Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
20080240305 | Message Decoding With Apriori Information and Soft Combining - A method and arrangement for improving channel decoding performance in a radio receiver. Data bits from previously decoded messages are analyzed to provide a priori information to a channel decoder which is decoding a currently received message of the same type. The invention may analyze both the header and data fields of the previously decoded message frames to detect fields that are unchanging or rarely changing from one frame to the next. Probabilistic knowledge (a) of the bits in these unchanging or rarely changing fields is then used to improve the decoding performance for the current message. If a message cannot be successfully decoded, soft values of the bits are stored and then soft-combined with selected bits in the next message received prior to decoding. The invention is applicable to any type of message that has data components that are repeated with varying degrees of probability in successive transmissions. | 10-02-2008 |
20080298247 | Method and Apparatus for Vocoder Rate Control in a Wireless Network - A packet filter function in a wireless communication network monitors congestion and communicates a congestion indication to one or more vocoders. In one embodiment, the congestion indication comprises a vocoder source rate calculated by the packet filter function in response to the congestion. The reduced vocoder source rate frees system resources that can be allocated to new users to alleviate the congestion. The vocoder source rate may be communicated to the vocoder(s) in a variety of ways. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298264 | Method and Apparatus for Channel Estimation in a Transmit Diversity Environment - A method of channel estimation for a signal having a first portion transmitted using a transmit delay diversity scheme and a second portion transmitted using another multi-antenna transmission scheme includes determining a composite channel estimate from the transmit delay diversity portion of the signal. The method continues with segregating the composite channel estimate into delay groups corresponding to time offsets of the transmit delay diversity scheme for determination of first channel estimates for each subset of transmit antennas. Second channel estimates are determined for each subset of transmit antennas as a function of pilot symbols received in the second portion of the signal and corresponding ones of the first channel estimates. Thus, the first channel estimates are used to improve estimation of the second channel estimates. The method and variations of it may be implemented by configuring one or more processing circuits within a receiver circuit. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298285 | Efficient, Secure Digital Wireless Voice Telephony Via Selective Encryption - Secure, digital, packet-switched, voice telephony calls are wirelessly transmitted in an efficient manner that reduces air interface bandwidth consumption by encrypting only vocoder data frames containing encoded speech, and not encrypting vocoder data frames that do not contain speech, such as those containing silence parameters. The collective reduced bandwidth consumption across a large number of voice telephony calls may allow for the admission of one or more new calls during times of voice telephony congestion. Not encrypting the silence parameters does not compromise call privacy or security, since the silence data frames do not carry any speech. The classification of encoded data frames as containing speech or not may be performed in a variety of ways. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298524 | Interference Suppression in a Multicarrier Receiver - A receiver uses knowledge of pilot symbols transmitted by a neighboring sector to reduce interference in a received data symbol. The received data symbol is transmitted on one or more data subcarriers in a first sector. Overlapping pilot symbols transmitted on overlapping pilot carriers in a second sector are determined and used to generate channel estimates for the overlapping pilot carriers. The overlapping pilot symbols and pilot channel estimates are then used to reduce interference in the received data symbol. | 12-04-2008 |
20080299963 | Method and Apparatus for Vocoder Rate Control by a Mobile Terminal - A mobile terminal in a wireless communication network detects congestion and lowers its vocoder source rate in response, to help alleviate the congestion. The mobile terminal may detect the congestion in a variety of ways. The mobile terminal may monitor bandwidth allocation in the network, such as by inspecting the UL-MAP and DL-MAP of an IEEE 802.16 OFDM Physical Layer Frame header, for symmetric allocations. Congestion may be defined by the number of symmetric allocations exceeding a threshold. The congestion threshold may be programmed into the mobile terminal, or may be transmitted by the network. The mobile terminal may infer congestion by being repeatedly granted less bandwidth than requested. The network my explicitly indicate congestion, in a MAC message or by setting a congestion flag in one or more voice data frames. The congestion flag may comprise a reserved encoding of the AMR header Frame Type field. | 12-04-2008 |
