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Telecommunications > Radiotelephone System > Zoned Or Cellular Telephone System > Channel Allocation > Load Balancing Load BalancingLoad Balancing patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.03/01/07 - 20070049285 - System and method for upgrading service class of a connection in a wireless network A system and method for upgrading service class of a connection in a wireless network includes identifying a congested CoS in a sector of a wireless network. Bandwidth availability in the sector is determined at an enhanced CoS in relation to the congested CoS. A communications session is selected in ... 02/15/07 - 20070037581 - Mobile communication system and access control method When the radio control station (2) recognizes that the communication line is in the congested state and receives a line connection request from the mobile station (5), the control station (2) transmits a control signal for refusing the line connection request received to the mobile station (5) without performing control ... 02/08/07 - 20070032242 - Methods and apparatus for extrapolating person and device counts Methods and apparatus for providing statistics on the number, distribution and/or flow of people or devices in a geographic region based on active wireless device counts are described. Wireless devices may be of different types e.g., cell phones, PDAs, etc. Wireless communications centers report the number and type of active ... 12/28/06 - 20060293060 - Load balancing method for wireless communication systems A method and system is disclosed for load balancing in a wireless communication system. The method has two major processes for load balancing purpose: the first process moves a mobile terminal from its host base station to some less loaded base station after the expiration of a switch time interval ... 10/19/06 - 20060234720 - Wireless communication system, access point and wireless station composing the wireless communication system, and communication load balancing method for access point To reduce load on an access point even if a large number of wireless stations are located very close to the access point. An access point detects a communication load value (S1 and S2) and reports it to wireless stations (S3). The access point waits for a predetermined time after ... 10/19/06 - 20060234719 - Methods and apparatus for selecting communication channels based on channel load information Embodiments of methods and apparatus for selecting communication channels based on channel load information are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ... 10/19/06 - 20060234718 - Communication system, communication unit and method of power saving therein A communication system (200) comprises a system management function (246) for managing base-site resources and system throughput of data. The system management function (246) defines a number of resources. The system management function (236), such as a radio network controller, comprises a data throughput identification function to identify one or ... 10/12/06 - 20060229083 - Methods and apparatus for reduced energy communication in an ad hoc network The invention relates to communications devices for reduced energy communications in an ad hoc network. The communication device includes a first low-powered transceiver for initiating communications with other communications devices and a second transceiver for transmitting data messages to the other communications devices once communication is initiated. The communication device ... 09/28/06 - 20060217125 - Wireless communication device and control method therefor A wireless communication device for carrying out wireless communication using any one of a plurality of channels, wherein for at least some of the plurality of channels, energy threshold values for determining whether or not a channel is busy is set for each channel. With respect to these energy threshold ... 09/07/06 - 20060199595 - Method of controlling traffic, radio system, remote unit and base station A radio system includes one or more remote units in each cell coverage area controlled by a base station. The remote units communicate with one or more terminals of the radio system. The remote units are configured to detect traffic parameters of one or more terminal signals within the coverage ... 08/31/06 - 20060194586 - System and method for balancing communication traffic loading between adjacent base stations in a mobile communications network A method for evaluating and balancing communication traffic loading in a mobile communications network includes a mobile communications device that detects a first signal strength from a current base station, and a current traffic indicator for the current base station. The mobile device also calculates a current base station adjusted ... 08/24/06 - 20060189323 - Radio resource control method, radio base station, and radio network controller A radio resource control method of controlling a radio resource for transmitting user data by a mobile station via an uplink, including: sending, from a radio base station, a signal indicative of a reduction of a maximum allowable transmission rate of the user data signaled to the mobile station connected ... 08/24/06 - 20060189322 - Method for admission control for mobile networks, an admission controller and a communication system therewith The invention concerns a method for providing admission control for the admission of a mobile terminal (STA2) to a mobile network, whereby said admission control is based on at least one parameter (APP) that characterizes the radio channel that shall be used for a connection of the mobile terminal (STA2) ... 07/27/06 - 20060166677 - Balancing load of cells in inter-frequency handover of wireless communications The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for allocating frequency bands associated with a multi-band network across a first and a second cell in a communications system. The method comprises determining a load parameter associated with the first and second cells in the communications system, selecting a target ... 