Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100278123 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FRAME STRUCTURE AND APPARATUS - A method comprises providing a frame, the frame including a downlink sub-frame and an uplink sub-frame, portions of the downlink sub-frame and uplink sub-frame being allocated for communication with a mobile station configured to operate utilizing a legacy IEEE 802.16 standard, and portions of the downlink sub-frame and uplink sub-frame being allocated for communication with a mobile station configured to operate utilizing the IEEE 802.16m standard; and using the frame to wirelessly communicate with a mobile station in at least one of the uplink and downlink directions. A method of using an 802.16m frame structure for multi-band operation is also provided, as well as an 802.16m frame structure for relay support. | 11-04-2010 |
20110002406 | System and Method for Multi-cell Joint Codebook Feedback in Wireless Communications Systems - A system and method for multi-cell joint codebook feedback in wireless communications systems are provided. A method for operations at a communications device receiving joint transmissions from a plurality of communications controllers includes estimating a channel between the communications device and each communications controller in the plurality of communications controllers, thereby producing a plurality of channel estimates, computing feedback information based on the plurality of channel estimates, transmitting the feedback information, and receiving simultaneous transmissions from the plurality of communications controllers. The computing is based on a phase adjustment for the plurality of channels or a joint optimization of the plurality of channels, and the simultaneous transmissions are precoded based on the feedback information. | 01-06-2011 |
20110003598 | System and Method for Semi-Static Downlink Inter-Cell Interference Coordination for Wireless Communications - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a base station in a wireless system, includes partitioning a frequency band into at least one band of a first type and at least one band of a second type, and coordinating the partitioning with at least one further base station. The at least one band of the first type includes a band on which the base station transmits power proportional to a distance of a user device from the base station, and the at least one band of the second type comprises a band on which base station transmits a data rate inversely proportional to a distance of a user device from the base station. | 01-06-2011 |
20110007685 | System and Method for Downlink Channel Sounding in Wireless Communications Systems - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a base station configured to communicate with at least one user device includes transmitting a reference signal to the at least one user device, receiving channel quality information from the at least one user device, and forming a beam based on the channel quality information received from the at least one user device. | 01-13-2011 |
20110014926 | System and Method for Adjusting Downlink Channel Quality Index in a Wireless Communications System - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a controller in a wireless communication system includes receiving channel feedback information from a communications node, adjusting the channel feedback information based on a measurement of interference from neighboring controllers, adjusting transmit parameters of the controller using the adjusted channel feedback information, and transmitting to the communications node using the adjusted transmit parameters. | 01-20-2011 |
20110103287 | System and Method for Unified Feedback in a Communication System - In an embodiment, a method of operating a communication device includes determining a first coordinated multipoint (CoMP) mode, electronically receiving feedback from a user device in the uniform feedback format, and determining transmission parameters of the first CoMP mode. The first CoMP mode includes one of a plurality of CoMP modes, and each of the plurality of CoMP modes is configured to operate using a uniform feedback format. | 05-05-2011 |
20110194540 | MULTI-SITE MIMO COOPERATION IN CELLULAR NETWORKS - A method of serving a given data stream to a target mobile terminal, in a cellular communications network that includes a plurality of transmitting sites wherein each transmitting site including at least one antenna, is provided. The method includes designating at least two of the plurality of transmitting sites as cooperating sites; assigning tones to each transmitting site from a sub-band associated with the cooperating sites; dividing the data stream into at least two sub-data streams, each of the sub-data streams for transmission over selected tones; and interlacing tones of the cooperating sites in accordance with a selected one of a time switching and a frequency switching transmit diversity technique. Other techniques for multi-site MIMO cooperation are also provided. | 08-11-2011 |
