Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100027454 | DEDICATED REFERENCE SIGNAL DESIGN FOR NETWORK MIMO - Aspects describe utilizing a dedicated reference signal for supporting Network MIMO, distributed MIMO, Coordinated MultiPoint, and the like. A data modulation symbol is transmitting in the same direction as a pilot modulation symbol is transmitted. Two or more wireless devices can coordinate communications such that transmission of the same pilot modulation symbol and the same data modulation symbol are transmitted to a device in different directions, each direction associated with a wireless device and intended for a particular mobile device. Cluster-specific scrambling and/or user-group specific scrambling can be employed and a scrambling code can be communicated prior to transmission of the pilot modulation symbols and data modulation symbols. | 02-04-2010 |
20100034146 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MULTI-USER AND SINGLE-USER MIMO IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for supporting distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions are described. In one design, a user equipment (UE) determines channel estimates for multiple cells and reports the channel estimates. The UE thereafter receives a data transmission sent by the multiple cells to the UE based on the channel estimates. The data transmission may include at least one data stream, and each data stream may be sent by one cell or the multiple cells to the UE. In another design, a UE determines first and second channel estimates for first and second cells, respectively, and reports the channel estimates. The UE then receives a first data transmission sent by the first cell to the UE based on the first channel estimate. The UE also receives a second data transmission sent by the second cell to another UE and steered away from the UE based on the second channel estimate. | 02-11-2010 |
20100035600 | COORDINATED TRANSMISSIONS BETWEEN CELLS OF A BASE STATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing coverage to a first cell through a first antenna system and coverage to a second cell through a second antenna system. Data is also processed for transmission to a mobile device in the first cell using the first and second antenna systems. | 02-11-2010 |
20100035627 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING DISTRIBUTED MIMO IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for supporting distributed MIMO are described. For multi-user distributed MIMO, a cell directs its transmit power toward a UE while reducing interference to UE(s) in neighbor cell(s). For single-user distributed MIMO, multiple cells concurrently send transmissions to a UE. In an aspect, a UE sends channel estimates for serving and non-serving cells to support multi-user distributed MIMO. Each cell may use the channel estimates to select UEs for data transmission and determine precoding vectors to use for data transmission to the selected UEs. In another aspect, a UE sends CQI information for serving and non-serving cells to support single-user distributed MIMO. Each cell may use the CQI information to select UEs for data transmission and determine modulation and coding schemes to use for the selected UEs. In yet another aspect, a UE determines CQI information for a serving cell by taking into account interference nulling by non-serving cells. | 02-11-2010 |
20100041411 | HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING FRAMEWORK FOR INTER-CELL MIMO SYSTEMS - A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes forming a first set of wireless components into a master cluster that provides upper level service functionality to a subset of user devices. The method includes forming a second set of wireless components into a nested cluster that is associated with the master cluster, where the nested cluster provides data transfer to and from the subset of user devices. | 02-18-2010 |
20100042716 | ADAPTIVE CLUSTERING FRAMEWORK IN FREQUENCY-TIME FOR NETWORK MIMO SYSTEMS - A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes analyzing a set of network parameters and automatically forming a set of network clusters based in part on the network parameters. This includes dynamically selecting at least one network cluster from the set of network clusters to provide wireless service to a subset of user equipment. | 02-18-2010 |
20100202331 | CLOSED-LOOP POWER CONTROL IN MULTI-CARRIER HIGH-SPEED UPLINK PACKET ACCESS - A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes applying independent power controls to two or more carriers from a set of high speed packet access signals. The method includes monitoring power across the two or more carriers to determine power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. The method also includes automatically adjusting at least one of the independent power controls in view of the determined power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202392 | POWER ALLOCATION IN MULTI-CARRIER ENHANCED UPLINK - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate split a common total power resource among a plurality of carriers. A power distribution scheme can be employed jointly across the plurality of carriers to determine an amount of power to allocate to respective carriers. Based upon an amount of power allocated, a packet format can be selected for each carrier based upon the amount of power allocated to the carrier and/or a serving grant associated with the carrier. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202393 | UPLINK CARRIER ALLOCATION - This innovation relates to systems and methods for multiple carrier allocation in wireless communication networks, and more particularly to allocation and/or de-allocation of one or multiple carriers on the uplink to a high-speed uplink packet access user. A radio network controller can allocate uplink carriers to users based on a plurality of criteria, including but not limited to network loading, channel conditions, and so forth. The allocation messages can be transmitted to the user via layer three messages or layer one signaling. | 08-12-2010 |
