Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080219161 | Method for generating burst in a communication system - A method for generating a burst in a communication system. The method includes estimating a first allocable PDU according to scheduling priority; generating a first burst in which the first PDU is to be included; and determining whether a total size of bursts to be allocated to a downlink subframe including the generated first burst is less than a maximum size of bursts allocable to the downlink subframe. | 09-11-2008 |
20080240304 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for interference cancellation in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A receiving apparatus includes an estimator, a channel compensator, and a demodulator. The estimator estimates channels of a desired signal and at least one interference signal, estimates noise, calculates a mean interference power of each interference signal, and calculates a mean noise power. The channel compensator channel-compensates burst data. The demodulator calculates a noise variance value by adding the mean noise power to the at least one mean interference power and creates Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) by demodulating the channel-compensated data. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240308 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CHANNEL USING SLIDING WINDOWS IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for estimating a channel using sliding windows in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes an estimator, a first calculator, a second calculator, and a third calculator. The estimator estimates a speed of travel. The first calculator calculates a time correlation values using the estimated speed. The second calculator calculates weight factors using the time correlation values. The third calculator calculates a channel estimation value by multiplying corresponding pilot symbols by the weight factors and equalizing the pilot symbols. | 10-02-2008 |
20090154399 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A RANGING SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus for a base station of a wireless communication network includes a detector to detect an access code received from a mobile station in each of a plurality of time durations and to detect a timing offset of the access code detected in each of the plurality of time durations, an estimator to estimate a carrier-to-interference noise ratio (CINR) during each of the plurality of time durations, and a determining unit to determine a timing offset correction value to be applied to subsequent signals from the mobile station using the CINR, the timing offset, and the access code detected in each of the plurality of time durations. | 06-18-2009 |
20090213803 | Apparatus and method for estimating size of map message in broadband wireless communication - A resource allocation method of a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes estimating a size of a MAP message, and evaluating a size of an available burst allocation region according to the estimated size of the MAP message and allocating bursts in the evaluated-sized burst allocation region. Accordingly, when a DownLink (DL) subframe is used by being divining into a plurality of regions according to a burst characteristic, a throughput can be improved without waste of resources by estimating a resource amount occupied by a MAP message in the DL subframe. | 08-27-2009 |
20090213807 | Apparatus and method for allocating downlink burst in broadband wireless communication system - A method of allocating bursts in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. The method includes dividing a downlink period into a plurality of regions according to a burst property, calculating a residual symbol axis size and a residual subchannel axis size of a first region conforming to two-dimensional allocation among the plurality of regions, allocating bursts to be allocated to the first region in a descending order, wherein the bursts are respectively allocated in a rectangular shape having a length corresponding to the number of residual symbols along a time axis or in a rectangular shape having a length corresponding to the number of residual subchannels along a frequency axis, and allocating bursts to be allocated to at least one region conforming to one-dimensional allocation among the plurality of regions to the at least one region conforming to one-dimensional allocation according to a scheduling priority. | 08-27-2009 |
20090213961 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION POWER IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a communication system, a mobile terminal compares a first modulation/Forward Error Correction (FEC) rate level, which is a modulation/FEC rate level used in a previously transmitted signal, with a second modulation/FEC rate level, which is a modulation/FEC rate level to be used in a currently transmitted signal. If the second modulation/FEC rate level is higher than the first modulation/FEC rate level, the mobile terminal determines the transmission power using a normalized Carrier to Noise ratio (C/N) corresponding to the second modulation/FEC rate level on an ascending normalized C/N table, while if the second modulation/FEC rate level is lower than the first modulation/FEC rate level, the mobile terminal determines the transmission power using a normalized C/N corresponding to the second modulation/FEC rate level on a descending normalized C/N table. | 08-27-2009 |
20100130244 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DATA TRANSMISSION RATE IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for controlling a data transmission rate in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the method, an interference factor representing an interference degree by an external sector is measured. Interference given to the external sector is estimated using the interference factor, an interference weight depending on a location of a terminal, and an amount of wireless resource use of a self sector. A data transmission rate is determined with consideration of an interference estimation value and a wireless channel state of the terminal. | 05-27-2010 |
