Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
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 |
20110164701 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENCODING USING A REDUCED CODEBOOK WITH ADAPTIVE RESETTING - To feedback MIMO channel conditions, a codeword from a codebook is selected. To reduce signalling, the codewords are organized into codeword subsets. The receiver signals an index of a codeword into a current codeword subset previously made known to the transmitter. The current codeword subset is adaptively selected based on a threshold criterion. For example, if the best codeword from the current codeword subset is not sufficiently similar to the best codeword in the full codebook, a switch in the codeword subset is made. | 07-07-2011 |
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 |
20110195678 | System and Method for Transceivers in a Wireless Network - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a multi-output wireless transmitter includes determining a precoded data stream based on input data, where the determining includes determining a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of a plurality of receivers, determining a channel gain to each of the plurality of receivers, and maximizing a sum of utility functions, wherein each utility function is proportional to the SINR of each of the plurality of receivers at low SINR values and asymptotically approaches a constant value at high SINR values. The precoded data stream is transmitted on the multi-output wireless transmitter. | 08-11-2011 |
20110200029 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CLUSTERING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATED MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION - A method and system for identifying cell clusters within a coordinated multiple point wireless transmission network in order to reduce scheduling complexity while optimizing throughout and performance. The network includes a total number of cells served by corresponding base stations. The BSC divides the entire network of cells into clusters of cells and forwards this clustering information to all mobile devices. A cluster of cell candidates is a subset of the total number of cells within the network. The mobile device then provides to a base station controller the identity of a cluster of preferred cells selected from the cluster of cell candidates. The base station controller selects at least one base station located within the cluster of preferred cells to establish communication with the mobile device. A wireless connection is then established between the selected at least one base station and the mobile device. | 08-18-2011 |
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 |
20110228728 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPACE CODE TRANSMIT DIVERSITY OF PUCCH - Aspects of the invention are directed to a transmit diversity method for use in a wireless terminal having a plurality of antennas and a wireless terminal configured to implement the method. The transmit diversity method includes using a different orthogonal sequence for each antenna, or group of antennas, for transmitting an uplink control channel from a wireless terminal to a base station. A first step of the method involves assigning at least one orthogonal sequence to one or more of the plurality of antennas, each of the plurality of antennas being assigned at least one orthogonal sequence. Once the orthogonal sequence is assigned, a further step involves scrambling a signal to be transmitted on the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) using the at least one orthogonal sequence for each antenna thereby producing a scrambled PUCCH for transmission by each antenna. The scrambled PUCCH can then be transmitted on the plurality of antennas. | 09-22-2011 |
20110299617 | X-mimo systems with multi-transmitters and multi-receivers - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a wireless transmission of a plurality of data streams in a wireless communication system having a plurality of nodes is disclosed. Each node has multiple antennas. The method involves receiving first and second data streams from respective first and second nodes at a receiver node, causing the receiver node to generate a receive filter for decoding each of the received data streams, and causing the receiver node to transmit receive filter information for each of the first and second data streams, the receive filter information facilitating precoding of the first and second data streams for simultaneous transmission within a common frequency band to the receiver node. | 12-08-2011 |
20120020434 | TRANSMISSION USING COMMON AND DEDICATED PILOTS - A method, system, base station and wireless terminal are provided for transmission of a set of mixed pilots that includes both common and dedicated pilots. The method includes selecting a number D of dedicated pilots having regard to performance of the communication link, D≧0, selecting a first pre-coder for pre-coding D dedicated pilots based on some criteria, performing a first pre-coding of the D dedicated pilots with the first pre-coder to produce a set of pre-coded dedicated pilots, performing a second pre-coding of the set of pre-coded dedicated pilots and a set of common pilots to produce a set of mixed pilots, and transmitting data from the transmitter on the communication link with the set of mixed pilots. | 01-26-2012 |
