Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090196195 | Network Controlled Throughput for Enhanced Uplink FACH - Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for network control of interference associated with uplink transmissions by user equipments, UEs, operating in a random access state, e.g., the CELL_FACH state. A radio network controller, RNC, can determine, and then transmit, a limitation on uplink transmissions for such UEs, e.g., a maximum transport block size, TBS. | 08-06-2009 |
20090197606 | HIGH-SPEED SERVING CELL CHANGE - A device receives a measurement report generated by user equipment, and determines whether a serving cell for the user equipment should change from a source cell to a target cell based on the measurement report. The device also configures the source cell and the target cell for the serving cell change when it is determined that the serving cell for the user equipment should change, and transmits, via the target cell, a serving cell change message to the user equipment using a common network temporary identifier. The device further receives, from the user equipment, an acknowledgment of the serving cell change. | 08-06-2009 |
20090323596 | Scheduling For Uplink And Downlink Time Of Arrival Positioning - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for scheduling of positioning channels and traffic in order to recover a sufficiently perfect orthogonality including scheduling tasks for the downlink and uplink direction. A scheduling manager co-ordinates the scheduling and measurement timing of first and second positioning schedulers that, respectively, allocate uplink and downlink radio resources. | 12-31-2009 |
20100080160 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides, inter alia, a method of operation of a radio base station in a wireless telecommunications system, in which system information is transmitted on a broadcast control channel. The method comprises the steps of transmitting the broadcast control channel continuously on a first carrier; and also transmitting the broadcast control channel non-continuously and periodically at regular intervals. This prevents or at least minimizes, for example, MBMS data loss when a UE with a single receiver listens to a dedicated MBMS carrier. | 04-01-2010 |
20100124206 | TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED PILOT SIGNAL FOR INTEGRATED MOBILE BROADCASTS - A pilot channel signal for time-division multiplexing with one or more traffic channel signals in a broadcast/multi-cast signal and for code-division multiplexing with a continuously transmitted pilot channel signal is described. In an exemplary method for transmitting a broadcast/multicast signal, a pilot symbol sequence is obtained for each slot of one or more frames of the broadcast/multicast signal, so that the pilot symbol sequence varies for each slot of a given frame. The pilot symbol sequence for each slot is spread with a channelization code, and the spread pilot symbol sequence for each slot is scrambled, using a scrambling code, to form a first pilot channel signal. The first pilot channel signal is transmitted so that it is time-division multiplexed with one or more traffic channel signals transmitted during each slot and code-division multiplexed with a second pilot channel signal transmitted during all slots of the one or more frames. | 05-20-2010 |
20100135169 | Channel Quality Reporting Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunication System - When a high SIR can be achieved for downlink data transmission, for example in a MIMO system, or when higher order modulation, such as 64 QAM, can be used, it is desired to measure the instantaneous downlink channel quality indicator (CQI), and report the measured CQI to the network using the same number of bits as when a lower SIR can be achieved. In order to do this, a true CQI is derived based upon at least one network controlled parameter and a measured channel quality parameter; and the true CQI value is scaled to a new CQI value such that the new CQI will fall within a specified range of CQI values; so that the new CQI achieved by scaling the derived CQI value can be reported with every CQI value over the entire reporting range requiring the same number of bits. | 06-03-2010 |
20100240392 | Angle of Arrival Downlink Signaling - A wireless communication network determines positioning data for a given mobile terminal, in response to receiving a positioning event trigger for that mobile terminal. The network sends the positioning data to the mobile terminal via control-plane signaling, for transfer by the mobile terminal to the user plane. Correspondingly, the mobile terminal receives the positioning data over the control plane, transfers it to the user plane, and transmits the positioning data or location information derived from the positioning data, via user-plane signaling. As such, network-performed positioning measurements and/or geographic coordinate data derived therefrom are transferred from the control plane, to the user plane, for flexible and transparent transmission from the mobile terminal to a given node having a user-plane connection with the mobile terminal. Such a node may be essentially any type of communication device, system, or server, internal or external to the network. | 09-23-2010 |
20100246701 | Fast Random Access for an Enhanced Uplink Dedicated Channel - The present invention relates to fast random access methods and arrangements for the enhanced uplink dedicated channel of E-UTRAN (Evolved Universal terrestrial radio access network). A user equipment (UE) being in a low activity state sends a random access request comprising a preamble on a physical random access channel (PRACH) to a NodeB. The NodeB receives the request and sends in response to the received random access request a response comprising information associated with detection of the preamble on an acquisition indicator channel (AICH). The response comprises further in an extension of the AICH an indication of an action to be taken by the UE. In an embodiment of the present invention the action is to access the E-DCH and the response comprises configuration parameters to the E-DCH. | 09-30-2010 |
