Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110200081 | System And Method For Channel Status Information Feedback In A Wireless Communications System That Utilizes Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Transmission - A method for user equipment operation in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system having an base station, the method comprising measuring a channel between the UE and the base station, determining a quantized estimate using a codebook to approximate the measured channel, computing an error measure for the quantized estimate and transmitting the error measure and the quantized estimate to the base station for use by the base station in reconstructing an actual channel vector. | 08-18-2011 |
20120281567 | Methods and Systems of Wireless Communication with Remote Radio Heads - A method of operating an eNB in a wireless communication network is provided. The method comprises transmitting, by the eNB to a UE, configuration information of first and second sets of CSI-RS resources, wherein the first set of CSI-RS resources is used for long term measurement and the second set of CSI-RS resources is used for short term CSI feedback. | 11-08-2012 |
20130022090 | Dynamic Cyclic Prefix Mode for Uplink Radio Resource Management - Systems and methods can be implemented on a base station and one or more mobile devices to use dynamic cyclic prefix mode for uplink radio resource management. A base station may receive an uplink signal from each of a plurality of mobile devices. The base station can then estimate, based on the received uplink signal, a channel characteristic of the uplink channel for each of the plurality of mobile devices, and determine, based on comparing the estimated channel characteristic to a characteristic threshold, a cyclic prefix mode for each of the plurality of mobile devices. | 01-24-2013 |
20130028180 | Method and system for access and uplink power control for a wireless system having multiple transmit points - A method and system for access and uplink power control for a wireless system having multiple transmit points. In one aspect a method operating in a wireless network having a plurality of transmission points (TP) including a macro evolved Node B (eNB) and at least one low power node (LPN) having transmit power lower than that of the macro eNB, the method detecting, by the user equipment, a transmission point having a lowest path loss to the user equipment; and transmitting, by the user equipment, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble on a PRACH directed to the transmission points having the lowest path losses. | 01-31-2013 |
20130039195 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RANDOM ACCESS INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS - Methods and systems at a user equipment, low power access node and first access node operating in a wireless network having a plurality of access nodes comprising a first access node and at least one low power access node having lower transmit power than the first access node, wherein the user equipment receives stronger downlink signals from the first access node than from the at least one low power access node, the method at the user equipment determining, by the user equipment, whether a low power access node is better for uplink data transmission than the first access node; and if the low power access node is better for uplink data transmission, sending from the user equipment to the low power access node, a random access preamble directed to the first access node. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039203 | REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR A COORDINATED MULTI-POINT NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION - A system and method of receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is presented. At a user equipment, a first CSI-RS transmitted from a base station is received. In some implementations, the first CSI-RS is transmitted at a first periodicity using a first set of antenna ports. At the user equipment, a second CSI-RS transmitted from the base station is received. In some implementations, the second CSI-RS is transmitted at a second periodicity using a second set of antenna ports. At least one of the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS is used to perform channel measurement. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044685 | Reference Signal for a Coordinated Multi-Point Network Implementation - A system and method for broadcasting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is disclosed. A CSI-RS that is orthogonal to CSI-RSs transmitted by each of a first network cell and each of a set of neighbor cells that interfere with the first network cell is identified. In one implementation, the first network cell has a coverage containing a coverage of a second network cell. The method includes transmitting, from the second network cell, the CSI-RS that is orthogonal to CSI-RSs transmitted by each of the first network cell and each of a set of interfering neighbor cells. | 02-21-2013 |
20130201966 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPLINK INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN HETEROGENEOUS CELLULAR NETWORKS - A method, at a first network access device of a heterogeneous network, the method sending a report to a second network access device indicating a user equipment (UE) in the vicinity of the second network access device to be handled in the uplink by the second network access device; receiving an uplink timing control report from the second network access device; transmitting uplink timing control adjustments to the UE; allocating uplink resources for the second network access device to forward uplink information; allocating physical downlink control channel (‘PDCCH’) resources belonging to the first network access device for transmitting uplink scheduling information provided by the second network access device to the UE; receiving uplink information including uplink scheduling information from the second network access device at the first network access device; and sending the uplink scheduling information to the UE. | 08-08-2013 |
20140064213 | FEEDBACK CAPABILITY ENHANCEMENT USING REFERENCE SYMBOL RADIO RESOURCE SELECTION - Feedback information is conveyed between a wireless device and a base station in a cellular communications network via selection and detection of radio resources utilized for an uplink reference signal transmitted from a wireless device to a base station. In this manner, additional feedback information may be sent from the wireless device to the base station without sacrificing any bandwidth available for data transfer between the wireless device and the base station. The radio resources utilized for the uplink reference signal may include cyclic shift and/or time and frequency resources. The uplink reference signal may be an uplink sounding reference signal for a long term evolution network (LTE), or its evolution, such as LTE-Advanced. | 03-06-2014 |