Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080242225 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TESTING USING MODULATION ERROR RATIO - Apparatus and methods are disclosed for testing or qualifying a repeater/transmitter in a multicarrier system by utilizing modulation error ratio (MER). In particular, a disclosed method includes determining an estimated effective modulation error ratio of an output of the repeater/transmitter. The estimated effective modulation error ratio is compared with a predetermined threshold, and the repeater/transmitter is qualified when the estimated effective modulation error ratio is greater than the predetermined threshold. Using an estimated modulation error ratio for repeater/transmitters, which can have non-flat modulation error ratios over a total number of subcarriers, affords an efficient method to test and qualify repeater/transmitters. | 10-02-2008 |
20080253331 | Methods and Apparatus for RF Handoff in a Multi-Frequency Network - Methods and apparatus for RF handoff in a multi-frequency network. A method includes generating seamless and partially seamless handoff tables for multiplexes carried in a current LOI, wherein the seamless and partially seamless handoff tables comprise neighboring RF channels carrying one or more of the multiplexes in the current LOI, detecting a handoff event initiated by acquisition failures on a current RF, selecting a selected RF channel from the seamless and partially seamless handoff tables, and performing a handoff to the selected RF channel. An apparatus includes processing logic configured to generate the seamless and partially seamless handoff tables, detect a handoff event initiated by acquisition failures on a current RF, and select a selected RF channel from the seamless and partially seamless handoff tables. The apparatus also includes channel switch logic configured to perform a handoff to the selected RF channel. | 10-16-2008 |
20080260008 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TIME TRACKING USING ASSISTANCE FROM TDM PILOTS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for time tracking using assistance from TDM pilots in a communication network. In an aspect, a method is provided for time tracking in a device operating on a communication network, wherein the device performs a time tracking algorithm. The method includes determining a delay spread, and modifying at least one parameter used by the time tracking algorithm based on the delay spread. In another aspect, an apparatus is provided for time tracking in a device operating on a communication network, wherein the device performs a time tracking algorithm. The apparatus includes computation logic for determining a delay spread, and control logic for modifying at least one parameter used by the time tracking algorithm based on the delay spread. | 10-23-2008 |
20080261547 | Methods and Apparatus for RF Channel Selection in a Multi-Frequency Network - Methods and apparatus for RF channel selection in a multi-frequency network. A method includes identifying selected local operations infrastructures (LOIs) and their neighboring LOIs, generating a neighbor description message (NDM) that identifies the selected LOIs and their neighboring LOIs and associates a descrambling sequence identifier with each RF channel of the selected LOIs and their neighboring LOIs, and distributing the NDM over the selected LOIs. An apparatus includes a message decoder to receive an NDM that identifies RF channels of a first LOI and neighboring LOIs, and wherein each RF channel is associated with a descrambling sequence identifier, and processing logic to detect content acquisition failures, determine a list of RF channels and their associated LOIs that carry desired content, and select a selected RF channel that is associated with a selected LOI that carries the most additional content among the associated LOIs. | 10-23-2008 |
20090016380 | Methods and Apparatus for RF Channel Switching in a Multi-Frequency Network - Methods and apparatus for RF channel switching in a multi-frequency network. In an aspect, a method includes identifying a multiplex set that comprises one or more content flows, wherein the multiplex set is one of a vertical multiplex (VM) set and a unified multiplex (UM) set, generating an overhead message that associates one or more RF carrier frequencies with the one or more content flows, and transmitting the overhead message over the multi-frequency network. An apparatus includes input logic configured to receive an overhead message that associates one or more content flows with one or more RF carrier frequencies, and processing logic configured to detect a channel switch event that identifies a selected content flow, determine a selected RF carrier frequency associated with the selected content flow based on the overhead message, and switch to the selected RF carrier frequency to receive the selected content flow. | 01-15-2009 |
20090028100 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTER IDENTIFICATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for transmitter identification in a wireless network are disclosed. In an example, a method is provided that encodes pilot information on a first portion of a number of subcarriers in a symbol within a pilot positioning channel for an active transmitter. The method further includes encoding transmitter identification information on a second dedicated portion of the number of subcarriers of the symbol. The method also encompasses including a transmitter allocation field that signals the number of succeeding symbols that will be used by the transmitter for transmitting any other information in an interference free manner. In another example, a method is provided that receives a symbol having a number of subcarriers from a transmitter. A channel estimate and an energy measurement of the symbol using a first portion of the subcarriers. A dedicated second portion of the number of subcarriers in the symbol are then decoded to determine the transmitter identification information. | 01-29-2009 |
20090028256 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING SIGNALING PARAMETERS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A new channel is added to FLO networks that carries embedded signaling parameter information. The design is such that regardless of the actual values of the signaling parameters conveyed, a receiver will be able to demodulate this new channel. Moreover, the addition of the new channel does not render a FLO network that has been so configured to not be backwards-compatible with existing devices. | 01-29-2009 |
20090028257 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIAL ACQUISITION OF SIGNALING PARAMETERS FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method of acquiring a forward link only (FLO) network in a radio frequency (RF) in a wireless communication environment, includes selecting a RF from a first list; selecting a signal parameter (SP) from a second list; determining if a first parameter is found using the selected RF and SP; and, upon determination that the first parameter is found, enabling the use of the selected RF and SP to communicate in the FLO network. An apparatus for implementing the method is also disclosed. | 01-29-2009 |
20090029705 | Methods and Apparatus for Service Acquisition in a Multi-Frequency Network - Methods and apparatus for service acquisition in a multi-frequency network. In an aspect, a method is provided for service acquisition in a multi-frequency network. The method includes detecting a service acquisition trigger event and identifying a selected RF channel from an acquisition RF list based on signal strength, wherein the acquisition RF list identifies RF channels in one or more local operations infrastructures (LOIs) of the multi-frequency network. The method also includes acquiring a wide system on the selected RF channel, removing the selected RF channel from the acquisition RF list if the wide system can not be acquired on the selected RF channel, and repeating said operations of identifying, acquiring and removing until the wide system is acquired on the selected RF channel or a system acquisition timeout occurs. | 01-29-2009 |