20100182952 | RRC message transmission method in wireless communication system - A Radio Resource Control (RRC) message transmission method and apparatus for a wireless communication system operating in TTI and acknowledge mode is configured to reduce interruption time by minimizing retransmission times of RRC message. The message transmission method for a wireless communication system includes generating, at a transmitter, a message; transmitting the message two or more times consecutively from the transmitter to a receiver; analyzing, at a receiver, the message transmitted by the transmitter; transmitting an acknowledge message or a negative-acknowledge from the receiver to the transmitter depending on the analysis result; and terminating, at the transmitter, a retransmission process of the message upon receipt of the acknowledgement message. | 07-22-2010 |
20100197297 | Apparatus and method for measuring uplink thermal noise power and uplink interference power in wireless communication system - An apparatus for use in a base station capable of checking whether a frequency is illegally used in a wireless communication system are provided. Operations of the base station for checking whether the frequency is illegally used includes setting a silence interval in which a resource is not allocated to a terminal, using silence interval setting information provided from a system manager; when the silence interval arrives, measuring RSSI; and transmitting the RSSI to the system manager to examine at least one of a frequency illegal use and a reception path error using the RSSI. | 08-05-2010 |
20100202395 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING MAP SIZE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for estimating a MAP size in a broadband wireless communication system based on FFR are provided. In the method, one of a plurality of connections is selected according to priority between the connections. An available resource condition and a MAP size for allocation of resources for the selected connection is determined if resources acceptable for a burst are present in a zone including the selected connection. The next connection is selected according to the priority if available resources are present. The determined MAP size is determined as the final estimation value of a MAP size if the available resources are not present. | 08-12-2010 |
20100208717 | Apparatus and method for supporting frequency rearrangement in wireless communication system - A base station includes a center frequency setting unit, a local oscillator, a baseband processor, and an RF processor. In the event of a frequency band change, the center frequency setting unit sets a center frequency of a use frequency channel to have a predetermined offset value with respect to a center frequency before the frequency band change. The local oscillator generates an LO frequency signal according to the center frequency set by the center frequency setting unit. The baseband processor generates a downlink baseband signal. The RF processor uses the LO frequency signal to convert the downlink baseband signal into an RF signal prior to transmission. | 08-19-2010 |
20100216472 | Apparatus and method for scheduling in wireless communication system - A base station is capable of performing a method for scheduling in a wireless communication system. In the method, a downlink channel measurement value received from a terminal is compared with a threshold. When the downlink channel measurement value is smaller than the threshold, an activation set for a handover of the terminal is determined. When the number of base stations inside the activation set is two or more, a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level is allocated to the terminal with consideration of the downlink channel measurement value. A wireless resource is allocated to the terminal with consideration of the allocated MCS level and a headroom of the terminal. | 08-26-2010 |
20100331036 | UPLINK (UL) POWER CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An uplink (UL) power control apparatus and method in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The Mobile Station (MS) includes a power controller for calculating a power compensation value using a last transmit power in a previous closed loop power control when a power control mode is changed to an open loop power control, and determining a transmit power according to the open loop power control using the power compensation value; and a transmitter for adjusting and transmitting the transmit power of a UL signal under control of the power controller. | 12-30-2010 |
20110158123 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SCHEME - A method and Mobile Subscriber Station (MSS) are provided for transmitting Channel Quality Information (CQI) in a wireless communication system using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) scheme. A Carrier to Interference and Noise Ratio (CINR) of at least two bands are measured; each of the at least two bands including a plurality of adjacent subcarriers for a band Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) operation. A Report Response (REP-RSP) message including first information related to the measured CINR is sent. Second information related to a differential CINR of the at least two bands is sent via a Channel Quality Information Channel (CQICH). | 06-30-2011 |
20110194512 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION SCHEDULING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for resource allocation scheduling in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a scheduler for, if an UpLink (UL) scheduling for scheduling an allocation order of UL resources is performed prior to a DownLink (DL) scheduling for scheduling an allocation order of DL resources, setting a size α representing a size in which a DL burst region is maximally allocated in a DL sub frame, for, if the DL scheduling is performed prior to the UL scheduling, setting a size β representing a size in which the DL burst region is maximally allocated in the DL sub frame, for determining whether to discard a DL Medium Access Control (MAC) management message to be transmitted by using the size β, and for, if it is not determined to discard the DL MAC management message, determining a priority of a DL scheduling and a UL scheduling by using the size α and first performing one of the DL scheduling and the UL scheduling in accordance with the determined priority. | 08-11-2011 |
