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| 20100238826 | ASSOCIATION AND RESOURCE PARTITIONING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK WITH RELAYS - Techniques for performing association and resource partitioning in a wireless network with relays are described. In an aspect, resource partitioning may be performed to allocate available resources to nodes and access/backhaul links of relays. In one design, a node computes local metrics for a plurality of possible actions related to resource partitioning. The node receives local metrics for the possible actions from at least one neighbor node and determines overall metrics for the possible actions based on the computed and received local metrics. The node determines resources allocated to a set of nodes and resources allocated to the access and backhaul links of at least one relay based on the overall metrics for the possible actions. In another aspect, association involving relays may be performed by taking into account the performance of the relays. In yet another aspect, association and resource partitioning may be performed jointly. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100238827 | ASSOCIATION WITH LEAKAGE-BASED METRICS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques for performing association with leakage-based metrics in a wireless network are described. Association may be performed to select a serving node (e.g., a base station or a relay) for a station (e.g., a UE or a relay). In one design, at least one metric may be determined for at least one candidate node for possible association by the station. A metric for each candidate node may be determined based on leakage of the candidate node. The leakage of the candidate node may include interference due to the candidate node at stations not served by the candidate node (excluding the station). The metric for each candidate node may include a signal-to-leakage ratio (SLR), a geometry-to-leakage ratio (GLR), or a throughput-to-leakage ratio (TLR). A serving node for the station may be selected from among the at least one candidate node based on the at least one metric. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100238883 | ADAPTIVE RESOURCE PARTITIONING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques for performing adaptive resource partitioning are described. In one design, a node computes local metrics for different possible actions related to resource partitioning to allocate available resources to a set of nodes that includes the node. Each possible action is associated with a set of resource usage profiles for the set of nodes. The node sends the computed local metrics to at least one neighbor node in the set of nodes. The node also receives local metrics for the possible actions from the neighbor node(s). The node determines overall metrics for the possible actions based on the computed local metrics and the received local metrics. The node then determines allocation of the available resources to the set of nodes based on the overall metrics. For example, the node may select the action with the best overall metric and may utilize the available resources based on a resource usage profile for the selected action. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100238884 | ADAPTIVE ASSOCIATION AND JOINT ASSOCIATION AND RESOURCE PARTITIONING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques for supporting communication in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, association and resource partitioning may be performed jointly to select serving base stations for user equipments (UEs) and to allocate available resources to base stations. In another aspect, adaptive association may be performed to select serving base stations for UEs. In one design, a base station computes local metrics for different possible actions related to association and resource partitioning (or only association). The base station receives local metrics for the possible actions from at least one neighbor base station and determines overall metrics for the possible actions based on the computed and received local metrics. The base station determines serving base stations for a set of UEs and resources allocated to the set of base stations (or just serving base stations for the set of UEs) based on the overall metrics for the possible actions. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100238885 | RESOURCE PARTITIONING FOR UPLINK IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques for performing resource partitioning are described. In an aspect, adaptive resource partitioning may be performed to dynamically allocate available resources for the uplink to nodes, e.g., base stations. Each node may be assigned a list of target interference-over-thermal (IoT) levels for the available resources by the adaptive resource partitioning. Each node may obtain a list of target IoT levels for itself and at least one list of target IoT levels for at least one neighbor node. The list of target IoT levels for each node may include a configurable target IoT level on each available resource for the node. Each node may schedule its UEs for transmission on the available resources (e.g., may determine transmit power levels and rates for the UEs) based on the target IoT levels for itself and the neighbor node(s) such that the target IoT levels for the neighbor node(s) can be met. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100246721 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT CONTROL DECODING FOR TRANSPARENT RELAYING OPERATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate efficient control decoding to facilitate management of cooperative relay operation in a wireless communication environment. As described herein, a relay node (RN) and/or another entity cooperating with a serving network node for respective users in a potentially assisted group can prune a search space of control decoding candidates corresponding to the respective users. For example, respective control decoding candidates corresponding to, e.g., common and/or user-specific search spaces, aggregation levels, control channel sizes, etc., can be eliminated from a reduced control search space based on various criteria. Further, sets of control decoding candidates corresponding to respective users not schedulable at a given time interval can be eliminated. In addition, control search space pruning can be performed in addition to or in place of increased cyclic redundancy check (CRC) protection for control information, thereby further decreasing the probability of false control detection. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100265842 | ENABLING SUPPORT FOR TRANSPARENT RELAYS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Providing for improved implementation of supplemental wireless nodes in a wireless base station deployment is described herein. By way of example, a donor base station is configured to send a schedule of data transmission to and from a set of UEs served by the base station, and further can provide the schedule and identifiers for the set of UEs to one or more wireless nodes serving the base station. Respective access channel measurements between respective UEs and respective wireless nodes can be forwarded to the base station, which in turn can identify optimal access channels for the set of UEs. Additionally, the donor base station can schedule multiple data transmissions on these access channels in a common transmission time slot, to achieve cell-splitting gains for the data transmissions. Range boosting, differential coding, and supplemental channel quality mechanisms are also provided for various wireless communication arrangements described herein. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100265874 | PRE-COMMUNICATION FOR RELAY BASE STATIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Providing for wireless communication involving supplemental wireless nodes is described herein. By way of example, prior signaling is employed between a macro base station and a set of associated supplemental nodes to support pending wireless communication with a user terminal In some aspects, the prior signaling can include control or data traffic transmitted to or received from the user terminal. In addition, the supplemental nodes can synchronize transmission or reception of the control or data traffic transmissions with similar transmission or reception of the macro base station. In some aspects, the supplemental nodes can also replicate pilot signal transmissions on OFDM symbols employed by the macro base station for pilot signals, to give consistent downlink channel for both traffic and pilot signals. Accordingly, the user terminal observes consistent pilot transmissions over various time slots, as well as concurrent traffic transmissions that can generally be decoded with a common reference signal. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100265913 | INTER-FREQUENCY INDICATION OF ASSOCIATION DATA FOR MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS DEPLOYMENTS - Providing for user equipment mobility in a multi-carrier wireless network deployment is described herein. By way of example, data pertinent to mobile cell selection can be shared among base stations operating on different carrier frequencies either over-the-air or via a wired backhaul, and distributed by a base station to mobile terminals served by the base station. In one aspect, the data can be distributed over a wireless channel reserved for inter-carrier association data, whereas in other aspects, the data can be unicast to particular mobile terminals served by the base station. This can reduce or avoid a need for individual mobile terminals to tune away to a non-serving carrier for inter-carrier association or handover determinations. Accordingly, gaps in signal analysis on a serving carrier can be reduced or avoided, improving overall quality of wireless communication in a multi-carrier environment. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100278132 | TRANSMISSION AND DETECTION OF OVERHEAD CHANNELS AND SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques for transmitting and detecting for overhead channels and signals in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, a base station may blank (i.e., not transmit) at least one overhead transmission on certain resources in order to detect for the at least one overhead transmission of another base station. In one design, the base station may (i) send the overhead transmission(s) on a first subset of designated resources and (ii) blank the overhead transmission(s) on a second subset of the designated resources. The designated resources may be resources on which the overhead transmission(s) are sent by macro base stations. The base station may detect for the overhead transmission(s) from at least one other base station on the second subset of the designated resources. In another aspect, the base station may transmit the overhead transmission(s) on additional resources different from the designated resources. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100296389 | FAILURE INDICATION FOR ONE OR MORE CARRIERS IN A MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate indicating a loss of channel quality on a component carrier of a plurality of component carriers. A UE can monitor configured component carriers to determine channel qualities associated therewith. The UE can transmit carrier quality information that includes the channel qualities of the plurality of component carriers. In addition, the UE can identify a component carrier experiencing a loss of channel quality and notify a base station of the component carrier with poor channel conditions. In one aspect, the UE can incorporate additional information into a scheduling request. In addition, the UE can generate a CQI report that contains the carrier quality information. Further, the base station, when a loss of channel quality occurs, can retry transmission on different carriers. Moreover, the base station can employ information provided by the UE when selecting a component carrier for a transmission. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100303013 | DYNAMIC SELECTION OF SUBFRAME FORMATS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques for dynamically selecting subframe formats in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, a base station may dynamically switch between different subframe formats to support communication for different types of user equipments (UEs). In one design, the base station may declare a set of subframes as multicast/broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframes for first/legacy UEs. The base station may send signaling conveying the set of subframes as MBSFN subframes to the legacy UEs. The base station may dynamically select the formats of the set of subframes for second/new UEs, e.g., on a per subframe basis. The format of each subframe may be selected from a plurality of formats, which may include at least one regular subframe format, at least one MBSFN subframe format, and/or at least one blank subframe format. The base station may send transmissions in the set of subframes based on the selected formats. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100309867 | DATA TRANSMISSION WITH CROSS-SUBFRAME CONTROL IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques for supporting communication in dominant interference scenarios are described. In an aspect, communication in a dominant interference scenario may be supported with cross-subframe control. Different base stations may be allocated different subframes for sending control information. Each base station may send control messages in the subframes allocated to that base station. Different base stations may have different timelines for sending control messages due to their different allocated subframes. With cross-subframe control, control information (e.g., grants, acknowledgement, etc.) may be sent in a first subframe and may be applicable for data transmission in a second subframe, which may be a variable number of subframes from the first subframe. In another aspect, messages to mitigate interference may be sent on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100309876 | PARTITIONING OF CONTROL RESOURCES FOR COMMUNICATION IN A DOMINANT INTERFERENCE SCENARIO - Techniques for supporting communication in dominant interference scenarios are described. In an aspect, communication in a dominant interference scenario may be supported with time division multiplex (TDM) partitioning of downlink control resources. For TDM partitioning, different base stations may be allocated different time resources. Each base station may send its control information in its allocated time resources and may avoid sending control information (or may send control information at a lower transmit power level) in time resources allocated to other base stations. In another aspect, communication in a dominant interference scenario may be supported with frequency division multiplex (FDM) partitioning of uplink control resources. For FDM partitioning, different base stations may be allocated different frequency resources. In one design, TDM partitioning may be used for downlink control resources, and FDM partitioning may be used for uplink control resources. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100323745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION POWER IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which it is determined that a transmission of a first instance of control information in a first control region in a subframe of a first power class eNodeB a non-modified power spectral density (PSD) will result in interference above a threshold with a transmission of a second instance of control information in a second control region in a subframe of a second power class eNodeB, PSD is modified for a portion of at least one of the first or second control regions of at least one of the subframes for at least one of the first power class or second power class eNodeB, and the first instance of control information is transmitted during the control region using the modified PSD for the portion of the first instance of control information. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110070845 | MULTIPLE CARRIER INDICATION AND DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION INTERACTION - Methods, systems, apparatus and computer program products are provided to facilitate the configuration and allocation of cross-carrier control information associated with transmissions of a wireless communication system. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the disclosed subject matter. Therefore, it is to be understood that it should not be used to interpret or limit the scope or the meaning of the claims. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110076962 | CONTROL INFORMATION SIGNALING - Methods, systems, apparatus and computer program products are provided to facilitate the configuration and allocation of control information associated with transmissions of a wireless communication system. In systems that utilize multiple component carriers, cross-carrier signaling may be used to carry the control information associated with one component carrier on a different component carrier. By allowing control information messages to share their allocated search spaces, the number of decoding attempts needed to obtain control information can be kept within desirable limits while improving scheduling and resource allocation flexibility. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the disclosed subject matter. Therefore, it is to be understood that it should not be used to interpret or limit the scope or the meaning of the claims. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110080883 | CARRIER INDICATOR FIELD FOR CROSS CARRIER ASSIGNMENTS - Techniques for supporting operation on multiple carriers are described. In an aspect, a carrier indicator (CI) field may be used to support cross-carrier assignment. The CI field may be included in a grant sent on one carrier and may be used to indicate another carrier on which resources are assigned. In one design, a cell may determine a first carrier on which to send a grant to a UE, determine a second carrier on which resources are assigned to the UE, set a CI field of the grant based on the second carrier and a CI mapping for the first carrier, and send the grant to the UE on the first carrier. The UE may receive the grant on the first carrier from the cell and may determine the second carrier on which resources are assigned to the UE based on the CI field of the grant and the CI mapping for the first carrier. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110085513 | UPLINK RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR LTE ADVANCED - Methods, systems, apparatus and computer program products are provided to receive downlink control information (DCI) in a downlink control channel, where the downlink control information configured to indicate an allocation of uplink resources with a clustered uplink resource allocation protocol or a contiguous uplink resource allocation protocol, to detect which of the clustered uplink resource allocation protocol and the contiguous uplink resource allocation protocol is indicated and to allocate the uplink resources based on the indicated uplink resource allocation protocol. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110103295 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RELAY BACKHAUL COMMUNICATIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for designing a relay backhaul channel in a wireless communication system are provided. At least one relay node utilized for communication with respective user devices and at least one relay backhaul channel for conducting in-band half-duplex communication with the at least one relay node are identified. The relay backhaul channel may be an FDM channel, a TDM/FDM channel, or a joint R-PDCCH/R-PDSCH channel. The relay channel is used for communicating with the at least one relay node. The supportable ranks of the R-PDSCH channel may depend on the number of resources reserved for demodulation reference signals in the R-PDCCH region. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110103296 | TDM-FDM RELAY BACKHAUL CHANNEL FOR LTE ADVANCED - Methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for receiving a first group of resource blocks, frequency multiplexed in a transmission subframe, where the first group of resource blocks spans less than a full transmission bandwidth and includes a UE control channel in a first time interval, a relay control channel and a first quantity of dedicated reference symbols in a second time interval, and a shared data channel and a second quantity of dedicated reference symbols in a third time interval. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110105050 | CROSS-CARRIER/CROSS-SUBFRAME INDICATION IN A MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS NETWORK - Techniques for cross-subframe and cross-carrier scheduling of uplink and downlink transmissions in a multi-carrier wireless communication system are disclosed. A base station can include cross-subframe, carrier indication (xSF/CIF) information in a PDCCH message to signal to a user equipment (UE) which subframes and/or component carriers pertain to control information carried therein. The UE may utilize the xSF/CIF information to determine to which subframes and/or component carriers the control information is to be applied. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110116456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING RELIABLE TRANSMISSION OF A CONTROL REGION SIZE AND DETECTION OF CROSS-CARRIER SIGNALING - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for facilitating indicating and detecting control region sizes. A multi-carrier communication between a wireless terminal and a base station is facilitated by a first carrier having a first control region size and a second carrier having a second control region size. Embodiments are disclosed in which control region sizes are ascertained from a control signal, wherein the control is generated by either scrambling an aspect of the control signal based on the second control region size, or relating the second control region size with the first control region size. Other disclosed embodiments for ascertaining control region sizes include a reverse interleaver embodiment, wherein a set of modulation symbols is mapped beginning from a last data symbol and ending with a first available data symbol. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116457 | MULTICARRIER RETRANSMISSION FEEDBACK - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate indicating feedback parameters for multiple single carrier assignments, multicarrier assignments, and/or the like according to single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA), relaxed SC-FDMA, etc. Feedback in relaxed SC-FDMA can be bundled by a mobile device to conserve power. In addition, a downlink assignment indicator (DAI) can be utilized to detect and indicate lost grants. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110128870 | DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION OF COMMON NORMALIZATION CONSTANT FOR QUANTIZED BEST EFFORT TRAFFIC PRIORITY - Apparatus, systems, devices and methods are provided for Distributed Computation of Common Normalization Constant for Quantized Best Effort Traffic Priority. In certain non-limiting aspects, there may be provided a method for prioritizing traffic in a wireless communication environment, including: providing a quantized priority value for each of one or more data streams associated with a wireless communications node; and determining a relative prioritization for each of the one or more data streams using the quantized priority values and one or more quantized priority values associated with one or more other wireless communications nodes; wherein, the quantized priority values associated with the wireless and other wireless communications nodes are normalized with respect to a reference rate. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110130098 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING TO FACILITATE INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT - Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products for facilitating interference management on a downlink of a wireless communication system are provided. In some embodiments, the method can include determining, by a base station within a cell, a benefit to out-of-cell user equipment when a base station transmits with certain transmission attributes, wherein the transmission attributes are at least one of a transmit power, beamforming vector or multiple input multiple output transmission; determining, by the base station, a benefit to a user equipment within the cell when the base station transmits with certain transmission attributes; and determining, by the base station, the total benefit to the out-of-cell user equipment and to the user equipment within the cell. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110130099 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING TO FACILITATE INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT - Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products for scheduling in a wireless communication system are provided. In some embodiments, the method can include: receiving a buffer status report from user equipment having one or more logical channel groups; configuring a first priority metric and a first prioritized bit rate for at least one of the one or more logical channel groups, wherein the configuring a first priority metric and a first prioritized bit rate for at least one of the one or more logical channel groups is in response to information included in the buffer status report; determining interference at the user equipment; and re-configuring, by the serving base station, the first priority metric and the first prioritized bit rate for the at least one of the one or more logical channel groups in response to determining interference at the user equipment. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110149774 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMIT-RESPONSE TIMING FOR RELAY OPERATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - An apparatus and method for relay operation in a wireless communication system comprising determining a first set of subframes for downlink communication from an eNB to a relay node; determining a second set of subframes for uplink communication from the relay node to the eNB; determining a downlink (DL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing between a first control transmission and a HARQ acknowledge (ACK) message based on a first minimum delay and the first and the second sets of subframes; and determining an uplink (UL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing between a second control transmission and an uplink transmission based on a second minimum delay and the first and the second sets of subframes. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149885 | INITIATING A RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate commanding a wireless device to transmit a random access channel (RACH) signal to measure communication parameters related thereto. The wireless device can transmit a RACH preamble upon receiving a command, and one or more parameters can be computed based at least in part on transmitting the command and/or receiving the RACH preamble, such as a round trip time, a received signal power, and/or the like. The one or more parameters can be communicated to the wireless device in a RACH response signal, and can be utilized by the wireless device. The wireless device can utilize the one or more parameters to estimate a distance for position determination, compute a path loss, and/or the like. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149887 | POSITIONING IN THE PRESENCE OF PASSIVE DISTRIBUTED ELEMENTS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate transmitting positioning reference signals (PRS) differently for passive distributed elements. PRSs for passive distributed elements can be transmitted over disparate resources than those utilized for PRSs at a related access point, using different symbol sequences, and/or the like. In this regard, wireless devices can differentiate between PRSs from access points and those from passive distributed elements, which can mitigate confusion for processes involving such RSs, such as position determining. Alternatively, passive distributed elements can refrain from transmitting PRSs, and a corresponding access point can indicate to wireless devices to only determine positioning based on PRSs. Thus, the wireless devices can utilize the PRSs transmitted from the access point (and not other reference signals transmitted from the passive distributed element) to determine a position. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110158200 | POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods are described to supply positioning reference signal (PRS) in a telecommunication system. A base station supplies a PRS sequence according at least to a time-frequency pattern of modulation symbols, wherein the time-frequency pattern assigns a modulation symbol to each frequency tone in a block of time-frequency resources allocated to transmit PRS. The base station associates a modulation symbol in the time-frequency pattern with a reference symbol in the PRS sequence through a mapping that represents the time-frequency pattern. The PRS sequence is conveyed to user equipment through delivery of a set of modulation symbols established through the mapping. Different time-frequency patterns can be exploited based on time-structure of a radio sub-frame. The user equipment receives the PRS sequence according to at least the time-frequency pattern of modulation symbols and utilizes at least the PRS sequence as part of a process to produce a location estimate. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110164550 | Downlink Control Channel for Relay Resource Allocation - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications. The method generally includes allocating resources of a backhaul link between a donor base station and a relay base station to the relay station for communicating with the donor base station and transmitting a control channel indicating the allocated resources to the relay base station, wherein the control channel is transmitted on a subset of physical resource blocks (PRBs) of subframes assigned for downlink communications on the backhaul link. | 07-07-2011 |
