Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090046010 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE BEAMFORMING PROTOCOL WITH HETEROGENEOUS ANTENNA CONFIGURATION - A system and method of training antennas for two devices having heterogeneous antenna configurations in a wireless network is disclosed. The method includes communicating one or more estimation training sequences between two devices via a phased array antenna and a switched array antenna, wherein a beamforming vector of the phased array antenna is switched between phase vectors within a set of weight vectors while the switched array antenna is switched within a plurality of antenna sectors. The method further includes tuning at least one of the phase array and switched array antennas with an antenna parameter selected based at least in part on the one or more estimation training sequences. The method further includes communicating data messages via at least one of the phase array and switched array antennas so tuned. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046012 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING THE SAME TYPE OF DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS THAT ADAPTS THE TRAINING SEQUENCE LENGTH TO THE NUMBER OF ANTENNAS - Systems and methods of training antennas for two devices equipped with phased array antennas in a wireless network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the methods include transmitting a plurality of estimation training sequences from a transmit phased array antenna to a receive phased array antenna, wherein a length of at least one of the plurality of training sequences is adapted to a number of antenna elements at one of the transmit and receive phased array antennas. The methods further include transmitting data to the receive phased array antenna via the transmit phased array antenna tuned with a transmit beamforming vector (BV) selected based at least in part on the plurality of estimation training sequences. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046765 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING BEAMFORMING VECTORS USING TRAINING SEQUENCES WITH ADAPTIVE SPREADING GAINS - A method and system for acquiring beamforming vectors using multiple spreading sequence spreading gains is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention allows time and power to be saved by spreading a training sequence with spreading sequences of different gains in different iterations of an iterative beamforming acquisition procedure. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises modulating, at a first station, a first training sequence with a first source beamforming vector, wherein the first training sequence has a first spreading gain, transmitting the modulated first training sequence to a second station, receiving a first response signal from the second station, obtaining a second source beamforming vector based on the first response signal, modulating, at the first station, a second training sequence with the second source beamforming vector, wherein the second training signal has a second spreading gain which is different from the first spreading gain, transmitting the modulated second training sequence to the second station, receiving a second response signal from the second station, obtaining a third source beamforming vector based on the second response signal, and determining whether to use the third source beamforming vector to modulate a data signal to be transmitted to the second station. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING A TRAINING MATRIX FOR A BREAMFORMING ACQUISITION PROTOCOL USING A BUTSON MATRIX - A method and system for obtaining and transfer matrix and or acquiring beamforming vectors using a Butson matrix is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes i) determining the number (N) of transmitter antennas, ii) obtaining a unitary matrix having M rows and M columns, wherein M is an greater than or equal to N, and wherein the elements of the matrix are selected from the group consisting of: +1, −1, +j, and −j, iii) selecting N rows of the unitary matrix and iv) generating a training matrix having N rows and M columns based on the selected N rows. The method may further include obtaining a source beamforming vector using the training matrix. | 02-19-2009 |
20090047910 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING DIFFERENT TYPES OF DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS THAT ADAPTS THE TRAINING SEQUENCE LENGTH TO THE NUMBER OF ANTENNAS - A system and method of training antennas for two devices having different types of directional antennas in a wireless network is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a plurality of estimation training sequences from a transmit directional antenna to a receive directional antenna. The length of at least one of the plurality of training sequences is adapted to a number of antenna elements at one of the transmit and receive directional antennas. The method further includes transmitting data to the receiver via the transmit directional antenna tuned with an antenna parameter that is selected based at least in part on the plurality of estimation sequences. | 02-19-2009 |
