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20080198812 | Multicarrier and multirate CDMA system - In a multi-carrier and multi-rate CDMA system, a base station transmits an index tag to a number of mobile stations. The index tag has a length indicating a transmission rate and all index tags are nodes in a code tree. In the code tree, mother nodes and their child nodes block each other and are not assigned to the mobile stations at the same time. At the same time, index tags of nodes in the same level of the code tree map are orthogonal to each other. The mobile station constructs an index tag matrix according to the index tag. Then, the index tag matrix is multiplied with a generating matrix that is stored in every mobile station to generate a spreading factor matrix whose rows respectively correspond to different carriers. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198813 | Multicarrier Communication System, and Method and Device for Configuring Carrier Channel - The present disclosure relates to mobile communication technologies and provides a multicarrier communication system, and a method and device for configuring a carrier channel, by which the reverse carrier and the corresponding forward carrier may be allocated flexibly, various multicarriers may be configured, the service requirements may be met better, and the terminal transmit power and the communication resources may be saved. In the present disclosure, the MAC channels corresponding to zero or a plurality of reverse carriers may be flexibly configured to the forward carrier, and the MAC channel may or may not include a DRC_Lock subchannel; additionally, in various embodiments, the MAC channels corresponding to a plurality of reverse carriers may be configured to the same forward carrier, so that the channel resources may be fully utilized. | 08-21-2008 |
20080205346 | Transmitter/receiver system with efficient memory management in rate matching processes - An embodiment of a telecommunication transmitter/receiver device is provided. The transmitter device includes: means for providing a set of words, each word including a plurality of digital symbols; a first memory area for storing the set of words, the first memory area including a first sequence of memory locations each one for storing a symbol; a second memory area for storing a composite frame including a predetermined number of symbols, the second memory area including a second sequence of memory locations; conversion means for converting the set of words in the first memory area into the frame in the second memory area, the conversion means including reduction means for reducing each word by removing a set of symbols from the word according to a puncturing algorithm, and expansion means for expanding each word by adding a set of additional symbols to the word according to a repeating algorithm; and means for transmitting the frame. The first memory area and the second memory area have at least one memory location in common. The receiver device has a dual structure. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205347 | Distribution Method of Channelization Code in Code Division Multiple Access System - The invention discloses a distribution method of channelization code in code division multiple access system, which including: A. the spread spectrum codes distributed to every sector and the correlated coefficients between the spread spectrum codes distributed to every neighbouring sector are calculated according to the cellular codes and the channelization codes distributed to every sector, when the network is programmed; B. every sector is divided into different regions and the edge region of every sector is formed; C. the priority of which every channelization code is at the edge region of every sector is decided according to the correlated coefficients between the spread spectrum codes distributed to every neighbouring sector; D. the position information of user is real-time calculated during the operation of system, and which region the user positioned in sector is determined according to the position information; E. according to the region at which the user positioned and the decided priority of which every channelization code is at the edge region of every sector, distribute the channelization codes to every user. The method of the invention can reduce the same-frequency interference of the edge region of sector due to the correlation of the spread spectrum codes, so as to improve the communication quality of which the users are at the edge regions of the sectors. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205348 | MAPPING UPLINK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TRANSMISSION BASED ON DOWNLINK VIRTUAL RESOURCE BLOCKS - An acknowledgment (ACK) mapping automation that reduces overhead for a wireless communication systems such as UTRAN-LTE, Global System for Mobile communications (GSM: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile), High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), or any packet-switched system, by providing a mapping of uplink (UL) location (i.e., modulation location in time, frequency and code) based upon a downlink (DL) allocations. Aspects address dynamic and persistent scheduling of user equipment (EU) with a selected combination of implicit and explicit mapping. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205349 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING HIGH-SPEED PACKET DATA TRANSMISSION - A method for encoding a control channel to transmit high-speed packet data in a base station of a high-speed packet data communication system. The method includes encoding a User Equipment Identifier (UE ID) of a UE that will receive the high-speed packet data, and rate-matching the encoded UE ID to generate a first stream; generating an offset value for cyclic-shifting the first stream, using the UE ID; encoding control information that the UE needs to receive the high-speed packet data, and rate-matching the encoded control information to generate a second stream; cyclic-shifting each of the first stream and the second stream by the offset value; and masking the cyclic-shifted second stream with the cyclic-shifted stream before transmission. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212539 | Method and Apparatus for Resource Reuse in a Communication System - Method and apparatuses taught herein enable link adaptation feedback to be determined in advance for future transmit intervals, based on one or more data sending units sending indications of future transmit resource allocations, and receiving corresponding link adaptation feedback from data receiving units. Knowledge of the future transmit resource allocations enable individual data sending units to predict interference conditions for the future transmit interval, and thereby compute link adaptation feedback that takes advantage of low-interference conditions. Individual data sending units receive link adaptation feedback for the future transmit interval from the data receiving units they are supporting, and make corresponding link adaptations for the future transmit interval. Such operations are, in one or more embodiments, carried out in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), Long Term Evolution LTE), or WiMAX network, wherein the data sending units comprise radio base stations, and the data receiving units comprise wireless communication devices. | 09-04-2008 |
20080212540 | Frequency Scanning Method, Memory and Terminal to Implement the Method - A frequency scanning method to locate a carrier frequency of a base station in a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) communication system, the method comprising a cell detection step ( | 09-04-2008 |
20080212541 | DATA DELIVERY IN CONJUNCTION WITH A HYBRID AUTOMATIC RETRANSMISSION MECHANISM IN CDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Techniques for delivering data recovered by a HARQ entity in proper order to higher layers in a CDMA system. In a method, packets are received from the HARQ entity by the re-ordering entity and missing packets among the received packets are detected. Packets may be transmitted in a sequential order based on transmission sequence numbers (TSNs) assigned to the packets, and missing packets may be detected based on the TSNs of the received packets. Delivery of received packets later than the missing packets are stalled because higher layers expect data in-order. A determination is thereafter made whether each missing packet is (1) subsequently received from the HARQ entity or (2) lost, by successively eliminating HARQ channels that may be used to send the missing packet. Received packets previously stalled by each missing packet are delivered after the missing packet is determined to be lost or received. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219219 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMISSION WITHIN A MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for indicating to a communication unit a plurality of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) to be utilized for communication. During a first MCS is determined for first resource blocks to be sent to a first remote unit or base station, and a second MCS is determined for a second resource block to be sent to the remote unit or base station. A message is transmitted indicating the first and the second MCS and also indicating the first resource blocks and the second resource block. Finally, a first PDU is transmitted to the remote unit or base station at a first time using the first MCS and the first resource blocks and a second PDU is transmitted to the remote unit or base station at the first time using the second MCS and the second resource block. | 09-11-2008 |
20080219220 | CDMA to packet-switching interface for code division switching in a terrestrial wireless system - An access radio port is provided that includes means for spreading a payload data signal, extracted from an ATM packet, with a uniquely assigned orthogonal code, means for transmitting the spread payload data signal to one of a group of mobile subscriber terminals located within a microport cell of a wireless terrestrial network, and means for releasing the uniquely assigned orthogonal code. In another aspect, a mobile subscriber terminal, configured to be located within a microport cell of a terrestrial wireless network that interfaces with an access radio port, is provided. The mobile subscriber terminal includes means for receiving an assignment of a unique orthogonal code, means for spreading a payload data signal by the unique orthogonal code, means for modulating and forwarding the spread payload data signal to the access radio port, and means for releasing the assignment of the unique orthogonal code. | 09-11-2008 |
20080219221 | ORTHOGONAL VARIABLE SPREADING FACTOR (OVSF) CODE ASSIGNMENT - The invention includes a system and methods for orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) code assignment, de-allocation and code tree pruning. The invention also includes OVSF code identification and storage schemes. Embodiments are provided for code tree pruning, code assignment and de-allocation. These embodiments apply to both slotted and non-slotted code division multiple access systems. | 09-11-2008 |
20080232327 | Decorrelating Discrimination System of Code Division Multiple Access Signals - here is provided a new multi-user receiver configuration technique which solves the problems of the user signal separation function of the multi-user receiver such as the interference canceller, decorrelator, and least square error detection. That is, there is provided a code-division multiplex signal decorrelation/identification method for realizing much more excellent performance than the aforementioned methods in the aspect of the power band amplitude product required for one-bit transfer as the evaluation reference of the CDMA method. A function for successively judging the best user is added to the conventional least square error detector MMSE-D shown by a dotted line in the block diagram of the successive detection type least square error detection method (SD-MMSE). | 09-25-2008 |
20080232328 | Localization of a mobile device in distributed antenna communications system - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for localization of a mobile device in a distributed antenna communications system. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a distributed antenna system includes a plurality of distributed antennas that are communicatively coupled to a hub. A mobile communications device to be located is communicatively coupled to the hub via one or more of the antennas. The method for locating the mobile device comprises: receiving a message at the hub that identifies the mobile device to be located; discriminating among communications signals received from each of the distributed antennas using a channel and a spreading code to identify a signal from the mobile device; identifying messages from the mobile device to be located; and determining which of the antennas is closest to the mobile device to be located by monitoring received signal strength of the identified signal. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232329 | Method and Apparatus for Handling Random Access Procedure in a Wireless Communications System - A method for handling a random access procedure in a wireless communications system comprises a network dividing access resources of a random access channel into at least one group, a UE randomly choosing a group of the at least group when the UE performs random access preamble or dedicated preamble based procedures. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232330 | Method for Ranging with Bandwidth Request Code - The present invention relates to a ranging method using a bandwidth request code. For this purpose, the present invention provides a ranging method that includes transmitting a bandwidth request code for requesting a bandwidth for uplink traffic transmission from a radio access station, receiving a CDMA_Allocation_IE of a UL_MAP that includes uplink radio resource information from the radio access station, adjusting a transmission parameter according to an adjustment value included in the CDMA_Allocation_IE when periodic ranging performance is checked through the CDMA_Allocation_IE, checking whether the adjusted transmission parameter has an optimum value, and resetting a timer for periodic ranging, and a CDMA_Allocation_IE structure of a UL_MAP for the same. According to the present invention, delay in uplink data transmission of a portable subscriber station can be reduced by including a ranging parameter for a bandwidth request code in a UL_MAP, and a downlink bandwidth can be efficiently used by a radio access station by eliminating a process of RNG_RSP transmission. | 09-25-2008 |
20080240044 | Packet data load generator system for 1x-EVDO wireless network - A packet data load generator (PDLG) system, and method for testing the PDLG system, includes a Linux-based computer terminal having multiple 1x-EVDO wireless interface cards, e.g., Sierra Wireless AirCards®, directly interfaced therewith. PCI-to-PCMCIA adapter cards are used for connecting the wireless cards to the terminal. The terminal also includes a Linux control program for controlling the multiple wireless cards on a single terminal. In operation, the wireless interface cards are controlled to establish multiple simultaneous 1x-EVDO calls between the terminal and a 1x-EVDO wireless network, e.g., each wireless interface card supports one call with the network. Packet data is transferred between the terminal and the network, in effect simulating a multiple 1x-EVDO call load on the network. PDLG software in place on the network is monitored and/or tested. Multiple similarly configured terminals may be provided for a large number of 1x-EVDO calls, e.g., 40-50, in a laboratory setting. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240045 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATION OF RADIO RESOURCES - Characteristics of an unknown application on the wireless network are compared with characteristics of previously classified wireless applications. When the characteristics of the unknown application match those of a previously classified application, the bandwidth requirement associated with the matching previously classified application is allocated to the unknown application by the wireless network. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240046 | BASE STATION FOR CONTROLLING INITIAL POWER RAMP-UP USING SHORT CODES - A base station for controlling transmission power during the establishment of a communication channel utilizes the reception of a short code during initial power ramp-up. The short code is a sequence for detection by the base station which has a much shorter period than a conventional access code. The ramp-up starts from a power level that is lower than the required power level for detection by the base station. The power of the short code is quickly increased until the signal is detected by the base station. Once the base station detects the short code, it transmits an indication that the short code has been detected. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240047 | METHOD AND SUBSCRIBER UNIT FOR CONTROLLING INITIAL POWER RAMP-UP USING SHORT CODES - A base station for controlling transmission power during the establishment of a communication channel utilizes the reception of a short code during initial power ramp-up. The short code is a sequence for detection by the base station which has a much shorter period than a conventional access code. The ramp-up starts from a power level that is lower than the required power level for detection by the base station. The power of the short code is quickly increased until the signal is detected by the base station. Once the base station detects the short code, it transmits an indication that the short code has been detected. | 10-02-2008 |
20080247363 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE SERVICE USING CODE-PATTERN - A method and apparatus for providing a mobile service with the use of a code pattern is disclosed In one embodiment, the method comprising: taking a photograph of a code pattern image, decoding the photographed code pattern image so as to obtain code information, extracting uniform resource locator (URL) information corresponding to the code information, transmitting a content information request message to a service provider server corresponding to the URL information, and receiving content information corresponding to the URL information from the service provider server. According to embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to provide various and convenient mobile services to mobile terminal users using a mobile terminal, having a camera, and a code pattern containing the URL information. | 10-09-2008 |
20080253335 | METHOD OF VIDEO DISTRIBUTION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - The present invention provides a method of allocating resources for transmission a broadcast data in a distributed network. One embodiment of the method may include selecting a first base station router from a plurality of base station routers. The first base station router is selected to allocate resources of the plurality of base station routers for providing the broadcast data. The method may also include providing the broadcast data to the plurality of base station routers. The broadcast data is configured for broadcast by each of the plurality of base station routers according to a resource allocation determined by the first base station router. | 10-16-2008 |
20080253336 | Multi-Carrier CQI Feedback Method and Apparatus - A radio base station transmits data symbols to a mobile terminal on multiple frequency carriers, e.g., in accordance with the MC-WCDMA or cmda2000 3x air interface protocols. The radio base station instructs the mobile terminal to report channel quality measurements obtained by the terminal for the multiple carriers over the same uplink channel during successive reporting intervals. According to one embodiment, the mobile terminal reports channel quality by receiving data symbols transmitted on a plurality of frequency carriers in a multi-carrier CDMA environment and measuring channel quality for the different frequency carriers. The mobile terminal reports individual ones of the channel quality measurements over the same uplink channel during successive reporting intervals. | 10-16-2008 |
20080267134 | RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL MESSAGE FORMAT FOR AN EXTENDED RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method for transmitting and receiving random access channel messages in an extended range wireless communication system. One embodiment of the method may include accumulating, at a base station, signal energy received during a first portion of a transmission time interval. The method may also include accumulating, at the base station, signal energy received during a second portion of the transmission time interval. The first and second portions are offset from the start or end of the transmission time interval by selected delay intervals. The method may further include detecting the message(s) based on the signal energy accumulated during the first and second portions of the transmission time interval. | 10-30-2008 |
20080267135 | Methods, base station, remote station and system for high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) communication - A method for generating a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) communication comprises concatenating multiple data packets and attaching a header to the concatenated multiple data packets to form an extended multiplexed data packet. The header comprises an indication of a size of each of the multiple data packets. The extended multiplexed data packet is then transmitted to a remote station on a downlink channel. | 10-30-2008 |
20080285521 | Method and apparatus for encoding data for transmission in a communication system - A method and apparatus for encoding data for transmission in a communication system provides increased efficiency in bandwidth utilization through higher data rates, lower error rates, lower power levels, and/or increased capacity. A set of orthogonal codes is partitioned into subsets. The data to be transmitted is partitioned into packets of bit sequences, each of which is mapped to an orthogonal code in an assigned subset. The number of members in a particular subset is determined by the relative transmission requirements of the data signal the subset will be used to encode. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285522 | Implement Method for Power Control of the High Speed Shared Control Channel and the High Speed Shared Information Channel - The present invention discloses a method for implementing power control of the high speed shared control channel and the high speed shared information channel, including: Node B independently setting the initial transmit power of the HS-SCCH with reference to the maximum power of HS-SCCH configured by higher layer and completing the open-loop power control; performing the close-loop power control based on transmit power control TPC command; UE calculating the initial transmit power based on a series of parameters configured by the higher layer and completing the open-loop power control; UE adjusting the close-loop transmit power based on the TPC command carried on HS-SCCH and completing the close-loop power control. Wherein, Node B generates the TPC by taking the high speed shared information channel SNR generated by itself as the target value and the high speed shared information channel SNR measured as the actual value. The present invention can achieve the power control of HS-SCCH and HS-SICH based on the TPC parameters for HS-SICH close-loop control calculated by Node B. | 11-20-2008 |
20080298322 | Data Transmission Method and Data Re-Transmission Method - A method which can reduce loss in data transmission is provided. A data block is prepared in a high-level layer and the data block is transmitted in a low-level layer. Status report information associated with reception or non-reception of the data block is received through the low-level layer. When a receiver fails to receive data transmitted from a transmitter, the transmitter can rapidly recognize the reception failure and can retransmit the data. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298323 | PACKET TRANSMISSION SCHEDULING TECHNIQUE - A packet data transmission method of the HSDPA system includes collecting information on the quality of physical channels, a status of the MAC buffer, the priority level of data, the delay of data, and the like, determining the transmission order of data and the size of a data block to be transmitted based on the collected information, and transmitting the data block through the physical according to the order of transmissions. Since the HSDPA scheduler takes into account the delay of data, the quality of real-time services can be improved. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298324 | Method and Apparatus for Sequentially Conducting Independent Data Contexts Using a Mobile Communications Device - A mobile communications device including a processor operable to conduct with a wireless packet data service network a PDP context associated with a first application running on the mobile communications device. The processor is further operable to release the PDP context associated with the first application and establish with the wireless packet data service network a PDP context associated with a second application running on the mobile communications device responsive to a first input received from a user of the device. The processor is further operable to reestablish the PDP context associated with the first application responsive to a second input received from the user. | 12-04-2008 |
20080310372 | Method for Estimating Direction-of-Arrival of Terminal in Multiple Co-Frequency Cells - The present invention discloses a method for estimating DOA of a terminal in multiple co-frequency cells, including the steps of: A. obtaining a channel estimation result of at least one terminal expecting a calculation of DOA in an expecting co-frequency cell; B. performing a Direction-of-Arrival estimation for the expecting terminal in the expecting cell based on the channel estimation result through a DOA estimating method with a wave beam scan, a DOA estimating method with a maximum power path, or a DOA estimating method with a primary eigenvector. With the channel estimations of the multiple cells in the invention, accurate channel estimation results of the respective cells may be provided, from which the channel estimation result of the expecting terminal is selected. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310373 | Distribution Method of Multi Basic Midamble and Joint Detection Method - A distribution method of multi basic midamble includes following step A. determining the number of channelizing code of a cell or sector (s | 12-18-2008 |
20080310374 | MITIGATION OF INTERFERENCE IN CELL SEARCH BY WIRELESS TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE UNITS - A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) provides facilitation of cell search. In one embodiment, received samples are split into a plurality of sample sets for processing. Each of the sets is processed and an accumulated result is divided by an estimated noise value. In another embodiment, a code correlator correlates the received signal with a primary synchronization code and an auxiliary code correlator having a same length as the code correlator correlates the received signal with a code having a low cross correlation with the primary synchronization code. In another embodiment, a division of an accumulated result with a noise estimate is performed using indexes of the most significant bits. | 12-18-2008 |
20080316975 | Method and Apparatus for Quantizing Complex Vectors in Communication System - Improved techniques are disclosed for quantizing complex vectors in communication systems. For example, a method includes the following steps. At least one complex vector representative of at least one element of a communication system is obtained. A codeword that approximates the complex vector is identified. The identified codeword is a codeword, from a set of codewords, wherein a real part of a product of the codeword and a scaled version of the complex vector is about maximal over the set of codewords. The scaled version of the complex vector is the product of the complex vector and a constant from a set of constants. In one embodiment, the element of the communication system that the complex vector represents is a channel between a base station and a user terminal in the communication system. | 12-25-2008 |
20080316976 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING INTERWORKING CDMA 3G1x MOBILES AND EVDO MOBILES WITH AN IMS CORE NETWORK - A basestation 3G1x network architecture which is used to convert 3G1x control and signaling to IMS/SIP in basestation is disclosed. The system includes a user agent that bi-directionally translates between SIP messaging and CDMA messaging. The system also includes a 1x basestation emulator which may act as an interface for the 3G1x handset. The basestation emulator is also configured to terminate CDMA mobile protocol and interconnect messages and operations with the user agent. The methods include mapping between the CDMA mobile message and the SIP message through the basestation emulator and the SIP user agent. The method may facilitate basestation origination and termination as well as feature services. These feature services may include three way calling, call waiting and call waiting with caller identification. | 12-25-2008 |
20080316977 | CHANNEL INTERLEAVING STRUCTURE FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing a hybrid transmission structure in a wireless communication environment. Each transport block (e.g., MAC PDU) can be split into multiple code blocks. Moreover, each of the code blocks can be further divided into two or more code block segments. Further, code block segments from a given code block can be transmitted over a channel during disparate time slots of a subframe. Also, within a given subframe, code block segments corresponding to differing code blocks can be transmitted sequentially in time. Utilization of the foregoing can enable employment of a pipelined decoder structure at a receiver while allowing for optimization of time/frequency diversity. | 12-25-2008 |
20090003286 | FRONT END MODULE COMPRISING AN ANTENNA SWITCH - A front-end module is for use with at least three radio frequency bands. The front-end module includes at least five signal paths, and an antenna switch to electrically connect an antenna to one of the signal paths. At least one of the signal paths includes subpaths. A frequency separating network interfaces the at least one signal path to the subpaths. The subpaths are for use in passing different radio frequency bands. The different radio frequency bands have frequency ranges that do not overlap. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003287 | Method of translating cellular carriers - A plurality of carrier signals in a wide band signal is converted into a plurality of digital carrier signals. Each of the plurality of carrier signals is at a respective frequency in the wide band signal. At least one of the plurality of digital carrier signals is translated to a different frequency. | 01-01-2009 |
20090010228 | Method for Restraining Cross-Slot Interference in Slot Cdma System - The present invention discloses a method for suppressing cross-slot interference in a time-slotted CDMA system. The method includes: determining, by a base station, positions of cross slots according to configuration information of local cell and configuration information of co-frequency adjacent cells, and performing multi-cell channel estimation on the cross slots to obtain channel estimation results; determining, by the base station, code channel configuration information of the co-frequency adjacent cells, grouping the determined code channels and determining the code channels of the co-frequency adjacent cells involved in a joint detection; and performing, by the base station, the joint detection according to the multi-cell information estimation results and the determined code channels of the base stations involved in the joint detection to obtain detection data. With the present invention, interference from a base station transmitting downlink signals in cross slots to a base station receiving uplink signals in the corresponding slot may be reduced, and the system capacity and the stability may be improved. | 01-08-2009 |
20090022108 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RESPONDING PAGING INFORMATION FOR DUAL-MODE ACCESS TERMINAL AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR NETWORK SWITCHING ACCORDING TO NETWORK INDICATION - Provided is a method for transmitting 1x paging information through a HRPD network and responding to the 1x paging information by a dual-mode MS/AT. After the MS/AT turns to a HRPD network and informs a MSC of related information, if some 1x paging information arrives, the MSC sendes a message indicating 1x service arrival to the PCF. A HRPD AN beares the 1x service arrival message that carries a calling information sent from the PCF in the 1x service packet to send to the MS/AT. If the user receiving the 1x service arrival message chooses to accept a 1x call, the MS/AT terminates the service in the HRPD network and turning to the 1x network to send a “paging response” message to a 1x BS. | 01-22-2009 |
20090022109 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING SCANNING OF RADIO SIGNALS - The present invention provides a mobile terminal and a method of executing scanning for radio signals in the case where the mobile terminal is connectable to multiple radio communication systems employing different radio communication schemes. The mobile terminal and the method can scan for radio signals transmitted from a radio base station at an appropriate timing without modifying the existing radio base station or the like. The mobile terminal includes a WLAN controller configured to cause a WLAN communication unit to execute scanning for radio signals transmitted from an access point. Scanning is executed if a scrambling code determining unit determines that a scrambling code contained in notification matches a scrambling code stored in a scrambling code information storage, and if a position determining unit determines that a certain position indicated by position information stored in a GPS position information storage is within a predetermined distance from a current position of the mobile terminal. | 01-22-2009 |
20090034481 | CODE SEQUENCE TRANSMISSION METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTER, AND RECEIVER - A code sequence transmission method capable of improving system throughput and user throughput by improving power utilization efficiencies of a control channel and a data channel including a plurality of signals having different required qualities is provided. In a mobile station, a bit sequence of a TFCI is transmitted within one frame a plurality of times repeatedly the bit sequence of each TFCI is multiplied by one bit of a bit sequence of an SI, a multiplication result is transmitted. It is thereby possible to transmit both the TFCI and the SI without providing a signal field of the SI in each frame. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034482 | Cell search operations using Multibranch PSYNC detection module - A wireless terminal is operable to receive a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal from a base station and includes clock circuitry, a wireless interface, and a Primary Synchronization (PSYNC) module. The clock circuitry generates a wireless terminal clock using a wireless terminal oscillator. The wireless interface receives the WCDMA signal, which is produced by the base station using a base station clock that is produced using a base station oscillator that is more accurate than the wireless terminal oscillator. The PSYNC module includes a plurality of PSYNC correlation branches. Each PSYNC correlation branch phase rotates the WCDMA signal based upon a respective frequency offset, correlates the phase rotated WCDMA signal with a Primary Synchronization Channel (PSCH) code over a plurality of sampling positions, and produces PSYNC correlation energies based upon the correlations for each of the plurality of sampling positions. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034483 | Methods for detecting acknowledgement channels using probabilities - A first transceiver determines whether a second transceiver has properly decoded at least one of a received data packet and control information associated with the corresponding data packet based on an estimated probability. The estimated probability is indicative of whether the second transceiver has properly decoded at least one of the data packet and associated control information. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034484 | Synchronization channel noise power estimation - Apparatus and method to process a pilot channel and a synchronization channel to obtain a combined noise estimate of the pilot channel and the synchronization channel that is synchronized to the pilot channel. The combined noise estimation is processed to determine a first noise component for a period when both the pilot channel and the synchronization channel are present. Then, the combined noise estimate is processed to determine a second noise component for a period when only the pilot channel is present. Next, the second noise component is subtracted from the first noise component to derive a noise estimation for the synchronization channel. The technique may be applied to the Common Pilot Channel (CPICH), and the Synchronization Channel (SCH) defined in a 3 | 02-05-2009 |
20090034485 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Continuous Packet Connectivity in a Wireless Communications System - A method of improving CPC for a UE in a wireless communications system includes receiving a reconfiguration message, determining the content of a second information element, abbreviated to IE, included in a first IE when the first IE is included in the reconfiguration message, wherein the first IE is used for indicating timing information of a discontinuous transmission and discontinuous reception, abbreviated to DTX-DRX, operation and the second IE is used for selecting a timing of the DTX-DRX operation, and using the content of the first IE without storing the content of the first IE when the content of the second IE is a new timing. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034486 | WIRELESS BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - The wireless base station | 02-05-2009 |
20090034487 | HARQ PROCESS RESTRICTION AND TRANSMISSION OF NON-SCHEDULED CONTROL DATA VIA UPLINK CHANNELS - The present invention relates to a method and mobile terminal for performing a data allocation process for scheduled data, non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a scheduling grant and at least one non-scheduled grant. Further, the invention relates to a method for transmitting control signaling from a network entity in a radio access network of a mobile communication system controlling the radio resources of mobile terminals to at least one of said mobile terminal and the network entity in a radio access network. In order to reduce the delays to control signaling implied by a conventional HARQ process restriction mechanism the present invention suggests a new categorization of uplink data into scheduled data, non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data and a new HARQ process restriction mechanism disabling certain HARQ processes for non-scheduled user data only. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034488 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND DATA RETRANSMISSION METHOD OF THE SAME - A base station apparatus of this invention includes a buffer ( | 02-05-2009 |
20090046666 | Resource Control in a Wireless Communication Network - A wireless access network comprises dedicated data channels and at least one shared data channel in at least one cell. At least part of the mobile stations in the cell are capable of communicating alternatively on a dedicated data channel or a common shared data channel. A target bit rate is provided as a minimum bit rate that should be achieved in the common shared data channel by each user. If this bit rate is not achieved by a user, it is checked whether the dedicated data channel resources could offer a better bit rate level for the user. If this is the case, a dedicated data channel connection is established for the user although the user's mobile station is capable of operating in the common shared data channel. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046667 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE RADIO RESOURCE OVERHEAD ASSOCIATED WITH INTERMITTENT TRAFFIC - A method and apparatus for No-TX mode for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and Node B that suspends the transmission of power control updates and associated signaling over dedicated uplink and downlink channels. Triggers and signals between the WTRU and Node B to activate and disable No-TX mode. A radio link is re-established to resume data transmission when No-TX mode is disabled, and data may also be transmitted during defined transmission opportunities while in No-TX mode. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046668 | Method and system for detecting and identifying scrambling codes - A system for detecting and identifying a scrambling code in received signals. According to one aspect of the system, the system is used to perform scrambling code detection of eight (8) primary cells (each scrambling code being spaced sixteen (16) chips apart) in a group. According to another aspect of the system, a single scrambling code generator is used to generate sequential chips of a master scrambling code. The sequential chips are used to create individual segments which are used in correlation with received signals to detect in parallel which one of the eight (8) possible primary cells in the group transmitted the received signals. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046669 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR CHOOSING A CHANNEL CODING AND INTERLEAVING SCHEME FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF PACKET DATA CONNECTIONS - A method for choosing channel coding and/or interleaving scheme is applied in a communication connection over a radio interface between a terminal and a base station of a cellular packet radio system. A certain decision-making device allocates channel coding and/or interleaving schemes to communication connections. A request message is communicated (to the decision-making device, indicating a certain set of Quality of Service parameters associated with a certain first communication connection. The set of Quality of Service parameters is mapped to a certain first channel coding and/or interleaving scheme as a part of the channel coding and/or interleaving scheme allocation made by the decision-making device. The first channel coding and/or interleaving scheme is communicated to the base station and the terminal for them to apply said first channel coding and/or interleaving scheme in the first communication connection. | 02-19-2009 |
20090052403 | CDMA-Based Mobile Terminal, CDMA-Based Mobile Communication Method, and Communication Quality Estimating Method - A mobile terminal ( | 02-26-2009 |
20090052404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A SPECTRALLY COMPLIANT CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system for wireless data transmission that uses a channel bandwidth, channel separation, and radio frequency power spectrum which is compatible with existing deployments of wireless voice services. The transmitted waveforms are thus compatible with existing cellular networks. However, the time domain digital coding, modulation, and power control schemes are optimized for data transmission. Existing cellular network sites can thus be used to provide a high speed service optimized for wireless data traffic without the need for new radio frequency planning, and without interfering with existing voice service deployments. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052405 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK DATA IN A MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - A method of transmitting feedback data in a multiple antenna system comprises receiving a request message of feedback data on a downlink channel, the request message comprising uplink scheduling information, selecting a set of M (M≧1) subbands within a plurality of subbands, generating the feedback data, the feedback data comprising a frequency selective PMI (preceding matrix indicator), a frequency flat PMI, a best band CQI (channel quality indicator) and a whole band CQI, and transmitting the feedback data on a uplink channel allocated to the uplink scheduling information. | 02-26-2009 |
20090059869 | Pseudorandom Noise Selection Method for Mobile Communication Sites - A method for allocating a pseudorandom noise identifier (PN) to a home base station (HBS) is provided. The method includes determining the location of the HBS, determining the PNs in use adjacent to the HBS, and using the location of the HBS and the PNs in use to select a PN for the HBS. | 03-05-2009 |
20090059870 | Method to Filter Unauthorized Mobile Devices in Code Division Multiple Access Networks - A method for managing an attempted connection between a home base station (HBS) and a device not registered with the HBS is provided. The method includes transferring the connection when the attempted connection can be transferred to a traditional base station. When the attempted connection cannot be transferred to a traditional base station, it is determined whether a portion of the resources of the HBS can be used by the device not registered with the HBS. When a portion of the resources can be used, the portion is used. When a portion of the resources cannot be used, the attempted connection is not completed. | 03-05-2009 |
20090067387 | WIRELESS USER EQUIPMENT FOR USE IN REDUCING CROSS CELL INTERFERENCE - A method for reducing cross cell interference in a wireless time division duplex communication system using code division multiple access, the system having at least one user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS) is disclosed. The method begins by measuring an interference level of each timeslot at the BS. A timeslot is eliminated for additional uplink communication if the measured interference level exceeds a first threshold. UEs in nearby cells that are large interferers are identified and their downlink timeslot usage is gathered. A timeslot is eliminated for uplink communication for a large interferer UE that uses the timeslot for downlink communication. | 03-12-2009 |
20090067388 | Method and System for Mobile Receiver Architecture for US Band Cellular and VHF/UHF Broadcasting - In a video processing system, a method and system for a mobile receiver architecture for US Band cellular and VHF/UHF broadcasting are provided. Received channels may be processed in at least one radio frequency front end (RFFE) in a mobile terminal and may comprise at least one of a VHF/UHF broadcast channel and World band cellular channels capable of carrying voice and data. The cellular channels may be WCDMA 1900 or 850 MHz and GSM 1900 or 850 MHz. A single cellular/broadcast radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) may be utilized for processing the received channels. In another embodiment, a cellular band RFIC may process the EU band cellular channels and a broadcast RFIC may process the broadcast channel. Moreover, a first RFIC may process the WCDMA channels, a second RFIC may process the GSM channels, and a broadcast RFIC may process the broadcast channel. | 03-12-2009 |
20090073939 | Method for the Assignment of Scrambling Codes to cells of a CDMA Cellular Mobile Communications Network - A method for assigning scrambling codes in a code division multiple access cellular radio communications network includes a plurality of network cells cove ring a geographic area, including: determining, for each of the cells, a respective set of adjacent cells by: taking a first set of cells that are neighbors of the given cell; taking a second set of cells that are neighbors of neighbors of the given cell; taking a third set of cells that are neighbors of neighbors of neighbors of the given cell, wherein two cells are considered neighbors in case the respective coverage areas at least partially overlap; taking a fourth set of cells which, in at least one point of the best server are of the given cell, have an adjacent coefficient with the given cell higher than a predetermined threshold; combining the first, second, third and fourth set of cells; and assigning to each cell of the set of adjacent cells a scrambling code different from a scrambling code assigned to the given cell. | 03-19-2009 |
