| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100172318 | Handling Hybrid Automatic Repeat Requests in Wireless Systems - A mobile station may implement an uplink hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement channel. The mobile station may use frequency hopping to randomize inter cell interference. The mobile unit may use time division multiplexing, frequency division multiplexing, and/or code division multiplexing. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100227565 | TRANSMISSION OF CHANNEL QUALITY DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, data transmitted from a transmitter is received in a downlink channel, and channel quality data is fed back to the transmitter in a first uplink channel or in a second uplink channel. Channel quality data is feedback at a lower rate on the first uplink channel and channel quality data is feedback at a higher rate on the second uplink channel in the event there is a higher amount of data to be fed back. Link adaptation may be utilized to select a transmission rate on the second uplink channel, wherein the transmission rate is selected based at least in part on a channel condition or a user location. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100272033 | HARQ BUFFER MANAGEMENT AND FEEDBACK DESIGN FOR A WIRELESS SYSTEM - A method is disclosed for performing HARQ buffer management. The HARQ buffer management method is a new approach to buffer overflow management that allows the mobile station, rather than the base station, to control the size of its buffer. The HARQ buffer management reports buffer size, buffer occupancy status, and buffer overflow to the base station, to facilitate efficient communication between the base station and the mobile station. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100272047 | FEEDBACK CHANNEL RELEASE - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a communication link is established between a base station and a mobile station. The base station transmits a feedback allocation to the mobile station for the allocation of the resources of a feedback channel. If the feedback allocation is to be terminated, the base station transmits a feedback deallocation to the mobile station. If the feedback deallocation is successful, the mobile station transmits a deallocation confirmation to the base station to confirm receipt of the feedback deallocation. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100275081 | HARQ FEEDBACK CHANNEL INDEXING SCHEME IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An enhanced semi-explicit solution for HARQ feedback channel indexing in wireless communication systems is disclosed. The HARQ feedback channel indexing method may be applied to the HARQ feedback channel transmitted in the downlink, as well as the HARQ feedback channel transmitted in the uplink. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100287452 | Tail-biting convolutional codes for uplink fast feedback control channel - An apparatus and method for processing fast feedback payload data to generate symbols for transmission through a fast feedback channel in a wireless network are presented. The technique first encodes payload data using a tail biting convolutional code. The encoded bits are then de-multiplexed to five different data subblocks in a sequential fashion. Subblock interleaving is then used to interleave the data of the subblocks according to a predetermine scheme. A bit selector then selects interleaved subblock bit for output. The selected bits may then be modulated by a modulator using quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK). The resulting symbols may then be mapped to a predetermined fast feedback subcarriers within a feedback channel. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100329316 | Techniques for transmission of channel quality data in wireless systems - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, including a transceiver adapted for use in a wireless network using a fast feedback channel design that incorporates a 2-two level adaptive fast feedback channel framework separating uplink (UL) fast feedback channels into primary and secondary UL fast feedback channels. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110002279 | UPLINK OPEN LOOP POWER CONTROL SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink open loop power control system in which interference over thermal information is transmitted to mobile stations. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004796 | ACKNOWLEDGMENT CHANNEL DESIGN FOR WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an acknowledgment channel design in which an acknowledgment sequence is scrambled with a station-specific scrambling sequence. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004804 | Systems and methods for channel coding of wireless communication - Embodiments of an apparatus and method for coding of wireless transmissions channel are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110029833 | HARQ TIMING CONTROL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An apparatus and method for HARQ timing control in wireless communication systems is disclosed. The apparatus and method provides one unified algorithm to determine HARQ timing, with consideration of the downlink-to-uplink ratio, the presence of legacy zones, support of relay zones, and variable transmission time interval length. The disclosed algorithm guarantees sufficient processing time, at both the transmit and receive sides. Further, retransmissions occur in a periodic manner, simplifying the implementation. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110044265 | Distributing Group Size Indications to Mobile Stations - Group size indications may be distributed from a base station to a mobile station in the form of assignment-advanced-MAP transmit control signaling. The signaling control information may be sent to a station, such as a mobile station, using a table that indicates the size of a group based on coding rates, such as one-half and one-quarter coding rates. Waste may be controlled by determining a size based on using an unoccupied resource in a group that is adjacent to data resource for data transmission by the station. However, an unoccupied resource in a group that is not adjacent to a data resource is not used for data transmission and is, therefore, wasted. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110058522 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AN ACK/NACK SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for transmitting ACK/NACK signal in a wireless communication system are described. In some embodiments, a sequence corresponding to one of acknowledge (ACK) information and non-acknowledge (NACK) information may be determined. Then, the sequence may be mapped onto a transmission channel for later transmission from the mobile station to a base station. In some embodiments, the transmission channel may be allocated with at least a part of three feedback mini-tiles (FMTs), wherein each of the FMTs comprises two subcarriers contiguous in frequency domain by six orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols contiguous in time domain and the three FMTs being discontinuous in frequency domain. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110110342 | Subcarrier permutation to achieve high frequency diversity of OFDMA systems - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of improving subcarrier permutation to achieve high frequency diversity of OFDMA systems in wireless networks, comprising introducing different tone selections for different symbols, such that if a channel has only a few tones in each symbol of a resource unit it can still have sufficient frequency diversity. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110111766 | Techniques to control uplink power - Techniques are described that provide uplink power control techniques that can support different uplink multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transmission schemes. Open and closed loop power control schemes can be used to prescribe the power level of the mobile station. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110136448 | UPLINK POWER CONTROL SCHEME - An uplink power control technique may include a simplified maximum sector throughput (SMST) and a generalized maximum sector throughput (GMST). The SMST and GMST techniques may be used to determine a maximum sector throughput and cell-edge throughput to enhance the overall efficiency of the communication system. The uplink power control technique may determine the optimal uplink power value without collecting interference over thermal noise and without computing the individual channel losses in each neighboring sector. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110138244 | DETERMINING HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (HARQ) TIMING - A communication apparatus (CA) such as a mobile node/station (MN), a base station (BS), or a radio station (RS) may support determination of HARQ timing. The CA may generate at least in part one or more generalized frames such as a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame or a time division duplex (TDD) frame. The generalized FDD and TDD frames may include support to determine the HARQ timing considering various factors, which may affect the HARQ timing. The FDD and TDD frames may include information corresponding to various factors to determine the HARQ timing considering factors such as DL/UL ratio, number of sub-frames per frame, variable transmission time interval (TTI), relay zones, legacy IEEEĀ® 802.16e zones, and availability of ACKCH. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110141980 | WIRELESS BROADBAND RESOURCE ALLOCATION INDEXING - Wireless broadband resource allocation indexing is generally presented. In this regard a method is introduced comprising determining a total number of allowable continuous logical resource unit (LRU) allocations for a bandwidth, removing allowable allocations to generate a set of allocations that can be indexed with fewer bits than the total number of allowable allocations, and storing an index of the set of allocations in a memory. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110159913 | UPLINK POWER CONTROL IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, one or more interference over thermal noise (IoT) values may be measured for one or more frequency partitions or a sounding area, or combinations thereof, and a difference between a current IoT value and a previous IoT value may be evaluated. If the difference is greater than or equal to a reset threshold, the current IoT value is broadcast to a mobile station to reset the IoT value. Otherwise an IoT differential value is broadcast to the mobile station to update the IoT with the IoT differential value. The mobile station may then perform open loop power control based on the IoT value for uplink broadcast. | 06-30-2011 |