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20130009861 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING DEVICES USING GESTURES AND RELATED 3D SENSOR - Provided are computer-implemented methods and systems for controlling devices using gestures and a 3D sensor that enables implementing the above. In one embodiment, the method proposed herein may be based on defining at least one sensor area within the space surrounding a user of a controlled device; associating this sensor area with at least one user gesture; associating the combination of the user gesture and sensor area with an actionable command; identifying the direction of the line of sight of the user and a focal point of the line of sight of the user; and, if the line of sight of the user is directed a sensor area, issuing an actionable command corresponding to the combination of the sensor area and the gesture that the user makes while looking at this sensor area. | 01-10-2013 |
20130009865 | USER-CENTRIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE CONTROL ENVIRONMENT - A computer-implemented method and system for controlling various electronic devices by recognition of gestures made by a user within a particular space defined in front of the user are provided. An example method may comprise generating a depth map of a physical scene, determining that a head of the user is directed towards a predetermined direction, establishing a virtual sensing zone defined between the user and a predetermined location, identifying a particular gesture made by the user within the virtual sensing zone, and selectively providing to the electronic device a control command associated with the particular gesture. The particular gesture may be performed by one or more characteristic forms provided by the user within the virtual sensing zone being in an active state. The characteristic forms are forms reliably distinguishable from casual forms by means of computer vision and having certain attributes, which can reliably reflect user intent. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010071 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAPPING POINTING DEVICE ON DEPTH MAP - Disclosed are methods for determining and tracking a current location of a handheld pointing device, such as a remote control for an entertainment system, on a depth map generated by a gesture recognition control system. The methods disclosed herein enable identifying a user's hand gesture, and generating corresponding motion data. Further, the handheld pointing device may send motion, such as acceleration or velocity, and/or orientation data such as pitch, roll, and yaw angles. The motion data of user's hand gesture and motion data (orientation data) as received from the handheld pointing device are then compared, and if they correspond to each other, it is determined that the handheld pointing device is in active use by the user as it is held by a particular hand. Accordingly, a location of the handheld pointing device on the depth map can be determined. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010207 | GESTURE BASED INTERACTIVE CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A computer-implemented method for controlling one or more electronic devices by recognition of gestures made by a three-dimensional object (3D). In one example embodiment, the method comprises capturing a series of successive 3D images in real time, identifying that the object has a predetermined elongated shape, identifying that the object is oriented substantially towards a predetermined direction, determining at least one qualifying action being performed by a user and/or the object, comparing the at least one qualifying action to one or more pre-determined actions associated with the direction towards which the object is oriented, and, based on the comparison, selectively issuing to the one or more electronic devices a command associated with the at least one qualifying action. | 01-10-2013 |
20140009384 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING LOCATION OF HANDHELD DEVICE WITHIN 3D ENVIRONMENT - The present technology refers to methods for dynamic determining location and orientation of handheld device, such as a smart phone, remote controller or gaming device, within a 3D environment in real time. For these ends, there is provided a 3D camera for capturing a depth map of the 3D environment within which there is a user holding the handheld device. The handheld device acquires motion and orientation data in response to hand gestures, which data is further processed and associated with a common coordinate system. The depth map is also processed to generate motion data of user hands, which is then dynamically compared to the processed motion and orientation data obtained from the handheld device so as to determine the handheld device location and orientation. The positional and orientation data may be further used in various software applications to generate control commands or perform analysis of various gesture motions. | 01-09-2014 |
20150070274 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING 6DOF LOCATION AND ORIENTATION OF HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY AND ASSOCIATED USER MOVEMENTS - The technology described herein allows for a wearable display device, such as a head-mounted display, to be tracked within a 3D space by dynamically generating 6DoF data associated with an orientation and location of the display device within the 3D space. The 6DoF data is generated dynamically, in real time, by combining of 3DoF location information and 3DoF orientation information within a user-centered coordinate system. The 3DoF location information may be retrieved from depth maps acquired from a depth sensitive device, while the 3DoF orientation information may be received from the display device equipped with orientation and motion sensors. The dynamically generated 6DoF data can be used to provide 360-degree virtual reality simulation, which may be rendered and displayed on the wearable display device. | 03-12-2015 |