20090080383 | SYMBOL INTERLEAVE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A receiver includes a plurality of de-spreading correlators that are programmed to only correlate a specific portion of the full spreading code according to an interleave factor. Each correlator may be associated with a different symbol. The received signal may be received at all correlators and is multiplied by a code generated by a code generator according to the symbol associated with the correlator. While each correlator may be despreading the received signal at all times, an enable signal is used to determine when information for an associated cell should be accumulated for each correlator. | 03-26-2009 |
20090086682 | Downlink Out of Sync Detection in Continuous Packet Connectivity - Out-of-sync and in-sync detections and downlink power control by UTRAN user equipment are improved in Continuous Packet Connectivity mode featuring discontinuous UL DPCCH transmission by requiring all F-DPCH transmissions from a base station to the user equipment to be valid during a UL DTX gated period. Additionally, the user equipment receives and considers all F-DPCH transmissions during the UL DTX gated period, for power control, out-of-sync and in-sync detections. If the user equipment detects an out-of-sync condition, it may immediately transmit a scheduling request to notify the network, temporarily or permanently annulling the discontinuous UL DPCCH transmission. | 04-02-2009 |
20090086683 | Method and System of Piconet Groups - A set of piconets and corresponding methods and computer programs may reduce contention time between piconets. In one embodiment, a seven-length code architecture may be used with group(s) of bands so that contention time cannot exceed 1/7 of the time. Up to seven different bands can be used within each group. When less than seven bands are used (e.g., three or six), at least one of the bands may be assigned to more than one dwell time during a time span. Alternatively, each dwell time within the time span may be assigned to a different band. The state may be changed as needed or desired. Substitution of extra bands may also be used. Using either scheme (repeated bands or changing states), a prime-number architecture can be used with a non-prime number of different bands. Simultaneous communications using at least two bands within a piconet may be used. | 04-02-2009 |
20090092102 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCAN MODE SELECTION DURING AN EVDO TRAFFIC STATE - A method and apparatus for user data traffic handling for an EVDO enabled hybrid mode mobile device, the method having the steps of: blocking a system selection at the mobile device until no EVDO traffic state exists, the blocking step includes either monitoring whether a user changes a scan mode on the mobile device; and if the user changes the scan mode, checking whether the mobile device is in an EVDO traffic state; and if yes delaying a system selection until the EVDO traffic state is ended, or monitoring whether a user is in an EVDO traffic state, and if yes, preventing a user from accessing a scan mode menu on the mobile device. | 04-09-2009 |
20090097455 | ACCESS CHANNEL STRUCTURE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A technique for efficient implementation of pilot signals on a reverse link in a wireless communication system. An access channel is defined for the reverse link such that within each frame, or epoch, a portion is dedicated to sending only pilot symbols. Another portion of the frame is reserved for sending mostly data symbols; however, within this second portion of the frame, additional pilot symbols are interleaved among the data symbols. The pilot symbol or preamble portion of the access channel frame allows for efficient acquisition of the access signal at the base station, while providing a timing reference for determining the effects of multipath fading. In particular, a pilot correlation filter provides a phase estimate from the pilot symbols in the preamble portion, which is then used to decode the data symbols in the payload portion. An access acquisition portion of the receiver uses the phase estimates provided by the pilot correlation filter to process the output of a data symbol correlation filter. The additional pilot symbols embedded in the payload portion are used in a cross product operation to further resolve the effects of multipath fading. | 04-16-2009 |
20090103497 | TRANSMISSION STRUCTURE SUPPORTING MULTI-USER SCHEDULING AND MIMO TRANSMISSION - Techniques for transmitting data in a manner to support multi-user scheduling, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission, and interference cancellation are described. A base station assigns multiple time segments of a transmission time interval (TTI) to at least one terminal, maps data for each terminal to at least one time segment assigned to the terminal, and spreads the data in each time segment with at least one channelization code used in the TTI. A terminal receives an assignment of at least one time segment from among multiple time segments of the TTI, obtains input samples for the at least one time segment, and despreads the input samples with the at least one channelization code used in the TTI. | 04-23-2009 |
20090109931 | METHOD FOR CODING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IN A MEDIA ACCESS PROTOCOL (MAP) MESSAGE - Disclosed is a method for reducing number of bits in a Media Access Protocol (MAP) message. The MAP message comprises a plurality of information elements grouped into one of a first set of information elements and a second set of information elements. The first set of information elements are arranged in a pre-defined order and each of the second set of information elements is inserted into one of a prefix position to the pre-defined order, a suffix position to the pre-defined order and an intermediate position in-between two information elements in the pre-defined order. Each information element of the second set of information elements is then coded based on position of the information element relative to the position of the first set of information elements in the pre-defined order, thereby reducing the number of bits in the MAP message. | 04-30-2009 |
20090109932 | Fast urgent services support over 802.16 air interface - Among the proposals of the present application is a method that includes receiving a bandwidth request with a code division multiple access code from a first network node to a second network node. The method also includes processing the bandwidth request at the second network node. The method further includes receiving a first portion of an urgent service data flow related to the bandwidth request after fewer than four round trips of communication between the first network node and the second network node. | 04-30-2009 |
20090109933 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - To provide a technology capable of reducing a processing load on a base station controller and restraining a traffic quantity within a mobile communication system. A base station apparatus connected to a base station controller has a first establishing unit establishing a first logic communication path between the base station apparatus and the base station controller; a second establishing unit establishing a second logic communication path between the base station apparatus and another base station apparatus; and a forwarding unit forwarding data, transmitted and received with the another base station apparatus and the base station controller serving as terminal points, as data of another base station apparatus via the first logic communication path and the second logic communication path. | 04-30-2009 |
20090109934 | Identical Puncturing Of UE Identification Data And Load Data In The HS-SCCH Channel - The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data via a physical channel in a communication system, the channel being used by at least one first communication device and one second communication device and transmitting data with a defined bit rate. According to the present invention, the data to be transmitted (TD) is composed of load data (LD) and identification data (ID) for identifying the second communication device, the load data (LD) and identification data (ID) are coded separately from one another, the respective coding (C_LD, C_ID) takes place in such a way that an identical bit rate is achieved after the coding operation for the load data (LD) and the identification data (ID) and the rate is matched to the bit rate that has been defined for the physical channel by a rate matching mode, which defines which bits are punctured or repeated in a data stream. The rate matching model for load data (LD) and identification data (ID) is identical. | 04-30-2009 |
20090109935 | ADAPTIVE UPLINK/DOWNLINK TIMESLOT ASSIGNMENT IN A HYBRID WIRELESS TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS/CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of adaptive uplink/downlink timeslot assignment includes determining at least one of a potentially interfering cell which potentially interferes with a particular cell. A timeslot for uplink communication is eliminated, if a first one of the potentially interfering cells uses that timeslot for downlink communications. A timeslot for downlink communication is eliminated if a dynamic interference measurement in that timeslot as measured by most users exceeds a predetermined threshold and if a dynamic interference measurement in that timeslot does not exceed the predetermined threshold for most users but exceeds the predetermined threshold for at least one user. A timeslot is assigned to an uplink communication of the particular cell using non-uplink eliminated timeslots, and a timeslot is assigned to a downlink communication of the particular cell to each user using non-downlink eliminated timeslots with respect to that user. | 04-30-2009 |
20090116455 | Method and Apparatus for Code Power Parameter Estimation for Received Signal Processing - As taught herein channelization code power estimates are generated for a number of data channels in a received CDMA signal based on a joint determination process. Joint processing in this context yields improved estimation of data channel code powers and corresponding estimations of noise variance. These improvements arise from exploitation of joint processing of measured data value correlations across two or more data channel codes represented in the received signal. In one or more embodiments, joint determination of data channel code powers comprises forming a correlation matrix as a weighted average of correlations determined for a plurality of data channels. In one or more other embodiments, joint determination of data channel code powers comprises jointly fitting the correlation matrices for a plurality of data channels in a least squares error estimation process. | 05-07-2009 |
20090116456 | Method, Apparatus, Analyser and Computer Program of Searching for Propagation Paths - A radio channel is formed for estimation, the radio channel including dominant paths from a digital impulse response estimate of a channel relating to a radio system. A divider divides the impulse response estimate temporally into at least two subsignals. An analyser determines whether a distribution of the amplitude values of at least one subsignal is gaussian or non-gaussian. A searcher searches for a highest amplitude value in each subsignal, which is determined to be non-gaussian. A generator may form a radio channel for a radio channel simulation, the radio channel including each propagation path corresponding to the highest amplitude value in each subsignal determined to be non-gaussian. | 05-07-2009 |
20090116457 | METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES FOR WIRELESS AD-HOC NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS USING RECEIVER DETERMINED CHANNELS AND TRANSMITTED REFERENCE SIGNALS - Electronic devices for communicating in wireless ad-hoc networks and multiple access systems (such as mobile radio telephone communications systems) are disclosed. For example, a disclosed transmitter can transmit data to a first receiver in an ad-hoc wireless network (or multiple access system) over a first channel and can, further, transmit data to a second receiver in the ad-hoc wireless network (or multiple access system) over a second channel that is separate from the first channel, where the first and second channels are determined by the respective receivers which will receive the first and second transmitted data. Accordingly, communications between transmitters and different receivers in the ad-hoc wireless network (or multiple access system) can be carried on simultaneously. Related receivers as well as methods, computer program products, and systems for communicating are also disclosed. | 05-07-2009 |
20090122764 | PHYSICAL LAYER PROCESSING FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS - The invention includes various embodiments for use in physical layer processing. One embodiment determines the address mapping of bits in the physical channel buffer from the address of bits in the first interleaver buffer. The physical channel buffer addresses are determined corresponding to addresses of the bits after rate matching, bit scrambling, second interleaving and physical channel mapping. The bits are directly read from the first interleaver buffer and written to the physical channel buffer using the determined physical channel buffer addresses. Another embodiment determines the address mapping of bits in the first interleaver buffer from the address of bits in the physical channel buffer. The first interleaver buffer addresses are determined corresponding to addresses of the bits after reverse rate matching, reverse bit scrambling, reverse second interleaving and reverse physical channel mapping. The bits are directly read from the determined first interleaver buffer addresses and written to the physical channel buffer addresses. | 05-14-2009 |
20090135786 | Method and Telecommunication Device for Selecting Number of Code Channels and Associated Spreading Factor for CDMA Transmission - A set of permissible parameter pairs with the parameters being a number of code channels and an associated spreading factor is determined according to at least one first selection criterion. Then a parameter pair from the set of permissible parameter pairs for the CDMA transmission is selected according to at least one second selection criterion. In this selection process, the spreading factor is used as a second selection criterion with a higher value being preferred over a lower value if both spreading factors are below or equal to a threshold spreading factor value. This accounts for the fact that in a certain regime low spreading factor involve a prohibitively high processing load and lead to increase inter symbol interference. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135787 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile station device of the present invention includes: a request-signal generating unit that sets a plurality of channel quality indications to be included in a report according to a given pattern to request gap generation for suspending communication for a handover and monitoring another base station device; a gap-generation-request-signal transmitting unit that transmits the report of the channel quality indications having the given pattern to the base station device; a control-signal receiving unit that receives, from the base station device, a control signal indicative of suspension or resumption of the report during a period in which the report is transmitted; and a transmission control unit that controls the gap generation according to the control signal. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135788 | ORTHOGONAL VARIABLE SPREADING FACTOR (OVSF) CODE ASSIGNMENT - The invention includes a system and methods for orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) code assignment, de-allocation and code tree pruning. The invention also includes OVSF code identification and storage schemes. Embodiments are provided for code tree pruning, code assignment and de-allocation. These embodiments apply to both slotted and non-slotted code division multiple access systems. | 05-28-2009 |
20090141690 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK CONTROL SIGNALING - A transmitter in a wireless network transmits joint channel quality indicator (CQI) and data packet acknowledgement (Ack) or just CQI within the same subframe without uplink data transmission that can be readily detected at a receiver. When a short cyclic prefix (CP) is appropriate, a first approach utilizes a pilot aided signaling by using two different Walsh covers for the pilots to signal CQI vs. CQI+ACK. When a long CP is appropriate with one pilot, two different code designs are provided for CQI and CQI+ACK that only optimize the code book for each mode separately, but also maximize the distance between these two code spaces. Various coset based approaches are described to search for such linear block codes. Initial results showed good codes can be found based on the coset based approach to minimize the false alarm and misdetection. | 06-04-2009 |
20090147755 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA-CENTRIC MULTIPLEXING - An apparatus and method for data centric multiplexing in a wireless communication system with a plurality of channels comprising assigning a first resource to a first of the plurality of channels; assigning a second resource to a second of the plurality of channels wherein the second resource is not the first resource; assigning a third resource to a third of the plurality of channels wherein the third resource is not the first or the second resource; and assigning a fourth resource to a fourth of the plurality of channels by puncturing at least one of the first, second or third resources and skipping the rest of unpunctured first, second or third resources. | 06-11-2009 |
20090154427 | TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE ANTENNA, METHOD THEREOF, AND DIGITAL INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY TRANSMISSION SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME - Provided are a transmitter and receiver for a high throughput wireless communication system using a multiple antenna, a method thereof, and a digital intermediate frequency (DIF) transmission signal processing method for the same. The transmitter, includes: a baseband transmitting unit for processing a transmission signal by performing a Media Access Control (MAC) protocol process on transmission data and dividing the transmission data into n band signals where n is a predetermined natural number in a physical layer process; a DIF transmitting unit for integrating transmission signals of each band transmitted from the baseband transmitting unit and outputting m channels where m is a predetermined natural number; and a Radio Frequency (RF) transmitting unit for modulating each channel signal transmitted from the DIF transmitting unit into an RF signal and emitting the signal through the multiple antenna. | 06-18-2009 |
20090154428 | METHOD OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - In order to accomplish efficient communication of data between a base station and a plurality of mobile terminals, particular orthogonal codes are transmitted from the mobile stations to the base station as alert signals indicating the presence of data to be transmitted. The base station checks whether particular orthogonal codes are contained in the alert signals, and when the particular orthogonal codes are detected in the alert signals, information representing the detected orthogonal codes and the schedules for transmitting the data from the mobile terminals to the base station are transmitted from the base station to the mobile terminals as an alert response to the alert signals. When the information representing the orthogonal codes used for the alert signals are contained in the alert response transmitted from the base station to the mobile terminals, the data waiting to be transmitted is transmitted from the mobile terminals to the base station according the data transmission schedules in the alert response. | 06-18-2009 |
20090161632 | POWER-EFFICIENT ENHANCED UPLINK TRANSMISSION - A method and arrangement in a mobile terminal such as a UE for selecting a transport format for an uplink transmission to a base station, wherein the selector selects a transport format from a set of transport formats which are generated based upon parameters of a radio connection established with the base station. Upon establishing a radio connection, the base station sends parameters to the UE describing a radio bearer configuration. The UE generates a set of transport formats based upon the radio bearer parameters. A classifier then classifies each of the transport formats in the set as either power-efficient or power-inefficient. When a grant is received from the base station, the UE derives a set of allowed transport formats. A transport format selector then selects a transport format that is both power-efficient and allowed. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161633 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNICATION CONNECTION - Various embodiments are directed to a mobile computing device having a communication management module. The communication management module receives connection information from a destination device, the connection information representing at least one communication mode accepted by the destination device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161634 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING SUBSCRIBER STATIONS TO PROCESS A SYNCHRONIZATION CHANNEL IN A SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - During initiation procedure between subscriber stations and access network adhering to CDMA standards, (e.g., IS-95 and IS-2000) the subscriber station receives a Sync Channel Message. Due to a design/manufacturing error, certain subscriber stations adhering to the IS-95 fail to ignore a portion of the Sync Channel Message, intended for a proper operation of subscriber stations adhering to the IS-2000. This causes a failure of the IS-95 subscriber stations' operation. The disclosed invention describes embodiments allowing the faulty subscriber stations to operate on an access networks build in accordance with both IS-95 and IS-2000 standards. | 06-25-2009 |
20090161635 | RACH-RAMP-UP ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - A disclosed code-division-multiple-access (CDMA) system has a base station (BS) and remote stations (RSs). A BS-spread-spectrum transmitter broadcasts a common-synchronization channel having a chip-sequence signal common to the remote stations served by the BS, and a frame-timing signal. A RS-spread-spectrum receiver receives the broadcast common-synchronization channel, and determines frame timing from the frame-timing signal. A first RS-spread-spectrum transmitter transmits an access-burst signal, which has a plurality of segments. Each access burst signal segment has a plurality of power levels. A BS-spread-spectrum receiver receives the access-burst signal at a detected-power level. In response to receiving the access-burst signal, a BS-spread-spectrum transmitter transmits an acknowledgment signal to the RS-spread-spectrum receiver. The RS-spread-spectrum receiver receives the acknowledgment signal, and in, the RS-spread-spectrum transmitter transmits a spread-spectrum signal having data to the BS-spread-spectrum receiver. | 06-25-2009 |
20090168729 | Method for controlling data transmission - A method for controlling data transmission comprising following steps of: obtaining transmission delays and time differences between a RNC and respective base stations by the RNC; configuring cells and a common channel for data transmitting by the RNC; controlling a start time of data transmission of each cells by the RNC; informing a UE of a frame offset and a chip offset of the common channel through an interface Uu by the RNC; and receiving configuration parameters of the common channel transmitted from the RNC by the UE. In the present invention, merging of signals transmitted from different cells via the common channel has been achieved so that the quality of signals received by the UE has been improved and the throughput of the system has been enlarged. | 07-02-2009 |
20090175243 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS USING MULTI-BAND RADIO FREQUENCIES - A method for transmitting and receiving signals using multi-band Radio Frequencies (RFs) is provided. The method performs channel coding on an information unit of a specific layer above a physical layer to produce a specific number of codewords and maps the generated specific number of codewords to a plurality of frequency allocation bands managed by one specific layer, and then transmits the mapped signal through each of the plurality of frequency allocation bands. Each of the plurality of frequency allocation bands managed by the one specific layer has a band size for allocation for a specific service according to a predetermined frequency policy. When the generated specific number of codewords is mapped to the plurality of frequency allocation bands, each of the specific number of codewords is mapped to at least one of the plurality of frequency allocation bands. A frequency allocation band used for transmission of each codeword when the codeword is retransmitted may be set to be different from that when it is initially transmitted. | 07-09-2009 |
20090175244 | SPREAD SPECTRUM BASE STATION NOTCH FILTERING TRANSMITTED SIGNALS - A base station is in a spread spectrum code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system with co-exists with a diverse system of existing users. The diverse system selectively utilizes various frequencies within a selected range of frequencies. The base station generates a plurality of spread spectrum CDMA data signals using pseudo random chip code sequences. The spread data signals encompass the selected range. The base station notch filters the spread data signals at frequencies within the selected range used by the diverse system. The notch filtered spread data signals are transmitted in CDMA cellular radio communications. | 07-09-2009 |
20090190559 | TD-SCDMA BASED SFN NETWORK AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - Networking methods of a Single Frequency Network (SFN) in communication systems are disclosed. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190560 | UPLINK SYNCHRONIZATION REQUEST METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CDMA ALLOCATION IE THEREOF, AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to an uplink synchronization request method in a mobile communication system, a CDMA allocation information element structure thereof, and an apparatus using the same. For this purpose the uplink synchronization request method includes: when up-link traffic is generated, determining whether an uplink synchronization error occurs; when the uplink synchronization error occurs, calculating a timing adjustment value; and transmitting a bandwidth request code including the calculated timing adjustment value to a base station and performing a band-width request. According to the present invention, the PSS compares a reference adjustment value and an arrival time of a downlink preamble to calculate uplink synchronization timing and synchronize an uplink of the PSS that requests bandwidth allocation through a bandwidth request ranging process to thereby maximize resource use efficiency in the uplink synchronization. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190561 | BASE STATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station device and a mobile terminal for improving frequency-utilization efficiency to realize high-speed communication. The base station device forming a cell and performing radio communication with the mobile terminal being present in the cell includes determining unit configured to determine the application of adaptive demodulation and coding only to the radio communication with the mobile terminal present in a part of a predetermined area in the cell and an estimating unit configured to estimate channel state information on the basis of the pilot signal from the mobile terminal, wherein the determining unit determines whether or not the adaptive demodulation and coding is applied to the radio communication with the mobile terminal on the basis of the channel state information estimated by the estimating unit. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190562 | HRPD NETWORK ACCESS AUTHENTICATION METHOD BASED ON CAVE ALGORITHM - A HRPD network access authentication method based on CAVE algorithm is provided. An AT (Access Terminal) generates a random number “RAND” necessary for a calculation of an AUTH | 07-30-2009 |
20090196260 | METHOD FOR SIGNALING A MODULATION SCHEME TO USER EQUIPMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method signals a modulation scheme to user equipment on a control channel in a communication system. The method includes encoding the modulation scheme on a modulation specifier and encoding a number of channelization codes on a code group indicator. When the modulation scheme is other than quadrature phase shift keying with the user equipment being configured to support 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (64-QAM), then set the modulation specifier to indicate that the applied modulation scheme is other than QPSK, encode a code offset on a code offset indicator, and set one bit of the code offset indicator to indicate that the applied modulation scheme is 64-QAM. Finally, the method includes transmitting the modulation specifier, the code group indicator, and the code offset indicator on the control channel to the user equipment. | 08-06-2009 |
20090196261 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR ENHANCED UPLINK USING A SHARED CONTROL CHANNEL - Techniques for supporting operation with enhanced uplink are described. A user equipment (UE) may select a signature from a set of signatures available for random access for enhanced uplink, generate an access preamble based on the selected signature, and send the access preamble for random access while operating in an inactive state. The UE may receive allocated resources (e.g., for an E-DCH) for the UE from a shared control channel (e.g., an HS-SCCH). In one design, the UE may determine a pre-assigned UE identity (ID) associated with the selected signature, de-mask received symbols for the shared control channel based on the pre-assigned UE ID, decode the demasked symbols to obtain a codeword, and determine the allocated resources based on the codeword. The UE may send data to a Node B using the allocated resources while remaining in the inactive state. | 08-06-2009 |
20090201885 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD USED FOR THE SAME, AND PROGRAM OF THE SAME - The mobile station | 08-13-2009 |
20090201886 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING QOS IN DATA TRANSMISSION OVER SCTP SESSION - A method of adjusting quality of service (QoS) with respect to changes in a transmission environment of a mobile terminal receiving data based on a stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) session. When the transmission environment of the mobile terminal receiving data based on the SCTP session changes, the mobile terminal transmits link information indicating a new transmission environment to a destination node, and the destination node adjusts the quality of data or the size of a transmission window based on the link information. Thus, without adding separate network devices, the QoS of the data being transmitted can be adjusted with respect to the changed transmission environment, only by adding functions with software to the transmission terminal and the reception terminal. Also, since the destination node manually adjusts the transmission window according to the link information, packet loss can be minimized compared to the conventional congestion control method. | 08-13-2009 |
20090201887 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLIND CODE DETECTION - The present invention is a receiver which includes a blind code detection device for determining the identity of a plurality of channels over which information is to be transmitted when the identity of all channels is not known by the receiver. The blind code detection device generates a candidate channel list filled with the identify of selected channels out of the plurality of channels. A multi-user detection device, responsive to the blind code detection device, processes those channels in the candidate code list. | 08-13-2009 |
20090207814 | RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER AND BASE STATION - The present invention relates to a radio communications system which transmits same downlink information to a plurality of cells by using downlink common channels. The radio communications system includes a radio network controller and a base station. The radio communications system is configured to measure delays between the time when the radio network controller transmits the downlink information and the time when the base station transmits the downlink information to each of the plurality of cells; and to control timing for transmitting the downlink information to each of the plurality of cells by the base station in accordance with measured delays. | 08-20-2009 |
20090213813 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND RACH TRANSMISSION METHOD - Provided is a mobile station device capable of performing RACH transmission with a small amount of resources. In this device, a RACH generating unit ( | 08-27-2009 |
20090213814 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UPLINK PACKET DATA SERVICE IN ASYNCHRONOUS WCDMA SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for providing uplink packet data services through an E-DCH in an asynchronous WCDMA system. A transport block size (TBS) for transmitting uplink transport channel data is determined. A combination of a spreading factor and a modulation scheme for uplink channel data transmission, corresponding to the determined TBS, is selected according to transmittable physical channel data bit sizes and puncturing limit values. The TBS is transmitted by incorporating it into control information of the uplink transport channel data. The modulation scheme and spreading factor combination is determined based on a physical channel data bit size that maximizes transmission efficiency and minimizes the number of punctured bits, without requiring an additional physical channel in transmitting the uplink data having the TBS. This method maximizes uplink transmission efficiency to save transmission resources and reduces signaling overhead required to transmit E-DCH control information. | 08-27-2009 |
20090219895 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A CODEBOOK TO ENCODE EMBEDDED INFORMATION - A method for generating a codebook to encode embedded information is described. A distribution pattern of symbols is determined. A first number of codewords associated with the distribution pattern of symbols is determined. A subset of codewords from the first number of codewords is selected. The subset of codewords is included in the codebook if the subset of codewords satisfies predetermined performance criteria. | 09-03-2009 |
20090219896 | FRAME AND CHIP OFFSET FOR SRNC IN UE INVOLVED RELOCATION ON CARRIER SHARING - This invention is related to a system and method to setup a radio link in a CDMA mobile communication network. In particular, a radio network controller (RNC) sends a radio link setup request message, and a processing device receives the radio link setup request message. The processing device sends a radio link setup response message to the RNC, and the response is received the RNC and includes frame and chip offset information. In particular, frame and chip offset in a RNSAP Radio Link Setup Response message (after execution of UE involved relocation) is conveyed. A new SRNC will then include a random frame offset in the RNSAP Radio Link Setup Request message. The eHSPA Node B will ignore the random frame offset, and include the correct frame offset in the RNSAP Radio Link Setup Response message. | 09-03-2009 |
20090232101 | CONTROL AND DATA MULTIPLEXING IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Apparatus and method for a base station to assign to a user equipment (UE) communicating with the base station a number of coded control information symbols being transmitted with coded data information symbols during the same transmission time interval by the UE. The method includes assigning, by the base station, an offset to the UE, assigning, by the base station, a Modulation and Coding Scheme for data information (data MCS) to the UE, transmitting the offset to the UE, and transmitting the data MCS to the UE, wherein the number of coded control information symbols assigned to the UE for transmission of control information is determined based on the data MCS and the offset. | 09-17-2009 |
20090232102 | Walsh Code Management in a Code Division Multiple Access Cellular Wireless Communication System - A cellular wireless communication system and method of operation manages Walsh codes in order to ensure that sufficient Walsh codes are available to prevent call blocking and to support additional hand-off operations. In an initial operating condition, the cellular wireless communication system services normal hand-off operations in which a maximum number of cells and sectors may participate in hand-off. With hand-off operations according to the present invention, each cell or sector participating in hand-off for a mobile terminal uses a unique Walsh code for covering its forward link signals. When the number of Walsh codes available for servicing new calls is reduced so that it meets or exceeds a Walsh code availability threshold, the number of cells and sectors that may participate in hand-off is reduced from the maximum number. In the number of participating cells/sectors results in release or non-use of some Walsh codes. In subsequent operations when sufficient Walsh codes are available for servicing hand-off operations, a greater number, up to the maximum number of cells and sectors may again participate in hand-off of the mobile terminal. | 09-17-2009 |
20090238148 | Arrangement And Method In A Mobile Communication Network - The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for obtaining efficient radio resource allocation in a mobile communication network comprising a communication network entity ( | 09-24-2009 |
20090238149 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, WIRELESS BASE STATION, WIRELESS TERMINAL, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A first wireless base station providing a first wireless zone encodes a first signal to be transmitted to the first wireless zone at a first coding rate, and transmits the signal at a first transmitting power to the first wireless zone. A second wireless base station belonging to the first wireless zone and providing a second radio zone encodes a second signal common with the first signal at a second coding rate, and transmits the signal at a second transmitting power to the second wireless zone. | 09-24-2009 |
20090238150 | HIGH SPEED DOWNLOAD PACKET ACCESS COMMUNICATION IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A cellular communication system supports High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) services. A first transceiver ( | 09-24-2009 |
20090238151 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING QUICK PAGING IN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - In a communication system, whether different transmitting stations use the same method or different methods of assigning quick paging code words to receiving stations, the receiving stations in a paging area assume that the same quick paging code words are used by all base stations in the paging area. To enable such operation by the receiving stations in a paging area covered by several base stations, those several base stations share information about the quick paging code words assigned to the various receiving stations known to the base stations. | 09-24-2009 |
20090238152 | METHOD OF ASSIGNING TRANSMISSION CHANNELS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AND USER STATION - A method of assigning transmission channels in a telecommunications network and a user station are provided, which facilitate an increase in the capacity of a telecommunications network. The telecommunications network may include multiple base stations and mobile stations, the transmission channels being provided for transmitting signals between the base stations and the mobile stations. In uncoordinated operation of the base stations, at least one of the transmission channels is assigned for transmitting signals between one of the base stations and one of the mobile stations as a function of a channel measurement, in which the transmission power on all possible transmission channels is measured, if the previously measured transmission power on this transmission channel is minimal. | 09-24-2009 |
20090245208 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA-CENTRIC MULTIPLEXING AND ASYNCHRONOUS COMMAND INTERFACE TO THE ENCODER AND MULTIPLEXER MODULES - An apparatus and method for data centric multiplexing in a wireless communication system with a plurality of channels comprising assigning a first resource to a first of the plurality of channels; assigning a second resource to a second of the plurality of channels wherein the second resource is not the first resource; assigning a third resource to a third of the plurality of channels wherein the third resource is not the first or the second resource; and assigning a fourth resource to a fourth of the plurality of channels by puncturing at least one of the first, second or third resources and skipping the rest of unpunctured first, second or third resources. Further disclosed are apparatus and method for an asynchronous command interface to an encoder and multiplexer module in a wireless communication system. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245209 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING OVSF CODES AND I/Q CHANNELS FOR REDUCING PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO IN TRANSMITTING DATA VIA ENHANCED UP-LINK DEDICATED CHANNELS IN WCDMA SYSTEMS - An apparatus and method in which an Enhanced Uplink Dedicated transport CHannel (EUDCH) is used in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system is provided. In a User Equipment (UE), when physical channels for transmitting EUDCH data are transmitted in addition to existing physical channels, a Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of an uplink transport signal increases. The increase in PAPR depends upon Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor (OVSF) codes allocated to the corresponding physical channels and In-phase/Quadrature-phase (I/Q) channels. Therefore, the apparatus and method allocate optimum OVSF codes and I/Q channels to EUDCH-related physical channels in order to minimize an increase in PAPR due to EUDCH. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245210 | CDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - In CDMA communications, a base station detects a difference between a reference phase of a spreading code and a phase of a received signal of each terminal station, and feeds a phase jump signal PJ-i representative of the phase difference back to each terminal station. After timing acquisition, the reception operation is performed using the reference phase, and a shift amount between the phase of a received signal and the reference phase is fed back to each terminal station as phase synchronization control information PC-i. Each terminal station coarsely adjusts the phase of the spreading code in accordance with the phase jump signal PJ-i, and thereafter finely adjusts the phase of its transmitting signal in accordance with the phase synchronization control information PC-i. It is therefore possible to synchronize the phases of the signals transmitted from terminal stations and received at the base station. Accordingly, an orthogonal code is used for spreading on the reverse links. | 10-01-2009 |
20090252123 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF GAIN FACTORS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TRANSMISSION POWER - Apparatus and methods for wireless communication transmission power control are provided. Determination of gain factors and adjustments for physical channel reconfiguration in the context of transmission power control are addressed. Preferably, implementation is in conjunction with communication systems in which wireless communications are conducted between wireless transmit receive units (WTRUs) using multiple channels that are concurrently transmitted. | 10-08-2009 |
20090262708 | AUTOMATIC REVERSE CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT IN A TWO-WAY TDM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - To minimize overhead in the allocation of channels, forward and reverse link time slots are automatically assigned in pairs. In particular, rather than requiring a separate process for allocating reverse link channels for the sending of acknowledgment messages in response to receipt of a forward link packet, a different scenario takes place. At the receiving end, such as for valid reception of data on a forward link channel at a central base station site, a reverse link time slot is automatically allocated in a time slot which depends upon the time slot allocation on the forward link. This assists with the rapid return of acknowledgment messages in a reverse link direction which is the predominant direction for such messages in a wireless system wherein most data traffic is Web page oriented. | 10-22-2009 |
20090268692 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING A SIGNAL - A communication unit and a method for communicating at least one signal over a channel of a first channel type and at least one signal over a channel of a second channel type, which is different from the first channel type. The apparatus comprises a timer adapted to schedule a predetermined time period, during which interference due to simultaneous communication of signals over the channel of the first channel type and the channel of the second channel type is anticipated. Also, the apparatus comprises a processing unit adapted to apply, during the predetermined time period, an interference counteracting process for counteracting interference between any signal communicated over the channel of the first channel type and any signal communicated over the channel of the second channel type. The interference counteracting process comprises changing, during the predetermined time period, from a first to a second format for representing information transmitted over the channel of the first channel type, the second format being more robust than the first format. | 10-29-2009 |
20090279508 | Scanning Methods And Apparatus For System Acquisition - In one illustrative example, a system acquisition method suitable for use in W-CDMA utilizes a receiver having an automatic frequency control (AFC) circuit. A system acquisition scan is performed over a plurality of candidate frequencies in an RF band. During the system acquisition scan, a pilot signal of a system on one of the candidate frequencies is detected. When information of the system is successfully decoded, and the system is different from a requested system (e.g. not the RPLMN or HPLMN), the pilot signal of the system is assigned as a timing reference in the receiver for one or more remaining candidate frequencies of the system acquisition scan. Therefore, an AFC window time otherwise needed to converge on a remaining candidate frequency is not needed or reduced. | 11-12-2009 |
20090279509 | MAC PROTOCOL FOR CENTRALLY CONTROLLED MULTICHANNEL WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - A wireless system and method of wireless communication are described. | 11-12-2009 |
20090279510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELEASING QUALITY OF SERVICE RESOURCES IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system and a method for releasing quality of service (QoS) resources in a mobile communication network enable QoS resources allocated to a mobile terminal to be released, if, after the mobile terminal is allocated with resources for QoS through an Evolution-Data Optimized (EVDO) Revision A (rA) network to receive data serves, the mobile terminal escapes from the EVDO rA network without first performing a resource release request to the EVDO rA network. The system and method may be implemented in the mobile terminal, the access network, the text message server, or any combination thereof, for releasing the allocated QoS resources without requiring the mobile terminal to re-connect to the EVDO rA network. | 11-12-2009 |
20090285186 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CDMA NETWORK SWITCHING NOTIFICATION IN A WIMAX NETWORK - A method and apparatus for allowing a dual-mode mobile device to communicate with a CDMA network without switching from an OFDMA network are provided. For certain embodiments, an OFDMA gateway component may serve as an interface between the OFDMA network and CDMA network, detecting a CDMA message targeting the mobile device and, in response, generating an OFDMA message containing information regarding the CDMA message. | 11-19-2009 |