20090077611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF UNCOMPRESSED VIDEO HAVING REED-SOLOMON CODE ERROR CONCEALMENT - A system and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video data are disclosed. One embodiment of a method of wireless communication for video data includes concealing corrupted portions of video data. The method includes receiving a plurality of video packets transmitted over a wireless channel. Each of the video packets includes a plurality of data blocks, and the data blocks in the plurality of video packets together form video data representing at least part of a video frame. Each of the data blocks is encoded with an error correction code (ECC). The method also includes determining whether any of the plurality of data blocks in the video packets has been corrupted while being transmitted over the wireless channel; and replacing a corrupted data block with an uncorrupted data block selected from the plurality of data blocks in the plurality of video packets. The corrupted data block includes a first displayable element on the video frame and the uncorrupted data block includes a second displayable element on the video frame. The uncorrupted data block is selected at least partially based on proximity between the first and second displayable elements on the video frame. | 03-19-2009 |
20090231196 | MMWAVE WPAN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH FAST ADAPTIVE BEAM TRACKING - Briefly, a mechanism to performing beam tracking during an exchange of data packets disclosed. A perturbation on a transmit or receive beamforming vector is added for the transmission or reception of each data packet. The perturbation may be a minimum allowed phase rotation. | 09-17-2009 |
20090232023 | Combined omni- and directional- communications in high-frequency wireless networks - In a wireless communication network, specific portions of the communication may combine directional transmission with omnidirectional reception. In particular, sector-level directional transmission may be established through sector sweeps, followed by antenna training for more directionality. In some embodiments, collisions during the exchange may be reduced by having different network devices use different sub-channels or different time slots. In some embodiments, each network may restrict its network communications to a single sub-channel that is different than the sub-channels used by adjacent networks. | 09-17-2009 |
20090233545 | BIDIRECTIONAL ITERATIVE BEAM FORMING - Bidirectional iterative beam forming techniques are described. An apparatus may include a wireless device having an antenna control module operative to initiate beam formation operations using an iterative training scheme to form a pair of communications channels for a wireless network, the antenna control module to communicate training signals and feedback information with a peer device via the transceiver and phased antenna array using partially or fully formed high rate channels, and iteratively determine antenna-array weight vectors for a directional transmit beam pattern for the phased antenna array using feedback information from the peer device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-17-2009 |
20090274233 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PHASE TRACKING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and system phase tracking in a wireless communication system is provided. Phase tracking involves receiving a first Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and a second OFDM symbol which is a repetition of the first symbol, over a wireless channel, the symbols representing an incoming signal. A phase of the incoming signal is extracted by performing phase tracking across all subcarrier data tones and pilot tones of the symbols. | 11-05-2009 |
20100005355 | INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE WITH SYNCHRONOUS HARQ AND PERSISTENT SCHEDULING - A method of avoiding periodic interference by permuting periodic transmissions by a base station (BS) may include transmitting a frame of data to a subscriber station (SS). The BS may check for an acknowledgement of the frame of data from the SS and may schedule a next frame of data for transmission or retransmission based on whether the acknowledgement was received from the SS. The scheduling may include permuting traffic within the next frame in time or in frequency relative to similar traffic in a prior frame according to a predetermined function. The BS may generate media access protocol (MAP) information for the next frame based on the permuting. | 01-07-2010 |
20100074347 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SUBCHANNELIZATION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus to transmit pilot subcarriers over uplink channels. The pilot subcarriers includes symbols which hierarchically structured. The symbol includes a first split of at least two fractional frequency reuse (FFR) groups, a second split of a fractional frequency reuse (FFR) group to a distributed resource group and localized resource group and a third split of said distributed resource group and localized resource group into plurality of subchannels. | 03-25-2010 |
20100162069 | Dynamic interference avoidance with asynchronous HARQ - In a wireless communications network, a wireless device may examine the received signal to determine the strength of the received signal, and also determine the level of interference and noise. If a retransmission is needed due to a message being incorrectly received, these factors may then be processed to estimate whether the probable cause of poor reception is interference from a neighboring network. If such interference is the likely cause, the retransmission may be changed to a different time and/or to different frequencies in a subsequent frame, so that the interference from the neighboring network is less likely to reoccur. | 06-24-2010 |