20110205955 | NETWORK-RELAY SIGNALING FOR DOWNLINK TRANSPARENT RELAY - In a method of providing downlink retransmissions to a mobile station in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network comprising a base station communicatively linked to a transparent relay station, the base station receives a request for a retransmission from the mobile station; schedules resources for the retransmission; signals scheduling information for the retransmission to the transparent relay station via a control link; and the transparent relay station receives the scheduling information for the retransmission on the control link; and sends the retransmission to the mobile station in a retransmit subframe on a retransmit frequency band. | 08-25-2011 |
20110206157 | REFERENCE SIGNAL DESIGN FOR DOWNLINK HIGH-ORDER MIMO - In a cellular network supporting both legacy standard-compliant mobile terminals and next generation standard-compliant mobile terminals, both legacy reference signals and next generation reference signals are supported. A method of operation of a MIMO transmitter compliant with both standards includes: defining a matrix of resource blocks within an information channel of the cellular network, wherein each resource block corresponds to a region of subcarriers of a transmission timeslot at a given frequency subband; assigning a first set of reference signals (RSs) for the legacy standard-compliant mobile terminals to resource blocks at specific locations within the matrix to be transmitted by the MIMO transmitter, the specific locations being defined by the legacy standard; and assigning a second set of RSs for the next-generation standard-compliant mobile terminals to other resource blocks within the matrix to be transmitted by the MIMO transmitter. | 08-25-2011 |
20110306381 | System and Method for Transparent Coordinated Beam-Forming - A system and method for transparent coordinated beam-forming are provided. A method for transmitting information includes determining correlations between communications devices served by a communications controller and communications devices served by neighboring communications controllers, selecting a communications device from the communications devices served by the communications controller, adjusting a manner of transmission of a transmission containing information to the selected communications device based on a correlation for the selected communications device, and transmitting the transmission to the selected communications device. | 12-15-2011 |
20120028584 | System and Method for Self-Organized Inter-Cell Interference Coordination - A system and method for self-organized inter-cell interference coordination are provided. A method for controller operations includes receiving signal power measurements at a controller, determining an interference level based on the signal power measurements, generating relationship information based on the interference level, and determining frequency reuse modes for communications controllers controlled by the controller based on the relationship information. | 02-02-2012 |
20120028664 | System and Method for Automatic Fractional Frequency Reuse Planning - A system and method for automatic fractional frequency reuse (FFR) planning are provided. A method for controller operations includes determining a group of frequency reuse modes, assigning at least one frequency reuse mode to a controller based on mutual relationship information, where the at least one frequency reuse mode is from the group of frequency reuse modes, and sharing the at least one frequency reuse mode with communications controllers coupled to the controller. | 02-02-2012 |
20120106483 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENABLING FEEDBACK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Aspects of the present invention provide additional MAC functionality to support the PHY features of a wireless communication system framework. The additional MAC functionality aids in enabling feedback from wireless terminals to base stations. In some aspects of the invention the feedback is provided on an allocated feedback channel. In other aspects of the invention the feedback is provided by MAC protocol data units (PDU) in a header, mini-header, or subheader. The feedback may be transmitted from the wireless terminal to the base station autonomously by the wireless terminal or in response to an indication from the base station that feedback is requested. Aspects of the invention also provide for allocating feedback resources to form a dedicated feedback channel. One or more of these enhancements is included in a given implementation. Base stations and wireless terminals are also described upon which methods described herein can be implemented. | 05-03-2012 |
20120122503 | System and Method for Self-Optimized Inter-Cell Interference Coordination - An embodiment method for operating a controller of a communications system includes determining inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) information for the communications system, automatically adjusting, by the controller without end-user input, ICIC parameters according to the ICIC information to improve an overall performance level of the communications system, and transmitting the ICIC operation parameters to network entities in the communications system. | 05-17-2012 |
