Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080316947 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 3G LTE FDD and TDD DETECTION USING REFERENCE SIGNAL CORRELATION - A method and apparatus for use in a wireless communication system to detect frequency division duplex (FDD) or time division duplex (TDD) after the radio timing and cell group ID have been determined from the S-SyS during a cell search, by correlating reference symbols (RSs) and detecting whether the RSs are on resource elements corresponding to FDD or TDD. By correlating the known RS, which is known after the cell ID is detected, to the assumed RS positions for FDD or TDD, the duplex form is detected. | 12-25-2008 |
20090073902 | Subframes in a cellular communications system - The invention discloses a method for a cellular communications system, in which traffic is sent in frames, each frame comprising a first number of subframes, with a second number of said subframes being available for at least either uplink or downlink traffic. At least one of said second number of subframes is made to comprise at least three parts, as follows:
| 03-19-2009 |
20090147743 | SCHEDULING IN A CELLULAR SYSTEM - In a cellular system, transmissions are made in subframes which comprise subelements. The method is used for scheduling first and second channels in a subframe, and comprises:
| 06-11-2009 |
20090196204 | METHODS AND DEVICES RELATING TO DOWNLINK ASSIGNMENTS - The invention relates to a method in a first communication device of receiving control information over a radio channel from a second communication device. The first communication device receives a subframe over the radio channel, and determines whether the subframe is a downlink subframe with downlink assignment intended for the first communication device by reading data in the subframe. That being the case, the first communication device decodes data within the subframe, and determines whether any data packet being sent from the second communication device before the subframe has been missed by analysing an indicator associated to the subframe in the data. The indicator provides knowledge about previous downlink subframes with downlink assignment intended for the first communication device. | 08-06-2009 |
20090274074 | Method for Channel Quality Measures in a Multiple Antenna System - The invention relates to a laminate structure comprising a first active layer having a first electrode potential, a second active layer having a second electrode potential, wherein the second electrode potential being different from the first electrode potential and wherein the first and second active layers are arranged at a distance from each other, and wherein the laminate further comprises a third layer of an electrically weakable adhesive at least partly bridging said distance between the first and second layers. | 11-05-2009 |
20090274234 | USING COVARIANCE MATRICES FOR LINK SELECTION IN MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of selecting at least one communication link in a wireless communication network is proposed, comprising the steps of transmitting from at least one transmitting node in the network a pilot signal from each of at least two transmitter antennas of the transmitting node, receiving the pilot signals from the at least two transmitter antennas in a receiving terminal, estimating, in the terminal, a covariance matrix of the channel, based on the pilot signals received, determining the pathloss for each antenna based on the covariance matrix, selecting one of at least two possible links for the communication between the terminal and the transmitting nodes. The terminal is enabled to measure on each transmitter antenna individually, which provides a better tool for link selection and cell selection. | 11-05-2009 |
20090312008 | Detection of Time Division Duplex Downlink/Uplink Configuration - A user equipment (UE) in a cellular telecommunications system is able to detect the uplink/downlink configuration of a detected neighboring cell by receiving a signal from the neighboring cell. A characteristic of the received signal is detected and used as an indicator in a blind detection process to identify one or more downlink slots in the received signal. Known pilot signals in the identified one or more downlink slots can then be used to obtain a signal power measurement of the received signal. The blind detection process is also capable of detecting whether a slot of a neighboring cell's signal is a downlink unicast slot or a Multicast-Broadcast Single Frequency Network slot. | 12-17-2009 |
20100074153 | Method and Apparatus in a Telecommunication System - Method and apparatus in a communication unit ( | 03-25-2010 |
20100097963 | Method and a Device for Enhanced Performance in a Cellular Wireless TDD System - The invention discloses a method ( | 04-22-2010 |
20100097964 | Method And A Device For Enhanced Performance In A Cellular Wireless TDD System - The invention discloses a method ( | 04-22-2010 |
20100099362 | Calibration Method and Device in Telecommunication System - A device system, computer medium and method for calibrating at least one impairment of a signal transmitted from a transmitting unit to a receiving unit, the method including receiving at the receiving unit at least two signals transmitted from the transmitting unit, estimating at the receiving unit, based on the received at least two signals, at least one parameter associated with transmit chain links between the transmitting unit and corresponding antennas of the transmitting unit, collecting the at least one parameter in a measurement report at the receiving unit, and transmitting the measurement report from the receiving unit for correcting the at least one impairment based on the at least one parameter. | 04-22-2010 |
20100103892 | Method and Arrangements for Scheduling Transmission Resources with Variable Guard Intervals - Method and arrangements for scheduling transmission resources in a first node in a cell comprised within a wireless communication network. The first node is arranged to communicate over a communication channel with at least one user equipment within the cell. The communication is made by using a frame comprising uplink resources and downlink resources with a switching point between the downlink resources and the uplink resources. The method comprises the step of obtaining a parameter referring to the expected transmission quality of the communication and/or the expected coherence properties of the communication channel. The method also comprises scheduling a transmission on an uplink or downlink resource. The resource is located on a time distance from the switching point. The time distance is based on the obtained parameter. | 04-29-2010 |
