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20090067362 | CONTROL SIGNALING TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless networks, such as relay networks or multi-hop networks, and also relating to control signaling techniques for wireless networks. In an example embodiment, a method or technique may include transmitting (e.g., data or control) frames in a downlink direction and control frames in an uplink direction during a first phase, and transmitting (e.g., data or control) frames in an uplink direction and control frames in a downlink direction during a second phase. | 03-12-2009 |
20090276675 | SIGNALING OF REDUNDANCY VERSION AND NEW DATA INDICATION - Example methods and apparatus for communicating encoded data blocks in wireless communication systems are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method for receiving an encoded data block includes receiving a data transmission including a subset of a plurality of bits of the encoded data block. The example method also includes receiving a first control signal indicating whether the received subset is a first received subset associated with the encoded data block or whether one or more subsets were previously received for the encoded data block. The example method also further includes receiving a second control signal, the second control signal having a first state and a second state. In the example method, the first state of the second control signal indicates that the received subset includes a first predefined subset of the plurality of bits of the encoded data block and the second state of the second control signal indicates that the received subset includes one of a plurality of other predefined subsets of the plurality of bits of the encoded data block. In this example embodiment, determining which of the other predefined subsets is included in the received subset is based on one or more system parameters of the wireless communication system. Further in this example, the state of the second control signal is selectable between its first state and its second state on a data transmission by data transmission basis, regardless of whether or not one or more subsets of the encoded data block were previously received. | 11-05-2009 |
20100080152 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SIGNALING OF REDUNDANCY VERSIONS - An approach is provided for efficient signaling of redundancy version information. A redundancy version signaling module detects the start of a system information radio transmission window and assigns a redundancy version sequence at the start of the transmission window. | 04-01-2010 |
20110243070 | CONTROL SIGNALING TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless networks, such as relay networks or multi-hop networks, and also relating to control signaling techniques for wireless networks. In an example embodiment, a method or technique may include transmitting (e.g., data or control) frames in a downlink direction and control frames in an uplink direction during a first phase, and transmitting (e.g., data or control) frames in an uplink direction and control frames in a downlink direction during a second phase. | 10-06-2011 |
20120113794 | MULTIPLE USER MIMO INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHODS - Systems and methods for providing an efficient mechanism for transmitting interference vectors to communications terminals, such as user equipments (UEs), in an over the air radio telecommunications network with spatially multiplexed multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) capability. A new pre-coding information downlink channel is defined. Messages containing semi-persistent interference vector information for MU-MIMO user equipment are defined and transmitted over the new channel in a manner that allows infrequent transmission and efficient use of resources. Using the interference vectors and applying inter-user interference adaptation to received messages, the UEs may receive spatially multiplexed MIMO transmissions and actively remove inter-user interference after reception of the messages. Compression of the pre-coding vector information transmitted over the pre-coding information channel may result in additional increases in efficiency in the system. | 05-10-2012 |
20120287880 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION - When resources reserved for the purpose of transmitting control information relating to transmissions between an access node and any one of a plurality of communication devices served by the access node are identified as resources that are not required for said purpose, transmitting via said resources a data sequence recognisable by each communication device served by said access node as not being control information for said respective communication device. | 11-15-2012 |
20130148551 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SIGNALING OF REDUNDANCY - An approach is provided for efficient signaling of redundancy version information. A redundancy version signaling module detects the start of a system information radio transmission window and assigns a redundancy version sequence at the start of the transmission window. | 06-13-2013 |
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20090083424 | Apparatus, methods, and computer program products providing a dynamic header structure for signaling resource allocations - In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving a message including a resource allocation map having a first portion and a second portion; utilizing the first portion to determine a specific mapping scheme of a plurality of mapping schemes, wherein the determined specific mapping scheme is used for the second portion; and obtaining, based on the determined specific mapping scheme, resource allocation information based on the second portion. In another non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: generating a message including a resource allocation map having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is indicative of a specific mapping scheme of a plurality of mapping schemes that are applicable to the second portion; and transmitting the generated message. | 03-26-2009 |
20090268693 | Signaling part of semi-persistent configuration via downlink control channel - A method includes receiving a first control information from a network access node, the first control information comprising a plurality of fields defining control information elements that are relevant to a resource allocation; receiving a second control information from the network access node, the second control information comprising a plurality of fields defining control information elements that are relevant to the resource allocation; and declaring the resource allocation to be a persistent resource allocation if at least one of the plurality of fields of the second control information is the same as one of the plurality of fields of the first control information. Also disclosed are computer programs and apparatus for carrying out the method, as well as a network access node configured to compose first control information and second control information for expressing resource allocations. | 10-29-2009 |
20090318183 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DOWNLINK MU-MIMO POWER SETTINGS AND CONTROL - A set of J predetermined power level offsets that scale transmission power per user are stored in a local computer-readable memory. A set of N users to which are allocated overlapping downlink frequency resources are selected. From the stored set is then selected a power level offset. An indication of the selected power level offset is signaled to at least one of the N users; and the at least one of the N users are also sent a multiplexed transmission using the selected power level offset. N is an integer at least equal to two, J is an integer at least equal to two, and at least one member of the set is other than 1/n in which n is any positive integer less than N | 12-24-2009 |