07/06/06 - 20060148485 - Method and a network element for providing a handover in a communications system The invention relates to a method for providing a group communication handover in a communications system supporting group communication. In the invention communications terminals are detected that belong to a communications group; a load of the communications group is monitored in a first resource; and if the load exceeds a ... 06/29/06 - 20060142021 - Load balancing on shared wireless channels The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for balancing traffic load between a plurality of users on one or more shared wireless channels, e.g., from a communication node associated with a network of a plurality of cells including a first and a second cell. The method comprises determining ... 06/29/06 - 20060142020 - Channel assignment based on service type and wireless communication environment The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for assigning a channel in response to a request for service for a mobile station in a wireless communication network serving a plurality of regions, such as cells in a digital cellular network. The mobile station may be located in one ... 06/29/06 - 20060142019 - Method and radio communication system for the transmission of useful information as a service to several user stations A method and radio communication system for the transmit useful information as a service to several user stations with at least one radio network controller, at least one base station and at least one user station. The radio network controller is connected to an access device in a core network. ... 06/22/06 - 20060135173 - Method and apparatus for mobile station-assisted load balancing in wireless packet data networks A wireless communication network makes intelligent accept/reject decisions responsive to sector selection requests by mobile stations based on sharing per-sector loading information and per-sector mobile station received signal quality information. For example, the signal quality and sector loading information for each sector in a given mobile station's active set of ... 06/15/06 - 20060128394 - Method and apparatus for steering idle mobile stations Load redistribution and other benefits may be achieved by dynamically distributing or “steering” idle mobile stations to a particular cell or area. For example, idle mobile stations may be steered from a loaded cell to less loaded cells by changing one or more cell broadcast parameters. ... 05/25/06 - 20060111121 - Communication performance calculation method and communication performance calculation apparatus in mobile communication system, and blocking probability calculation method and blocking probability calculation apparatus in communication system, and record A subdivision data holding unit holds data of transmission power Pi and traffic intensity Ai of each subdivision. A propagation associated data holding unit holds data used for calculating received power, such as the height above the ground of antennas of the base stations and mobile stations. A received power ... 05/18/06 - 20060105774 - Apparatus and method for arbitrary data rate ramp up after overload on wireless interface To prevent oscillation in load levels on radio interfaces between one or more user equipment devices and neighboring base stations after the base stations have reduced the data rates of the one or more user equipment devices connected thereto over said radio interfaces, one or more radio network controllers select ... 05/04/06 - 20060094440 - Method for multicast load balancing in wireless lans A method for multicast load balancing in a wireless network having a plurality of access points. The method includes setting a maximum Internet protocol multicast bandwidth for the access points, receiving an admissions control request from a client at one of the access points, and determining whether the admissions control ... 04/27/06 - 20060089150 - Method of managing processing resources in a mobile radio system A method of managing processing resources in a mobile radio system, in which a first entity manages radio resources and corresponding processing resources, the latter being provided in a second entity separate from the first entity. The second entity signals to the first entity its global processing capacity, or capacity ... 04/13/06 - 20060079242 - Enhanced assisted cell change A system and method for minimizing signalling loads due to mutual exchanges of information between neighboring cells in which the same session is transmitted, and for reducing the time required to transmit MBMS neighbor cell information messages in a serving cell when a higher level of signalling occurs, wherein all ... 04/06/06 - 20060073837 - Radio-channel connection controller and mobile communication network system The network system of the present invention comprises a plurality of base transceiver stations, a plurality of antenna systems, and a radio-channel connection controller. The radio-channel connection controller comprises a connection switching unit switching the connection between the plurality of base transceiver stations and the plurality of antenna systems, and ... 03/30/06 - 20060068807 - Optimised control of traffic load on switches in a communication network The invention relates to a method and a system for optimised resource use of one or more selected switches in a communication network for alerting the population when an undesirable event occurs in a specific geographical area by means of messages transmitted via the switches. The switches may form a ... 