20100271965 | Methods and Apparatus in a Wireless Communication System - The present invention relates to methods and apparatus in a RBS and a UE for reference signal (RS) measurements in an OFDM system, that enable having a configurable RS transmission bandwidth which is smaller than the system bandwidth. This allows for better interference coordination of RS, which in turn improves the UE RS measurements used for different services such as positioning. The RBS retrieves the RS transmission bandwidth, determines a RS measurement bandwidth based on this RS transmission bandwidth, and transmits the determined bandwidth to the UE. The UE receives the RS measurement bandwidth and measures the RS in a bandwidth determined based on the received measurement bandwidth and the UE capability. | 10-28-2010 |
20100303042 | Methods and Arrangements in a Wireless Communication System - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements that enable uplink timing adjustment in a UTRAN while minimizing the signalling overhead. This is achieved by a solution where the information about the estimated reception time is used by the NB to determine whether the UEs need to be time adjusted on the UL in order to avoid TTI overlapping and thus interference. The estimated reception time of a UE UL signal is compared with an ideal reception time (the reference time) which can be defined based on the overall knowledge of the estimated reception times. If the difference between the estimated and the ideal reception time is larger than a pre-defined threshold value, meaning that the overlapping with some other UEs TTI will be big, a timing adjustment is initiated. | 12-02-2010 |
20100311411 | Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunication System - A user equipment, in a cellular telecommunication system having a plurality of downlink physical channels, detects radio link problems using a subset of said physical channels, where said subset is dynamically adjustable depending upon which channels are available at a particular instant. | 12-09-2010 |
20100317351 | DETECTION OF COLLISIONS OF RADIO COVERAGE CELL IDENTIFIERS - Additional information is included in or used to generate a positioning reference signal to enable detection of a cell identifier “collision” between two different cells associated with two or more base stations. In one example embodiment, a user equipment terminal detects the collision using the additional information included in or used to generate positioning reference signals sent by two or more base stations and reports the collision to the network, and the network resolves the collision by assigning a different cell identifier to one of the colliding cells. | 12-16-2010 |
20100322333 | HS-SCCH Orders for CQI Mode Selection - A network node ( | 12-23-2010 |
20100323723 | Base Station Mapping with Angle-of-Arrival and Timing Advance Measurements - Methods and apparatus for determining a position estimate for a base station transceiver node in a wireless communication system are disclosed. Angle-of-arrival and/or timing advance measurements corresponding to transmissions received from mobile stations for which geographic locations are already known are combined with known locations for the mobile stations to estimate the position of the base station receiving the transmissions. This estimated base station position may be used, for example, in subsequent positioning of mobile stations for which locations are not already known, such as mobile stations not equipped with GPS technology. The estimated base station position may also be used to update a database of base station coordinates for the wireless network. | 12-23-2010 |
20110002289 | Methods and Arrangements in a Wireless Communications System - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements that make it possible to control the delay for the UEs to access the EUL resources in the Enhanced Uplink in CELL_FACH state procedure, independently from the delay for the UEs to access 5 ordinary UL resources in the RACH procedure. This is achieved by a solution where the timing of entering (or re-entering) a transmission procedure for Enhanced Uplink in CELL-FACH state is controlled with the help of a transmission control parameter defined specifically for this transmission procedure, instead of using the same parameter as for the RACH procedure. | 01-06-2011 |
20110004797 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements that enable continuous adaptive control of the number of autonomous HARQ retransmissions. This is achieved by a solution, where the UE and the radio base station are using a number of autonomous HARQ retransmissions that can be adjusted based on observations in the UE and/or the radio base station. What is observed is the amount of HARQ retransmissions needed for the radio base station to correctly decode the latest received data packet(s). | 01-06-2011 |
20110014907 | METHODS AND ARRANGMENTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for uplink retransmissions from a user equipment to a radio base station in a UTRAN with enhanced uplink. The UE transmits a subframe comprising physical control channel(s) and physical data channel(s) in an initial transmission. According to the present invention, one or more of the physical control channels are transmitted with a lower transmission power level in all or some of the retransmitted subframes in the uplink. This results in reduced control overhead (a smaller part of the transmission power resource is used for control signaling) and thus reduced interference from the overhead. At the same time, the transmission power resource no longer used for the physical control channel information, can be used to increase the transmission power level of the physical data channel information in these retransmitted subframes, which improves the uplink coverage. | 01-20-2011 |