20100164802 | Arrangements for beam refinement in a wireless network - In some embodiments a beamforming method is disclosed. The method can include transmitting a beam having a channel defined by a maximum ration transmission vector (MRT) and receiving a first response from a receiver, where the first response has first information such as parameters related to the transmitted beam. Using the parameters and the initial MRT another directional transmission can be made. A similar process can determine a maximum combining ratio for a receiver. Set up communications between the transmitter and the receiver can be reduced by omitting data from transmission that can be acquired by other means such as from memory or calculations. Additional embodiments are also disclosed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100164805 | Arrangements for beam refinement in a wireless network - A beamforming method is disclosed that includes performing sequential beam transmissions in multiple directions and receiving replies to the transmissions (i.e. a sector search). The received transmissions can include information or channel parameters such as direction of arrival, signal to noise ratio, signal strength, etc., for each sector. Utilizing the parameters transmitted or fed back by the receiver, the transmitter can store control vectors that dictate a beam that can be utilized to commence a beam refinement procedure. In addition, the parameters can be utilized to select and implement a custom sequence to refine the communication channel between the device and the controller. The custom sequence can significantly reduce the time required to create a channel with acceptable qualities such that efficient high speed network communications can be conducted. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169400 | PARTIALLY RANDOM PERMUTATION SEQUENCE GENERATOR - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, and apparatuses related to a partially random permutation sequence generator. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100246696 | PILOT METHOD FOR 802.16M - A novel pilot method employs a cluster having a particular arrangement of pilot sub-carriers to optimize transmissions under 802.16m, or WiMAX-II. The optimally configured cluster features equal pilot density per OFDM symbol, two or more pilot sub-carriers per cluster, and interlaced pilot sub-carriers, which enables the base stations to successfully boost the pilot sub-carriers, for optimum performance. | 09-30-2010 |
20100322129 | Techniques for hierarchical encoding for multicast broadcast services in wireless communication systems - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver adapted for hierarchical encoding for a Multicast Broadcast Service (MBS) in wireless networks, wherein the hierarchical encoding is provided by superposition coding to provide different levels of protection for data streams. | 12-23-2010 |
20110002263 | BEAMFORMING USING BASE AND DIFFERENTIAL CODEBOOKS - Embodiments of methods and apparatus for determining and/or quantizing a beamforming matrix are disclosed. In some embodiments, the determining and/or quantizing of the beamforming matrix may include the use of a base codebook and a differential codebook. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed. | 01-06-2011 |
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 |
20110004804 | Systems and methods for channel coding of wireless communication - Embodiments of an apparatus and method for coding of wireless transmissions channel are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 01-06-2011 |
20110045785 | BIDIRECTIONAL ITERATIVE BEAM FORMING - Bidirectional iterative beam forming techniques are described. An apparatus may include a wireless device having an antenna control module operative to initiate beam formation operations using an iterative training scheme to form a pair of communications channels for a wireless network, the antenna control module to communicate training signals and feedback information with a peer device via the transceiver and phased antenna array using partially or fully formed high rate channels, and iteratively determine antenna-array weight vectors for a directional transmit beam pattern for the phased antenna array using feedback information from the peer device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-24-2011 |
20110149758 | CHANNEL QUALITY INDEXING AND REVERSE INDEXING - Channel quality indexing and reverse indexing is described. In one example, a quality value for subbands of a radio communications system are measured. An index for each quality measurement is then determined and a combinatorial index is generated to reflect the indices and the selected subbands. The combinatorial index is then sent to a radio station using a radio communications channel. | 06-23-2011 |
20110158337 | OFDM TRANSMITTER AND METHODS FOR REDUCING THE EFFECTS OF SEVERE INTERFERENCE WITH SYMBOL LOADING - Embodiments of an OFDM transmitter and method of reducing the effects of interference on subcarriers in an OFDM system by symbol loading are disclosed herein. A linear transformation is performed on a group of two or more input data symbols that are mapped to different signal dimensions to generate a corresponding two or more output data symbols. Each of the output data symbols has an increased number of constellation points. Each output data symbol is configured for transmission within one of the different signal dimensions. The linear transformation is configured so that each of the two or more output data symbols carry the information of each of the input data symbols of the group. This coding together of input data symbols that are mapped to different signal dimensions may provide improved reliability against fading and severe interference. The different signal dimensions may comprise a frequency, a time and/or a space dimension. | 06-30-2011 |