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20120114028 | COORDINATED MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSION USING INTERFERENCE FEEDBACK - Embodiments of methods and apparatus for wirelessly receiving, by a user equipment (UE), interference signal from a first enhanced Node B (eNB) while the UE is communicating with a second eNB; generating interference feedback information that is associated with an interference channel between the first eNB and the UE; and transmitting the interference feedback information to the first eNB via the second eNB are disclosed. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed. | 05-10-2012 |
20130163554 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MULTI-USER MULTI-INPUT-MULTI-OUTPUT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Device, system, and method of multi-user multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) wireless communication. In some embodiments, a wireless communication device ( | 06-27-2013 |
20130194943 | EVOLVED NODE B AND METHOD FOR COHERENT COORDINATED MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION WITH PER CSI-RS FEEDBACK - An evolved Node B (eNB) and method for coherent coordinated multipoint transmission with per CSI-RS feedback are generally described herein. The eNB may configure a first cooperating point and a second cooperating point to jointly transmit a multi-node channel-state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) (CSI-RS) in predetermined resource elements of a resource block. The eNB may receive CSI reports as feedback from user equipment (UE). The CSI reports may include a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) indicating relative phase information between the cooperating points based on the multi-node CSI-RS. The CSI reports for the multi-node CSI-RS may be restricted to a PMI of rank-1. The eNB may configure the cooperating points for a coherent joint transmission to the UE based at least on the relative phase information. The coherent joint transmission may also be jointly beamformed based on single-node PMIs. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196699 | COORDINATED MULTIPOINT CONFIGURATION BASED ON CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNALS - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for configuring coordinated multipoint (CoMP) for network devices. In various embodiments, configuration of the CoMP may be based on channel state information reference signals. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 08-01-2013 |
20130244709 | INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN THE CONTEXT OF HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS WITH COORDINATED TRANSMISSION POINTS WITH A COMMON TRANSMISSION POINT IDENTITY - Technology is discussed for extending frequency and time based approaches, such as Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) and enhanced ICIC (eICIC), to interference mitigation for clusters within a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) of transmission points with a common transmission point identity. Multiple transmission power messages correlated to different transmission point characteristics can be configured among multiple transmission points sharing the same transmission point identity. These multiple transmission power messages can be used to coordinate transmissions from adjacent transmission points on differing frequencies. Additionally, new sets of reference signals can be configured to correlate to different transmission point characteristics. These new, correlated reference signals can be used to decouple measurements used to provide feedback to one set of transmission points from reference signals transmitted by another set of transmission points with the same transmission point identity. | 09-19-2013 |
20130286867 | SIGNAL INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for handling interference measurements in a wireless communication network. An apparatus may include computer-readable media having instructions and processors coupled with the computer-readable media and configured to execute the instructions to identify, for a serving eNB, a neighboring eNB for which signal interference measurements are to be performed by one or more wireless devices served by the serving eNB, and request that the neighboring eNB transmit typical interference signals within data units which are configured for, and may or may not have, a scheduled physical downlink shared channel transmission. The wireless devices may be configured to perform the signal interference measurements based at least in part on the typical interference signals, which may include non-zero-power signals or zero-power signals. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 10-31-2013 |
20130336224 | DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED POSITIONING - Embodiments of a distributed antenna system (DAS) and method for enhanced positioning in a wireless network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an enhanced Node-B (eNB) operates as part of a DAS that includes one or more nodes having the same cell ID as the eNB. The eNB is to transmit a UE-specific reference signal and configure one or more of the other nodes of the cell to transmit UE-specific reference signals that are distinguishable from each other and from the UE-specific reference signal that is transmitted by the eNB. The eNB may receive location estimate information from user equipment (UE) that is determined at least in part from the UE-specific reference signals. The eNB may also configure the nodes to perform cooperative OFDMA transmission techniques for the UEs operating in the cell. | 12-19-2013 |