20120202431 | System and Method for Transparent Coordinated Beam-Forming - A method for reducing interference at a first user equipment (UE) includes receiving, by a second communications controller, a request to reduce interference at the first UE, the first UE being served by a first communications controller. The method also includes determining, by the second communications controller, a beam adjustment in accordance with uplink transmission measurements of the first UE and a second UE, the beam adjustment to aim a transmission to the second UE away from the second UE and towards an angle orthogonal to a first direction of the first UE relative to the second communications controller, the second UE being served by the second communications controller. The method further includes pre-adjusting, by the second communications controller, the transmission with the beam adjustment, and transmitting, by the second communications controller, the pre-adjusted transmission to the second UE. | 08-09-2012 |
20130010681 | Network-Relay Signaling for Downlink Transparent Relay - In a method of providing downlink retransmissions to a mobile station in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network comprising a base station communicatively linked to a transparent relay station, the base station receives a request for a retransmission from the mobile station; schedules resources for the retransmission; signals scheduling information for the retransmission to the transparent relay station via a control link; and the transparent relay station receives the scheduling information for the retransmission on the control link; and sends the retransmission to the mobile station in a retransmit subframe on a retransmit frequency band. | 01-10-2013 |
20130028150 | Method and System for Wireless Communication in Multiple Operating Environments - A wireless communication method and system are provided. A first wireless communication numerology, e.g., OFDM operating parameters, corresponding to a first operational mode is established. A second wireless communication numerology corresponding to a second operational mode is also established. The first wireless communication numerology is different than the second wireless communication numerology. One of the first operational mode and the second operational mode is selected. One of the first wireless communication numerology and the second wireless communication numerology corresponding to the selected operational mode is used in which communication in the first operational mode and the second operational mode use substantially similar synchronization channels. The present invention also uses the same superframe structure for the first and second operational modes for Ultra-Mobile Broadband (“UMB”) networks and the same frame structure for the first and second operational modes for Long Term Evolution (“LTE”) networks. | 01-31-2013 |
20130070583 | Network-Relay Signaling for Downlink Transparent Relay - In a method of providing downlink retransmissions to a mobile station in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network comprising a base station communicatively linked to a transparent relay station, the base station receives a request for a retransmission from the mobile station; schedules resources for the retransmission; signals scheduling information for the retransmission to the transparent relay station via a control link; and the transparent relay station receives the scheduling information for the retransmission on the control link; and sends the retransmission to the mobile station in a retransmit subframe on a retransmit frequency band. | 03-21-2013 |
20130107929 | System and Method for Operating Mode Self-Adaptation | 05-02-2013 |
20130109401 | System and Method for Semi-Static Downlink Inter-Cell Interference Coordination for Wireless Communications | 05-02-2013 |
20130286954 | System and Method for Interference Coordination - A method for operating an interference coordinating entity (ICE) includes partitioning, by the ICE, a cloud radio access network (CRAN) cluster by grouping transmission points (TPs) serving user equipments (UEs) in accordance with a partitioning criterion into at least one virtual transmission point (V-TP) to produce a V-TP set. The UEs to be served are preferably offset from a V-TP boundary. The method also includes saving, by the ICE, V-TP information to a memory. | 10-31-2013 |
20130310098 | System and Method for Adaptive Downlink CoMP Operation - A uniform feedback format mandates that mandates that DPS CSI, JT CSI, and CQI are reported irrespective of which transmission scheme was previously used to perform transmissions. The DPS CSI, JT CSI, and CQI are then used to select a transmission scheme from a group of candidate transmission schemes. The selected transmission scheme can be a CoMP transmission scheme. | 11-21-2013 |
20130310102 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING UPLINK POWER-CONTROL PARAMETERS IN LTE - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for setting uplink power-control parameters for a cell within a wireless network. During operation, the system receives parameters associated with uplink power for a plurality of user devices within the cell over a predetermined time interval, and averages the received parameters over the user devices and the predetermined time interval to obtain an averaged parameter. The system then determines a set of power-control parameters for the cell based on the averaged parameter, and sends the set of power-control parameters to the user devices to allow the user devices to control transmission power using the set of power-control parameters. | 11-21-2013 |
20140003268 | System and Method for Grouping and Selecting Transmission Points | 01-02-2014 |
