Abstract:
Techniques for an MS to establish one or more default service flows, after entering a WiMAX network are provided. The techniques presented herein may enable the MS to maintain said one or more default service flows during the sleep mode. The one or more default service flow may be utilized in quickly establishing a connection between a WiMAX BS and the MS following the sleep mode.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for setting the connection identifier (CID) mask length of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat-Request (HARQ)-MAP or a SUB-MAP pointer information element (IE) in a compressed downlink map (DL-MAP) of an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) frame are provided in an effort to reduce the number of false indications in the CID mask, while also striving, as a secondary concern, to reduce the CID mask length. In this manner, an individual mobile station (MS) may not waste processing, battery power, or time interpreting a HARQ-MAP message or a sub downlink/uplink map (SUB-DL-UL-MAP) message that was not intended for this particular MS. For some embodiments where the CID mask length is set to be small, the control overhead (i.e., the size of the HARQ-MAP or the SUB-MAP pointer IE) may be decreased, and more of the OFDMA frame may be available for data traffic.
Abstract:
A base station (102) may be configured so that it operates in accordance with certain MAP transmission rules (106) that may enable mobile stations (104) to save battery power in certain situations. Upon receiving a MAP message (108), a mobile station (104) may determine whether there is a burst allocated for the mobile station (104) in the current frame by determining the value of at least one of the following: an idle user bit (114) in the SUB-MAP pointer information element (IE) (112), and a sleep users bit (116) in the SUB-MAP pointer IE (112). The mobile station (104) may discontinue processing of the MAP message (108) and power down one or more components (120, 122) of the mobile station (104) if there is not a burst allocated for the mobile station (104) in the current frame.
Abstract:
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for communicating by a multi-mode mobile station (MS) with first and second networks via first and second radio access technologies (RATs). The method generally includes measuring a time offset between frames of the first RAT and frames of the second RAT while maintaining a connection with the first network via the first RAT, sending a request to a base station of the first network to establish scan periods during which the MS may switch to the second network to monitor for paging messages, and switching to the second network to monitor for paging messages during a scan period without terminating the connection with the first network. The first RAT may comprise, for example, WiMAX, while the second RAT may comprise, for example, CDMA.
Abstract:
A method for subscriber station-based admission control may include determining that there is demand for a new connection at the subscriber station. The method may also include determining whether the new connection should be admitted based on resource availability. The method may also include sending a request for the new connection to a base station if it is determined that the new connection should be admitted.
Abstract:
Minimizing conflicts between different radio access technologies (RATs) is disclosed herein which include monitoring, by a user equipment (UE), a first use of a UE Radio Frequency (RF) resource by a first Radio Access Technology (RAT). The UE monitors a second use of the UE resource by a second RAT. The UE is served by a current serving cell in the second RAT. The UE may also determine a percentage of conflict between a first use of a UE resource by a first RAT and the second use of the UE resource by the second RAT over a predefined period of time, and initiating, by the UE, a cell reselection attempt to one or more neighboring cells of a plurality of neighboring cells serving the second RAT based on the determined percentage of conflict exceeding a predetermined threshold.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for utilizing synchronization shift (SS) bits in Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) based uplink communications. The SS bits can be used for various purposes different from indicating timing of transmissions from a Node B to a user equipment.
Abstract:
This disclosure provides methods and systems for translating quality of service (QoS) parameters of a first radio access technology (RAT), e.g., Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), to QoS parameters of a second RAT, e.g., code division multiple access (CDMA) high rate packet data (HRPD). The methods and systems facilitate a handover by a multi-mode mobile station or other wireless device from the first RAT to the second RAT and vice versa.
Abstract:
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for a multi-mode mobile station to establish paging intervals in different radio access technology (RAT) networks in an effort to avoid consecutive collisions between paging intervals of a first and a second network.
Abstract:
By controlling whether operations are offloaded to a protocol stack hardware accelerator as a function of data rate, power consumption may be reduced, for example, when data rates result in fragmented or segmented data not suitable for processing by the stack hardware accelerator.