20140003270 | SUPPORT FOR ASYNCHRONOUS TIME DIVISION DUPLEXING IN ADJACENT CELLS OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140003312 | WAKE-UP FUNCTIONALITY FOR AN LTE ENODEB | 01-02-2014 |
20140036796 | REFERENCE SIGNAL CONFIGURATION FOR COORDINATED MULTIPOINT - Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) involves multiple transmission points or cells coordinating their individual transmissions so that a target user equipment (LTE) experiences enhanced signal reception and/or reduced interference. In order to optimally implement downlink CoMP, a serving cell needs to obtain channel state information (CSI) for the downlink channels from the multiple transmission points to the UE. This disclosure deals with radio resource control (RRC) signaling for configuring the UE to obtain and report CSI for those downlink channels. | 02-06-2014 |
20140086221 | TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION FOR DOWNLINK (DL) TRANSMISSIONS IN COORDINATED MULTIPOINT (CoMP) SYSTEMS - Technology for adjusting a receiver timing of a wireless device in a Coordinated MultiPoint (CoMP) system is disclosed. One method can include the wireless device receiving a plurality of node specific reference signals (RSs) from a plurality of cooperating nodes in a coordination set of the CoMP system. The coordination set includes at least two cooperating nodes. The wireless device can estimate a composite received RS timing from a plurality of received RS timings generated from the plurality of node specific RSs. The received RS timings represent timings from the at least two cooperating nodes. The wireless device can adjust the receiver timing based on the composite received RS timing. A node specific RS can include a channel-state information reference signal (CSI-RS). | 03-27-2014 |
20140092878 | METHOD OF ENHANCED INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENTS FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) FEEDBACK - Embodiments of providing enhanced interference measurements for CSI feedback are generally described herein. In some embodiments, CSI-IM resources are used by UE to perform interference measurements. The serving cell determines a hopping pattern for varying a position of the determined CSI-IM resources in subframes transmitted to the served UE. The determined CSI-IM resources and the determined CSI-IM resources hopping pattern are transmitted to the served UE. The serving node transmits a zero-power (ZP) CSI-RS. The serving node receives an interference measurement from the served UE based on CSI-IM and ZP CSI-RS provided to the served UE from the serving cell. Collisions between the CSI-IM of the serving node and CSI-IM of the non-serving nodes are minimized by the determined CSI-IM resources hopping pattern. | 04-03-2014 |
20140185523 | ASSOCIATION BIASING FOR A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HetNet) - A method for association biasing at a mobile device in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is disclosed. The method can include the mobile device receiving coordination set information from a macro node in the HetNet. The coordination set information can include at least one low power node (LPN) identifier of at least one LPN. The mobile device can receive a request from the macro node to apply a specified reference signal (RS) biasing. The mobile device can apply the specified RS biasing to an LPN RS measurement derived from a LPN RS received from an LPN having an LPN identifier in the received coordination set information. The mobile device can associate the mobile device with the LPN when the LPN RS measurement with the specified RS biasing exceeds an association threshold. | 07-03-2014 |
20140219115 | SIGNALING FOR CONFIGURATION OF DOWNLINK COORDINATED MULTIPOINT COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media, and systems configurations for configuration of downlink coordinated multipoint (CoMP) communications in a wireless communication network. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from an evolved Node B (eNB), a radio resource control (RRC) transmission including channel state informations (CSI) reference signal (RS) parameters for a plurality of transmission points. The UE may subsequently receive a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) including a plurality of index bits corresponding to one or more activated transmission points of the plurality of transmission points for which the feedback module is to generate CSI-RS feedback. The eNB may dynamically update the transmission points that are activated for CSI-RS feedback. The UE may receive another MAC CE from the eNB to notify the UE of the updated set of activated transmission points. | 08-07-2014 |
20140293890 | NETWORK ASSISTED INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION AND SUPPRESSION WITH RESPECT TO INTERFERING CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMISSIONS - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for mitigating interference in wireless networks. Various embodiments may include signaling of control channel information associated with an interfering cell and utilization of the control channel information to mitigate interference. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 10-02-2014 |
