Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080212532 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A SINGLE CARRIER-FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for allocating resources in an Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) communication system are provided, in which a Node B determines on a cell basis whether to turn or off inter-subband hopping and whether to turn on or off mirroring for a resource unit for the UE on a frequency axis along which at least two subbands are defined, at set hopping times, selects a resource unit by selectively performing inter-subband hopping and mirroring on the resource unit for the UE according to the determination, and allocates the selected resource unit to the UE. | 09-04-2008 |
20080212556 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A SINGLE CARRIER-FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for allocating resources in an Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) communication system are provided, in which a Node B performs inter-subband hopping on a resource unit for a User Equipment (UE) on a frequency axis along which at least two subbands are defined, at each predetermined hopping time, determines whether to turn on or off mirroring in a subband having the hopped resource unit on a cell basis at the each hopping time, selects a resource unit by selectively mirroring the hopped unit according to the determination, and allocates the selected resource unit to the UE. | 09-04-2008 |
20080225786 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A CONTROL CHANNEL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a control channel of a base station in a mobile communication system. A downlink control channel signal generator generates a downlink control channel signal to be transmitted to a User Equipment (UE). A control channel candidate processor calculates a control channel decoding attempt order according to a state of the downlink channel. A controller determines a control channel candidate to be used, according to the calculated decoding attempt order. A mapper maps the generated control channel signal to the determined control channel candidate. A transmission processor wirelessly transmits the mapped signal. | 09-18-2008 |
20080273479 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL CHANNELS BY RESTRICTING A SET OF THE CONTROL CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a control channel in a base station for a wireless communication system. The base station transmits information including a number of channel elements constituting control channels, to a terminal; establishes a set of control channels that the terminal can receive, within the number of channel elements using an identifier (ID) of the terminal; and transmits control information to the terminal through a selected control channel among the control channels. The terminal is restricted to monitor only a proper number of control channels established without the need to monitor all control channels, thereby reducing reception complexity and avoiding unnecessary battery consumption. | 11-06-2008 |
20080274749 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A resource allocation method and apparatus for downlink transmission of a base station in a mobile communication system. The base station compares the number Ntx of data transmissions with the number Nper of available persistent resource allocations, and allocates resources by at least one of a persistent resource allocation scheme and a dynamic resource allocation scheme according to the comparison result. | 11-06-2008 |
20080304447 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PACKET DATA BETWEEN A NODE B AND A UE USING HARQ IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving packet data between a UE and an Enhanced Node B (ENB) using a Hybrid Auto Repeat Request (HARQ) scheme in a mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of receiving configuration information from an ENB, the configuration information including a first Maximum Retransmission Limit (MRL) value to be applied to data that is transmitted over a persistent resource, and when data to be transmitted by the UE is quasi-real time data, transmitting a first data packet to the ENB by using the persistent resource and applying the first MRL value the first data packet, which is configured from the quasi-real time data. | 12-11-2008 |
20080310360 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in a communication system are provided. It is determined whether there is any uplink data to transmit, when a CQI transmission time arrives according to a predetermined CQI transmission period. If there is uplink data to transmit, a part of the uplink data is punctured to insert the CQI therein, and the inserted CQI is multiplexed with the uplink data before transmission. It is determined whether there is any uplink data to receive from a terminal, when a CQI reception time arrives according to a predetermined CQI transmission period. If there is uplink data to receive, the uplink data is received from the terminal, and the received uplink data is demultiplexed to extract the CQI. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYMBOL TRANSMISSION IN AN OFDM MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mapping method and an apparatus, which uniformly distribute bits included in transmission symbols to various resource blocks in mapping the transmission symbols to the resource blocks for transmission in an OFDMA mobile communication system. A sub-packet generator generates a sub-packet by selecting symbols from coded symbols including a first bit group and a second bit group, the first bit group having a different priority than the second bit group. A divider divides each bit group of the sub-packet into as many bit streams as previously allocated resource blocks. A resource block mapper maps the divided bit streams to the resource blocks, respectively, and outputs the bit streams for transmission. | 12-18-2008 |
20090010173 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION IN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication apparatus and method for performing discontinuous reception in a mobile communication system is provided. The communication apparatus continues to turn on a receiver during a reception-on (Rx-on) period associated with persistent resource allocation to receives a packet, and receives a retransmission packet transmitted through the persistent resources at the Rx-on period spaced from the Rx-on period by a processing time of the retransmission packet given taking into account feedback information determined according to a reception error of the packet. | 01-08-2009 |
20090041139 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING UPLINK CONTROL CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving pilot symbols for demodulation of control channel information in the uplink of a wireless communication system are provided. When an Evolved Node B (ENB) expects to receive both the Channel Quality Information (CQI) and the Acknowledgement (ACK)/Negative ACK (NACK) from a User Equipment (UE) in a certain subframe, if the UE transmits only the CQI channel, the ENB is prevented to detect the nonexistent ACK/NACK information from the CQI channel, thereby avoiding false alarm. | 02-12-2009 |
20090175248 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING ENHANCED RACH IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting an enhanced Random Access CHannel (RACH) in a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided, in which the UE transmits an uplink preamble to a Node B and upon receipt of an ACKnowledgment (ACK) for the uplink preamble, transmits an Enhanced Uplink Dedicated CHannel (E-DCH) and a Dedicated Physical Control CHannel (DPCCH) to the Node B. The transmission of the DPCCH starts before the transmission of the E-DCH. | 07-09-2009 |
