Wireless communications system employing a network active set formed from base stations operable as primary and secondary agents

• US 20060056365A1
• Filed: 09/13/2004
• Published: 03/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Samuel, Louis Gwyn, Viswanathan, Harish, Leung, Kin K., Mukherjee, Sayandev, Das, Suman, Klein, Thierry E., Zheng, Haitao, Rittenhouse, Georger E.
• Granted Patent: US 7,499,437 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/22 Negotiating communication rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing

Abstract

A method for controlling a wireless communications system is provided. A plurality of substantially identical base stations, each capable of being operated as both a primary agent and a secondary agent are deployed. The secondary agent is capable of communicating with a mobile device and the primary agent is capable of communicating with a network. A network active set associated with a mobile device is formed from a plurality of the base stations. One of the base stations in the network active set is selected to operate as the primary agent, and it communicates to the other base stations that the selected base station is operating as the primary agent. Thus, communications between the network and the mobile device are routed through the primary agent and the selected secondary agent.

Claims

1. A method for communicating between at least one base station and at least one mobile device, comprising:

transmitting dedicated rate control information to the least one mobile device within a common rate control communications system.

2. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein transmitting dedicated rate control information to the mobile device within the common rate control communications system further comprises transmitting dedicated rate control information in a data packet.

3. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein transmitting dedicated rate control information to the mobile device within the common rate control communications system further comprises transmitting dedicated rate control information in a data packet over a data channel.

4. A method, as set forth in claim 1, further comprising transmitting common rate control information to the mobile device.

8. A method, as set forth in claim 1, further comprising receiving common rate control information at the mobile device, and wherein controlling transmissions from the mobile device to the base station based on the dedicated rate control information further comprises controlling transmissions from the mobile device to the base station based on the dedicated rate control information and the common rate control information

5. A method for communicating between at least one base station and at least one mobile device, comprising:

receiving dedicated rate control information at the least one mobile device within a common rate control communications system; and

controlling transmissions from the at least one mobile device to the at least one base station based on the dedicated rate control information.

6. A method, as set forth in claim 5, wherein receiving dedicated rate control information at the mobile device within the common rate control communications system further comprises receiving dedicated rate control information in a data packet.

7. A method, as set forth in claim 5, wherein receiving dedicated rate control information at the mobile device within the common rate control communications system further comprises receiving dedicated rate control information in a data packet over a data channel.