20140016570 | System and Method for Dynamically Configurable Air Interfaces - A method of transmitting includes categorizing a transmission between the first device and a second device as one of a plurality of transmission types, and selecting an air interface from a plurality of air interface candidates in accordance with the transmission as categorized. The method also includes sending the transmission to the second device using the selected air interface. | 01-16-2014 |
20140050202 | LOCALIZED CoMP PRECODING - A system is provided for precoding in a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) joint transmission (JT) system. During operation, the system identifies, at a first base station (BS) of a first cell, a set of regular user equipments (UEs), which are located within the first cell and receive signals from the first BS; and one or more coordinated multipoint (CoMP) UEs, which are located within a second cell and receive signals. The CoMP UEs receive signals from both the first BS and a second BS of the second cell. The system obtains a first channel state information (CSI) associated with the regular UEs, receives a second CSI associated with the CoMP UEs from the second BS, and constructs a local precoder for the first cell in accordance with the first CSI and the second CSI. | 02-20-2014 |
20140071954 | System and Method for Adaptive Transmission Time Interval (TTI) Structure - Methods and devices are provided for communicating data in a wireless channel. In one example, a method includes adapting the transmission time interval (TTI) length of transport container for transmitting data in accordance with a criteria. The criteria may include (but is not limited to) a latency requirement of the data, a buffer size associated with the data, a mobility characteristic of a device that will receive the data. The TTI lengths may be manipulated for a variety of reasons, such as for reducing overhead, satisfy quality of service (QoS) requirements, maximize network throughput, etc. In some embodiments, TTIs having different TTI lengths may be carried in a common radio frame. In other embodiments, the wireless channel may partitioned into multiple bands each of which carrying (exclusively or otherwise) TTIs having a certain TTI length. | 03-13-2014 |
20140073287 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER EQUIPMENT CENTRIC UNIFIED SYSTEM ACCESS IN VIRTUAL RADIO ACCESS NETWORK - A network for facilitating wireless radio communication. The network includes a first access area, wherein the access area includes one or more transmission/receive points. At least one transmission/receive point includes a base station that supports wireless communication between a network and user equipment (UE), such as, a mobile device. The network includes a dedicated connection signature (DCS) that is assigned to a UE. The DCS provides for and is used by the UE to maintain active, unified access to the wireless network. More particularly, the DCS provides for active, contention free, and fast access for the UE to the network through transmission/receive points within the first access area, which is of significance to present and future UE centric virtual radio access networks having high densities of mobile and non-mobile users and with high populations of different types of traffic patterns and applications. | 03-13-2014 |
20140086072 | SELF ADAPTIVE MULTI-LEVEL DOWNLINK POWER CONTROL FOR NOISE-LIMITED WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORKS - The invention provides a self-adaptive downlink power control scheme for OFDMA-based wireless cellular networks suitable for noise-limited environments. Downlink power levels are assigned in a distributed manner in the absence of any requirement for coordination or cooperation between cells. Distributed assignment allows for more optimal usage of the available transmit power at the base stations and more complete exploitation of the flexibility of frequency domain scheduling. In one embodiment, base stations in a cellular network service mobile user equipment within the respective base station coverage areas, and categorize the user equipment in a plurality of power levels according to certain criteria in accordance with such factors as channel experience and quality. A load-balancing self-adjustment mechanism allows automatic balancing of the load between different power levels. | 03-27-2014 |
20140098731 | Terminal Based Grouping Virtual Transmission and Reception in Wireless Networks - Virtualized group-wise communications between a wireless network and a plurality of user equipments (UEs) are supported using UE cooperation. UE cooperation includes receiving, at a cooperating UE (CUE), downlink information from the wireless network destined for a target UE (TUE) and associated with a group identifier (ID). The group ID indicates a virtual multi-point (ViMP) node that includes the TUE and the CUE. The UE cooperation also includes sending the downlink information to the TUE. The UE or UE component can have a processor configured to forward between the wireless network and a TUE at least some information that is associated with a group ID indicating a ViMP node that groups the TUE and the UE. | 04-10-2014 |