03/02/06 - 20060046739 - Method and apparatus for improving performance in wireless networks by tuning receiver sensitivity thresholds A method to adjust either the detection sensitivity threshold (e.g., the clear channel assessment (CCA) for an 802.11 complaint wireless transceiver) and/or the receiver communication sensitivity threshold (e.g., the start of packet (SOP) for an 802.11 complaint wireless transceiver) to improve performance in a wireless networking environment, such as a ... 02/02/06 - 20060025150 - Frequency assignment for multi-cell ieee 802.11 wireless networks A frequency planning method for use in an IEEE 802.11 wireless network is described. The frequency planning method obtains traffic load information associated with access points belonging to a multi-cell wireless network and assigns channels to the access points based on the traffic load information. ... 01/19/06 - 20060014544 - Method and a system for selecting non-real-time users to perform cell reselection The invention relates to traffic management in a radio system. The method comprises: monitoring at least one cell load parameter of non-real-time users in a radio cell; triggering a cell reselection process in the radio cell on the basis of a cell load parameter exceeding a pre-set cell load threshold; ... 01/12/06 - 20060009232 - Load equalizing antennas A system and method for equalizing traffic between antenna beams is described. Aspects of the system and method may vary the beam widths to attempt to equalize traffic based on non-real-time communications and/or non-real-time communications. ... 01/05/06 - 20060003774 - Base station selecting method in wireless network In a wireless network base station design method for selecting an optimal base station in a wireless network design system, a sample point and a candidate base station area are determined according to a predetermined reference; propagation between the sample point and the candidate base station area is analyzed and ... 11/17/05 - 20050255851 - Determining configuration parameters of a mobile network A method of determining configuration parameters of a mobile network topology for testing and monitoring purposes at an interface (lub) located between a first node and a second node of the mobile network where between the first and the second node there exist several channels includes finding the channel having ... 11/10/05 - 20050250513 - Method and system for predicting blocking in a network A method for estimating the performance of GSM cellular networks that employ “directed retry”, in which a call blocked by the sector of its initial attempt may be redirected to an alternative sector that is also accessible to the call, thereby increasing the effective capacity of the network. The method ... 11/10/05 - 20050250512 - Wireless communication system and method for configuring cells with enhanced uplink services A wireless multi-cell communication system and a method for configuring a cell for enhanced uplink (EU) services. The wireless communication system includes at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), at least one Node-B and a radio network controller (RNC). The RNC configures EU services for the WTRU and the Node-B ... 11/10/05 - 20050250511 - Method for rate control signaling to facilitate ue uplink data transfer Embodiments described herein address the desire to have a method for uplink rate control signaling that is able to achieve increased sector and user throughput with relatively high uplink spectrum efficiency. Rate control signaling embodiments are disclosed that use two common persistence values (404, 408) to update the allocated portion ... 10/27/05 - 20050239473 - Radio access communications network, dynamic load distribution apparatus and dynamic load distribution method used in the same A dynamic load distribution apparatus in which resource allocation calculation for distributing load can be implemented by a simple and dynamically flexible algorism. An input apparatus receives from the network administrator the information on location of each base station apparatus or the information on base station apparatus. A load detection ... 10/13/05 - 20050227701 - Efficient system and method of monitoring neighboring cells in a communication system A portable communication device (150) can include a transceiver (74) and a processor (76) coupled to the transceiver. The processor can be programmed to monitor at least one neighboring cell among a plurality of cells for a load condition on the at least one neighboring cell, monitor the at least ... 10/13/05 - 20050227700 - Method and system for conveying wireless connection availability The present invention is a method and system that determines the connection availability of a mobile or cellular device to the communication network in the current location of the mobile or cellular device. The system of the present invention comprises a communication tower containing a means to monitor the current ... 10/13/05 - 20050227699 - Method and network element for optimisation of radio resource utilisation in radio access network The traffic loading in a CDMA or WCDMA system changes all the time and there can be large variations during the day or week. This means that the system sometimes operates near or at overload level. Thus, in the worst cases, there are periods of abnormal loadings from cell to ... 10/06/05 - 20050221839 - Centralized cell homing and load balancing in a base station controller A base station controller (BSC) of a radio or wireless telecommunications network base station includes a director. A BSC includes multiple central processing units (CPUs), with each CPU running a call-processing application for one or more connections. The director is a logical entity that intercepts wireless call-setup signaling and assigns ... 09/29/05 - 20050215265 - Method and system for load balancing in a wireless communication system Method and system for load balancing in a wireless communication system, including an access node, are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises i) communicating data wirelessly between the access node and a plurality of terminals via a plurality of channels, wherein the plurality of terminals and ... 