20090296661 | TERMINAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RANGING METHOD THEREOF - A ranging method of an access terminal comprising receiving and analyzing UL-MAP/DL-MAP; selecting a given uplink sub-channel number and a symbol number from the UL_MAP when a ranging event is generated; requesting a ranging process by transmitting a CDMA code; receiving a ranging response message broadcasted from the access point; extracting a CDMA code, a sub-channel number, and a symbol number from the received ranging response message, comparing the extracted result and the stored ranging parameters, and adjusting transmission power, timing, and frequency offset on the basis of the extracted result or discarding the ranging response message; and terminating a ranging response message receipt operation. | 12-03-2009 |
20090296662 | CONTROLLED SUPERPOSITION CODING IN MULTI-USER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods of using superposition coding in a communications systems, e.g., a multi-user communications system. Superposition coding in accordance with the invention occurs in the case of an uplink by transmissions of different wireless terminals transmitting using the same communications resource, e.g., simultaneously transmitting using the same frequencies. The signals combine in the communications channel resulting in one transmission being superimposed on the other transmission. The device, e.g., base station, receiving the superimposed signals uses superposition decoding techniques to recover both signals. To obtain the benefit of the superposition, assignments of channel segments to multiple wireless terminals is controlled by the base station and/or transmission power levels are controlled by on or more wireless terminals sharing the same uplink communications resource, e.g., time slot, to make sure that the received signals from the different devices will have different received power levels making superposition decoding possible. | 12-03-2009 |
20090296663 | METHOD OF AND BASE STATION FOR CONTROLLING BEAM FORMING IN A MOBILE CELLULAR NETWORK - The invention concerns a method and a base station ( | 12-03-2009 |
20090296664 | Detection and Mitigation of Temporary (Bursts) Impairments in Channels Using SCDMA - Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and mitigating temporary high-level impairments, in a communications channel, and subsequently, mitigating the deleterious effects of the dynamic impairments. The system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is adapted to transmit at least one set of modulated signals. The receiver is adapted to receive the at least one set of modulated signals and mitigate temporary high-level impairment in the at least one set of modulated signals using at least one error vector received during the temporary high-level impairment. | 12-03-2009 |
20090310570 | Method and Systems Providing Peer-to-Peer Direct-Mode-Only Communications on CDMA Mobile Devices - Embodiments of apparatus, systems and methods enable peer-to-peer direct-mode-only communication within CDMA mobile devices. In an embodiment, peer-to-peer communication is provided via an ad hoc WiFi network connection between two or more mobile devices with sound encoded into data packets using VoIP technology addressed to other members of the ad hoc network. In another embodiment, a modified CDMA transceiver enables mobile devices to receive transmissions from other CDMA mobile devices with peer-to-peer communications identified by a pseudorandom number (PN) offset that differs from the PN offset assigned by the cellular network infrastructure. In another embodiment, a modified CDMA transceiver enables mobile devices to receive transmissions from other CDMA mobile devices on a frequency that is different from the two frequencies employed and CDMA cellular communications. Synchronization of mobile device clock circuits is provided by internal GPS receivers and/or synchronization symbols transmitted by a leader of a communication group. | 12-17-2009 |
20090316662 | W-CDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CQI TRANSMISSION CYCLE - A base station ( | 12-24-2009 |
20090316663 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD OF UPLINK PACKET DATA TRANSMISSION - A mobile station (MS) transmits a first data flow to a first group of base stations with a first power offset, transmits a second data flow to a second group of base stations, and further transmits a pilot signal. A radio network controller (RNC) controls the power of the pilot signal power based on reception errors of the second data flow, calculates the first power offset based on signaled required level of the first power offset from base stations (BTS) of the first group which calculate the required level of the first power offset based on an occurrence of retransmission, and signals the calculated first power offset to the mobile station. | 12-24-2009 |
20090323640 | FAIR RESOURCE SHARING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Providing for fair resource sharing among wireless nodes in a wireless communication environment is described herein. By way of example, fairness can comprise establishing a set of resource sharing credits for wireless nodes. By expending credits, a node can borrow a resource of another node, to enable or enhance operation of the borrowing node. Credits for the borrowing node are decreased based on consumption of a shared resource, or credits for the lending node are increased based on such consumption, or both. Once an amount of credits expires, a node can be restricted from borrowing further resources until enough resources are lent to build up a suitable amount of credits. Accordingly, fairness can comprise correlating shared resource consumption with shared resource provisioning, to encourage participation in cooperative wireless communications. | 12-31-2009 |
20090323641 | RADIO COMMUNICATION MOBILE STATION DEVICE AND MCS SELECTION METHOD - Provided is a radio communication mobile station device capable of preventing a transmission delay when a transmission data amount is increased in a radio communication system where persistent scheduling is performed. In this device, an MCS selection unit ( | 12-31-2009 |
20100002655 | USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD - User equipment that is capable of transmitting at least an uplink control channel to a base station apparatus using a single carrier method and to which persistent scheduling is applied, the user equipment includes a unit providing data arrival acknowledgement information, a unit providing channel quality information, a control channel generation unit generating an uplink control channel including at least one of the data arrival acknowledgement information or the channel quality information, and a transmission unit transmitting the uplink control channel using a predetermined dedicated bandwidth, in which the uplink control channel includes at least one unit block including a sequence in which a same factor reported using an upper-layer signaling is multiplied to each chip of an orthogonal code sequence for the user equipment. | 01-07-2010 |
20100008331 | BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING UPLINK BANDWIDTH USING SDMA - Embodiments of a base station and methods for allocating uplink bandwidth using SDMA are generally described herein. In some embodiments, uplink bandwidth request messages are received on a bandwidth request contention channel from one or more subscriber stations. The uplink bandwidth request messages are generated by the subscriber stations by modulating pilot subcarriers of a randomly selected disjoint pilot pattern with a randomly selected orthogonal sequence. The base station allocates uplink bandwidth to the subscriber stations when the uplink bandwidth request messages are successfully detected and decoded. The base station uses an SDMA technique to determine channel responses based on the orthogonal sequences to detect and decode the uplink bandwidth request messages. | 01-14-2010 |
20100014486 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND METHOD OF GENERATING PILOT CHANNELS - A base station for generating pilot channels which are orthogonal among N (N>=4) sectors, includes a sequence generating unit configured to generate a phase rotation sequence which specifies the amount of phase rotation for each sector in a frequency domain such that there is more than 2π/N difference between the amount of phase rotation applied in each sector and that applied in its adjacent sectors; and an orthogonal sequence multiplying unit configured to apply the corresponding amount of phase rotation in the frequency domain, which is selected from the phase rotation sequence, to one of the pilot channels in each sector. | 01-21-2010 |
20100014487 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A DATA TRANSMISSION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting user data from access terminals, including receiving at each of a first subset of the access terminals a scheduling decision for an interval, the interval having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion including overhead channels; selecting at each access terminal of the first subset a mode for data multiplexing, wherein a first mode comprises building user data into the first portion of the interval using the multiplexing format; a second mode comprises building user data into at least one sub-division of the second portion of the interval, wherein each of the at least one sub-division is associated with the multiplexing format; and a third mode comprises building user data into the interval combining the first mode and the second mode; and transmitting the user data using the selected mode of data multiplexing in accordance with the scheduling decision. | 01-21-2010 |
20100027511 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH SELECTIVELY SIZED DATA TRANSPORT BLOCKS - A wireless transmit receive unit and methods for code division multiple access telecommunications are disclosed that process data in a physical layer and a medium access control (MAC) layer. The physical and MAC layers communicate data between each other via transport channels. The transport channels are associated with logical channels. Logical-channel data for the transport channels is provided in data units having a bit size evenly divisible by an integer N. The respective logical channels associated with a transport channel utilize MAC headers that have a selected modulo N bit size such that there is bit alignment of the MAC headers of all the logical channels associated with a particular transport channel. | 02-04-2010 |
20100034174 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - The object is achieved by a base station apparatus performing communications with mobile stations transmitting an uplink signal based on a frequency division multiple access scheme, the base station apparatus being provided with a unit for calculating an uplink interference wave level IoT and receive quality SIR of a pilot signal based on an uplink reference signal. | 02-11-2010 |
20100034175 | METHOD OF MANAGING RADIO RESOURCES ON CELL PATTERNS - In a method and system, the controller unit of a cellular radio system is fed with information relating to the cell pattern and the location of subscribers. The controller unit can use such information to improve radio resource algorithms and thereby generate a better evaluation and allocation on radio resources aiming at decreasing the interference in the air-interface and at generating more accurate handover decision so that the performance of the overall network is improved. | 02-11-2010 |
20100034176 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ACTIVATING AND DEACTIVATING A SUPPLEMENTARY CELL FOR A WCDMA SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for dynamically activating and deactivating a supplementary cell in Dual-Cell HSDPA service of a Universal Mobile Communication Service (UMTS) system. In a supplementary cell activation and deactivation method, a user equipment receives a supplementary cell activation command from a base station; compares an uplink transmission power with a predetermined threshold value; transmits a supplementary cell activation reply, when the uplink transmission power is equal to or greater than the threshold value; and transmits a supplementary cell deactivation reply, when the uplink transmission power is less than the threshold value. | 02-11-2010 |
20100040027 | Reuse of Training Sequence Between Frequency-Adjacent Radio Signals - Methods and apparatus for processing received signals in a multi-carrier system are disclosed. An exemplary method includes estimating one or more first propagation channel coefficients based on a training sequence in each of one or more first slots received over a first radio channel, equalizing signal samples from one or more second slots received over a second radio channel immediately frequency-adjacent to the first radio channel, using the first propagation channel coefficients, and demodulating user data bits from the equalized signal samples. In some embodiments, the training sequence is located at a fixed position in each of the one or more first slots and user data bits are demodulated from a directly corresponding position in each of the second slots. Improved data rates are thus achieved by constraining radio carriers in a multi-carrier system to frequency-adjacent channels and eliminating training symbols from one of the signals. | 02-18-2010 |
20100046479 | POWER CONTROL FOR WIRELESS LAN STATIONS - Techniques and apparatus for controlling the transmit power of an uplink (UL) signal from a user terminal in a wireless communications system in an effort to achieve some target characteristic, such as a target carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio, at an access point (AP) are provided. In this manner, such a user terminal may help avoid or compensate for imbalances in received radio frequency (RF) power between UL signals received from multiple user terminals by the AP. For example, the transmit power at each user terminal may be controlled in an effort to achieve a target post-processing C/I ratio of 28 dB per spatial stream in an effort to reduce large power imbalances and optimize throughput per user terminal. The user terminal and the AP may compose part of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system utilizing spatial-division multiple access (SDMA) techniques. | 02-25-2010 |
20100046480 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A user apparatus generates an uplink control channel including at least one of acknowledgement information and channel condition information on an downlink, and transmits the uplink control channel in a predefined dedicated band if no resource is assigned to transmit an uplink data channel. The uplink control channel includes multiple unit block sequences resulting from multiplication of the same factor with all chips of a CAZAC code sequence for the user apparatus. | 02-25-2010 |
20100046481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POWER CONTROL OF MULTIPLE CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques to control the transmit power of multiple transmissions in a wireless communication system. A transmitting source (e.g., a base station) receives from a receiving device (e.g., a remote terminal) a number of feedbacks of one or more (coded or uncoded) bit streams and possibly one or more messages. The bit stream may include one or more power control sub-channels used to send one or more metrics (e.g., power control commands, erasure indicator bits, or quality indicator bits) for one or more sets of channels. The bits allocated for each sub-channel may be aggregated to form one or more lower rate feedback sub-streams having improved reliability. The transmit power of two or more channels can be (1) independently adjusted based on the feedbacks from respective sub-channels, or (2) adjusted together based on feedback from one sub-channel, with the power difference being adjusted based on feedback received another sub-channel. | 02-25-2010 |
20100054211 | FREQUENCY DOMAIN PN SEQUENCE - Systems and methodologies that enable implementing a complete period of frequency domain pseudo random/pseudo noise (PN) sequences, wherein the PN sequences satisfy predetermined requirements or relations. Such requirements or relations include: ( | 03-04-2010 |
20100054212 | System and Method for Wireless Communications - A system and method for wireless communications is provided. A method for operating in a communications network includes receiving a codebook, the codebook includes a plurality of codewords, and determining if the codebook satisfies a constant modulus property. The method also includes in response to determining that the codebook does not satisfy the constant modulus property, converting the codebook into a codebook satisfying the constant modulus property, and storing the codebook satisfying the constant modulus property. The method further includes storing the codebook in response to determining that the codebook does satisfy the constant modulus property, and causing to transmit a transmission to a communications device, wherein the transmission is encoded using a codeword in the stored codebook. | 03-04-2010 |
20100061344 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR LOAD BALANCING OF POWER AMPLIFIERS - The present invention relates to a transmit unit, a control unit and a method in a transmit unit comprising at least two antennas for transmitting signals relating to a plurality of radio channels. The transmit unit transmit signals relating to a first subset of channels from the first antenna and pilot signals from the first antenna for use a reference for the first subset of channels. The transmit unit is further arranged to transmit signals relating to a second subset of channels from the second antenna using single antenna transmission. The transmit unit also transmits pilot signals on a second type of pilot channel such as the S-CPICH, different from the first type of pilot channel, from the second antenna for use as a reference for the second subset of channels, wherein the first and second type of pilot channels are substantially covering the same area. | 03-11-2010 |
20100061345 | CONFIGURATION OF CONTROL CHANNELS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method, apparatus and system for configuring control channels in a mobile communication network and a mobile station. In order to suggest another improved scheme for configuring control channels, in particular control channels related to the transmission of user data the invention suggests aligning the size of the control channel information of different formats to an equal number of coded control channel information bits and/or modulation symbols for each control channel. The control channels may comprise scheduling related control information. According to another aspect of the invention, a more flexible solution is proposed that may allow for taking different geometries of mobile stations within a cell into account. Similar to the aspect above, the size of the control channel information is aligned by means of modulation and/or coding, however the control channel information is aligned to one out of a set of numbers of coded control channel information bits and/or modulation symbols for each control channel. | 03-11-2010 |
20100067494 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING CDMA-BASED DEDICATED CONTROL CHANNELS IN AN OFDMA-BASED NETWORK - A method for efficiently transmitting control information may include allocating a portion of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frames for transmission of a code division multiple access (CDMA) based signal. The CDMA-based signal may include data from one or more dedicated control channels. The method may also include converting the CDMA-based signal into a format that is suitable for transmission via OFDMA techniques. The method may also include transmitting the converted CDMA-based signal using a subset of available OFDMA subcarriers. | 03-18-2010 |
20100067495 | METHOD OF PERFORMING RANDOM ACCESS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNCATION SYSTEM - A method of performing random access in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method of performing random access in a user equipment of a wireless communication system which uses multiple carriers includes transmitting a preamble for random access to a network, receiving a random access response message from the network in response to the preamble, transmitting a connection setup request message to the network, the connection setup request message requesting connection establishment with the network, and receiving a first message from the network, the first message including connection setup information and contention resolution information in a random access procedure. If a user equipment identifier of the user equipment is included in the message, the user equipment determines that it has successfully performed random access and performs a next procedure in accordance with the connection setup information. If the user equipment identifier of the user equipment is not included in the message, the user equipment determines that it has failed in random access and transmits a random access preamble to the network again after the lapse of a predetermined time period. | 03-18-2010 |
20100074229 | CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMITTING METHOD, BASE STATION AND TERMINAL - A control channel transmitting method includes selecting one control channel format from among a plurality of control channel formats having different numbers of control points, according to whether to carry out multiple input multiple output transmission; and transmitting a control channel with the use of the selected control channel format. | 03-25-2010 |
20100085944 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPLEMENTAL CHANNEL REQUEST MESSAGES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method and system for obtaining reverse channel resources for a mobile device, the method filtering a closed loop correction power value; calculating a data rate utilizing the filtered closed loop correction power value; and sending a supplemental channel request message, including the calculated data rate, to a base station transceiver system. | 04-08-2010 |
20100091740 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR TRANSMITTING STREAMING MEDIA TO A MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE BANDWIDTH ASSOCIATED WITH A WIRELESS NETWORK - A communication network is operated by obtaining a subscription at a wireless network from at least one device for a rebroadcast of streaming media and rebroadcasting the streaming media to the at least one device using the wireless network responsive to obtaining the subscription. | 04-15-2010 |
20100098030 | Method and Arrangement for SINR Feedback in MIMO Based Wireless Communication Systems - The present invention relates to a method and arrangement to enhance the communication performance in wireless communication systems. The method of the invention provides better adjustment of reported SINR in MIMO, and PARC-MIMO based communication systems. According to the method information relating to signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio is determined by the user equipment and reported to the base station. The base station adjust reported SINRs using a model of the SINR dependences of power and code allocation. The dependences is modeled by a function comprising a first parameter relating only to power allocation and a second parameter relating only to code allocation. The first parameter has a power allocation exponent and the second parameter has a code allocation exponent. Both the power allocation exponent and the code allocation exponent are data stream dependent. | 04-22-2010 |
20100103906 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CELL SEARCH IN AN ORTHOGONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methodologies are described that provide techniques for efficient cell search in a wireless communication system. In one aspect, a frequency reuse pattern can be generated by applying frequency shifts to reference signals transmitted from cells that provide coverage for a NodeB based on cell IDs or cell group IDs for the cells. The frequency shifts applied to reference signals can then be utilized as a basis for multiplexing reference signals from different cells using frequency division multiplexing (FDM) or a combination of FDM and other multiplexing techniques. Other adjustments to reference signals transmitted from respective cells, such as transmit power adjustments, can further be made to improve detection performance. | 04-29-2010 |
20100103907 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BIT-INTERWEAVING - To support the higher modulation (such as 64QAM) in HSPA+ downlink data channel whilst fully be compatible with the existing HSDPA system, a device and method for bit interleaving are disclosed to process bit interleaving of a HS-PDSCH channel in HSPA+ of the WCDMA system. | 04-29-2010 |
20100111044 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system is provided with a plurality of mobile stations and a base station. A mobile station makes a pilot channel composed of a Cassak code correspond to a signal having a plurality of frequency components in a predetermined band disposed in parallel with each other in a constant distance. A mobile station transmits a transmission signal including such a signal in accordance with a scheduling signal. The mobile station also makes its own transmission signal correspond to transmission signals of other mobile stations using different bands from a band of that own transmission signal in order for the former to be orthogonal with the latter on a frequency axis. A base station calculates a difference between a receiving signal and a replica of the pilot channel to infer a channel. The base station decodes the receiving signal by using a channel inference result. The replica of the pilot signal is generated by corresponding the pilot channel composed of the Cassac code to the predetermined band disposed in parallel with each other at the constant distance. | 05-06-2010 |
20100111045 | BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING UPLINK SERVICE - A method for providing uplink service from a base station to a terminal includes: transmitting information on a TCP packet and a dedicated code to a terminal; receiving a code number from the terminal using the dedicated code; searching a requesting bandwidth for the code number and allocating resources to the terminal; and receiving the ACK packet for the TCP packet through the allocated resources from the terminal. | 05-06-2010 |
20100111046 | Method and System for Mobile Receiver Antenna Architecture for European Band Cellular and Broadcasting Services - A method for an antenna architecture that handles European band cellular and broadcast channels may be provided. The method may comprise receiving at a first radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) integrated within a mobile terminal, RF signals in a first cellular frequency band of a first cellular network via an antenna. The antenna may be coupled to a second RFIC integrated within the mobile terminal capable of handling RF signals in one or more other cellular frequency bands of at least a second cellular network. A third RFIC integrated within the mobile terminal coupled to the antenna may be capable of handling the received RF signals in a UHF broadcast band. | 05-06-2010 |
20100128699 | SIMULTANEOUS USE OF MULTIPLE PHONE NUMBERS IN MOBILE DEVICE BY SHARING HARDWARE - Determining and simultaneously using a base station coupled to a mobile device, the base station comprising a detector for receiving a first identification signal corresponding to a first module and a second identification signal corresponding to a second module from the mobile device. A transmitter for sending a plurality of signals to the mobile device, said plurality of signals is configured to set up communication between the mobile device and the base station. A receiver for receiving a plurality of parameters for determining whether the second module is able to attach to the base station; and a processor for connecting the first and second module in the mobile device to the base station simultaneously in response to a plurality of slots by time multiplexing and the plurality of parameters when the second module is acceptable by the base station, wherein said plurality of slots are determined by the base station. | 05-27-2010 |
20100142490 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PILOT MULTIPLEXING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for multiplexing pilots in a wireless transmission are described. In one aspect, a transmitter station generates multiple pilot sequences for multiple transmit antennas, with each pilot sequence comprising pilot symbols sent in the time domain on a different set of subcarriers. The transmitter station further generates multiple pilot transmissions for the transmit antennas based on the pilot sequences. In another aspect, a transmitter station generates multiple pilot sequences for multiple transmit antennas based on frequency-domain code division multiplexing (FD-CDM) of a Chu sequence defined by a transmitter-specific value. The transmitter station further generates multiple pilot transmissions for the transmit antennas based on the pilot sequences. In yet another aspect, a transmitter station generates multiple pilot transmissions for multiple transmit antennas based on a first multiplexing scheme and generates multiple data transmissions based on a second multiplexing scheme that is different from the first multiplexing scheme. | 06-10-2010 |
20100157950 | SYSTEM FOR USING RAPID ACQUISITION SPREADING CODES FOR SPREAD-SPECTRUM COMMUNICATIONS - A system for rapidly acquiring a spreading code, used in a code division multiple access (CDMA) system, comprises a generator for generating a first long code and a second long code, with each long code having a length of N chips. The first long code is different from the second long code. A transmitter transmits the first long code and the second long code at a first phase angle and at a second phase angle, respectively, on a carrier signal over a communications channel using radio waves. The first long code and the second long code may be transmitted at an in-phase (I) angle and at a quadrature-phase (Q) angle, respectively, on the carrier signal. From the communications channel, an I acquisition circuit and a Q acquisition circuit may acquire, in parallel, the first long code and the second long code from the I angle and the Q angle, respectively, of the carrier signal by searching, in parallel, N/2 chips of the first long code and the second long code. | 06-24-2010 |
20100157951 | Rake receiver architecture within a WCDMA terminal - A baseband processing module includes an RX interface, a rake receiver combiner module, and may include additional components. The RX interface receives the baseband signals from an RF front end and creates baseband RX signal samples there from. The rake receiver combiner module includes control logic, an input buffer, a rake despreader module, and an output buffer. The rake despreader module is operable to despread the baseband RX signal samples in a time divided fashion to produce channel symbols including pilot channel symbols and physical channel symbols. | 06-24-2010 |
20100165952 | ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY AND CODE HOPPING MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - An Orthogonal Frequency and Code Hopping Multiplexing (OFCHM) communication method based Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of communication channels are synchronized through a single medium. Six types of spreading and hopping methods are included, a method of controlling spreading and hopping depending on channel states, and a method of determining whether radio resources, consisting of subcarriers and orthogonal codewords, are allocated in a hopping manner according to the quality of service in the OFCHM communication method based OFDM. Furthermore, an embodiment employing six multiple array antennas is included. For this purpose, a method of combining a collision comparator and controller for monitoring the operations of a subcarrier group hopping pattern generator and an orthogonal code hopping pattern generator, a multiplexer and data symbol mapper, and the collision of hopping patterns that are composed of subcarriers and orthogonal codewords, and comparing data symbols to be transmitted to second communication stations to determine whether the data symbols collide in a symbol interval, a beam-forming processor for managing the operation of multiple array antennas, and a weighting vector controller is proposed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100165953 | TD-SCDMA System and a Method for Controlling HSUPA Random Access Thereof - The present invention provides a time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) system for controlling enhanced uplink random access, including user equipment (UE), node B and serving radio network controller. The present invention also provides a method for controlling the enhanced uplink random access in a time division synchronous code division multiple access system, including: in high speed uplink packet access scheduling service of time division synchronous code division multiple access system, the higher layer of network side deploys a timer at the user equipment side; if the user equipment still needs to transmit data when the current available grant expires, it starts up the timer which is used as the delay time of initiating the enhanced uplink random access. According to the ability of the network side in controlling E-DCH resources, the present invention can be used to control the time delay that UE initiates the enhanced uplink random access after one grant expires, so as to avoid invalid random access; meanwhile the present invention provides a reliable mechanism for the enhanced uplink random access. By using the method of this invention, system resources can be reasonably utilized, thereby greatly improving the system efficiency. | 07-01-2010 |
20100165954 | Physical structure and sequence design of midamble in OFDMA systems - In wireless OFDMA systems, midamble is used to facilitate downlink (DL) channel estimation. Midamble signals are transmitted by a base station via a midamble channel allocated in a DL subframe. In a novel symbol-based midamble channel allocation scheme, a midamble channel is allocated in the first or the last OFDM symbol of multiple resource blocks of the subframe, while the remaining consecutive OFDM symbols are used for data transmission. The symbol-based midamble channel provides good coexistence between midamble signals and pilot signals without inducing additional limitation or complexity. Under a novel midamble channel and sequence arrangement, both code sequence and either time-domain or frequency-domain location degrees-of-freedom are considered such that the required number of midamble sequences is substantially smaller than the number of strong interferences. In addition, different midamble sequences are systematically generated based on a base sequence such that the receiving mobile station does not need to memorize all the different code sequences. | 07-01-2010 |
20100177740 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION - Disclosed is an apparatus for transmitting feedback information to a base station. The feedback information transmitting apparatus receives channel allocation information, generates a plurality of payloads regarding feedback information, and multiplexes the plurality of payloads in terms of a plurality of classes so as to generate a plurality of multiplexed payloads. Subsequently, the plurality of multiplexed payloads are code multiplexed so as to generate a code division multiplexing symbol, and a channel code is applied to the code division multiplexing symbol. Then, the code division multiplexing signal applied with the channel code is transmitted to a base station through a wireless resource. Accordingly, a feedback channel that is adaptive to a channel condition is configured, such that a wireless resource for a feedback channel can be efficiently used. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177741 | METHOD FOR RESOURCE UNIT ALLOCATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICIATION, SUBSCRIBER STATION AND BASE STATION - A method for wireless communication between a base station and a plurality of subscriber stations is described wherein a communication capacity is partitioned in resource units at least by code multiplexing, which resource units are distributed by the base station over said devices, wherein data from each subscriber station is spread by means of a signature sequence, characterized in that multiple resource units assigned to a common subscriber station have the same signature sequence. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177742 | System and Method for Employing Six-Bit Rank 1 and 2 Codebooks for Four Transmit Antennas - A system and method for employing six-bit rank 1 and 2 codebooks for four transmit antennas is provided. A method for communications device operation includes estimating a communications channel between the communications device and a controller serving the communications device, thereby producing a channel estimate, quantizing the channel estimate using a codebook, thereby producing a selected codeword, and transmitting an index corresponding to the selected codeword from the codebook to the controller. The codebook includes a plurality of first level codewords, with each first level codeword having a plurality of subsidiary codewords. The quantizing is a search of only the first level codewords followed by a search of a subset of the plurality of subsidiary codewords, and the codebook is based on a rank of communications between the communications device and the controller. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLIND CODE DETECTION - The present invention is a receiver which includes a blind code detection device for determining the identity of a plurality of channels over which information is to be transmitted when the identity of all channels is not known by the receiver. The blind code detection device generates a candidate channel list filled with the identify of selected channels out of the plurality of channels. A multi-user detection device, responsive to the blind code detection device, processes those channels in the candidate code list. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177744 | High Rate CDMA Wireless Communication system Using Variable Sized Channel Codes - Method and apparatus for high rate code-division multiple access wireless communication is described. Each of a channel encoded data is modulated by an associated code having a small number of pseudo-noise spreading chips per orthogonal waveform period, thus producing a set of streams of modulated symbols. Each of the set of streams of modulated symbols is then gain adjusted, and combined to yield two streams of combined symbols. The combination is the set of streams is carried out to reduce a peak-to-average ratio of the transmission. The resulting two combined symbol streams are modulated by a complex multiplyer using a user long code and a pseudorandom spreading code (PN code) and upconverted for transmission. | 07-15-2010 |
20100189079 | Method, mobile station and base station for transmitting data in mobile communication system - Data in a mobile communications system is transmitted on at least one channel between at least one base station with multiple antennas and at least one user equipment. A base station applies precoding to the data based on a set of predefined codebooks. A first tracking mode with a first codebook from the set of predefined codebooks is used for the precoding, and at least a second tracking mode with at least a second codebook from the set of predefined codebooks is used for the precoding. The base station switches between the first tracking mode and the second tracking mode depending on at least one condition of the channel. | 07-29-2010 |
20100189080 | METHOD OF SCHEDULING DATA TRANSMISSION IN A RADIO NETWORK - In a method and apparatus for scheduling users in radio network system, the scheduling priority for each user of a group of users is made dependent on the unusable time for each user. Scheduling of the users is performed in accordance with the determined scheduling priority. | 07-29-2010 |
20100195624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPLINK DATA AND CONTROL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN MIMO WIRELESS SYSTEMS - A mobile station includes a transmission chain capable of communicating via an uplink transmission to at least one base station in a Multiple Input Multiple Output wireless network. The mobile station includes a plurality of transmit antenna and a transmitter coupled to the plurality of transmit antenna. The transmitter includes a layer mapper that maps data and uplink control information to at least one layer. The mapping is performed prior to Discrete Fourier Transform precoding such that the data and uplink control information are multiplexed and interleaved. The transmitter is configured to simultaneously transmit the data and uplink control information on at least one of a plurality of transmission layers. | 08-05-2010 |
20100195625 | PHYSICAL LAYER PROCESSING FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS - An address for data bits is determined by categorizing the bits into a first, second, third and fourth case. The first case is for bits transferred in only one resource unit in a time slot; the second case is for bits transferred in a plurality of downlink resource units; the third case is for bits transferred in an uplink resource unit where a spreading factor of data in a first resource unit is greater than or equal to a spreading factor of a second resource unit; and the fourth case is for bits transferred in an uplink resource unit where a spreading factor of data in a first resource unit is less than a spreading factor of a second resource unit. | 08-05-2010 |
20100202414 | HSDPA SYSTEM WITH REDUCED INTER-USER INTERFERENCE - In a wireless network ( | 08-12-2010 |
20100208708 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING WIRELESS CHANNELS OVER A REVERSE LINK OF A CDMA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A service option overlay for a CDMA wireless communication in which multiple allocatable subchannels are defined on a reverse link by assigning different code phases of a given long pseudonoise (PN) code to each subchannel. The instantaneous bandwidth needs of each on-line subscriber unit are then met by dynamically allocating none, one, or multiple subchannels on an as needed basis for each network layer connection. The system efficiently provides a relatively large number of virtual physical connections between the subscriber units and the base stations on the reverse link for extended idle periods such as when computers connected to the subscriber units are powered on, but not presently actively sending or receiving data. These maintenance subchannels permit the base station and the subscriber units to remain in phase and time synchronism in an idle mode and also request additional channels. This in turn allows fast acquisition of additional subchannels as needed by allocating new code phase subchannels. Preferably, the code phases of the new channels are assigned according to a predetermined code phase relationship with respect to the code phase of the corresponding maintenance subchannel. | 08-19-2010 |
20100226341 | METHOD OF DETERMINING TRANSMISSION RATE OF CONTROL RESPONSE FRAME FOR ACKNOWLEDGING DATA RECEIPT IN WIRELESS LAN - A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission parameters which correspond to the transmission parameters of the transmitting station, determining the transmission rate of the control response frame according to transmission parameters of the receiving station if the transmission parameters corresponding to the transmission parameters of the transmitting station are found in the receiving station, and determining a maximum rate among a set of basic transmission rates to be the transmission rate of the control response frame if the transmission parameters corresponding to the transmission parameters of the transmitting station are not found in the receiving station. | 09-09-2010 |
20100232395 | FFT/IFFT Clock Adjustment - A receiver for processing a signal in which data symbols are each represented by the energy at each of a plurality of carrier frequencies, the receiver comprising: an analogue to digital converter for periodically sampling the signal and generating a corresponding digital sample; a Fourier transform unit having a plurality of input bins for receiving samples generated by the analogue to digital converter and being arranged to, in dependence on the samples, generate outputs representing the energy in the signal during a sample period at each of a plurality of frequencies including the carrier frequencies; and a symbol estimator for estimating a symbol present in the signal during a sample period in dependence on the outputs of the Fourier transform unit; wherein the number of the input bins is greater than the total number of carrier frequencies and during each sample period the number of the outputs in dependence on which the symbol estimator performs symbol estimation is less than the number of input bins. | 09-16-2010 |
20100238905 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF BASE STATION - To provide appropriate communication quality inside a building regardless of the building penetration loss of the building in which a femto base station is installed while suppressing the interference caused by radio waves leaked outside the building, a femto base station | 09-23-2010 |
20100246536 | Method and System for Enabling Communication in a Hybrid Network - The invention provides a method and a system for enabling communication with a device ( | 09-30-2010 |
20100254355 | Method and System for Determining a Location of a Device Using Femtocell Information - Aspects of a method and system for determining a location of a device using femtocell information are provided. In this regard, a femtocell management entity may be operable to receive global navigation system satellite (GNSS) coordinates of one or more of a plurality of femtocells and one or both of a receive signal strength indication (RSSI) and/or power levels of one or more of the plurality of femtocells, which are managed by the femtocell management entity. The femtocell management entity may be operable to determine a location of a communication device that is derived based on the received GNSS coordinates, RSSI and/or power levels of one or more of the plurality of femtocells and communicate the determined location to a communication device. One or more location based applications and/or services within the communication device may be operable to utilize the received determined location to provide mapping and/or location information. | 10-07-2010 |
20100260148 | OPTIMISED MESSAGING PATTERNS - A fixed phase shift for each of a plurality of radio frequency signal components directed to or received from a plurality of antenna elements ( | 10-14-2010 |
20100260149 | METHOD OF ENCODING GROUP IDENTIFICATION IN A CDMA TRUNKING SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a method of encoding group identification in a CDMA trunking system. This method comprises: a trunking group where mobile stations locate is encoded by a preset GID encoding method to generate a GID of the trunking group. The GID is a character string consisting of a plurality of decimal digits from 0 to 9 for external processing, and is processed into a binary character string according to a GID type for internal processing. | 10-14-2010 |
20100265920 | COMMUNICATIONS IN AN ASYNCHRONOUS CELLULAR WIRELESS NETWORK - Systems and techniques are disclosed for establishing a reference corresponding to the timing of a received signal from the first source, determining the timing for each received signal from a plurality of second sources, adjusting the reference to the timing of the received signal from one of the second sources, the timing of the received signal used to adjust the reference being closest in time to the unadjusted reference, and synchronizing a signal to the reference for transmission. | 10-21-2010 |
20100265921 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UPLINK PACKET DATA SERVICE IN ASYNCHRONOUS WCDMA SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for providing a packet data service in an asynchronous Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system. A combination of physical channel elements are determined based on combinations of physical channel elements and a first Puncturing Limit (PL). Packet data is transmitted using the determined physical channel elements. A second PL is used for a maximum combination of physical channel elements when no combination of physical channel elements are available to satisfy the first PL. | 10-21-2010 |