20090029709 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING PARAMETER DISTRIBUTION FOR NEIGHBORING RADIO FREQUENCIES - Methods and apparatus for signaling parameter distribution for neighboring radio frequencies. A method includes identifying selected local operations infrastructures (LOIs) and one or more neighboring LOIs, generating a neighbor description message (NDM) that identifies the selected LOIs and their respective neighbors and specifies SP information for each RF channel associated with the selected LOIs and their respective neighbors, and distributing the NDM over each of the selected LOIs. An apparatus includes a message decoder configured to receive a NDM that identifies RF channels associated with selected LOIs and one or more neighboring LOIs, wherein each RF channel is associated with SP information, and processing logic configured to receive a request to obtain selected SP information associated with a selected RF channel, determine the selected SP information associated with the selected RF channel based on the NDM, and output the selected SP information. | 01-29-2009 |
20090031201 | OPTIMIZED DECODING IN A RECEIVER - A receiver includes a decoder configured to decode at least a portion of a data stream comprising a data frame. The data frame includes a code block having a data block and a parity block. The receiver also includes a controller. The controller is configured to determine whether to disable at least a portion of the receiver during transmission of the parity block to the receiver when the data block contains at least one erasure. | 01-29-2009 |
20090080378 | Methods and Apparatus for RF Channel Switching in a Multi-Frequency Network - Methods and apparatus for RF channel switching in a multi-frequency network. In an aspect, a method includes identifying a local area operations infrastructure (LOI) in the multi-frequency network, generating a channel description message that associates at least one descrambling sequence identifier with each RF channel associated with the LOI, respectively, and distributing the CDM over the LOI. In another aspect, a method includes receiving a CDM that associates at least one descrambling sequence identifier with each RF channel available in a LOI, detecting an RF channel switch event that identifies a selected RF channel, determining a selected descrambling sequence identifier from the CDM based on the selected RF channel, switching to the selected RF channel wherein the selected descrambling sequence identifier identifies a selected descrambling sequence to descramble desired content carried on the selected RF channel, and acquiring the desired content on the selected RF channel. | 03-26-2009 |
20090129511 | STAGGEREDPILOT TRANSMISSION FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND TIME TRACKING - To allow a receiving entity to derive a longer channel estimate while limiting overhead, a transmitting entity transmits a pilot on different groups of subbands in different time intervals. N subbands in the system are arranged into M non-overlapping groups. Each group includes P=N/M subbands that are uniformly distributed across the N subbands. The transmitting entity transmits the pilot on a different subband group in each time interval, and selects all M subband groups in M time intervals based on a pilot staggering pattern. The receiving entity derives (1) an initial impulse response estimate with P channel taps based on the pilot received on one subband group and (2) two longer impulse response estimates with different lengths used for data detection and time tracking. Each longer impulse response estimate may be derived by filtering initial impulse response estimates for a sufficient number of subband groups using a time-domain filter. | 05-21-2009 |
20090190525 | ENHANCEMENTS TO THE POSITIONING PILOT CHANNEL - A method for communicating transmitter identification in an interlace structure of a communication network system using positioning pilot channels (PPC), comprising:
| 07-30-2009 |
20090245154 | SIGNALING PARAMETERS CHANNEL PROCESSING - In a multicasts wireless telecommunication system providing an aggregation of one or more independent data components as a flow, wherein the OIS is located at the latch point of the beginning of the superframe, and the OIS programming is latched at the superframe boundary, the improvement of deriving signal parameter information from Signaling Parameter Channel (SPC) symbols transmitted in a Forward Link only (FLO) network by deriving a time domain channel estimate by assuming each of the combinations for the signal parameter field in the scrambler seed and picking the signal parameter combination that yields the most energy in the time domain above a threshold value. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245333 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTING CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for adapting a channel estimation scheme in a transceiver in a communication system are disclosed to adapt channel estimation to the transceiver environment, particularly for high Doppler environments. The disclosed methods and apparatus effect determination of an estimate of a power delay profile of a channel or a time correlation of the channel, or both. A channel estimation scheme is then determined based on at least one of the determined power delay profile and time correlation of the channel. By basing determination of a channel estimation scheme on the power delay profile and/or the time correlation of the channel, the channel estimation scheme is adapted to the particular environment of the transceiver by accounting for the delay spread of the channel and/or the speed of the transceiver. | 10-01-2009 |
20090274099 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING TRANSMITTER INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for communicating transmitter information in a communication network are disclosed. The methods and apparatus communicate transmitter specific information, in particular, which includes location information about network transmitters for use in location or positioning type services. The disclosed methods and apparatus include inserting such transmitter specific information within either a data flow of at least one transmission frame or a control channel in the at least one transmission frame. In addition, a transmitter identifier is encoded in a positioning pilot channel (PPC) within the at least one transmission frame, and the configured transmission frame transmitted to a user device. The user device may use the transmitter specific information of numerous transmitters along with the transmitter identifiers to measure how far it is from the transmitters, and then triangulate to determine position. | 11-05-2009 |
20090274119 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RF HANDOFF IN A MULTI-FREQUENCY NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for RF handoff in a multi-frequency network. A method includes detecting a mobility event associated with a detection of a new wide area operating infrastructure (WOI), updating a current WOI identifier to a new WOI identifier, acquiring control channel information associated with the new WOI identifier, determining if an active registered flow list has been updated based on the control channel information, and performing an acquisition procedure to acquire one or more registered flows if it is determined that the active registered flow list has been updated. Another method includes detecting a mobility event associated with a detection of a new local area operating infrastructure (LOI), updating a current LOI identifier to a new LOI identifier, acquiring control channel information, determining if an active registered flow list has been updated, and performing an acquisition procedure to acquire one or more registered flows. | 11-05-2009 |