20110038352 | TTI BUNDLING INDICATION TO NON-SERVING BASE STATION - The technology applies to a cellular radio communication system in which a mobile radio terminal transmits information in transmission time intervals (TTIs) that is received by a serving base station and by one or more non-serving base stations. A number N of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions transmitted together by the mobile terminal is determined. An HARQ transmission includes a first transmission, one or more retransmissions of the first transmission, or both. An indication of the number N of HARQ transmissions is provided either directly or indirectly to the one or more non-serving base stations so that the one or more non-serving base stations can take the number N into account when combining HARQ transmissions received from the mobile terminal. | 02-17-2011 |
20110039517 | Radio Fingerprinting Using E-UTRAN Measurements - A system obtains geographic positions associated with location points of multiple user equipments (UEs) in a wireless network and receives Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) radio fingerprint data associated with radio measurements performed at the location points by the multiple UE or performed by eNodeBs associated with the multiple UEs. The system clusters the location points based on similarities between the E-UTRAN radio fingerprint data to create cluster boundaries and stores the geographic positions, cluster boundaries and the E-UTRAN radio fingerprint data in a database for future determination of UE geographic positions using the E-UTRAN radio fingerprint data. The system receives E-UTRAN radio fingerprint measurement data associated with a first UE in the wireless network and performs a lookup operation into the database to retrieve one of the geographic positions that corresponds to the E-UTRAN radio fingerprint measurement data. The system sends the one of the geographic positions to at least one of the first UE, an emergency or police call center, a geographic information system (GIS) server or a node external to the wireless network. | 02-17-2011 |
20110039580 | RADIO FINGERPRINT METHOD IN A POSITIONING NODE FOR PROVIDING GEOGRAPHIC REGION DATA - A method for providing geographic region data includes receiving geographic position data associated with a location point of a first user equipment and receiving a first radio fingerprint. The method also includes associating the received first radio fingerprint with the received geographic position data and clustering the received geographic position data to create cluster boundaries defining geographical region data. The method further includes receiving a second radio fingerprint and comparing the second radio fingerprint received from the second user equipment with previously received radio fingerprints being associated with geographic region data, and if the second radio fingerprint corresponds to a previously received radio fingerprint, associating the geographic region data of the previously received radio fingerprint with the location point of the second user equipment, and providing the geographic region data, associated with the location point of the second user equipment. | 02-17-2011 |
20110044199 | Method for Determining the Round Trip Time - A method in a first node for determining a round trip time of a signal sent between the first node and a second node includes sending a first signal to the second node and receiving a second signal, corresponding to the sent first signal. The second signal is sent from the second node as a response to the sent first signal. The method also includes computing the round trip time of the signal and sending the computed round trip time to the second node. | 02-24-2011 |
20110044222 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR DOWNLINK MULTI-CARRIER POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a radio base station and in a user equipment for controlling the downlink transmit power of the F-DPCH in a multi-carrier HSPA system, by using the concept of TPC commands (used in single-carrier systems), adapted to support different kinds of multi-carrier scenarios. The UE defines at least one TPC command for adjustment of the transmit power of the N downlink carriers' ( | 02-24-2011 |
20110065453 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION RELATED INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Method and arrangement in a first node for providing geographical position related information. The first node and a second node are comprised within a wireless communication system. The first node and the second node are adapted to exchange wireless signals. The method comprises receiving a signal from the second node. Apart of the received signal that has propagated through a first channel path from the second node is detected by using a circular correlator. A timing estimate associated with the propagation time of the part of the signal which is received over the first channel path from the second node is calculated. Thus the calculated timing estimate is provided, which timing estimate is to be used when determining the geographical position. | 03-17-2011 |
20110080838 | Methods and Arrangements in a Mobile Telecommunication Network - Methods and apparatus for distributing available transmit power in a user equipment (UE) to avoid violation of UE power limitations on a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) and a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) are described. Available power for transmission on at least the PUCCH is determined and at least one power headroom report indicating available power for transmission on at least the PUCCH is transmitted to a base station. | 04-07-2011 |