20100272071 | Method and device for processing data in dedicated physical data channel - A method and a device for processing data in a dedicated physical data channel, comprising, when data on which softer handover is performed is extended DPDCH data, sending, after completing the softer merging of the data for one timeslot, a request for secondary despread, where the request contains channel numbers; acquiring the request for secondary despread, determining channels according to the channel numbers contained in the request for secondary despread, determining a channel having the highest priority from the channels according to a predetermined channel priority order, and secondarily despreading, framing and outputting data of the channel having the highest priority. Due to the arrangement of the extended DPDCH, embodiments of this invention process the data carried by the extended DPDCH at the frequency of timeslots, and thus reduce the time delay of the second despreading and support services having higher requirements for logic processing delay without affecting the process for the existing normal DPDCH data. | 10-28-2010 |
20100272072 | CALL ORIGINATION IN A CDMA LEGACY MS DOMAIN USING SIP - A system and a method in a wireless network utilizing session initiation protocol (SIP) for call control. The SIP payload (SDP) contains a list of voice codecs to coordinate the selection of voice bearer resources (between a calling party and a called party) such that the number of transcoders in the voice bearer path is minimized. An additional aspect of the embodiment of the present invention includes a serving MSCe that is operable to determine whether to initiate or discontinue ringback to the calling party. If ring back is to be initiated, ringback can be initiated from a Serving MGW controlled by the serving MSCe. The call negotiation process according to the described embodiment of the invention eliminates the requirement for any transcoding in specific situations to result in the number of transcoders used in the voice bearer path to be reduced to 0 (TrFO, Transcoder Free Operation) or to 1 (RTO, remote transmitter operation). | 10-28-2010 |
20100278151 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS USING EFFICIENT RANGING MESSAGE TRANSMISSION DURING INITIAL RANGING - Techniques for efficient transmission of messages in a ranging procedure between a mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS) are provided. The techniques may allow efficient bandwidth allocation for the ranging procedure. | 11-04-2010 |
20100278152 | Scheduling Method and System for Communication Networks; Corresponding Devices, Network and Computer Program Product - In a method of scheduling transmission services over a high speed packet access communication link such as a HSDPA and/or a HSUPA link a list of queues is created for transmission services to be provided over the link. The queues, which include both Real Time and Non Real Time queues, are allotted respective service priorities based e.g. on a channel quality indicator and/or a Quality of Service indicator to produce an ordered list of queues based on the service priorities. The link resources needed for serving at least one set of queues having higher priorities in the ordered list are estimated and a check is made. If these resources are available, the set of queues having higher priorities in the ordered list are served. If the resources required are not available, at least one queue is removed from the ordered list of queues. | 11-04-2010 |
20100278153 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The error rate characteristic in a wireless communication apparatus for relaying communications between a mobile station and a base station is improved. For the modulation level of the resource for network coding, the modulation level from a relay station to the mobile station or the modulation level from the relay station to the base station, whichever is lower, is selected and thus the modulation level becomes QPSK. The relay station preferentially assigns S | 11-04-2010 |
20100284375 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA TO A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method allowing a mobile device user to initiate a transaction over the most widely used network such as a CDMA or GSM network and then have the device complete the transaction over a specialized data network such as Wi-Fi. The system includes a server communicating with a wireless device that maintains indexed data from the user's original transaction to ensure integrity through the completion of the transaction. The system also includes a method for the user to purchase content, download the content and upon successful completion, have it appropriately billed. | 11-11-2010 |
20100290436 | CIRCUIT SERVICE TUNNELING SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND INTERWORKING SYSTEMS AND MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ENTITIES THEREOF - A circuit service tunneling system is provided. The circuit service tunneling system has a first and a second mobile service network, and a user equipment. The first mobile service network provides packet-switched domain services and the second mobile service network provides circuit-switched domain services. An interworking system in the second mobile service network interconnects the first mobile service network with the second mobile service network, by connecting to a mobility management entity in the first mobile service network, to enable the first mobile service network to provide the circuit-switched domain service to the user equipment via the second mobile service network. | 11-18-2010 |
20100290437 | CIRCUIT SERVICE TUNNELING METHODS AND USER EQUIPMENT THEREOF - A user equipment is provided with connection to a first mobile service network providing circuit-switched services. A first protocol module communicates with the first mobile service network. A circuit-switch tunneling control protocol module establishes a circuit-service tunnel to a second mobile service network providing packet-switched services. A circuit-switch tunneling data protocol module transmits a circuit-service tunneling message from the first protocol module to the second mobile service network via the circuit-service tunnel. | 11-18-2010 |
20100290438 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA USING HARQ - A method of transmitting data using HARQ includes transmitting a first block, a partial bit stream of a codeword, and transmitting a second block, a bit stream starting from a bit index next to the last bit index of the first block, according to a retransmission request with respect to the codeword, wherein a different modulation scheme from that of the first block is applied to the second block. A coding gain of an incremental redundancy (IR) mode can be obtained although the amount of retransmission data is arbitrarily changed according to a change in transmission attributes such as a modulation scheme, resource allocation, the size of a transport block, or the like, in the adaptive HARQ scheme, so the transmission efficiency of a system can be enhanced. | 11-18-2010 |
20100296489 | Method of Uplink Multi-Cell Joint Detection in a Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access System - The present invention discloses a method for uplink multi-cell joint detection in a Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access system to realize uplink multi-cell joint detection by a Node B. The method comprises: a radio network controller sending neighbor cell channel updating information to neighbor Node Bs of a cell where a user terminal is located when a Node B application part protocol process happens at an Iub interface to establish a radio link for the user terminal; and the neighbor Node Bs adding information of the user terminal into an uplink multi-cell joint detection information of the cell where uplink joint detection is required to be performed for the user terminal after receiving the neighbor cell channel updating information. The method of the present invention realizes uplink multi-cell joint detection by a Node B. | 11-25-2010 |
20100296490 | ERROR RATE CONTROL APPARATUS - A wireless communication system comprising a transmitter configured to transmit a data signal and a control signal to the same mobile station and a control unit configured to regulate transmission power of the control signal in accordance with a reception status of the control signal in the mobile station. | 11-25-2010 |
20100303042 | Methods and Arrangements in a Wireless Communication System - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements that enable uplink timing adjustment in a UTRAN while minimizing the signalling overhead. This is achieved by a solution where the information about the estimated reception time is used by the NB to determine whether the UEs need to be time adjusted on the UL in order to avoid TTI overlapping and thus interference. The estimated reception time of a UE UL signal is compared with an ideal reception time (the reference time) which can be defined based on the overall knowledge of the estimated reception times. If the difference between the estimated and the ideal reception time is larger than a pre-defined threshold value, meaning that the overlapping with some other UEs TTI will be big, a timing adjustment is initiated. | 12-02-2010 |
20100303043 | RADIO CONTROL APPARATUS AND RADIO TRANSMISSION TIMING DETERMINATION METHOD - In a CDMA communication system where each radio slot has a plurality of short slots, a radio control apparatus allows a plurality of mobile stations using a single channelization code for communication with a radio base station apparatus to share the same radio slot by allocating different short slots to the plurality of mobile stations in its cell. The radio control apparatus includes a short slot storage unit for storing the usage status of a short slot which has been allocated already; a short slot selection unit for selecting a single unoccupied short slot for a new radio link between a new mobile station and the radio base station apparatus, in accordance with the usage status; and a transmission timing determination unit for randomly determining the radio transmission timing of a radio frame used for communication in the new radio link, in accordance with the selected short slot, such that the timing does not overlap with the radio transmission timing used by an existing link. | 12-02-2010 |
20100316023 | Method for Switching Service Option to Circuit Data - This invention discloses a method for switching SO (Service Option) to circuit data, including the following steps: step 1, a mobile station notifies a source BS (Base Station) and/or a target BS to switch SO to circuit data during a session; step 2, the source BS and/or the target BS negotiates with a mobile switching subsystem about switching SO to circuit data, and determines the bearer format parameters of the session through the negotiation; step 3, the source BS and/or the target BS makes a secondary service negotiation with the mobile station after the negotiation with the mobile switching subsystem succeeds; and step 4, after the negotiation with the mobile station succeeds, the source BS and/or the target BS conducts user interface service layer encapsulation on the circuit data according to a certain load format, and then transmits the encapsulated Real Time Transfer Protocol packets to the other BS. | 12-16-2010 |
20100316024 | SUPERPOSITION CODING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present patent application comprises a method and apparatus to compile a superposition coded packet by compiling user candidates for superposition coding, ranking the user candidates based on a result of an evaluation function, selecting a deserving user candidate from among the user candidates, and compiling a superposition coded packet by adding other user data packets to a packet of the deserving user data packet, wherein the data packets for the user candidates may conform to a plurality of different formats and wireless communication standards. | 12-16-2010 |
20100322199 | Methods and Arrangements for Channelization Code Selection - A method of channelization code selection for up-link transmission of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises determining, based on a first power limitation indication value associated with a first terminal of the wireless communication system, if the first terminal is power limited; dynamically selecting at least one first channelization code associated with a first signal variation value for allocation to the first terminal so that, if the first terminal is power limited, the first signal variation value indicates a first minimal signal variation; and signaling an indication of the at least one first channelization code to the first terminal. Corresponding arrangements are also disclosed. | 12-23-2010 |
20100322200 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING UPLINK TRANSMISSION CHANNELS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of allocating channels in a user equipment is disclosed. In particular, a method of allocating a plurality of Dedicated Physical Channels (DPCHs) and Enhanced Dedicated Channels (E-DCHs) in a user equipment of a multicode transmission system. The method includes determining whether a High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) is configured for the user equipment (UE) and determining a number of codes used by the DPCH and the E-DCH. The method further includes allocating the DPCH and the E-DCH channels to an I branch or a Q branch based on the number of codes used by the DPCH and the E-DCH and the HS-DSCH configuration. | 12-23-2010 |
20100322201 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING UPLINK TRANSMISSION CHANNELS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of allocating channels in a user equipment is disclosed. In particular, a method of allocating a plurality of Dedicated Physical Channels (DPCHs) and Enhanced Dedicated Channels (E-DCHs) in a user equipment of a multicode transmission system. The method includes determining whether a High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) is configured for the user equipment (UE) and determining a number of codes used by the DPCH and the E-DCH. The method further includes allocating the DPCH and the E-DCH channels to an I branch or a Q branch based on the number of codes used by the DPCH and the E-DCH and the HS-DSCH configuration. | 12-23-2010 |
20100329218 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CATCHING CONTROL METHOD - It is an object to provide a wireless communication terminal apparatus and a communication system acquisition control method that efficiently carry out the reselection among a plurality of communication systems to reduce electric power consumption and that can prevent a acquisition failure of an incoming call as much as possible. A control unit ( | 12-30-2010 |
20110002309 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING ACK/NACK SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK)/non-acknowledgement (NACK) signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: allocating a radio resource; and transmitting the ACK/NACK signal through an ACK channel in a location determined by an index for the radio resource, wherein the radio resource includes at least one resource unit which is a basic unit for resource allocation, the resource unit is at least one of a localized resource unit including subcarriers contiguous in a frequency domain and a distributed resource unit including subcarriers distributed in the frequency domain, an index of the localized resource unit is directly mapped to an index of the ACK channel, and an index of the distributed resource unit is mapped to an index of the ACK channel according to a permutation rule. | 01-06-2011 |
20110007715 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a message in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes selecting a sequence having a sequence identifier corresponding to information to be transmitted, and transmitting the selected sequence by applying circular shift to the entire of the selected sequence by the extent of circular shift which identifies a predetermined message. Thus, it is possible to increase the quantity of messages that can be transmitted without degrading the characteristic of a channel sequence, and to improve detection performance at a receiving side. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007716 | EVENT TRIGGER FOR SCHEDULING INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A mobile wireless communication terminal and a method therein including a message generation entity communicably coupled to a transmitter of a wireless transceiver, the message generation entity generating a scheduling information message for transmission by the transmitter in response to a serving cell change notification message received by a receiver, wherein the scheduling information message is indicative of resources required to schedule a transmission by the mobile wireless communication terminal. | 01-13-2011 |
20110026495 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING CARRIER MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE IN A MULTI-CARRIER SUPPORTED WIDEBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method and apparatus performing carrier management in a broadband wireless communication system supporting multi-carrier (MC) are disclosed. A method for a single-carrier supported mobile station (MS) to perform a carrier change with a MC supported base station (BS) includes transmitting a message indicating a support of a basic MC mode in which the MS is aware of a MC operation of the BS, receiving a carrier management command message including an action code and an action time on a serving carrier, transmitting, in response to the carrier management command message, a confirmation message indicating readiness of signal transmission/reception through a target carrier on a target carrier, and receiving a control signal and data from the BS on the target carrier, wherein the serving carrier and the target carrier are controlled by a common Medium Access Control (MAC) of the BS. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026496 | CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS TRANSMISSION ANTENNA WEIGHTING - A code division multiple access communication system has a base station with a plurality of transmitting antennas. From each transmitting antenna of the base station, a pilot signal is transmitted having a different chip sequence than the other transmitting antenna. At a user equipment, the transmitted pilot signals are received from each transmitting antenna. A weight adjustment is derived in response to the received transmitted pilot signals. The user equipment transmits the weight adjustment to the base station. The transmitted weight adjustment is received from the user equipment. A data signal is processed to produce a plurality of versions of the data signal. At least a portion of each processed data signal has a different chip sequence than the other processed data signal version. At least one processed data signal version is weighted by a weight value adjusted in response to the received transmitted weight adjustment. From each transmitting antenna, a different one of the data signal versions is transmitted and the transmitted data signal versions are received at the user equipment. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026497 | MULTIPLEXING ON THE REVERSE LINK FEEDBACKS FOR MULTIPLE FORWARD LINK FREQUENCIES - The present patent application comprises a method and apparatus for multiplexing reverse link feedback channels on a single reverse link frequency supporting multiple forward link frequencies for forward link channels, comprising assigning the reverse link frequency to a mobile station, assigning one or more of the forward link frequencies to the reverse link frequency, and code division multiplexing a plurality of the reverse link feedback channels on the reverse link frequency | 02-03-2011 |
20110032910 | Interface, apparatus, and method for communication between a radio eqipment control node one or more remote radio equipment nodes - An interface, apparatus, and method are described for communication between a radio equipment control (REC) node and first and second radio equipment (RE) nodes in a radio base station that transceives information over radio interface using multiple antenna carriers. The REC node is separate from and coupled to the first RE node by a first transmission link, and the second RE node coupled to the first RE by a second transmission link. Both control information and user information intended for communication between the REC node and the first RE node and the REC and the second RE node are conveyed over the first transmission link. The first RE node also conveys information between the REC and second RE node. Many advantageous features are described. | 02-10-2011 |
20110032911 | COGNITIVE RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY SELECTION METHOD OF COGNITIVE RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A Cognitive Radio (CR) communication apparatus is provided. The CR communication apparatus may include a determination unit to determine any one of a plurality of Radio Access Technologies (RATs) as a temporary control RAT, an estimation unit to estimate an available resource and a channel state of each common RAT using the temporary control RAT, and a selection unit to calculate an available capacity of each of the common RATs using the available resource and the channel state, and to select an optimum RAT from the common RATs based on the available capacity of each of the common RATs. The common RATs may be used by the CR communication apparatus and a receiving CR communication apparatus from among the plurality of RATs. | 02-10-2011 |
20110038353 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER APPARATUS AND METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station apparatus multiplexes downlink control signals for users depending on user blind detection positions to generate a downlink signal. There are multiple options of radio resource amounts per transmission time interval unit. Letting y=(user specific value) mod (floor(M | 02-17-2011 |
20110038354 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - When transmission of a downlink signal is to be performed in sub-frame | 02-17-2011 |
20110044294 | Apparatus and Method of Searching Multi-Carrier Active Set Pilots - Apparatus and methods are described herein for detecting pilot signals. An access terminal determines whether each pilot signal in its active set can be tracked. If not, the access terminal adjusts the search window center associated with any untracked pilot to a position that allows tracking In some aspects, a known search window center of a tracked member of a same pilot group may be used. | 02-24-2011 |
20110051694 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING UPLINK DATA USING TRANSMISSION OF PROFILE INDEXES - A method of transmitting and receiving uplink data using transmission of profile indexes is disclosed. The method of includes transmitting, at a mobile station, any one of codewords mapped to a plurality of bandwidth request profiles according to a service characteristic to a base station through a fast feedback channel, and upon receiving an uplink grant message for an up-link resource allocated in correspondence to the codeword from the base station, transmitting data though the uplink resource. As a result, collision does not occur during a resource request, quality of service (QoS) of a real-time traffic sensitive to delay can be satisfied, an uplink allocation request procedure is simplified thus reducing message overhead, and a resource can be efficiently used according to a characteristic of a service provided to the mobile station. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058534 | METHOD IMPLEMENTED BY A SUBSCRIBER UNIT FOR SELECTIVELY SUPPRESSING COMMUNICATIONS - A subscriber unit, used for communicating in voiced communications at a first data rate and communicating at a second data rate for other data, suppresses a selected communication during communication rate modification. A determination is made as to whether the transmission requires a change in data rate, and a switching circuit responds by engaging a different communication channel. Blocking circuitry blocks transmissions until the different data rate is established. This provides an optimum data rate, while preserving the integrity of the data transmitted. | 03-10-2011 |
20110064060 | Method For Allocating Wireless Resource, Base Station, And Mobile Station - A base station allocates, when receiving a first code included in a predetermined code group from a first mobile station, a wireless resource in a first communication region corresponding to the first code, to the first mobile station, and allocates, when receiving a second code not included in the predetermined code group from a second mobile station, a wireless resource in a second communication region corresponding to the second code, to the second mobile station. | 03-17-2011 |
20110069681 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING SHORT MESSAGING SERVICE OF MOBILE STATION DURING IDLE MODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for supporting a Short Message Service (SMS) of a Mobile Station (MS) during an idle mode in a wireless communication system are provided. An MS operation method for supporting an SMS in a wireless communication system includes receiving an SMS message from a Base Station (BS) through a ranging message in an idle mode, upon receiving the SMS message from the BS, starting a timer, while the timer operates, waiting UpLink (UL) resource allocation for transmission of an ACKnowledge (ACK) message about the SMS message, and upon being allocated a UL resource for the ACK message transmission, and transmitting the ACK message using the UL resource. | 03-24-2011 |
20110085519 | Spreading Code Allocation - A method includes allocating length-2n spreading codes to reference signals contained on first and second groups of resource elements in a first physical resource block and to copies of the reference signals contained on a selected group from the first or second groups and a third group of resource elements in a second physical resource block. Each length-2n spreading code is determined using a first length-n spreading code allocated to the first group and a second length-n code allocated to the second group, or using whichever one of the first or second length-n spreading codes is allocated to the selected group and a third length-n spreading code allocated to the third group. Symbols for the reference signals and their copies are spread and transmitted on the first and second physical resource blocks. | 04-14-2011 |
20110085520 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for interference cancellation in a wireless communication system. In particular, the disclosed methods and apparatus provide for interference cancellation in a wireless device, including extending linear interference cancellation techniques, such as quasi-linear interference cancellation (QLIC), in the wireless device to a first orthogonal set, which may be a first quasi orthogonal function (QOF) set for a cdma2000 system to cancel interference from that set upon another desired QOF set. QLIC may also be extended to cancellation of signals from non-intended base stations as well. Accordingly, the present methods and apparatus afford reduced interference through QLIC by canceling signals due to either undesired QOF sets or non-intended base stations, which in turn results in an increase in forward link capacity. | 04-14-2011 |
20110085521 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH SELECTIVELY SIZED DATA TRANSPORT BLOCKS - A wireless transmit receive unit and methods for code division multiple access telecommunications are disclosed that process data in a physical layer and a medium access control (MAC) layer. The physical and MAC layers communicate data between each other via transport channels. The transport channels are associated with logical channels. Logical-channel data for the transport channels is provided in data units having a bit size evenly divisible by an integer N. The respective logical channels associated with a transport channel utilize MAC headers that have a selected modulo N bit size such that there is bit alignment of the MAC headers of all the logical channels associated with a particular transport channel. | 04-14-2011 |
20110090874 | SIMULTANEOUS USE OF MULTIPLE PHONE NUMBERS IN MOBILE DEVICE BY SHARING HARDWARE - Determining and simultaneously using a circuit for a mobile device couple to a base station, the circuit may comprise an identification signal detector for receiving a first identification signal corresponding to a first module and a second identification signal corresponding to a second module in the mobile device. The circuit may comprise a receiver for receiving a plurality of signals from the base station; said plurality of signals is configured to set up communication between the mobile device and the base station. The circuit may comprise a calculator for calculating a plurality of parameters in response to the first identification signal, second identification signal and said plurality of signals received from said base station. The circuit may also comprise a processor for attaching the first and second module to the base station simultaneously in response to a plurality of slots by time multiplexing and the plurality of parameters, | 04-21-2011 |
20110090875 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF GAIN FACTORS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TRANSMISSION POWER - Apparatus and methods for wireless communication transmission power control are provided. Determination of gain factors and adjustments for physical channel reconfiguration in the context of transmission power control are addressed. Preferably, implementation is in conjunction with communication systems in which wireless communications are conducted between wireless transmit receive units (WTRUs) using multiple channels that are concurrently transmitted. | 04-21-2011 |
20110096755 | CODEBOOK FOR MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING THE CODEBOOK - In a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication, each of receivers may use a different channel codebook and a transmitter may determine beamforming vectors using a beamforming codebook corresponding to each of the receivers. | 04-28-2011 |
20110103351 | Method for transmitting short signaling in Mac-E PDU - A method for transmitting a short signaling in a Media Access Control-e Packet Data Unit (MAC-e PDU) includes sending control information bits incorporated with padding bits of the MAC-e PDU considering the padding bits from a User Equipment (UE) to a Node B, and sending a scheduling signaling from a service Node B to the UE according to the control information bits. Scheduling request information is transmitted with the existing padding bits. If every Transmission Time Interval (TTI) has padding bits, the UE may send the scheduling request signaling to Node B in every TTI. Therefore, the reference is provided for the Node B, and no extra load is caused to the system. | 05-05-2011 |
20110110337 | CONTROL SIGNAL AGGREGATION IN A MULTI-CARRIER WCDMA SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting data to a remote node via each of two or more transmitted carrier signals, wherein a distinct outbound packet data traffic channel is mapped to each transmitted carrier signal. In an exemplary method, aggregated control channel data is formed by combining control channel data corresponding to each of two or more received carrier signals, simultaneously transmitting traffic channel data to the remote node on each of the two or more outbound packet data traffic channels, and transmitting the aggregated control channel data using one or more physical control channels mapped to a first one of the transmitted carrier signals. In particular, these methods and apparatus may be applied to a multi-carrier High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) system. | 05-12-2011 |
20110110338 | LOCATION DETERMINATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a mobile station receives a location beacon transmitted from multiple base stations based on a transmission plan for a predefined downlink location based services zone in the superframes of a signal frame structure. The transmission plan includes spreading transmissions of the location beacon that are unique to respective base stations. The mobile station identifies the base stations based on the respective location beacons and the transmission plan. The mobile station identifies a present location based on the location beacons and the identities of the base stations that from which the location beacons were received. | 05-12-2011 |
20110110339 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCE USING CODEBOOK BASED ON RESOURCE SIZE AND BURST SIZE IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for allocating resources by using a codebook based on a resource size and a burst size in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a Mobile Station (MS) includes receiving a group configuration message from a Base Station (BS), wherein the group configuration message includes an N-bit first bitmap for indicating that M resource sizes are supported in the group among N resource sizes supported for group resource allocation, where M is less than N, and receiving a group resource allocation message from the BS, wherein the group resource allocation message includes a second bitmap for indicating a size of a resource allocated to a corresponding MS among MSs for which resource allocation is determined. | 05-12-2011 |
20110122846 | UPLINK CONTROL SIGNAL DESIGN FOR WIRELESS SYSTEM - Transmission of uplink control message for a wireless system. The uplink control message may be encoded according to one of multiple possible schemes. The choice of encoding scheme may be made based on the control message size and/or based on the available transmission resources and/or based on the detection scheme used on the receiving end. A modulation scheme may also be selected based on such factors. CDM may be used for certain control messages. Block code encoding, such as Reed-Muller encoding may be used for certain control messages. Different transmission resources may be allocated for different control message uses. The encoding specifics may be selected to obtain a certain hamming distance and/or size of the encoded message or based on other factors. | 05-26-2011 |
20110122847 | System and Method for Registration and Packet Data Reconnect - Methods, mobile stations and networks are provided that cause a packet data service reconnect to be performed automatically after the occurrence of an event triggering registration, even in some circumstances where such a data service reconnect would not normally occur. This avoids complications that can arise due to the packet data service being discontinued upon registration and the resulting inability to reach the mobile station. | 05-26-2011 |
20110122848 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING INFORMATION OF ALLOCATING UPLINK REGION IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - A method of receiving the uplink region avocation information is disclosed. In a broadband wireless access system, in which a mobile terminal receives uplink region allocation information, the present invention includes the steps of receiving an uplink map message from which an uplink map information element (UL-MAP IE) for a ranging region or an uplink bandwidth request region is omitted from a base station and receiving information for a region for a ranging region or uplink bandwidth request using a message periodically transmitted for a control information transmission for an uplink channel. By transmitting uplink region allocation information via a periodically transmitted message, the uplink region allocation information can be efficiently transmitted. | 05-26-2011 |
20110128939 | HIERARCHICAL-CELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING ASYMMETRIC FEEDBACK SCHEME BASED ON CLASS OF ACCESS NETWORK - A small cell communication system may reduce interference occurring in a macro terminal through beamforming, even when using the same frequency resources as used by a macro communication system. For example, the small cell communication system may use a larger amount of radio resources than the macro communication system for transmission of feedback information in an uplink. For example, the small cell communication system may use a codebook having a larger size than a size of a codebook used by the macro communication system. | 06-02-2011 |
20110134888 | PAGING OF A USER EQUIPMENT (UE) WITHIN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A user equipment (UE) determine to activate a data session. The UE configures a data session activation request message to include an indication of an association with communication sessions of a given type (e.g., delay-sensitive communication sessions), and then transmits the data session activation request message to an access network. The access network determines to establish an aggressive paging cycle of a downlink channel for the UE based in part upon receiving a message (e.g., which can be different than the data session activation request message) that conveys the indication of the association to the access network. The access network sends at least one instruction for facilitating an allocation of the aggressive paging cycle to the UE, and the UE receives the at least one instructions and monitors the downlink channel accordingly. | 06-09-2011 |
20110134889 | FREQUENCY OVERLAY TECHNIQUE FOR A PICO CELL SYSTEM - To ameliorate interference between an indoor wireless pico cell system, for example in an aircraft, and public wireless communications systems operating in a surrounding or over-flown area, frequencies of operation of the indoor system are coordinated with those used by the public wireless systems in the surrounding area. The pico cell system operates one type of service on all or a portion of a band used for a different type of service by the public system. In the aircraft example, a pico cell system might support GSM narrowband service and CDMA broadband service. The airborne GSM operations use a portion, e.g. corresponding to a guard band, of CDMA service spectrum in the terrestrial network. The airborne CDMA service uses a band used for GSM service by the terrestrial network. The pico cell system dynamically changes its frequency band(s), as the aircraft flies over different areas. | 06-09-2011 |
20110134890 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RADIO RESOURCES IN A MOBILE RADIO NETWORK - A method and apparatus for allocating radio resources to an elastic session in a cell in a CDMA network is presented. The method comprises allocating, to the elastic session, a radio resource share corresponding to a reduced transmission rate wherein the reduction in transmission rate corresponds to a peak transmission rate of the elastic session being slowed down by a first slowdown rate. The first slow down rate is determined in dependency of the transmission rate requirements of the ongoing sessions in the cell in a manner so that the radio resource share allocated is not lower than a radio resource share corresponding to the maximum transmission rate if a total amount of resources available for allocation to ongoing sessions in the cell is sufficient for all ongoing sessions to transmit at a respective peak transmission rate. | 06-09-2011 |
20110142011 | Method and Arrangement for Mitigation of Intercell Interference in a Cellular Communication System | 06-16-2011 |
20110149914 | CHANNEL QUALITY HANDLING FOR PRECODER OVERRIDE - Technology is described that allows the transmitter to make different channel quality adjustments to reported channel quality information for use in allocating resources for subsequent transmissions depending on whether a precoder recommendation is used or overridden. When a reported precoder recommendation is overridden in favor of an alternate precoder, a different channel quality adjustment value associated with the alternate precoder is used, which results in improved transmission performance. | 06-23-2011 |
20110149915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAST DYNAMIC LINK ADAPTATION - Upon the UE transmission power requirement exceeding the maximum or allowable transmission power the MAC may be informed for subsequent TFC selection of all TFCs that currently exceed this limit. The UE may then chose the TFC with the next lower transmission power requirement and the sequence will continue until an acceptable TFC is determined. The system also enables the replacement of the TFCs in the TFCS and advanced determination of non-supported TFCs. The TFCs that require transmission power greater then the maximum or allowed UE transmission power shall be determined continuously in every TTI, not just in TTIs where the maximum power has been exceeded. | 06-23-2011 |
20110149916 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING UPLINK RATES ADAPTIVELY TO FAST RATE RAMPING IN A PACKET COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting uplink rate assignment information for an uplink data transmission to a User Equipment (UE) by a Node B in a mobile communication system. The uplink rate assignment information to be transmitted for each UE is determined. The uplink rate assignment information is transmitted to the UE. The uplink rate assignment information is attached with a UE ID-specific Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) of the UE when directly indicating an uplink rate grant for the UE. | 06-23-2011 |
20110149917 | Method and Apparatus for Compensating Code Channel Power in a Transmitter - It has now been found that in some transmitter implementations which transmit multiple code channels, for example CDMA transmitters, the observed power for each code channel at the output relative to the other code channels is dependent upon the total transmit power due to non-linearities in the transmitter. Methods and apparatus are provided which use pre-set digital gains or digital gain adjustments to compensate for the non-linearities as a function of total transmit power such that at the output, the desired relative powers are observed. | 06-23-2011 |
20110158202 | CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (CDMA) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A subscriber unit for use in a multiple access spread-spectrum communication system includes a spread spectrum radio interface, responsive to a rate function signal from a base station, and first and second despreaders. The base station assigns the rate function spread-spectrum message channels and the first despreader recovers and modifies an information signal one of the spread spectrum message channels. The information channel mode is then modified for processing by the second despreader, with the second despreader supporting a different information signal rate. The subscriber unit has a capability of communicating with a dynamically changing a transmission rate of an information signal which includes multiple spread spectrum message channels. The system includes a closed loop power control system for maintaining a minimum system transmit power level for a radio carrier station and the subscriber units, and system capacity management for maintaining a maximum number of active subscriber units for improved system performance. | 06-30-2011 |
20110176516 | Systems and Methods for Bandwidth Allocation - Systems and methods for allocating uplink bandwidth are provided. A base station transmits an identification of a plurality of codes and an associated service flow type for each of the plurality of codes to a wireless station. The base station receives a bandwidth request message from the wireless station. The bandwidth request message is one of the plurality of codes. The base station transmits a bandwidth allocation message allocating bandwidth based on a service flow type associated with the received code. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176517 | Antenna Port Mapping for Demodulation Reference Signals - The present invention provides a unified, rank independent mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs. Each antenna port is uniquely associated with one code division multiplexing (CDM) group and one orthogonal cover code (OCC). The mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs is chosen such that, for a given antenna port, the CDM group and OCC will be the same for every transmission rank. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176518 | Estimation of Signal to Interference Ratio | 07-21-2011 |
20110188478 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR INTERFERENCE-MINIMIZING CODE ASSIGNMENT AND SYSTEM PARAMETER SELECTION FOR CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (CDMA) NETWORKS - A method for interference-minimizing code assignment and system parameter selection for code division multiple access (CDMA) networks is disclosed. The method is performed at a base station or mobile station configured to operate in a CDMA radio network. The method includes receiving transmissions from user devices seeking to access the CDMA radio network. A spreading code is selected for a first user device seeking to access the network, using at least one cross-correlation parameter, to reduce multiple access interference between communications involving the first user device and other devices using the CDMA network. The method does not require knowledge of the active user codes or even the codebook from which these codes are assigned. Furthermore, it does not require knowledge of bit or chip epoch or the received powers of active users. However, the method can benefit from such knowledge in several ways, examples of which are disclosed. A method for explicitly estimating the bit or chip epoch is also disclosed. | 08-04-2011 |
20110188479 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless transceiver device employing the code select code division multiple access method includes an encoder configured to execute error correction coding on data having a predetermined number of bits among data inputted from outside, and a code selector configured to select a code corresponding to the data subjected to correction coding. The wireless transceiver device performs wireless communication by use of the data inputted from the outside excluding the data having the predetermined number of bits and by use of the code. | 08-04-2011 |
20110188480 | RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO ACCESS NETWORK, COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING CIRCUIT, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING METHOD - In order to synchronize timings of transmission through a radio channel for broadcast communication even when a plurality of base stations communicate independently of one another, a receiver | 08-04-2011 |
20110194536 | METHOD FOR INDICATING A DM-RS ANTENNA PORT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A control information interpretation method for use in a mobile communication system including a terminal and a base station, wherein the terminal receives, from the base station, control information including transport block information and DeModulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) antenna port allocation indication information, checks a number of the transport blocks allocated to the terminal based on the transport block information, and interpreting the DM-RS antenna port allocation indication information according to the number of transport blocks. | 08-11-2011 |
20110194537 | TIME-SLOTTED DATA PACKETS WITH A PREAMBLE - A method and apparatus are used to support the transmission of data to a user over multiple allocated data channels. Data packets are transmitted in time-slots of the allocated data channels to corresponding target receivers without the need for explicitly assigning particular time-slots to a target user well in advance of transmitting any data packets in the time-slots. Instead, each data packet transmitted in a time-slot includes a header label or preamble indicating to which of multiple possible receivers a data packet is directed. The preamble also preferably includes decoding information indicating how a corresponding data payload of the data packet is to be processed for recapturing transmitted raw data. | 08-11-2011 |
20110194538 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION DURING SILENCE PERIOD FOR A WIRELESS NETWORK - Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, a technique may include allocating periodic resources to a mobile station in a wireless network for transmission of voice data, receiving from the mobile station an indication of a start of a silence period, and adjusting, based on the receiving of the indication of a start of silence period, the allocating of the periodic resources from a size and period of resource for the voice data to a size and period of resource for a silence indication (SID) frame. Alternatively, in response to receiving an indication of a start of silence period, the allocating of periodic resources for the VoIP voice data may be temporarily stopped during the silence period. | 08-11-2011 |