20090279471 | LOCAL AND WIDE-AREA TRANSMISSIONS IN A WIRELESS BROADCAST NETWORK - To broadcast different types of transmission having different tiers of coverage in a wireless broadcast network, each base station processes data for a wide-area transmission in accordance with a first mode (or coding and modulation scheme) to generate data symbols for the wide-area transmission and processes data for a local transmission in accordance with a second mode to generate data symbols for the local transmission. The first and second modes are selected based on the desired coverage for wide-area and local transmissions, respectively. The base station also generates pilots and overhead information for local and wide-area transmissions. The data, pilots, and overhead information for local and wide-area transmissions are multiplexed onto their transmission spans, which may be different sets of frequency subbands, different time segments, or different groups of subbands in different time segments. More than two different types of transmission may also be multiplexed and broadcast. | 11-12-2009 |
20090304120 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED BROADCAST COVERAGE - Techniques to transmit data with cyclic delay diversity and pilot staggering are described. For cyclic delay diversity, OFDM symbols having different cyclic delay durations are generated. The cyclic delay durations for the OFDM symbols may be selected to be time varying with respect to the cyclic delay durations for OFDM symbols transmitted by a neighboring base station. An FDM pilot is generated and multiplexed on multiple sets of subbands in different symbol periods. Waveforms for a second radio technology (e.g., W-CDMA) may be generated for data to be transmitted with this radio technology. The OFDM symbols are multiplexed onto time slots used for OFDM, and the waveforms for the second radio technology are multiplexed onto time slots used for this radio technology. One or multiple modulated signals may be generated based on the multiplexed OFDM symbols and waveforms. Each modulated signal is transmitted from a respective antenna. | 12-10-2009 |
20100002785 | ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING FOR OFDM CHANNEL ESTIMATION - An adaptive thresholding technique eliminates suboptimum threshold values by adjusting for varying channel conditions to eliminate interference where no channel energy is present, without discarding viable taps having useful channel energy. The adaptive thresholding technique adaptively optimizes receive threshold values for both wide and local area channels based only on measured C/I ratios 300. Thresholds are calculated based on instantaneous C/I estimates and/or weighted average C/I estimates calculated from WID/LID energies obtained from the current superframe WIC/LIC symbols respectively. In alternate embodiments, thresholds are calculated based on instantaneous C/I estimates and/or weighted average C/I estimates calculated from WTPC and LTPC symbols for the wide and local area channels, respectively The present adaptive thresholding technique dynamically reduces the threshold as the C/I estimate increases to mitigate performance degradation due to removal of weak signal taps. There is a separate threshold for each of the 12 coding and modulation modes supported by an exemplary receiver. | 01-07-2010 |
20100098032 | LOCAL AND WIDE-AREA TRANSMISSIONS IN A WIRELESS BROADCAST NETWORK - To broadcast different types of transmission having different tiers of coverage in a wireless broadcast network, each base station processes data for a wide-area transmission in accordance with a first mode (or coding and modulation scheme) to generate data symbols for the wide-area transmission and processes data for a local transmission in accordance with a second mode to generate data symbols for the local transmission. The first and second modes are selected based on the desired coverage for wide-area and local transmissions, respectively. The base station also generates pilots and overhead information for local and wide-area transmissions. The data, pilots, and overhead information for local and wide-area transmissions are multiplexed onto their transmission spans, which may be different sets of frequency subbands, different time segments, or different groups of subbands in different time segments. More than two different types of transmission may also be multiplexed and broadcast. | 04-22-2010 |
20100150131 | SIGNALING PARAMETERS CHANNEL PROCESSING - In a multicasts wireless telecommunication system providing an aggregation of one or more independent data components as a flow, wherein the OIS is located at the latch point of the beginning of the superframe, and the OIS programming is latched at the superframe boundary, the improvement of deriving signal parameter information from Signaling Parameter Channel (SPC) symbols transmitted in a Forward Link only (FLO) network by deriving a time domain channel estimate by assuming each of the combinations for the signal parameter field in the scrambler seed and picking the signal parameter combination that yields the most energy in the time domain above a threshold value. | 06-17-2010 |
20100158160 | EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM POSITIONING PILOT CHANNEL SYMBOLS IN FORWARD LINK ONLY SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer readable storage media, for extracting transmitter identification information from the Positioning Pilot Channel (PPC) of a MediaFLO superframe. One of a wide area differentiator (WID) value and a local area differentiator (LID) value associated with the transmitter is determined based on signaling in a first interlace of a symbol received via the PPC. A time domain channel estimate is computed for the PPC based on signaling in a plurality of interlaces of the symbol and also based on the one of the WID and LID values. The time domain channel estimate is used to obtain a frequency domain channel estimate for a second interlace of the symbol that carries the transmitter identification information, and the frequency domain channel estimate is used to determine the transmitter identification information. | 06-24-2010 |
20100165851 | RF CHANNEL SWITCHING IN BROADCAST OFDM SYSTEMS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate monitoring RF channels in a wireless communication environment to determine whether one or more channels comprise a forward-link-only (FLO) signal. A receiver can receive a first RF channel with a FLO signal and can monitor other RF channels for FLO signals. Upon a determination that a monitored RF channel comprises a FLO signal, the receiver can switch between the first RF channel and the monitored RF channel to facilitate providing seamless reception of the FLO signal, which can be superframe synchronized between RF channels. FLO signal detection can be performed using one or more of a wide-area identification channel energy detection protocol and a wide-area overhead information symbol decoding error detection protocol. | 07-01-2010 |
20100166118 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE PARALLEL DATA STREAMS - To recover multiple data streams transmitted simultaneously, a first channel estimate is derived for a wireless channel based on received pilot symbols. Detection is performed on received data symbols using the first channel estimate to obtain detected symbols for a first data stream. These detected symbols are decoded to obtain a decoded first data stream, which is re-encoded to obtain remodulated symbols. A second channel estimate is derived based on the remodulated symbols. The first and second channel estimates are combined to obtain a third channel estimate having higher quality. Interference due to the first data stream is estimated using the third channel estimate and canceled from the received data symbols. Detection is performed on interference-canceled symbols using the third channel estimate to obtain detected symbols for a second data stream. These detected symbols are further decoded to obtain a decoded second data stream. | 07-01-2010 |
20100195754 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANTENNA SWITCHING DIVERSITY IN AN OFDM SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for antenna switching diversity comprising: identifying the start of an OFDM symbol period; switching from an original antenna to an alternative antenna; calculating a signal quality metric associated with the original antenna and the alternative antenna; and selecting either the original antenna or the alternative antenna for demodulation of a current OFDM symbol based on the calculated signal quality metric. In one aspect, the antenna switching diversity is based on either symbol rate switching or block rate switching, and a selection of one or the other is made. | 08-05-2010 |