20110081927 | Methods and Arrangements in a Mobile Telecommunication Network - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for assisting a User Equipment (UE) to determine transmit power to be used on a first uplink component carrier y, wherein the base station is configured to communicate with the UE over a plurality of uplink and downlink component carriers x,y. The UE is aware of path loss parameters associated with a second downlink component carrier x. The method in a base station comprises determining cell specific path loss parameters associated with the component carriers of the base station. The cell specific path loss parameters at least comprises path loss parameters associated with the first uplink component carrier y and a second uplink component carrier x which is paired to the second downlink component carrier x, wherein the second uplink component carrier and second downlink component carrier are within one frequency band. The method comprises the further steps of calculating a pathloss offset, deltaPL(y,x), for the first uplink component carrier y, wherein the pathloss offset deltaPL(y,x) is the pathloss power offset for the first uplink component carrier y with respect to the second uplink component carrier x, and sending the calculated pathloss offset, deltaPL(y,x) to the UE. | 04-07-2011 |
20110081932 | PUCCH Resource Allocation for Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced - The invention is a method and apparatus for signaling uplink control information in a mobile communication network using carrier aggregation. The signaling mechanism allows the transmission, on a single uplink component carrier, of control information associated with a downlink transmission on multiple aggregated downlink component carriers. Semi-statically reserved resources for the transmission of control information on the uplink component carrier may be dynamically shared by user terminals that are assigned multiple downlink component carriers for downlink transmissions. Implicit or explicit resource indication can be used in combination with dynamic resource indication. | 04-07-2011 |
20110081940 | Methods and Arrangements For Uplink Multicarrier Power Control in a Wireless Communications System - A method of uplink transmit power control in a radio base station of a multi-carrier wireless communication system, in which the radio base station communicated with user equipment on N uplink carriers and M downlink carriers, with the sum of N and M being at least three, includes defining N transmit power control (TPC) commands to be used by the user equipment for adjusting the transmit power of the N uplink carriers. The method also includes transmitting both a first and at least a second of said N TPC commands on a first downlink carrier and each of the remaining TPC commands on separate subsequent downlink carriers, in order to fit all N TPC commands onto the M downlink carriers when M is smaller than N. The method further includes transmitting each of said N TPC commands on separate downlink carriers, when M is larger than or equal to N. | 04-07-2011 |
20110085491 | Extended Cell Range - A solution for extending the cell range and in particular for a solution for handling timing alignment is presented herein. The solution comprises determining a distance between user equipment and a radio access network node. User equipment located at a distance related to a pre defined timing advance value is scheduled to handle uplink communication so as to arrive at a later time slot for reducing the risk of conflicting with other transmissions towards the access node. | 04-14-2011 |
20110096727 | Methods and Devices for Multiple Modulated Data Streams Signaling - Embodiments relate to a base station ( | 04-28-2011 |
20110117942 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Method and arrangement in a base station, a user equipment and a positioning node, for sending, and obtaining, respectively, a value of a propagation delay of a signal. The signal is sent to the base station from a user equipment. The base station and the user equipment are comprised within a wireless communication system. Also, the base station and the user equipment are adapted to exchange wireless signals. The method is characterised by the step of receiving a signal sent from the user equipment. The method is further characterised by the step of measuring the value of the signal propagation delay of the received signal. Still further, the method is characterised by the step of sending the measured value to the equipment and/or to a positioning node comprised within the wireless communication system. | 05-19-2011 |
20110124344 | Network Controlled Throughput for Enhanced Uplink FACH - Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for network control of interference associated with uplink transmissions by user equipments, UEs, operating in a random access state, e.g., the CELL_FACH state. A radio network controller, RNC, can determine, and then transmit, a limitation on uplink transmissions for such UEs, e.g., a maximum transport block size, TBS. | 05-26-2011 |
20110141985 | Method and Arrangement for Reconfiguring Mapping of Carrier Indicator Field to Component Carrier - A method and an arrangement in a radio network node for reconfiguring mappings from Carrier Indicator Field-values to component carriers are provided. Each CIF-value is mapped to a respective component carrier comprising a respective shared data channel. Each respective shared data channel corresponds to at least one downlink control channel carrying said each CIF-value. The radio network node reconfigures mappings from CIF-values to component carriers, while at least one mapping of CIF-value to component carrier is maintained. The component carrier of said at least one mapping from CIF-value to component carrier comprises said at least one downlink control channel and a shared data channel corresponding to said at least one downlink control channel. The radio network node sends at least one of the reconfigured mappings from CIF-values to component carriers to the user equipment. | 06-16-2011 |
20110176499 | Methods and Apparatus for Improved Reference Signal Correlation Characteristics - The auto-correlation properties of a reference signal or pilot pattern, such as a position reference signal (PRS) in a Long Term Evolution communication system, is improved by modifying the currently specified PRS patterns, and/or by PRS pattern shaping. Pattern shaping can result in creation of virtual PRS patterns, for example, by controlling the PRS transmitted or received power used by the correlator. PRS power shaping can be implemented differently according to the location where the PRS power is calculated, e.g., in a network node or in a user equipment. | 07-21-2011 |