20110249615 | COMBINED OMNI- AND DIRECTIONAL- COMMUNICATIONS IN HIGH-FREQUENCY WIRELESS NETWORKS - In a wireless communication network, specific portions of the communication may combine directional transmission with omnidirectional reception. In particular, sector-level directional transmission may be established through sector sweeps, followed by antenna training for more directionality. In some embodiments, collisions during the exchange may be reduced by having different network devices use different sub-channels or different time slots. In some embodiments, each network may restrict its network communications to a single sub-channel that is different than the sub-channels used by adjacent networks. | 10-13-2011 |
20120026991 | FEEDBACK SCHEME FOR MU-MIMO - Embodiments of a system and method for managing feedback in a MU-MIMO system. An access point can announce one or more of mobile stations that are to receive downlink information in a first frame. The access point can also send a sounding package to the one or more mobile stations and receive feedback from the one or more mobile stations according to the feedback schedule. The feedback may be based on the reception of the sounding package. | 02-02-2012 |
20120028671 | POWER LOADING IN MU-MIMO - Embodiments of a system and method for transmitting data from an access point in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) system are provided. A first indication of signal quality (ISQ) is received at the access point from a first station and a second ISQ is received from a second station. The access point sets a first power level and a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for transmission of a first aggregated media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (A-MPDU) to the first station as a function of the first ISQ and an amount of payload data corresponding to the first A-MPDU. The access point also sets a second power level and a second MCS for transmission of a second A-MPDU as a function of the second ISQ and an amount of payload data corresponding to the second A-MPDU. | 02-02-2012 |
20120040629 | FAST BEAM REFINEMENT FOR MMWAVE WPAN - In some embodiments a beamforming method is disclosed. The method can include transmitting a beam having a channel defined by a maximum ration transmission vector (MRT) and receiving a first response from a receiver, where the first response has first information such as parameters related to the transmitted beam. Using the parameters and the initial MRT another directional transmission can be made. A similar process can determine a maximum combining ratio for a receiver. Set up communications between the transmitter and the receiver can be reduced by omitting data from transmission that can be acquired by other means such as from memory or calculations. Additional embodiments are also disclosed. | 02-16-2012 |
20120045003 | COMMUNICATION STATION AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY PROVIDING CHANNEL FEEDBACK FOR MIMO COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of a communication station and methods for efficiently providing channel feedback for MIMO communications over an OFDM channel are generally described herein. In some embodiments, receiving stations may perform a recursive differential quantization of channel information across time and/or frequency to generate quantized differential channel feedback. The quantized differential channel feedback from each receiving station may be used by a transmitting station to precode MIMO transmissions to one or more of the receiving stations. The quantized differential channel feedback may be either a quantized differential channel matrix or a quantized differential beamforming matrix. | 02-23-2012 |
20120108281 | ARRANGEMENTS FOR BEAM REFINEMENT IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A beamforming method is disclosed that includes performing sequential beam transmissions in multiple directions and receiving replies to the transmissions (i.e. a sector search). The received transmissions can include information or channel parameters such as direction of arrival, signal to noise ratio, signal strength, etc., for each sector. Utilizing the parameters transmitted or fed back by the receiver, the transmitter can store control vectors that dictate a beam that can be utilized to commence a beam refinement procedure. In addition, the parameters can be utilized to select and implement a custom sequence to refine the communication channel between the device and the controller. The custom sequence can significantly reduce the time required to create a channel with acceptable qualities such that efficient high speed network communications can be conducted. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 05-03-2012 |
20120140713 | ESTIMATING QUALITY OF A SIGNAL IN MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A mobile station (MS) to determine signal quality values is disclosed. The MS may include a transmitter and a receiver and the receiver may determine a signal power value, a noise power value, and an interference power value of a signal received from antennas. The receiver may determine the signal power value and the interference value using a second preamble included in a super-frame of the signal, wherein the second preamble includes cell information. The receiver may determine a noise power value of the signal received from the plurality of antennas using unoccupied orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) tones of a first preamble included in the super-frame of the signal, wherein the first preamble includes carrier information. The receiver may also use the fractional frequency reuse (FFR) and MIMO features to determine signal quality values using the signal power value, the noise power value, and the interference power value. | 06-07-2012 |