20100113076 | Method and a Device for Reduced Interference in a Cellular Access System - A method for use in a cellular system comprising a plurality of base stations with corresponding cells, in which system the communication between users in a cell and the base station is divided into an up link period and a down link period, the method comprising letting a controlling node instruct the base stations regarding: a first point in time when the base station should start transmitting a control signal; a second point in time when the base station should start to listen for control signals from other base stations and measure their time of arrival and signal strength; a third point in time when the base station should cease listening for control signal; and a fourth point in time when the base station should transmit the measurements results to a receiving node in the system. | 05-06-2010 |
20100118706 | Information on Reference Signal Structure for Neighboring Cell Measurements - The present invention relates to cellular radio communication and in particular to providing information on neighbour cells to enable terminals to perform neighbour cell measurements. In the prior art the terminal attempts to make neighbour cell measurements in a reference signal structure that is the same in the neighbour cell as in the cell the terminal camps in. The present invention is based on the insight that the reference signal structure may differ between neighbouring cell for example in the situation of an MBSFN area that is restricted to a region of all cells of a radio network, or in the situation of TDD mode being applied there may be different regions with different allocation of sub-frames for transmission in the uplink and downlink directions. The present invention solves the problem by broadcast information in a cell indicative of the reference signal structure in neighbour cells. | 05-13-2010 |
20100120441 | INCREASING A SECTORIZATION ORDER IN A FIRST SECTOR OF AN ANTENNA ARRAY - A mechanism for increasing a sectorization order in a first sector of an antenna array. The object is achieved by a method in a network node. The network node and antenna array are comprised in a wireless communication system. The antenna array is deployed with a first sectorization. The network node comprises a first number of signal connections. Each signal connection is adapted to transmit and receive signals. The method comprises the step of splitting the first number of connections into a number of groups. Each one of the respective connection groups corresponds to one respective virtual sector resulting in a number of virtual sectors. The method further comprises the step of mapping the number of virtual sectors to the first sector, such that the first sector is split into the number of virtual sectors. | 05-13-2010 |
20100120460 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Transmission Efficiency in a Mobile Radio Communications System - A method and apparatus of improving the performance of a mobile radio system ( | 05-13-2010 |
20100135173 | Method for Implicit Conveying of Uplink Feedback Information - Method and apparatus for conveying feedback reports from a data receiving party ( | 06-03-2010 |
20100197330 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A receiving unit or a transmitting unit of a wireless network, for facilitating noise and interference measurements on an air interface. The receiving unit includes: a network interface which obtains information relating to a time-varying layout of a silent resource element (RE) grid; an electronic memory having code in communication with the network interface which stores the information; and a processing unit in communication with the electronic memory that takes a presence of a silent RE grid into account in the reception of a control or a data channel. | 08-05-2010 |
20100222008 | Method and Arrangements for Communication of Channel Quality Information in a Telecommunications System - The present invention relates to a mobile terminal device, a base station and a method that make it possible to use a channel quality indicator, CQI, reporting format for CQI reporting from the mobile terminal device to the base station, which CQI reporting format depends on a selected transmit antenna configuration. The mobile terminal device is arranged to receive a signal from a number of transmit antennas, which signal includes a number of subcarriers, and to determine the CQI, reporting format for a collection of the subcarriers based on the selected transmit antenna configuration. The mobile terminal device is further arranged to determine a number of CQI values relating to said subcarriers in accordance with the determined CQI reporting format and to transmit the CQI values to the base station in a feedback signal. The CQI reporting format is adapted to the selected transmit antenna configuration such that the granularity of CQI reporting depends on the selected transmit antenna configuration. | 09-02-2010 |
20100248732 | Methods and Devices for Communicating Over a Radio Channel - The invention relates to methods and communication devices for transmitting data on a radio channel comprising the steps of determining a first preamble format to be used in a cell of the second communication device, determining a basic cyclic shift value from a set of basic cyclic shift values, the set is selected based on the preamble format, and transmitting data comprising indication of the determined first preamble format and a basic cyclic shift value pointer indicating the basic cyclic shift value in the set of basic cyclic shift values. | 09-30-2010 |
20100260079 | Methods and Devices for Transmitting/Receiving Data Based on the Allocation of Random Access Resources to Uplink Subframes - The invention relates to methods and communication devices in a network comprising the steps of mapping (S | 10-14-2010 |
20100265854 | Methods and Devices for Communicating on a Radio Channel Based on Jointly Encoding a Preamble Format with Random Access Configuration - The invention relates to devices and methods for transmitting data on a radio channel comprising to jointly encode (S | 10-21-2010 |
20100291937 | RESOURCE SELECTION FOR TRANSMISSION OF MULTIPLE ACK/NACK ON PUCCH CHANNEL - In a method of operating a communication network ( | 11-18-2010 |
20100296410 | CONFIGURATION MEASUREMENT TIME SLOTS FOR MOBILE TERMINALS IN A TDD SYSTEM - The technology applies to a cellular radio network where each cell area is associated with a radio base station in which mobile terminals communicate with at least one of the base stations over a radio interface. The mobile terminals perform mobility-related measurements on downlink signals received from a corresponding neighbor cell during time slots configured for downlink transmission measurement. A configuration node receives input information, and based on that received input information, determines measurement time slot configuration information. The node provides the measurement time slot configuration information to the base stations so that the base stations may signal the measurement time slot configuration information to mobile terminals. | 11-25-2010 |