20110200015 | FLEXIBLE UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL CONFIGURATION - Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for transmission of downlink channel quality information and acknowledgment information in a multi-carrier wireless communication system. Channel quality information may be estimated for a number of downlink carriers. An uplink control channel may be configured in a flexible manner based on the number of activated carriers and whether those carriers are configured with MIMO. The feedback cycle for the channel quality information may remain constant. | 08-18-2011 |
20110200016 | HARQ ACK/NACK Signalling for Multi-Carrier HSDPA - Techniques are disclosed for signaling retransmission-related information in a multi-carrier wireless communication system supporting three or more carriers. In an example method, a wireless transceiver forms a first ACK/NACK group by jointly coding ACK bits and NACK bits for a first subset of the carriers, and transmits the first ACK/NACK group during a first transmission slot allocated for the first ACK/NACK group. If no carriers of a second subset of the carriers are activated for the wireless transceiver, then the first ACK/NACK group is also transmitted during a second transmission slot that is otherwise allocated to ACK/NACK information for a second subset of the carriers. In another method, first and second ACK/NACK groups corresponding to first and second subsets of carriers are each formed from a codebook comprising a DTX codeword indicating that no data transmission for the mobile station was detected for the corresponding subset of carriers. | 08-18-2011 |
20110200017 | GRADE OF SERVICE AND FAIRNESS POLICY FOR BANDWIDTH RESERVATION SYSTEM - A scheme and a method for assigning priority levels to users based upon a history of their request for access to the resources is disclosed. If a user has, over a historical period of time, made fewer demands than a stated amount, that user is given a higher priority than a user who has made greater use of the resources than their stated amount. Thus, users making the heaviest demand on the available resources are allocated fewer resources despite their demand, whereas users that make less demands for the resources are granted more of the resources they request. | 08-18-2011 |
20110206014 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING ACK/NACK INFORMATION AND APPARATUS AND METHOD OF RECEIVING ACK/NACK INFORMATION - An apparatus and method of transmitting ACK/NACK (acknowledgement/negative ACK) information in downlink and an apparatus and method of receiving the ACK/NACK information are disclosed. The present invention configures ACK/NACK information on multiple UL codeword transmission using a PHICH and at least one NDI, whereby the ACK/NACK information on the multiple UL codeword transmission is transmitted to a user equipment without additional PHICH resource allocation. The present invention extends the conventional HI codeword and/or arranged position on a signal constellation, thereby transmitting ACK/NACK information on multiple UL codeword transmission to a user equipment without additional PHICH resource allocation. | 08-25-2011 |
20110206015 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING THE PROCESSING RATE OF A CHIP-LEVEL EQUALIZATION RECEIVER - A method and apparatus for reducing the processing rate when performing chip-level equalization (CLE) in a code division multiple access (CDMA) receiver which includes an equalizer filter. Signals received by at least one antenna of the receiver are sampled at M times the chip rate. Each sample stream is split into M sample data streams at the chip rate. Multipath combining is preferably performed on each split sample data stream. The sample data streams are then combined into one combined sample data stream at the chip rate. The equalizer filter performs equalization on the combined sample stream at the chip rate. Filter coefficients are adjusted by adding a correction term to the filter coefficients utilized by the equalizer filter for a previous iteration. | 08-25-2011 |
20110211561 | SUPERPOSITION CODING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present patent application comprises a method and apparatus to compile a superposition coded packet by compiling user candidates for superposition coding, ranking the user candidates based on a result of an evaluation function, selecting a deserving user candidate from among the user candidates, and compiling a superposition coded packet by adding other user data packets to a packet of the deserving user data packet, wherein the data packets for the user candidates may conform to a plurality of different formats and wireless communication standards. | 09-01-2011 |
20110228747 | Methods and Systems for Uplink Network Entry and Bandwidth Requests - Methods and systems of a mobile station transmitting information to a base station are disclosed. The mobile station may transmit information with improved uplink coverage, and bandwidth requests may be more efficient. Additionally, the mobile station may transmit information over multiple uplink frames using hybrid ARQ. | 09-22-2011 |
20110228748 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a radio communication system. Said method for transmitting data in a radio communication system in which a radio resource for data transmission includes a plurality of data symbols in a time domain, wherein said method comprises the steps of transmitting first data using a space-time block coding (STBC) scheme via a portion of the data symbols from among the plurality of data symbols; and transmitting second data using a cyclic delay diversity (CDD) scheme via the residual data symbols excluding said portion of data symbols. | 09-22-2011 |
20110235619 | ENHANCED FREQUENCY DIVERSITY TECHNIQUE FOR SYSTEMS WITH CARRIER AGGREGATION - A technique is provided to interleave data and control signals across a plurality of component carriers to achieve frequency diversity in conjunction with carrier aggregation. | 09-29-2011 |
20110243098 | CODEBOOK SUBSET RESTRICTION BASED ON CODEBOOK GROUPING - A method and apparatus are provided for an apparatus. The apparatus includes at least one memory including computer program code, and at least one processor. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive an indication of a set of codeword groups to be included in a codebook, and to select a precoding matrix index based on the indicated set of codeword groups in the codebook. The apparatus is also cause to transmit the precoding matrix index to a network node. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243099 | Method of Service Redirection Procedures in TD-SCDMA and GSM Hybrid Mobile Terminals - Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for service redirection in Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) and Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) hybrid mobile terminals. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243100 | Transmission Mode Selection Based on Radio Link Quality and Radio Load on the Air Interface - It is described a method for selecting a transmission mode for a radio data transfer between a user equipment and a base station of a telecommunication network. The method includes (a) determining the quality of a radio link, which extends between the user equipment and the base station, (b) determining the radio load within the telecommunication network, and (c) selecting a transmission mode based on the quality of the radio link and on the radio load. It is further described a control device for selecting a transmission mode for a radio data transfer between a user equipment and a base station and a computer program for controlling the described transmission mode selection method. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243101 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING UPLINK TRANSMISSION CHANNELS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of allocating channels in a user equipment is disclosed. In particular, a method of allocating a plurality of Dedicated Physical Channels (DPCHs) and Enhanced Dedicated Channels (E-DCHs) in a user equipment of a multicode transmission system. The method includes determining whether a High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) is configured for the user equipment (UE) and determining a number of codes used by the DPCH and the E-DCH. The method further includes allocating the DPCH and the E-DCH channels to an I branch or a Q branch based on the number of codes used by the DPCH and the E-DCH and the HS-DSCH configuration. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249655 | TECHNIQUES USING DIFFERENTIAL PRECODING FOR HIGHLY CORRELATED CHANNELS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of using differential precoding for highly correlated channels in a wireless network, comprising, using a differential codebook optimized for highly correlated antennas. | 10-13-2011 |
20110255519 | Signal Mapping Method and Communication Device - Ameliorate deterioration in quality of communication caused by intercell interference with respect to a multicarrier communications protocol, such as OFDM. A method of positioning an error correction-coded signal is changed with a data symbol that is transmitted simultaneously with a pilot signal and a data symbol that is not simultaneous with the pilot symbol. Else, a modulation protocol is changed with a data symbol that is transmitted simultaneously with a pilot signal and a data symbol that is not simultaneous with the pilot symbol. It would further be permissible to lower either a signal amplitude or a power level of a data symbol that is transmitted simultaneously with a pilot signal. | 10-20-2011 |
20110261791 | Admission Control of Emergency Connections - The present invention relates to a solution for handling emergency or prioritized communication in a wireless communication network during negotiation of access to the wireless communication network from a mobile station using dedicated emergency multiple-access sequences which are also used as communication division codes in communication with a base station of the network. | 10-27-2011 |
20110261792 | CONVERSION OF MOBILE DEVICE TO LAN-ONLY TELEPHONY FUNCTIONS - A system and method implemented at a communication device for providing access to telephony services over one or more of a number of communication networks, including cellular networks and IP-based fixed and wireless networks. A mobile device may be configurable for voice communication over both a cellular network and a LAN (e.g. a wireless LAN), and may be adapted to place and receive calls via a PBX over one of the cellular network and the LAN. When it is determined that the mobile device is configured for voice communication using one or both of the cellular network connection and the LAN connection, the mobile device may automatically adapt its user interface to reflect the availability of voice communication only over those connections that are available. | 10-27-2011 |
20110268090 | System and Method for Mapping and Decoding Codewords in Acknowledgement Information Communications - A system and method for mapping and decoding codewords in acknowledgement information communications are provided. A method for communications device operations includes determining a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response for each component carrier (CC) in a set of configured CCs, thereby producing a set of HARQ responses, generating an information vector from the set of HARQ responses, encoding the information vector based on a (n, k) linear block code corresponding to the set of configured CCs, and transmitting the encoded information vector. A unique set of bits selected from the information vector is assigned to represent a HARQ response for each different CC in the set of configured CCs. the (n, k) linear block code is obtained by a linear transformation of an original (n, k) linear block code, where n is a length of code words, and k is a length of information vectors. | 11-03-2011 |
20110268091 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST FOR ANONYMOUSLY ALLOCATED BANDWIDTH IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for supporting Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) for an anonymously allocated bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The method of a terminal includes obtaining classification information of HARQ support ranging codes from a message received from a base station, to request an anonymously allocated resource, transmitting one of the HARQ support ranging codes, receiving a resource allocation message including HARQ related information and anonymous resource allocation information, and transmitting one of a ranging request message and a bandwidth request header according to the resource allocation information. | 11-03-2011 |
20110268092 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR HANDLING TIMERS FOR ROUTING AREA (RA) UPDATE PROCEDURES OR ATTACHMENT PROCEDURES WITHOUT INTEGRITY PROTECTION - A mobile communication device with a wireless module and a controller module is provided. The wireless module performs wireless transceiving to and from a service network. The controller module transmits an attachment request message without integrity protection to the service network via the wireless module, and receives an attachment response message without integrity protection from the service network via the wireless module. Also, the controller module directly applies a first value of a periodic Routing Area (RA) update timer included in the attachment response message. | 11-03-2011 |
20110268093 | Method and device for mapping a codeword to a layer in a multi-input multi-output system - The present invention discloses a method for mapping a codeword to a layer in a multi-input multi-output system, the method includes: grouping current layers in a multi-input multi-output system according to the number of current codewords, and mapping each codeword to the layer of a group to which the codeword corresponds. The present invention further discloses a device for mapping a codeword to a layer in a multi-input multi-output system, the device includes: a layer grouping unit and a mapping unit, wherein the layer grouping unit is used for grouping current layers in a multi-input multi-output system according to the number of current codewords; and the mapping unit is used for mapping each codeword to the layer of a group to which the codeword corresponds. The present invention is easy to be implemented, and the mapping manner for mapping a codeword to a layer is more reasonable. | 11-03-2011 |
20110274092 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Method and arrangement in a base station for scheduling physical resources in a transmission bandwidth to a user equipment served by the base station. The physical resources may be physical channels or radio resource blocks. Some physical resources within the transmission bandwidth are subjected to a performance requirement power restriction value. The method comprises scheduling physical resources based on the performance requirement power restriction value of the physical resources to be scheduled. Also, a method and arrangement in a user equipment for assisting a base station in scheduling physical resources in a transmission bandwidth to the user equipment is described. | 11-10-2011 |
20110280220 | System and Method for Timing Synchronization - A method in a network access equipment is provided. The method includes defining a burst duration for sending a plurality of reference signals. The method further includes determining an interval between ones of the plurality of reference signals in the burst duration. The method further includes defining a burst period for sending a plurality of reference signal bursts. The method further includes sending a reference signal instruction message containing an activation message and at least one of the burst duration, the interval, and the burst period. | 11-17-2011 |
20110280221 | Discontinuous Reception (DRX) For Multimode User Equipment (UE) Operation - In geographical areas with incomplete coverage of Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) networks, it may be beneficial for a multimode User Equipment (UE) to register with and monitor paging channels of a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) of a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 1× Radio Transmission Technology (RTT). The UE may monitor the paging channels of the BTS of the CDMA 1× RTT network by entering discontinuous reception (DRX) from the Node B of the TD-SCDMA network. The Node B of the TD-SCDMA network schedules the UE's DRX to coincide with the paging interval appropriate for the UE determined by the UE's IMSI and network time information. After monitoring the paging channel, the UE reacquires the Node B of the TD-SCDMA network and receives data and HARQ transmissions. | 11-17-2011 |
20110280222 | UPLINK TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING UPLINK MIMO - A base station includes a transmit path circuitry to transmit an uplink grant to a subscriber station. The uplink grant indicating a first MCS value for a first codeword transmission and a second MCS value for a second codeword transmission. The base station also includes a receive path circuitry configured to receive a MIMO uplink subframe from the subscriber station, the MIMO uplink subframe having a first subset of layers used for the first codeword transmission and a second subset of layers used for the second codeword transmission. ACK/NACK information and RI information are repeated on both the first and second subsets of layers, and CQI is spatially multiplexed on either the first subset or the second subset of layers. If the first MCS value is different from the second MCS value, the CQI is spatially multiplexed onto the subset of layers having a higher MCS value. | 11-17-2011 |
20110280223 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is a problem that when a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell ( | 11-17-2011 |
20110299506 | MAINTENANCE OF CHANNEL USAGE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Data is accessed from a network via a wireless communication link. A determination is made as to whether payload data has been received from a subscriber's terminal. If so, then a request is sent for a first set of traffic channels, and the payload data is transmitted over the first set of traffic channels. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299507 | Support of Plural Bandwidths in a Telecommunications System - In a CDMA system ( | 12-08-2011 |
20110305223 | Method and Apparatus for Data Communication Through a Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for data communication through a Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission in a multiple cell environment. According to the present invention, the data communication method through a coordinated multi-point transmission in a multiple cell environment including a serving base station and a cooperative base station for performing a coordinated multi-point transmission comprises the steps of: receiving data from the serving base station and the cooperative base station through a downlink channel; and demodulating the received data. Each datum transmitted from the serving base station and the cooperative base station includes a predetermined Reference Signal and a data Resource Element, and a Transmit Diversity is applied to the data resource elements of both the serving base station and the cooperative base station through Pairing. | 12-15-2011 |
20110310853 | SELECTING A CODEWORD AND DETERMINING A SYMBOL LENGTH FOR UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION - A wireless communication device configured for selecting a codeword and determining a symbol length for uplink control information is described. The wireless communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The wireless communication device establishes communication with a base station, receives downlink control information from the base station and receives base station information. The wireless communication device generates uplink control information based on the base station information. The wireless communication device also determines a number of symbols for the uplink control information for a plurality of layers and sends the uplink control information. | 12-22-2011 |
20120008598 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING AN ACCESS PROCEDURE - A base station for controlling transmission power during the establishment of a communication channel utilizes the reception of a short code during initial power ramp-up. The short code is a sequence for detection by the base station which has a much shorter period than a conventional access code. The ramp-up starts from a power level that is lower than the required power level for detection by the base station. The power of the short code is quickly increased until the signal is detected by the base station. Once the base station detects the short code, it transmits an indication that the short code has been detected. | 01-12-2012 |
20120020330 | RADIOTELEPHONY NETWORK WITH MULTI-CARRIER PACKET DATA TRANSMISSION - The present invention relates to a radio telephony network supporting at least one link of a radio channel for a packet data transmission service. The radio telephony network comprises a plurality of network controllers (RNC). Each network controller (RNC) is connected, via an interface I | 01-26-2012 |
20120020331 | Coordinating Transmission Hold and Resume in TD-SCDMA - Wireless communication in a radio access network may be implemented where a user equipment (UE) sends a hold signal to a Node B indicating that data transmission to the UE is to be put on hold. The UE may resume data transmission from the Node B by sending a resume signal to the Node B. During the hold in transmission, the UE may measure a GSM network to assist in handover of the UE between a TD-SCDMA network and a GSM network. | 01-26-2012 |
20120020332 | TECHNIQUE FOR SCHEDULING TD-SCDMA IDLE INTERVALS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for scheduling TD-SCDMA idle intervals, wherein a frame for inter-RAT measurement is selected based on a number of UEs allocated. | 01-26-2012 |
20120020333 | INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN WIRELESS BASE STATIONS AND SERVICE NODES - A base station detects that an end-user has turned on an on/off switch on the base station, and in response, the base station transfers a registration request to a service node over an IP network. The service node processes the registration request to register the base station. The base station exchanges wireless telephony signals with a plurality of end-user communication devices, wherein the wireless telephony signals transport end-user communications. The base station and the service node exchange IP packets over the IP network, wherein the IP packets transport the end-user communications. The service node processes the end-user communications to provide a telephony service to the end-user communication devices, but the service node does not provide the telephony service to end-user communication devices through the base station until the base station registration is complete. | 01-26-2012 |
20120020334 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION - A method for multi-antenna transmission includes allocating a different subcarrier resource or a different code resource to UE-specific reference signals (RSs) corresponding to each beamforming array of multiple beamforming arrays; and using the multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology on the multiple beamforming arrays. The embodiments of present invention also provide a multi-antenna apparatus and system. Embodiments of the present invention implement combined use of MIMO and the beamforming technology, which brings the advantages of the beamforming technology and MIMO into full play. Therefore, the SNR is improved through the array gain of beamforming arrays to reduce the interference between users, and the channel capacity in the system and the spectrum efficiency are improved through MIMO. | 01-26-2012 |
20120026984 | SYMBOL INTERLEAVE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A receiver includes a plurality of de-spreading correlators that are programmed to only correlate a specific portion of the full spreading code according to an interleave factor. Each correlator may be associated with a different symbol. The received signal may be received at all correlators and is multiplied by a code generated by a code generator according to the symbol associated with the correlator. While each correlator may be despreading the received signal at all times, an enable signal is used to determine when information for an associated cell should be accumulated for each correlator. | 02-02-2012 |
20120033643 | REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD - The present invention relates to a radio communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a reference signal transmitting method in a radio communication system, comprising the steps of generating a subframe including a control area and a data area, allocating a reference signal to a control channel mapped in the control area, and transmitting the subframe. | 02-09-2012 |
20120033644 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK RESOURCE ALLOCATION - A method for allocating communication resources for communication includes, in a first communication system including a plurality of transmitters, allocating frequency and time bandwidth for communication with a second communication system; determining a first portion of the plurality of transmitters for communication with the second communication system based, at least in part, on information obtained from the second communication system; and allocating the first portion of the plurality of transmitters for communication with the second communication system utilizing the allocated frequency and time bandwidth. A second portion of the plurality of transmitters may be allocated for a purpose other than communication with the second communication system utilizing the allocated frequency and time bandwidth. The allocating of the second portion of the plurality of transmitters includes allocating the second portion of the plurality of transmitters for communication with a third communication system utilizing the allocated frequency and time bandwidth. | 02-09-2012 |
20120044912 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING POWER OF UPLINK PHYSICAL CHANNEL - A method for controlling power of an uplink physical channel includes: computing a relative gain factor in a compressed mode; correcting the relative gain factor to obtain a corrected relative gain factor; generating a gain factor in the compressed mode according to the corrected relative gain factor; controlling power of the uplink physical channel according to the gain factor in the compressed mode generated. In embodiments of the present invention, after being computed, the relative gain factor in the compressed mode is corrected; the gain factor in the compressed mode is then generated according to the corrected relative gain factor. Thus, an accurate gain factor may be acquired for controlling the power of the uplink physical channel. | 02-23-2012 |
20120063422 | COMMUNICATION MODE CONTROLLING METHOD, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A communication mode which should be set to a mobile communication terminal having a function of switching between an autonomous mode and a scheduling mode is determined based on an amount of interference in each of the communication modes in the cell of a base station, and/or communication characteristics of each of the communication modes, and a signal indicating an amount of communication data notified from the mobile communication terminal. The base station then notifies the determined communication mode to the mobile communication terminal. | 03-15-2012 |
20120063423 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING RESOURCE ALLOCATION INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving resource allocation information in a random access process in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting/receiving resource allocation information in a random access process in a wireless communication system, according to one aspect of the present invention, involves a base station receiving a code from a terminal, and transmitting, to the terminal, CDMA Allocation A-MAP IE (code division multiple access allocation Advanced-MAP information element) including a field which indicates whether it is a source allocation for a bandwidth request or a resource allocation for ranging. | 03-15-2012 |
20120069823 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERNETWORKING INTERFACE IN MULTIMODE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - An apparatus supporting MTC in an LTE environment including an LTE modem and a CDMA modem. The LTE modem accesses a first wireless network and executes first data transactions, where the first wireless network comports with LTE standards. The CDMA modem is operationally coupled to the LTE modem, and accesses a second wireless network and executes second data transactions, where the second wireless network comports with one or more CDMA-based standards. The CDMA modem includes an inter-radio access technology (IRAT) API element and an inter-process communication (IPC) module. The IRAT API element is configured to send/receive IRAT messages via function calls to/from the LTE modem, where the IRAT messages remain the same regardless of interface requirements for the LTE modem. The IPC module is coupled to the IRAT API element, and is configured to generalize the function calls to enable the CDMA modem to interoperate with the LTE modem. | 03-22-2012 |
20120076113 | TRANSMITTING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MESSAGES USING A STAGGERED UPLINK TIME SLOT - A downlink communication is transmitted/received in at least one downlink time slot. In response to the received downlink communication, an acknowledgement message is received/transmitted in an uplink time slot a fixed integer number of uplink time slots after transmission/reception of the received downlink communication. The uplink and downlink time slots are staggered by substantially a half of a time slot. | 03-29-2012 |
20120082138 | Scanning Methods And Apparatus For System Acquisition - A method for searching for a requested CDMA system using a receiver having an AFC circuit is described. A system acquisition scan is performed over a plurality of candidate frequencies. In the scan, a first pilot signal of a first system is detected on one of the frequencies, and information from the first system is decoded. If the first system is different from the requested system, then the first pilot signal is assigned as a first timing reference in the receiver for remaining frequencies. Subsequently, a second pilot signal of a second system is detected on another one of the frequencies, and information from the second system is decoded. If the second system is different from the requested system, and the first pilot signal fails below a predetermined threshold value, then the second pilot signal is selected as a second timing reference in the receiver for remaining frequencies. | 04-05-2012 |
20120087346 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN A MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present application discloses a method for transmitting a downlink signal in a multi-antenna wireless communication system. In detail, the method comprises: a step of mapping a signal of a codeword domain to a signal of a layer domain; a step of mapping the signal of the layer domain to a signal of a virtual antenna port domain using a precoding matrix; and a step of transmitting the signal of the virtual antenna port domain to a physical antenna port, wherein the precoding matrix is changed in a channel measurement unit, and the signal of the layer domain is layer-permutated in the channel measurement unit. Preferably, the channel measurement unit is constituted by one or more resource blocks (RBs). | 04-12-2012 |
20120093131 | MINIMAL MAINTENANCE LINK TO SUPPORT SYCHRONIZATION - A method for use in a field unit operable in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving an indication of a plurality of access identifiers from a base station. The field unit selects an access identifier from the plurality of access identifiers received from the base station. The selected access identifier is associated with a type of field unit request. The field unit transmits the selected access identifier to the base station. The field unit then receives a message from the base station. The message is based on the transmitted selected access identifier. The message contains a timing adjustment that indicates an amount to advance timing. A corresponding field unit apparatus, a base station method, and corresponding base station apparatus is also disclosed. | 04-19-2012 |
20120093132 | RF BUS CONTROLLER - A radio frequency (RF) bus controller includes an interface and a processing module. The interface is coupled for communicating intra-device RF bus access requests and allocations. The processing module is coupled to receive an access request to an RF bus via the interface; determine RF bus resource availability; and when sufficient RF bus resources are available to fulfill the access request, allocate, via the interface, at least one RF bus resource in response to the access request. | 04-19-2012 |
20120120923 | Methods and Systems for Multi-User Detection in CDMA-Based Common Channels and Computer Program Products Thereof - Methods for multi-user detection in a CDMA-based channel for use in a base station receiver are provided. Signals, each including a CDMA code, are received. Correlation operations are performed on CDMA codes of received signals respectively to obtain corresponding first correlation values. CDMA codes are divided into first and second code groups according to a threshold and corresponding first correlation values. An interference cancellation procedure is performed on received signals to remove signals corresponding to first code group therefrom and to obtain a removed signal. Correlation operations are performed on CDMA codes of removed signal to obtain corresponding second correlation values. Each first correlation value is subtracted from a corresponding second correlation value and compared with a threshold to generate a comparison result. Whether CDMA codes within first code group are correct are determined according to comparison results, wherein the threshold is dynamically adjusted according to comparison results. | 05-17-2012 |
20120127961 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - To provide a mobile terminal apparatus and radio communication method for enabling feedback control information to be efficiently transmitted on uplink channels, a radio communication method of the invention is characterized by having in a mobile terminal apparatus the steps of receiving a signal for each of a plurality of component carriers from a radio base station apparatus, generating feedback control information for each component carrier from the signal, mapping the feedback control information for each component carrier to suitable radio resources based on the number of component carriers, the presence or absence of uplink transmission data, and the number of bits of control information to transmit as feedback, and transmitting an uplink transmission signal mapped to the radio resources. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127962 | DETECTION AND MITIGATION OF TEMPORARY (BURSTS) IMPAIRMENTS IN CHANNELS USING SCDMA - Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and mitigating temporary high-level impairments, in a communications channel, and subsequently, mitigating the deleterious effects of the dynamic impairments. The system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is adapted to transmit at least one set of modulated signals. The receiver is adapted to receive the at least one set of modulated signals and mitigate temporary high-level impairment in the at least one set of modulated signals using at least one error vector received during the temporary high-level impairment. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127963 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method for transmitting a channel status information reference signals (CSI-RSs) for a maximum of eight antenna ports includes mapping the CSI-RSs for a maximum of eight antenna ports onto a data region of a downlink subframe having a normal cyclic prefix (CP) configuration according to a predetermined pattern; and transmitting the downlink subframe to which the CSI-RSs mapped, wherein the predetermined pattern defines the CSI-RSs to be mapped onto two OFDM symbols of the data region in the downlink subframe and mapped to at least one of four subcarrier positions in each of the two OFDM symbols, and wherein the four subcarrier positions defined by the predetermined pattern may be two consecutive subcarrier positions and two other consecutive subcarrier positions spaced apart by four subcarriers. | 05-24-2012 |
20120134341 | MAINTAINING A MAINTENANCE CHANNEL IN A REVERSE LINK OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - In a reverse link of a wireless CDMA communication system, a method of maintaining an idling mode connection between a field unit and a base transceiver station is provided using various techniques to maintain the idle mode connection at a reduced power level. A preferred embodiment computes a time slot or frame offset based on modulo function using a field unit identifier in order to distribute field unit maintenance transmissions among available slots or offsets. An alternate embodiment detects explicit signaling states changes at the physical layer and causes power target changes. A further embodiment transmits maintenance data during predetermined time intervals, coordinated between the field units and BTS, allowing power levels to be adjusted accordingly. | 05-31-2012 |
20120140743 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING MULTI-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY CARRIER AGGREGATION - A method of managing carrier aggregation for a multi-radio access technology (RAT) wireless transmitter/receiver unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The method may include: receiving, by the WRTU over a primary channel associated with a RAT of a first type, provisioning information for provisioning a supplementary channel associated with a RAT of a second type; establishing the supplementary channel associated with the RAT of the second type based on the received provisioning information; and wirelessly exchanging, by the WRTU, first data associated with a communication over the primary channel via the RAT of the first type, while wireless exchanging second data associated with the communication over the supplementary channel via the RAT of the second type. | 06-07-2012 |
20120155434 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL SIGNALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method transmitting uplink control signals. The method for transmitting uplink control signals includes allocating resources on an uplink control channel commonly used by a first control signal requesting an uplink data channel and a second control signal requesting automatic retransmission to a transmitter; transforming the first control signal and the second control signal into a predetermined symbol; changing a phase of the transformed and output symbol, when the first control signal is transmitted or when the first control signal and the second signal are simultaneously transmitted; and spreading an output symbol of which the phase is changed by a spreading code to transmit the spread output symbol using the resources on the allocated uplink control channel. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155435 | MANAGEMENT OF UPLINK RESOURCES IN MULTI-CARRIER CDMA SYSTEM - The method an apparatus described herein manages uplink resources to increase spectral efficiency and system capacity. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a base station may be assigned two or more downlink carriers for downlink transmission and two or more corresponding uplink carriers. In a multi-carrier mode, the base station may transmit signals on two or more downlink carriers to the same mobile terminal, and receive signals from the mobile terminal on one of the paired uplink terminals. The uplink carriers can be operated at different interference levels and the uplink traffic can be divided between the available uplink carriers based on the type of traffic and/or data transmission parameters. The mobile terminals may also be allowed to switch between the uplink carriers to improve overall efficiency. | 06-21-2012 |
20120163346 | TDD-LTE Measurement Gap for Performing TD-SCDMA Measurement - Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for enhancing a measurement gap for TD-SCDMA measurement. Certain aspects provide a method that generally includes receiving, from a base station (BS) of a first radio access technology (RAT), a message indicating a measurement gap in which a user equipment (UE) is to take a measurement in a second RAT, the message comprising an indication of a start position of the measurement gap and a duration of the measurement gap; and taking a measurement during the measurement gap. | 06-28-2012 |
20120170553 | Apparatus and Method for Dynamically Assigning Orthogonal Codes in a Radio Communication System - An apparatus, method, and system for dynamically assigning orthogonal codes to different information signals communicated between a Node B and user equipment in a cellular radio communication system in which a fixed number of codes are allocated between dedicated transport channels (DCHs) and high speed downlink shared channels (HS-DSCHs). A radio controller (RNC) allocates a minimum number of codes for HS-DSCH physical channels (HS-PDSCH codes) to the Node B. The Node B determines HS-PDSCH codes that are not currently being utilized and allocates HS-PDSCH codes from the unused codes without having to communicate with the RNC. When the additional HS-PDSCH codes are needed for DCH codes, the Node B reallocates the codes for DCH purposes without reducing the number of HS-PDSCH codes below the allocated minimum. | 07-05-2012 |
20120177010 | Multi-Tiered Detection of a Geofence - Methods, program products, and systems for multi-tier detection of a geofence are disclosed. In general, in one aspect, a mobile device can be configured to perform a task when the mobile device enters a geographic region. The mobile device can monitor a current location using a multi-tiered approach. A baseband subsystem can monitor a coarse location of the mobile device using a CDMA system identifier, a CDMA network identifier, a CDMA zone identifier, or a CDMA base station identifier, in that order, as the mobile device moves closer to the geographic region. The baseband subsystem can notify an application subsystem when the mobile device is in a cell that intersects the geographic region. The application subsystem can perform the task upon notification. | 07-12-2012 |
20120177011 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING FOR MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION WITH PRECODING - A method and apparatus for signaling for multi-antenna transmission with precoding are disclosed. Precoder phase information may be signaled using bit sequences that provide a degree of error tolerance in that precoder phases having large differences are signaled using bit sequences having large Hamming distances. | 07-12-2012 |
20120177012 | PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL SPECIFIC SCRAMBLING - A method, apparatus, and electronic device for creating a connection between a base station and user equipment are disclosed. A transceiver | 07-12-2012 |
20120182973 | Code Allocation for Uplink MIMO - The disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses that allow for channelisation code allocation adapted for uplink MIMO transmissions. A method for use in a user equipment of a telecommunication system comprises spreading data symbols of a plurality of streams to be transmitted from the user equipment as MIMO transmissions. The step of spreading the data symbols comprises allocating, for each stream, at least one channelisation code ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120188987 | Apparatus and Method for Facilitating Handover in TD-SCDMA Systems - A method and apparatus for facilitating handover in a TD-SCDMA system is provided. The method may comprise transmitting data to a serving Node B using a first set of assigned resources, and contemporaneously transmitting the data to at least one neighbor Node B using a second set of assigned resources. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188988 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION POWER INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for providing downlink reference signal transmission power information in a wireless communication system that supports multiple antennas. A method for providing demodulation reference signal transmission power information according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of mapping a main synchronous signal onto a predetermined OFDM symbol of a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS) subframe; a step of mapping, in a code division multiplexing manner, a demodulation reference signal over two or more OFDM symbols containing said predetermined OFDM symbol in the DwPTS subframe; a step of transmitting the DwPTS subframe to which the main synchronous signal and the demodulation reference signal are mapped; and a step of transmitting information on the transmission power for transmitting the demodulation reference signal mapped onto said predetermined OFDM symbol. | 07-26-2012 |
20120213206 | TDMA/CDMA USER EQUIPMENT - A wireless hybrid time division multiple access/code division multiple access (TDMA/CDMA) user equipment (UE) includes a signaling receiver and a data detection device in communication with the signaling receiver. The signaling receiver is configured to receive and recover signaled information of code and timeslot assignments of the UE to support an RF communication. The data detection device is configured to recover from the signaling information an identifier of a plurality of assigned timeslots and an indication of a first and last code of a set of consecutive codes. The last code is identified by an identifier associated with the last code. | 08-23-2012 |
20120230300 | Radio Network Assignment and Access System - A communications system includes remote stations coupled to a central station by a network. The system includes the network, the central station establishes a list of information about available network resources and publishes the list for the remote station. The system includes the remote stations, which identify a set of said published resources needed to establish the connection, notify the central station about the identified resources, and seize the set of identified resources to thereby establish the connection. The central station updates the list of available resources to thereby reflect the seizing of the set, and communicates the updated list to the remote stations. | 09-13-2012 |
20120230301 | CANCELLING INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORK - A method, program and user equipment for wireless communication in a cellular communication system comprising a plurality of base stations. The method comprises: synchronizing to one of said the base stations using a synchronization channel transmitted from that base station; receiving a pilot channel from said base station; after synchronizing to said base station, receiving a signal from that base station; and using the pilot channel from said base station to cancel interference on said signal caused by the synchronization channel. | 09-13-2012 |
20120243511 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION - In the field of wireless communication, a method and an apparatus for transmitting Uplink Control Information (UCI) are provided. The method includes: determining a codeword corresponding to the UCI among multiple codewords according to a preset rule when the UCI is transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) with the multiple codewords ( | 09-27-2012 |
20120243512 | Method and Apparatus for Dual Frequency Timing Acquisition for compressed WCDMA Communication Networks - Methods and systems for dual frequency timing acquisition for compressed WCDMA communication networks may include processing received WCDMA signals. The WCDMA signals, which may be primary synchronization channel signals, may comprise signals transmitted by one base station at one frequency band and by another base station at a different frequency band, during a compressed frame. Samples of the received WCDMA signals from the different base stations may be stored in portions of a memory allocated for signals from each base station. The received WCDMA signals having the first frequency band may be processed via the processing circuitry during a non-compressed frame. The samples corresponding to the signals with the first frequency band during the non-compressed frame may be stored in the memory. The received WCDMA signals may be sampled at a faster rate during the non-compressed frame than during the compressed frame. | 09-27-2012 |