20120039419 | X-MIMO SYSTEMS WITH MULTI-TRANSMITTERS AND MULTI-RECEIVERS - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a wireless transmission of a plurality of data streams in a wireless communication system having a plurality of nodes is disclosed. Each node has multiple antennas. The method involves receiving first and second data streams from respective first and second nodes at a receiver node, causing the receiver node to generate a receive filter for decoding each of the received data streams, and causing the receiver node to transmit receive filter information for each of the first and second data streams, the receive filter information facilitating precoding of the first and second data streams for simultaneous transmission within a common frequency band to the receiver node. | 02-16-2012 |
20120044849 | POWER ALLOCATION IN CLOSED-LOOP DOWNLINK COOPERATIVE MULTIPLE POINT (COMP) TRANSMISSION - Techniques for power allocation among a plurality of network nodes in a communication network for cooperative downlink transmission to a mobile terminal are provided. Cooperative transmission to a mobile terminal is done in a selected one of a plurality of frequency bands allocated for cooperative downlink transmission, wherein each network node has a respective predetermined frequency band transmission power level for each of the plurality of frequency bands allocated for cooperative downlink transmission. Selection of the frequency band on which the mobile terminal will be cooperatively transmitted to is based on channel state information indicative of the channel between the mobile terminal and each of the network nodes and, for each of the frequency bands, the respective plurality of predetermined frequency band transmission power levels corresponding to the plurality of network nodes. | 02-23-2012 |
20120066564 | Differential Encoding With Adaptive Resetting - To feedback MIMO channel conditions, a codeword from a codebook is selected. To reduce signalling, the codewords are organized into codeword subsets. The receiver signals an index of a codeword into a current 5 codeword subset previously made known to the transmitter. The current codeword subset is adaptively selected based on a threshold criterion. For example, if the best codeword from the current codeword subset is not sufficiently similar to the best codeword in the full codebook, a switch in the codeword subset is made. | 03-15-2012 |
20120087335 | Multi-site mimo cooperation in cellular network - In a cellular communications network comprising a plurality of transmitting sites wherein each transmitting site comprises at least one antenna, a method of serving a given data stream to a target mobile terminal, comprising: 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. | 04-12-2012 |
20120087442 | DESIGN ASPECTS TO SUPPORT LTE-A DOWNLINK HI-ORDER MIMO - A method of operation of a MIMO transmitter, in a cellular network supporting both legacy standard-compliant mobile terminals and next generation standard-compliant mobile terminals, the method comprising 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. | 04-12-2012 |
20120307928 | SIGNALING AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR UPLINK TRANSMIT DIVERSITY - In a method of transmitting a data stream from a transmitter in a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system, where the transmitter comprises a plurality of transmit antennas, a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is applied to the data stream to generate a plurality of symbol sequences; symbols of a first symbol sequence from the plurality of symbol sequences are paired with symbols of a second symbol sequence from the plurality of symbol sequences to generate a plurality of symbol pairs, wherein the pairing results in an orphan symbol; a space-time block code (STBC) is applied to the symbol pairs to generate a plurality of sets of STBC symbols, each set of STBC symbols being associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of antennas; a cyclic delay diversity (CDD) operation is applied to the orphan symbol to generate a plurality of CDD symbols, each CDD symbol being associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of antennas; and each one of the antennas transmits the corresponding set of STBC symbols and the corresponding CDD symbol. | 12-06-2012 |
20130010893 | X-MIMO Systems with Multi-Transmitters and Multi-Receivers - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a wireless transmission of a plurality of data streams in a wireless communication system having a plurality of nodes is disclosed. Each node has multiple antennas. The method involves receiving first and second data streams from respective first and second nodes at a receiver node, causing the receiver node to generate a receive filter for decoding each of the received data streams, and causing the receiver node to transmit receive filter information for each of the first and second data streams, the receive filter information facilitating precoding of the first and second data streams for simultaneous transmission within a common frequency band to the receiver node. | 01-10-2013 |
20130016662 | MULTI-SITE MIMO COOPERATION IN CELLULAR NETWORK - In a cellular communications network comprising a plurality of transmitting sites wherein each transmitting site comprises at least one antenna, a method of serving a given data stream to a target-mobile terminal, comprising: 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. | 01-17-2013 |