20100220708 | HIERARCHICAL CODING WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques are provided for performing hierarchical coding in a multi-antenna communication system (e.g., a SIMO, MISO, or MIMO system). At a transmitter, a base stream and an enhancement stream are coded and modulated separately to obtain first and second data symbol streams, respectively. The first data symbol stream is processed in accordance with a first spatial processing scheme (e.g., a transmit diversity or a spatial multiplexing scheme) to obtain a first set of symbol substreams. The second data symbol stream is processed in accordance with a second spatial processing scheme (e.g., transmit diversity or spatial multiplexing) to obtain a second set of symbol substreams. The first set of symbol substreams is combined (e.g., using time division multiplexing or superposition) with the second set of symbol substreams to obtain multiple transmit symbol streams for transmission from multiple transmit antennas. A receiver performs complementary processing to recover the base stream and enhancement stream. | 09-02-2010 |
20100220821 | NARROW-BAND INTERFERENCE CANCELLER - The disclosure is directed to a receiver, and methods therefor, including an automatic gain control circuit with a first digital variable gain amplifier that outputs digital samples based on a modulated wireless signal, an interference canceller configured to filter the digital samples using a least mean squares algorithm to reduce narrowband interference, and a second DVGA configured to amplify the filtered digital samples. | 09-02-2010 |
20100226303 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIPLE STREAMS IN WIRELESS BROADCAST NETWORKS - Accordingly, a method and apparatus are provided to convert received content into a first stream and a second stream, to transmit said first stream using a first tone and to transmit said second stream using an orthogonal scheme. A layering scheme is used to transmit the base stream covering a smaller area and an enhanced stream is used to cover a large utilizing orthogonal scheme. | 09-09-2010 |
20100246564 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TIMING ACQUISITION ROBUST TO CHANNEL FADING - The embodiments provide mechanisms for synchronizing a receiver with OFDM pilots that are robust in the presence of channel fading conditions. In addition to using instantaneous channel estimate values to locate the first arriving path and last arriving path, the methods calculate time-domain averaged channel estimate values and use those averaged values to determine an average first arriving path and last arriving path. A combination of the instantaneous first arriving path and last arriving path and the average first arriving path and last arriving path may then be used to determine the delay spread and calculate a timing offset to be applied in timing synchronization. The various embodiments introduce improvements under channel fading conditions. Time-domain averaging may be embodied in a flexible DSP processor, or implemented in hardware and/or software. Using both instantaneous and time-averaged channel estimates greatly improves the robustness of time synchronization under channel fading conditions. | 09-30-2010 |
20100316044 | TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION AT A TRANSITION BETWEEN LOCAL AND WIDE AREA WAVEFORMS USING A DESIGNATED TDM PILOT - Systems and methods are provided for channel estimation and timing synchronization in a wireless network. In an embodiment, a method is provided for time synchronization at a wireless receiver. The method includes decoding at least one TDM pilot symbol located at a transition between wide and local waveforms and processing the TDM pilot symbol to perform time synchronization for a wireless receiver. Methods for channel estimation at a wireless receiver are also provided. This includes decoding at least one TDM pilot symbol and receiving the TDM pilot symbol from an OFDM broadcast to facilitate channel estimation for a wireless receiver. | 12-16-2010 |
20100329162 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADIO FILTERING IN A MULTI-RADIO DEVICE - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate filtering or clustering of radios and/or other transceivers associated with a communication environment. As described herein, potentially conflicting transceivers supported by a communications device can be managed in an expedited fashion by filtering the transceivers into respective groups or clusters of transceivers that exhibit potential collisions. For example, clusters can be generated such that respective transceivers are associated with a single cluster and respective transceivers associated with a given cluster do not exhibit potential collisions with transceivers not associated with the given cluster. Clustering can be performed graphically as further described herein by generating and analyzing a graph that includes nodes corresponding to respective transceivers and edges representing potential conflicts therebetween. Additionally, resolution tables can be generated using substantially all combinations of conflicting transceivers within a set of transceivers, as determined based on an initial clustering and/or in any other suitable manner. | 12-30-2010 |
20100330977 | CENTRALIZED COEXISTENCE MANAGER FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF MULTIPLE RADIOS - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate a centralized structure for managing multi-radio coexistence for a mobile device and/or other suitable device(s). As described herein, a control plane coexistence manager (CxM) entity and/or a data plane CxM entity can be implemented to directly interact with a set of associated transceivers (e.g., radios, etc.) in order to manage conflicts between events corresponding to the transceivers. Further, CxM operation can be divided between the control and data planes such that the control plane handles configuration and long-term operations such as radio registration, sleep mode management, long-term event resolution, interaction with upper layers, etc., while the data plane handles short-term operations with respect to radio event management based on incoming notifications or event requests. For instance, the data plane can evaluate a set of requested events, select event(s) to be executed, and provide responses to the associated transceivers relating to the selection(s). | 12-30-2010 |
20100331029 | DECENTRALIZED COEXISTENCE MANAGER FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF MULTIPLE RADIOS - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate a decentralized structure for managing multi-radio coexistence for a mobile device and/or other suitable device(s). As described herein, a coexistence manager (CxM) and/or other suitable means can be implemented in connection with a set of radios (or other transceivers) in order to manage conflicts between events corresponding to the radios. Functionality can be divided such that the CxM operates on the control plane and handles configuration and long-term operations such as registration, sleep mode management, interaction with upper layers, etc., while the respective radios operate on the data plane and handle short-term radio event management operations based on incoming notifications or event requests. For instance, radios can identify conflicts between requested external events and internally associated events and accordingly provide responses that allow or disallow the external events on an absolute basis or a conditional basis (e.g., based on proposed event modifications). | 12-30-2010 |