20100322100 | Methods and Arrangements in a Mobile Telecommunication System - The present invention ensures that the UEs are able to make use of all the available reference signals that can be used in a cell for performing UE measurements, estimations or demodulations. That is achieved by indicating on a downlink common or shared channel, the MIMO mode settings associated with a specific network node. The indicated MIMO mode settings explicitly or implicitly indicate available common reference signals and/or dedicated reference signals to be used for said UE measurements, estimations or demodulations, which implies that measurements, estimations or demodulations can be performed based on said received indication. | 12-23-2010 |
20110013536 | Side Information Bits of ACK and NACK Bits in Multiple ACK/NACK Transmission - Methods and apparatus for generating, transmitting, and processing error control information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The error control information is designed so that the probability of a NACK-to-ACK error in transmission is lower than the probability for an ACK-to-NACK error. Multiple ACK/NACK bits are transmitted along with one or more side information bits that indicate the relative quantities of ACK values and NACK values among the ACK/NACK bits. In an exemplary method for generating error control information in a communication device, a plurality of ACK/NACK bits indicating whether corresponding transport blocks were successfully received are generated. One or more side information bits are formed as a function of the ACK/NACK bits, the side information bits indicating the relative quantities of ACK values and NACK values among the ACK/NACK bits, and transmitted along with the ACK/NACK bits to the remote communication node. | 01-20-2011 |
20110044278 | Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunication System with Signalling of Assigned Data Packets in a Bundling Window - A method for sending a data packet from a base station to a mobile terminal includes signalling to the mobile terminal in a first subframe of a radio channel a first downlink assignment of a first data packet of a bundling window. The bundling window represents a number of data packets, already transmitted or to be transmitted to the mobile terminal, that are to be confirmed by the mobile terminal. The downlink assignment represents information about a minimum total number of data packets within the bundling window that are scheduled to be transmitted to the mobile terminal. The method also includes transmitting data packets from a base station in subframes of the radio channel using the bundling window. | 02-24-2011 |
20110059767 | METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - According to the present invention, a receiving node of a telecommunications network ( | 03-10-2011 |
20110065390 | POLARIZATION CO-ORDINATION - The present invention relates to a group (G | 03-17-2011 |
20110075594 | Uplink Power Control in a TDD Communication System - A method performed in a wireless network includes receiving signals within a downlink frequency domain to enable channel estimation and measuring two or more signals only for two or more frequency bands of the downlink frequency domain that correspond to two or more uplink frequency bands associated with a scheduling grant or channel allocation that correspond to physical uplink channel frequency bands. The method also includes calculating path loss values for each of the frequency bands and calculating a total power based on the path loss values corresponding to the frequency bands. The method further includes determining a power allocation per frequency band based on the calculated total power to be applied to an uplink transmission and allocating the total power. | 03-31-2011 |
20110081932 | PUCCH Resource Allocation for Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced - The invention is a method and apparatus for signaling uplink control information in a mobile communication network using carrier aggregation. The signaling mechanism allows the transmission, on a single uplink component carrier, of control information associated with a downlink transmission on multiple aggregated downlink component carriers. Semi-statically reserved resources for the transmission of control information on the uplink component carrier may be dynamically shared by user terminals that are assigned multiple downlink component carriers for downlink transmissions. Implicit or explicit resource indication can be used in combination with dynamic resource indication. | 04-07-2011 |
20110096693 | Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunication System - A method in a terminal for providing an ACK/NAK message to a base station is provided. The terminal counts the number of assigned downlink subframes detected from the base station resulting in k. The terminal then establishes whether each of a number of transport blocks comprised in the counted k downlink subframes is correctly received or not. In the case when each one of the transport blocks, comprised in the k downlink subframes is estimated as correctly received the terminal provides to the base station an encoded ACK message for the k subframes, which comprises k, the number of subframes. | 04-28-2011 |
20110103338 | Method and Devices for Providing Enhanced Signaling - Methods and devices for introducing enhanced signals into a wireless environment. The enhanced signals provide for functionality that is not specified in a communication standard corresponding to a standard of a legacy terminal. The enhanced signals can be utilized by a non-legacy terminal. The legacy terminal is incapable of processing the enhanced signals and is unable to detect the presence of the enhanced signals. | 05-05-2011 |
20110122819 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a wireless communication system that enable the use of multi-codeword transmission and ACK/NACK compression with low performance loss. It also enables the use of advanced receivers of reasonable complexity. This is achieved by a solution based on the even distribution of the symbols of separately coded blocks of information bits over the available physical resources before transmission. Each physical resource will thus carry a mixture of symbols from all blocks of information bits, which results in a more similar channel quality for the blocks of information bits. A compressed ACK/NACK message corresponding to the blocks of information bits will thus be more accurate and the performance loss due to the ACK/NACK compression can be reduced. | 05-26-2011 |
20110149813 | FLEXIBLE SUBFRAMES - The technology disclosed provides the ability for a subframe to be configured as a “flexible” subframe. As a result, at least three different types of subframes in a TDD system may be configured: a downlink (“DL”) subframe, an uplink (“UL”) subframe, and a “flexible” subframe. While the DL and UL subframes are preconfigured for each frame instance, the flexible subframes are dynamically allocated to be an uplink subframe in one instance of a frame and a downlink subframe in another instance of the frame. | 06-23-2011 |
