Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090219883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS IN AN OFDM BASED CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for transmitting the synchronization signal in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based cellular system. The cell search process widely used in the OFDM based cellular system is divided into two steps for obtaining the frame timing synchronization and obtaining the cell-specific scrambling code. When designing the channel for obtaining the frame timing synchronization and the channel for obtaining the cell-specific scrambling code, different frequency reuse factors are applied to the synchronization channels of different steps according to the characteristics of each synchronization obtainment step in order to improve the performance of each step. | 09-03-2009 |
20100149962 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING UPLINK PILOT IN FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving an uplink pilot used for channel estimation and measurement of an uplink in an FDMA system. Pilot symbols are transmitted with different frequency mapping patterns in first and second pilot symbol intervals of one time slot interval including data symbol intervals and the inconsecutive first and second pilot symbol intervals which have a shorter length than the data symbol intervals. As a result, interpolation of a frequency domain during channel estimation is not necessary, and can correctly obtain channel-estimated values of a frequency at which data is transmitted, in a fast time-varying channel environment. | 06-17-2010 |
20100172337 | Method and apparatus for multiplexing data and control information in wireless communication systems based on frequency division multiple access - An apparatus for transmitting data in a frequency division multiple access based communication system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a symbol block generator for generating a symbol block in a predetermined symbol block period within one TTI when control information to be transmitted exists in the TTI, an FFT unit for performing FFT on the symbol block, and an IFFT unit for performing IFFT on signals output from the FFT unit and then transmitting the signals. The symbol block includes the control information and data to be transmitted. The TTI includes multiple symbol block periods. | 07-08-2010 |
20100173641 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for allocating resources in a mobile communication system is provided. The resource allocation method includes determining whether a transmission time of response information indicating presence/absence of an error in received data overlaps a transmission time of channel state information; and when the transmission times overlap each other, allocating, to the response information, a resource block for the channel state information, cyclic shift values in a frequency domain, and orthogonal sequences having orthogonality in a time domain. | 07-08-2010 |
20100329196 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting an uplink control channel at a terminal in a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA)-based mobile communication system is provided. The transmission method includes receiving a control channel index allocated from a base station; transmitting control information at every symbol through a subband and a Zadoff-Chue sequence offset resource, which are mapped to the control channel index according to a first grouping rule; and transmitting control information through a subband and a Zadoff-Chue sequence offset resource, which are mapped to the control channel index according to a second grouping rule, beginning from a symbol after a slot boundary. | 12-30-2010 |
20110090825 | TRANSMISSION DIVERSITY AND MULTIPLEXING FOR HARQ-ACK SIGNALS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit in a control channel ACKnowledgement signals associated with a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest process (HARQ-ACK signals) in response to receiving Transport Blocks (TBs) transmitted from a base station. The UE conveys the HARQ-ACK information by selecting one resource from multiple resources in the control channel and by selecting a constellation point of the modulation scheme for the HARQ-ACK signal. Transmission diversity is supported using different control channel resources that are already available to the UE without configuring additional resources. Design principles are described to optimally map the HARQ-ACK information to control channel resources and modulation constellation points for a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system and for a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) system. | 04-21-2011 |
20110164585 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCE OF MULTIPLE CARRIERS IN OFDMA SYSTEM - A resource allocation method and apparatus for an OFDMA-based mobile communication system that allows allocating resources of multiple carriers is provided. A Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) transmission method for allocating resources in multiple frequency bands of a mobile communication system based on an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) according to the present invention includes generating and transmitting, at a base station, multiple PDCCHs for allocating resources in the multiple frequency bands using Control Channel Element (CCE) indices; and receiving and demodulating, at a user equipment, the multiple PDCCHs transmitted by the base station and locating the resources allocated in the multiple frequency bands using the CCE indices of respective PDCCHs. A Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) transmission apparatus for allocating resources in multiple frequency bands of a mobile communication system based on an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) according to the present invention includes a base station apparatus which generates and transmits multiple PDCCHs for allocating resources in the multiple frequency bands using Control Channel Element (CCE) indices; and a user equipment which receives and demodulates the multiple PDCCHs transmitted by the base station and locates the resources allocated in the multiple frequency bands using the CCE indices of respective PDCCHs. | 07-07-2011 |
20110177807 | DOWNLINK CHANNEL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS AND COMMON CHANNEL RECEPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING BANDWIDTH SCALABILITY - Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving downlink common channels such as synchronization channel and broadcast channel in a cellular communication system supporting bandwidth scalability are provided. The downlink physical data channel transmission method for a base station of a cellular communication supporting bandwidth scalability according to the present invention includes generating a first system information specific to Long Term Evolution (LTE) terminals; generating a second system information specific to LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) terminals, the second system information including information on entire system bandwidth, a number of subbands constituting the entire bandwidth, and subbands on which common control channels are transmitted; transmitting the first information and the second information on a system information channel; and instructing, when a terminal attempts to camp on, a subband on which the terminal to camp. | 07-21-2011 |