20140105122 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION - A system including a cell controller and a method for dynamic inter-cell interference coordination based on a strong interference neighbor relationship table (SI-NRT) are provided. In the method, the cell controller generates a SI-NRT based on a predefined threshold value and interferences from a plurality of neighbor cells. The cell controller determines whether a cell needs additional high power frequency band and determines whether there is available high power frequency band in the plurality of neighboring cells based on the SI-NRT. | 04-17-2014 |
20140113643 | System and Method for Radio Access Virtualization - A method embodiment includes defining, by a network controller, one or more operation modes for a radio node in a network. The one or more operation modes includes a hyper transceiver mode, where the hyper transceiver mode configures a virtual transmission point to cooperatively communicate with a virtual reception point in accordance with neighborhood relations of a target radio node. The method further includes selecting one of the one or more operation modes for the radio node and signaling a selected operation mode to the radio node. | 04-24-2014 |
20140141789 | System and Method for Device-to-Device Operation in a Cellular Communications System - A method for operating a first device-to-device (D2D) device in a cellular communications system includes receiving geo-location information from a first entity in the cellular communications system, the geo-location information including location information for cellular users of the cellular communications system and resources of the cellular communications system available to the cellular users, selecting one of the resources to avoid causing interference to a cellular transmission, the resource being selected in accordance with the geo-location information, and transmitting to a second D2D device over the selected resource. | 05-22-2014 |
20140146754 | Systems and Methods for Waveform Selection and Adaptation - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing waveform adaptation are provided. In an example, a method is provided for identifying a plurality of candidate waveforms, and selecting one of the candidate waveforms for data transmission. The candidate waveforms may be identified in accordance with one or more criteria, such as a transmission capability of the transmitting device, a reception capability of the receiving device, a desired Peak-to-Average-Power-Ratio (PAPR) characteristic, adjacent channel interference (ACI) rejection requirements, spectrum localization requirements, and other criteria. The waveform selected for data transmission may be selected in accordance with one or more waveform selection criteria, such as traffic characteristic, application types, etc. | 05-29-2014 |
20140169234 | Systems and Methods for Interference Avoidance, Channel Sounding, and Other Signaling for Multi-User Full Duplex Transmission - System and method embodiments are provided for transmission and reception scheduling for wireless devices in a multi-user full duplex transmission environment. The embodiments enable interference avoidance between neighboring wireless devices. The system and method also enable channel sounding. In an embodiment, a method for scheduling transmissions in a multi-user wireless system includes determining, by a transmission point, neighboring wireless devices for each of a plurality of wireless devices located within a coverage area of the transmission point and determining, by the transmission point, a transmission schedules for respective ones of the plurality of wireless devices according to the neighboring information of the devices such that each respective wireless device is scheduled to transmit data over different time-frequency resources than those in which neighboring wireless devices of the respective wireless device are scheduled to receive data. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169239 | System and Method for Terminal Cooperation Based on Sparse Multi-Dimensional Spreading - System and method embodiments are provided to achieve efficient Direct Mobile Communications (DMC) and device-to-device (D2D) communications for terminal based groups with improved spectrum efficiency, reduced interference, and virtual full duplex operation mode. The embodiments include a distributed mechanism for D2D communications that enables one or more cooperating UEs (CUEs) to help one or more target UEs (TUEs) with limited additional signaling overhead and relatively simple implementation. The mechanism comprises a grantless multi-dimensional multiplexing scheme that uses low density spreading (LDS) over time, frequency, and/or space domains to enable data forwarding between multiple half-duplex terminals or UEs while allowing the UEs to operate in virtual full-duplex mode. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169261 | System and Method for UE Fountain Relay Based Network - System and method embodiments are provided for enabling flexible and reliable UE-to-UE based relay. The embodiments include using fountain codes for combining signals at a suitable network layer higher than a media access control (MAC) sub-layer and using a MAC sub-layer hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission scheme. When a relay UE in a UE group for joint reception receives, from a network access point, a data packet intended for a destination UE in the UE group and including fountain code at the higher network layer, the relay UE sends the data packet to the destination UE and returns a HARQ ACK message at the MAC sub-layer to the access point. The destination UE then receives and decodes the data packet. Subsequently, upon receiving the entire data, the destination UE sends an ACK message at the higher network layer to the access point. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169408 | System and Method for Open-Loop MIMO Communications in a SCMA Communications System - A method for transmitting data includes mapping a first coded information bit stream intended for a first transmit antenna onto at least one first spreading sequence of a plurality of first spreading sequences to generate a first data stream, mapping a second coded information bit stream intended for a second transmit antenna onto at least one second spreading sequence of a plurality of second spreading sequences to generate a second data stream. The method also includes transmitting the first data stream and the second data stream on respective transmit antennas. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169409 | Systems and Methods for Open-loop Spatial Multiplexing Schemes for Radio Access Virtualization - System and method embodiments are provided for open-loop spatial multiplexing for radio access virtualization. In an embodiment, a system includes a plurality of antenna ports and a processor coupled to the plurality of antenna ports and configured to spread a spreading sequence over at least a portion of the plurality of antenna ports in a spatial domain, wherein the processor is configured to cause the antenna ports to transmit multiple spreading sequences simultaneously by sequence superposition. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173372 | System and Method for Terminal-Group Based HARQ for Cellular Integrated D2D Communications - System and method embodiments are provided to support network communications with groups of UEs. The embodiments include a two-level group-based hybrid-automatic repeat request (HARQ) mechanism and acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) feedback. An embodiment method includes receiving, at a UE within a virtual multi-point (ViMP) comprising UEs, a data packet for a target UE (TUE) that is broadcasted from a base station (BS) to the ViMP node, decode the data packet, and upon successfully decoding the data packet, broadcasting the data packet to the UEs within the ViMP node until a timer pre-established by the BS expires or an ACK message is received from the TUE or the ViMP node. In an embodiment, broadcasted data received in the ViMP node is re-broadcasted upon receiving a negative acknowledgment (NACK) message from the TUE, a beacon UE, or any of the UEs within the ViMP node. | 06-19-2014 |
20140192767 | System and Method for Small Traffic Transmissions - A grant-free transmission mode may be used to communicate small traffic transmissions to reduce overhead and latency. The grant-free transmission mode may be used in downlink and uplink data channels of a wireless network. In the downlink channel, a base station transmits packets to a group of UEs in a search space without communicating any transmission code assignments to the UEs. The UEs receive the downlink packets using blind detection. In the uplink channel, UEs transmit packets in an access space using assigned access codes which are either independently derived by the UEs or otherwise communicated by the base station using a slow-signaling channel. Hence, the grant-free transmission mode allows mobile devices to make small traffic transmissions without waiting for uplink grant requests. | 07-10-2014 |
20140211687 | System and Methods for Compress and Forward Relaying Schemes in Joint Signal Processing - Embodiments are provided for a compress and forward relaying scheme in joint multi-cell processing. A plurality of base stations receive similar combinations of user signals from a plurality of users, compress the signals using quantization, and relay the signals over respective backhaul links to a processor in the network for decoding the signal. The processor determines suitable quantization noise levels for the backhaul links according to a weighted sum-rate maximization function for optimizing the quantization noise levels, subject to a backhaul sum capacity constraint on the backhaul links. The determined quantization noise levels are sent to the base stations, which then quantize the received combinations of user signals according to the quantization noise levels and relay the quantized signals to the processor. The quantization is according to a Wyner-Ziv coding or a single user compression algorithm that excludes statistical correlations between the user signals at the base stations. | 07-31-2014 |
