Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110098055 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR INTER-CELL COORDINATION - System and methods for intercell coordination are provided. The system includes a macro terminal and a macro base station that allocate a radio resource for a sounding signal and determine a pattern of a sounding signal, in advance. The macro base station provides a femto base station included in the system with information about the pattern of the sounding signal, and the information about the radio resource of the sounding signal. The femto base station may receive the sounding signal from the macro terminal based on the information, and thus, the femto base station may determine whether the macro terminal exists and may determine a channel between the macro terminal and the femto base station. | 04-28-2011 |
20110159897 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING RATE SPLIT SCHEME BASED ON COOPERATION BETWEEN RECEIVERS - Each of a first transmitter and a second transmitter uses a rate split scheme. Each of the first transmitter and the second transmitter may transmit at least four sub-messages, and different transmission powers may be allocated to the at least four sub-messages. Also, each of receivers may cooperate with each other, may share sub-messages that act as interferences, and may extract desired messages using the shared sub-messages. | 06-30-2011 |
20110194594 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING MIMO/DSM OPERATING MODE - Provided is a data transmission system that may determine a multiple input multiple output dynamic spectrum management (MIMO-DSM) operation mode of a base station based on information associated with a data transmission route and a computational capability of each base station. A terminal may generate feedback information based on a cooperation level between base stations and may transmit the generated feedback information to a serving base station. The serving base station may select terminals that may receive data from among a plurality of terminals through a MIMO-DSM algorithm and a user scheduling based on the feedback information. | 08-11-2011 |
20110195704 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM OF PERFORMING UPLINK COMMUNICATION AND DOWNLINK COMMUNICATION USING OVERLAPPING RADIO RESOURCE - A communication system performs an uplink communication and a downlink communication using respective radio resources that at least partially overlap each other in both time and frequency, which may cause interference to occur in at least one downlink terminal due to at least one uplink terminal. The at least one uplink terminal and the at least one downlink terminal may process the interference according to a rate split scheme, an interference control scheme, and the like. Interference occurring between at least one transmit antenna and at least one receive antenna of a base station may be processed according to an echo cancellation scheme and the like. | 08-11-2011 |
20110218000 | MULTI-CELL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING RATE-SPLITTING SCHEME AND TRANSMISSION FRAME - Provided is a multi-cell communication system using a rate-splitting scheme and a transmission frame for the multi-cell communication system. The multi-cell communication system may determine whether to perform a rate-splitting based on channel information of a macro base station and a femto base station in a multi-cell environment. The multi-cell communication system may allocate a power or a bandwidth to a message to be transmitted based on the channel information. In the multi-cell environment, a terminal may receive MAP information from a base station and may decode the received MAP information, determining a base station that performs the rate-splitting. | 09-08-2011 |
20110235750 | BEAMFORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING A RATE SPLITTING SCHEME IN A MULTI-CELL MULTI-ANTENNA INTERFERENCE CHANNEL - A beamforming method and apparatus for using a rate splitting scheme in a multi-cell multi-antenna system, are provided. The multi-cell multi-antenna system determines transmission and reception beamforming vectors, thereby being divided into a plurality of pairs of single input and single output (SISO) interference channels. A rate splitting scheme may be applied to each of the plurality of pairs. | 09-29-2011 |
20110244900 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING DATA TRANSMISSION POWER USING A VIRTUAL CELL - A data transmission system that determines data transmission power using a virtual cell is provided. A base station may receive transmission data from a plurality of cooperative base stations positioned around the base station, and model terminals receiving an interference signal from the base station and the plurality of cooperative base stations into a virtual cell. The base station may calculate the influence of the interference signal transmitted to the terminal, using the virtual cell, and determine a transmission power for a plurality of frequency bands based on the interference signal. | 10-06-2011 |
20110305293 | COGNITIVE INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided is a cognitive inter-cell interference control method and apparatus. Inter-cell interference may be measured based on various methods in order to recognize an interference channel, and an appropriate interference control algorithm may be applied to the interference channel by modeling based on overhead. Accordingly, interference may be controlled. | 12-15-2011 |
20120034925 | COMMUNICATION METHOD OF MACRO BASE STATION AND MICRO BASE STATION FOR INTERFERENCE CONTROL - A communication method of a micro base station for interference control is provided. The communication method includes determining whether to perform a handover of macro user equipment from a macro base station to a micro base station based on interference from the macro user equipment served by the macro base station to micro user equipment served by the micro base station, searching for an index of a resource allocable to the macro user equipment, and transmitting, to the macro base station, a handover request message including the index of the resource allocable to the macro user equipment. | 02-09-2012 |