20080310333 | SEMI-PERSISTENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS PACKET DATA SYSTEMS - A wireless telecommunications network supplies a semi-persistent resource that a wireless station can use for special purposes (such as a retransmission of packets for ARQ purposes or a control signal. The semi-persistent resource can be allocated by the system to other terminals if, e.g., a retransmission is not required. Since a retransmission is generally performed in response to a NACK received from a base station, the NACK may itself serve as a token that permits the wireless station to use the semi-persistent allocation. Thus, the technology includes, e.g., a method for resource allocation on a semi-persistent basis and efficient signaling for the usage of such allocation. | 12-18-2008 |
20090011773 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - A system and method for finding a wireless local area network, WLAN, when a mobile terminal is connected to a cellular network. A position associated with each WLAN operating within the coverage area of the cellular network is stored in a database. At predefined intervals or conditions, the system determines a current position of the mobile terminal, and determines whether the current position of the mobile terminal is close enough to a stored WLAN position for the mobile terminal to connect to the WLAN corresponding to the stored WLAN position. If so, a notification is sent to the mobile terminal indicating that the mobile terminal is within range of the identified WLAN. The mobile terminal then scans for the identified WLAN. | 01-08-2009 |
20090077457 | ITERATIVE DECODING OF BLOCKS WITH CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECKS - The iterative decoding of blocks may be continued or terminated based on CRC checks. In an example embodiment, one iteration of an iterative decoding process is performed on a block whose information bits are covered by a CRC. The iterative decoding process is stopped if the CRC checks for a predetermined number of consecutive iterations. In another example embodiment, a decoding iteration is performed on a particular sub-block of multiple sub-blocks of a transport block, which includes a single CRC over an entirety of the transport block. The CRC is checked using decoded bits obtained from the decoding iteration on the particular sub-block and decoded bits obtained from previous decoding iterations on other sub-blocks of the multiple sub-blocks. The decoding iteration is then performed on a different sub-block if the CRC does not check. Also, the decoding iterations for the sub-blocks may be terminated if the CRC checks. | 03-19-2009 |
20090092085 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS FRAME STRUCTURE ACCOMODATING DIFFERING FORMATS - A radio access network (RAN) ( | 04-09-2009 |
20090116435 | MULTIPLE COMPATIBLE OFDM SYSTEMS WITH DIFFERENT BANDWIDTHS - The technology provides a frame handler, a controller, and a frame structure design for a new radio communications system that provides backward compatibility with an existing or legacy radio communications system with lower signal bandwidth. Data to be transmitted to the new and legacy radio terminals is processed into a frame using a frame format that is compatible with both the new radio access technology system and the legacy radio access technology system so that both types of radio terminals may receive and extract data from the frame intended for each of those radio terminals. The format allows new and legacy radio terminal communications across the different bandwidths employed by the new and legacy systems. | 05-07-2009 |
20090131110 | UPLINK RADIO FRAMES APPORTIONED FOR PLURAL MULTIPLE ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES - Frames of information are communicated between a base station ( | 05-21-2009 |
20090154533 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMIT TIME COMPUTATION AT A RELAY STATION - Communications between a base station and a mobile station is improved through using a relay station. A transmit timing of relayed signals from the relay station is controlled so that the signals from the base station and the relay station arrive to the mobile station aligned with each other within a predetermined tolerance. | 06-18-2009 |
20090161616 | RANGING PROCEDURE IDENTIFICATION OF ENHANCED WIRELESS TERMINAL - A communications network comprises a base station ( | 06-25-2009 |
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 |
20090274071 | Aggregation of Resources Over Multiple Frames in a TDD Communication System - According to embodiments of the present invention, multiple frames or sub-frames on an uplink channel may be aggregated into one logical unit for demodulation and decoding to allow one data packet to span over multiple frames. Multi-frame aggregation is enabled by modifying the uplink resource allocation messages transmitted to the user terminals. The multi-frame resource allocation message includes a BEGIN FLAG field indicating whether a corresponding frame is the first frame in a multi-frame allocation and a REMAINING RESOURCES field to indicate the number of units (e.g., slots or frames) remaining in the multi-frame allocation. | 11-05-2009 |
20090280847 | CODE WORD ASSIGNMENT METHODS FOR QUICK PAGING IN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Code words are assigned to subscriber stations or groups of subscriber stations in a communication network for a quick paging mechanism in which the assigned code words are transmitted as quick paging signals over unused frequency resources to signal the subscriber stations. Subsets of multiple code words from a set of code words can be assigned to respective paging groups, and overlapping subsets can be assigned to multiple paging groups. This enables a single code word to be used to address either a single paging group or multiple paging groups. | 11-12-2009 |
20090285173 | PILOT DESIGN USING COSTAS ARRAYS - A multi-pilot frame handler ( | 11-19-2009 |