20120250661 | Discontinuous Transmission CDMA System - A method of transmitting from a first node to a second node, said method comprising the steps of transmitting in a first mode at least one data frame from said first node to said second node; and determining if there is no data to be transmitted and if there is no data to be transmitted transmitting at least one empty frame in the first mode; and switching to a second mode in which no transmission is made in the absence of data to be transmitted at least some of the time. | 10-04-2012 |
20120263149 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a mobile communication system, a mobile switching center | 10-18-2012 |
20120263150 | Decoding method and apparatus - The disclosure discloses a decoding method and apparatus. The decoding method includes: acquiring a decoding channel IDentity (ID) of a Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) and a decoding channel ID of an Enhanced DPCCH (E-DPCCH) of a user according to a user ID of the user; de-mapping Transport Format | 10-18-2012 |
20120263151 | DYNAMIC CHANNEL QUALITY MEASUREMENT PROCEDURE IMPLEMENTED IN A WIRELESS DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM TO PRIORITIZE THE FORWARDING OF DOWNLINK DATA - A wireless digital communication system includes a base station in communication with a plurality of user equipment mobile terminals (UEs). The system prioritizes the forwarding of blocks of downlink data to designated ones of the UEs. The system employs adaptive modulation and coding (AM&C) to achieve improved radio resource utilization and provides optimum data rates for user services. Blocks of downlink (DL) data are received by the base station which requests downlink (DL) channel quality measurements only from those mobile terminals (UEs) with pending downlink transmissions. The UEs respond to the request by measuring and reporting DL channel quality to the base station, which then allocates resources such that the UEs will make best use of radio resources. The base station notifies the UEs of the physical channel allocation indicating the modulation/coding rate and allocated slots followed by transmission of blocks of downlink data which are transmitted to the UEs. | 10-18-2012 |
20120269175 | EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF JOINT DETECTION BASED TDSCDMA RECEIVERS - A TD-SCDMA receiver includes a joint detector that receives an input signal from a transceiver. The joint detector analyzes the input signal to determine whether one or more neighboring cells are used in conjunction with a servicing cell. Also, the joint detector assigns a first matrix that includes all coded channels including those associated with the one or neighboring cells so as to formulate a channel matrix. The joint detector uses a selective ratio that has been minimized to define elements of the first matrix so as to efficiently control the bit-width of the joint detector. | 10-25-2012 |
20120269176 | VARIABLE RATE CODING FOR FORWARD LINK - A forward error correction (FEC) block size is maintained at a constant size. Coding rate adjustments may be made by changing the number of information bits per symbol, or Forward Error Code (FEC) coding rate. Therefore, as the number of information bits per symbol is changed, the number of output bits is always maintained. The scheme permits for a greater flexibility and selection of effective data rates. | 10-25-2012 |
20120269177 | FAST SWITCHING OF FORWARD LINK IN WIRELESS SYSTEM - A technique for distributing channel allocation information in a demand access communication system. Multiple access codes are used that have a defined code repeat period or code epoch. For each such epoch duration, a schedule of assignment of traffic channels to active terminals for each epoch is determined. For each terminal designated as active during the epoch, a list of active channels for such terminal unit is assigned. Prior to the start of each epoch, a channel set up message is sent on one of the forward link channels, such as a paging channel, indicating the lists of active channels for epochs of the associated traffic channel(s) that are to follow. | 10-25-2012 |
20120281678 | Avoidance of Synchronization Oscillation in TD-SCDMA Uplink Synchronization - Avoidance of uplink synchronization oscillation in TD-SCDMA systems begins when a user equipment receives a downlink SS command from a Node B. The user equipment obtains a previous uplink timing, which may be from a previous sub-frame associated with the downlink SS command. The user equipment would obtain this previous sub-frame associated with the SS command directly from the Node B as an identification of the Node B's sub-frame delay. The user equipment will then calculate the uplink timing for its next updated uplink signal by combining the previous uplink timing with the synchronization adjustment associated with the SS command. The user equipment then transmits its next uplink signal using the new uplink timing. | 11-08-2012 |
20120294288 | Apparatus and Method for Facilitating Dynamic Time Slot Allocation - A method and apparatus for facilitating dynamic time slot allocation is provided. The method may comprise receiving an assignment of at least one of a downlink time slot or an uplink time slot, wherein the downlink time slot is selected based on at least one of a number of used code channels in the downlink time slot, or a downlink transmit power, and wherein the uplink time slot is selected based on at least one of a number of used code channels in the uplink time slot, intra-cell interference, or other-cell interference. | 11-22-2012 |
20120307804 | DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION TO TRANSMIT A WIRELESS PROTOCOL ACROSS A CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (CDMA) RADIO LINK - A technique for transmission of wireless signals across CDMA radio links. Bandwidth is allocated dynamically within a session to specific CDMA subscriber unit based upon data rate determinations. Specifically, a dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm operates from limits calculated based upon available ports per subscriber, expected user bandwidth, and parallel user bandwidth versus throughput. Provisions for priority service, unbalanced forward and reverse spectrum utilization, voice prioritization, and band switching are also made. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307805 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODE DIVISION SWITCHING - Time division multiplexed input signals (i.e., separated into time slots) are spread in each time slot with a destination code. This spreading is applied for destination identification as opposed to signal information modulation. Each spreading signal is associated with a particular destination for a particular time slot. These spread signals are then combined on a code division bus. Output signals for retransmission to the destinations are recovered from the bus by application of despreading codes. Each despread signal has a destination code which appears in its individual time slot. In a variant code division multiplexed signals are directed to a destination by use of time slot interchanger to achieve time division switching to route the CDMA multiplexed channels. | 12-06-2012 |
20120314691 | Power Control Loop for a CDMA System - In a method and a device improved power control for the inner loop of a CDMA system is provided. A model for the power coupling caused by the SIR target inner loop is provided. Hereby a decoupling function for the power coupling caused by the SIR target inner loop can be provided and used when controlling the power in the inner loop. | 12-13-2012 |
20120320880 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting control information via a PUCCH in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus for the method, wherein the method comprises the following steps: joint-coding a plurality of pieces of control information to obtain a single code word; obtaining a first modulated symbol sequence from the single code word; obtaining, from the first modulated symbol sequence, a plurality of second modulated symbol sequences corresponding to each slot in the PUCCH; cyclically shifting the plurality of second modulated symbol sequences in a time domain to obtain a plurality of third modulated symbol sequences; performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoding process on the plurality of third modulated symbol sequences to obtain a plurality of complex symbol sequences in a frequency domain; and transmitting the plurality of complex symbol sequences via the PUCCH. | 12-20-2012 |
20120327910 | Activating Component Carriers in a Carrier Aggregation - In an exemplary embodiment there is sent to a user equipment UE downlink control information DCI comprising an indication of an access codeword and an indication that at least one component carrier CC is activated for the UE, and there is received from the UE the access codeword which is an acknowledgement that the UE has activated the at least one CC. The access codeword is received on an uplink channel which a) lies in the at least one activated CC if there is an activated uplink channel in the activated CC, or b) is previously activated if there is no activated uplink channel in the activated CC. In another embodiment DCI comprising the above two indications is received from a network, the received indications are used to select and access the at least one CC; and activating the CC is acknowledged by sending the access codeword. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE PLACEMENT OF RANK INFORMATION IN A PHYSICAL UPLINK SHARED CHANNEL - A wireless communication network comprising a plurality of base stations capable of wireless communication with a plurality of subscriber stations within a coverage area of the network, wherein at least one of the plurality of base stations is capable of selecting two or more orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a subframe of a physical uplink shared channel, the two or more OFDM symbols are selected starting from the bottom of the physical uplink shared channel in a bottom-up manner, and repeating one or more rank information (RI) coded bits in each of the selected two or more OFDM symbols. | 12-27-2012 |
20130010764 | MOBILE DEVICE CONFIGURED TO OPERATE ON MULTIPLE DIFFERENT NETWORKS - An apparatus includes a code division multiple access (CDMA) antenna that is configured to transmit and receive communication signals. The apparatus includes a memory that is configured to store multiple mobile equipment identifiers (MEIDs), multiple activation protocols and instructions, where each MEID includes an identifier that is uniquely recognizable on one of multiple networks and where the activation protocols include protocols for uniquely activating the apparatus on one of multiple different networks each of which have different communication protocols. The apparatus includes a processor that is coupled to the CDMA antenna and to the memory and that is configured to execute the instructions to enable a user to select a network from the multiple different networks on which to activate and operate the apparatus and activate and operate the apparatus on a selected network using an MEID recognizable by the selected network and the activation protocol for the selected network. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010765 | COMMUNICATION MODE CONTROLLING METHOD, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A communication mode which should be set to a mobile communication terminal having a function of switching between an autonomous mode and a scheduling mode is determined based on an amount of interference in each of the communication modes in the cell of a base station, and/or communication characteristics of each of the communication modes, and a signal indicating an amount of communication data notified from the mobile communication terminal. The base station then notifies the determined communication mode to the mobile communication terminal. | 01-10-2013 |
20130022027 | DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION IN A FRAME - An apparatus having a database and a circuit is disclosed. The database may be configured to store a plurality of entries. The circuit may be configured to (i) insert a plurality of indicators into a frame, (ii) generate the entries in the database and (iii) transmit the frame in response to the entries such that power is applied to an antenna corresponding to each of a plurality of data items in the frame and no power is applied to the antenna corresponding to each of the indicators in the frame. Each of the entries generally identifies a respective location in the frame. Each of the locations may begin a respective string comprising at least one of the indicators. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022028 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD, MOBILE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Conventionally, there is a problem that a state transition of E-TFC changes according to QoS for descriptions of data to be transmitted, and therefore a mobile station's operation is not decided uniquely. To solve this problem, a transmission control method in accordance with the present invention includes a step of selecting transmission control information according to a combination of user data transmitted, via a transport channel, from an upper layer, and a step of transmitting the transmission control information, as well as a physical channel into which two or more transport channels are multiplexed, to a fixed station, the transmission control information including at least transmit power information. | 01-24-2013 |
20130039346 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING CDMA ARCHITECTURE FOR 3GPP2 COMPLIANT TRANSCEIVERS - A mobile device that operates in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The mobile device includes a transceiver that uses a first wireless communication technology, which can be Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. The mobile device also includes a modem that coupled to the transceiver through a standard interface and uses a second wireless communication technology, which can be CDMA. The modem processes the received signal from the transceiver and processes a transmit signal for the transceiver. A first receiver first processing circuit has a matching filter to compensate for and resampling the received signal from the receiver so that that the received signal from the transceiver is compatible with the modem. A transmitter processing has a filter for resampling and adjusting a processed transmit signal for the transmitter. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039347 | RAKE Resource Multiplexing for Enhanced Uplink Data Services - A receiver resource administrator coordinates uplink transmissions from a mobile terminal in order to reduce the RAKE resources required to support the mobile terminal and to provide greater predictability in the uplink transmissions. The reduction of RAKE resources and the increased predictability of the uplink transmissions enable multiplexing of multiple mobile terminals using the same RAKE resources. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039348 | Transmitter, Receiver and Methods for Downlink Control Signalling - Downlink control information (DCI) extensions to support 3GPP Rel-10 functionalities comprise minimal extensions of DCI format 2B. In some embodiments, only two extra bits ( | 02-14-2013 |
20130044734 | SIMPLE BLOCK SPACE TIME TRANSMIT DIVERSITY USING MULTIPLE SPREADING CODES - A base station and user equipment (UE) for use in a CDMA communication system are disclosed. The base station includes a first and second antenna for transmitting first and second communication bursts. The first channelization device spreads data using a first channelization code and the second channelization device spreads the data using a second channelization code. The UE has a data detection device for receiving a signal including the first and second communication bursts. | 02-21-2013 |
20130051369 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING CONTROL INFORMATION AND DATA, AND FOR TRANSMITTING THE MULTIPLEXED CONTROL INFORMATION AND DATA IN A MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system. A method for multiplexing uplink control information and uplink data and for transmitting the multiplexed uplink control information and uplink data according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: encoding a first transmission block and a second transmission block to generate a first codeword and a second codeword; mapping the first codeword and the second codeword to one or more layers, respectively; and transmitting, via one or more antenna ports, each layer to which the first codeword and the second codeword are mapped, wherein the uplink control information is multiplexed only to either the first transmission block or to the second transmission block. | 02-28-2013 |
20130051370 | METHOD FOR USING A BASE STATION TO SELECTIVELY UTILIZE B AND D CHANNELS TO SUPPORT A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATIONS - A method for using a wireless digital base station to receive, process and transmit a plurality of communications having independent data rates establishing a first communication channel having a first data communication rate to support a first communication; determining the data rate required to support the first communication; selecting one or more transmission channels, from a plurality of available transmission channels, required to support said required data rate; and transmitting the first communication using one or more selected transmission channels. The plurality of available transmission channels includes at least one B or D channel. | 02-28-2013 |
20130064227 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - Disclosed are a wireless communication method and device which can maintain frequency scheduling flexibility and improve system throughput performance. A Walsh sequence number determination unit ( | 03-14-2013 |
20130064228 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MODULATION ORDER OF UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR - Disclosed is a method for allowing a terminal equipped with multiple antennas to transmit uplink control information in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of generating a plurality of codewords by using data information and said uplink control information; modulating each of the generated codewords based on predetermined modulation orders; and transmitting the modulated signals to a base station through said multiple antennas, wherein first uplink control information of said uplink control information is mapped into a particular codeword among the plurality of codewords, second uplink control information is repeated and mapped for each of the plurality of codewords, and a modulation order for the second uplink control information is the modulation order corresponding to said particular codeword. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070732 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING A PLURALITY OF LAYERS TO A PLURALITY OF ANTENNA PORTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for allocating a plurality of layers to a plurality of antenna ports in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: mapping the plurality of layers to the respective antenna ports; and mapping demodulation reference signals (DMRS) of the plurality of layers to a first code division multiplexing (CDM) set or to a second CDM set, and transmitting the signals via the plurality of antenna ports. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070733 | Method and Apparatus for Equalizing Signals - A system and apparatus are disclosed for a method and apparatus for equalizing signals. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an equalizer ( | 03-21-2013 |
20130077601 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING COMPRESSED MODE COMMUNICATIONS - A method and apparatus for facilitating compressed mode communications is provided. The method may comprise receiving a compressed mode indication message, and activating a compressed mode in response to the received compressed mode indication message. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077602 | CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a mobile communication system using a code division multiple access (CDMA) method, spreading code detection and frame/slot timing synchronization (cell search) is conducted by using a long code masked symbol. The spreading factor of the long code masked symbol is set to a value lower than spreading factors of other ordinary symbols. As a result, it becomes possible to reduce the circuit scale and power dissipation of the mobile terminal and raise the speed of cell search. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083778 | Wideband Analog Channel Information Feedback - Multipoint broadcasting requires that the downlink-channel information be available at collaborating base stations. Methods and apparatus for wideband analog channel feedback are described that provide downlink-channel information feedback from mobile users to base stations via uplink channels, and that use very few or no resources of the RAT of the wireless cellular network. Also described are methods and apparatus that perform channel-feedback signal cancellation at base stations to reduce its interference on the uplink-traffic signal. Wideband analog channel feedback is adaptable to the feedback bandwidth in uplink, and it offers frequency diversity to combat the deep fading in feedback channels. Wideband analog channel feedback is also applicable to uplink channel-information feedback. Applications of the described methods and apparatus include multipoint broadcasting in a wireless cellular network, and more generally, channel feedback between two communicating devices in a communications network. | 04-04-2013 |
20130089078 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN A MANAGEMENT DEVICE OF LTE-A NETWORK AND THE DEVICE THEREOF - According to embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing, for a dual-antenna UE or quadri-antenna UE, downlink control information used for uplink transmission in a management device of LTE-A network, and the method for the former comprises the steps of: determining an uplink transmission scheme for the dual-antenna UE; semi-statically configuring, by high level signaling, the uplink transmission mode to which the uplink transmission scheme belongs; generating downlink control information corresponding to the determined uplink transmission scheme, the downlink control information comprising a first indicating field, a second indicating field, a new-data indicating field for a first transmission block and a new-data indicating field for a second transmission block; wherein, when transmission block is disabled for the determined up-link transmission scheme, disablement of at least one of two transmission blocks is represented by a first combination of the value of the first indicating field and the second indicating field; and the disablement of the two transmission blocks is represented by a combination formed by the new-data indicating field for the first transmission block and the new-data indicating field for the second transmission block; transmitting the generated downlink control information to the dual-antenna UE. | 04-11-2013 |
20130094476 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BLIND CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE COMBINING FOR NOISE MITIGATION IN CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN A TD-SCDMA RECEIVER - Blind channel impulse response combining for noise mitigation in channel estimation in a TD-SCDMA receiver includes applying a correlation function to pairs of channel impulse response windows associated with non-desired user equipments, grouping all those channel impulse response windows having a correlation function above a predetermined threshold as identified with the same user equipment, and combining the channel estimation results from each identified user equipment in the group to mitigate noise. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094477 | Methods and Devices for Configuring User Equipments with Multiple Transmit Antennas - In deployments where there is a mixture of new Node Bs capable of uplink multi-antenna transmission and legacy Node Bs not capable of uplink multi-antenna transmission some embodiments described herein enable a network node (e.g. a radio network controller, RNC) to configure an uplink control channel (e.g. dedicated physical control channel, DPCCH) to be decodable by both the new and the legacy Node 8s when the UE operates in uplink multi-antenna transmission. | 04-18-2013 |
20130100933 | SCHEDULING METHOD IN MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method for allocating resources in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station receives a maximum transmission power from a first wireless device. The base station allocates a resource to the first wireless device based on a ratio of the maximum transmission power to a maximum available resource. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100934 | Edge Continued Evolution, Improved Channel Request Method And System - The present invention is a method and system adapted to facilitate, between a mobile station (MS) and network, an indication of support for reduced time transmission interval (RTTI). The MS can provide a base station system (BSS) with an indication of its multislot capability within an access burst sent at the start of a contention based access. In another aspect, the MS can indicate support for a new Immediate Assignment message as the conventional Immediate Assignment message can only assign single timeslots. The present invention enables the Radio Access Network (RAN) to assign RTTI and more than one timeslot for GPRS/EDGE temporary block flows (TBFs) during an Access Grant Channel (AGCH) assignment. The method of the present invention can be implemented in a computer program product or distributed software adapted to be loaded into at least one or a plurality of memory locations and executed by at least one or a plurality of respective computer processors. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100935 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING A REFERENCE SIGNAL - A method and a device for transmitting a reference signal (RS) are provided. The method includes following steps: based on a mapping relationship between antennas, transmission layers and RS resources, a user equipment (UE) generates an RS on each transmission layer by using an RS resource corresponding to the transmission layer, and transmits the generated RS at a first RS transmission time via an antenna corresponding to the transmission layer; the UE updates the mapping relationship, and generates an RS on each transmission layer by using an RS resource corresponding to the transmission layer based on the updated mapping relationship, and transmits the generated RS at a second RS transmission time via an antenna corresponding to the transmission layer. | 04-25-2013 |
20130107866 | FEMTOCELL AND RESOURCE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | 05-02-2013 |
20130114569 | POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Power control is a wireless network is disclosed. On a single downlink physical channel an uplink resource allocation and a multilevel transmit power command is provided. An uplink transmission power level for an uplink signal provided on an uplink channel is based on the multilevel transmit power command. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114570 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK DATA IN A WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM - The present description relates to a method for a terminal to transmit uplink (UL) data in a wireless access system, comprising the following steps: receiving uplink resource allocation information for uplink data transmission from a base station via a downlink control channel, wherein the uplink resource allocation information includes resource block allocation information for each slot of a subframe and modulation and coding scheme (MCS) information; receiving, from the base station, sequence information allocated to each terminal so as to transmit uplink data through a code division multiplexing (CDM) scheme in cooperation with other terminals in a resource block pair region of the subframe; and transmitting uplink data to the base station through the resource block pair region in accordance with the received sequence information. | 05-09-2013 |
20130121312 | Transmission of Channel State Information - Signalling information relating to Multiple Input Multiple Output MIMO channel state information characteristics that a user equipment UE determines to be highest priority for a downlink is transmitted uplink from a the UE to a node of a cellular wireless network. The UE receives an indicator from the node indicating a preferred basis of the highest priority signalling information. The UE compiles the highest priority signalling information according to the preferred basis, and sends the compiled signalling information to the node. If the UE determines that the number of MIMO layers preferred for use for the downlink is one, then signalling information is sent in different messages indicating a first and second codeword respectively, the first codeword being selected to be a closest codeword to an intended MIMO channel state information characteristic, and the second characteristic is selected to be a less close codeword. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121313 | ADJUSTING A BUNDLING FACTOR FOR A COMMUNICATION SESSION BASED ON WHETHER AN ACCESS NETWORK SUPPORTS HEADER COMPRESSION AND DYNAMICALLY SETTING A DE-JITTER BUFFER SIZE BASED ON A BUNDLING FACTOR - In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) determines to originate a communication session, and the UE further determines whether an access network serving the UE supports header compression. Based on the header compression determination, the UE establishes on a given bundling factor (BF). The UE transmits a first set of media packets to a server during the communication session, the first set of media packets each including a first number of media frames based on the given BF. The server determines target BF(s) for target UE(s) and determines whether to modify the given BF based on the target BF(s). Based on these determinations, the server transmits a second set of media packets either unmodified from the first stream of data packets, or modified based on the target BF(s). The target UE(s) receive the second stream of data packets and set a de-jitter buffer size based on the associated BF. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121314 | DOWNLINK ORTHOGONAL VARIABLE SPREADING FACTOR CODE ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND BASE STATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A downlink orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) code assignment method is provided. It is determined whether a spreading factor required by a service request is greater than a remaining capacity of assignable spreading factors of a code tree. If not, the code tree is searched from a root until a node of a layer corresponding to the required spreading factor is reached and thus defined as a first node. During the searching, when a searched node is unassigned, the searching continues leftward in a lower layer; and when the searched node is in an assigned state, the searching continues rightward in a same layer of the searched node. It is determined, from the first node, whether any assignable code is available in the layer corresponding to the required spreading factor. If available, an assignable code is assigned to a communication service corresponding to the service request. | 05-16-2013 |
20130136107 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA AND BASE STATION - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for processing data and a base station. The method includes: receiving first service data sent by a first radio frequency device, where the first service data are received by at least one receiving set of the first radio frequency device; receiving at least one second service data sent by at least one second radio frequency device, where the at least one second service data are respectively received by at least one receiving set corresponding to the at least one second radio frequency device; and transferring the first service data and the at least one second service data to a baseband processing device through a baseband processing device channel corresponding to the first radio frequency device. The solution according to embodiments of the present invention is capable of effectively using channel resources of a baseband processing device. | 05-30-2013 |
20130142174 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WCDMA UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS - A NodeB for a WCDMA system, arranged to transmit instructions to a UE for the UE's uplink transmissions. The NodeB is arranged to transmit the instructions on a dedicated downlink physical channel which the NodeB is arranged to use for transmissions to a plurality of UEs and which comprises a plurality of radio frames, where each radio frame comprises a number of slots and each slot comprises a number of WCDMA symbols. The instructions to the UE comprise Transmit Power Commands as well as other instructions to the UE for the UE's uplink transmissions. The NodeB is arranged to use a first WCDMA slot format for the TPC commands to the UE and a second WCDMA slot format for the other instructions to the UE. | 06-06-2013 |
20130148635 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK SIGNAL, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING UPLINK SIGNAL IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - When a terminal generates an uplink signal in a communication system, the terminal hops a sequence for differentiating itself from another terminal with time. The terminal generates the uplink signal by multiplying a transmission symbol by a sequence of a transmission time corresponding to the transmission symbol. | 06-13-2013 |
20130156010 | Beam Information Exchange between Base Stations - A first base station receives an application protocol message from a second base station. The application protocol message comprises an identifier of the second base station and a beamforming codebook. The beamforming codebook comprises a plurality of beamforming codewords. Each of the plurality of beamforming codewords is identifiable by an index. The first base station transmits signals to wireless devices using a subset of the plurality of beamforming codewords. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156011 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELSS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A mobile station apparatus efficiently codes and transmits ACK/NACKs for a plurality of PDSCHs. The mobile station transmits a plurality of ACK/NACKs for transport blocks transmitted by a base station apparatus in a plurality of component carriers to the base station. First and second ACK/NACKs are individually coded, repetition processing is performed on coded bits of the first ACK/NACKs until the number of coded bits of the first ACK/NACKs reaches a first value, the repetition processing is performed on the coded bits of the second ACK/NACKs until the number of coded bits reaches a second value, the coded bits of the first ACK/NACKs and the coded bits of the second ACK/NACKs are concatenated, and the first ACK/NACKs and the second ACK/NACKs are transmitted to the base station apparatus using one physical uplink channel. | 06-20-2013 |
20130163567 | Transmission System and Transmission Method for the Wireless Transmission of Signals in an Automation Installation, and Automation Installation having such a Transmission System - A transmission system and a transmission method for the wireless transmission of signals in an automation installation and also an automation installation having such a transmission system is disclosed. The transmission system is used for the wireless transmission of signals between a plurality of elements of an automation installation and comprises a plurality of network nodes, to which a respective element from the plurality of elements of the automation installation is connected. In this context, each network node has an associated separate, continuously useable logical channel which can be used to transmit signals wirelessly. | 06-27-2013 |
20130182682 | DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS COMMUNICATIONS USING BUFFER URGENCY FACTOR - A code division multiple access (CDMA) user device configured to dynamically allocating at least at least one wireless communication channel to permit a more efficient allocation of wireless communication channels when providing high speed data service. The CDMA user device is configured to receive data traffic from at least one data buffer in a base station. The CDMA user device is dynamically allocated at least one wireless communication channel based on an urgency factor. The urgency factor indicates the urgency of traffic data to be transmitted from the at least one data buffer in the base station to the CDMA user device. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING UPLINK BEAMS IN BEAMFORMING-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus perform Uplink (UL) beam tracking in a beamforming-based wireless communication system. A Mobile Station (MS) repeatedly transmits code sequences mapped respectively to MS transmit beams through each MS transmit beam as many times as the number of Base Station (BS) receive beams while sweeping the MS transmit beams. The MS receives, from a BS, transmit beam information indicating at least one best transmit beam selected from the MS transmit beams by the BS, and allocation information used to allocate UL resources for UL feedback. The MS transmits best beam information indicating the at least one best transmit beam and a MS identifier to the BS using the UL resources. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182684 | CDMA MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication system having a base station and a plurality of radio terminals, wherein each radio terminal having a transmission request transmits a reservation packet at arbitrary timing through a reservation channel in accordance with a CDMA scheme, and the base station assigns a traffic channel and a time slot to be used to each radio terminal requesting a reservation through a reply packet outputted onto a reply channel. On the reservation channel, a short spreading code corresponding to a matched filter is applied. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188608 | Network Node And Method For Virtual Soft Handoff Operation - Various methods and network nodes (e.g., base stations or base transceiver nodes) are provided to address the need for enhanced uplink performance. In a first method, a virtual soft handoff network node receives ( | 07-25-2013 |
20130195079 | CONTENTION-BASED UPLINK DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A contention-based uplink data transmission method, apparatus and system are provided. The method may include that: a main control node in a communication system receives data transmitted via uplink contention transmission resources, and decodes the data, wherein the uplink contention transmission resources are uplink transmission resources which the main control node allocates to a plurality of terminal nodes in the communication system and via which the plurality of terminal nodes transmits data in a contention-based way; and the main control node sends reception status information to each terminal node transmitting the data via the uplink contention transmission resources, wherein the reception status information reflects whether the data transmitted from each terminal node has been decoded successfully. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195080 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN A MULTI-NODE SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting a signal of a multi-node system employing a plurality of nodes distributed geographically and a base station that can be controlled by being connected with each of the plurality of nodes. The method includes: mapping a plurality of codewords to a plurality of streams; mapping the plurality of streams to at least one node among the plurality of nodes; performing multiple input multiple output (MIMO) precoding to map the streams mapped to the at least one node to at least one transmit antennas; and transmitting a signal subjected to the MIMO precoding to a user equipment. | 08-01-2013 |
20130201962 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING WIRELESS CHANNELS OVER A REVERSE LINK OF A CDMA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A subscriber access unit includes a transceiver for providing wireless communication of digital signals. The digital signals are communicated to a base station using at least one radio frequency (RF) channel via Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) modulated radio signals defined by orthogonal codes. Orthogonal subchannels are made available by the base station within each CDMA RF channel. A bandwidth manager is connected to the transceiver, and when the transceiver is actively sending data, at least one orthogonal subchannel is allocated by the base station on an as-needed basis. The number of orthogonal subchannels being allocated changes during a given session. The transceiver, when powered on but not actively sending data, provides an idling mode connection on a reverse link. The idling mode connection is based on an orthogonal subchannel shared with at least one other subscriber access unit, but utilizes different time slots of the shared orthogonal subchannel. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201963 | RECEIVING GSM TIMING INFORMATION FROM TD-SCDMA BASE STATION TO FACILITATE TD-SCDMA TO GSM WIRELESS HANDOVER - Wireless communication is implemented by a multi-mode user equipment (UE). The method includes receiving cross reference timing information indicating a relationship between Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) timing and GSM timing. The method further includes acquiring a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) signal from at least one GSM cell, based on the cross reference timing information. The UE can handover to a selected GSM cell based on the measurements of the acquired GSM cell(s). | 08-08-2013 |
20130201964 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCEIVING DATA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WHICH SUPPORTS A PLURALITY OF COMPONENT CARRIERS - The present disclosure relates to an operating method of a terminal for transceiving data to/from a base station in a system that supports a plurality of component carriers. The method includes receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) masked using a terminal identifier (cell-radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI)) or a semi-persistent scheduling terminal identifier (SPS C-RNTI) through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); determining a component carrier for transceiving data to/from the base station; and transceiving data to/from the base station through the determined component carrier. The determining includes determining the component carrier which has received the PDCCH as a component carrier for receiving downlink data, and determining an uplink component carrier linked with the component carrier which has received the PDCCH as a component carrier for transmitting uplink data. | 08-08-2013 |
20130208704 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED CLOSED LOOP DIVERSITY | 08-15-2013 |
20130208705 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING CONTROL INFORMATION FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING UPLINK MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, a method and device providing control information for uplink transmission in a wireless communication system supporting uplink multi-antenna transmission. An uplink multi-antenna transmission scheduling method, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the following steps: creating downlink control information (DCI), which includes precoding information showing a transmission rank and a precoding matrix of an uplink transmission; transmitting said created downlink control information, which schedules the transmission of an uplink, through a downlink control channel; and receiving said uplink transmission, which is scheduled according to said downlink control information, through an uplink data channel, wherein the size of said precoding information can be determined with respect to the available number of precoding matrices, according to the number of said multi-antennas and uplink transmission rank. | 08-15-2013 |
20130215872 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HSPA WCDMA UPLINK PILOTS - A UE, for an HSPA WCDMA system, equipped with a first and a second transmit antenna, and arranged to use one or more sets of pre-coding weights for transmission. The UE is arranged to receive instructions from a NodeB on the set or sets of pre-coding weights to be used, and to transmit a first and a second pilot signal, and to use a first set of pre-coding weights for the first pilot signal and a second set of pre-coding weights for the second pilot signal, where the first set of pre-coding weights is the same as the UE uses for transmitting a first data stream, and to use different spreading codes for the first data stream and for the first pilot signal. | 08-22-2013 |
20130223411 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING EFFECTIVE SCHEDULING GRANTS - A method and apparatus for effectively facilitating grant scheduling is provided. The method may comprise transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a grant request, wherein the grant request includes a UE power headroom (UPH) value, and receiving, from a Node B, a scheduling grant, wherein the scheduling grant is derived from the transmitted UPH. | 08-29-2013 |
20130230025 | ANTENNA CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A subscriber unit, including an antenna array and an antenna array interface coupled to the antenna array, is described. Wireless transmissions, at least two of which are based on different directional transmissions from a transmitter, are received at the antenna array. Feedback messages are generated using the antenna array interface. The feedback messages are communicated using the antenna array to adjust settings of the transmitter. | 09-05-2013 |