20100238825 | LOOP POWER CONTROLS FOR MULTI-CARRIER HIGH-SPEED UPLINK PACKET ACCESS - A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes applying independent power controls to two or more carriers from a set of high speed packet access signals. The method includes monitoring power across the two or more carriers to determine power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. The method also includes adjusting at least one of an open loop control, an inner loop control, or an outer loop control in view of the power levels for the set of packet access signals. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238857 | CARRIER TIMING FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - Synchronization of uplink carriers for transmission is disclosed in accordance with different aspects. The uplink carriers that transmit information are configured such that at least one of the uplink carriers is an anchor carrier. When a plurality of carriers are thus configured for the uplink, they are synchronized such that they bear a predetermined phase relationship with each other. The predetermined phase relationship between the plurality of carriers depends on the transmit timing of the anchor carrier or a combination of transmit timings of the anchor carrier and one or more non-anchor carriers comprised within the uplink carriers. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238881 | CONFIGURATION AND SCHEDULING OF ASYMMETRIC CARRIERS ON THE UPLINK - Systems and methods to configure and schedule asymmetric carriers on an uplink between communication devices are described herein. An access node is provided to reserve a common-channel-free carrier for communication with an access terminal. The access node may reserve the carrier for communication with the access terminal based on path loss data between the access node and the access terminal. Further, an adaptive rise-over-thermal (RoT) target may be employed for communication over any carrier. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238882 | Scheduling information for wireless communications - Systems and methods for communicating over multiple carriers are described herein. A predetermined event triggers the generation of scheduling information for two or more of the carriers. The predetermined event may comprise expiration of a timer set for at least one of the two or more carriers, storing data in a buffer having a higher transmission priority than data previously stored in the buffer, or changing at least one of the two or more carriers from being served by a first cell to being served by a second cell. | 09-23-2010 |
20100240396 | POSITION LOCATION USING MULTIPLE CARRIERS - A method of determining a distance estimate between a mobile device and a wireless transceiver communicating with the mobile device on at least one multi-carrier signal includes: receiving at least one multi-carrier signal; selecting at least one carrier signal from the at least one multi-carrier signal; measuring a signal characteristic of the at least one carrier signal from the at least one multi-carrier signal; and determining the distance estimate between the mobile device and the wireless transceiver based at least partially upon the signal characteristic. | 09-23-2010 |
20100271939 | CONTROL OF RADIO LINKS IN A MULTIPLE CARRIER SYSTEM - Methods, systems and apparatuses for controlling radio links in a multiple carrier wireless communication system are disclosed. A method can include aggregating control functions from at least two carriers onto one carrier to form an anchor carrier and one or more associated secondary carriers; establishing communication links for the anchor carrier and each secondary carrier; and controlling communication based on the anchor carrier. | 10-28-2010 |
20100296446 | DYNAMIC SWITCHING BETWEEN MIMO AND DC HSDP - A communication device configured for dynamic switching between Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) and Dual-Cell High Speed Downlink Packet Access (DC HSDPA) is disclosed. The communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The communication device begins a connection setup for one or more wireless communication devices, obtains MIMO and DC HSDPA capabilities for the one or more wireless communication devices and optimizes the coexistence of MIMO and DC HSDPA. | 11-25-2010 |
20100322090 | POWER SCALING FOR MULTI-CARRIER HIGH-SPEED UPLINK PACKET ACCESS - A method for wireless communications is provided. The method includes applying independent power controls to two or more carriers from a set of high speed packet access signals. The method includes monitoring power across the two or more carriers to determine power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. The method also includes automatically scaling at least one of the independent power controls in view of the determined power levels for the set of high speed packet access signals. The method also includes setting the minimum power offset of the data channel independently on each carrier. | 12-23-2010 |