20140301354 | VIRTUAL CARRIER SENSING MECHANISM FOR LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) - Embodiments for providing virtual carrier sensing for LTE are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a first evolved Node B (eNB) sends a notification of subsequent DL transmission to a first UE in a downlink. In the uplink, the first UE sends a confirmation of the received DL notification. A second eNB overhears the confirmation, decodes it and extracts the information of the DL resources that the first eNB is planning to use. If the second eNB is not already transmitting in the indicated DL resources, the second eNB marks the indicated DL resources as busy and refrains from transmitting in those resources. The second eNB may then reschedule its transmission using alternative resources so that interference from the second eNB1 may be avoided. | 10-09-2014 |
20140362745 | CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING COORDINATED MULTIPOINT TRANSMISSION IN AN LTE NETWORK - Embodiments of a central processing unit and methods for supporting coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmissions in a 3GPP LTE network with non-ideal backhaul links are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the CPU may be arranged for scheduling and assigning resources for subordinate enhanced node Bs (eNBs) over the backhaul links for CoMP transmissions. The scheduling may include an additional number of HARQ processes to compensate, at least in part, for backhaul link latency. | 12-11-2014 |
20150163039 | CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION FEEDBACK TECHNIQUES - Various embodiments are generally directed to improved channel quality information feedback techniques. In one embodiment, for example, an evolved node B (eNB) may comprise a processor circuit, a communication component for execution by the processor circuit to receive a channel quality index for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the channel quality index associated with a defined reference resource, and a selection component for execution by the processor circuit to select a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for transmission over the PDSCH of user equipment (UE) data in one or more resource blocks, the selection component to compensate for a difference between a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) overhead of the defined reference resource and a CRS overhead of the one or more resource blocks when selecting the MCS. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-11-2015 |
20150215934 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM OF INTER-NODE COMMUNICATION - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of inter-node communication. For example, a first node may communicate with a second node, e.g., via a backhaul link, one or more messages including a restriction recommendation and/or a restriction setting, for example, a precoding restriction, a Relative Narrowband TX Power indication (RNTP) setting, and/or a Relative Wideband Transmit Power (RWTP) setting. | 07-30-2015 |
20150256279 | WIRELESS INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - Embodiments can relate to an apparatus for interference mitigation in a wireless communication. The apparatus can comprise at least one processing element arranged to extract, from a received PDCCH or EPDCCH signal, modulated symbols; the modulated symbols having been modulated using a linear m-ary modulation constellation. The apparatus also comprises a demodulator to demodulate the extracted PDCCH or EPDCCH modulated symbols; the demodulator being operable to demodulate the extracted symbols according to the linear m-ary modulation constellation. | 09-10-2015 |
20150264594 | INTERFERENCE AVERAGING AND INTERFERENCE RESOURCE GROUPS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described related to interference averaging to generate feedback information and interference averaging to demodulate receives signals. In embodiments, an evolved Node B (eNB) may transmit interference averaging information to a user equipment (UE) including a time domain averaging indicator indicating a time domain averaging window to be used by the UE for averaging interference measurements in a time domain or a frequency domain averaging indicator to indicate a frequency domain averaging window to be used by the UE for averaging interference measurements in a frequency domain. Additionally, or alternatively, the eNB may transmit an interference resource group (IRG) indicator to the UE to indicate an IRG over which the UE is to perform interference averaging to facilitate demodulation of signals received by the UE from the eNB. | 09-17-2015 |
20150289280 | WIRELESS INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - A User Equipment and an eNodeB system are configured for performing interference mitigation in the UE. Input circuitry in the wireless communication device receives an OFDM downlink channel signal associated with a serving cell and receives downlink control information for an interfering cell. The downlink control information is used by the UE to perform channel estimation for the interfering cell. An interference mitigation module is provided for calculating an interference-mitigated version of the received channel signal using estimated channel transfer functions for both the serving cell and the interfering cell, power control parameters and using set of modulation constellation points corresponding to the OFDM downlink channel. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 10-08-2015 |
20150295695 | INFORMATION SIGNALLING FOR NETWORK ASSISTED INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - Methods and apparatuses for communicating in a wireless network include provision of interfering signal characteristics information to a user equipment to facilitate suppression of an interfering signal present in a downlink signal being received at the user equipment. | 10-15-2015 |
