Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080310359 | Method and Apparatus for Sharing Resources in a Wireless System - A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system comprises establishing a set of virtual resources; assigning one or more of the virtual resources to one or more mobile stations; transmitting a remapping bitmap to the mobile stations, wherein the remapping bitmap contains a resource availability bitmap and a virtual resource bitmap; and transmitting packets to the mobile stations or receiving packets from the mobile stations using the respective radio resources which are derived for the respective mobile stations from the remapping bitmap. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310362 | Method and Apparatus for Assigning Resources in a Wireless System - A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes the time-frequency resources into multiple regions; defining a channel tree within at least one region, wherein the channel tree has base nodes which are determined using the area of the region and the area of a base node; determining a channel identifier assignment for a mobile station, wherein the channel identifier corresponds to a collection of base nodes from a channel tree; transmitting an indication of the determined channel identifier to the mobile station; and transmitting a packet to a mobile station or receiving a packet from the mobile station using the physical time-frequency resources, which correspond to the channel identifier. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310363 | Method and Apparatus for Sharing a Group Resource in a Wireless SDMA System - A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes establishing groups of mobile stations which monitor a shared group scheduling bitmap; transmitting a group scheduling bitmap to the mobile stations, wherein the group scheduling bitmap contains a mobile station presence bitmap and an SDMA bitmap, wherein the SDMA bitmap is used to divide the group members into two or more subgroups; and transmitting packets to the mobile stations or receiving packets from the mobile stations using the radio resource which is derived from the value indicated in the group scheduling bitmap. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310364 | Method and Apparatus for Assigning Resources in a Wireless System with Multiple Regions - A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes transmitting at least one region boundary to a mobile station indicating a division of the time-frequency resources into at least two regions, determining a time-frequency resource assignment for the mobile station, transmitting an indication of the determined time-frequency resource to the mobile station in the same region as the determined time-frequency resource, and transmitting a packet to the mobile station using the physical time-frequency resources corresponding to the determined time-frequency resource. | 12-18-2008 |
20090042581 | System and Method for Assigning Communications Resources in a Wireless Communications System - System and method for assigning communications resources in a wireless communications system. A method for operating a base station comprises receiving a resource request for radio resources for a mobile station, in response to a determining that the base station will service the resource request, assigning radio resources based on the resource request and transmitting an indicator of the assigned radio resources to the mobile station, and in response to a determining that the base station will not service the resource request, returning to a normal mode of operations. The assigning of radio requests makes use of a channel tree comprised of two non-orthogonal sets of mappings between nodes of the channel tree and radio resources, with each node corresponding to at least one radio resource. | 02-12-2009 |
20090073932 | Method and Apparatus for Associating a Packet with an H-ARQ Channel Identifier - A method in a base station of transmitting control information to a mobile station includes transmitting a persistent assignment to a mobile station, wherein the persistent assignment includes a plurality of ACID indications; and transmitting a subsequent assignment to the mobile station including an ACID derived from the plurality of ACID indications. In another method, a mobile station receives control information from a base station, including receiving a persistent assignment from the base station, wherein the persistent assignment includes a plurality of ACID indications; and receiving a subsequent assignment from the base station including an ACID derived from the plurality of ACID indications. | 03-19-2009 |
20090109914 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Control Information in a System with New and Legacy Mobile Stations - A method of transmitting control information to new and legacy mobile stations in a wireless communications system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for the base station to transmit control information in a system with new and legacy mobile stations is disclosed. In another embodiment, a method and apparatus for the mobile station to transmit control information is disclosed. | 04-30-2009 |
20090122758 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting HARQ Sub-Packets in a Wireless Communication System - In one embodiment of the present invention, a method and apparatus for the base station to transmit a series of HARQ sub-packets to a mobile station is disclosed. In another embodiment of the present invention, a method and apparatus for the base station to assign radio resources for the mobile station to transmit a series of HARQ sub-packets to a base station is disclosed. | 05-14-2009 |
20090149188 | System and Method for Resource Allocation in a Wireless Communications System - A system and method for resource allocation in wireless communications systems includes a method for operating a base station. The method includes receiving a resource request for radio resources for a mobile station and transmitting an indication of unallocated radio resources to the mobile station. A resource assignment is determined for the resource request, and the resource assignment is transmitted to the mobile station. The resource assignment comprises unallocated radio resources and a number of radio resources. | 06-11-2009 |
20090185483 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Data and Error Recovery - A system and method for partitioning and transmitting a frame configuration in a wireless communication system is provided. A preferred embodiment comprises a method for determining a frame configuration in H-FDD systems where multiple time domain groups are supported is disclosed. Another embodiment provides a method for a base station for transmitting an indication of a frame configuration in H-FDD systems where multiple time domain groups are supported. Further, if the mobile stations enter into an error condition because they did not receive the frame configuration, an error recovery process may be utilized to self-recover from the error condition. | 07-23-2009 |
20090185534 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting a Packet Header - A system and method for transmitting a reduced header is presented. A preferred embodiment comprises a base station defining a normal header and a reduced header, wherein the reduced header has a smaller number of bytes than the normal header. The base station then concatenates the reduced header with smaller sized payloads and concatenates the normal header with larger sized payloads. | 07-23-2009 |