20100329369 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING MULTI-USER JOINT TRANSMIT-RECEIVE BEAMFORMING - A method of wireless communication is disclosed that includes receiving detected channel information from a plurality of access terminals; selecting a set of access terminals from the plurality of access terminals based on the received channel information; creating a beamforming vector for each access terminal in the set of selected access terminals; and transmitting a signal using at least one of the created beamforming vectors. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed herein. | 12-30-2010 |
20110019625 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING DATA TRANSMISSION ON MULTIPLE CARRIERS - Techniques for scheduling data transmission on multiple carriers in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a scheduler may receive requested power headrooms for multiple carriers from a user equipment (UE), one requested power headroom for each carrier. Each requested power headroom may be indicative of transmit power usable by the UE for transmission on an associated carrier. The scheduler may also receive queue information indicative of data to transmit by the UE. The scheduler may redistribute the requested power headrooms across the multiple carriers (e.g., based on water filling or greedy filling) to obtain redistributed power headrooms for the multiple carriers. The scheduler may schedule the UE for data transmission on the uplink based on the redistributed power headrooms and the queue information. The scheduler may obtain and send at least one granted power headroom for at least one carrier to the UE. | 01-27-2011 |
20110194637 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENABLING UPLINK BEAMFORMING TRANSIT DIVERSITY - A method and apparatus for enabling uplink beamforming transmit diversity is provided. The method may include receiving, by a wireless communications device (WCD), a beamforming weight vector in response to transmission by the WCD of two or more pilot channels, applying the received beamforming weight vector to at least one of a first of the two or more pilot channels, one or more data channels, or one or more control channels, and transmitting, using two or more antennas, at least one of the one or more data channels or at least one of the one or more control channels, wherein the number of pilot channels is greater than or equal to the number of antennas. | 08-11-2011 |
20110195734 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENABLING UPLINK BEAMFORMING TRANSIT DIVERSITY CHANNEL ESTIMATION - A method and apparatus for enabling uplink beamforming transmit diversity channel estimation is provided. The method may include receiving a primary pilot channel and a secondary pilot channel, deriving two or more composite channels from the received primary and secondary pilot channels, deriving two or more physical channels from the derived two or more composite channels, and synthesizing a composite channel estimate for a dominant virtual antenna from the two or more derived physical channels and a beamforming weight vector. | 08-11-2011 |
20110205983 | SENDING AN UPLINK ORDER TO ACTIVE SET BASE STATIONS - A method for sending an uplink order to active set base stations is disclosed. A new mode of operation for a wireless communication device is determined. A transmission is sent on an uplink control channel to active set base stations that indicates the new mode. The transmission from the wireless communication device is received on the E-DPCCH. It is determined if the transmission is an uplink order. The new mode of operation is transitioned to. Subsequent transmissions from the wireless communication device are interpreted using the new mode of operation if the transmission is an uplink order. | 08-25-2011 |
20110222455 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING HIGH DATA RATE UPLINK OPERATIONS - A method and apparatus for enhancing uplink operations in a CDMA system is provided. The method may include receiving a rate control value and a transmit power value from a node B, wherein the rate control value is determined through uplink scheduling by the node B, and wherein the transmit power value is selected by the node B to maintain a signal to interference plus noise (SINR) metric within a threshold for a pilot channel, transmitting control channel information at a first power level determined from the transmit power value, and using a first average power tracking unit to generate the first selected transmit power and transmitting data channel information at a second power level determined from both the rate control value and the transmit power value. | 09-15-2011 |
20110274053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DOWNLINK PACKET LATENCY - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which VoIP traffic is scheduled in a way that focuses on controlling user latencies, by reshaping packet latency profiles of individual users to more efficiently utilize power/code resources. A feedback mechanism may utilize certain latency controllers to adjust a queuing delay and an over-the-air transmit time to meet latency targets. That is, system resources may be allocated in a wireless network by adjusting a latency target for a packet responsive to a user's packet latency history. | 11-10-2011 |