20150303958 | WIRELESS INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - Embodiments relate to apparatus for wireless interference mitigation within a first User Equipment (UE). The apparatus comprises at least one channel estimator for estimating a first channel transfer function associated with a first received signal designated for the first UE, and for estimating a second channel transfer function associated with a second received, interference, signal. A symbol estimator is responsive to the at least one channel estimator to process at least the first received signal to produce a symbol estimation. A demodulator, which is responsive to the channel estimator, demodulates the symbol estimation to an output representing a received data unit corresponding to the symbol estimation. The demodulator has a processing unit arranged to demodulate the symbol estimation using the first channel transfer function, the second channel transfer function and a respective modulation scheme for at least the first received signal. | 10-22-2015 |
20150373732 | USER EQUIPMENT AND METHODS FOR CSI ENHANCEMENTS USING INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION AND SUPPRESSION RECEIVERS - In providing feedback to an eNB in an LTE network for downlink scheduling and link adaptation, a UE issues a channel state information (CSI) report that includes a channel quality index (CQI). The reported CQI should include all UE receiver processing capabilities, including NAICS (network assisted interference cancellation and suppression) capability to cancel and suppress interference. Described are measures that may be taken to provide more accurate reporting of CSI by a terminal with NAICS capability. | 12-24-2015 |
20160037301 | APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD TO DETERMINE A USER EQUIPMENT LOCATION IN A CELLULAR NETWORK USING SIGNALS FROM A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN) - An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method to determine a user equipment (UE) location in a wireless network using signals from a wireless local-area network are disclosed. A wireless communication network entity may be configured to send WLAN assistance data to a UE. The WLAN assistance data may include a list of one or more WLAN access points (APs). The wireless communication network entity may receive location information from the UE. The location information may be based on measurements of signals from one or more of the WLAN APs. The wireless communication network entity may determine an estimate of the location of the UE based on the location information and stored information at the wireless communication network. The wireless communication network entity may determine the estimate of the location of the UE based on the measurements of the signals of the WLAN APs and a geographic position of the WLAN APs. | 02-04-2016 |
20160088593 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION - Device, system and methods for flexible resource allocation are described. In particular, there is described a user receive a user equipment configured to receive higher-layer configuration of flexible resource allocation; receive dynamic information on the downlink resource allocation in a given downlink (DL) subframe; split the resource allocation into resource allocation sub-blocks; independently decode physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) within each resource allocation sub-block; AND report ACK/NACK for the resource allocation. | 03-24-2016 |
20160100384 | REFERENCE SIGNAL CONFIGURATION FOR COORDINATED MULTIPOINT - Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) involves multiple transmission points or cells coordinating their individual transmissions so that a target user equipment (UE) experiences enhanced signal reception and/or reduced interference. In order to optimally implement downlink CoMP, a serving cell needs to obtain channel state information (CSI) for the downlink channels from the multiple transmission points to the UE. This disclosure deals with radio resource control (RRC) signaling for configuring the UE to obtain and report CSI for those downlink channels. | 04-07-2016 |
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20110002280 | MIDAMBLE FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a midamble for a downlink subframe is generated by rotating an order of midamble tones per antenna between two or more subbands. A Golay sequence may be utilized in the modulation of one or more subcarriers of the midamble via a reuse-3 arrangement. Alternatively, a reuse-1 arrangement may be applied to the midamble. | 01-06-2011 |
20120257575 | CO-PHASING OF TRANSMISSIONS FROM MULTIPLE INFRASTRUCTURE NODES - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, mobile station or user equipment receives pilot signals from two or more infrastructure nodes in a distributed antenna system, and calculates phase or timing information, or combinations thereof, from the pilot signals. The mobile station feeds back the phase or timing information, or combinations thereof, to the infrastructure nodes, and then receives one or more subsequent transmissions from the infrastructure nodes with phase shift or timing adjustments, or combinations thereof, calculated by the infrastructure nodes and applied to the spatial streams transmitted by the infrastructure nodes. | 10-11-2012 |