20140233437 | Frame Structure for Filter Bank Multi-Carrier (FBMC) Waveforms - A unified frame structure for filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) waveforms may allow FBMC and OFDM frames to be communicated over a common channel without significant inter-frame gaps. The unified frame structure may set an FBMC frame duration to an integer multiple of an OFDM frame element duration to enable alignment of FBMC frames and OFDM frames in the time domain. The unified frame structure may also map control channels in the FBMC and OFDM frames to common resource locations so that the respective control channels are aligned in the time and/or frequency domains. The unified frame structure may also share synchronization channels between FBMC and OFDM frames. Additionally, overhead in an FBMC time division duplexed (TDD) communications channel can be reduced by overlapping time windows appended to FBMC blocks. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233664 | System and Method for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing-Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation - A method for performing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)/offset quantization amplitude modulation (OQAM) includes obtaining a data burst. The method includes performing weighted circularly convolved filtering modulation on the data burst to produce an output signal. The method further includes a first wireless device transmitting the output signal to a second wireless device. The second wireless device receives an input signal from the first wireless device, and the second wireless devices performs weighted circularly convolved demodulation filtering on the input signal to produce the data burst. | 08-21-2014 |
20140254544 | System and Method for Uplink Grant-Free Transmission Scheme - A method embodiment includes implementing, by a base station (BS), a grant-free uplink transmission scheme. The grant-free uplink transmission scheme defines a first contention transmission unit (CTU) access region in a time-frequency domain, defines a plurality of CTUs, defines a default CTU mapping scheme by mapping at least some of the plurality of CTUs to the first CTU access region, and defines a default user equipment (UE) mapping scheme by defining rules for mapping a plurality of UEs to the plurality of CTUs. | 09-11-2014 |
20140269520 | System and Method for Determining a Pilot Signal - A method of configuring a pilot signal includes defining a first pilot signal arrangement and defining a second pilot signal arrangement. Also, the method includes determining, by a communications controller, a first determined pilot signal arrangement in accordance with the first defined pilot signal arrangement, the second defined pilot signal arrangement, and a set of characteristics and transmitting, by the communications controller, the pilot signal having the first determined pilot signal arrangement. | 09-18-2014 |
20140269767 | System and Method for Multi-Layer Protocol Selection - A system and method for transmitting data is provided. An embodiment comprises a dynamic determination of ARQ and HARQ protocols in order to achieve a wider range of Quality of Service guarantees. The ARQ and HARQ protocols can be selected base on Quality of Service requirements of packets and the capabilities of the piece of user equipment. | 09-18-2014 |
20140273862 | System and Method for Interference Cancellation Using Terminal Cooperation - Soft information for achieving interference cancellation in downlink transmissions can be communicated over device-to-device (D2D) links, thereby allowing paired user equipments (UEs) to receive downlink transmissions over the same radio resources. More specifically, paired UEs that receive transmissions over the same time-frequency resources may exchange soft or hard information over D2D links in order to facilitate interference cancellation. The D2D links may be unidirectional or bidirectional, and may be established over in-band or out-of-band resources. Paired UEs may be in the same or different cells, and may receive their respective transmissions from the same or different transmit point. UEs may be paired with one another based on various criteria, e.g., interference cancellation capabilities, scheduling metrics, etc. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282769 | Systems and Methods for Quality of Experience Aware Joint Scheduling of Buffered Video on Demand and Best Effort Flows - System and method embodiments for joint scheduling of buffered video on demand (VoD) and best effort flows within the same band enable improved quality of experience for VoD receiving mobile devices without resource partitioning or sacrificing FSS gains. In an embodiment, a method for scheduling video on demand flows and best effort flows within the same band includes determining with a transmission point (TP) a buffer vacancy for each of the ones of a plurality of mobile devices wirelessly coupled to a transmission point that are receiving VoD flows, calculating, with the TP, buffer vacancy scheduling weights for the plurality of mobile devices using the buffer vacancy, and determining, with the TP, a joint schedule of VoD flows and best effort flows based on the buffer vacancy scheduling weights. | 09-18-2014 |
20140328183 | Systems and Methods for Traffic-Aware Medium Access Selection - Diverse traffic types can be efficiently communicated in a simultaneous manner by dynamically selecting between contention-based and scheduling-based media access control (MAC) communication schemes. Such a mechanism may be particularly beneficial in networks having a contention-based access resources and scheduling based access resources. Contention-based resources and scheduling based resources may occur over a common period, and may be orthogonal in the frequency domain and/or in the code domain. The dynamic selection may be based on a traffic characteristic or a network characteristic, and may be performed on a packet-by-packet basis. The selection criteria may be updated dynamically to adapt to changing network conditions, and may be communicated to the various transmitters via control channels or higher layer signaling. | 11-06-2014 |