20110170449 | Frequency Selective SINR Regeneration - A method is performed by a device in a wireless network. The method includes receiving a transmission that includes a wideband channel quality indicator, determining a received signal power estimate for each frequency band of a frequency domain, and determining an average interference-plus-noise based on the wideband channel quality indicator and the received signal power estimate. The method further includes determining a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio estimate for each frequency band based on the average interference-plus-noise and the received signal power estimate, and performing a communicative operation based on the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio estimate. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170562 | Method and Apparatus for Channel Estimation and Detection in MIMO System - The prevent invention provides a method for performing channel estimation and detection in a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) system, including: generating a demodulation reference signal, DM-RS, pattern for an extended cyclic prefix (CP); and estimating and detecting channel performance based on the generated DM-RS signal pattern. The DM-RS pattern supports from rank 1 to rank 8 patterns for 8 layer transmission. A transmitter, a receiver and a system thereof are also provided. The solution of the present invention improves channel estimation accuracy, saves channel estimation implementation and implementation complexity at terminals. | 07-14-2011 |
20110176443 | Method and Arrangement in a Communication System - Method and arrangement in a terminal for receiving data packets from a base station and providing feedback to the base station. The feedback concerns the reception status of the received data packets and may comprise an ACK/NAK. The method comprises receiving and decoding data packets from the base station in a sub-frame. It is further established whether any data packet within the received subframe is not correctly received and detected whether any subframe, expected to be received, has been missed. Further, acknowledgement information ACK/NAK is generated, a scrambling code selected with which the ACK/NAK is scrambled. The scrambled ACK/NAK is then sent to the base station, concerning the reception status of the data packets within the received subframes. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176461 | DETERMINING CONFIGURATION OF SUBFRAMES IN A RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The technology disclosed provides the ability for a subframe to be configured as a “flexible” subframe. As a result, at least three different types of subframes in a TDD system may be configured: a downlink (“DL”) subframe, an uplink (“UL”) subframe, and a “flexible” subframe. The use of flexible subframes is determined based on a primary TDD configuration, and in a preferred example, on the existing primary TDD configuration in the network. If there is secondary TDD configuration, flexible subframes may be determined based on both the primary and secondary configurations, e.g., using specific rules. Also, the HARQ feedback timing for downlink (DL) transmissions may be determined based on the secondary TDD configuration. Preferred examples ensure that uplink (UL) feedback does not collide with a flexible subframe used for DL transmission. The technology preferably is compatible with legacy UEs. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176517 | Antenna Port Mapping for Demodulation Reference Signals - The present invention provides a unified, rank independent mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs. Each antenna port is uniquely associated with one code division multiplexing (CDM) group and one orthogonal cover code (OCC). The mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs is chosen such that, for a given antenna port, the CDM group and OCC will be the same for every transmission rank. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176637 | Telecommunication Method and Apparatus - Methods of transmitting and receiving information in a telecommunications network are described, as well as a telecommunication network and apparatus for a telecommunication network. The method of transmitting comprises identifying (S | 07-21-2011 |
20110179332 | Method For Automatic Repeat Request Operation, Transceiver Arrangement, And Computer Program - A method for automatic repeat request operation of a plurality of simultaneous automatic repeat request processes is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a transmission comprising at least one transport block; storing soft bits of the transport block in a buffer; and transmitting an automatic repeat request process signal, wherein the transmitting of the automatic repeat request process signal comprises one of: transmitting an acknowledgment signal if the transport block is determined to be properly received, transmitting a negative acknowledgement signal if the transport block is determined to contain an error, and transmitting a blocking indication signal if there is not room enough for the soft bits in the buffer. A transceiver arrangement and a computer program are also disclosed. | 07-21-2011 |
20110201376 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR ADAPTING POWER OF REFERENCE SIGNALS - A method and an arrangement in a radio network node for adapting transmission power of resource elements for demodulation reference signals, referred to as “reference elements” are provided. The radio network node is configured for multiple-input multiple-output transmission, referred to as “MIMO transmission”, to a user equipment. The MIMO transmission comprises at least three layers. Two consecutive subcarriers of a resource block carry at least three reference elements. A first subcarrier of the resource block carries data elements. The radio network node adapts transmission power of said at least three reference elements such that an average transmission power, over said two consecutive subcarriers, of said at least three reference elements is equal to a transmission power, for the first subcarrier, of the data elements for said at least three layers. The radio network node uses the adapted transmission power to transmit, to the user equipment, said at least three reference elements. | 08-18-2011 |
20110205930 | Method for Transmitting of Reference Signals and Determination of Precoding Matrices for Multi-Antenna Transmission - Techniques are disclosed for determining transmitter antenna weights at a base station ( | 08-25-2011 |
20110261858 | Radio Base Station and User Equipment and Methods Therein - Embodiments herein include a method in a user equipment (UE) for transmitting uplink control information in time slots of a subframe over a radio channel to a radio base station. The uplink control information is comprised in a block of bits. | 10-27-2011 |
