Alcatel Lucent

The present invention is related to an apparatus and method for signaling information exchanging in CoMP (Coordinated Multi-Point). According to an embodiment of the present invention, in a method for signaling information exchanging, a service TP (Transmission Point) and at least one neighboring TP provide the CoMP to at least one UE (User Equipment). The method comprises receiving by the service TP a precoder feedback from at least one UE, wherein the precoder is specific to one of the least one neighboring TP. The service TP decides if the precoder should be sent to the specific neighboring TP. If affirmative, the service TP compresses an indicator indicating the precoder and sends the compressed indicator to the specific neighboring TP.

A data management device for a communication installation including at least one base station having resources and at least one terrestrial node connected to a core network and to the base station to control its resources via an interface includes a control device coupled to a traffic source and to the interface and able to take local control, on command, of at least a portion of the resources of the base station, instead of the node, to enable transfer of data between the traffic source and the base station.

At least one example embodiment discloses a method of determining uplink resources. The method includes assigning index values for control channel elements. The control channel elements are allocated to at least one of first and second control channel transmission sets. The uplink resources being are based on the index values and an uplink resource for the first control channel transmission is different than an uplink resource for the second control channel transmission.

The invention provides a method for communicating in a wireless communication network ( 206 ), the wireless communication network comprising a plurality of base stations ( 102; 104 ) and at least one mobile communication unit ( 100 ), the mobile communication unit comprising a transceiver component ( 300 ), a first Doppler compensation component ( 108 ), and a measurement component ( 110 ), wherein the first Doppler compensation component is adapted to compensate the Doppler shift of signals ( 1; 2; 7; 11; 12; 13 ) being exchanged between a base station of the plurality of base stations and the transceiver component. A handover procedure between two base stations is possible for fast moving user equipments.

A mobile device operable to perform automatic neighbor relation functions in a wireless telecommunications network, a radio network controller, methods and a computer program product are disclosed. The mobile device is operable to perform automatic neighbor relation functions in a wireless telecommunications network in which neighbor relations derived by the mobile device are provided to a network node of the wireless telecommunications network and comprises: measurement logic operable, in an automatic neighbor relation mode, to measure characteristics of a neighboring cell; and determination logic operable to determine, from the characteristics and from an indication of previously provided neighbor relations, whether a neighbor relation based on the characteristics has been provided previously to the network node and, if not, to generate a new neighbor relation to be provided to the network node. Hence, only neighbor relations which are not indicated as having been provided previously need be generated.

An example method includes receiving at a cell broadcast center information for distribution to at least one user equipment. The cell broadcast center determines an alert category and a message number for the alert category. The alert category is based on the information for distribution. The alert category is associated with one or more corresponding alert categories of a plurality of technology networks with which the cell broadcast center is configured to interact. The message number for the alert category is based on a number of alert messages previously forwarded for the alert category. An alert message is forwarded from the cell broadcast center to the at least one user equipment via one or more of the plurality of technology networks. The alert message includes the message number for the alert category and an alert category indicator indicating a respective corresponding alert category of the one or more corresponding alert categories that corresponds with the alert category.

Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network element including one or more of the following: receiving, in a network element in the telecommunications network, a first plurality of packets transmitted from a P2P client to a P2P central entity, the first plurality of packets relating to a request for peer location information; performing deep packet inspection (DPI) to extract a key from the request for peer location information, the key identifying a P2P content item; querying a key storage module using the key to determine whether the key corresponds to a P2P content item for which transfers are to be prevented; and preventing subsequent transfers of the P2P content item between the P2P client and one or more peers that maintain the P2P content item.

A solar thermoelectric generator (STEG) is disclosed. A STEG includes a thermoelectric generator (TEG) configured to convert light energy from solar light into electrical energy, and a heat transfer structure coupled to the TEG where a portion of the heat transfer structure is configured to be embedded in the earth. The TEG includes a first side and a second side, wherein the solar light is incident on the first side of the TEG and the heat transfer structure is configured to provide cooling for the second side of the TEG using geothermal cooling. The use of geothermal cooling to provide cooling for the second side of the TEG increases the temperature difference across the TEG of the STEG, thereby increasing the net generation efficiency of the STEG.

Systems and methods for spam detection within electronic messages transported over a communication network. One embodiment is a spam center that connects to multiple entities of a communication network that handle electronic messages, such as text messages. The spam center receives spam reports from the entities that detect spam in prior electronic messages, analyzes the spam reports to generate spam filtering rules based on the spam detected in the prior electronic messages. The spam center then distributes the spam filtering rules to one or more of the entities. The entities may then use to spam filtering rules to filter spam out of electronic messages that subsequently received.

The present invention relates to a method for supporting data-communication between a first communications module and a second communications module over a communications link between the first communications module and the second communications module where this method comprises the steps of at a first communications module setting up a temporary network applying at least one network connection parameter in the setting up of the temporary network and presenting data-communication supporting information, where the data-communication supporting information comprises at least one network connection parameter and data-communication specific data. Subsequently, the second communications module retrieves the data-communication supporting information presented and the second communications module connects to the temporary network of the access point of the first communications module applying the at least one network connection parameter retrieved from the data-communication supporting information. The method also includes the step of starting a first application at the first communications module and a second application at the second communications module where the first and second application require a data-communication over the temporary network between the access point of the first communications module and the second communications module. The first and said second application being uniquely identified by the data-communication specific data.