20130029677 | 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. | 01-31-2013 |
20130109401 | System and Method for Semi-Static Downlink Inter-Cell Interference Coordination for Wireless Communications | 05-02-2013 |
20130201937 | System and Method for Transmission Point (TP) Association and Beamforming Assignment in Heterogeneous Networks - Transmit point (TP) associations can be assigned to user equipments (UEs) by including a TP association variable within a sum-utility function traditionally used for computing beamforming weight vector assignments. Accordingly, maximization of the sum-utility function obtains both TP associations and beamforming weight vector assignments. Additionally, the sum-utility function may be computed in accordance with channel statistics, rather than channel state information (CSI), thereby reducing coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) related overhead. | 08-08-2013 |
20130259156 | System and Method for Nonlinear MU-MIMO Downlink Channel Precoding with Arbitrary Precoder - Method and apparatus are provided for transmission of data. A precoder is selected, and a feedforward filter is derived in accordance with the precoder. In some embodiments, the precoder is an arbitrary effective precoder. Data prepared using the precoder and the feedforward filter can then be transmitted. | 10-03-2013 |
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 |
20130301757 | SIGNALING TO SUPPORT ADVANCED WIRELESS RECEIVERS AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS - Various devices and methods are provided that use signaling to support advanced wireless receivers. For example, a method includes receiving an input signal at a user equipment. The input signal includes a desired signal and an interfering signal, where the desired signal defines symbols using constellations. The method also includes obtaining information identifying a wireless channel used by the interfering signal and a modulation type used to modulate data in the interfering signal. The method further includes recovering the symbols from the desired signal using the information. | 11-14-2013 |
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 |
20140003268 | System and Method for Grouping and Selecting Transmission Points | 01-02-2014 |
20140019619 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLUSTERING OPTIMIZATION TO HELP RESOLVE BOUNDARY PROBLEMS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Various devices and methods are disclosed to support clustering optimization in a communication system. For example, multiple nodes of the communication system can be segmented into multiple clustering plans. Each clustering plan can include multiple clusters that do not overlap with one another within that clustering plan. At least one of the clusters of one clustering plan can overlap at least one of the clusters of at least one other clustering plan. Each node could be a non-boundary node in at least one cluster of at least one clustering plan. Multiple nodes of the communication system can alternatively be segmented into clusters having expanding and contracting borders. | 01-16-2014 |
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 |
20140140360 | Systems and Methods for Sparse Code Multiple Access - Coding gains can be achieved by encoding binary data directly to multi-dimensional codewords, which circumvents QAM symbol mapping employed by conventional CDMA encoding techniques. Further, multiple access can be achieved by assigning different codebooks to different multiplexed layers. Moreover, sparse codewords can be used to reduce baseband processing complexity on the receiver-side of the network, as sparse codewords can be detected within multiplexed codewords in accordance with message passing algorithms (MPAs). | 05-22-2014 |
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 |
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 |
20140169412 | System and Method for Low Density Spreading Modulation Detection - In one embodiment, a method for blindly detecting low density spreading (LDS) active signatures including receiving, by a first node from a second node, a signal and decorrelating the signal in accordance with a signature list to obtain an active signature list. The method also includes decoding the signal in accordance with the active signature list to obtain a decoded signal. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169797 | System and Method for Apriori Decoding - Embodiments are provided for transmitting channel information, such as control channel information, using lower resources at the transmitter combined with using apriori information associated with channel information in the decoder of the receiver. The apriori information represent predictable information that can be predicted by the receiver and is not transmitted with the channel information by the transmitter. The transmitter determines the apriori information for the channel and codes the channel information into bits and fields excluding the apriori information. Upon receiving the channel information, the receiver determines the apriori information associated in accordance with previously received information. The apriori information is then provided as probability information for input to the decoder. The decoder then decodes the received information in accordance with the apriori information. | 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 |
