Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100202331 | CLOSED-LOOP POWER CONTROL IN MULTI-CARRIER HIGH-SPEED UPLINK PACKET ACCESS - A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes applying independent power controls to two or more carriers from a set of high speed packet access signals. The method includes monitoring power across the two or more carriers to determine power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. The method also includes automatically adjusting at least one of the independent power controls in view of the determined power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202392 | POWER ALLOCATION IN MULTI-CARRIER ENHANCED UPLINK - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate split a common total power resource among a plurality of carriers. A power distribution scheme can be employed jointly across the plurality of carriers to determine an amount of power to allocate to respective carriers. Based upon an amount of power allocated, a packet format can be selected for each carrier based upon the amount of power allocated to the carrier and/or a serving grant associated with the carrier. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202393 | UPLINK CARRIER ALLOCATION - This innovation relates to systems and methods for multiple carrier allocation in wireless communication networks, and more particularly to allocation and/or de-allocation of one or multiple carriers on the uplink to a high-speed uplink packet access user. A radio network controller can allocate uplink carriers to users based on a plurality of criteria, including but not limited to network loading, channel conditions, and so forth. The allocation messages can be transmitted to the user via layer three messages or layer one signaling. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202394 | NON-SCHEDULED GRANTS IN MULTI-CARRIER ENHANCED UPLINK - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate power distribution and data allocation in a multi-carrier wireless communication system. A portion of transmit power can be pre-allocated to an anchor carrier to support non-scheduled data flows. Remaining power is split among all carriers, including the anchor carrier, after pre-allocation. Data from one or more flows, scheduled and non-scheduled, are allocated to the carriers in accordance with priorities associated with the one or more flows. Allocation of data can be performed sequentially starting with a non-anchor carrier. In addition, non-scheduled data flows can be restricted to the anchor carrier. | 08-12-2010 |
20100238825 | LOOP POWER CONTROLS FOR MULTI-CARRIER HIGH-SPEED UPLINK PACKET ACCESS - A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes applying independent power controls to two or more carriers from a set of high speed packet access signals. The method includes monitoring power across the two or more carriers to determine power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. The method also includes adjusting at least one of an open loop control, an inner loop control, or an outer loop control in view of the power levels for the set of packet access signals. | 09-23-2010 |
20110019625 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING DATA TRANSMISSION ON MULTIPLE CARRIERS - Techniques for scheduling data transmission on multiple carriers in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a scheduler may receive requested power headrooms for multiple carriers from a user equipment (UE), one requested power headroom for each carrier. Each requested power headroom may be indicative of transmit power usable by the UE for transmission on an associated carrier. The scheduler may also receive queue information indicative of data to transmit by the UE. The scheduler may redistribute the requested power headrooms across the multiple carriers (e.g., based on water filling or greedy filling) to obtain redistributed power headrooms for the multiple carriers. The scheduler may schedule the UE for data transmission on the uplink based on the redistributed power headrooms and the queue information. The scheduler may obtain and send at least one granted power headroom for at least one carrier to the UE. | 01-27-2011 |
20110075742 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK IN AN ENHANCED UPLINK NETWORK - Various processing options and systems are provided for setting/controlling feedback indicators referred to as “Happy Bits” in a wireless communication network using multiple uplink carriers. In one aspect, a Happy Bit is determined independently for each one of a plurality of uplink carriers based on channel conditions and buffer lengths for the respective carrier. For example, if a UE is transmitting the maximum data allowed by its serving grant for that carrier, the UE has available power to increase the data rate on that carrier, and the TEBS delay is greater than a certain threshold, then the Happy Bit for that carrier may be set to Unhappy to inform the Node B that the UE is capable of transmitting at a higher data rate on that carrier. | 03-31-2011 |
20110286347 | UE Based Conditional Enabling of ULTD - In a communication system, user equipment (UE) conditionally performs uplink transmit diversity (ULTD) either by Switched Antenna Transmit Diversity (SATD) or Beamforming Transmit Diversity (BFTD) using a first antenna and a second antenna. Either a serving node or the UE determines that uplink transmit diversity is conditionally authorized. Either a serving node or the UE measures a value. The UE transmits using ULTD in response to determining that an enabling condition based on the value is satisfied. The UE can also disable uplink transmit diversity in response to determining that a disabling condition based on the value is satisfied. The disabling condition comprises a disabling threshold that equals the enabling condition comprising an enabling threshold with a threshold adjustment for hysteresis. | 11-24-2011 |
20120183095 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SIGNALLING CARRIER COMBINATION CAPABILITIES FOR A MULTI-CARRIER MULTI-BAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus, method, and computer program product for generating and correspondingly decoding an information element adapted to encode a set of supported carrier combinations for a user equipment in a dual-band multi-carrier wireless communication system. Here, the information element corresponds to a geometric representation of the set of supported carrier combinations, such as a grid that has a first axis corresponding to a first band, and a second axis corresponding to a second band. This way, the grid includes a plurality of cells, each cell representing a carrier combination in the first band and the second band. | 07-19-2012 |