20120281552 | MEASUREMENT AND FEEDBACK CALCULATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for performing measurement by a radio apparatus is presented. In one embodiment, the method includes determining raw measurements (e.g., a channel estimation and a noise variance estimation) of a subband and determining a rank indicator (RI) without requiring a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) search. The method includes calculating, based at least on the raw measurements, a mean instantaneous capacity (MIC) for the subband and determining a channel quality indicator (CQI) and a PMI based at least on the MIC. In one embodiment, the method uses subband-based measurements for performing feedback/measurement. | 11-08-2012 |
20130100898 | BEAMFORMING USING BASE AND DIFFERENTIAL CODEBOOKS - Embodiments of methods and apparatus for determining and/or quantizing a beamforming matrix are disclosed. In some embodiments, the determining and/or quantizing of the beamforming matrix may include the use of a base codebook and a differential codebook. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed. | 04-25-2013 |
20130155907 | COMBINED OMNI- AND DIRECTIONAL- COMMUNICATIONS IN HIGH-FREQUENCY WIRELESS NETWORKS - In a wireless communication network, specific portions of the communication may combine directional transmission with omnidirectional reception. In particular, sector-level directional transmission may be established through sector sweeps, followed by antenna training for more directionality. In some embodiments, collisions during the exchange may be reduced by having different network devices use different sub-channels or different time slots. In some embodiments, each network may restrict its network communications to a single sub-channel that is different than the sub-channels used by adjacent networks. | 06-20-2013 |
20130182666 | BIDIRECTIONAL ITERATIVE BEAM FORMING - Bidirectional iterative beam forming techniques are described. An apparatus may include a wireless device having an antenna control module operative to initiate beam formation operations using an iterative training scheme to form a pair of communications channels for a wireless network, the antenna control module to communicate training signals and feedback information with a peer device via the transceiver and phased antenna array using partially or fully formed high rate channels, and iteratively determine antenna-array weight vectors for a directional transmit beam pattern for the phased antenna array using feedback information from the peer device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188540 | CONTROLLING A POWER LEVEL OF AN UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL - A technique includes, in mobile station that is part of a coordinated multi-point reception transmission/reception (CoMP) system, receiving a message from a base station identifying at least one parameter specific to the mobile station or specific to a reception set used by the mobile station; and regulating power in communications by the mobile station based at least in part on the parameter(s). | 07-25-2013 |
20130195070 | TIME AND FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION FOR LTE-ADVANCED NEW CARRIER TYPE - A particular kind of component carrier that may be used as a secondary cell in an LTE system is a new type carrier that has reduced or eliminated legacy control signaling such as the omission of CRSs. Alternative techniques are described for performing timing and frequency synchronization in the downlink between an eNB and a UE when CRSs are not present in a component carrier. These techniques involve using either channel state information reference signals or UE-specific reference signals. | 08-01-2013 |
20130243118 | MOBILE DEVICE TRANSMITTER AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNALS IN DIFFERENT SIGNAL DIMENSIONS FOR 3GPP LTE - Embodiments of a mobile device transmitter and methods for transmitting signals in different signal dimensions are generally disclosed herein. The mobile device transmitter comprises a mapper to map a block of two or more input modulation symbols to different signal dimensions comprising two or more spatial dimensions, and linear transform circuitry to perform a linear transform on the block of mapped input modulation symbols to generate a block of preceded complex-valued output symbols such that each output symbol carries some information of more than one input modulation symbol. The mobile device also comprises transmitter circuitry to generate time-domain signals from the blocks of precoded complex-valued output symbols for each of the spatial dimensions for transmission using the two or more antennas. The precoded complex-valued output symbols are mapped to different signal dimensions comprising at least different frequency dimensions prior to transmission. | 09-19-2013 |
20130265982 | CARRIER SEGMENT SUPPORT FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a base transceiver station such as an Enhanced Node B allocates a first bandwidth for operation with a first set of remote devices which may comprise user equipment (UE), and allocates at least one or more bandwidth segments outside of the first bandwidth for operation with a second set of remote devices which mug comprise user equipment (UE). Remote devices of the first set are capable of operating within the first bandwidth, and remote devices of the second set are capable of operating within the first bandwidth and within the bandwidth segments outside of the first bandwidth. The devices of the first set comprise legacy devices, and devices of the second set comprise advanced devices. | 10-10-2013 |