20090196235 | Method And Apparatus For Setting Gain Factors For Dedicated Physical Channels In A Mobile Telecommunications System - An apparatus and method are provided for setting gain factors for dedicated physical channels in a mobile communication system. The UE receives configuration information indicating uplink dedicated physical channel configuration. The UE sets a gain factor of a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) to 1 in the case that no DPDCH is configured. The UE calculates a gain factor of a enhanced dedicated physical control channel (E-DPCCH) using the gain factor of the DPCCH. | 08-06-2009 |
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 |
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 |
20100002674 | Method for configuring gain factors for uplink service in radio telecommunication system - A method for configuring gain factors in a WCDMA telecommunication system is provided in which the gain factor for defining power required for normal reception of uplink data in an environment supporting an uplink service over an E-DCH can be configured using minimal signaling information. First gain factors for first TFs corresponding to a part of a TF set including a plurality of TFs available for an uplink service are received. One of the first TFs is determined as a reference TF for a second TF other than the first TFs in the TF set. Then, a second gain factor for the second TF is calculated using the first gain factor for the determined reference TF. The second gain factor is used for transmitting or receiving uplink data. | 01-07-2010 |
20100103899 | Method and apparatus for signaling user equipment status information for uplink packet transmission in a soft handover region - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting user equipment (UE) status information in communication with one serving Node B and at least one non-serving Node B in a mobile communication system. The method and apparatus comprise generating transport channel data including UE status information; transmitting the transport channel data to the serving Node B and the at least one non-serving Node B, receiving a response signal for the transport channel data from the serving Node B, and retransmitting the transport channel data if the response signal received from the serving Node B is a non-acknowledge (NACK) signal, and ending the retransmission of the transport channel data if the response signal received from the serving Node B is an acknowledge (ACK) signal. | 04-29-2010 |
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 |
20110090858 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING COMMUNICATION RESOURCES USING VIRTUAL CIRCUIT SWITCHING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN A MOBILE STATION USING THE SAME - A method and apparatus using Virtual Circuit Switching (VCS) in a new scheme are provided for allocating and employing resources by combining Circuit Switching (CS) and Packet Switching (PS), in which a base station allocates resources of a dedicated channel using the CS to a user and then transmits data on the dedicated channel. When data is not transmitted to the user, the base station allocates the allocated dedicated channel resources for resources of a shared channel and transmits data of a different user. Therefore, system capacity can be increased and a waste of communication resources can be minimized in a wireless communication system for frequently transmitting a small amount of traffic that is sensitive to a delay time. | 04-21-2011 |
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 |
20110268075 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information on the data channel in a multi-carrier wireless communication system is provided. An Uplink Control Information (UCI) transmission method in a wireless communication system supporting multicarrier transmission according to the present invention includes channel-coding a UCI with reference to a number of UCI bits available; dividing the channel coded UCI bits into a number of Physical Uplink Shared Channels (PUSCHs); and transmitting the UCI multiplexed with data on the individual PUSCHs. | 11-03-2011 |
20120044901 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING UPLINK PACKET DATA SERVICE - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink control information in a mobile communication system supporting an uplink packet data service are provided. To transmit packet data in an HARQ mobile communication system, a second transceiver receives an RG as rate control information from a first transceiver. The second transceiver sets the allowed maximum data rate of an HARQ process to which the RG is applied to the allowed maximum data rate of an HARQ process previous to the HARQ process, if the RG indicates hold. The second transceiver transmits packet data within the set allowed maximum data rate to the first transceiver. | 02-23-2012 |
20120195278 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING ASSIGNMENT OF UPLINK PACKET TRANSMISSION IN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are provided for communication between a User Equipment (UE) and a Node B in a communication system. The UE generates a Media Access Control-Protocol Data Unit (MAC-PDU) including scheduling information having information representing an amount of packet data to be transmitted. The MAC-PDU including the scheduling information is transmitted to the Node B. The information representing the amount of packet data exists per priority queue. | 08-02-2012 |
20120230285 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL CHANNELS BY RESTRICTING A SET OF THE CONTROL CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting control information in a base station for a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting, to a terminal, information associated with a number of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols carrying control channels; determining a set of control channel candidates based on an IDentifier (ID) of the terminal; selecting at least one control channel candidate from among the set of control channel candidates; and transmitting the control information to the terminal through the selected at least one control channel candidate. Each control channel candidate included in the set of control channel candidates consists of one, two, four, or eight control channel elements (CCEs) existing in the OFDM symbols. | 09-13-2012 |
20130114487 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING UPLINK PACKET DATA SERVICE - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink control information in a mobile communication system supporting an uplink packet data service are provided. To transmit packet data in an HARQ mobile communication system, a second transceiver receives an RG as rate control information from a first transceiver. The second transceiver sets the allowed maximum data rate of an HARQ process to which the RG is applied to the allowed maximum data rate of an HARQ process previous to the HARQ process, if the RG indicates hold. The second transceiver transmits packet data within the set allowed maximum data rate to the first transceiver. | 05-09-2013 |
20130177008 | Method for Configuring Gain Factors for Uplink Service in Radio Telecommunication System - A method for configuring gain factors in a WCDMA telecommunication system is provided in which the gain factor for defining power required for normal reception of uplink data in an environment supporting an uplink service over an E-DCH can be configured using minimal signaling information. First gain factors for first TFs corresponding to a part of a TF set including a plurality of TFs available for an uplink service are received. One of the first TFs is determined as a reference TF for a second TF other than the first TFs in the TF set. Then, a second gain factor for the second TF is calculated using the first gain factor for the determined reference TF. The second gain factor is used for transmitting or receiving uplink data. | 07-11-2013 |