20110207495 | Method and Arrangement in a Multi-Carrier Communication Network System - Method and arrangement in a base station for scheduling communication between the base station and a user equipment in a multi-carrier communication network system. The base station and the user equipment are comprised in the multi-carrier communication network system, and adapted to communicate with each other on downlink carriers and uplink carriers in at least a first frequency band and a second frequency band over a radio interface. The method comprises signalling an indication to the user equipment on the downlink carrier in the first frequency band, which the user equipment currently is scheduled on, to switch to a second carrier in order to communicate data and/or control signalling on the second carrier. In addition, a method and arrangement in a user equipment for assisting the base station in scheduling radio resources are described. | 08-25-2011 |
20110211520 | HANDLING DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION INDICATION BITS - Transmitter(s) ( | 09-01-2011 |
20110261858 | Radio Base Station and User Equipment and Methods Therein - Embodiments herein include a method in a user equipment (UE) for transmitting uplink control information in time slots of a subframe over a radio channel to a radio base station. The uplink control information is comprised in a block of bits. | 10-27-2011 |
20110274062 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNALING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method of wirelessly transmitting control information includes generating control information comprising a plurality of control bits and encoding the control bits using a block code that outputs an encoded bit sequence comprising encoded bits b( | 11-10-2011 |
20110292887 | Method and Arrangements in a Communication System - Methods and arrangements in a network node and mobile terminal, respectively, in a wireless communication system supporting aggregation of component carriers. The method in a network node involves, when resources on at least two downlink component carriers are being assigned to a mobile terminal at the same time, allocating ( | 12-01-2011 |
20110310759 | UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION (UCI) MAPPING INDICATOR FOR LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) CARRIER AGGREGATION - A system and method to instruct a User Equipment (UE) how Uplink Control Information (UCI) on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) should be transmitted with carrier aggregation. A semi-static signaling of a UCI mapping bit (via a Radio Resource Control (RRC) parameter) is used by a base station such as an eNodeB to require the UE to transmit UCI using one of two pre-determined UCI transmission modes. The bit can be decided by the base station, considering, for example, the available bandwidth or quality of different Uplink Component Carriers (UL CCs) associated with the UE. This network-based solution allows the network to either configure a general rule of UCI transmission by the UE or to enforce the UCI transmission on the Uplink Primary cell (UL Pcell). Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims. | 12-22-2011 |
20110312339 | Methods and Arrangements in a Wireless Communication System - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a network node such as a positioning server and a user equipment of enabling downlink-based positioning of the user equipment which is served by a serving cell. The network node estimates ( | 12-22-2011 |
20110317613 | Method and Arrangement for DL-OTDOA (Downlink Observed Time Difference of Arrival) Positioning in a LTE (Long Term Evolution) Wireless Communications System - The present invention relates generally to methods and arrangements for positioning in a wireless communications system, such as LTE. In particular, the present invention relates to improving positioning accuracy. The invention provides methods and arrangements for scheduling positioning subframes, i.e. low interference subframes, for allowing aligning of positioning subframes across a number of cells in order to reduce the interference from data symbols of cells in the neighborhood of a cell serving the UE that is performing positioning measurements. A time instance during which transmission of the positioning subframes is to occur in a wireless communications network is selected. The base stations in the wireless communications network are informed about the selected time instance, whereupon the base stations schedule and transmit the positioning subframes based on the selected time instance, whereby the positioning subframes are aligned throughout the network. | 12-29-2011 |
20120008552 | Power Headroom Reporting for Carrier Aggregation - Power headroom reporting and report handling are discussed in the context of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), on which a user equipment (UE) has no valid uplink grant, and a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) on which a UE has no transmission. Under these circumstances, it is not possible to directly calculate one or more parameters which are used to calculate power headroom. Accordingly, exemplary embodiments provide for predetermined, known values to be used by the UE to calculate the power headroom, and by the eNodeB to understand the meaning of a received power headroom report. | 01-12-2012 |
20120014307 | Generation of MBSFN-DOB Synchronization Codes - Physical downlink channels PPHY | 01-19-2012 |
20120020421 | Methods and Apparatus for Varying Reduced Transmission Resources - Inter-cell interference coordination across layers of a communication network can be implemented by configuring a cell to transmit one or more downlink transmission resources having variably reduced transmission activity. A transmitting node, such as a macro cell, can transmit transmission resources, such as resource elements, resource blocks, subframes, and frames, having reduced transmission activity at varying predictable times according to a selected cell activity pattern. A receiving node, such as a user equipment, can decide to make received signal measurements according to the cell activity pattern. | 01-26-2012 |