20090207785 | Method and Apparatus for Assigning Persistent Resources Dynamically in a Wireless Communication System - A method and apparatus for dynamically assigning persistent resources in a wireless communications system is provided. A method comprises transmitting a first boundary indication to a mobile station, and transmitting a position indication to the mobile station, wherein the position indication corresponds to a network resource assigned based on a network resource request, the position indication is relative to the first boundary indication. The method also comprises transmitting a second boundary indication to the mobile station in response to detecting a change in a position of a boundary, and transmitting a first transmission to the mobile station using a network resource corresponding to the position indication or receiving a second transmission from the mobile station using a network resource corresponding to the position indication, wherein the position indication is relative to the second boundary indication. The first boundary indication is based on a position of the boundary. | 08-20-2009 |
20100067593 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting and Receiving Control Information in a Wireless Communication System - A base station transmits control information to a mobile station. A first control channel is transmitted to the mobile station. The first control channel contains an indication of the number of control channel occurrences in a frame. A second control channel is transmitted to the mobile station in a control subframe. The second control channel contains information for communicating a packet between the base station and the mobile station. The control subframe is determined from the number of control channel occurrences in the frame. The packet can then be communicated between the base station and the mobile station in a subframe based on the control channels transmitted. | 03-18-2010 |
20100128690 | Method and Apparatus for Partitioning a Resource in a Wireless Communication System - In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of operating a base station includes transmitting a first control channel to a user device. The first control channel has a subframe partition index that partitions resources of an associated subframe into at least one partition. The at least one partition has a size limited to only a set of possible partition sizes. | 05-27-2010 |
20100248749 | System and Method for Low Overhead Paging in a Wireless Communications System - A system and method for low overhead paging in a wireless communications system is provided. A method for controller operation includes generating a compressed map, receiving an incoming call intended for a communications device, and broadcasting the compressed map to communications devices served by the controller. The compressed map includes indications of paging groups of the controller. | 09-30-2010 |
20100284367 | System and Method for Handovers in a Multi-Carrier Wireless Communications System - A system and method for handovers in multi-carrier wireless communications systems is provided. A method for communications device operation includes computing a bandwidth requirement, transmitting a handover request to a server controller, receiving a response responsive to the handover request, and in response to determining that the handover request was granted, initiating a handover. The handover request includes the bandwidth requirement. | 11-11-2010 |
20120033637 | Method and Apparatus for Associating a Packet with an H-ARQ Channel Identifier - Method and apparatus are provided for transmitting control information to a mobile station. A persistent assignment is transmitted to a mobile station, wherein the persistent assignment includes a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) channel identifiers (ACIDs). A subsequent assignment including an ACID derived from the plurality of ACIDs is transmitted to the mobile station. In another aspect of the invention, a mobile station receives from a base station a persistent assignment including a plurality of ACIDs, and a subsequent assignment including an ACID derived from the plurality of ACIDs. | 02-09-2012 |
20120120912 | Method and Apparatus for Assigning Resources in a Wireless System with Multiple Regions - A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes transmitting at least one region boundary to a mobile station indicating a division of the time-frequency resources into at least two regions, determining a time-frequency resource assignment for the mobile station, transmitting an indication of the determined time-frequency resource to the mobile station in the same region as the determined time-frequency resource, and transmitting a packet to the mobile station using the physical time-frequency resources corresponding to the determined time-frequency resource. | 05-17-2012 |
20130010964 | System and Method for Multi-Carrier Network Operation - A system and method for configuring a component carrier is presented. A component carrier assignment message is received. The component carrier assignment message may be configured to identify the component carrier and include at least one of, at least one of a downlink carrier frequency, a carrier frequency of a paired uplink carrier, a bandwidth of the component carrier, and a bandwidth of the paired uplink carrier, an indication of whether the component carrier is a control channel monitoring component carrier configured to signal data channel assignment information for the component carrier, and a logical index of the component carrier. The component carrier assignment message may then be used to configure the component carrier on a user equipment (UE). | 01-10-2013 |
20130142142 | System and Method for Sharing a Control Channel for Carrier Aggregation - A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers. | 06-06-2013 |
20140192842 | TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna. | 07-10-2014 |
20140254521 | System and Method for Multi-Carrier Network Operation - A system and method for configuring a component carrier is presented. A component carrier assignment message is received. The component carrier assignment message may be configured to identify the component carrier and include at least one of, at least one of a downlink carrier frequency, a carrier frequency of a paired uplink carrier, a bandwidth of the component carrier, and a bandwidth of the paired uplink carrier, an indication of whether the component carrier is a control channel monitoring component carrier configured to signal data channel assignment information for the component carrier, and a logical index of the component carrier. The component carrier assignment message may then be used to configure the component carrier on a user equipment (UE). | 09-11-2014 |
20150016390 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST OPERATION FOR UPLINK COORDINATED MULTI-POINT SIGNALING - A method and system for hybrid automatic repeat request operation for uplink coordinated multi-point signaling, the method in one embodiment sending a data packet from a user equipment to a plurality of network elements; waiting for a control indication from at least one of the plurality of network element; and retransmitting the data packet to the plurality of network elements if the control indication specifies retransmission is required. | 01-15-2015 |
20150043508 | HARQ PROCESS NUMBER MANAGEMENT FOR DOWNLINK CARRIER AGGREGATION - A method for designating, by a user agent supporting multiple carriers in a wireless communication network, one assigned carrier as an anchor carrier, at least one assigned carrier as an inactive carrier, and at least one assigned carrier as an active carrier. The method can also include receiving a command from an enhanced node B causing a first carrier to transition from an inactive carrier to an active carrier. Additionally, the method can include responsive to reception of the command, monitoring a control channel corresponding to the first carrier. Further, the method can also include receiving downlink control information (DCI) via the control channel. The method can also include responsive to reception of the DCI, starting a timer, and deactivating the first carrier at the expiration of the timer. | 02-12-2015 |