20110195731 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION IN WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus of a Base Station (BS) and a method for cancelling uplink interference in a wireless mobile communication system are provided. The method includes estimating interference to be exerted by each User Equipment (UE) on a plurality of neighbor cells based on a Rise over Thermal (RoT) level for the plurality of the neighbor cells, determining a transmit power change for each UE based on the estimated interference to be exerted on the neighbor cells, and transmitting the transmit power change for the UE to each UE. The cell coverage is maintained by maintaining the interference exerted on the neighbor cell at a proper level, and the average data rate is enhanced. | 08-11-2011 |
20110195741 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POWER SAVING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NODE B - A method and an apparatus reduce power used when a traffic load is low in a base station of a wireless communication system. The base station monitors a traffic load. When the traffic load is lower than a predetermined threshold and a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) mode is used to communicate with a mobile station, the MIMO mode is converted to a Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) mode. The base station performs communication with the mobiles stations by using the SIMO mode. According to another embodiment, when the traffic load is lower than a predetermined threshold, the base station limits the number of Resource Blocks (RBs) that may be allocated to a coverage area of the base station. A Power Amplifier (PA) bias related to a transmission output of the base station is reduced based on the limited number of RBs, thereby saving power consumption of the base station. | 08-11-2011 |
20110218002 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for controlling uplink interference in a wireless communication system. The method for controlling the uplink interference includes determining at least one interference signal power threshold determined by at least one neighbor Base Station (BS). The method also includes determining a transmit power offset for at least one serviced Mobile Station (MS) using the at least one interference signal power threshold. The method further includes sending the transmit power offset for the at least one MS to the at least one MS. | 09-08-2011 |
20110249715 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SAVING POWER CONSUMPTION IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method reduce power consumption in a broadband wireless communication system. A transmitting end apparatus that includes a plurality of transmit (Tx) antennas includes a control block, a Processor (DSP) block, a modem block, and at least one power controller. The control block determines a traffic amount based on an amount of used resources. The Digital Signal Processor (DSP) block performs scheduling by using a subset of Tx antennas and a subset of resources on a frequency axis if the traffic amount is less than a threshold. The modem block applies boosting to a signal transmitted using the subset of resources. And at least one controller turns off an operation of at least one power amplifier that corresponds to at least one Tx antenna that is not included in the subset of Tx antennas. | 10-13-2011 |
20120176915 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMISSION POWER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for controlling uplink transmission power in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes estimating a downlink path loss, determining a target Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) depending on the downlink path loss, determining an amount of power to compensate for a difference between the target SNR and an estimated SNR, and transmitting a power control message including a Transmit Power Control (TPC) command value to a terminal based on the determined amount of power. | 07-12-2012 |
20120295656 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING POWER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station in a wireless communication system and a method for controlling power by the same are provided. The method includes receiving channel state information from a mobile terminal, calculating information regarding a Modulation order Product code Rate (MPR) of the mobile terminal using the channel state information, and controlling transmission power for the mobile terminal according to the information regarding the MPR. | 11-22-2012 |
20140335850 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SERVING SUB-CELL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING MULTIPLE SUB-CELL - A method of determining a serving sub-cell of a terminal among a plurality of sub-cells by a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes generating reference signal transmission interval information for each of the sub-cells by configuring a reference signal transmission interval for each of the plurality of sub-cells, and transmitting the reference signal transmission interval information for each of the sub-cells to the corresponding sub-cell, receiving channel status information for at least one sub-cell among the plurality of sub-cells from the terminal, and determining a serving sub-cell of the terminal by using at least one of the reference signal transmission interval information, the channel status information, a reception time of the channel status information, of each of the sub-cells. | 11-13-2014 |