20130272132 | SUPPORTED, SELF-OPTIMIZING WIRELESS NETWORKS, OPTIMIZED WITH RESPECT TO ENERGY, MOBILITY, AND CAPACITY - Technology is discussed for self-optimization approaches within wireless networks to optimize networks for energy efficiency, load capacity, and/or mobility, together with new, supporting channel state measurements and handover techniques. New, Channel State Information-Reference Signals (CSI-RSs) for yet-to-be-configured Cell-IDentifications (Cell-IDs) can be used to determine whether adjacent transmission cells can provide coverage for transmission cells that can be switched off for energy efficiency during formation of a Single Frequency Network (SFN). New approaches are also discussed to facilitate mobility within such a network. The new CSI-RSs and mobility approaches can also be used to split up such a SFN when changing load demands so require. Additionally, such new approaches can be used to create a SFN with a common Cell-ID where high mobility is required, such as near a roadway, and to break it up where high capacity is required, such as during a period of traffic congestion. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272173 | TECHNIQUES FOR UPLINK POWER CONTROL - Examples are disclosed for determining, at a base station, separate open loop power control factors for one or more uplink interference patterns based on received time division duplex configuration information received from one or more neighboring base stations. In some examples, the separate open loop power control factors may be communicated to wireless devices coupled with the base station. For these examples, the wireless devices may adjust transmit power controls responsive to receiving the separate open loop power control factors. Other examples are described and claimed. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272262 | MULTI-ACCESS SCHEME AND SIGNAL STRUCTURE FOR D2D COMMUNICATIONS - A signal structure for use in D2D communications is described. In one embodiment, a preamble for automatic gain control at the receiver end is included in the transmitted signal. Techniques for scheduling of D2D transmissions using carrier sensing multiple access (CSMA) and a power control schemes for interference management are also described. | 10-17-2013 |
20130287139 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RANK ADAPTATION IN MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus may include a transmitter arranged to wirelessly transmit channel status reports for channels within a transmission band to a base station and a processor. The apparatus may further include a rank adaptation (RA) module operable on the processor to direct the transmitter to send a multiplicity of sub-band channel quality indicator (CQI) reports, each sub-band CQI report comprising a measurement of a respective sub-band of the transmission band and a multiplicity of rank indicator (RI) reports, where each sub-band CQI report is accompanied by an RI report. The apparatus may further include a digital display arranged to display information transmitted via the base station to the apparatus. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 10-31-2013 |
20130294390 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPLINK POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus may include a transceiver operable to receive a downlink message from a base station for a serving cell, the downlink message allocating a set of control parameters. The apparatus may also include a processor circuit communicatively coupled to the transceiver and an uplink power control module operable on the processor circuit to read the set of control parameters, and apply a signal-to-noise-and-interference (SINR) parameter based on the received set of control parameters to determine physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) power to be applied for a PUSCH transmission. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 11-07-2013 |
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 |
20130343241 | METHOD TO SUPPORT AN ASYMMETRIC TIME-DIVISION DUPLEX (TDD) CONFIGURATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNET) - A method to support an asymmetric time-division duplex (TDD) configuration at a macro node in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is disclosed. The method at the macro node comprises transmitting a half blank subframe (HBS) of a downlink subframe during an uplink subframe of a low power node in the HetNet. An effective transmission range of the macro node can overlap with an effective transmission range of the low power node. The downlink subframe and the uplink subframe can occur on a substantially same carrier frequency. The HBS can have a reduced transmission power during an uplink control channel or a random access channel of the uplink subframe of a mobile device transmission to the low power node. | 12-26-2013 |
20130344816 | MOBILITY MEASURMENT USING CSI-RS IN ADDITIONAL CARRIER - A system and a method for a mobility measurement in a wireless network comprises determining at a wireless terminal a channel power estimation E | 12-26-2013 |
20140003240 | SUPPORTING MEASURMENTS AND FEEDBACK FOR 3D MIMO WITH DATA TRANSMISSION OPTIMIZATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140003320 | ENHANCED LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS IN MOBILE BROADBAND NETWORKS | 01-02-2014 |
20140010216 | FEEDBACK SCHEME FOR MU-MIMO - Embodiments of a system and method for managing feedback in a MU-MIMO system. An access point can announce one or more of mobile stations that are to receive downlink information in a first frame. The access point can also send a sounding package to the one or more mobile stations and receive feedback from the one or more mobile stations according to the feedback schedule. The feedback may be based on the reception of the sounding package. | 01-09-2014 |