20140328256 | System and Method for Transmission Source Identification - A method embodiment includes receiving, by a first network device, a first transmission comprising an explicit first source identification (ID). The first source ID is added to a list of active source IDs. The first network device receives a second transmission. The second transmission does not include an explicit second source ID. The first network device determines the second source ID by using the list of active source IDs. | 11-06-2014 |
20150043540 | System and Method for Scalable Digital Communications with Adaptive System Parameters - A method for operating an adapting device includes selecting a first access mode out of a plurality of access modes for a first transmission between a first communications device and a second communications device, wherein the selection of the first access mode is made in accordance with an access mode criterion, and at least one of communications system information, and user equipment information, and determining sparse code multiple access (SCMA) parameters from the first access mode in accordance with a SCMA parameter mapping rule. The method also includes providing information about the first access mode to at least one of the first communications device and the second communications device. | 02-12-2015 |
20150055525 | Channel Sounding for Frequency Division Duplex System - System and method embodiments are provided for channel sounding in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system. The embodiments enable a transmission point (TP) to determine channel information about a downlink channel from an uplink channel sounding signal received on the downlink channel frequency band during a time window reserved for uplink channel sounding on the downlink channel frequency band. In an embodiment, a method in a controller includes determining with the controller a schedule for an uplink sounding window in a downlink frequency band, wherein the uplink sounding window comprises a transmission window in at least a partial downlink frequency band that is reserved for uplink channel sounding, instructing a TP to signal the schedule to at least one wireless device in a coverage area of the TP, receiving a channel sounding signal in the downlink frequency band, and obtaining downlink channel state information from the channel sounding signal. | 02-26-2015 |
20150057010 | System and Method for Boundaryless Service in Wireless Networks with Cooperative Transmission Points - Embodiments are provided to serve user equipments (UEs) that experience, for example persistently, inter-transmission point group (TPG) interference in a wireless or cellular network. The embodiments include steps to serve edge UEs (EUs) such as persistent EUs (PEUs) using a set of transmission points (TPs) in one or more TPGs. The selected set of TPs used for serving the EUs or PEUs are dynamically determined based on a UE-centric metric. The metric involves the PEUs and surrounding UEs. The UE-centric metric is used to partition the network to multiple TPG sets. For each one of multiple assigned resource units (RUs), a TPG set that maximizes or improves a network-wide utility is used for scheduling transmissions. Further, for each RU, the UEs are associated with an optimized or improved TPG in the used TPG set. | 02-26-2015 |
20150071182 | System and Method for Increasing Low Density Signature Space - Embodiments are provided herein for increasing low density signature space for multiplexed transmissions for a plurality of users. The embodiments include generating a virtual signature using a combination operation on a plurality of basic signatures. The generated virtual signatures are provisioned as basic resource units (BRUs) for transmissions for corresponding users. The combination operation is a row-wise or column-wise permutation for combining, in each of the virtual signatures, rows or columns of corresponding basic signatures. The rows or columns represent sequences of frequency bands at one time interval or sequences of allocated time intervals at one frequency band. Alternatively, the combination operation is intra-basic resource unit (BRU) hopping. The embodiments also include generating a plurality of BRU sets comprised of virtual signatures. Each of the BRU sets is provisioned for a corresponding user. | 03-12-2015 |
20150082133 | System and Method for User Equipment Cooperation - User equipment (UE) cooperation can be improved by relaying partial soft information to target UEs. More specifically, a cooperating UE may relay a subset of log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) to the target UE. The subset of LLRs may correspond to fewer than all resource blocks of the original transmission. This may allow UE cooperation to be effective when the cooperating UE was only able to decode a portion of the original transmission. This may also allow fewer network resources (e.g., bandwidth, etc.) to be used when the target UE does not need all of the soft information to decode the original transmission. Multiple cooperating UEs can provide different subsets of LLRs, and the subsets may or may not overlap with one another. | 03-19-2015 |