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| 20090168927 | BROADCAST CHANNEL SIGNAL, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND DECODING BROADCAST CHANNEL INFORMATION - The present invention provides a broadcast channel signal, a wireless communication device and method for transmitting broadcast channel information, where an invariant subportion of a variant portion of the broadcast channel information is separated from the variant subportion of the variant portion and combined with the invariant portion, and encoded separately from the variant subportion. Both encoded portions are transmitted and decoded by a wireless communication device, which uses subsequent transmissions of the broadcast channel information to assist in the decoding in the event the broadcast channel information for a particular transmission frame of a transmission interval cannot be decoded. If the variant subportion cannot be decoded, then using one or more of a set of prestored possible matches defining anticipated bit differences, between multiple successive transmissions, based upon the relative transmission sequence, which can be negated as part of attempting to decode and combine the received information for the multiple received frames. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090175179 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MOBILITY MEASUREMENTS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for performing mobility measurement in a communication network ( | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090196260 | METHOD FOR SIGNALING A MODULATION SCHEME TO USER EQUIPMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method signals a modulation scheme to user equipment on a control channel in a communication system. The method includes encoding the modulation scheme on a modulation specifier and encoding a number of channelization codes on a code group indicator. When the modulation scheme is other than quadrature phase shift keying with the user equipment being configured to support 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (64-QAM), then set the modulation specifier to indicate that the applied modulation scheme is other than QPSK, encode a code offset on a code offset indicator, and set one bit of the code offset indicator to indicate that the applied modulation scheme is 64-QAM. Finally, the method includes transmitting the modulation specifier, the code group indicator, and the code offset indicator on the control channel to the user equipment. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20100234016 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE PHYSICAL CELL IDENTIFIER COLLISION DETECTION - Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating collision detection are provided. In some embodiments, a method can include: receiving identifying information during one or more time intervals from a plurality of base stations; determining whether at least two different values of the identifying information from the plurality of base stations have been transmitted during the same time interval; and determining that a collision has occurred between at least two of the plurality of base stations in response to determining that the at least two different values of the identifying information from the plurality of base stations have been transmitted during the same time interval. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100279707 | TIME OF ARRIVAL (TOA) ESTIMATION FOR POSITIONING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques for determining time of arrivals (TOAs) of signals in a wireless communication network are described. Each cell may transmit (i) synchronization signals on a set of contiguous subcarriers in the center portion of the system bandwidth and (ii) reference signals on different sets of non-contiguous subcarriers distributed across the system bandwidth. A UE may determine TOA for a cell based on multiple signals transmitted on different sets of subcarriers. The UE may perform correlation for a first signal (e.g., a synchronization signal) from the cell to obtain first correlation results for different time offsets. The UE may perform correlation for a second signal (e.g., a reference signal) from the cell to obtain second correlation results for different time offsets. The UE may combine the first and second correlation results and may determine the TOA for the cell based on the combined correlation results. | 11-04-2010 |
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| 20100172311 | HEARABILITY IMPROVEMENTS FOR REFERENCE SIGNALS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing high reuse for transmitting reference signals, such as positioning reference signals (PRS) and cell-specific reference signals (CRS), to improve hearability thereof for applications such as trilateration and/or the like. In particular, PRSs can be transmitted in designated or selected positioning subframes. Resource elements within the positioning subframe can be selected for transmitting the PRSs and can avoid conflict with designated control regions, resource elements used for transmitting cell-specific reference signals, and/or the like. Resource elements for transmitting PRSs can be selected according to a planned or pseudo-random reuse scheme. In addition, a transmit diversity scheme can be applied to the PRSs to minimize impact of introducing the PRSs to legacy devices. Moreover, portions of a subframe not designated for PRS transmission can be utilized for user plane data transmission. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100232543 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEQUENCING AND CORRELATING A POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL - Aspects are disclosed for sequencing a positioning reference signal. A set of reference symbols associated with a reference signal are allocated, and a base sequence is generated. An extended sequence, which includes the set of reference symbols, is then provided according to the base sequence. The extended sequence is then transmitted in a sub-frame designated as an idle period. Aspects for correlating a positioning reference signal are also disclosed. A sequence of reference symbols is received from a base station during an idle period of the base station. A replicated sequence of reference symbols is generated, and a correlation is ascertained between a subset of the received sequence of reference symbols and a corresponding subset of the replicated sequence of reference symbols. The received sequence of reference symbols is then identified according to the correlation. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100238888 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided. In some embodiments, a method for facilitating interference management in an unplanned wireless communication system is provided. The method can include a non-serving base station synchronizing a non-serving base station downlink subframe to a serving base station downlink subframe, wherein the serving base station downlink subframe is transmitted from a serving base station to a user equipment served by the serving base station. The method can also include the non-serving base station decoding one or more control channel symbols of the serving base station downlink subframe; and determining information for performing interference management associated with the user equipment. The determined information can be based, at least, in part, on the decoded one or more control channel symbols of the serving base station downlink subframe. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100238901 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided. In some embodiments, a method for facilitating interference management in an unplanned wireless communication system is provided. The method can include a non-serving base station obtaining information about a user equipment served by a serving base station; and determining signal information based, at least, in part, on the information. The method can also include the non-serving base station disallowing access to the user equipment due to restricted access rules for the non-serving base station. The method can also include the non-serving base station performing interference management of the user equipment served by the serving base station. The interference management can be performed based, at least, in part, on the determined signal information. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100240382 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided. In some embodiments, a method for facilitating interference management in an unplanned wireless communication system is provided. The method can include a non-serving base station: determining information about a user equipment, wherein the user equipment is served by a serving base station; and employing determined information about the user equipment to perform interference management at a non-serving base station. The method can also include the non-serving base station synchronizing to the user equipment using information indicative of the uplink scrambling code for use by the user equipment and information indicative of uplink slot configurations being used by the user equipment. The method can also include the non-serving base station performing interference management on the user equipment served by the serving base station. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110116436 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF A REFERENCE SIGNAL SUPPORTING POSITIONING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Techniques for transmitting and receiving a reference signal in a wireless network are described. In one design, a UE may generate multiple transmissions of a reference signal at multiple frequency locations. The UE may send the transmissions of the reference signal in multiple symbol periods of at least one subframe. The UE may send at least two transmissions of the reference signal in each subframe, e.g., one transmission of the reference signal in each symbol period of a subframe. Each transmission of the reference signal may cover a portion of the bandwidth of the reference signal and may be sent on a set of contiguous subcarriers at a particular frequency location. The multiple transmissions of the reference signal may cover the entire bandwidth of the reference signal. A location estimate for the UE may be determined based on time of arrivals (TOAs) of the reference signal measured by multiple receiver stations. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110117925 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSISTED POSITIONING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate reduced complexity network-assisted device positioning in a wireless communication system. As described herein, a mobile device and/or other suitable device can utilize positioning assistance messages received from a location server, a serving network cell, and/or other entities, to assist in position fixing based on reference signals (e.g., positioning reference signals (PRSs)) detected from nearby network cells. Positioning assistance messages as described herein can include, for example, information relating to PRS bandwidths, transmit antenna configurations, and/or other parameters of respective cells from which reference signals are detected by a device during positioning. As further described herein, messaging load can be reduced by providing bandwidth and/or antenna configuration information relative to a given reference cell, such that parameters of non-reference cells that are equivalent to corresponding parameters of the reference cell can be omitted from transmitted positioning assistance data. | 05-19-2011 |
| 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 |