20140016714 | LARGE DELAY CYCLIC DELAY DIVERSITY (CDD) PRECODER FOR OPEN LOOP MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) - A physical channel processor on a wireless device and method for precoding for spatial multiplexing in an open-loop multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mobile communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the operation of receiving an input vector block from a layer mapper. The input vector block includes user equipment-specific reference signals (UE-RSs) or data in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The operation of generating a large delay cyclic delay diversity (CDD) vector block from the input vector block using a precoder configured for large delay CDD on an antenna port follows. The data can be resource element mapped with UE-RSs or channel-state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) in a physical resource block (PRB). | 01-16-2014 |
20140018004 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR BEAM REFINEMENT IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - In some embodiments a beamforming method is disclosed. The method can include transmitting a beam having a channel defined by a maximum ratio transmission vector (MRT) and receiving a first response from a receiver, where the first response has first information such as parameters related to the transmitted beam. Using the parameters and the initial MRT, another directional transmission can be made. A similar process can determine a maximum combining ratio for a receiver. Set up communications between the transmitter and the receiver can be reduced by omitting data from transmission that can be acquired by other means such as from memory or calculations. Additional embodiments are also disclosed. | 01-16-2014 |
20140038661 | POWER LOADING IN MU-MIMO - Embodiments of a system and method for transmitting data from an access point in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) system are provided. A first indication of signal quality (ISQ) is received at the access point from a first station and a second ISQ is received from a second station. The access point sets a first power level and a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for transmission of a first aggregated media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (A-MPDU) to the first station as a function of the first ISQ and an amount of payload data corresponding to the first A-MPDU. The access point also sets a second power level and a second MCS for transmission of a second A-MPDU as a function of the second ISQ and an amount of payload data corresponding to the second A-MPDU. | 02-06-2014 |
20140044070 | ENHANCED NODE B AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING PHYSICAL-DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNELS (PDCCHS) IN A LTE-A SYSTEM - Embodiments of an eNB and method of transmitting PDCCHs are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the eNB may be configured to transmit PDCCHs that are based on a UE-specific reference signal (i.e., a UE-RS). In these embodiments, the UEs may be able to demodulate their PDCCH using a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) that is specific to the UE (e.g., instead of a common reference signal). The PDCCHs disclosed herein may be suitable the Uu interface of an LTE-A system. | 02-13-2014 |
20140050103 | MOBILE PROXY FOR CLOUD RADIO ACCESS NETWORK - Embodiments of computer-implemented methods, systems, computing devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for monitoring, by a mobile proxy associated with a control system of a cloud radio access network (“C-RAN”), application layer data traffic between the control system and a wireless communication device. In various embodiments, the mobile proxy may, based on the monitoring, facilitate alteration of data plane or control plane processing by the wireless communication device or a remote radio head (“RRH”) associated with the C-RAN. | 02-20-2014 |
20140050127 | ENHANCED NODE B AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AN EXTENSION CARRIER - An apparatus and method for providing configuration information relating to an extension carrier within a wireless communications network is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, each enhanced node B (eNodeB) transmits the configuration information within the downlink subframes of at least one radio frame, wherein the configuration information is transmitted on the downlink shared channel (DL-SCH) included in the radio frame. In another embodiment, each eNodeB transmits the configuration information within a radio resource control (RRC) signaling included in at least one radio frame to select ones of the user equipments (UEs) in response to the system load relative to the select UE's request. | 02-20-2014 |
20140169298 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING - A system and method for distributed scheduling of transmissions between device-to-device (D2D) communications is disclosed. The distributed scheduling method employs a distributed scheduling structure in which device identifiers rather than connection identifiers are used to enable scheduling of a D2D data transfer between devices in a wireless neighborhood. The novel distributed scheduling structure is scalable to a larger number of D2D devices than is feasible with a connection ID-based tone matrix. | 06-19-2014 |