20130242947 | DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION (DCI) VALIDATION FOR ENHANCED PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (ePDCCH) - Technology for downlink (DL) grant validation is disclosed. One method can include a wireless device receiving from a node a downlink grant masked with a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) for a resource allocation (RA) including an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) physical resource block (PRB) carrying the downlink grant. The wireless device can validate a downlink control information (DCI) format of the downlink grant. The at least two UERS ports can be used to transmit two CCEs. The wireless device can determine that the downlink grant is received with a non-matching cyclic redundancy check (CRC) when the DCI format is not validated. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242948 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PACKET ACKNOWLEDGMENT - Systems and methods for packet acknowledgement are disclosed. In one embodiment, codewords are redundantly used in order to decrease the total number of bits required for feeding back acknowledgment information or in order to increase the Euclidean space between codewords. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242949 | Antenna Port Mapping for Demodulation Reference Signals - The present invention provides a unified, rank independent mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs. Each antenna port is uniquely associated with one code division multiplexing (CDM) group and one orthogonal cover code (OCC). The mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs is chosen such that, for a given antenna port, the CDM group and OCC will be the same for every transmission rank. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242950 | TIME-SLOTTED DATA PACKETS WITH A PREAMBLE - A method and apparatus are used to support the transmission of data to a user over multiple allocated data channels. Data packets are transmitted in timeslots of the allocated data channels to corresponding target receivers without the need for explicitly assigning particular time-slots to a target user well in advance of transmitting any data packets in the time-slots. Instead, each data packet transmitted in a time-slot includes a header label or preamble indicating to which of multiple possible receivers a data packet is directed. The preamble also preferably includes decoding information indicating how a corresponding data payload of the data packet is to be processed for recapturing transmitted raw data. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250919 | DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION TO TRANSMIT A WIRELESS PROTOCOL ACROSS A CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (CDMA) RADIO LINK - A technique for transmission of wireless signals across CDMA radio links. Bandwidth is allocated dynamically within a session to specific CDMA subscriber unit based upon data rate determinations. Specifically, a dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm operates from limits calculated based upon available ports per subscriber, expected user bandwidth, and parallel user bandwidth versus throughput. Provisions for priority service, unbalanced forward and reverse spectrum utilization, voice prioritization, and band switching are also made. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250920 | MAC ARCHITECTURE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS SUPPORTING H-ARQ - A medium access control-high speed (MAC-hs) comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) device configured to receive data blocks over a wideband-code division multiple access (W-CDMA) high speed-downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH). The H-ARQ device generates an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK) for each said data block received. Each received data block having a transmission sequence number. The H-ARQ device receives a new transmission instead of a pending retransmission at any time. At least one reordering device has an input configured to receive an output of the H-ARQ device and the at least one reordering device configured to reorder the received data blocks based on each received data block's transmission sequence number (TSN). Received data blocks are immediately forwarded for processing for higher layers when the received data blocks are received in sequence. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250921 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A RACH SIGNAL IN SC-FDMA SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention may provide an apparatus and a method for transmitting and receiving a random access channel (RACH) in a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system. A frequency domain RACH signal may be mapped to a localized sub-frequency band of an entire frequency band available to the SC-FDMA system. A guard band including at least one sub carrier may be allocated between the RACH signal band and other channel signal bands. A guard time may be allocated between the RACE signal and other channel signals in the time domain. The RACH signal may include a short message including information related to a mobile station. The RACE signal may be detected in a frequency based method, a time based method or a sliding matched filter based method. Receiver complexity can be decreased if the RACH signal includes a CAZAC code sequence for a preamble. In such a case, a receive delay may be simply calculated and then adjusted more accurately. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250922 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A RACH SIGNAL IN SC-FDMA SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention may provide an apparatus and a method for transmitting and receiving a random access channel (RACH) in a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system. A frequency domain RACH signal may be mapped to a localized sub-frequency band of an entire frequency band available to the SC-FDMA system. A guard band including at least one sub carrier may be allocated between the RACH signal band and other channel signal bands. A guard time may be allocated between the RACE signal and other channel signals in the time domain. The RACH signal may include a short message including information related to a mobile station. The RACH signal may be detected in a frequency based method, a time based method or a sliding matched filter based method. Receiver complexity can be decreased if the RACH signal includes a CAZAC code sequence for a preamble. In such a case, a receive delay may be simply calculated and then adjusted more accurately. | 09-26-2013 |
20130259006 | Enabling CDMA2000 System Sharing in LTE - A method at a user equipment in an LTE system includes selecting one of a number of CDMA systems, and signaling indication(s) of the selected CDMA system to a network element. The network element receives indications) of CDMA system(s), which correspond to requested action(s) by a UE. The network element routes information corresponding to the requested action(s) to the CDMA system(s). Another network element in the LTE system signals to the UE indications of a mapping of a number of CDMA systems to associated ones of LTE system(s). The other network element receives signaling from the UE including indication(s) of selected CDMA system(s) selected by the UE. | 10-03-2013 |
20130272270 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING LINK ADAPTATION PARAMETERS FOR CDMA-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for selecting a transport format resource combination (TFRC) using an information theoretic approach are provided. The TFRC may be selected in a medium access control (MAC) layer for transmission of data in a code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless communication system. The maximum number of spreading codes available for transmission and the set of possible TFRCs may be determined based on channel characteristics. For each transport block set size (TBSS) in the set of possible TFRCs, a TFRC is selected with the largest number of spreading codes within the maximum number of spreading codes for a corresponding minimum coding rate. The corresponding code rate for each selected TFRCs is compared to a threshold to select a corresponding type of modulation. One of the selected TFRCs is selected to be provided to the physical layer that best matches the CQI and maximizes the TBSS. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272271 | METHOD OF SEARCHING CODE SEQUENCE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a signal for cell searching in a mobile communication system having a multi-cell environment includes transmitting the signal to one or more receiving party devices within a cell, wherein the signal is used for a synchronization of the one or more receiving party devices within the cell, the signal is defined by a combination of a first code sequence derived from a first index and a second code sequence derived from a second index, and an identity of the cell is used for defining the combination of the first code sequence and the second code sequence. | 10-17-2013 |
20130279480 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AND TRANSMITTING AN HARQ ACK/NACK SIGNAL, AND DEVICE USING SAME - The present invention relates to a method for configuring and transmitting an HARQ ACK/NACK signal by bundling said signal about a component carrier wave of a downlink subframe linked with an uplink subframe transmitting an HARQ ACK/NACK signal on PUCCH format 3. More particularly, the method comprises the steps of: determining a mode for bundling an HARQ ACK/NACK signal; and configuring the bundled HARQ ACK/NACK signal according to the determined bundling mode, wherein in the step of determining the bundling mode, all the component carriers of the downlink subframe transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK signal to an uplink subframe are bundled when the downlink channel is in a worse state than the predetermined reference state, and some of the component carriers of the downlink subframe transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK signal to an uplink subframe are bundled when the downlink channel is not in a worse state. | 10-24-2013 |
20130287008 | Channelization Code Sharing Between Multiple Users - A method of exchanging data in a communications network is provided. A control channel channelization code is assigned for transmitting user specific data channel allocation information to a particular mobile station (MS). The data channel allocation information indicates which part of the transmission time interval (TTI) available for data can be used by that particular MS. The control channel channelization code is shared in a TDMA fashion between the MSs during the TTI in a proportion equal to that in which the data channel channelization code is shared between the MSs such that each MS is allocated a share of the control channel channelization code in that part of the TTI. The control channel channelization code is then transmitted in a part of the TTI corresponding to that in which the data channel channelization code is transmitted for a particular MS. | 10-31-2013 |
20130294417 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT SCHEDULING IN HYBRID NETWORKS BASED ON CLIENT IDENTITY - Methods and apparatus for intelligent scheduling in hybrid networks based on client identity. For example, in one embodiment, the hybrid networks are cellular networks (e.g., LTE and CDMA 1X), and a cellular device uses a single-radio solution to support circuit-switched calls on a CDMA 1X network and packet-switched calls on LTE. Periodically, the cellular device tunes away from LTE and monitors CDMA 1X activity, and vice versa. The LTE network can infer the cellular device's tune away schedule, based on the device's identity, and the paging schedule algorithm of the CDMA 1X network. | 11-07-2013 |
20130301618 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO STATION - Radio communication system and radio station which enable efficient use of radio resources while coping with a sudden change in radio communication quality are to be provided. Radio communication system includes plural radio stations. At least one of the plural radio stations allocates a part of an allocatable communication resource as one or more individual resources in which a source radio station and a destination radio station are individually set, and allocates another part of the allocatable communication resource as one or more shared resources which are used in common by plural source radio stations or plural destination radio stations. Each of the radio stations encodes a transmission signal using a systematic code, sends the transmission signal before being encoded, using the individual resource allocated to each of the radio stations, and sends a parity portion of the encoded transmission signal, using the shared resource allocated. | 11-14-2013 |
20130308609 | METHOD IMPLEMENTED BY A SUBSCRIBER UNIT FOR SELECTIVELY SUPPRESSING COMMUNICATIONS - A method and subscriber unit used for communicating in voiced communications are disclosed. The method for use in a subscriber unit may include receiving, from a cellular base station, a first signal at a first data rate and a first modulation scheme, transmitting a second signal, to the cellular base station, indicative of a subscriber station capability to receive a third signal at a second date rate and a second modulation type, and receiving, from the cellular base station, based on the transmitted second signal, a third signal at the second data rate and second modulation type. | 11-21-2013 |
20130322410 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CDMA2000/GPRS ROAMING - IIF architectures and corresponding call flows are provided for CDMA2000/GPRS roaming scenarios such as GPRS foreign mode with Mobile IPv4, GPRS foreign mode with Simple IPv4 or IPv6, CDMA2000 packet data foreign mode with Mobile IPv4, and CDMA2000 packet data foreign mode with Simple IPv4 or IPv6. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322411 | TDMA/CDMA APPARATUS - A wireless hybrid time division multiple access/code division multiple access (TDMA/CDMA) user equipment (UE) includes a signaling receiver and a data detection device in communication with the signaling receiver. The signaling receiver is configured to receive and recover signaled information of code and timeslot assignments of the UE to suport an RF communication. The data detection device is configured to recover from the signaling information an identifier of a plurality of assigned timeslots and an indication of a first and last code of a set of consecutive codes. The last code is identified by an identifier associated with the last code. | 12-05-2013 |
20130336291 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING RADIO RESOURCES, AND RADIO SYSTEM - There is provided a radio system, comprising: a receiver for receiving uplink channel traffic; a measuring unit for measuring periodicity of the received uplink channel traffic; and a control unit for controlling discontinuous uplink operation on the basis of the measured periodicity of the received uplink channel traffic. | 12-19-2013 |
20130343348 | DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNALS FOR RETRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Provided is a method for wireless communication which includes transmitting codewords according to an initial transmission rank, receiving downlink transmissions indicating at least one of the codewords to be retransmitted, constructing a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) to be sent with the at least one codeword to be retransmitted, and retransmitting the at least one codeword with the DM-RS according to a retransmission rank. The downlink transmissions may include one or more physical hybrid automatic retransmission request indicator channels and the DM-RS may be constructed based at least in part on information in the downlink transmissions. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343349 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND BASE STATION APPLIED IN WCDMA SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method, a device, and a base station applied in a WCDMA system. The method includes sending downlink data with same timing via downlink carriers that are respectively configured in a first communication area, a second communication area, and a third communication area. The first communication area, the second communication area, and the third communication area are communication areas with every two thereof being adjacent to each other. The downlink carriers covered at edges of any two of the first communication area, the second communication area, and the third communication area have different frequencies. The communication areas serve as communication cells or communication sectors. | 12-26-2013 |
20140003395 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIT-ADAPTIVE PRECODING MATRIX INDICATOR FEEDBACK | 01-02-2014 |
20140003396 | SCHEDULING IMPLEMENTATION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140003397 | RESPONDING TO A PAGE MESSAGE | 01-02-2014 |
20140003398 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140044103 | Code Channel Activation Method and Device, Computer Program and Storage Medium - The present invention provides a code channel activation method, a code channel activation device, a computer program and a storage medium, so as to solve the problem in the prior art that performance loss of a receiver will be caused when performing code channel activation. The method comprises calculating correlation between interference code channels on which code channel activation is to be performed and a user code channel, and correlation between the user code channels, to obtain correlation results; and performing code channel activation according to the correlation results. According to the present invention, the code channel activation is performed according to the correlation between the code channels. As a result, it is able to reserve the code channels with more information, thereby to prevent the performance loss of the receiver. | 02-13-2014 |
20140056285 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication terminal eliminates collision of access request signals simultaneously transmitted from communication terminals in a local cell, prevents generation of interference signals in another cell adjacent to the local cell, and improves local cell throughput. A base station controls transmission power of the access permission signal so as to prevent generation of an interference signal in another cell adjacent to the local cell. A use sub-channel selection unit has a correspondence table between the reception quality of the pilot signals divided into classes and the sub-channel allocated to the classes. According to the table, the use sub-channel selection unit selects a sub-channel group of RACH correlated to the measurement result of the reception quality of the pilot signals reported from the reception quality measurement unit. One sub-channel to be used for transmission of the access request signal is selected at random from the sub-channel group selected. | 02-27-2014 |
20140064254 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WCMDA FREQUENCY SCAN OPTIMIZATION - Methods and apparatus for wireless communication, in a mobile device, that includes receiving a signal from a network and obtaining pruned autocorrelation for specific channel delays of the received signal. Aspects of the methods and apparatus include determining pruned autocorrelation properties of the received signal. Aspects of the methods and apparatus also include comparing the pruned autocorrelation properties of the received signal against a reference threshold. Aspects of the methods and apparatus also include verifying that the received signal is a valid signal for WCMDA processing. | 03-06-2014 |
20140071952 | METHOD FOR TRANSCEIVING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a method for transceiving downlink control information in a wireless access system that supports an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH), and to an apparatus for the method. More particularly, the method comprises the steps of: precoding downlink control information using a precoding matrix set in a terminal; and transmitting the precoded downlink control information to the terminal via the e-PDCCH using multiple antennas, wherein the e-PDCCH is multiplexed with a PDSCH in a first slot of a subframe in which the downlink control information is transmitted. | 03-13-2014 |
20140079027 | FAST ADAPTIVE POWER CONTROL FOR A VARIABLE MULTIRATE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A system and a method of controlling transmitter power in a wireless communication system in which user data is processed as a multirate signal in which the user data signal having a first rate is converted into a transmission data signal having a faster second rate for transmission. The transmission power is adjusted on a relatively slow basis based on quality of data received by a receiver of the transmitted data. The transmitter power is determined as a function of the first and second rates such that a change in the data rate in the multiple channels or the rate of the transmission data signal is compensated in advance of a quality of data based adjustment associated with such data rate change. | 03-20-2014 |
20140079028 | METHOD FOR USING A BASE STATION TO SELECTIVELY UTILIZE CHANNELS TO SUPPORT A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATIONS - A method for using a wireless digital base station to receive, process and transmit a plurality of communications having independent data rates establishing a first communication channel having a first data communication rate to support a first communication; determining the data rate required to support the first communication; selecting one or more transmission channels, from a plurality of available transmission channels, required to support said required data rate; and transmitting the first communication using one or more selected transmission channels. The plurality of available transmission channels includes at least one B or D channel. | 03-20-2014 |
20140079029 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A radio communication system includes a mobile station configured to: intermittently receive information indicating a transmission format used for a shared channel via which data is received from a radio communication apparatus, intermittently transmit Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) information relating to the transmission format used for the shared channel in a first mode, set the timing of the intermittent transmission of the CQI information a given time before the reception of the information indicating a transmission format used for the shared channel, the CQI information being transmitted periodically, and switch from the first mode to a second mode in which the CQI information is transmitted more frequently than in the first mode; and the radio communication apparatus configured to communicate with the mobile station. | 03-20-2014 |
20140086216 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT INFORMATION TO RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for providing acknowledgment information for radio communication devices in a wireless communication system. A base station receives a plurality of units of data each respectively transmitted by one of a plurality of radio communication devices on one of a plurality of predetermined communication slot positions of a first channel. The base station, in response to receiving the data messages, sends a control message on a communication slot position of a second channel. The control message includes acknowledgment information having a plurality of positional acknowledgment indicators. Each radio communication device receives the control message and uses acknowledgment position mapping information to identify one or more positions within the plurality of positional acknowledgment indicators that contains an acknowledgment to the respective units of data it transmitted on the corresponding predetermined communication slot positions of the first channel. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086217 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING BROADCAST CHANNEL IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a Broadcast Channel (BCH) in a cellular communication system. The method for transmitting a BCH in a cellular communication system includes repeating symbols comprising information about the BCH, code-covering the repeated symbols with codes selected from a previously given code set, subcarrier-mapping the code-covered symbols, and transmitting the subcarrier-mapped symbols in one frame by using different beams corresponding to the selected codes. The codes are selected based on a number of repetitions, a cell identifier, and a beam index. | 03-27-2014 |
20140092874 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE MAPPING AND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING - The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for resource mapping and code division multiplexing. In the present disclosure, each cell selects a mapping scheme among at least two mapping schemes to implement resource mapping, which effectively reduces interference imposed on reference signal symbols of users at the edge of a cell; vector switching is performed for an orthogonal matrix to obtain multiple different codeword sequences and implement codeword design, so that a problem that the output power of reference signal symbols is unbalanced can be effectively alleviated. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092875 | POWER CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE - A power control method and device are used for achieving transmit power control of a User Equipment (UE) in a multi-carrier mode. The power control method includes: calculating a transmit power of a UE when the UE sends data through a plurality of carriers; and performing power compression on each carrier either step by step according to property parameters of each carrier or synchronously according to a compression ratio, when the transmit power of the UE exceeds a preset maximum transmit power. A power control device is further provided. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092876 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING TRANSMISSION RESOURCES - A method for wirelessly transmitting data and control information using a plurality of transmission layers includes determining a number of bits in one or more user data codewords to be transmitted during a subframe and calculating, for each of M control signals to be transmitted during the subframe, a value (Q′), based at least in part, on the number of bits in the one or more user data codewords, and an estimated number of user data vector symbols onto which the one or more user data codewords will be mapped. The estimate of the number of user data vector symbols for a particular one of the M control signals depends, at least in part, on a number of control vector symbols to be allocated to one or more others of the M control signals. The method also includes determining a number of control vector symbols onto which to map each of the M control signals based on a respective value Q′ calculated for that control signal, mapping the control signals for that control signal, and transmitting the control vector symbols. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098795 | TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal device is equipped with: a sequence determination unit that determines a sequence number with a different pattern than the assignment pattern for the sequence number assigned to the cell in which the host device resides; a reference signal generation unit that generates a reference signal for a sequence group corresponding to the sequence number that has been determined; and a wireless transmission unit that transmits the reference signal that has been generated to a base station. The sequence determination unit employs a configuration whereby, with the sequence number assigned to the cell in which the host device resides as a cell-specific sequence number, a dynamic offset which periodically changes over time and for which the same value is not consecutive is added to the cell-specific sequence number, thereby determining a sequence number which never overlaps with the cell-specific sequence number. | 04-10-2014 |
20140105183 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING NETWORK REENTRY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for performing network reentry by a Machine to Machine (M2M) device in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method, the M2M device receives information associated with an uplink resource for transmitting a ranging request message from a base station and transmits the ranging request message to the base station based on the received information associated with the uplink resource. The information associated with the uplink resource is masked with a random access identifier (RA-ID) and the RA-ID includes an indicator that indicates an M2M device dedicated ranging channel. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105184 | PAGING OF A USER EQUIPMENT (UE) WITHIN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A user equipment (UE) determines to activate a data session. The UE configures a data session activation request message to include an indication of an association with communication sessions of a given type (e.g., delay-sensitive communication sessions), and then transmits the data session activation request message to an access network. The access network determines to establish an aggressive paging cycle of a downlink channel for the UE based in part upon receiving a message (e.g., which can be different than the data session activation request message) that conveys the indication of the association to the access network. The access network sends at least one instruction for facilitating an allocation of the aggressive paging cycle to the UE, and the UE receives the at least one instructions and monitors the downlink channel accordingly. | 04-17-2014 |
20140112312 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL USING PLURALITY OF CODEWORDS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TRANSMISSION END FOR SAME - A method for transmitting a signal using a plurality of codewords in a wireless communication system and a transmission end for same are disclosed. The method for the transmission end transmitting the signal using the plurality of codewords, according to the present invention, comprises the following steps: mapping a first codeword on at least one layer from a first layer group and mapping a second codeword on at least one layer from a second layer group, when transmitting a rank of at least five; and transmitting the codewords which are mapped on the first and second layer groups, wherein each of the first layer group and the second layer group can include four layers. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112313 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD - A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein even when a SC-FDMA signal is divided into a plurality of clusters and the plurality of clusters are then mapped to respective discontinuous frequency bands (when C-SC-FDMA is used), the improvement effect of system throughput can be maintained, while the user throughput can be improved. In the apparatus, a DFT unit ( | 04-24-2014 |
20140119343 | DUAL RECEIVE PAGING MONITORING PROCEDURE - A user equipment capable of communicating on multiple radio access technologies (RATs) may receive conflicting paging occasions for each RAT. That is, the paging occasions may occur at sufficiently overlapping times such that a user equipment may not dedicate all its receive resources to each paging occasion. In such instances, a user equipment may divide receive resources among the RATs to receive pages even in the face of paging occasion conflicts. | 05-01-2014 |
20140126548 | DYNAMIC PAGING CHANNEL SELECTION IN A MACHINE-TO-MACHINE WIRELESS WIDE AREA NETWORK - Methods, systems, and devices are described for managing wireless communications in a machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless Wide Area Network (WAN). A first paging message is transmitted in the M2M wireless at a first data rate using a first paging channel. An occurrence of a first event is detected. A second paging message is transmitted, based at least in part on the occurrence of the first event. The second paging message is transmitted at a second data rate using a second paging channel. The second paging channel being different from the first paging channel. | 05-08-2014 |
20140133467 | CDMA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - In a communication system wherein a CDMA segment at each access point consists of multiple sub-segments a three frame transmission time interval (TTI) with eight retransmissions is utilized for data transmission. The access point not only specifies the interlaces to be utilized for data transmission it also assigns packet start interlaces for particular access terminals. An auxiliary pilot channel R-AuxPICH is transmitted by an access terminal along with CDMA data on reverse link. The ratio of R-AuxPICH to R-PICH is varied based on ACK/NACK feedback. A reverse link activity bit (RAB) which can be used as an emergency load-control mechanism for non-QoS flows is also disclosed. | 05-15-2014 |
20140133468 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - A mobile station includes a radio link control unit for outputting or inputting data that are transmitted or received via a radio channel to or from a higher-level protocol layer, a media access control unit for outputting or inputting the data via a logical channel to or from the radio link control unit, a physical layer control unit for outputting or inputting the data via a transport channel to or from the media access control unit, and for controlling radio communications, and a radio resource control unit for outputting or inputting control data to or from the radio link control unit, media access control unit, and physical layer control unit. The mobile station multiplexes report information therefrom into a channel for packet data transmission so as to transmit it to a base station. The base station carries out assignment of radio resources using the report information. | 05-15-2014 |
20140140327 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING A DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method for a base station to transmit a channel-state-information reference signal for up to 8 antenna ports includes mapping, in accordance with a predetermined pattern, the channel-state-information reference signal for up to 8 antenna ports onto a data region of a downlink subframe having an extended cyclic prefix (CP) structure, and transmitting the downlink subframe onto which the channel-state-information reference signal for up to 8 antenna ports has been mapped; and, in the predetermined pattern, the channel-state-information reference signal for up to 8 antenna ports in mapped onto 2 OFDM symbols on the data region of the downlink subframe, with a definition for mapping onto at least one of 4 subcarrier wave positions in each of the 2 OFDM symbols, and the 4 subcarrier wave positions defined in the predetermined pattern can be disposed at 3 subcarrier wave intervals. | 05-22-2014 |
20140153548 | SENDING FULL CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATION REPORTS ON TDM CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Multiple full channel quality indication (CQI) reports indicative of received signal quality for multiple carriers in wireless communication are transmitted in multiple time intervals of a CQI channel. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153549 | REVERSE LINK PILOT WITH SELECTIVE GATING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A data channel is received on a forward link in wireless communication, during operation in a mode that permits transmission of a gated pilot. The gated pilot is transmitted on a reverse link if no other transmissions are being sent on the reverse link. Otherwise, a full pilot is transmitted on the reverse link. | 06-05-2014 |
20140169337 | COMMUNICATION IMPLEMENTATION METHOD, CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT AND TERMINAL - A method for implementing communication includes: determining an operating system corresponding to a current time slice, the determined operating system supporting a communication network standard; determining a memory partition; running the determined operating system based on the determined memory partition and driving a Digital Signal Processor, a signal processing module supporting the communication network standard and a Radio Frequency signal transceiver based on a hardware driving program included in a system program of the determined operating system; controlling the signal processing module to read authentication information of the terminal and controlling the Digital Signal Processor to encapsulate, based on a communication protocol, the authentication information of the terminal to generate a communication network signal; and controlling the Radio Frequency signal transceiver to convert the communication network signal into a Radio Frequency signal and send the Radio Frequency signal to a communication network. | 06-19-2014 |
20140185589 | Radio Base Station and User Equipment and Methods Therein - Embodiments herein include a method in a user equipment (UE) for transmitting uplink control information in time slots of a subframe over a radio channel to a radio base station. The uplink control information is comprised in a block of bits. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185590 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - When an Ack/Nack signal is transmitted from a user terminal to a base station in an upstream control channel by using an Ack/Nack resource, the signal is code-multiplexed by using a code sequence containing an orthogonal sequence and a cyclic-shifted sequence and transmitted from a plurality of user terminals to the base station. If an aggregation size indicating the number of control signals of the downstream control channel is greater than one, it is determined that no resource located at the right of the axis of the cyclic-shifted amount of the cyclic-shifted sequence in the same orthogonal code of the orthogonal sequence is used, and the Ack/Nack signal to which CDD is applied from a plurality of antennas is transmitted by using a resource ACK #0 allocated to the own device and an unused resource ACK #1, which have the same orthogonal code, but have different cyclic-shifted amounts. | 07-03-2014 |
20140192783 | INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL - Embodiments of the present invention provide an interference cancellation method for an enhanced physical downlink control channel E-PDCCH, comprising steps of: (1) allocating different orthogonal covering code OCC sequences to different cells and/or different users; and (2) combining a plurality of control channel elements CCEs constituting one PDCCH with a cell-specific OCC sequence and/or a user-specific OCC sequence respectively, so as to enable a user equipment to cancel interference on the PDCCH. | 07-10-2014 |
20140198772 | SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL DESIGN FOR WIRELESS DEVICES IN A LONG RANGE EXTENSION MODE - Systems and methods related to a synchronization signal particularly well suited for wireless devices in an extended coverage area of a cell of a cellular communications network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a base station transmits a synchronization signal including multiple repetitions of a basic synchronization block during a coherence time of a downlink channel over which the synchronization signal is transmitted. The multiple repetitions of the basic synchronization block during the coherence time enable coherent combining during detection of the synchronization signal at wireless devices located in the cellular communications network. This coherent combining enables, for example, wireless devices located in an extended coverage area of a cell served by the base station to synchronize to the cell using a shorter synchronization signal than that which would be required if only non-coherent combining were used. | 07-17-2014 |
20140204911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNALING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method of wirelessly transmitting control information includes generating control information comprising a plurality of control bits and encoding the control bits using a block code that outputs an encoded bit sequence comprising encoded bits b(0), b(1), . . . , b(19). The control bits are encoded using the block code by generating a linear combination of a plurality of basis sequences. The method also includes dividing the encoded bits into a first group and a second group. The first group includes the encoded bits {b(0), b(1), b(5), b(6), b(8), b(11), b(12), b(14), b(17), b(19)} and the second group includes the encoded bits {b(2), b(3), b(4), b(7), b(9), b(10), b(13), b(15), b(16), b(18)}. Additionally, the method includes transmitting the first group of encoded bits on a first set of carriers and transmitting the second group of encoded bits on a second set of carriers. The second set of carriers have different frequencies from the first set of carriers. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204912 | TEST DEVICE AND TEST METHOD - To provide a test device and a test method which enable a tester to easily check the allocation of physical channels when testing a mobile communication terminal which performs communication using a time division duplex system and a code division multiple access system. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204913 | Methods and Arrangements for Transmitting and Decoding Reference Signals - In some embodiments, a method is provided in a radio network node for transmitting a reference signal over an antenna port, wherein the reference signal is transmitted in a code division multiplexing, CDM, group. The CDM group comprises at least two CDM subgroups, each CDM subgroup being transmitted on a different subcarrier. Each CDM subgroup comprises resource elements. In a first step, the radio network node transmits the reference signal over a first CDM subgroup using an orthogonal cover code. The first CDM subgroup comprises resource elements in a first time slot and a subsequent time slot. In a further step, the radio network node transmits the reference signal over a second CDM subgroup using a permutation of the orthogonal cover code. The second CDM subgroup comprises resource elements in the first time slot and the second time slot. The permutation of the orthogonal cover code is selected in such a way as to enable decoding of the reference signal in the frequency domain, by applying the orthogonal cover code only to resource elements in the CDM group which are comprised in the first time slot. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAST DYNAMIC LINK ADAPTATION - A method and user equipment for selecting a transport format combination (TFC) is disclosed. Configuration of a plurality of TFCs to use for TFC selection is received, wherein the TFCs of the plurality of TFCs have an order. TFCs to block from TFC selection from the plurality of TFCs is determined, wherein the TFCs to block are based at least on a maximum allowed transmit power. A TFC for transmission of uplink data is selected, wherein the selected TFC is based on the TFC order and wherein the selected TFC is a TFC that is not blocked from TFC selection. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204915 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLOSED LOOP TRANSMIT DIVERSITY TRANSMISSION INITIAL ACCESS - Uplink precoding in closed loop transmit diversity (CLTD). The methods and apparatus relate to precoder operations during an initial stage using default precoder tap weights, and a second stage wherein precoder weights obtained from a precoder control indicator channel information are used, provided the signal quality of the precoder control indicator channel is sufficiently reliable. The methods and apparatus also relate to procedures for responding to detection of an unreliable pre-coding control information (PCI) carried in a downlink feedback signal. | 07-24-2014 |
20140233534 | Message Rearrangement for Improved Wireless Code Performance - A system and method for permuting known and unknown message bits before encoding to provide a beneficial rearrangement of bits. Such a method can improve distance properties in the resulting subcode. In various embodiments, the structure of a beneficial rearrangement is dependent on the parameters of how known and unknown bits are grouped and on the specific type of code being used. Given these two parameters, the message bits can be rearranged to more efficiently leverage any apriori knowledge. | 08-21-2014 |
20140241325 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYBRID FDM-CDM STRUCTURE FOR SINGLE CARRIER BASED CONTROL CHANNELS - A system and method for hybrid FDM (frequency division multiplexing)-CDM (code division multiplexing) structure for single carrier control channels is provided. The hybrid FDM-CDM structure maximizes frequency diversity over the entire available bandwidth such that orthogonality between signals from users in a given cell is maintained. Thus, users in the given cell can transmit over a non-contiguous set of tones. Furthermore, the hybrid FDM-CDM structure maintains orthogonality of a pilot of users in different cells based on a despreading operation in the time domain. | 08-28-2014 |
20140241326 | UPLINK CONTROL SIGNAL DESIGN FOR WIRELESS SYSTEM - Transmission of uplink control message for a wireless system. The uplink control message may be encoded according to one of multiple possible schemes. The choice of encoding scheme may be made based on the control message size and/or based on the available transmission resources and/or based on the detection scheme used on the receiving end. A modulation scheme may also be selected based on such factors. CDM may be used for certain control messages. Block code encoding, such as Reed-Muller encoding may be used for certain control messages. Different transmission resources may be allocated for different control message uses. The encoding specifics may be selected to obtain a certain hamming distance and/or size of the encoded message or based on other factors. | 08-28-2014 |
20140247812 | MIMO COMMUNICATION METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND RECEIVING DEVICE - A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication method and system for performing communication between N (N is an integer greater than or equal to 2) transmitting devices each having a transmit antenna and at least one receiving device having N receive antennas by using a multi-user MIMO scheme. The method includes dividing the N transmitting devices into a plurality of sets, and assigning an orthogonal code to each set of transmitting devices as a digital signal sequence to be transmitted by each of the transmitting devices, and arranging the digital signal sequences to be transmitted by the transmitting devices in a frequency axis direction in which an inverse fast Fourier transform is performed, and performing coding. | 09-04-2014 |
20140254562 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING SYNCHRONIZATION IN CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for acquiring downlink frame synchronization are provided. The method includes phase-rotating a mid-amble of a first Time Slot (TS) of a received sub-frame within an area and estimating a Channel Impulse Response (CIR), calculating a Maximum Likelihood (ML) between a downlink synchronization code of the received sub-frame and a downlink synchronization code generated in a terminal by using the estimated CIR, correlating downlink synchronization codes of a plurality of sub-frames and the downlink synchronization code generated and calculating ML values of the plurality of sub-frames with respect to the plurality of sub-frames corresponding to M Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs), and calculating hypothesis values of hypotheses according to a frequency interval and a phase offset of the generated downlink synchronization code based on the calculated ML values of the plurality of sub-frames and drawing a frequency offset and a hypothesis corresponding to a maximum value. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254563 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A SPECTRALLY COMPLIANT CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system for wireless data transmission that uses a channel bandwidth, channel separation, and radio frequency power spectrum which is compatible with existing deployments of wireless voice services. The transmitted waveforms are thus compatible with existing cellular networks. However, the time domain digital coding, modulation, and power control schemes are optimized for data transmission. Existing cellular network sites can thus be used to provide a high speed service optimized for wireless data traffic without the need for new radio frequency planning, and without interfering with existing voice service deployments. | 09-11-2014 |
20140269626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting a bandwidth request (BR) header in a wireless communication system. User equipment transmits a standalone BR header to a base station through a first uplink (UL) resource allocated by a BR-acknowledgement (ACK) A-MAP information element (IE), receives from the base station a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-non-acknowledgement (NACK) which indicates the base station has not successfully received the standalone BR header, receives a CDMA allocation A-MAP IE from the base station, and retransmits the standalone BR header through a second UL resource allocated by the CDMA allocation A-MAP IE. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286317 | Assignment acknowledgement for a wireless communication system - A method, apparatus, and channel structure for acknowledging assignment messages is provided. The method and apparatus allow for efficient signaling based upon the resources. | 09-25-2014 |
20140293967 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING ABNORMAL POWER OUTAGE IN WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM SUPPORTING M2M ENVIRONMENTS - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a power outage report message of M2M device is disclosed. A method for reporting an abnormal power outage event in a wireless access system that supports M2M environment comprises the steps of detecting the abnormal power outage even in an M2M device of a connected state in a normal mode; and transmitting a signaling header from the M2M device to a base station, the signaling header including a power outage indicator for reporting the abnormal power outage event. | 10-02-2014 |
20140307716 | REQUESTING A COMMUNICATION RESOURCE IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A network device to send to a user equipment (UE) configuration information to configure a power controlled uplink control channel particular to the UE is disclosed. The UE may send a request to utilize a physical uplink shared channel capable of being shared by a plurality of UEs. The request may be received at a first power and other information is received at a second power. | 10-16-2014 |