20090292780 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVE APPLICATION OF A FEATURE TO MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS OF AN EMAIL MESSAGE - A system and method of selectively utilizing a feature with an email message. The method includes processing, by a mail client within a user's computer, a single email message for a plurality of recipients. The mail client receives a designated first set of recipients of the plurality of recipients for receiving the email message with a specific feature and a designated second set of recipients of the plurality of recipients for receiving the email message without the specific feature. In addition, a copy of the email message is generated without the specific feature. The email message is then sent with the specified feature to the first set of recipients and a copy of the email message without the specified feature is sent to the second set of recipients. The specific feature may be an attachment, an encryption of the message, or any other feature associated with the email message. In another embodiment, an extension header may be applied to the header of the email message to distinguish the first set of recipients from the second set of recipients. The message may then be sent to an email server which reformats the message into two messages according to the header extensions. | 11-26-2009 |
20100040015 | USING A SYNCHRONIZATION CHANNEL TO SEND QUICK PAGING SIGNALS - In an orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication system, a base station transmits a quick paging signal simultaneously with a synchronization signal during the same transmission symbol time period. Even though these different signals are transmitted during the same transmission symbol time period, a periodicity of the synchronization signal is maintained to facilitate rapid and cost-effective synchronization by subscriber stations with the base station. The quick paging signal alerts subscriber stations about whether to stay awake for a subsequent page or to go into a power saving sleep mode. | 02-18-2010 |
20100111231 | OFDM CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Smaller patterns of regularly-spaced pilot symbols are discerned from a larger pattern of irregularly-spaced pilot symbols transmitted in the time-frequency domain. Accordingly, the irregularly-spaced pilot symbols can be partitioned into at least two different groups of regularly-spaced pilot symbols in the time-frequency domain. Each group of regularly-spaced pilot symbols is individually processed with lower complexity and the results combined to generate an accurate time-frequency channel response estimate. According to an embodiment, a set of irregularly-spaced pilot symbols is transmitted over a time-frequency window. Channel response is estimated based on the pilot symbols by grouping the pilot symbols into subsets of regularly-spaced pilot symbols. An intermediate quantity is generated for each subset of regularly-spaced pilot symbols as a function of the pilot symbols included in the subset. The channel response is estimated over the time-frequency window as a function of the intermediate quantities. | 05-06-2010 |
20100182989 | QUICK PAGING RECEIVERS IN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus by which receiving stations or other communication network nodes can receive quick paging code words assigned by transmitting stations to the receiving stations. A receiving station can estimate the characteristics of the channel to the transmitting station based on a downlink-frame's preamble and use correlation to detect the presence of an assigned code word. The receiving station can suppress interference from other transmitting stations in the correlation operation based on the nature of the interference signal. When the receiving station knows an interfering signal from another transmitting station, the receiving station can subtract the interfering signal before carrying out the correlation operation. | 07-22-2010 |
20100260112 | QUICK PAGING IN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - In an orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication system, unused frequency resources during a conventional preamble signal are used for a quick paging mechanism. A set of quick paging signals is sent over the unused frequency resources to signal one or more subscriber stations. | 10-14-2010 |
20100271963 | UPLINK RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN THE PRESENCE OF POWER LIMITED USERS - A base station in an OFDMA system which determines a modulation and coding scheme to use for a packet of a certain size to be transmitted by a Mobile Station. The base station schedules transmissions by mobile stations and transmits packets. The base station includes a processing unit which determines a number of time-frequency resources required to transmit the packet for a modulation and coding scheme, determines an SINR based on the number of time-frequency resources used and available power at the mobile station, determines a transmission rate as a ratio of the packet size transmitted to the number of time-frequency resources used, sets a rate to zero if the determined SINR is lower than a threshold SINR required for the modulation and coding scheme, and selects the modulation and coding scheme with a highest transmission rate. The base station includes a memory storing modulation and coding schemes. | 10-28-2010 |