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20140355493 | MULTICAST SERVICE USING UNICAST SUBFRAME - A system and method for multicast servicing in a unicast subframe is disclosed. The method using an evolved Node B (eNodeB) comprises the operation of setting up a multicast service on each of a plurality of user equipments (UEs) in a multicast group using a multicast identifier. The operation of allocating unicast data channel resources for the multicast group using unicast control channel information coded by the multicast identifier follows. The method using a UE comprises the operation of receiving a multicast identifier for a multicast group from an eNodeB, wherein the multicast identifier is shared among a plurality of UEs in the multicast group. The operation of receiving unicast control channel information coded by the multicast identifier from the eNodeB follows. The next operation of the method is extracting control channel information for allocating unicast data channel resources from the received unicast control channel information using the multicast identifier. | 12-04-2014 |
20140369322 | PERFORMING MULTIPLE TIMING ADVANCE ADJUSTMENTS IN A CARRIER AGGREGATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Technology for performing multiple timing advances in a carrier aggregation communication system is disclosed. A method comprises communicating a random access preamble from a UE to an eNodeB via a PCell associated with a selected component carrier of the carrier aggregation. A Random Access Response (RAR) is received at the UE from the eNodeB for the PCell. The RAR contains a timing advance adjustment instructing the UE to adjust a timing of a PCell wireless communication. A request is received at the UE to adjust a timing of an SCell communication. A random access preamble is communicated to the UE via the SCell. An RAR is received at the UE from the eNodeB for the SCell to adjust a timing advance of the SCell wireless communication. | 12-18-2014 |
20150043448 | SIGNALING FOR PROXIMITY SERVICES AND D2D DISCOVERY IN AN LTE NETWORK - Embodiments of an enhanced node B (eNB), user equipment (UE) and methods of signaling for proximity services and device-to-device (D2D) discovery in an LTE network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the eNB may transmit signaling to indicate D2D discovery zone configuration to proximity service (ProSe) enabled UEs. The signaling may indicate time and frequency resources and a periodicity of a discovery zone and may indicate operational parameters for the discovery zone. The resources of the D2D discovery zone may be allocated for D2D discovery signal transmission by the ProSe-enabled UEs. | 02-12-2015 |
20150045016 | USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR PACKET BASED DEVICE-TO-DEVICE (D2D) DISCOVERY IN AN LTE NETWORK - Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods for packet based device-to-device (D2D) discovery in an LTE network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, UE may be enabled for proximity services and may be configured to receive signaling from an enhanced node B (eNB) indicating resources allocated for D2D discovery. The UE may configure a discovery packet in accordance with a predetermined configuration to have at least a discovery payload and a cyclic-redundancy check (CRC). The discovery payload may include discovery-related content. The UE may be configured to transmit the discovery packet on at least some of the indicated resources for receipt by a receiving UE. In some embodiments, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) may be selected to indicate a payload size and/or MCS of the discovery packet's payload. | 02-12-2015 |
20150049732 | SIGNALING AND CHANNEL DESIGNS FOR D2D COMMUNICATIONS - Described are methods and devices for enabling D2D communications with signal structures that require minimal changes to the current LTE architecture. In the embodiments described, the eNB grants resources to UEs for D2D communication and either initiates or permits a pair of UEs to establish a D2D link. Certain embodiments are designed to minimize changes to the current LTE control signaling structure by having the control signaling always come from the eNB as in a normal cellular link so that the transmitting UE transmits over a data channel (e.g., PUSCH/PDSCH) that the receiving UE is able to decode. | 02-19-2015 |
20150071367 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TRANSMISSION DIRECTION FOR A COMMUNICATION, A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PRECODING MATRIX FOR A COMMUNICATION, AND A DEVICE CONFIGURED TO DO THE SAME - A method for determining a transmission direction for a communication of a network component of a radio communications network may include: determining a reference transmission direction based on a plurality of predetermined transmission directions that a network component of a radio communications network is configured to transmit at; selecting a plurality of candidate transmission directions in a spatial vicinity of the reference transmission direction, the plurality of candidate transmission directions being a subset of the plurality of predetermined transmission directions; and selecting a transmission direction for a communication of the network component from the reference transmission direction and the plurality of candidate transmission directions based on a selection criterion. | 03-12-2015 |
20150085764 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE DISCOVERY - A user equipment (UE) includes a reference signal component, a guard period component, and a transmission component. The reference signal component is configured to randomly select a sequence for a reference signal for transmission in an open device-to-device discovery packet. The guard period component is configured to determine a first symbol signal for transmission during a first symbol of the device-to-device discovery packet. The first symbol comprises a partially punctured symbol. The transmission component is configured to transmit the device-to-device discovery packet. The device-to-device discovery packet includes the first symbol having the partially punctured symbol and a reference signal based on the randomly selected sequence. | 03-26-2015 |