20120250644 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING CONCURRENT DEPLOYMENT OF MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION TIME INTERVALS FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS BY USER EQUIPMENT IN A NON-DEDICATED CHANNEL STATE - A random access procedure for UEs in Cell_FACH or another suitable non-DCH state, which enables concurrent deployment of 2 ms and 10 ms TTIs for uplink transmissions on the E-DCH. In some examples, the procedure may further enable utilization of a Rel-99 PRACH transmission by UEs in the Cell_FACH or other suitable non-DCH state. | 10-04-2012 |
20130044663 | Supporting DL Triggered HS-DPCCH in a cell in CELL_FACH - Apparatus and methods are described for initiating an operating a high speed uplink channel. A user equipment may receive an order from a Node B triggering a feedback response. The user equipment may perform a physical random access channel (PRACH) procedure in response to receiving the order, and may also initiate a collision resolution procedure The user equipment may transmit a current channel quality indicator (CQI) of the user equipment on a high speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH) prior to achieving collision resolution. | 02-21-2013 |
20130176961 | APPARATUS AND METHODS OF UNAMBIGUOUS MAC-I PDU FORMATTING - The described aspects include a user equipment (UE) apparatus and corresponding method of performing a High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) transmission. The aspects include determining availability of information for transmission while the UE is in a Cell_FACH state and an idle mode. Further, aspects include generating a message including a scheduling information (SI) indicator during a collision resolution phase of an uplink procedure when SI data is allowed to be transmitted during the collision resolution phase, wherein the SI indicator identifies whether the SI data is included in a Medium Access Control-i (MAC-i) Packet Data Unit (PDU). Additionally, the aspects include transmitting the message, destined for a network component, during the collision resolution phase. The described aspects also include a corresponding network component and method for receiving the message and unambiguously determining presence of SI data in the MAC-i PDU. | 07-11-2013 |
20130195027 | Method and Apparatus for Channel Fallback in Enhanced Cell Forward Access Channel Dedicated Channel - The described aspects include a user equipment (UE) apparatus, network apparatus, and corresponding methods of using fallback resources for communication. The UE can indicate fallback information to a network apparatus specifying whether fallback resources are preferred for communicating uplink data and can receive a fallback decision from the network apparatus specifying whether fallback resources are to be used for communicating the uplink data. The UE can then determine whether to communicate the uplink data to the network apparatus based in part on the fallback decision. The network apparatus can receive a preamble from a UE related to requesting access for transmitting uplink data and can determine a fallback decision specifying whether the UE is to utilize fallback resources in communicating the uplink data. The network apparatus then communicates the fallback decision to the UE. | 08-01-2013 |
20130201816 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR E-TFC SELECTION FOR UPLINK MIMO COMMUNICATION - One or more scheduling grants may be received from a Node B related to a plurality of uplink MIMO streams. A determination may be made as to a primary transport power and a primary transport block size for a primary stream. A secondary transmit power and a secondary transport block size for a secondary stream may also be determined. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201939 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING RESOURCES FOR UPLINK MIMO COMMUNICATION - Apparatus and methods of scheduling one or multiple streams for a user equipment (UE) include receiving a single happy bit for the one or multiple streams, determining a set of scheduling grants for a UE configured to transmit over the one or multiple streams, and transmitting the scheduling grant to the UE. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201940 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR UPLINK MIMO COMMUNICATION - One or more scheduling grants may be received from a Node B related to a plurality of uplink MIMO streams. A determination may be made as to a primary transport power and a primary transport block size for a primary stream. A secondary transmit power and a secondary transport block size for a secondary stream may also be determined. An enhanced relative grant channel from the Node B, as well as another E-RGC from a non-serving Node B may be received for each of the plurality of uplink MIMO streams. | 08-08-2013 |
20130303224 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROVIDING INTER-RADIO-NETWORK-CONTROLLER MULTIFLOW CAPABILITY - The present disclosure presents example methods and apparatuses for improved cell searching in a wireless communications environment. For example, the disclosure presents example methods of wireless communication in a multiflow environment, which may include establishing a first flow between a serving radio network controller (S-RNC) and a first network entity, wherein the S-RNC controls the first network entity. Such example methods may also include establishing a second flow between the S-RNC and a second network entity. Furthermore, such example methods may include transmitting data to a user equipment (UE) via both the first flow and the second flow. | 11-14-2013 |
20140037019 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPLINK MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT TRANSMISSION - Methods and apparatuses are provided for uplink MIMO transmissions in a wireless communication system. In some particular aspects, an E-TFC selection process for selecting a transport format combination for an uplink MIMO transmission may take certain steps in the case that a UE is power- or buffer-limited. For example, in a rank 2 transmission, non-scheduled data is allocated only to the primary stream. If the allocated non-scheduled data is less than the determined primary stream transport block size, scheduled data is allocated to the primary stream in an amount not to exceed the determined primary stream TBS. Finally, scheduled data is allocated to the secondary stream in an amount not to exceed the determined secondary stream TBS. | 02-06-2014 |