20130115985 | BEAMFORMING COORDINATION IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - Technology for spatial domain beamforming coordination at a low power node (LPN) in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is disclosed. One method can include the LPN collecting spatial feedback information of macro node interference from a plurality of wireless devices in a LPN cell. The LPN can compile the spatial feedback information into a spatial feedback report. The LPN can send the spatial feedback report from the LPN to a macro node for calculating a beamforming vector to reduce the macro node interference for the plurality of wireless devices in the LPN cell. | 05-09-2013 |
20130286997 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSYTEM WITH COMMON CELL ID - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a conventional physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is transmitted in a first region of a physical downlink control channel structure utilized by a remote radio head that has been assigned a cell identifier that is common to one or more other remote radio heads within the cell, and an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) is transmitted in a second region of the physical downlink control channel structure. | 10-31-2013 |
20130303167 | COORDINATED DYNAMIC POINT SELECTION (DPS) WITH CELL RANGE EXPANSION IN A COORDINATED MULTIPOINT (CoMP) SYSTEM - Technology for mitigating edge effect interference in a Coordinated MultiPoint (CoMP) system having multiple CoMP clusters is disclosed. In an example, a method can include a macro node transmitting a cell range expansion request to user equipments (UEs) within a cell. A CoMP cluster for nodes within the cell that includes UEs operating with the cell range expansion can be generated. Blanked resources between a plurality of macro nodes for the CoMP clusters in the CoMP system can be coordinated using a muting preference including a blanked resource. | 11-14-2013 |
20140003240 | SUPPORTING MEASURMENTS AND FEEDBACK FOR 3D MIMO WITH DATA TRANSMISSION OPTIMIZATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140022988 | USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR ANTENNA PORT QUASI CO-LOCATION SIGNALING IN COORDINATED MULTI-POINT OPERATIONS - User Equipment (UE) and methods for antenna port quasi co-location signaling in coordinated multi-point (CoMP) operations are generally described herein. In some embodiments, one or more downlink channels are at least partially offloaded from a serving Evolved Node-B (eNB) to one or more neighbor eNBs. The UE may receive signaling from the serving eNB to indicate a reference signal of a neighbor eNB to use for estimation of one or more large-scale physical-layer parameters associated with the one or more downlink channels provided by one of more of the neighbor eNB. The UE may estimate the one or more large-scale physical-layer parameters based on receipt of the indicated reference signal from the neighbor and serving eNBs. The UE may also apply the estimated one or more large-scale physical-layer parameters for processing the one or more downlink channels from the neighbor and serving eNBs. | 01-23-2014 |
20140038623 | Techniques for Sending or Receiving Channel State Information Reports Associated with a Coordinated Multi-Point Scheme - Examples are disclosed for sending or receiving channel state information (CSI) reports associated with coordinated multi-point (CoMP) schemes. The examples include user equipment (UE) constraining CSI feedback to one or more transmission points implementing a CoMP scheme with the UE. The examples also include a transmission point such as an evolved node B (eNB) triggering CSI feedback and receiving a CSI report in response to the trigger. The CSI report generated based on the UE constraining CSI feedback. Constraining CSI feedback may include the UE generating fewer CSI reports, reusing information between CSI reports or increasing an amount of time allowed for processing and generating CSI reports. Other examples are described and claimed. | 02-06-2014 |
20150195818 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODULATION AND CODING SCHEME SELECTION AND CONFIGURATION - Methods, systems, and devices for modulation and coding scheme selection and configuration. A mobile communication device includes a table component, a table selection component, and a communication component. The table component is configured to maintain two or more tables each having entries for a plurality of available modulation schemes. The two or more tables include a default table and a secondary table. The default table and the secondary table have a matching number of entries, and the secondary table includes an entry corresponding to a 256-QAM scheme. The table selection component is configured to select a selected table from one of the default table and the secondary table. The communication component is configured to receive and process a communication from a base station based on a modulation and coding scheme of the selected table. | 07-09-2015 |
20150195819 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODULATION AND CODING SCHEME SELECTION AND CONFIGURATION - A mobile communication device includes a table component, a table selection component, a control information component, and a communication component. The table component is configured to maintain two or more tables each having entries for a plurality of available modulation schemes. The table selection component is configured to select a selected table from one of the default table and the secondary table based on one or more of RRC layer signaling and MAC layer signaling and further based based on a control information format for control information received from the eNB. The control information component is configured to receive control information indicating a modulation and coding scheme from the selected table, and the communication component is configured to receive and process a communication from the eNB based on the modulation and coding scheme from the selected table. | 07-09-2015 |