20110007680 | SLEEP MODE DESIGN FOR COEXISTENCE MANAGER - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate implementation and use of a sleep mode for a multi-radio coexistence manager. As described herein, respective radios coordinated by a coexistence manager (CxM) can be grouped into radio or sleep clusters, for which the CxM can enter a low-power mode (e.g., a sleep mode) based on respective operating states of radios in the clusters. As further described herein, a CxM can provide an acquisition sequence and/or other suitable means to enable respective radios to synchronize with the CxM. In addition, techniques are provided herein by which a CxM can indicate its present operating mode (e.g., active, wakeable sleep, non-wakeable sleep, or disabled) to respective radios, and by which a radio can wake the CxM from a sleep operating mode under predetermined circumstances. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007688 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVENT PRIORITIZATION AND ARBITRATION IN A MULTI-RADIO DEVICE - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate prioritization and arbitration of radio events associated with a set of potentially conflicting radios supported by a wireless device. As described herein, bin-based priority can be implemented for respective radio events such that events are assigned to bins of varying priority levels based on factors such as functional correlations of respective events to data loss, event deadlines, or relative radio priorities. Subsequently, selection of an event combination can be performed based on bins to which respective events are assigned. Techniques are additionally described herein for arbitrating among conflicting radio events assigned to the same bin using random selection, history-based arbitration, or the like. As further described herein, arbitration can be adjusted to favor selection of new, ongoing, or previously events. Further, arbitration as described herein can be adjusted to accommodate events that execute in a plurality of decision units in time. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007696 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OIS PROTECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate improved multi-radio coexistence between a Forward Link Only (FLO) radio and at least one non-FLO radio associated with a wireless device. As described herein, Overhead Information Symbol (OIS) transmissions scheduled by a FLO radio (such as transmissions on a dedicated OIS control channel or data transmissions containing embedded OIS information) can be given higher priority than other transmissions that collide with the OIS transmissions. In addition, transmissions scheduled by a non-FLO radio can be prioritized above respective non-OIS transmissions scheduled by a FLO radio, or alternatively non-OIS FLO transmissions can additionally be prioritized above transmissions scheduled by a non-FLO radio according to a measured amount of degradation present at the non-FLO radio. In a specific example described herein involving a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio, degradation can be determined based on a number of successively missed Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) transmissions. | 01-13-2011 |
20110009136 | RESOLUTION ALGORITHMS FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate resolution between respective radios associated with a multi-radio wireless device. As described herein, various techniques can be utilized with a multi-radio coexistence manager and/or other suitable mechanisms associated with a wireless device to perform joint resolution for multiple associated radios, thereby providing performance enhancements over conventional piecewise radio resolution schemes. Various exhaustive, decoupled, and progressive radio resolution algorithms are provided herein, by which respective sets of parameters (e.g., transmit powers, interference targets, frequency sub-bands, radio frequency knob settings, etc.) can be selected for respective potentially conflicting radios to enable such radios to operate in coexistence. Further, techniques are provided herein for utilizing a graph theoretic algorithm for progressive radio resolution. In addition, a generic power resolution algorithm can be modified to provide support for multi-transmitter interference mechanisms by employing modifications such as joint power resolution and/or one-pass or iterative interference partitioning. | 01-13-2011 |
20110051618 | ADAPTIVE TIME-FILTERING FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN OFDM SYSTEM - Time filtering channel estimates in a wireless communication system, such as an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) system, can be used to improve the quality of channel estimates. The characteristics of an optimal channel estimate time filter can depend on the manner in which the channel estimate is determined as well as the time correlation of channel estimates. A receiver can implement an adaptive time filter for channel estimates in which the time filter response can vary based on channel estimate parameters. The channel estimate parameters can include the manner of determining channel estimates, a time correlation of channel estimates, and an estimated Doppler frequency. The time filter response can be varied continuously over a range of responses or can be varied discretely over a predetermined number of time filter responses. | 03-03-2011 |
20110080924 | METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXED PILOT SYMBOLS TO AID CHANNEL ESTIMATION, TIME SYNCHRONIZATION, AND AGC BOOTSTRAPPING IN A MULTICAST WIRELESS SYSTEM - Systems and methods are provided for the transmission of waveforms to aid channel estimation, timing synchronization, and AGC bootstrapping in a wireless network. The method includes inserting at least one TDM pilot symbol located at a transition between wide area and local area waveforms to facilitate decoding of the transmission block. | 04-07-2011 |
20110116396 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TIME TRACKING USING ASSITANCE FROM TDM PILOTS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for time tracking using assistance from TDM pilots in a communication network. In an aspect, a method is provided for time tracking in a device operating on a communication network, wherein the device performs a time tracking algorithm. The method includes determining a delay spread, and modifying at least one parameter used by the time tracking algorithm based on the delay spread. In another aspect, an apparatus is provided for time tracking in a device operating on a communication network, wherein the device performs a time tracking algorithm. The apparatus includes computation logic for determining a delay spread, and control logic for modifying at least one parameter used by the time tracking algorithm based on the delay spread. | 05-19-2011 |
20110243047 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A method includes identifying coexistence issues among radios in a User Equipment (UE). The method also includes submitting a message to a base station that requests reconfiguring of a timing schedule of a first one of the supported radios to provide for periods of inactivity of the first one of the supported radios. The inactive periods provide operating periods for at least a second one of the supported radios. The inactive periods may be measurement gaps. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243094 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A method of wireless communication includes identifying at least one current resource for which a coexistence issue is present. The method also includes submitting a message to a base station that includes information indicative of the coexistence issue for the current resource(s). The handover request may include information indicative of the resource for which the coexistence issue is present and/or a desired future resource. | 10-06-2011 |
20110256834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A method of wireless communication includes identifying one or more coexistence issues corresponding to a utilized set of communication resources of a User Equipment (UE). The method also includes communicating an indication of the coexistence issue(s) to a serving base station. | 10-20-2011 |
