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| 20080212608 | Method, apparatus and computer program to signal additional modulation scheme without additional signalling overhead - A method and apparatus are provided for jointly encoding bits containing information about an existing modulation technique or an existing antenna transmission technique in order to extend signaling to include new information about an additional modulation technique or the use of an additional antenna transmission technique without having to increase the number of bits transmitted in the signaling; and conveying the new information in unused combinations of the encoded bits. The signaling may take the form of a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) that forms part of a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA). In some embodiments, the existing modulation technique may include quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM), or some combination thereof, and the additional modulation technique may include 64 quadrature amplitude modulation (64QAM). | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080212615 | Method and Apparatus for Communicating Data in a Communications System - Disclosed are a user equipment and a communications node for communicating data in a communications system including a plurality of user equipments, as well as a method for communicating the data by a user equipment and a method for communicating data by a communications node, wherein data are transmitted from the communications node via a downlink shared channel and received by the user equipment. The user equipment comprises an acknowledger which provides uplink acknowledgements with respect to downlink shared channel transmission for user equipments without a dedicated connection which acknowledgements are received by an acknowledgement receiver included in the communications node. The uplink acknowledgements are transferred through a common uplink feedback channel. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090073904 | Power for uplink acknowledgment transmission - The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for defining/setting a power of a dual acknowledgement signal provided in an uplink by a user equipment to a network element (e.g., Node B) for acknowledging two transport blocks, e.g., comprised in one TTI, transmitted in a downlink by the network element, according to a predetermined criterion, wherein the user equipment and the network element can be configured to support a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) mode and/or a high speed downlink packet access. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090073953 | Reconfiguration of fractional dedicated channel slot format - During a radio link setup or reconfiguration or addition procedures, a serving radio network controller SRNC sends a request or prepare message to a drift radio network controller DRNC with a slot format information element IE, to which the DRNC sends a reply. During a physical channel reconfiguration process the DRNC sends a request to the SRNC with the slot format IE. In all cases, the DRNC uses the IE to determine the slot format for its fractional dedicated physical channel, and reconfigures it with the node B according to the IE. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090131052 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CELL RE-SELECTION - An approach is provided for cell re-selection. A notification message is generated to indicate initiation of a coverage area re-selection procedure to operate in a new coverage area from a current coverage area. The re-selection procedure is performed if an acknowledgement message is received in response to the notification message. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090141675 | Retransmission Process Control Method - This invention relates to signalling of control information related to retransmissions in a wireless communication network. According to one aspect of the invention, a method for controlling transmission over a wireless communication link is provided. The method comprises the step of indicating on a transmission resource control channel whether a HARQ retransmission process in a mobile station should be activated or deactivated. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090268676 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program Product Providing Usage of E-Dch as Rach Shared Channel - Apparatus, methods and computer program products in a wireless communications system provide an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) for use by user equipment operating in the wireless communications system for use in conjunction with the random access procedure. The user equipment has circuitry to request a HS random access channel and, in response to receiving an assignment from a Node B of a dedicated mode channel for use as the random access channel, to send uplink data in a random access fashion over the assigned dedicated mode channel while receiving feedback from the Node B over at least one downlink L | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100208682 | RECOVERY METHOD FOR LOST SIGNALING CONNECTION WITH HSDPA/FRACTIONAL DPCH - A method and apparatus are provided for defining terminal behavior in a case where the terminal detects that it cannot receive the HS-DSCH from a serving cell reliably when the DCCH is mapped to HS-DSCH (e.g. does not receive any radio link control (RLC) acknowledged mode feedback for the uplink measurement reports or in general the common pilot channel (CPICH) level drops too low in the serving HS-DSCH cell). The terminal is autonomously moved to a cell forward access channel (CELL_FACH) state and uplink signaling is initiated on a random access channel (RACH) to inform a network node and ask for HS-DSCH re-establishment in a suitable cell (preferably in the one being strongest one in the active set or according to the measurements done prior the connection from the serving HS-DSCH cell was lost), or setting up a regular R′99/R′5 DPCH in order to restore the RRC signaling connection in the CELL_DCH state. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110038305 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program Product Providing Uplink Gain Factor for High Speed Uplink Packet Access - Apparatus, methods and computer program products operate a radio network controller in a wireless communications system to determine a factor to be used by user equipment operative in the wireless communications network to determine a gain factor for an E-TFC based on the gain factor of a reference E-TFC; and to signal the factor to the user equipment. The radio network controller may select the factor based on at least one criterion. In another aspect, apparatus, methods and computer program products operate user equipment to receive a factor from a wireless communications network, and to use the factor transmitted by the wireless communications network to determine a gain factor that relates a data signal to be transmitted by the user equipment in a data channel and a control signal transmitted by the electronic device in a control channel, where the control signal transmitted in the control channel carries information for use in receiving the data signal. In additional aspects, the user equipment is further configured to select a formula for use in determining the gain factor in dependence on signaling received from the wireless communications network. | 02-17-2011 |