20140205040 | System and Method for Digital Communications Using Channel Statistics - A method for operating a transmitting device includes designing a beamformer using a stochastic weighted minimum mean square error (SWMMSE) algorithm to optimize a utility function in accordance with channel statistics of communications channels in a communications system, adjusting a transmitter of the transmitting device in accordance with the beamformer, and transmitting to a user equipment using the adjusted transmitter. | 07-24-2014 |
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 |
20140233540 | Method and Apparatus for Modulation and Coding Scheme Adaption in a MIMO System - Method and apparatus for decoding a transmitted signal by a receiver in a MIMO system into a first estimate component for estimating a first signal, a first interference component indicating interference resulting from a correlation relationship among a set of signals to be transmitted, and a first noise component. A base station generates the transmitted signal from the set of signals through a coding process, the coding process defining a correlation relationship amongst the set of signals. The correlation information about the correlation relationship is transmitted to the receiver directly or by a dedicated reference symbol. The decoding is performed by determining a linear receiver filter for the first signal in accordance with the correlation information, and de-correlating the first signal and interferences. | 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 |
20140258803 | Forward Error Correction (FEC) to Support Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) - Forward Error Correction (FEC) techniques that generate independently decodable resource blocks are beneficial for Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) demodulation. One FEC technique for generating independently decodable resource blocks includes mapping locally decodable FEC codeblocks into unique resource blocks such that substantially all of the bits of the FEC codeblock are carried within a single resource block. The locally decodable FEC codeblocks can be generated from different FEC encoding modules or from a common FEC encoding module. Another technique for generating independently decodable resource blocks includes encoding a stream of information bits into low-density parity-check (LDPC) codeblocks having high ratios of inward peering parity bits. These high ratios of inward peering parity bits allow substantial portions of each LDPC codeblock to be decoded independently from information carried by other LDPC codeblocks. | 09-11-2014 |
20140269663 | Low Complexity Receiver and Method for Low Density Signature Modulation - Method and apparatus embodiments are provided for low complexity message passing algorithm (MPA) detection with substantially minor or tolerated performance loss compared to the standard MPA. A method includes calculating, at a detector, a plurality of function nodes (FNs) according to a plurality of received multiplexing signals for a one or a plurality of user equipments (UEs) using a plurality of first MPA computations that map a plurality of variable nodes (VNs) corresponding to the UEs to the FNs and using a priori information in an initial vector of probabilities for each of the VNs, excluding from the first MPA computations a plurality of first relatively small multiplication terms, updating the probabilities for the VNs using the last calculated FNs and a plurality of second MPA computations that map the FNs to the VNs, and excluding a plurality of second relatively small multiplication terms from the second MPA calculations. | 09-18-2014 |
20140293904 | Systems and Methods for Sparse Beamforming Design - System and method embodiments are provided for sparse beamforming design. In an embodiment, a method of designing sparse transmit beamforming for a network multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) system includes dynamically forming, by a cloud central processor, a cluster of transmission points (TPs) for use in transmit beamforming for each of a plurality of user equipment (UEs) in the system by optimizing a network utility function and system resources; determining, by the cloud central processor, a sparse beamforming vector for each UE according to the optimizing; and transmitting, by the cloud central processor, a message and first beamforming coefficients to each TP in the formed cluster associated with a first UE in the plurality of UEs, wherein each TP in the formed cluster associated with the first UE correspond to nonzero entries in a first beamforming vector corresponding to the first UE. | 10-02-2014 |
20140369434 | System and Method for Designing and Using Multidimensional Constellations - A method for generating a codebook includes applying a unitary rotation to a baseline multidimensional constellation to produce a multidimensional mother constellation, wherein the unitary rotation is selected to optimize a distance function of the multidimensional mother constellation, and applying a set of operations to the multidimensional mother constellation to produce a set of constellation points. The method also includes storing the set of constellation points as the codebook of the plurality of codebooks. | 12-18-2014 |
