Base station

About: Base station is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 85883 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1019303 citations. The topic is also known as: Mobile phone base stations & BS.

Method and apparatus for performing fast handover through fast ranging in a broadband wireless communication system

Abstract: A method for performing a handover by a subscriber station (SS) in a broadband wireless communication system including a serving base station (BS) communicating with the SS, and at least one neighbor BS neighboring the serving BS. The SS receives downlink signals from the serving BS and the neighbor BS; measures an arrival time difference between the downlink signal received from the serving BS and the downlink signal received from the neighbor BS; and transmits the measured arrival time difference to the serving BS.

Random Beamforming in Millimeter-Wave NOMA Networks

Abstract: This paper investigates the coexistence between two key enabling technologies for fifth generation (5G) mobile networks, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. Particularly, the application of random beamforming to mmWave-NOMA systems is considered in order to avoid the requirement that the base station know all the users’ channel state information. Stochastic geometry is used to characterize the performance of the proposed mmWave-NOMA transmission scheme by using key features of mmWave systems, i.e., that mmWave transmission is highly directional and potential blockages will thin the user distribution. Two random beamforming approaches that can further reduce the system overhead are also proposed, and their performance is studied analytically in terms of sum rates and outage probabilities. Simulation results are also provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed schemes and verify the accuracy of the developed analytical results.

Cross-Layer Resource Allocation With Elastic Service Scaling in Cloud Radio Access Network

Abstract: Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) aims to improve spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks by migrating conventional distributed base station functionalities into a centralized cloud baseband unit (BBU) pool. We propose and investigate a cross-layer resource allocation model for C-RAN to minimize the overall system power consumption in the BBU pool, fiber links and the remote radio heads (RRHs). We characterize the cross-layer resource allocation problem as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP), which jointly considers elastic service scaling, RRH selection, and joint beamforming. The MINLP is however a combinatorial optimization problem and NP-hard. We relax the original MINLP problem into an extended sum-utility maximization (ESUM) problem, and propose two different solution approaches. We also propose a low-complexity Shaping-and-Pruning (SP) algorithm to obtain a sparse solution for the active RRH set. Simulation results suggest that the average sparsity of the solution given by our SP algorithm is close to that obtained by a recently proposed greedy selection algorithm, which has higher computational complexity. Furthermore, our proposed cross-layer resource allocation is more energy efficient than the greedy selection and successive selection algorithms.

Power transmission system, apparatus and method with communication

Abstract: A power transmission system with communication having a base station having a wireless power transmitter a wireless data transmission component and a wireless data reception component. The system includes a remote station having a power harvester for converting the power from the power transmitter into direct current and a power storage component in communication with the power harvester for storing the direct current. Alternatively, the system includes a base station having a wireless power transmitter which transmits power at a frequency at which any sidebands are at or below a desired level, and a wireless data communication component.

A system and method for charging mobile devices at a venue

Abstract: Systems and methods for charging mobile devices are described, embodiments of the systems including: a base station; and a plurality of satellite charging units; each of the satellite charging units include a rechargeable power supply which can be recharged by the base station; each of the satellite units are arranged to recharge mobile devices by way of transferring charge from their power supply to the mobile device.