offset adjustment levels to be applied in an operational mode.