20150245366 | INTERFERENCE REDUCTION USING HYBRID SIGNALING - Technology for reducing signal interference is disclosed. Semi-static signaling can be received at a user equipment (UE) from a neighboring evolved node (eNB). The semi-static signaling can include potential configurations of signal parameters used at the neighboring eNB. The UE can receive dynamic signaling from the neighboring eNB that includes a subset of the potential configurations of signal parameters used at the neighboring eNB. Signal interference that is caused by the neighboring eNB can be reduced using the semi-static signaling and the dynamic signaling. | 08-27-2015 |
20150256287 | MECHANISM FOR 256-QAM CAPABLE USER EQUIPMENT TO OPERATE SEAMLESSLY WITH A NODE - Described is a UE to communicate with an eNB on a network, the UE comprising: an antenna to receive messaging from eNB indicating switching to 256-QAM scheme from an existing non-256-QAM scheme; and a table component for storing soft channel bits based on N | 09-10-2015 |
20150327026 | Techniques for Using a Modulation and Coding Scheme for Downlink Transmissions - Examples include techniques for using a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for downlink transmissions. In some examples information elements (IEs) for either a physical multicast channel (PMCH) or a physical multicast control channel (PMCCH) include information to indicate an MCS for downlink transmission over a PMCH or PMCCH between an evolved Node B (eNB) and user equipment (UE). For these examples, the information in the IEs include indications of whether higher order modulation for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) have or have not been enabled. Both the UE and the eNB may operate in compliance with one or more 3 | 11-12-2015 |
20150341817 | RANK INDICATOR INHERITANCE FOR SUBFRAME RESTRICTED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REPORTING - Generally, this disclosure provides devices, systems and methods for subframe restricted Channel State Information (CSI) reporting with Rank Indicator (RI) inheritance. A User Equipment (UE) device may include an RI generation module to generate RIs based on a received CSI configuration from an evolved Node B (eNB) of a serving cell of the UE. The UE may also include an RI Reference Process CSI generation module to generate a first Reference CSI including a first selected RI of the generated RIs, the first selection based on a first subframe set of the received CSI configuration, and to generate a second Reference CSI including a second selected RI of the generated RIs, the second selection based on a second subframe set of the received CSI configuration. The UE may further include a Linked Process CSI generation module to generate a linked CSI including an inherited RI from the first Reference CSI. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341882 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CROSS-CARRIER QUASI CO-LOCATION SIGNALING IN A NEW CARRIER TYPE (NCT) WIRELESS NETWORK - Generally, this disclosure provides devices, systems and methods for Cross-Carrier Quasi Co-Location Signaling in an NCT Wireless Network. A UE device may include a receiver circuit to receive a QCL signaling message from a primary cell, the QCL signaling message for a configured secondary cell to identify a primary or one or more secondary cells that are Quasi Co-located with the secondary cell for which the message is provided. The UE device may also include a QCL signal decoding module to decode the QCL signaling message and to determine QCL synchronization parameters. The UE device may further include a synchronization module to synchronize the UE with the primary or one or more secondary cells based on the QCL synchronization parameters obtained from the QCL message received from the primary cell. | 11-26-2015 |
20150349933 | POWER OFFSET SIGNALING TECHNIQUES FOR NETWORK-ASSISTED INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION AND SUPPRESSION (NAICS) RECEIVERS - Power offset signaling techniques for network-assisted interference cancellation and suppression (NAICS) receivers are described. In one embodiment, for example, user equipment (UE) may comprise at least one radio frequency (RF) transceiver, at least one RF antenna, and logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a radio resource control (RRC) connection control message comprising a RadioResourceConfigDedicated field and perform a radio resource configuration procedure in response to receipt of the RRC connection control message, the RRC connection control message to comprise network-assisted interference cancellation and suppression (NAICS) assistance information that identifies a power offset value for one or more transmissions to the UE over a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of a serving cell of the UE. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-03-2015 |
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20130250885 | COORDINATED MULTIPOINT COMMUNICATION NETWORK WITH MULTIPLE COOPERATING eNBs AND METHOD FOR BEAMFORMING COORDINATION WITH INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION - Embodiments of an enhanced Node-B (eNB) configured to operate as a serving eNB in a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) communication network and method are generally described herein. The serving eNB precodes signals for transmission to user equipment (UE) using a precoding matrix that is selected based on a reference PMI for a beamformed transmission in accordance with a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) that is selected from a modified CQI. When operating in coordination mode, on more cooperating eNBs are configured to suppress interference to the UE using coordination PMIs during the resource block allocated for the beamformed transmission. | 09-26-2013 |