20120039158 | Systems and Methods For Transmit Diversity For DFT Precoded Channels - A transmission method and apparatus that combines the benefits of DFT precoding and transmit diversity coding for PUCCH transmission. In one aspect, the invention provides an improved transmit diversity coding method and apparatus for DFTS-OFDM PUCCH with minimal impact on multiplexing capacity. In one embodiment, the improved transmit diversity method and apparatus has the feature of employing frequency-domain separation for the payload signals. | 02-16-2012 |
20120046032 | Arrangement and Method for Identifying PUCCH Format 3 Resources - The disclosure relates to a user equipment for a wireless communications system, and to a related method for identifying a resource to use for a transmission of control information on a physical uplink control channel, PUCCH, format 3. The method comprises receiving ( | 02-23-2012 |
20120082058 | IMPROVED MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN A COORDINATED MULTIPOINT NETWORK - In one aspect, the present invention in one or more embodiments improves mobility management—e.g., handover processing enhancement—by providing/utilizing additional information in combination with CoMP operation, for enhancing the handover procedure. For example, the additional information is used to improve judging the most suitable target cell ( | 04-05-2012 |
20120087317 | Methods of Providing Power Headroom Reports Arranged In Order of Component Carrier Indices and Related Wireless Terminals and Base Stations - Power headroom reports may be transmitted from a wireless terminal to a base station wherein a primary component carrier and at least one secondary component carrier are provided for uplink transmissions from the wireless terminal to the base station and wherein a respective component carrier index is assigned to each of the at least one secondary component carriers provided for the wireless terminal. Respective power headroom reports may be generated for the primary component carrier and for each of the at least one secondary component carriers, and a MAC control element may be generated including the power headroom reports for the primary and secondary component carriers. More particularly, the power headroom reports for each of the at least one secondary component carriers may be arranged in order of the component carrier indices for the respective secondary component carriers. The MAC control element including the power headroom reports for the primary and secondary component carriers may be transmitted from the wireless terminal to the base station over one of the component carriers. Related wireless terminals, and base stations are also discussed. | 04-12-2012 |
20120113907 | POWER CONTROL FOR ACK/NACK FORMATS WITH CARRIER AGGREGATION - A system and method for determining a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) power control parameter h(n | 05-10-2012 |
20120120889 | TERMINAL, NETWORK NODE, SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SOFT BUFFER HANDLING IN CARRIER AGGREGATION - A terminal (e.g., mobile communication device, UE) and a method are described herein for allocating a soft buffer after interacting with a network node (e.g., base station, eNB). In addition, a network node (e.g., base station, eNB) and a method are described herein that facilitates robust operations during a reconfiguration period while a terminal allocates a soft buffer located therein. | 05-17-2012 |
20120140716 | Method and Arrangement for Transmitting Uplink Control - In various embodiments, a method for transmitting uplink control information in a cell is provided. The uplink control information is transmitted during a time slot. According to this method, bits corresponding to uplink control information are mapped to complex modulation symbols. The complex modulation symbols are spread in the time slot using a set of orthogonal cover code, OCC, sequences, such that at least two of the complex modulation symbols are spread using different OCC sequences. The uplink control information is then transmitted using said spread complex modulation symbols. | 06-07-2012 |
20120188947 | Uplink Power Control in Wireless Communication Systems - Methods in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) base station for controlling transmit power of a User Equipment(UE) are provided. The method includes configuring UE individual power weighting factors to be used for weighting available UE transmit power between uplink component carriers and/or between Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) and Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH); and signaling the configured UE individual power weighting factors to the UE. Related methods and arrangements are also provided. | 07-26-2012 |
20120207108 | Methods and Nodes Related to Coding of Channel Status Information (CSI) Payload - Methods, for use in a communications system, for transmitting information that applies a method for channel coding the CQI/PMI information, wherein a turbo coding method is applied when the size of the CQI/PMI information is above a first threshold value. The methods further include setting, based on the method applied for the channel coding, an offset value indicative of the difference in code rate between the code rate of the CQI/PMI information and the assigned code rate of the UL-SCH data information on the PUSCH. The methods also include determining, based on the offset value, the number of coded bits to be used for transmission of the CQI/PMI information, and transmitting the CQI/PMI information to a radio access network node on resources assigned based on the determined number of coded bits. | 08-16-2012 |
20120264442 | Network Controlled Throughput for Enhanced Uplink FACH - Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for network control of interference associated with uplink transmissions by user equipments, UEs, operating in a random access state, e.g., the CELL_FACH state. A radio network controller, RNC, can determine, and then transmit, a limitation on uplink transmissions for such UEs, e.g., a maximum transport block size, TBS. | 10-18-2012 |