20120020229 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A method of wireless communication includes receiving signaling from a served User Equipment (UE), via a radio access technology, indicating an interfering technology associated with coexistence issues experienced by the served UE. The method also includes calculating future subframes expected to experience coexistence issues based on previous subframes estimated to have experienced coexistence issues. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030357 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION AND COEXISTENCE MANAGER DECISIONS - A system and method to facilitate voice activity detection and coexistence manager decisions is provided and include identifying a connection utilizing a first resource and a content stream corresponding to the connection, where the first resource conflicts with a second resource. The content of the content stream is classified into multiple levels based on a value of the content and then a priority is assigned to the first and second resources based on the level of the content of the first resource. | 02-02-2012 |
20120033645 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A method of wireless communication includes determining a frame offset between communications of a first communication resource (e.g., an LTE radio) and communications of a second communication resource (e.g., a Bluetooth or WLAN radio). The method also includes determining potential time slot configurations for the communications of the second communication resource. A time slot configuration is selected from the determined potential time slot configurations, to reduce degradation of the first communication resource due to conflicting time slots between the first communication resource and the second communication resource, based on the determined frame offset. The selection may be based on the determined frame offset. | 02-09-2012 |
20120034913 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - Interference between potentially conflicting radio access technologies (RATs) in a wireless device may be managed through a coexistence manager. The coexistence manager allows a first active RAT to yield conflicting resources to a second idle RAT for purposes of receiving signals to allow proper operation by the second RAT. These signals may be, for example, paging signals to a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio or beacons to a wireless local area network (WLAN) radio. | 02-09-2012 |
20120060158 | COEXISTENCE MANAGER HARDWARE/SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION - A method of wireless communication includes partitioning coexistence tasks between short term policy setting tasks and policy implementing tasks, processing the short term policy setting tasks using a first set of computing resources, and processing the policy implementing tasks using a second set of computing resources. The first set may be software resources configured for slower execution of tasks and the second set may be hardware resources configured for just-in-time execution of tasks. The policy may determine a time after which a first radio event is not to be interrupted and granting or denying later events based on whether they would begin before or after the do-not-interrupt time. The do-not-interrupt time may be based on a weighted priority of the first radio event. | 03-08-2012 |
20120071103 | MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A method of wireless communication includes adjusting a channel quality indicator (CQI) to compensate for coexistence interference experienced between communication resources (such as an LTE radio and a Bluetooth radio). The CQI may be set to zero, falsely indicating to a serving enhanced NodeB that a UE is out of range, thereby creating a gap in LTE operation that may be used by an alternate radio access technology. To compensate for fluctuating interference, the CQI may be adjusted to incorporate average coexistence interference over a period of time. Alternatively, the CQI at a time may incorporate coexistence interference regardless of whether interference is experienced at that specific time. A CQI value may also be boosted to compensate for a CQI backoff. CQI may be adjusted to avoid a spiral of death effect. | 03-22-2012 |
20120071106 | REDUCED TRANSMIT POWER FOR WIRELESS RADIO COEXISTENCE - In user equipments (UEs) with multiple radios, interference between those radios may be reduced by monitoring radio performance and adjusting aggressor transmit power levels to ensure victim and aggressor performance stay within desired operational levels. Various factors may determine when a reduced power approach is desired. Such factors may include aggressor transmit power, received signal strength indicator, victim error rate, throughput loss, coverage impact, etc. Various methods of reducing transmit power may be used. For example, for Long Term Evolution communications, a power headroom report may be altered to adjust a modulation coding scheme and bandwidth allocated for a particular UE. For Bluetooth communications a power control mechanism may be overridden to ensure a device stays within a desired transmit power. A power reduction loop may be employed to monitor a device's transmit power. | 03-22-2012 |
20120071185 | BUFFER STATUS REPORT CONTROL FOR CREATING TRANSMISSION GAPS - A method for wireless communication modifies an actual buffer status report value to create a modified buffer status report that is reported to a base station. The modified buffer status report value results in the base station sending fewer uplink grants to a user equipment. The fewer grants result in transmission gaps in a first radio access technology of the user equipment. The user equipment may use those transmission gaps in the first radio access technology to communicate using a second radio access technology. | 03-22-2012 |
20120093009 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - Interference between potentially conflicting radio access technologies (RATs) in a wireless device may be managed through a coexistence manager which allows communication using a first active RAT (e.g., Long Term Evolution (LTE)) and communication with a second active RAT (e.g., wireless local area network (WLAN)) when the first RAT is not scheduled for communicating during an uplink timeslot. Communications by a WLAN radio may be controlled using a power save mode. WLAN communications may be timed so that downlink signals (such as data or acknowledgement messages) to the WLAN radio are received during an inactive uplink subframe for an LTE radio. WLAN communications may also be timed so that downlink signals to the WLAN radio are received during downlink times scheduled for an LTE radio. | 04-19-2012 |
20120093058 | MEHTOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION IN A SYSTEM EMPLOYING DIFFERING TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS - A method and apparatus for communication in a system employing differing transmission protocols. It is determined whether a first time slot of one transmission protocol is adjacent to a second time slot of another transmission protocol, and if a first symbol within the first time slot is adjacent to a second symbol of the second time slot. A pilot power and/or a number of pilot sub-carriers or tones of the first symbol is increased and channel estimation is performed on the first symbol. | 04-19-2012 |
20120113906 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A connection engine and coexistence manager are employed to manage radio resources in a user equipment. The connection engine defines desired performance metrics for sets of radio resources. The coexistence manager allocates potentially interfering radio resources to achieve desired performance metrics while accounting for resource capacity, potential collision rates, and other metrics. | 05-10-2012 |
20120163307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A method of wireless communication includes monitoring coexistence issues among supported radios in a User Equipment (UE). The method includes determining a coexistence policy for communication resource operation within a user equipment (UE) and configuring communication resources of the user equipment in accordance with the determined coexistence policy. The policy may give priority to an LTE modem, an ISM modem, or may implement a variable priority scheme. The policy may be communicated to each modem from a host over a software messaging communication line. Modems in the UE may communicate with each other through logical lines providing real time communication. The policy may determine the operation of each modem and the treatment of the logical lines by each modem. | 06-28-2012 |