20110274015 | TDD Time Slot Splitting - The invention discloses a method for a cellular communications system, in which traffic is sent in frames, each frame comprising a first number of subframes, with a second number of said subframes being available for at least either uplink or downlink traffic. At least one of said second number of subframes is made to comprise at least three parts, as follows:
| 11-10-2011 |
20120009960 | Method And Arrangement In A Cellular Communication System - The basic idea of the present invention is to not only design a frequency-selective precoder with respect to the channel properties but also to ensure that the time-domain spread is limited. Hence the energy of the time-domain impulse response of the frequency-selective precoder is concentrated. According to a first embodiment, the time-domain spread is limited by designing a precoder such that it allows smooth transitions in the frequency domain between the values of the precoder when the precoder provides a staircase function. The smooth transitions can either be achieved by lowpass filtering the frequency-domain representation, the staircase function, of the precoder or by designing the precoder such that the sharp jumps are replaced by slopes. According to a second embodiment, the time-domain spread is controlled. The control may be achieved by employing a time-domain parameterization to precisely control the introduced additional time-domain spread. | 01-12-2012 |
20120020315 | Methods and devices relating to downlink assignments - The invention relates to a method in a first communication device of receiving control information over a radio channel from a second communication device. The first communication device receives a subframe over the radio channel, and determines whether the subframe is a downlink subframe with downlink assignment intended for the first communication device by reading data in the subframe. That being the case, the first communication device decodes data within the subframe, and determines whether any data packet being sent from the second communication device before the subframe has been missed by analysing an indicator associated to the subframe in the data. The indicator provides knowledge about previous downlink subframes with downlink assignment intended for the first communication device. | 01-26-2012 |
20120068907 | ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT - An antenna arrangement ( | 03-22-2012 |
20120099439 | Method and Device for Component Carrier Activation and Reconfiguration in a Mobile User Equipment - Methods and user equipment are provided for activation of downlink component carriers. Even though configured to monitor multiple component carriers, a user equipment unit does not start to monitor them immediately, but instead monitors only one or a few carriers initially. Once a downlink scheduling assignment is received, the user equipment unit will then monitor additional component carriers. After one or more subframes where the user equipment unit is not scheduled, the user equipment unit returns to its original state where it monitors one or a few carriers. | 04-26-2012 |
20120099577 | Methods and Arrangements in a Telecommunications Network - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a base station and a user equipment for determining an uplink transmission timing correction for communication in a telecommunication system in which aggregation of component carriers is applied. The base station receives a signal from the user equipment on a uplink (UL) component carrier and measures the arrival time of the signal. A timing correction of the UL transmission timing based on the arrival time of the signal is determined. Thereupon the base station determines for which of the uplink component carriers used by the user equipment the timing correction is valid. The timing correction and the validity information is sent to the user equipment. The user equipment adjusts the UL transmission timing for each UL component carrier the timing correction is valid for. | 04-26-2012 |
20120106471 | Methods and Arrangements for Dynamically Triggering the Transmission of Sounding Reference Signal in a Telecommunication System - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for providing a more flexible configuration of SRS transmission. This is achieved by dynamically triggering a mobile terminal to transmit SRS. Thus, embodiments of the invention allow dynamically trigged SRS in any uplink subframe, even without necessarily reserving resources semi-statically on cell level. This is done by signaling to the terminal whether the mobile terminal should leave the predefined uplink symbol empty for sounding reference signals or use it for data transmission. In case a terminal leaves the last symbol empty for sounding reference signals, there are two possibilities, either the UE shall transmit one or several reference signals from one or several antennas, or the terminal shall leave the last symbol blank since another terminal may be using the resource for sounding. Accordingly, in a specific embodiment, there are at least three different messages that can be conveyed to the terminal: use the predefined uplink symbol for data, leave it blank or use it for sounding reference signals. | 05-03-2012 |
20120120855 | Method and Apparatus in a Telecommunication System - Method and apparatus in a communication unit employing a wireless TDD or half duplex FDD transmission arrangement when communicating with a data sending party, for scheduling feedback reports for data blocks in received receive (RX) sub-frames, in transmit (TX) sub-frames available for transmission. An obtaining unit in the communication unit receives allocation parameters for the connection where the number of required feedback reports is greater than the number of allowed feedback reports. A scheduling unit in the communication unit then schedules feedback reports in available TX sub-frames according to a predetermined spreading rule also known by the data sending party, dictating that the feedback reports are spread out or distributed evenly over the available TX sub-frames. In this way, the number of feedback reports in a TX sub-frame can be reduced. | 05-17-2012 |
20120176981 | SIGNALLING OF REFERENCE SIGNALS FOR SINGLE USER SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION SCHEMES - The present disclosure relates to signalling of reference signals for Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) transmission schemes. A method embodiment for generating reference signals for use between a mobile terminal | 07-12-2012 |