20120275395 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Particular embodiments provide a method in a mobile terminal ( | 11-01-2012 |
20130003585 | Methods and Apparatus in a Wireless Communication System - The present invention relates to methods and apparatus in a RBS and a UE for reference signal (RS) measurements in an OFDM system, that enable having a configurable RS transmission bandwidth which is smaller than the system bandwidth. This allows for better interference coordination of RS, which in turn improves the UE RS measurements used for different services such as positioning. The RBS retrieves the RS transmission bandwidth, determines a RS measurement bandwidth based on this RS transmission bandwidth, and transmits the determined bandwidth to the UE. The UE receives the RS measurement bandwidth and measures the RS in a bandwidth determined based on the received measurement bandwidth and the UE capability. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003664 | Scheduling of a User Equipment in a Radio Communication System - A radio base station ( | 01-03-2013 |
20130010690 | Technique of Encoding HARQ Feedback Information with Two Separate Codewords with Unequal Error Protection for DTX and ACK/NACK - A technique for encoding downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, HARQ, feedback information in a mobile station supporting aggregated component carriers is provided. A method implementation of this technique comprises the steps of obtaining ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130010711 | Random Access with Primary and Secondary Component Carrier Communications - The invention relates to random access procedures in an LTE-system applying carrier aggregation, in particular to support network-initiated random access on secondary cells. A UE transmits a preamble on a random access channel to a radio base station on a secondary cell and receives or detects a random access response message from the base station including timing advance information for uplink transmission by the UE. The UE can determine the secondary cell that the control information in the random access response message refers to and transmits to the base station based on the timing advance information in the random access response message. | 01-10-2013 |
20130028216 | Resource Organization in an Apparatus and Method for Carrier Aggregation - Methods and apparatus for organizing reception on a channel by a user equipment are disclosed. A method includes detemnining a channel group based on a first physical resource block index of a physical uplink shared channel and a cyclic shift of uplink demodulation reference signals, without an offset value; determining a channel sequence based on the first physical resource block index, the cyclic shift, and the offset value; and determining a reception resource according to the channel group and the channel sequence. | 01-31-2013 |
20130039188 | RADIO NETWORK NODE, USER EQUIPMENT AND METHODS THEREIN - Embodiments herein relate to a method in a user equipment for handling control information in a radio communications network. The user equipment is served in a cell controlled by a radio network node and is of a second type of user equipments. The user equipment monitors a search space for control information of a physical data control channel, PDCCH, which search space is associated with the second type of user equipments. The PDCCH comprises at least one control channel element that comprises resource elements at least partly comprised in a second region of resource elements. The resource elements of the second region are only allowed to be scheduled for control information to user equipments of the second type. The at least one CCE is defined in relation to a CCE of a first region of resource elements, which resource elements of the first region are allowed to be scheduled for control information to user equipments of a first type. The user equipment detects control information within the monitored search space, and uses the detected control information for communicating with the radio network node. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039286 | Method and Arrangement for Uplink Power Control - The disclosure relates to methods and devices for performing uplink power control in a radio communication system. An example method comprises a step of receiving, at a user equipment (UE) a transmit power control (TPC) command. The method also comprises, if the UE does not have an uplink transmission scheduled for a subframe associated with the TPC command, a step of accumulating, by the UE, the TPC command with previously received TPC commands based on whether the UE has reached a maximum transmit power or a minimum transmit power in a reference format for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) or Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) transmission. Thus the UE is enabled to receive TPC commands while the UE is not transmitting anything in the uplink. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039331 | AGGREGATED CARRIER SYNCHRONIZATION AND REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS - A node of a wireless network transmits information to a user equipment over an aggregated carrier that includes a primary carrier having a first set of primary carrier time/frequency resources and a secondary carrier having a second set of secondary carrier time/frequency resources. Synchronization signals and/or reference symbols are transmitted to the user equipment on the secondary carrier less often than on the primary carrier. An indication of when and/or how often the synchronization signals and/or reference symbols will be transmitted to the user equipment on the secondary carrier may also be transmitted to the user equipment over the primary carrier. By transmitting synchronization signals and/or reference symbols to the user equipment on the secondary carrier less often than on the primary carrier, resources of the secondary carrier may be conserved, energy efficiency of the secondary carrier may be increased, and/or interference with other cells may be reduced or prevented. | 02-14-2013 |