20140334453 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method for transmitting a channel status information reference signals (CSI-RSs) for a maximum of eight antenna ports includes mapping the CSI-RSs for a maximum of eight antenna ports onto a data region of a downlink subframe having a normal cyclic prefix (CP) configuration according to a predetermined pattern; and transmitting the downlink subframe to which the CSI-RSs mapped, wherein the predetermined pattern defines the CSI-RSs to be mapped onto two OFDM symbols of the data region in the downlink subframe and mapped to at least one of four subcarrier positions in each of the two OFDM symbols, and wherein the four subcarrier positions defined by the predetermined pattern may be two consecutive subcarrier positions and two other consecutive subcarrier positions spaced apart by four subcarriers. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334454 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A transmission device that generates control information including 3-bit information and transmits a physical downlink shared channel, a reference signal for demodulation of the physical downlink shared channel, and the control information, wherein, in a case that all codewords which are mapped to the physical downlink shared channel are enabled, among a first value to an eighth value indicated by the 3-bit information, the third value to the eighth value indicate that the number of layers is from 3 to 8 respectively, and the first value and the second value indicate that the number of layers is equal to 2, and the first value indicates that the scrambling identity for the reference signal is equal to 0 and the second value indicates that the scrambling identity is equal to 1. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334455 | UPLINK SCHEDULING WHEN USING INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION - A radio base station and a method therein for scheduling an uplink radio resource to a first user equipment in a wireless communication system which employs CDMA are provided. The method includes measuring an Interference Suppression (IS) gain for each user equipment in a set of user equipments currently being served by the radio base station. The method further includes determining a user constellation pertaining to information regarding the different user equipments in the set of user equipments and their respective bitrates, and updating a table of IS gains with the measured IS gain in bins corresponding to the determined user constellation. The method further includes predicting a load based on at least the updated table, and scheduling the uplink radio resource to the first user equipment at least partly based on the predicted load. | 11-13-2014 |
20140348135 | CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (CDMA) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A subscriber unit for use in a communication system includes a spread spectrum radio interface, responsive to a rate function signal from a base station, and first and second despreaders. The base station assigns the rate function spread-spectrum message channels and the first despreader recovers and modifies an information signal one of the spread spectrum message channels. The information channel mode is then modified for processing by the second despreader, with the second despreader supporting a different information signal rate. The subscriber unit has a capability of communicating with a dynamically changing a transmission rate of an information signal which includes multiple spread spectrum message channels. The system includes a closed loop power control system for maintaining a minimum system transmit power level for a radio carrier station and the subscriber units, and system capacity management for maintaining a maximum number of active subscriber units for improved system performance. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348136 | Method, Apparatus, Receiver, Computer Program and Storage Medium for Joint Detection - A method, apparatus, receiver, computer program and storage medium for joint detection are disclosed. The joint detection method includes categorizing interference signals based on level of interference so as to obtain a strong interference signal, cancelling the strong interference signal from a received signal, and performing a joint detection by utilizing a matched filtering result of a remaining signal. In one embodiment, it is to firstly determine whether a strong interference codes corresponding to an intra-frequency adjacent cell exists in an active code list or not, recovering a strong interference signal transmitted by a Node B if the strong interference codes exists, applying an interference cancellation to a received signal received by a receiver so as to obtain a matched filtering result of a remaining signal derived by subtracting the strong interference signal from the received signal, performing a joint detection by utilizing the matched filtering result of the remaining signal, and outputting a demodulated result. In at least one embodiment, the computation complexity of the joint detection is reduced, and the accuracy of the joint detection is improved. | 11-27-2014 |
20140355571 | CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a mobile communication system using a code division multiple access (CDMA) method, spreading code detection and frame/slot timing synchronization (cell search) is conducted by using a long code masked symbol. The spreading factor of the long code masked symbol is set to a value lower than spreading factors of other ordinary symbols. As a result, it becomes possible to reduce the circuit scale and power dissipation of the mobile terminal and raise the speed of cell search. | 12-04-2014 |
20140369320 | SIGNATURE SEQUENCE SELECTION, SYSTEM VALUE BIT LOADING AND ENERGY ALLOCATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTICODE SINGLE-INPUT SINGLE-OUTPUT AND MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT PARALLEL CHANNELS - A method of transmitting data over a radio data transmission system having a plurality of K parallel single-input single-output or multiple-input multiple-output channels, the method comprising transmitting data at a rate b | 12-18-2014 |
20140376518 | CODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING IN A SINGLE-CARRIER FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - In a single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system that utilizes interleaved FDMA (IFDMA) or localized FDMA (LFDMA), a transmitter generates modulation symbols for different types of data (e.g., traffic data, signaling, and pilot) and performs code division multiplexing (CDM) on at least one data type. For example, the transmitter may apply CDM on signaling and/or pilot sent on frequency subbands and symbol periods that are also used by at least one other transmitter. To apply CDM to a given data type (e.g., signaling), the transmitter performs spreading on the modulation symbols for that data type with an assigned spreading code. CDM may be applied across symbols, samples, samples and symbols, frequency subbands, and so on. The transmitter may perform scrambling after the spreading. The transmitter generates SC-FDMA symbols of the same or different symbol durations for traffic data, signaling, and pilot and transmits the SC-FDMA symbols. | 12-25-2014 |
20150016426 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A DATA SCRAMBLING PROCEDURE - Systems, methods, and devices for communicating in a wireless network are provided. In one aspect, a method for wireless communication is provided. The method includes inserting a plurality of scrambler seeds into a data unit comprising a plurality of data portions, each scrambler seed associated with a respective data portion of the plurality of data portions. The method includes scrambling each data portion at least in part based on the associated scrambler seed. The method includes transmitting the data unit. The data portions may comprise code words or at least one media access control protocol data unit. The scrambler seed may be inserted in reserved bits of the delimiter field. The scrambler seed may be inserted in a delimiter signature field of the delimiter field. | 01-15-2015 |
20150016427 | DELIVERY OF INFORMATION OVER A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL - Methods and apparatus are described for transmitting information units over a plurality of constant bit rate communication channel. The techniques include encoding the information units, thereby creating a plurality of data packets. The encoding is constrained such that the data packet sizes match physical layer packet sizes of the communication channel. The information units may include a variable bit rate data stream, multimedia data, video data, and audio data. The communication channels include CMDA channels, WCDMA, GSM channels, GPRS channels, and EDGE channels. | 01-15-2015 |
20150030005 | Ack channel design for early termination of R99 downlink traffic - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a transmission and transmits an Ack regarding the transmission. A packet transmitting apparatus begins a transmission of a packet and receives an Ack regarding the transmission. The Ack may indicate early decoding of a packet comprised in the transmission. This enables the packet transmitting apparatus to cease transmission of the packet prior to transmission of the entire packet. The Ack may be transmitted using at least one of applying a pre-configured boost to the transmit power of at least a portion of a slot in which the Ack is transmitted, modulating a codeword pattern onto the symbols that would normally be transmitted in the slot, and transmitting the Ack on DPDCH. | 01-29-2015 |
20150036665 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SHORT LANGUAGE SIGNALING IN MAC-E PDU - Disclosed is a method for transmitting control information in a media access control-enhanced packet data unit (MAC-e PDU), including determining a data size of a transport format combination (TFC) selected by a user equipment (UE), including control information into the MAC-e PDU when a size of data and a header for the MAC-e PDU is shorter than the data size of the TFC, padding data of the MAC-e PDU with padding bits if a size of data including a corresponding header is shorter than the data size of the TFC, including the control information into the padding bits if the length of the padding bits is suitable for the transmission of the control information, and sending, by the UE, the MAC-e PDU including the control information to a node B. | 02-05-2015 |
20150043539 | CONCURRENT VOICE AND DATA SERVICE ON A SAME DIGITAL RADIO CHANNEL - A method, a subscriber unit, and a system provide concurrent voice and data systems and methods that “steal bits” from voice frames for low-speed concurrent data. In this manner, concurrent voice and data is supported over protocols that require voice-only in current operation such as Project 25 (P25). The stealing of bits from voice is done in a manner that is transparent and not noticeable to users. The systems and methods enable replication of signaling on the downlink and wireline segments that is replaced on the uplink, encoding of interleaving blocks that extend across multiple Layer 2 voice logical data units (LDUs), flexibility in replacing voice data in LDUs, indication of the availability of the service and an interleaving schedule, notification of upcoming stealing events via signaling, and the like. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043540 | System and Method for Scalable Digital Communications with Adaptive System Parameters - A method for operating an adapting device includes selecting a first access mode out of a plurality of access modes for a first transmission between a first communications device and a second communications device, wherein the selection of the first access mode is made in accordance with an access mode criterion, and at least one of communications system information, and user equipment information, and determining sparse code multiple access (SCMA) parameters from the first access mode in accordance with a SCMA parameter mapping rule. The method also includes providing information about the first access mode to at least one of the first communications device and the second communications device. | 02-12-2015 |
20150049738 | Pilot Scheme for a MIMO Communication System - The present invention employs a pilot scheme for frequency division multiple access (FDM) communication systems, such as single carrier FDM communication systems. A given transmit time interval will include numerous traffic symbols and two or more short pilot symbols, which are spaced apart from one another by at least one traffic symbol and will have a Fourier transform length that is less than the Fourier transform length of any given traffic symbol. Multiple transmitters will generate pilot information and modulate the pilot information onto sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols in an orthogonal manner. Each transmitter may use different sub-carriers within the time and frequency domain, which is encompassed by the short pilot symbols within the transmit time interval. Alternatively, each transmitter may uniquely encode the pilot information using a unique code division multiplexed code and modulate the encoded pilot information onto common sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols. | 02-19-2015 |
20150055631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EQUALIZING SIGNALS - A system and apparatus are disclosed for a method and apparatus for equalizing signals. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an equalizer having a channel estimation calculator for calculating a time domain channel estimation from a baseband signal, a Fast Fourier Transform processor for translating the time domain channel estimation to a frequency domain channel estimation, a tap weight calculator for calculating a frequency domain tap weight according to the frequency domain channel estimation, an inverse Fast Fourier Transform processor for translating the frequency domain tap weight calculation to a time domain tap weight calculation, and a filter for equalizing the baseband signal according to the time domain tap weight calculation. | 02-26-2015 |
20150063315 | SUB-CHANNEL SELECTION TO REDUCE LATENCY OF CIRCUIT-SWITCHED FALLBACK - It is determined whether a specific call type occurs. A random access preamble is transmitted at an earliest available sub-channel when the specific call type occurs. The random access preamble is transmitted at an assigned sub-channel when the specific call type does not occur. The call type can be a circuit switched fall back (CSFB) call or an emergency call. | 03-05-2015 |
20150071253 | Method, Codebook and Base Station for Precoding - A method, a codebook, and a Base Station (BS) for precoding are provided. The precoding method includes: obtaining a total uplink power of a User Equipment (UE); if the total uplink power is greater than ¾ of a rated total transmit power of antennas, selecting a codeword from a first codebook with imbalanced power between layers; otherwise, selecting a codeword from the first codebook and a second codebook with balanced power between layers, so as for precoding data to be transmitted according to the selected codeword. | 03-12-2015 |
20150078345 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - A method for transmitting reference signals for eight or fewer antenna ports includes mapping a portion of common reference signals (CRSs) for four or fewer antenna ports into a downlink subframe including 1 | 03-19-2015 |
20150085831 | ASYMMETRICAL FORWARD/REVERSE TRANSMISSION BANDWIDTH - A wireless communications system employs code-division multiple access information transmission techniques where the uplink and downlink transmission bandwidths are unequal. The higher bandwidth is an integer multiple of the lower bandwidth. The present system requires a base station and a subscriber unit to have two pseudo-random code generators which can be clocked separately. Alignment of the uplink and downlink pseudo-random spreading codes is achieved by truncating the code sequence for the lower speed link at the conclusion of a complete code sequence for the higher speed link. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085832 | MAINTENANCE OF CHANNEL USAGE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Data is accessed from a network via a wireless communication link. A determination is made as to whether payload data has been received from a subscriber's terminal. If so, then a request is sent for a first set of traffic channels, and the payload data is transmitted over the first set of traffic channels. | 03-26-2015 |
20150103807 | SCRAMBLING SEQUENCE INITIALIZATION FOR COORDINATED MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSIONS - Methods, systems, apparatus and computer program products are provided for generating a shared initialization code for physical channel data scrambling in an LTE Advanced coordinated multipoint transmission network. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the disclosed subject matter. Therefore, it is to be understood that it should not be used to interpret or limit the scope or the meaning of the claims. | 04-16-2015 |
20150103808 | RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL PREAMBLE - One out of sixteen preamble signatures is selected. A code is produced based on the selected preamble signature. The produced code is phase rotated to produce a processed preamble signature signal. The processed preamble signature signal is used in processing the CDMA RACH signal and the CDMA RACH signal is used to access a CDMA system. | 04-16-2015 |
20150131620 | COMMUNICATING REFERENCE AND DATA INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A mobile device may generate reference bits. The mobile device may also produce a frame to send in an uplink transmission having two portions selectively with the reference bits or data bits. | 05-14-2015 |
20150139196 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Method and arrangement in a base station for scheduling physical resources in a transmission bandwidth to a user equipment served by the base station. The physical resources may be physical channels or radio resource blocks. Some physical resources within the transmission bandwidth are subjected to a performance requirement power restriction value. The method comprises scheduling physical resources based on the performance requirement power restriction value of the physical resources to be scheduled. | 05-21-2015 |
20150146696 | CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION REPORTING IN PROTECTED SUBFRAMES - The present invention relates to reporting the channel state information in a communication system. The channel state information is reported from the user terminal to a base station. Accordingly, the user terminal determines a first channel state information value from a first set of values (levels) and a second channel state information value from another set of values, preferably a larger set of values. Then a difference or other relative measure is calculated between the first and the second channel state information value and transmitted to the base station. | 05-28-2015 |
20150319678 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTI-BLOCKING HETNET DEPLOYMENT - A new approach to anti-blocking cellularcommunication for HetNet deployment is proposed. First, a block detector sends a block indicator from an LPN to a scheduler in a macro base station. The scheduler then collects the block indicator statistics of each LPN on a sub-frame basis and updates the statistics in each sub-frame. If the statistics of received block indicators for one sub-frame during an observation period of a specific LPN exceeds a first predefined threshold, then the scheduler will not schedule any more uplink transmission to the LPN during the sub-frame for those UEs which are connected to the LPN. When the statistics of received block indicators becomes less than a second predefined threshold, which is less than the first threshold, the scheduler removes the limitation on uplink transmission to the LPN and allocates the sub-frame of the LPN as usual. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319750 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN AN MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method in which a user equipment receives a downlink signal from a base station in a wireless communication system that supports downlink mimo transmission according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: receiving downlink control information that includes information indicative of the number of layers (n, 1≦n≦8) where one or two enabled code words of the downlink mimo transmission are mapped; on the basis of the downlink control information, receiving downlink data transmitted over the respective n layers and a ue-specific reference signal for each of the n layers; and decoding the downlink data on the basis of the ue-specific reference signals, wherein the information indicative of the number of layers can further include information on a code for identifying the ue-specific reference signals. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319770 | Scheduling in Mobile Communications Systems - There is provided embodiments relating to scheduling in mobile communications systems, and particularly to scheduling of delay tolerant data in mobile communications systems. A scheduling request relating to conditional data transfer of delay tolerant data is received. The delay tolerant data is scheduled for transmission such that the delay tolerant data is to be transmitted in conjunction with data already scheduled for transmission and utilizing available transmission resources non-utilized for transmission of the data already scheduled for transmission. | 11-05-2015 |
20150326303 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CODE MULTIPLEXING - A system and method include a modulator to combine satellite codes with a carrier signal on an I-Channel and a Q-Channel. A processor applies a code power fraction to the combined codes on the I-Channel and the Q-Channel to provide a unity amplitude while maintaining a phase angle so that a signal constant envelope transmission can occur without a balancing code. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326308 | CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (CDMA) OVERLAY TO OTHER MULTIPLEXING SCHEME - A wireless apparatus (e.g., wireless access node, wireless device) and a method are described herein that use a block-wise Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) scheme overlaid to a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) structure to communicate over a physical channel with another wireless apparatus (e.g., wireless device, wireless access node). | 11-12-2015 |
20150327267 | Multi-Beam Cellular Communication System - A cellular communication system comprising a plurality of geographically spaced base stations ( | 11-12-2015 |
20150334635 | HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS - A wireless communication network including a first transceiver station for transmitting first signals over a first area coverage and over a first transmission bandwidth, and a second transceiver station selectively activatable/de-activatable. The second transceiver station is operable to broadcast, when de-activated, a beacon signal identifying the second transceiver station, the beacon signal having a beacon frequency at edges of the first transmission bandwidth. The beacon signal is detectable by a user equipment for inferring presence of the second transceiver station. The first transceiver station is configured to receive a response signal from a user equipment based on the detected beacon signal, and to schedule activation of the second transceiver station based on the received response signal. | 11-19-2015 |
20150341134 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method for a communication apparatus to process a signal. A first processor of the communication apparatus performs symbol mapping on a first baseband signal transmitted via a PDSCH (physical downlink shared channel). The first processor sends the mapped first baseband signal to a second processor of the communication apparatus by interfacing with the second processor. The second processor modulates the sent first baseband signal. The second processor converts the modulated first baseband signal into an intermediate frequency signal. | 11-26-2015 |
20150349909 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF DATA WITH CHANNEL POLARIZATION MECHANISM - A computing system includes: a communication unit configured to: determine a relaxed coding profile including a polar-processing range for processing content data over a bit channel; process the content data based on a total polarization level being within the polar-processing range, the polar-processing range for controlling a polar processing mechanism or a portion therein corresponding to the bit channel for the content data; and an inter-device interface, coupled to the communication unit, configured to communicate the content data. | 12-03-2015 |
20150365130 | Noise Distribution Shaping for Signals, Particularly CDMA Signals - A method is provided for noise distribution shaping of signals, particularly for the application in receivers for CDMA signals. The method includes the acts of generating a blanking control signal by comparing a received signal with at least one blanking threshold, adapting the at least one blanking threshold or the received signal according to an offset value depending on the amplitude of the received signal, and modifying the noise distribution of the received signal by applying blanking of the received signal under control of the blanking control signal. | 12-17-2015 |
20150373632 | METHOD OF SEARCHING CODE SEQUENCE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a signal for cell searching in a mobile communication system having a multi-cell environment includes transmitting the signal to one or more receiving party devices within a cell, wherein the signal is used for a synchronization of the one or more receiving party devices within the cell, the signal is defined by a combination of a first code sequence derived from a first index and a second code sequence derived from a second index, and an identity of the cell is used for defining the combination of the first code sequence and the second code sequence. | 12-24-2015 |
20150381318 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING INTERLEAVER - The present invention discloses a method for determining an interleaver, including: determining an interleaver identifier according to a binding parameter and a preset association relationship between the interleaver identifier and the binding parameter; performing interleaving processing on to-be-sent data by using an interleaver corresponding to the interleaver identifier; and performing de-interleaving processing on received data by using the interleaver corresponding to the interleaver identifier. An embodiment of the present invention further provides a corresponding device. According to technical solutions of the present invention, during data transmission, a UE and an eNodeB can accurately learn an interleaver that is used by the other party, thereby de-interleaving data correctly. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382316 | SEARCH METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of searching of base stations in a mobile communication system has a first stage of detecting at least one slot boundary, a second stage of detecting at least one frame boundary and a scrambling code group, and a third stage of detecting a scrambling code. Multiple possible base stations are identified by determining a first threshold based on correlation values of correlating the input signal with a primary synchronization channel code. For each hit, the input signal is aligned to the corresponding slot boundary, an average correlation value is based on all correlations with secondary sequences, and a second threshold based on the average correlation value is set. Any delay and codewords that have a correlation value above the second threshold are correlated with the codes in the detected group so as to determine multiple base stations. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382330 | Channel Configuration Method, Device and System - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a channel configuration method, including generating, by a network side device, channel configuration information, where the channel configuration information is used to configure a downlink fractional-dedicated physical channel F-DPCH and a downlink dedicated physical channel DPCH in a code division manner. The downlink F-DPCH is used for transmission of transmit power control TPC information, and the downlink DPCH is used for transmission of data information. The method includes sending, by the network side device, the channel configuration information to user equipment (UE), so that the UE receives the downlink F-DPCH and the downlink DPCH according to the channel configuration information. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382337 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING CONTROL INFORMATION AND DATA, AND FOR TRANSMITTING THE MULTIPLEXED CONTROL INFORMATION AND DATA IN A MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system. A method for multiplexing uplink control information and uplink data and for transmitting the multiplexed uplink control information and uplink data according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: encoding a first transmission block and a second transmission block to generate a first codeword and a second codeword; mapping the first codeword and the second codeword to one or more layers, respectively; and transmitting, via one or more antenna ports, each layer to which the first codeword and the second codeword are mapped, wherein the uplink control information is multiplexed only to either the first transmission block or to the second transmission block. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382356 | METHOD FOR INDICATING A DM-RS ANTENNA PORT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A control information interpretation method of a terminal and a base station in a mobile communication system, and a terminal and a base station concerning the same, respectively, are provided. The control information interpretation method of a terminal includes receiving, by the terminal, control information including transport block information and antenna port related information; identifying whether a codeword 0 is enabled and a codeword 1 is disabled, or both the codeword 0 and the codeword 1 are enabled based on the transport block information; and interpreting the antenna port related information according to a result of the identification. | 12-31-2015 |
20160007376 | MAINTENANCE OF CHANNEL USAGE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Data is accessed from a network via a wireless communication link. A determination is made as to whether payload data has been received from a subscriber's terminal, if so, then a request is sent for a first set of traffic channels, and the payload data is transmitted over the first set of traffic channels. | 01-07-2016 |
20160020865 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PILOT AND DATA MULTIPLEXING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for multiplexing pilots in a wireless transmission are described. In one aspect, a transmitter station generates multiple pilot sequences for multiple transmit antennas, with each pilot sequence comprising pilot symbols sent in the time domain on a different set of subcarriers. The transmitter station further generates multiple pilot transmissions for the transmit antennas based on the pilot sequences. In another aspect, a transmitter station generates multiple pilot sequences for multiple transmit antennas based on frequency-domain code division multiplexing (FD-CDM) of a Chu sequence defined by a transmitter-specific value. The transmitter station further generates multiple pilot transmissions for the transmit antennas based on the pilot sequences. In yet another aspect, a transmitter station generates multiple pilot transmissions for multiple transmit antennas based on a first multiplexing scheme and generates multiple data transmissions based on a second multiplexing scheme that is different from the first multiplexing scheme. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021647 | PER-CHANNEL ADAPTIVE CODE RATES IN CHANNEL-HOPPING NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a channel on which a receiving node will receive a data packet that is transmitted at a particular time in a channel-hopping network is determined according to a channel-hopping receive schedule of the receiving node. Channel characteristics of the determined channel are computed. Then, a code rate of the data packet is selected based on the computed channel characteristics of the determined channel. After the code rate selection, the data packet is transmitted on the determined channel to the receiving node using the selected code rate. | 01-21-2016 |
20160028459 | System and Method for Open-Loop MIMO Communications in a SCMA Communications System - A method for transmitting data includes mapping a first coded information bit stream intended for a first transmit antenna onto at least one first spreading sequence of a plurality of first spreading sequences to generate a first data stream, mapping a second coded information bit stream intended for a second transmit antenna onto at least one second spreading sequence of a plurality of second spreading sequences to generate a second data stream. The method also includes transmitting the first data stream and the second data stream on respective transmit antennas. | 01-28-2016 |
20160049999 | System and Method for Generating Codebooks with Small Projections per Complex Dimension and Utilization Thereof - A method for data transmission by a device in a communication system includes modulating a first data stream using a codebook to produce a second data stream, wherein the codebook is in correspondence with a multi-dimensional modulation map that includes a number of distinct projections per complex dimension that is smaller than a number of modulation points of the multi-dimensional modulation map, and transmitting the second data stream over allocated resources in the communication system. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050041 | ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSORS FOR INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION IN BASEBAND RECEIVERS - An interference canceller comprises a composite interference vector (CIV) generator configured to produce a CIV by combining soft and/or hard estimates of interference, an interference-cancelling operator configured for generating a soft projection operator, and a soft-projection canceller configured for performing a soft projection of the received baseband signal to output an interference-cancelled signal. Weights used in the soft-projection operator are selected to maximize a post-processing SINR. | 02-18-2016 |
20160057755 | IMPLICIT ADDRESSING FOR SPORADIC MACHINE-TYPE ACCESS - An apparatus and method for detecting an implicit user ID of a received data packet is disclosed. When a data packet is received, at least one frequency on which the data packet has been received is determined. Further, a spreading code sequence of the data packet is determined, and the at least one determined frequency and the determined spreading code sequence are used to determine an implicit user ID of the data packet. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057756 | METHOD, NETWORK NODE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COMBINED CELL - It is presented a method, performed in a network node of a combined cell of a mobile communication network, wherein the combined cell comprises a plurality of radio network nodes which all use the same cell identifier. The method comprises: determining that at least two wireless devices operate in the combined cell; and selecting orthogonal CDMA, Code Division Multiple Access, channelization codes for respective radio network nodes serving the at least two wireless devices, for use in downlink transmissions to the at least two wireless devices, wherein the selected orthogonal CDMA channelization codes are orthogonal between different radio network nodes within the combined cell. Corresponding network nodes, computer program and computer program product are also presented. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057757 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING FEATURES OF UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting a DM RS associated with a PUSCH in a communication system. The method includes allocating a CS for a DM RS of a UE, and an OCC; transmitting DCI including a plurality of IEs over PDCCHs, where each of the plurality of IEs respectively includes information indicating the CS for the DM RS and the OCC; and receiving, from the UE, the DM RS associated with the PUSCH. A DM-RS sequence is acquired based on the CS for the DM RS and the OCC identified from the information indicating the CS for the DM RS and the OCC, the CS is a value for determining a cyclic shift of a reference sequence, and the CS corresponds to a predetermined OCC, and the information indicating the CS for the DM RS and the OCC consists of 3 bits. | 02-25-2016 |
20160066348 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS - Integrated circuitry for use in a mobile radio station includes a receiver that receives control information and a data processor coupled to the receiver. The data processor provides a number of different sequences that are derived from a base sequence. The different derived sequences are respectively associated with different amounts of data or reception qualities, have different cyclic shifts, and are arranged in an increasing order of the cyclic shifts. The data processor randomly selects a sequence from a subset of the derived sequences. The subset of derived sequences depends on the control information. | 03-03-2016 |
20160073272 | Device and Method for Improved Closed Loop Diversity | 03-10-2016 |
20160081067 | Method and System for Signaling Transmission Layers for Single User and Multi User MIMO - A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a downlink control signal containing information for transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports utilized, the dedicated reference signal ports being associated with the transmission layers; and using the information to demodulate data on each transmission layer. | 03-17-2016 |
20160087703 | Method and Apparatus for Open Loop Transmission in a Multiple Antenna Wireless Communication System - The invention concerns a method for precoding in an open loop transmission communications system. The method includes precoding data at each of M REs with a precoding matrix, precoding each of DM-RSs with one column of a precoding matrix which is same as that used for precoding M data REs. The method is distinguished by using at least L≧2 different precoding matrices from a set of precoding matrices W to precode the M REs and the E allocated REs such that REs precoded with a first precoding matrix are interleaved with REs precoded with at least one additional, different precoding matrix and the number of used precoding matrices L is adapted to the transmission rank r and number N of available DM-RS. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088605 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES AND PROCESSING CONFIRMATION INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for allocating ACKnowledgement (ACK)/Non-ACKnowledgement (NACK) channel resources and processing confirmation information are disclosed. The method includes: The network side determines one physical channel area among multiple physical channel areas to be used by an ACK/NACK channel, and notifies the determined physical channel area to a User Equipment (UE) so as to enable the UE to determine a channel for receiving or sending ACK/NACK information in the determined physical channel area according to a mapping rule. Moreover, the network side may send or receive ACK/NACK information on the physical channel area that includes the ACK/NACK channel The method and apparatus improve the utilization ratio and flexibility of the ACK/NACK channel, and reduce the probability of conflict generated by the ACK/NACK channel | 03-24-2016 |
20160094303 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE MAPPING AND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING - The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for resource mapping and code division multiplexing. In the present disclosure, each cell selects a mapping scheme among at least two mapping schemes to implement resource mapping, which effectively reduces interference imposed on reference signal symbols of users at the edge of a cell; vector switching is performed for an orthogonal matrix to obtain multiple different codeword sequences and implement codeword design, so that a problem that the output power of reference signal symbols is unbalanced can be effectively alleviated. | 03-31-2016 |
20160095123 | WIRELESS TERMINAL APPARATUS AND WIRELESS BASE STATION APPARATUS - Both a wireless terminal apparatus and wireless base station apparatus are provided that can, in an operation of encoding the control signals of the upstream link transmitted from the multiple terminal stations while encoding with regard to each of the terminal stations, increase a number of the terminal stations to which different codes are respectively assigned. A wireless terminal apparatus includes: an encoding information receiving portion receiving encoding information which is used at the wireless terminal apparatus from the base station; a phase-shifting unit which conducts a phase-shifting operation on a predetermined first code based on the encoding information; a code selection unit which, based on the received encoding information, selects a second code from multiple codes orthogonally crossing each other; and a control signal encoding portion which conducts an encoding operation on the control signal that is going to be transmitted to the base station by using both the first code on which the phase-shifting operation has been conducted and the second code. | 03-31-2016 |
20160095138 | ENHANCED TRANSMISSION OF CONTROL CHANNEL SIGNALING OVER UMTS - Aspects are described for modifying transmission of control channel signaling during wireless communication. The described aspects include detecting a communication condition corresponding to signaling information transmitted on a Dedicated Channel (DCH); determining whether a Dedicated Physical Data Channel (DPDCH) is transmitted based on detecting the communication condition; and performing a Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) gating pattern in response to the determination that the DPDCH is not transmitted, wherein performing the DPCCH gating pattern includes intermittently transmitting the DPCCH when one or more signaling radio bearers (SRBs) are not being transmitted. | 03-31-2016 |
20160105791 | Communication Method, User Equipment, and Network Device - Embodiments relate to a communication method, user equipment, and a network device. A discovery message sent by second user equipment indicates cell information of the user equipment, so that first user equipment that receives the discovery message sends a communication request to a network device according to the discovery message. The communication request indicates the cell information of the second user equipment. The network device sends a paging message to the second user equipment according to a cell message of the second user equipment, which saves resources in a paging process of direct communication. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105884 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD OF DEVICES WITH DIFFERENT PATH LOSS - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. According to one embodiment, a method of operating a device includes: selecting a signal format from a plurality of signal formats, each of the plurality of signal formats corresponding to a respective coding and modulation scheme of a plurality of coding and modulation schemes; and sending a request for random access to a base station according to the selected signal format. | 04-14-2016 |
20160119887 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD FOR UPLINK IN SMALL CELL BASE STATION - A base station and method of synchronizing with a user equipment (UE) in a cell of the base station. The base station signals to the UE an indication relating to a subset of preambles chosen for synchronization with the cell from a set of preambles derivable from one or more given root sequences. The subset of preambles is chosen to provide an increased cell radius compared to the cell radius achievable if the specified full set of preambles for random access procedures was generated from the given root sequences using a given cyclic shift value. | 04-28-2016 |
20160135164 | Method and Apparatus for Encoding Feedback Signal - A method and apparatus for encoding feedback signal is provided. The method includes: encoding feedback signals of three carriers to output a bit sequence; and transmitting the bit sequence on a High Speed-Dedicated Physical Control Channel (HS-DPCCH). The encoding the feedback signals of the three carriers may specifically include: mapping the feedback signals of the three carriers into a codeword, in which the codeword can be selected from a codebook, and codewords in the codebook satisfy a particular code distance relationship. The method for jointly encoding feedback signals of three carriers in a Ternary Cell (TC) mode is provided. Feedback signals are transmitted over a single code channel. Therefore, power overhead is reduced, and system performance is improved. | 05-12-2016 |
20160143038 | TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal device receives a frequency resource allocation for data transmission configured of a plurality of subframes and notified from a base station device, the terminal device being provided with an orthogonal sequence generation unit that generates an orthogonal sequence to be applied to a reference signal, in accordance with the number of the plurality of subframes allocated. | 05-19-2016 |
20160143054 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SERVING GRANT OF USER TERMINAL OF NEIGHBORING CELL - Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for controlling a serving grant of a user terminal (UE) of a neighboring cell. The method is used for controlling a UE in a CELL-FACH state or in an idle state of a neighboring cell through a common E-RGCH. The method includes: obtaining a control command by monitoring the common E-RGCH of the neighboring cell; determining whether the UE satisfies at least one further configured controlled condition; and when the UE satisfies the at least one controlled condition, adjusting the serving grant of the UE based on the obtained control command. Through the method and the apparatus according to the embodiments of the disclosure, throughput of the UE may be prevented from being reduced excessively, thereby improving communication performance. | 05-19-2016 |
20160165613 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING SECONDARY SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL IN LTE AND LTE ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The detection and validation of Secondary Synchronization Signal comprising generating a set of samples by performing DFT operation on a time domain LTE signal, wherein the signal comprising an LTE frame divided into an even half and odd half frame, First and second set of hypotheses from even samples in even and odd half frame are generated and third and fourth set of hypotheses from odd samples in even and odd half frame are generated using first and second hypotheses. Even half frame is selected as start of boundary of the frame when location of the peak of first hypotheses is smaller than that of second hypotheses or location of the peak of fourth hypotheses is smaller than that of third hypotheses. The physical layer cell identity is determined from the locations of the peak of the first, second, third and fourth set of hypotheses averaged over multiple frames. | 06-09-2016 |
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20160192362 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL INTERFERENCE PROCESSING - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method for detecting signal interference in a first segment of a plurality of segments of a radio frequency spectrum of a wireless communication system, determining according to the signal interference a measure of quality of service of the first segment for transmitting voice traffic, comparing the measure of quality of service to a desired measure of quality of service measure for voice traffic, determining from the comparison that the first segment is not suitable for voice traffic, and notifying a system that the first segment is not suitable for voice traffic. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 06-30-2016 |
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