20120257584 | Methods and Arrangements in a Telecommunication System - The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for providing a more flexible configuration of sounding reference signal, SRS, transmission. This is achieved by dynamically triggering a mobile terminal to transmit SRS. Thus, embodiments of the invention include a method implemented by a base station in a communications network that semi-statically configures some uplink symbols for periodic SRS transmission and other uplink symbols for aperiodic SRS transmission. The method includes dynamically determining whether an uplink symbol that has been semi-statically configured for aperiodic SRS transmission is to be used by a given mobile terminal at a given time for SRS transmission. The method then further includes signaling a terminal-specific instruction that indicates said determination to the given mobile terminal. | 10-11-2012 |
20120275393 | Resource Allocation of Reference Signals in Multi-Carrier Systems - Downlink control information, DCI, messages used for signaling downlink resource grants are employed for triggering sounding reference signal transmission in the uplink. An index of the uplink component carrier that should be used for the transmission is derived from SIB-2 linking between the downlink component carrier targeted by the downlink DCI message and one of the uplink component carriers configured for the mobile station, when the linking is available. In some cases the downlink component carrier targeted by the downlink DCI message is identified by a carrier identification field in the downlink DCI. Variants of the disclosed techniques involve a default uplink component carrier, which is used in the event that the SIB-2 based allocation is not possible or desired. The default uplink component carrier can be statically defined or semi-statically signaled by Radio Resource Control, RRC, signaling. | 11-01-2012 |
20120275414 | Method and Transmitter Node for Transmitting DM-RS Pattern - Systems and methods for generating a demodulation reference signal for use by user equipment configured with multiple antennas based on a rank of an antenna or an antenna port are disclosed. A rank for a user equipment device is determined indicating the number of spatial layers or antenna ports in use, and the value of the rank is used to generate a cyclic shift offset and a cyclic shift, that can then be used to generate a demodulation reference signal to be used in timeslots within each spatial layer of an uplink transmission. Orthogonal cover codes may be used in conjunction with a determined cyclic shift to generate a demodulation reference signal. | 11-01-2012 |
20120276937 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK WITH INTERCELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION - Methods and arrangements in a telecommunication network for intercell interference coordination. The telecommunication network comprises a first base station, acting as serving base station for a mobile station, and a second base station. The method comprises determining that transmission interference to the mobile station is to be limited. The method also comprises triggering the mobile station to send a signal on a radio resource, which signal is to be received by the second base station, enabling the second base station to select a transmission parameter that limits interference for the mobile station. | 11-01-2012 |
20120294254 | SRS Transmission in PUSCH - The present invention uses user-specific resources, as allocated on the uplink, for conveying one or more antenna-specific sounding reference signals (SRSs). This technique advantageously permits, for example, a user equipment (UE) configured for uplink Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) operation to send antenna-specific SRSs within the granted resources allocated to the UE via one or more scheduled uplink grants. That is, within the granted resources allocated by a given uplink grant, a UE uses at least a portion of those resources for sending antenna-specific SRSs, rather than for sending uplink data (user traffic). Thus, in one or more embodiments, the present invention comprises a method at a UE of transmitting antenna-specific SRSs for two or more uplink transmit antennas. The method comprises transmitting an antenna-specific sounding reference signal for at least one of the uplink transmit antennas within a granted resource allocated to the user equipment for a scheduled uplink data transmission. | 11-22-2012 |
20120314592 | Decentralized Control of Interference Reduction in a Wireless Communication System - A first base station ( | 12-13-2012 |
20130010660 | Method for Implicit Conveying of Uplink Feedback Information - Method and apparatus for conveying feedback reports from a data receiving party ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130034178 | Method and Apparatus for Channel Estimation and Detection in MIMO System - The prevent invention provides a method for performing channel estimation and detection in a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) system, including: generating a demodulation reference signal, DM-RS, pattern for an extended cyclic prefix (CP); and estimating and detecting channel performance based on the generated DM-RS signal pattern. The DM-RS pattern supports from rank 1 to rank 8 patterns for 8 layer transmission. A transmitter, a receiver and a system thereof are also provided. The solution of the present invention improves channel estimation accuracy, saves channel estimation implementation and implementation complexity at terminals. | 02-07-2013 |
20130039235 | Method and Arrangement in a Wireless Communication System - Method and arrangement in a base station for sending data to a user equipment. The base station comprises an instance of a codebook, corresponding to another instance of the codebook comprised in the user equipment. The method comprises obtaining channel state information from a signal received from the user equipment, estimating a channel to be used for transmitting data to the user equipment, calculating a precoder, based on the obtained channel state information. Further is comprised the steps of selecting a precoding index from the codebook based on the calculated precoder, or selecting a precoding index received from the user equipment, precoding data to be transmitted to the user equipment using the calculated precoder and transmitting the precoded data, a non-user dedicated reference signal and the precoding index on the estimated channel to the user equipment. Further, corresponding method and arrangement in a user equipment are described. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039348 | Transmitter, Receiver and Methods for Downlink Control Signalling - Downlink control information (DCI) extensions to support 3GPP Rel-10 functionalities comprise minimal extensions of DCI format 2B. In some embodiments, only two extra bits ( | 02-14-2013 |
