One embodiment is directed to a method of using variable-resolution quantization to front-haul at least some data over a front-haul network in a system configured to provide wireless service to user equipment. The method comprises, for each symbol position, determining a respective number of required resource blocks having respective actual user-equipment (UE) signal data to front-haul for each carrier and determining the number of high-resolution resource blocks that can be quantized at a higher resolution as a function of a difference between a nominal per-symbol-position front-haul link capacity and a link capacity needed to front-haul the required resource blocks for all of the carriers if quantized using a lower resolution. The method further comprises, for each symbol position, allocating the high-resolution resource blocks to each carrier and determining, for each carrier, which of the required resource blocks to quantize at the higher resolution. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to a user equipment (UE) configured to schedule resource management procedures including measurements and tracking loop procedures. In some examples, the UE includes at least one antenna pair and two or more receivers. The UE may be configured to determine a plurality of combinations of antenna pairs and component carriers, where each component carrier is associated with a particular frequency. The UE may further be configured to schedule measurements/tracking loop procedures to available receivers first and utilize a selection algorithm to select combinations of antenna pairs and component carriers and map the selected combinations to the remaining of the available receivers to perform tracking loop procedures. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described.

Systems, methods, and software of managing bandwidth allocated to User Equipment (UE). In one embodiment, a bandwidth management system collects cell load information for a plurality of cells within a Radio Access Network (RAN), and processes the cell load information to determine a cell load status for each of the cells. The system performs bandwidth throttling for the UE by determining a location of the UE, identifying the cell load status for one or more cells in a region of the RAN corresponding with the location of the UE, determining whether the region of the RAN is overloaded based on the cell load status, and controlling a downgrade of bandwidth allocated to the UE in the RAN responsive to a determination that the region is overloaded.

The delivery of streaming content to User Equipment (UE) connected to a wireless communication network supports a decision between unicast and broadcast/multicast delivery systems to be made using information associated with the RN(s) serving the UEs. In serving areas associated with a limited number of UEs, the streaming content can be delivered using a series of unicast transmissions, while in other areas where there are a sufficient number of UEs receiving the same content, a broadcast/multicast delivery service can be employed. The RN can switch between the unicast and broadcast/multicast delivery services based on changing demands and situations.

A wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method that can suppress the occurrence of differences in transmission delays in a plurality of wireless lines are provided. The wireless communication apparatus (1) includes a division means (12) and a transmission means (14). The transmission means (14) transmits radio waves through a plurality of wireless lines. The division means (12) divides data into data pieces having sizes each of which correspond to the transmission capacity of a respective one of the plurality of the wireless lines and generates a plurality of fragments. Further, the transmission means (14) transmits each of the plurality of the fragments to another wireless communication apparatus through the wireless line having the transmission capacity corresponding to the size of the fragment.

Disclosed are a small cell eNodeB access system and a method for realizing network access therefor, including: setting up a control plane link and a user plane link respectively, the small cell eNodeB access system processing control plane data of access UE through the set up control plane link, and processing user plane data of an access UE via the set up user plane link. In the embodiment of the present invention, it makes the UE have data transmission and reception with two different eNodeBs such as macro cell (eNodeB) and small cell (eNodeB) simultaneously by separating the control plane with the data plane, so as to increase the user throughput and enhance the mobility performance, and to solve the problem that the user switches between the cells so that information exchanges frequently between nodes and so as to cause an impact on the core network.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a traffic offload method, a core network device, and a traffic offload system. The method includes: sending, user information that is of a user equipment within coverage of a first traffic offload function entity to the first traffic offload function entity; sending a traffic offload policy to the first traffic offload function entity, so that the first traffic offload function entity matches the user information with the traffic offload policy and offloads traffic corresponding to the user equipment according to the user information that successfully matches the traffic offload policy.

A system and method for multiple point transmission in a communications system are provided. A method for multiple point transmission operation comprises modifying a configuration of a radio bearer for use in a multiple point transmission to a user equipment according to operating condition information of the user equipment, reconfiguring the radio bearer according to the modified configuration, and initiating a multiple point transmission to the user equipment using the reconfigured radio bearer.

The present disclosure provides a backhaul link establishment method, a base station, and a device. The method includes: sending, by a base station, an offloading bearer request message to a first LPN according to a backhaul offloading establishment request message; receiving, by the base station, an offloading bearer acknowledgement message sent by the first LPN; sending, by the base station, an offloading bearer configuration message to a first UE-relay; and sending, by the base station, a received ID of a service bearer and received second S1 configuration information of the service bearer to a core network element by using an MME. In this way, backhaul load on uplink/downlink resources of the base station is reduced.

A wireless module with reduced interference between the multiple wireless antennas therein. A synchronization signal is transmitted from a first transceiver module to a second transceiver module and, accordingly, the second transceiver module operates a transmitter of the second transceiver module at a first operating bandwidth in a time-division mode (with respect to the first transceiver module). The second transceiver module further operates the transmitter of the second transceiver module at a second operating bandwidth in a frequency-division mode (with respect to the first transceiver module).