20120040706 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING INTERFERENCE IN UPLINK - Provided is a method of generating a transmit beamforming vector and a receive beamforming vector to substantially eliminate the effect of interference transmitted from macro terminals to a pico base station in a hierarchical cell environment. Also, provided is a method of selecting, from a plurality of macro terminals, a macro terminal for transmitting data to a macro base station. | 02-16-2012 |
20120077485 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING DOWNLINK BEAMFORMING VECTORS IN HIERARCHICAL CELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method and apparatus for determining a downlink beamforming vector in a hierarchical cell communication system. Small base stations may determine transmit beamforming vectors of the small base stations so that interference from the small base stations may be reduced in a macro terminal. A macro terminal and small terminals may determine receive beamforming vectors based on the transmit beamforming vectors of the small base stations. A macro base station may determine a transmit beamforming vector based on effective channels to terminals using the receive beamforming vectors of the terminals. | 03-29-2012 |
20120122502 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CONTROLLING INTER CELL INTERFERENCE BASED ON COOPERATION OF INTRA CELL TERMINALS - Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling inter cell interference based on cooperation between intra cell terminals. The intra cell terminals may exchange interference channel information, and may determine a receive beamforming vector based on the exchanged interference channel information. At least one intra cell terminal may feed back, to a neighboring cell base station, information associated with an effective interference channel using the receive beamforming vector. A base station may determine a transmit beamforming vector based on information associated with an effective interference channel using receive beamforming vectors of neighboring cell terminals that are received from at least one neighboring cell terminal. | 05-17-2012 |
20120142345 | COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION METHODS AND A DEVICE FOR A TARGET TERMINAL AND A COOPERATIVE TERMINAL - Provided is a cooperative communication technology of a target terminal and a cooperative terminal. In an environment in which interference exists between cells, cooperation between terminals may be performed in order to improve quality of signals that are received from a base station. | 06-07-2012 |
20120155300 | COMMUNICATION METHOD OF A BASE STATION AND A TERMINAL - Provided is a communication method of a base station and a terminal for enhancing a recovery performance of a signal using a feedback control message. The feedback control message may include information about a target received power at the base station with respect to feedback information of each of a plurality of terminals and information associated with a feedback mode of the feedback information. | 06-21-2012 |
20120157139 | COMMUNICATION METHOD OF NEIGHBORING TERMINAL AND TARGET TERMINAL - Provided is a communication method of a neighboring terminal and a target terminal in which a cooperative terminal that has a better SINR or a better channel condition provides help to a target terminal through cooperation between terminals based on a random access mode or a scheduling mode, so that an SINR of the target terminal is improved without help from a base station. | 06-21-2012 |
20120214497 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HIERARCHICAL RATE SPLITTING IN HIERARCHICAL CELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a hierarchical rate splitting method and apparatus in a hierarchical cell communication system. An upper node or a macro base station may adaptively determine a hierarchical splitting mode based on a channel condition of a channel between the macro base station and a macro terminal and/or a performance of pico terminals in comparison to a performance of the macro terminal. | 08-23-2012 |
20130003638 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COOPERATIVE SCHEDULING USING INTEREFERENCE BETWEEN MULTIPLE POINTS - A method and an apparatus are described for a cooperative scheduling using interference between multiple points. For each link, a cooperation set is set including cooperation links for a cooperative scheduling. A cooperation session map is generated that defines a cooperation link selected from the cooperation set for each link in each session of a network. A cooperation group is determined to be scheduled simultaneously using the cooperation session map. | 01-03-2013 |
20130182689 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING A RATE SPLIT SCHEME BASED ON COOPERATION BETWEEN RECEIVERS - Each of a first transmitter and a second transmitter uses a rate split scheme. Each of the first transmitter and the second transmitter may transmit at least four sub-messages, and different transmission powers may be allocated to the at least four sub-messages. Also, each of receivers may cooperate with each other, may share sub-messages that act as interferences, and may extract desired messages using the shared sub-messages. | 07-18-2013 |
20130237274 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR INTER-CELL COORDINATION - System and methods for intercell coordination are provided. The system includes a macro terminal and a macro base station that allocate a radio resource for a sounding signal and determine a pattern of a sounding signal, in advance. The macro base station provides a femto base station included in the system with information about the pattern of the sounding signal, and the information about the radio resource of the sounding signal. The femto base station may receive the sounding signal from the macro terminal based on the information, and thus, the femto base station may determine whether the macro terminal exists and may determine a channel between the macro terminal and the femto base station. | 09-12-2013 |