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 |
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 |
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20090285163 | Resource Assignment Systems and Methods - In a wireless communication system, a base station assigns resources to mobile stations using indices. Each index is associated with an assignment schedule for assigning resources. Once the base station determines an assignment schedule to assign particular resources, it encodes the schedule into an index and transmits it. A mobile station receives the index and decodes it to recover the assignment schedule. Both the base station and the mobile station may use look-up tables and/or algorithms for storing or generating indices associated with assignment schedules. To assign resources so as to indicate transmission characteristics over the resources, the base station transmits assignment blocks. Each assignment block indicates original transmission, retransmission, persistent assignment, non-persistent assignment, HARQ signaling, RAS-HARQ signaling, DRCH assignment, and/or LRCH assignment. | 11-19-2009 |
20120120893 | Methods and Apparatus for Inter-cell Interference Coordination Self-Organized Network - A method of resource allocation for use in a wireless network is disclosed. A network coloring decision to assign a plurality of resource blocks to a plurality of cells within the wireless network is triggered upon occurrence of a network event. A network coloring is performed by assigning each cell of the plurality of cells a resource block from the plurality of resource blocks. An effect of interference among adjacent cells with a same resource block assignment is reduced as measured by a network performance metric related to a number of resource block assignment conflicts over the plurality of cells. | 05-17-2012 |
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 |
20120170442 | System and Method for Transceiver Design - A method for operating a controller of a multiple input, multiple output communications system includes formulating an objective function according to a resource allocation for a user equipment (UE) and a mean square error expression, and updating the objective function to generate an updated resource allocation for the UE, a transmit beamforming vector to precode a transmission to the UE, and a receive beamforming vector to adjust a receiver to receive the precoded transmission. The method also includes transmitting allocation information about the resource allocation for the UE and the transmit beamforming vector to a communications controller serving the UE. | 07-05-2012 |
20130078927 | ROBUST TRANSCEIVER DESIGN - A system is provided for optimizing throughput in a communication system. During operation, the system receives, at a first antenna, estimated channel state information (CSI) at least one channel between the first antenna and at least one second antenna. The system obtains antenna correlation information associated with the first antenna and the second antenna, respectively. The system further calculates a set of noise terms associated with random noise for the at least one channel, and optimizes a configuration of beamformers for the first antenna and the at least one second antenna that maximizes a throughput of all antennas, in accordance with the estimated CSI, the obtained antenna correlation information, and the noise terms. | 03-28-2013 |
20130107929 | System and Method for Operating Mode Self-Adaptation | 05-02-2013 |
20130142290 | Method and Apparatus for Modulation and Coding Scheme Adaption in a MIMO System - Method and apparatus for decoding a transmitted signal by a receiver in a MIMO system into a first estimate component for estimating a first signal, a first interference component indicating interference resulting from a correlation relationship among a set of signals to be transmitted, and a first noise component. A base station generates the transmitted signal from the set of signals through a coding process, the coding process defining a correlation relationship amongst the set of signals. The correlation information about the correlation relationship is transmitted to the receiver directly or by a dedicated reference symbol. The decoding is performed by determining a linear receiver filter for the first signal in accordance with the correlation information, and de-correlating the first signal and interferences. | 06-06-2013 |
20140029522 | UE POWER ALLOCATION ACCORDING TO SCHEDULER UTILITY METRIC FOR DL MU-MIMO AND DL CoMP - A system is provided for allocating downlink transmit power in a wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. During operation, the system identifies a set of receivers for receiving signals from one or more transmitters on a same time-frequency slot, receives channel state information (CSI) for communication channels between the identified receivers and the transmitters, and constructs a precoder based on the CSI. The system further derives a set of power-scale factors for the precoder based on a utility function associated with the identified receivers such that the power-scale factors optimize the utility function. A respective power-scale factor scales power transmitted to a corresponding receiver. | 01-30-2014 |
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 |