| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080267269 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNALS - Disclosed herein is a method which may include determining whether to include a sounding reference signal or a demodulation reference signal within a variable block of a subframe, and transmitting the subframe from a wireless node to an infrastructure node. The subframe may include a plurality of blocks, each block including a plurality of subcarriers. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090046649 | Mapping of uplink ACK in TDD with asymmetric frame structure - For each of at least two ratios of downlink subframes exceeding uplink subframes in a frame is stored a pre-determined grouping of a plurality of downlink subframes that map to one uplink subframe. A frame is scheduled corresponding to one of the ratios. Scheduling grants are transmitted to user equipments UEs in at least some of the scheduled downlink subframes, wherein the number of scheduled downlink subframes is greater than the number of scheduled uplink subframes in the frame. The UEs receive their grant, map the downlink subframe in which the scheduling grant was received to an uplink subframe using the stored predetermined grouping for the ratio that corresponds to the frame in which the scheduling grant was received, and send their ACK/NACK for the grant in the mapped subframe. The network receives multiple ACKs/NACKs in a single uplink subframe and maps them, to the downlink subframes of the group. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090046674 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CHANNEL FEEDBACK INFORMATION - An approach is provided for transmitting channel feedback information. Bandwidth is partitioned into one or more resource groups corresponding to one or more resource units. One or more of the partitions is designated for transmission of a plurality of uplink pilots that specify channel information for the corresponding resource units. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20100110917 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product For Adaptive Reference Symbol Placement - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided that determine the length of an idle period, such as the idle period preceding a DL-to-UL switch point, and then insert a symbol including reference signal(s) (RS) at a position within a downlink slot that varies based upon the length of the idle period. A method, apparatus and computer program product are also provided according to another aspect that determine the length of an idle period, receive a plurality of symbols within a downlink slot and then recognize a symbol including RS at a position within the downlink slot that varies based upon the length of the idle period. Accordingly, the method, apparatus and computer program product permit the position of the symbol including RS within a downlink slot to be varied while still providing the reference signals that are required in order to permit accurate recovery of the data. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100150081 | PHYSICAL UPLING CONTROL CHANNEL COMPRESSION SUPPORTING ACK/NACK BUNDLING - In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: dividing a plurality of control channel elements in at least one downlink subframe of a bundling window into a plurality of portions having a first portion and a second portion, where the first portion includes at least one control channel element that is mapped to resources and the second portion includes at least one control channel element that is not mapped to resources, where the bundling window has a plurality of downlink subframes; and sending a last downlink grant in a downlink subframe of the bundling window using at least one control channel element that is mapped to resources. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100214972 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK CONTROL SIGNALING ON WIRELESS RELAY LINK - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises allocating a control channel resource in a wireless relay transmission frame on a wireless relay link; generating a control signaling based on at least one of a resource allocation scheme, a status of the wireless relay link and a traffic condition of the wireless relay link; mapping the control signaling to the allocated control channel resource via at least one of a time-first mapping, a frequency-first mapping, and a multiplexing mapping; and transmitting the control signaling in the allocated control channel resource on the wireless relay link to at least one associated relay node. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110010598 | User Specific Load Balancing - In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the invention there is a method and apparatus to detect with a hybrid automatic repeat request function a collision between an uplink packet re-transmission and a new uplink packet transmission within a hybrid automatic repeat request process, and in response, to dynamically allocating resources for transmitting the new uplink packet transmission in a different hybrid automatic repeat request process that does not collide with the uplink packet re-transmission. In accordance with other exemplary embodiments of the invention, there is a method and apparatus to transmit a packet re-transmission in a hybrid automatic repeat request process using a semi-persistently scheduled uplink resource, and responsive to receiving a dynamic allocation of a different hybrid automatic repeat request process, to transmit a new packet using the dynamically allocated different hybrid automatic repeat request process. | 01-13-2011 |