20100027481 | Common resource signaling for multiple types of allocations - The exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a multi-stage approach, where, for example, one number can signal a first type of resource allocation (e.g., a consecutive allocation) or a second type of resource allocation (e.g., a best-M allocation based on best-M channel quality information). In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: allocating a plurality of resource blocks to obtain a resource allocation; and signaling the resource allocation using an n-bit number, where the n-bit number expresses a value from an overall range of values having a first range of values and a second range of values, where a value within the first range of values specifies a first type of resource allocation and where a value within the second range of values specifies a second type of resource allocation, where the first type of resource allocation is different from the second type of resource allocation. | 02-04-2010 |
20110038331 | Control Channel Transmission With Component Carrier Aggregation - In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method, apparatus, and computer program configured to compose signaling to include a component carrier indicator in a content of a downlink control information only when a size of an original part of a downlink control information on a scheduling component carrier is larger than or equal to an individual size of any corresponding downlink control information on at least one cross-scheduled component carrier, and to transmit the composed signaling to at least one user equipment. | 02-17-2011 |
20110280193 | DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL-TO-RESOURCE ELEMENT MAPPING - In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, one or more first channels and one or more second channels are stored in a linear buffer. More specifically, the one or more first channels are stored in a first primary region of the linear buffer, and the one or more second channels are stored in a second primary region of the linear buffer, where if the second primary region is not large enough to store all of the second channels, one or more excess second channels are stored in a secondary area of the linear buffer. | 11-17-2011 |
20130195019 | INITIAL ACCESS IN CELLS WITHOUT COMMON REFERENCE SIGNALS - Frequency resources for common control regions of a control channel are defined or determined as a function of at least bandwidth and an identifier of a specific cell. Communications between a wireless network and a mobile device are then done using the defined/determined frequency resources of the common control regions of the control channel. In the non-limiting embodiments: the bandwidth is bandwidth of a cell or of a component carrier; the frequency resources are defined/determined further as a function of an offset value; the common control regions are of an ePDCCH and the offset value differs from a channel edge offset value for common control regions of all other ePDCCHs of all other adjacent cells or all other transmit nodes in the same cell; and the frequency resources comprise frequency stripes (which may be interleaved by resource element groups) distributed in frequency across the bandwidth. | 08-01-2013 |
20130242908 | FLEXIBLE EXTENSION OF AN INFORMATION BLOCK - Communication systems in which a fixed size information block is transmitted to one or multiple receivers, such as the long term evolution (LTE) of the 3rd Generation Partnership Projection (3GPP), may benefit from a structure, in which a downlink control information (DCI) format, or more generally the fixed sized information block, can be extended by a small number of bits and still be backwards compatible with older terminals, which do not need the extra bits or may not even be aware of this extension. A method for providing this extension can include preparing a first codeword for transmission. The method can also include preparing a second codeword for transmission. The second codeword can have a code rate that is configured to be less than the code rate of the first codeword. The method can further include initiating simultaneous transmission of the first codeword and the second codeword. | 09-19-2013 |
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20100009687 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING EFFICIENT MBMS DOWNLINK RADIO RESOURCE RE-USE FOR OTHER DOWNLINK TRAFFIC - A system and method by which individual user equipment items can be informed about subframes re-used or exceptionally used for unicast transmission. In various embodiments, a dedicated indication is transmitted to each item of user equipment. This indication may comprise, for example, a dedicated message transmitted to those user equipment items that will get additional unicast downlink allocations in the re-used subframes. In other embodiments, common broadcast signaling is used to indicate subframe re-use to all items of user equipment. This signaling may be transmitted on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) as a common broadcast message. | 01-14-2010 |
20100260117 | TPC Command Signaling In Dl Control Channel Identifying the Target and Limiting Blind Decoding - The present invention provides a method for long term evolution in 3GPP. More particularly, the transmission of transmission power control command signaling in a down link control channel to user equipment. The present invention also provides a method and apparatus for identifying a target user equipment for a transmission power control command. The transmission power control command for physical uplink control channel and for persistent physical uplink shared channel assignments is transmitted via a downlink control channel format | 10-14-2010 |
20100322324 | MAPPING PHICH RESOURCES - Transmissions are received on a plurality of uplink physical resource blocks. An acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for each of the received transmissions is mapped to a downlink channel, such that linear increasing sequential indices of the physical resource blocks map to linear increasing sequential indices of n groups of the downlink channel which repeat until all the physical resource blocks are mapped, in which the downlink channel comprises a plurality of n groups. | 12-23-2010 |
20110205942 | COMBINING CCE's FOR POWER BALANCING - A method of reordering and pairing the set of elements, such as Control Channel Elements (CCEs), coming out of an interleaver for a channel, such as the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), in such a way that power balancing provides almost equal impact on all Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols reserved for the control channel, while also taking the suggestions for the power balancing into account is provided. Corresponding apparatuses and computer programs are also provided. | 08-25-2011 |
20110222629 | PRE-CODING FOR DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL - Precoding information is provided (implicitly or explicitly) to a particular user equipment UE. Closed-loop spatial coding for a control channel is selected for the particular user equipment, and at least one control channel element CCE is determined within the particular user equipment's search space of the control channel that is associated with the provided precoding information. The determined at least one CCE is spatially encoded using the provided precoding information to schedule radio resources for the particular user equipment. The UE determines a search space for a control channel, and from received radio resource control signaling determines at least one CCE within the search space that is to be encoded with closed-loop spatial coding. The UE decodes the determined at least one CCE within the search space using a closed-loop spatial decoding with precoding information associated with the at least one CCE to find radio resources scheduled for the particular UE. | 09-15-2011 |
20110243090 | DOWNLINK CONTROL AND PHYSICAL HYBRID ARQ INDICATOR CHANNEL (PHICH) CONFIGURATION FOR EXTENDED BANDWIDTH SYSTEM - In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention, there is described herein at least a method, executable computer program, and apparatus to form a resource allocation for a particular bandwidth, including defining at least one search space for a first bandwidth region used by a first user equipment and for a second bandwidth region used by a second user equipment, each search space including control channel elements, where there are first control channel elements in the first bandwidth region and second control channel elements in the second bandwidth region, and transmitting information descriptive of the resource allocation to the first user equipment and the second user equipment. | 10-06-2011 |