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| 20090061886 | System and Method for Activity-Based Power Control Target Adjustments in a Wireless Communication Network - The teachings presented herein provide, among other things, improved power control stability and increased system capacity in a wireless communication network by raising signal quality targets for mobile stations engaged in scheduled uplink data transmissions and lowering those signal quality targets at the end of such transmissions. As one example, the teachings herein are applied to the Enhanced Uplink (EUL) in a Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network. In that context, the target received signal quality (e.g., SIR) for a given mobile station's Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) signal is raised for times when the mobile station is engaged in a scheduled data transmission via its Enhanced-Dedicated Physical Data Channel (E-DPDCH), and lowered at other times. Doing so prevents the power control loop from “chasing” the potentially dramatic changes in mobile-specific interference conditions that arise in a scheduled uplink environment. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090196333 | Channel Estimation for High Data Rate Transmission Using Multiple Control Channels - For high rate data transmission, channel estimates may be computed using multiple control channels. An exemplary method comprises determining a transmission parameter for a data channel, generating first and second channel estimates derived respectively from first and second control channels, and selectively combining the first and second channel estimates to generate a combined channel estimate. In some embodiments, the second channel estimate may be used to refine the first channel estimate before the selection of the final channel estimate. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090257477 | Method and Apparatus for Successive Interference Subtraction with Covariance Root Processing - Methods and apparatus for processing a composite communication signal comprising two or more received signals of interest are disclosed. An interference-suppressing receiver, which may comprise a G-Rake receiver or a linear chip equalizer, utilizes a square-root covariance matrix in processing received signals, where the square-root covariance matrix represents impairment covariance or data covariance for the composite communication signal. In an exemplary method, a receiver detects symbols, corresponding to a signal of interest, from the composite communication signal, using processing weights calculated from a square-root covariance matrix and a net channel response for the signal of interest. The method further comprises calculating a reconstructed version of the signal of interest from the detected first symbols, generating an updated communication signal by subtracting the reconstructed version of the first signal of interest from the composite communication signal, and updating the square-root covariance matrix to obtain an updated square-root covariance matrix. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090291642 | Systems and Methods for SIR Estimation for Power Control - Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for methods and systems for improving the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SIR) estimation between a mobile communications device and a base station (BS) for improving power control. A first SIR estimate is generated based on signals received on at least a first channel and a second SIR estimate is generated based on signals received on a second channel. A correction factor for the second SIR estimate is generated based on at least the first SIR estimate, and the second SIR estimate is adjusted with the correction factor. The first SIR estimate can, optionally, be generated using channel coefficients generated from signals received on both the first channel and the second channel. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100027590 | MODIFIED SIR VALUES FOR FAST POWER CONTROL - The present invention relates to a receiver comprising a fast power control unit, said fast power control unit being arranged to continuously control a quality measure of a radio channel. The receiver is characterized in that the quality measure is a modified Signal to Interference plus noise ratio (SIR) in which the influence from self interference has been removed. The invention further relates to a method for continuously controlling a quality measure of a radio channel, wherein a modified Signal to Interference plus noise ratio (SIR) is continuously determined in which the influence from self interference has been removed. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100111239 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARALLEL INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION WITH COVARIANCE ROOT PROCESSING - A parallel interference cancellation (PIC) receiver incrementally removes interference from signals in parallel modules in successive stages. For each desired signal, as interfering signals are removed, corresponding updates to a data covariance matrix are modeled as computationally tractable rank-one updates to a root matrix of the covariance matrix. Processing of signals and/or covariance information may be initiated, continued, and/or halted at various stages, e.g., in response to signal or data quality. The PIC receiver using root matrix updates is applicable to a variety of demodulation techniques. | 05-06-2010 |