20100290426 | REFERENCE SYMBOL DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - At least some reference symbols dedicated to a particular communication device are transmitted in resource blocks allocated to other devices. This way, reference symbol assignments are not unduly restricted by other constraints placed on the boundary elements of a resource block. According to an embodiment, data and reference signals are transmitted by transmitting a resource block allocated to a first communication device. The resource block includes a plurality of resource elements, each resource element corresponding to a modulation symbol. At least one reference symbol associated with the resource block and dedicated to the first communication device is transmitted in a resource block allocated to a second communication device. On the receive side, the communication device can perform channel estimation based on reference symbols dedicated to the device that are transmitted in resource blocks allocated to the device and in resource block(s) allocated to other communication device(s). | 11-18-2010 |
20110280181 | CYCLIC PREFIX FOR NON-CONTIGUOUS SIGNAL TRANSMISSION - Transmitted signals are modified to facilitate the emulation of circular convolution in non-contiguous transmission environments. These modified signals may be derived from well-known signature sequences. In an exemplary method, a tail portion of a final segment of a base signal is prefixed to an initial segment of the base signal, to form a first transmit segment. One or more additional transmit segments are formed by prefixing, to each of the one or more segments of the base signal other than the initial segment, a tail portion of the immediately preceding segment of the base signal. The transmit segments so formed are transmitted in respective ones of the plurality of non-contiguous transmit-time intervals. Corresponding methods for receiving the transmitted segments and reconstructing the base signal are also described, as are corresponding transmitting and receiving apparatuses. | 11-17-2011 |
20120033754 | OFDM CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Smaller patterns of regularly-spaced pilot symbols are discerned from a larger pattern of irregularly-spaced pilot symbols transmitted in the time-frequency domain. Accordingly, the irregularly-spaced pilot symbols can be partitioned into at least two different groups of regularly-spaced pilot symbols in the time-frequency domain. Each group of regularly-spaced pilot symbols is individually processed with lower complexity and the results combined to generate an accurate time-frequency channel response estimate. According to an embodiment, a set of irregularly-spaced pilot symbols is transmitted over a time-frequency window. Channel response is estimated based on the pilot symbols by grouping the pilot symbols into subsets of regularly-spaced pilot symbols. An intermediate quantity is generated for each subset of regularly-spaced pilot symbols as a function of the pilot symbols included in the subset. The channel response is estimated over the time-frequency window as a function of the intermediate quantities. | 02-09-2012 |
20120042226 | ITERATIVE DECODING OF BLOCKS WITH CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECKS - The iterative decoding of blocks may be continued or terminated based on CRC checks. In an example embodiment, one iteration of an iterative decoding process is performed on a block whose information bits are covered by a CRC. The iterative decoding process is stopped if the CRC checks for a predetermined number of consecutive iterations. In another example embodiment, a decoding iteration is performed on a particular sub-block of multiple sub-blocks of a transport block, which includes a single CRC over an entirety of the transport block. The CRC is checked using decoded bits obtained from the decoding iteration on the particular sub-block and decoded bits obtained from previous decoding iterations on other sub-blocks of the multiple sub-blocks. The decoding iteration is then performed on a different sub-block if the CRC does not check. Also, the decoding iterations for the sub-blocks may be terminated if the CRC checks. | 02-16-2012 |
20120307818 | CYCLIC PREFIX FOR NON-CONTIGUOUS SIGNAL TRANSMISSION - Transmitted signals are modified to facilitate the emulation of circular convolution in non-contiguous transmission environments. These modified signals may be derived from well-known signature sequences. In an exemplary method, a tail portion of a final segment of a base signal is prefixed to an initial segment of the base signal, to form a first transmit segment. One or more additional transmit segments are formed by prefixing, to each of the one or more segments of the base signal other than the initial segment, a tail portion of the immediately preceding segment of the base signal. The transmit segments so formed are transmitted in respective ones of the plurality of non-contiguous transmit-time intervals. Corresponding methods for receiving the transmitted segments and reconstructing the base signal are also described, as are corresponding transmitting and receiving apparatuses. | 12-06-2012 |
20140173371 | SEMI-PERSISTENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS PACKET DATA SYSTEMS - A wireless telecommunications network supplies a semi-persistent resource that a wireless station can use for special purposes (such as a retransmission of packets for ARQ purposes or a control signal. The semi-persistent resource can be allocated by the system to other terminals if, e.g., a retransmission is not required. Since a retransmission is generally performed in response to a NACK received from a base station, the NACK may itself serve as a token that permits the wireless station to use the semi-persistent allocation. Thus, the technology includes, e.g., a method for resource allocation on a semi-persistent basis and efficient signaling for the usage of such allocation. | 06-19-2014 |