20120188907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - To improve performance in devices capable of communication using multiple radio access technologies (RATs), a gap pattern may be constructed in which a first RAT is quieted during certain times to allow for a second RAT to operate without interference. Gap patterns may be constructed based on timeline constraints, such as grant scheduling and HARQ performance, or based on desired performance levels of one or more of the RATs. Gap patterns may be selected by a user equipment or base station. Gap patterns may be selected to protect information in certain subframes. Potential gap patterns may be assigned weights indicating their desirability. | 07-26-2012 |
20120213150 | MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A multi-radio device, such as User Equipment (UE), may experience coexistence issues among various ones of its constituent radio devices that operate at the same time. Various aspects of the disclosure provide techniques to mitigate coexistence issues in multi-radio devices, where significant in-device coexistence problems can exist. In particular, a method for coexistence of multi-radio devices is described. The method includes identifying, at an upper layer of a multi-radio UE, a type of incoming broadcast stream data. The method further includes determining a coexistence policy for operation of communication resources within the multi-radio UE based on the type of the incoming broadcast stream data. The method also includes arbitrating, at a lower layer of the multi-radio UE, between the communication resources based on the coexistence policy. | 08-23-2012 |
20120213303 | COMPATIBLE SUBSET GENERATION TO FACILITATE MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - Radios in a multi-radio device may be represented by parameter nodes, each parameter node representing a communication configuration of a particular radio. A coexistence manager may determine compatible subsets of parameter nodes. The subsets represent communication configurations of the radios that are compatible for simultaneous operation which reduces interference. Compatible subset generation may occur during an evaluation phase of a coexistence manager of a multi-radio device. Compatible subsets are generated based on resolvability of radio events or other potential collisions of the subsets, such as by use of a progressive resolution (PR) graph, associated compatibility graphs, and instructions and logic corresponding to such graphs. | 08-23-2012 |
20120243473 | MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A method of wireless communication includes determining denial rates for first and second communication attempts of a packet using a first communication resource (e.g., an LTE radio). The method also includes allowing a second communication resource (e.g., a Bluetooth radio) to communicate when communication attempts from the first communication resource are denied. The denial rates are chosen to achieve threshold levels of performance for the first and second communication resources. The second denial rate may be set and the first denial rate adjusted in a looped manner to achieve desired Bluetooth performance. The denial rates may be set to deny all first communication attempts but to allow all second communication attempts. Final attempts to transmit Bluetooth packets may be given priority regardless of the first and second denial rates. | 09-27-2012 |
20120307749 | CONFIGURABLE FILTER FOR MULTI-RADIO INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - In a multi-radio device, a configurable filter may be placed on the transmit side of an aggressor radio to reduce interference to receive side performance of a victim radio. The filter may be adaptively configured based on performance of the victim radio. The configurable filter may be in the form of a notch filter. The depth and width of the notch filter may be configured. The filter may be used to create a virtual guard band between an Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) band and a cellular band by puncturing a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission nearest to the ISM band or reducing power on the nearest PUCCH transmission. | 12-06-2012 |
20120314598 | MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - Prior to implementing a coexistence solution for a multi-radio device, a measurement determines whether interference experienced by one radio is caused by another radio on the device. This determination includes comparing measurements of the first radio during times when the other radio is operational and when the other radio is inactive. If the compared performance measurements are within a certain range, a coexistence/interference management solution may be implemented. | 12-13-2012 |
20130010766 | SUPPORT FOR MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE DURING CONNECTION SETUP - In a user equipment (UE) with multiple radio access technologies (RATs), communications of one RAT engaged in connection setup may be protected from communications of other RATs. Techniques for protecting such connection setups include performing power backoff on a potentially interfering RAT or implementing a time division multiplexing (TDM) solution alternating when certain RATs are active. | 01-10-2013 |
20130016635 | BLUETOOTH PACKET SCHEDULING RULES FOR LTE COEXISTENCE - To mitigate potential interference between radio access technologies (RATs) on a multi-RAT device, traffic scheduling rules may be implemented so that communications of the individual RATs are timed in a manner that reduces interference. For example, communications of a Bluetooth/WLAN RAT may be scheduled such that initial and responsive communications of the Bluetooth/WLAN RAT occur during sub-frames of an LTE RAT that are less likely to cause cross-RAT interference. | 01-17-2013 |
20130021983 | FACILITATING USER EQUIPMENT FEEDBACK TO MANAGE RATE LOOP AT A BASE STATION - A method of wireless communication includes denying time or frequency resources of a first radio access technology (RAT) to allow communications of a second RAT. Information is reported about the denied resources of the first RAT to facilitate a connection setup on one of the first RAT and the second RAT. | 01-24-2013 |
20130083712 | DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION (DRX) BASED MECHANISMS FOR CONNECTION SETUP - A user equipment (UE) may detect a potential collision between a discontinuous reception (DRX) pattern of a first radio access technology (RAT) and a reception time of a message from a second RAT of a remote device. The reception time may be unknown. The UE may dynamically reconfigure the DRX pattern to reduce a likelihood of the potential collision. The UE may also configure transmission of a different message by the second RAT during a DRX off-period to reduce a likelihood of the potential collision. | 04-04-2013 |
20130107868 | MITIGATING IMPACT OF POWER IMBALANCE ON REMOTE DATA RATE IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK | 05-02-2013 |
20130121189 | Supporting Different LTE-TDD Configurations in Neighboring Regions and/or Adjacent Carriers - When communications of a single radio access technology (RAT), or different radio access technologies in a proximate communication spectrum are operating at the same time, potential interference between devices may occur. To reduce the interference, the time division duplex (TDD) configuration of one or more conflicting device may be altered. For example, at the edge of a communication region, TDD configurations used by edge base stations to communicate with mobile devices may be set to reduce interference. As another example, communications of a first device may be altered so the first device schedules uplink communications when a second device also has uplink communications scheduled. Other configurations may also be implemented. | 05-16-2013 |