20130095816 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A NUMBER OF MIMO LAYERS - The embodiments herein relate to a method in a base station for communicating with a user equipment in the communication network. The base station is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories. Based on information about a selected user equipment category, the base station determines a first number of maximum transmission layers supported by the base station. The base station communicates with the user equipment according to up to the determined first number of maximum transmission layers and according to the selected user equipment category. | 04-18-2013 |
20130128828 | Compromise Resource Allocation Field Size When Aggregating Component Carriers of Differing Size - Methods and arrangements for resource allocation in a telecommunication system in which aggregation of component carriers is applied. The size of the resource allocation field is determined based on the transmission bandwidth of a selection of component carriers. The selection of component carriers comprises the component carrier on which the resource allocation message is monitored and the component carriers which are cross-scheduled from said component carrier. The resource allocation message comprising the resource allocation field with the determined size is transmitted to the user equipment over a particular component carrier of the selection of component carriers. Furthermore, with only one size of the resource allocation field a smaller number of code word sizes needs to be monitored by the UE. This leads to a smaller number of blind decodings performed in the UE. The present invention enables a more tailored approach when determining the size of the resource allocation field to avoid too high overhead but also a too coarse resource allocation. | 05-23-2013 |
20130136069 | Methods and Devices for Data Transmission Via a Plurality of Carriers - A communication system includes a transmitting communication device ( | 05-30-2013 |
20130136108 | Base Station, User Equipment and Methods Therein for Control Timing Configuration Assignment in a Multiple Cell Communications Network - Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a base station and method therein, for configuring control timing to and from a user equipment in a multiple component cell communications network. Example embodiments presented herein are also directed towards a user equipment and method therein, for configuration of control timing for a user equipment in a multiple component cell communications network. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136109 | Storage and Assignment of Control Timing Configurations in a Multiple Cell Communications Network - Example embodiments are directed towards a network node, and corresponding method, for a configuration of scheduling or control timing for a user equipment in a multiple cell communications network. The configuration of scheduling or control timing being based on at least two ordered sets of timing configuration numbers, each ordered set corresponding to a cell associated with the user equipment in the multiple cell communications network. | 05-30-2013 |
20130165183 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The embodiments herein relate to a method in a user equipment ( | 06-27-2013 |
20130242786 | Network Controlled Throughput for Enhanced Uplink FACH - Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for network control of interference associated with uplink transmissions by user equipments, UEs, operating in a random access state, e.g., the CELL_FACH state. A radio network controller, RNC, can determine, and then transmit, a limitation on uplink transmissions for such UEs, e.g., a maximum transport block size, TBS. | 09-19-2013 |
20130265944 | RADIO NETWORK NODE, USER EQUIPMENT AND METHODS THEREIN - Embodiments herein disclose a method in a user equipment ( | 10-10-2013 |
20140241197 | POWER HEADROOM REPORTING FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - Power headroom reporting and report handling are discussed in the context of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), on which a user equipment (UE) has no valid uplink grant, and a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) on which a UE has no transmission. Under these circumstances, it is not possible to directly calculate one or more parameters which are used to calculate power headroom. Accordingly, exemplary embodiments provide for predetermined, known values to be used by the UE to calculate the power headroom, and by the eNodeB to understand the meaning of a received power headroom report. | 08-28-2014 |
20140314023 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method for processing downlink control information in a mobile terminal capable of receiving multiple component carriers. The mobile terminal receives on a component carrier, downlink control information that includes a bit field allocated for a transmit power control (TPC) command. If the bit field comprises one or more bits that are not used for the TPC command, the mobile terminal interprets the meaning of the bits not used for the TPC command based on an ACK/NACK feedback mode with which the mobile terminal is configured. | 10-23-2014 |
20140369308 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A NUMBER OF MIMO LAYERS - The embodiments herein relate to a method in a base station for communicating with a user equipment in the communication network. The base station is configured to communicate with the user equipment according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories. Based on information about a selected user equipment category, the base station determines a first number of maximum transmission layers supported by the base station. The base station communicates with the user equipment according to up to the determined first number of maximum transmission layers and according to the selected user equipment category. | 12-18-2014 |