20130094389 | Information on Reference Signal Structure for Neighbouring Cell Measurements - The present invention relates to cellular radio communication and in particular to providing information on neighbour cells to enable terminals to perform neighbour cell measurements. In the prior art the terminal attempts to make neighbour cell measurements in a reference signal structure that is the same in the neighbour cell as in the cell the terminal camps in. The present invention is based on the insight that the reference signal structure may differ between neighbouring cell for example in the situation of an MBSFN area that is restricted to a region of all cells of a radio network, or in the situation of TDD mode being applied there may be different regions with different allocation of sub-frames for transmission in the uplink and downlink directions. The present invention solves the problem by broadcast information in a cell indicative of the reference signal structure in neighbour cells. | 04-18-2013 |
20130155916 | RESOURCE SELECTION FOR TRANSMISSION OF MULTIPLE ACK/NACK ON PUCCH CHANNEL - In a method of operating a communication network ( | 06-20-2013 |
20130188534 | Methods and Devices for Communicating on a Radio Channel Based on Jointly Encoding a Preamble Format with Random Access Configuration - The invention relates to devices and methods for transmitting data on a radio channel comprising to jointly encode a preamble format with a first random access configuration, forming an extended random access configuration. The extended random access configuration is then transmitted on the radio channel. | 07-25-2013 |
20130242949 | Antenna Port Mapping for Demodulation Reference Signals - The present invention provides a unified, rank independent mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs. Each antenna port is uniquely associated with one code division multiplexing (CDM) group and one orthogonal cover code (OCC). The mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs is chosen such that, for a given antenna port, the CDM group and OCC will be the same for every transmission rank. | 09-19-2013 |
20130257655 | BEAMFORMING METHOD, APPARATUS FOR POLARIZED ANTENNA ARRAY AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM THEREOF - The invention discloses a beamforming method for polarized antenna array consisting of a plurality of antenna elements, applied to single layer beamforming or dual layer beamforming, which includes the steps: determining ( | 10-03-2013 |
20130258938 | Methods and Nodes for Setting Values of System Parameters Used in a Wireless Communication System - Method in a user equipment ( | 10-03-2013 |
20130310059 | Soft Cell Inter-Layer Interference Handling - In a heterogeneous cell deployment a mobile terminal may need to receive control data transmissions from a macro node at the same time as a pico node is transmitting user data for the mobile terminal, using the same frequency or set of frequencies. This can result in a problematic interference situation. According to several embodiments of the present invention, at least one of two general approaches is used to mitigate the interference situation described above. In a first approach, the pico node's transmission power is reduced in some time intervals, thereby reducing the interference to a level where reception from the macro node is possible. In a second approach, which may be combined with the first approach in some cases, the data transmitted from the macro node is provided by the pico node, either alone or in combination with the macro node. | 11-21-2013 |
20140022966 | FLEXIBLE SUBFRAMES - The technology disclosed provides the ability for a subframe to be configured as a “flexible” subframe. As a result, at least three different types of subframes in a TDD system may be configured: a downlink (“DL”) subframe, an uplink (“UL”) subframe, and a “flexible” subframe. While the DL and UL subframes are preconfigured for each frame instance, the flexible subframes are dynamically allocated to be an uplink subframe in one instance of a frame and a downlink subframe in another instance of the frame. | 01-23-2014 |
20140036846 | Method and Arrangement for Adapting Power of Reference Signals - A method and an arrangement in a radio network node for adapting transmission power of resource elements for demodulation reference signals, referred to as “reference elements” are provided. The radio network node is configured for multiple-input multiple-output transmission, referred to as “MIMO transmission”, to a user equipment. The MIMO transmission comprises at least three layers. Two consecutive subcarriers of a resource block carry at least three reference elements. A first subcarrier of the resource block carries data elements. The radio network node adapts transmission power of said at least three reference elements such that an average transmission power, over said two consecutive subcarriers, of said at least three reference elements is equal to a transmission power, for the first subcarrier, of the data elements for said at least three layers. The radio network node uses the adapted transmission power to transmit, to the user equipment, said at least three reference elements. | 02-06-2014 |
20140056190 | Reducing Interference Caused by an Atmospheric Duct in a Wireless Communication System - A first base station ( | 02-27-2014 |
20140126528 | SCHEDULING IN A CELLULAR SYSTEM - In a cellular system ( | 05-08-2014 |
20140160958 | Method and Apparatus for Measuring Interference in a Telecommunications System - A receiving unit or a transmitting unit of a wireless network, for facilitating noise and interference measurements on an air interface. The receiving unit includes: a network interface which obtains information relating to a time-varying layout of a silent resource element (RE) grid; an electronic memory having code in communication with the network interface which stores the information; and a processing unit in communication with the electronic memory that takes a presence of a silent RE grid into account in the reception of a control or a data channel. | 06-12-2014 |
20140185589 | Radio Base Station and User Equipment and Methods Therein - Embodiments herein include a method in a user equipment (UE) for transmitting uplink control information in time slots of a subframe over a radio channel to a radio base station. The uplink control information is comprised in a block of bits. | 07-03-2014 |
20140219190 | BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR SELECTING BEST TRANSMIT ANTENNA(s) FOR SIGNALING CONTROL CHANNEL INFORMATION - A base station is described herein which implements a method that uses different aspects of reported channel quality information (CQI) measurements to help select the “best” transmit antenna(s) on which to transmit control channel information to mobile terminal(s). The base station can also transmit a format indicator to communicate the assigned control channel transmit antenna(s) and the assigned data transmit antenna(s) to the mobile terminal(s). | 08-07-2014 |