09/22/05 - 20050208950 - Load balancing in wireless communication network For load balancing in a wireless communication network comprising at least one subscriber terminal (T1, T2, T2) and a plurality of access points (AP1, AP2, AP3), a load control device (21; 110) is used which is located outside of said subscriber terminal, wherein said load control device is adapted to ... 09/15/05 - 20050202828 - System and method for determining availability of radio access technology associated with a wireless network A wireless communication device (102), a wireless communication network and methods therefor. The wireless communication device (102) comprises a transceiver (202) configured to receive a neighbor list (216) from a remote source (108, 110, 112). The device (102) receives the neighbor list (216) that includes one or more technology type ... 09/08/05 - 20050197135 - Dynamically reconfigurable base station node and method A base station node is provided that includes a radio frequency (RF) monitor and at least one signal processor. The RF monitor is operable to monitor traffic associated with a plurality of wireless communication devices to determine at least one requested load having a corresponding air interface standard. The signal ... 09/01/05 - 20050192022 - Multiple channel communications system A multi-channel communications system for communications between a mobile units and dispatch agencies through tower sites under control of a multi-channel communication controller. The method of communications used is time division multiple access with provisions for alternate methods. The mobile units and dispatch agencies have forms of identifications to route ... 08/18/05 - 20050181802 - Base station control apparatus and frequency allocation method for same In a code division multiplexing communication system capable of utilizing a plurality of frequencies, a monitoring section 1 of a base station control apparatus monitors, for each frequency, the number of calls for each call type to which a frequency is allocated; an allocation section 2 allocates, when a new ... 08/11/05 - 20050176440 - Load-aware handoff and site selection scheme The present invention is directed to a distributed approach to handoff and cell site selection that takes into account the load dynamics in a multi-cell system. ... 08/04/05 - 20050170841 - Method and system of load control The present invention relates to transmission and retransmission of packet data in a communications system, where the communications system uses rate switching or channel switching. It provides an interface for information exchange between radio resource management and one or more transport protocol entities in a cellular mobile radio system, particularly ... 07/28/05 - 20050164709 - Method and apparatus for congestion control in high speed wireless packet data networks A wireless communication network includes a base station system that transmits sector congestion information to influence mobile station sector selection processing. In an exemplary embodiment, where at least some of the mobile stations being supported by the network autonomously select the network sector from which they wish to receive forward ... 07/21/05 - 20050159167 - Data routing This invention relates to a method for reducing data congestion in a communication system comprising the steps of identifying a portion of said communication system in which data is congested, selecting one of a plurality of transceiver stations (101, 101′) each having a respective service area in which a mobile ... 07/14/05 - 20050153704 - Estimating non-uniform spatial offered loads in a cellular wireless network Non-uniform spatial offered loads are estimated for a plurality of bins corresponding to a cellular wireless territory served by Base Station Transceivers (BTS's). Using mean and standard deviation of signal strengths received at each of the bins from each of the BTS's, probabilities are computed for each bin that each ... 07/07/05 - 20050148337 - Method and arrangement for network load regulation The present invention relates to a method in communication networks comprising an automatic load regulation method for the network nodes. A load regulation of a controlled node to a desired load is achieved by means of a comparison of the number of call setup attempts per second during a regulation ... 06/30/05 - 20050143087 - Dynamic selection of a packet data serving node The invention relates to a method for supporting load balancing in a packet data network. The method receives a registration request at a packet data serving node (PDSN) manager from a base station controller/packet core function (BSC/PCF), The registration request includes a vendor specific extension (VSE) for indicating to the ... 06/23/05 - 20050136939 - End-to-end architecture for mobile client jit processing on network infrastructure trusted servers Methods for efficiently downloading platform independent code in mobile runtime environments. ... 06/09/05 - 20050124353 - Signaling connection admission control in a wireless network A method for admission control of control plane signaling requests includes receiving a signaling request. Upon receipt of the signaling connection request, a first determination is performed to determine whether to provide admission to common resources. When the first determination is negative, a second determination is performed to determine whether ... 06/02/05 - 20050119006 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for optimizing access point channel selection A wireless communication method and system for optimizing channel selection for an AP. The channel selection optimization process includes four sub-processes: 1) a measurement process; 2) a candidate channel determining process; 3) a channel selection process; and 4) a channel update process. Candidate channels used for supporting communication performed by ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |