| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080310405 | Cooperative multiple access in wireless networks - A cooperative cluster of wireless nodes exchange data before cooperatively communicating with a destination node over a MIMO channel. In a cooperative cluster of M nodes, each node shares 1/M of its own data with each of the other nodes, and keeps 1/M of its own data for transmission. Each node receives 1/M of data from each cooperative node. The data is merged at each cooperative node, and transmitted to the destination node. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090296595 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING FEEDBACK OVERHEAD IN WIRELESS NETWORKS USING CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS - A method for reducing feedback overhead in a wireless communications system is described. Channel quality indicator (CQI) values corresponding to a measured channel quality are received from one or more mobile communications devices. The mobile communications devices to be scheduled at a future time are estimated. CQI values are requested from the mobile communications devices that are estimated to be scheduled at a future time. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100022184 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE RELAYING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - A method for selective transmission by a relay node in a wireless communications system is described. A signal is received. Channel quality information is received. A threshold value is determined. The channel quality information is compared to the threshold value. The signal is transmitted if the channel quality information is above the threshold value. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100067491 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP CELL RESELECTION - A method for base station reselection in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method may determine a first indication of signal strength for a first signal sent from a first base station and received by a user equipment (UE). The method may also determine a second indication of signal strength for a second signal sent from a second base station and received by the UE. The method may further determine a relative signal strength based on the first indication of signal strength and the second indication of signal strength. The method may also determine a Q factor based on the relative signal strength. The Q factor may be an indication of when base station reselection should be performed. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100112998 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING CONSTANT CLOSED SUBSCRIBER GROUP CELL RESELECTION RADIUS - A method for self-configuration of offset factors between two base stations in a wireless communications system is described. A first offset factor is sent to a first user equipment (UE) by a first base station. An offset factor is an indication of the reselection area around a home evolved nodeB (HeNB). A second offset factor is received from a second UE. The first offset factor is modified using the second offset factor. The modified first offset factor is sent to the first UE. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100232336 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING ANTENNAS FOR COORDINATED MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION - A method of transmitting data from multiple base stations to a user equipment (UE) with possibly different numbers of antennas selected at the individual cooperating base stations is described. Also described is a method of transmitting data from a UE to multiple base stations with possibly different numbers of antennas selected at the individual cooperating base stations. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235709 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING UNEQUAL ERROR PROTECTION CODE DESIGN FROM PROBABILISTICALLY FIXED COMPOSITION CODES - A method of encoding that uses standard codecs such as linear encoders and decoders for encoding and decoding data with different levels of robustness to errors is described. In one configuration, multiple encoders may be utilized, and one of the encoders may use a standard encoder such as a turbo code followed by a nonlinearity that creates an unequal distribution of ones and zeros in a binary representation of the code. In another configuration, a coder may be utilized that represents message outputs as “channels” that create state transitions (or symbol errors) in a data forward error correction coder. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100322185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPONENT CARRIER SELECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to component carrier (CC) selection in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) that is in idle mode may receive a reference signal (RS) from an evolved Node B (eNB), obtain signal quality measurements with respect to the RS, and switch to a new CC based on the signal quality measurements. For a UE that is in connected mode, an eNB may obtain uplink channel condition information corresponding to uplink CCs, obtain downlink channel condition information corresponding to downlink CCs, and select a CC pair for the UE to use based on the uplink channel condition information and the downlink channel condition information. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110041021 | TRANSMISSION OF DIFFERENT REDUNDANCY VERSIONS ON DIFFERENT DEGREES OF FREEDOM - For downlink cooperative multi-point (CoMP) communication, each cooperating transmission point (e.g., base station) may send a retransmission packet with a different redundancy version to a user equipment (UE). Mechanisms may be provided to determine which transmission point should send packets with which redundancy version. For uplink CoMP, in order to reduce the backhaul overhead, each cooperating base station may share only a fraction of the retransmitted packet with the serving base station. Also, different retransmission packets with different redundancy versions can be transmitted to different cooperating base stations using spatial degrees of freedom. | 02-17-2011 |