20140233539 | Soft Cell Inter-Layer Interference Handling - In a heterogeneous cell deployment a mobile terminal may need to receive control data transmissions from a macro node at the same time as a pico node is transmitting user data for the mobile terminal, using the same frequency or set of frequencies. This can result in a problematic interference situation. According to several embodiments of the present invention, at least one of two general approaches is used to mitigate the interference situation described above. In a first approach, the pico node's transmission power is reduced in some time intervals, thereby reducing the interference to a level where reception from the macro node is possible. In a second approach, which may be combined with the first approach in some cases, the data transmitted from the macro node is provided by the pico node, either alone or in combination with the macro node. | 08-21-2014 |
20140321352 | Method and Devices for Communicating Over a Radio Channel - The invention relates to methods and communication devices for transmitting data on a radio channel comprising the steps of determining a first preamble format to be used in a cell of the second communication device, determining a basic cyclic shift value from a set of basic cyclic shift values, the set is selected based on the preamble format, and transmitting data comprising indication of the determined first preamble format and a basic cyclic shift value pointer indicating the basic cyclic shift value in the set of basic cyclic shift values. | 10-30-2014 |
20140355551 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method in a terminal for providing an ACK/NAK message to a base station is provided. The terminal counts the number of assigned downlink subframes detected from the base station resulting in k. The terminal then establishes whether each of a number of transport blocks comprised in the counted k downlink subframes is correctly received or not. In the case when each one of the transport blocks, comprised in the k downlink subframes is estimated as correctly received the terminal provides to the base station an encoded ACK message for the k subframes, which comprises k, the number of subframes. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355552 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method in a terminal for providing an ACK/NAK message to a base station is provided. The terminal counts the number of assigned downlink subframes detected from the base station resulting in k. The terminal then establishes whether each of a number of transport blocks comprised in the counted k downlink subframes is correctly received or not. In the case when each one of the transport blocks, comprised in the k downlink subframes is estimated as correctly received the terminal provides to the base station an encoded ACK message for the k subframes, which comprises k, the number of subframes. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355553 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method in a terminal for providing an ACK/NAK message to a base station is provided. The terminal counts the number of assigned downlink subframes detected from the base station resulting in k. The terminal then establishes whether each of a number of transport blocks comprised in the counted k downlink subframes is correctly received or not. In the case when each one of the transport blocks, comprised in the k downlink subframes is estimated as correctly received the terminal provides to the base station an encoded ACK message for the k subframes, which comprises k, the number of subframes. | 12-04-2014 |
20150043392 | DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF SUBFRAMES IN A RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The technology disclosed provides the ability for a subframe to be dynamically configured in time division duplex (TDD) communications between a UE radio terminal and a radio network node. A frame structure includes one or more subframes preconfigured as a downlink subframe, one or more subframes preconfigured as an uplink subframe, and one or more dynamically configurable subframes. Each dynamically configurable subframe includes a guard time period and at least a downlink part for transporting a dynamically configurable amount of downlink information, and in some embodiments, uplink information. A configuration for dynamically configurable subframes is determined for transmission and/or reception between the UE radio terminal and the radio network node. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043416 | Information on Reference Signal Structure for Neighboring Cell Measurements - The present invention relates to cellular radio communication and in particular to providing information on neighbour cells to enable terminals to perform neighbour cell measurements. In the prior art the terminal attempts to make neighbour cell measurements in a reference signal structure that is the same in the neighbour cell as in the cell the terminal camps in. The present invention is based on the insight that the reference signal structure may differ between neighbouring cell for example in the situation of an MBSFN area that is restricted to a region of all cells of a radio network, or in the situation of TDD mode being applied there may be different regions with different allocation of sub-frames for transmission in the uplink and downlink directions. The present invention solves the problem by broadcast information in a cell indicative of the reference signal structure in neighbour cells. | 02-12-2015 |
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20150071106 | Method and Apparatus for Communicating to UE an Indication of Available RS, Based on MIMO Mode Settings - The present solution ensures that the UEs are able to make use of all the available reference signals that can be used in a cell for performing UE measurements, estimations or demodulations. That is achieved by indicating on a downlink common or shared channel, the MIMO mode settings associated with a specific network node. The indicated MIMO mode settings explicitly or implicitly indicate available common reference signals and/or dedicated reference signals to be used for said UE measurements, estimations or demodulations, which implies that measurements, estimations or demodulations can be performed based on said received indication. | 03-12-2015 |
20150085769 | TECHNIQUE FOR OPERATING A NETWORK NODE IN A HETEROGENEOUSLY DEPLOYED NETWORK - A technique for operating a network node in a heterogeneously deployed network comprising network nodes of different nominal transmit powers and at least partially overlapping coverage areas is described. A method implementation of this technique comprises a step of operating the network node in a base mode in which the network node is configured to transmit terminal-specific demodulation reference signals for a first set of terminal devices. The method comprises the further step of selectively activating or deactivating operation of the network node in a Single Frequency Network (SFN) mode in which the network node is configured to transmit, for a second set of terminal devices, the same cell-specific reference nodes as another network node of the heterogeneously deployed network that has a larger nominal transmit power. | 03-26-2015 |