20130130705 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RF CHANNEL SELECTION IN A MULTI-FREQUENCY NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for RF channel selection in a multi-frequency network. A method includes identifying selected local operations infrastructures (LOIs) and their neighboring LOIs, generating a neighbor description message (NDM) that identifies the selected LOIs and their neighboring LOIs and associates a descrambling sequence identifier with each RF channel of the selected LOIs and their neighboring LOIs, and distributing the NDM over the selected LOIs. An apparatus includes a message decoder to receive an NDM that identifies RF channels of a first LOI and neighboring LOIs, and wherein each RF channel is associated with a descrambling sequence identifier, and processing logic to detect content acquisition failures, determine a list of RF channels and their associated LOIs that carry desired content, and select a selected RF channel that is associated with a selected LOI that carries the most additional content among the associated LOIs. | 05-23-2013 |
20130155884 | MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - To comport with specific absorption rate (SAR) requirements for a transmitting multi-radio mobile device, transmissions of the multiple radios may be duplexed to ensure compliance with communication regulations. Duplexing of transmissions may occur if overall transmissions exceed a particular threshold value. The duplexing may be opportunistic or deterministic. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156124 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FREQUENCY DIVERSITY - A system and method for frequency diversity uses interleaving in a wireless communication system utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with various FFT sizes. Subcarriers of one or more interlaces are interleaved in a bit reversal fashion and the one or more interlaces are interleaved in the bit reversal fashion. | 06-20-2013 |
20130176877 | DETECTING BURSTY INTERFERENCE TO TRIGGER A COEXISTENCE INDICATION - A user equipment (UE) may reduce coexistence issues with one or more radio access technologies (RATs) caused by a bursty interference. The bursty interference may be detected by detecting a number of modes in a measured signal sample and determining when a signal contains a multi-modal distribution based at least in part on the detecting. A coexistence indication is created based at least in part on the determining. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177059 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR AN OFDM COMMUNICAITON SYSTEM WITH INACTIVE SUBBANDS - For channel estimation in a spectrally shaped wireless communication system, an initial frequency response estimate is obtained for a first set of P uniformly spaced subbands (1) based on pilot symbols received on a second set of subbands used for pilot transmission and (2) using extrapolation and/or interpolation, where P is a power of two. A channel impulse response estimate is obtained by performing a P-point IFFT on the initial frequency response estimate. A final frequency response estimate for N total subbands is derived by (1) setting low quality taps for the channel impulse response estimate to zero, (2) zero-padding the channel impulse response estimate to length N, and (3) performing an N-point FFT on the zero-padded channel impulse response estimate. The channel frequency/impulse response estimate may be filtered to obtain a higher quality channel estimate. | 07-11-2013 |
20130194994 | MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A user equipment (UE) may manage coexistence between multiple radio access technologies (RATs) utilized by the UE to allow a first RAT to be active during times when communications of a second RAT of the UE are inactive. In some instances, the UE may indicate discontinuous reception (DRX) operation of the UE to allow for time-division multiplexed (TDM) operation between the first RAT and the second RAT. The UE may set a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) configuration to allow for a HARQ retransmission of a packet of the first RAT, originally received in a first DRX cycle, during a second DRX cycle. | 08-01-2013 |
20130242780 | VIRTUAL GAP PATTERNS WITH MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE FOR PROTECTED MEASUREMENTS - A user equipment (UE) may mitigate coexistence issues in multi-radio devices, where significant in-device coexistence problems can. The UE determines at least one potential virtual gap pattern configuration for a first radio access technology (RAT). The UE also selects one of the at least one potential gap pattern configuration based at least in part on protecting subframes which are used by the first RAT to perform clean signal reference measurements and/or based at least in part on performance of the second RAT. Further, the UE quiets transmit activities of a second RAT during protected subframes of the first RAT in the determined potential virtual gap pattern configuration. | 09-19-2013 |
20130279355 | MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE - A method for wireless communications includes determining a time division duplex (TDD) configuration of a non-serving network. The method also includes detecting interference from the non-serving network based at least in part on the TDD configuration of the non-serving network. The method further includes signaling an eNodeB of the interference based at least in part on the detecting. | 10-24-2013 |
20130329665 | DYNAMIC UE SCHEDULING WITH SHARED ANTENNA AND CARRIER AGGREGATION - A system capacity improvement is achieved by dynamically selecting a particular antenna mode of operation from the multiple radio access technology modes. In some implementations, the system capacity improvement is achieved by dynamically generating an indication of a user equipment (UE) antenna capability during a communication connection. The UE's indication of its antenna capability is dynamic and/or is subject to change throughout the duration of the communication connection. The indication may be sent to a base station. | 12-12-2013 |
20140036797 | Methods and Apparatus for Reporting Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for reporting Channel Quality Indicator (CQI). In certain aspects, a User Equipment (UE) may schedule switch from at least a first set of zero or more antennas used by the UE, to at least one second set of zero or more antennas, wherein the first and second sets differ by at least one antenna. The UE may determine a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) to be reported from the UE for use at a base station in a subsequent CQI subframe set, based at least on the scheduled switch. The UE may thereafter transmit the CQI to the base station. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038625 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CLEAR TO SEND (CTS)-TO-SELF INDICATION - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for transmitting a clear to send (CTS)-to-self indication. According to certain aspects, a method for wireless communications by a wireless device is provided. The method generally includes scheduling a first antenna at the wireless device for communication using one of a first radio access technology (RAT) or a second RAT, scheduling one or more other antennas at the wireless device configured for communication using the first RAT, for communication using the second RAT in order to enable one of transmit diversity on the second RAT or simultaneous communication on the first and second RATs, and transmitting an idle-mode indication to force the first RAT to an idle mode | 02-06-2014 |
20140273884 | WLAN DIVERSITY/MIMO USING SHARED ANTENNA - A UE with a limited number of antennas may support multiple radio access technologies (RATS). In some instances, the UE may configure a shared antenna for use by a wireless local area network (WLAN) radio access technology (RAT) or a cellular RAT. The UE may also allocate the shared antenna to the WLAN RAT when the cellular RAT is active based at least in part on an operating condition of the WLAN RAT and/or the cellular RAT. | 09-18-2014 |
20140301297 | ADAPTIVE ANTENNA MANAGEMENT IN LTE - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for adaptive antenna management in LTE. Devices and networks capable of transmitting and receiving signals using a variable number of transmitting or receiving antennas using LTE radio access technology are described. | 10-09-2014 |