A method for assigning a percentage of a CSAT time cycle to each radio node (RN) in a plurality of RNs that belong to a small cell radio access network (RAN) having a central controller includes: (i) for each time cycle period during which the RNs share a channel with one or more nodes that employ a different radio access technology (RAT), assigning a default occupancy percentage of the time cycles to each of the RNs; (ii) determining if the default occupancy percentage is able to be increased without violating one or more co-existence principles pre-established for the RAT employed by the RNs in the RAN and the different RAT; (iii) increasing the occupancy percentage of the first RN if it is determined that the default occupancy percentage is able to be increased without violating the co-existence principles; and (iv) sequentially repeating (ii)-(iii) for each remaining RN in the RAN.

The technology disclosed provides the ability for a subframe to be configured as a “flexible” subframe. As a result, at least three different types of subframes in a TDD system may be configured: a downlink (“DL”) subframe, an uplink (“UL”) subframe, and a “flexible” subframe. While the DL and UL subframes are preconfigured for each frame instance, the flexible subframes are dynamically allocated to be an uplink subframe in one instance of a frame and a downlink subframe in another instance of the frame.

A system for reducing collisions in communications utilizing a media access control (MAC) data communication protocol and/or a time division multiple access-based (TDMA-based) data communication protocol, such as an Aloha protocol or an MS-Aloha protocol, that may include one or more electronic devices (such as electronic devices of a vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET)).

A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a downlink physical control channel including a transmission parameter in a first time slot, a number of bits sent over the downlink physical control channel is based on fields of control information to be sent to the UE, wherein the first time slot also includes a downlink physical shared channel. Further, the UE is configured to transmit an uplink physical control channel in a second time slot based on the transmission parameter, wherein a plurality of UEs transmit uplink physical control channels in the second time slot.

A user equipment is configured to operate in a wireless communications network being operated in a TDD scheme, the TDD scheme including a plurality of TDD-frames, each TDD-frame including a guard period arranged between a downlink symbol and an uplink symbol of the TDD-frame. The user equipment is configured to receive a first number of symbols during the guard period or is configured to transmit the uplink symbol and to transmit a second number of symbols previous to transmitting the uplink symbol.

A cellular communication system comprises a first base station serving at least a first user equipment. The base station comprises functionality for transmitting a base station duplex capability message to user equipments using a transmission format which is common to a plurality of duplex modes. A first user equipment comprises a transceiver which receives the base station duplex capability message. A RACH characteristics processor determines at least one transmit characteristic for an access message in response to the base station duplex capability message and a RACH transmit controller controls the transmission of an access message to the first base station in response to the at least one transmit characteristic.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a carrier synchronization method, circuit, and system. The method includes performing n times frequency multiplication on a received signal; performing narrowband filtering at least twice and rectangular wave shaping at least twice on the signal obtained after the n times frequency multiplication; and performing n times frequency division on the signal obtained after the filtering and shaping, to restore a carrier signal. The variable n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 4.

The present invention discloses a data processing method and apparatus based on an automatic identification system, relates to the field of communications network technologies The method comprises: a virtual station container receives data request sent by a poller, and successively checks whether each virtual station in the virtual station container has to-be-sent data in a current timeslot, where the virtual station includes a virtual timeslot allocation logic TAL device; and when a first virtual station has to-be-sent data in the current timeslot, the virtual station container reads the data in the first virtual station, and sends the read data to a transmitter. The method provided by the embodiments of the present invention is applicable to data exchange between an automatic identification system and an external network.

A wireless communication method and protocol for wireless RF transmission of duplex audio in a flexible and self organizing network, especially audio data packets may be communicated according to a DECT protocol. Each wireless RF device is arranged to operate as a synchronization master or a synchronization slave, and where a negotiation algorithm is used to negotiate with other wireless RF devices present within wireless range to determine roles of master and slave(s). This allow wireless RF devices to leave or join groups of wireless RF devices within wireless range of each other, and still the synchronization master role is negotiated, and only one synchronization master is selected, whereas the remaining wireless RF devices will operate as synchronization slaves. Each wireless RF device performs a scanning of supported RF frequencies or channels to detect other wireless RF devices within wireless range.

Methods and apparatus of a base station or a User Equipment (UE) in communication with each other are provided. The UE is configured by the base station for operation with an adapted Time Division Duplex (TDD) UpLink-Downlink (UL-DL) configuration. A process enabling transmission of acknowledgement information from the UE for communication in two different sets of DL Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs) is provided.