20110286347 | UE Based Conditional Enabling of ULTD - In a communication system, user equipment (UE) conditionally performs uplink transmit diversity (ULTD) either by Switched Antenna Transmit Diversity (SATD) or Beamforming Transmit Diversity (BFTD) using a first antenna and a second antenna. Either a serving node or the UE determines that uplink transmit diversity is conditionally authorized. Either a serving node or the UE measures a value. The UE transmits using ULTD in response to determining that an enabling condition based on the value is satisfied. The UE can also disable uplink transmit diversity in response to determining that a disabling condition based on the value is satisfied. The disabling condition comprises a disabling threshold that equals the enabling condition comprising an enabling threshold with a threshold adjustment for hysteresis. | 11-24-2011 |
20120163161 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-POINT HSDPA COMMUNICATION UTILIZING A MULTI-LINK RLC SUBLAYER - A method and apparatus for wireless communication may provide a multi-link RLC sublayer in an RNC capable of allocating RLC PDUs among a plurality of MAC entities for use in a Multi-Point HSDPA network. Some aspects of the disclosure address issues relating to out-of-order delivery of the RLC PDUs to a UE, such as unnecessary retransmissions. That is, the disclosed multi-link RLC may be capable of distinguishing between sequence number gaps that are caused by physical layer transmission failures and those caused merely by skew. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLOW CONTROL IN A MULTI-POINT HSDPA COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A base station (e.g., a Node B in a Multi-Point HSDPA network) calculates an amount of data to request from a network node (e.g., a radio network controller or RNC). As a part of the algorithm utilized, a length of a queue at the Node B for buffering the flow may be dynamically adjusted in an effort to optimize the trade-off between buffer underrun and skew. Further, a network node (e.g., the RNC) responds to Node B flow control requests. Here, the RNC may determine the amount of data to send to the Node B in response to the flow control message from the Node B, and may send the data to the Node B. In various aspects of the present disclosure involving a Multi-Point HSDPA system, the flow control algorithm at the RNC coordinates packet flow to the primary serving cell and the secondary serving cell for the UE. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163338 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILITY IN A MULTI-POINT HSDPA COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for wireless communication may provide for mobility in a Multi-Point HSDPA network capable of downlink aggregation. Some aspects of the disclosure provide modified mobility events utilized for altering the Active Set for a UE. Here, the addition of a cell to the Active Set can coincide with making that cell a secondary serving cell. Further, the deletion of a secondary serving cell from the Active Set can coincide with switching off the Multi-Point HSDPA mode. Still further, a modified mobility event for an HSDPA serving cell change can be utilized to swap a primary serving cell and a secondary serving cell. | 06-28-2012 |
20120201226 | SWITCHING-BASED DOWNLINK AGGREGATION FOR MULTI-POINT HSDPA - A Multi-Point HSDPA system may provide downlink aggregation from multiple cells for a single receive antenna UE without requiring an advanced Type 3i receiver, by providing switching-based scheduling from one of the cells based on channel conditions of the respective cells, as reported by the UE. For example, the UE may monitor the HS-SCCH from both cells so that it may decode the HS-DSCH in any particular TTI as data is scheduled. The UE may further transmit a CQI for each of the cells, so that scheduling decisions between the cells at each TTI may be dynamically made to provide the downlink packet from the better of the cells. | 08-09-2012 |
20120263164 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING FORWARD LINK SIGNAL TO INTERFERENCE AND NOISE RATIO ESTIMATES - Methods and systems for adjusting a forward link (FL) signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) are provided. In an example, a FL SINR is estimated for each user in a plurality of users, on at least one of each user's respective data rate control (DRC) message or each user's respective prior FL SINR value. The respective estimated FL SINR for a user in the plurality of users is increased, if, based on a reverse link acknowledge message, the user has decoded a packet before all symbols in the packet have been transmitted. Remaining control channel power is determined. The estimated FL SINR for all users in the plurality of users is increased if remaining control channel power is less than a low threshold. The estimated FL SINR for all users in the plurality of users is increased if the remaining control channel power is greater than a high threshold. | 10-18-2012 |
20130301457 | POSITION LOCATION USING MULTIPLE CARRIERS - A method of determining a distance estimate between a mobile device and a wireless transceiver communicating with the mobile device on at least one multi-carrier signal includes: receiving at least one multi-carrier signal; selecting at least one carrier signal from the at least one multi-carrier signal; measuring a signal characteristic of the at least one carrier signal from the at least one multi-carrier signal; and determining the distance estimate between the mobile device and the wireless transceiver based at least partially upon the signal characteristic. | 11-14-2013 |