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20130336269 | LINK ADAPTATION IN COORDINATED MULTIPOINT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for link adaptation within coordinated multipoint systems. In various embodiments, a mobile terminal may determine link adaptation feedback information and feed back the information to a base station. The base station may adjust a channel quality indicator of the link adaptation feedback information based on loading of nodes within a coordinated multipoint measurement set. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 12-19-2013 |
20130344909 | COORDINATED MULTIPOINT (CoMP) INTERFERENCE NOISE ESTIMATION - A noise and interference estimator and method for estimating noise and interference in a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) system at a mobile communication device is disclosed. The method comprises the operation of receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) from a serving transmitting station at a user equipment (UE). Resource elements (REs) occupied by the CSI-RS of the serving transmitting station are muted on cooperating transmitting stations in the CoMP system. The operation of estimating a non-cooperating interference noise covariance matrix from the CSI-RS transmitted by the serving transmitting station follows. | 12-26-2013 |
20140003324 | TRANSMISSION POINT INDICATION IN COORDINATED MULTI-POINT SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140010159 | MULTI-STREAM JOINT TRANSMISSION SCHEME FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Embodiments herein provide a wireless communication system including a user equipment (UE) and a plurality of base stations (e.g., evolved NodeBs (eNBs)). The UE may generate feedback information based on channel conditions between the UE and two or more of the plurality of base stations. The UE may transmit the feedback information to one or more of the base stations. Two or more of the plurality of base stations may contemporaneously send different data streams to the UE, the data streams having properties based at least in part on the respective feedback information. The UE may decouple and decode the data streams from the two or more base stations using multi-antenna techniques. | 01-09-2014 |
20140321369 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION AND/OR SUPRESSION ON PHYSICAL DOWNLINK SHARED CHANNEL AT THE USER EQUIPMENT - An embodiment of methods for interference cancellation and/or suppression on a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) at user equipment (UE). One such method includes receiving, at the UE, a UE-specific reference signal parameter from a serving cell of a plurality of cells. The received parameters of UE-specific reference signals are used for channel estimation for serving and interference signals. The interference is canceled and/or suppressed based on the estimated channels from the UE-specific reference signals. | 10-30-2014 |
20150029874 | FREQUENCY OFFSET MEASUREMENT ENHANCEMENTS FOR LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) - Embodiments for providing frequency offset measurement enhancements are generally described herein. In some embodiments, user equipment is informed of a configuration of a first reference signal and a configuration of a second reference signal. The first reference signal is provided to user equipment for performing channel estimation. A second reference signal for estimating carrier frequency offset is provided, wherein the second reference signal is co-located with the first reference signal. A carrier frequency offset estimation is calculated based on the co-located first and second reference signals. | 01-29-2015 |
20150146545 | HANDLING SIGNAL QUALITY MEASUREMENTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for handling signal quality measurements by a wireless device in a wireless network environment, particularly in a coordinated transmission environment. An apparatus way include computer-readable media having instructions and one or more processors coupled with the media and configured to execute the instructions to generate a power parameter corresponding to a power adjustment associated with a reference signal, provide the reference signal generated based in part on the generated power parameter to a wireless device, and provide the power parameter to transmission points operating in the coordinated transmission environment. Each of the transmission points may be configured to communicate the power parameter to the wireless device, and the wireless device may be configured to determine, based at least in part on the power parameter, a power characteristics associated with a channel in which the reference signal is provided. | 05-28-2015 |
20160007373 | GROUP CARRIER SCHEDULING FOR UNLICENSED LONG TERM EVOLUTION NETWORK - A user equipment device comprises physical layer circuitry configured to communicate radio frequency (RF) electrical signals directly with one or more separate wireless devices, including to receive an indication of multiple component carriers aggregated into a carrier set that includes at least one scheduling component carrier and at least one scheduled component carrier, and receive scheduling control information for the multiple component carriers of the carrier set using the scheduling component carrier in downlink control information according to a resource radio control signaling protocol. | 01-07-2016 |
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