20110211487 | COOPERATIVE BEAMFORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A cooperative beamforming apparatus and method in a wireless communication system supporting channel sensitive scheduling based on feedback information is provided. A beamforming method in a wireless communication system according to the present invention includes transmitting, at a mobile station, a channel condition information of a channel of a serving base station to the serving base station and a channel condition information of a channel of a neighbor base station; and forming, at the serving base station, a beam based on the channel condition information to transmit a signal and, at neighbor base station, a beam to transmit a signal. | 09-01-2011 |
20110268075 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information on the data channel in a multi-carrier wireless communication system is provided. An Uplink Control Information (UCI) transmission method in a wireless communication system supporting multicarrier transmission according to the present invention includes channel-coding a UCI with reference to a number of UCI bits available; dividing the channel coded UCI bits into a number of Physical Uplink Shared Channels (PUSCHs); and transmitting the UCI multiplexed with data on the individual PUSCHs. | 11-03-2011 |
20110292812 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADIO LINK CONTROL IN CELLULAR RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining radio link failure between the UE and the eNB in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining radio link failure efficiently in such a way that the UE measures the radio link quality of the anchor carrier, the radio link qualities of the aggregated carriers, and the radio link quality of neighbor cells in order, and determines whether the radio link quality fulfills a predetermined condition. | 12-01-2011 |
20110317647 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DOWNLINK SIGNAL FOR WHICH GUARD BAND IS CONFIGURED IN CELLULAR RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING BAND SCALABILITY - Disclosed is a configuration of a guard band for a radio communication system formed of consecutive sub-bands. Particularly disclosed are designs of a middle guard band for preventing interference between adjacent sub-bands and regulating a difference in frequency between signals transmitted in each sub-band in a radio communication system such as a multi-carrier OFDM system and a multi-carrier CDMA system that forms a wideband through carrier aggregation. Related transmission/reception method and apparatus are further disclosed. | 12-29-2011 |
20120063400 | TRANSMISSION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit a variable number of HARQ-ACK bits in response to the reception of Transport Blocks (TBs) in multiple DownLink (DL) Component Carriers (CCs). The resources for the transmission of an HARQ-ACK signal in response to the reception of TBs in each DL CC are determined from the resources used for the transmission of the respective Scheduling Assignment (SA) in that DL CC. In order to increase the multiplexing capacity of HARQ-ACK bits in a single HARQ-ACK signal, the UE may use more than one of the resources determined from the resources used for the transmission of the SA in each DL CC. The UE may also adapt the parameters for the transmission of HARQ-ACK bits depending on their number. | 03-15-2012 |
20130044581 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING CODE RESOURCES TO UPLINK ACK/NACK CHANNELS IN A CELLULAR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for allocating code resources to ACK/NACK channel indexes, when UEs need ACK/NACK transmission in a wireless communication system in which a predetermined number of orthogonal cover Walsh codes is selected from among available orthogonal cover Walsh codes, at least one subset is formed, having the selected orthogonal cover Walsh codes arranged in an ascending order of cross interference, subsets are selected for use in first and second slots of a subframe, and the orthogonal cover Walsh codes of the subset selected for each slot and ZC sequence cyclic shift values are allocated to the ACK/NACK channel indexes. | 02-21-2013 |
20130070706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING UPLINK CHANNEL SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method is provided for transmitting uplink control information by a terminal in a cellular communication system. The method includes receiving system information associated with uplink transmission of a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) from a base station; determining an orthogonal sequence having a first length or a second length predefined; transmitting uplink control information to which a first orthogonal sequence is applied, if the first orthogonal sequence having the first length is determined; and transmitting uplink control information to which a second orthogonal sequence is applied, if the second orthogonal sequence having the second length is determined. The SRS is selectively transmitted with the uplink control information, based on the received system information, and the uplink control information, to which the first orthogonal sequence having the first length is applied, is transmitted regardless of whether or not the SRS is transmitted in a corresponding slot. | 03-21-2013 |
20130077571 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL FOR A SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL - A method and apparatus for transmitting a reference signal from a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method includes transmitting a first reference signal using a sequence determined from an identity of the at least one transmission point and transmitting a second reference signal with a transmission power having an offset with a first maximum value configured by higher layer signaling from the at least one transmission point; and transmitting a first reference signal using a sequence configured to the UE by higher layer signaling from the at least one transmission point and transmitting a second reference signal with a transmission power having an offset with a second maximum value configured by higher layer signaling from the at least one transmission point, wherein the second maximum value is larger than the first maximum value, and the first reference signal and the second reference signal are either identical or non-identical. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077587 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL CHANNELS BY RESTRICTING A SET OF THE CONTROL CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting control information in a base station for a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting, to a terminal, information associated with a number of Control Channel Elements (CCEs) included in control channels, determining a set of control channel candidates based on an IDentifier (ID) of the terminal and the information associated with the number of CCEs; selecting at least one control channel candidate from among the set of control channel candidates; and transmitting the control information to the terminal through the selected at least one control channel candidate. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083751 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL FOR A SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL - Method and apparatus for a User Equipment (UE) determining a resource for a transmission of a control signal in response to a detected control channel including Control Channel Elements (CCEs), where transmission of the control signal is with a first sequence or with a second sequence, if a first resource or a second resource is used, respectively. The first resource is determined from the CCE index while the second resource is determined from a group of consecutive CCE indexes. The UE is also signaled a bit-map associating the subframe of the control channel detection with the use of a first resource or of a second resource. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL IN DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) is provided. A method for determining an initial state in a DAS includes receiving a value through high-level signalling and determining an initial state based on the value, in which the value includes a value in which is set an initial state of a scrambling sequence, which differs according to a transmission point. | 04-04-2013 |
20130089067 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING MULTI-BAND AND MULTI-CELL - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for operating multi-band and multi-cell. An Enhanced Node B (eNB) transmits a synchronization channel and a broadcasting channel for narrow-band user equipments (UEs) through a first band narrower than a system band, the first band being located in a center band of the system band, and transmits a control channel for scheduling a data channel for a first narrow-band UE which is one of the narrow-band UEs through a second band equal to or wider than the first band, the second band not overlapping the first band within the system band. The first band is designed to be matched to a band where the synchronization channel and the broadcasting channel of a host cell using an entire system band are transmitted. | 04-11-2013 |
20130094442 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system using a Coordinated Multi-Point transmission/reception (CoMP) scheme receives Downlink Control Information (DCI) including CoMP control information, determines a starting position of a data channel on wireless resources, based on starting position information of a data channel included in the CoMP control information and used in each of a plurality of cells, and receives data from the plurality of cells starting from the determined starting position. | 04-18-2013 |
20130100904 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING AND ACQUIRING ACK/NACK RESOURCES IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for receiving ACK/NACK information by a base station. The method includes transmitting data and control information to at least one UE, the control information being transmitted through a downlink control channel including at least one CCE; checking a resource for reception of an ACK/NACK mapped to the at least one CCE based on a mapping rule between CCEs and resources for reception of the ACK/NACK, the resource for reception of the ACK/NACK identified by a cyclic shift index, an orthogonal sequence index, and a resource block index; and receiving the ACK/NACK information for the transmitted data using the checked resource. | 04-25-2013 |
20130107840 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN UPLINK WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS AND SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL HOPPING | 05-02-2013 |
20130114538 | CONTROL AND DATA SIGNALING IN SC-FDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Apparatus and method for multiplexing control information bits and data information bits into sub-frame symbols depending on the location of symbols carrying a reference signal (RS), to provide an estimate for the channel medium and enable coherent demodulation for signals carrying information bits. The control information bits include ACK or NAK and/or channel CQI bits. The ACK/NAK bits are placed with priority in symbols around the symbols carrying the RS, to allow for improved accuracy of the channel estimate, followed by the CQI bits when both ACK/NAK and CQI bits exist. Moreover, the sub-frame resources required to achieve the desired reception reliability for the control information depend on the operating conditions and can varied to minimize the associated control overhead. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114545 | TRANSMISSION OF SCHEDULING ASSIGNMENTS IN MULTIPLE OPERATING BANDWIDTHS - Methods and apparatuses are described for the transmission of Scheduling Assignments (SAs) from a base station to User Equipments (UEs) for data reception in the downlink or data transmission in the uplink of a communication system consisting of multiple Component Carriers (CCs). The SAs are separately coded and transmitted using elementary units (Control Channel Elements or CCEs). Locations of CCEs determine whether an SA is intended for a first CC or for a second CC. Further, the location of CCEs for an SA intended for a first CC is used to determine locations of CCEs for an SA intended for a second CC. | 05-09-2013 |
20130121249 | Method and apparatus for transmitting system information in a mobile communication system - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting system information in a mobile communication system. The method includes configuring system information including first antenna configuration information and second antenna configuration information, and broadcasting the system information. The first antenna configuration information includes information about a number of antennas of a base station. | 05-16-2013 |
20130142277 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING CODEBOOK IN MIMO SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals using a codebook which maps each codeword to at least two different antennas is provided for a MIMO system. A transmission method includes mapping multiple codewords to multiple layers; mapping the multiple layers to multiple antennas using a precoding matrix selected from a rank-3 codebook which is designed to map the codewords to different antennas; and transmitting the codewords through paths formed by mapping the layers and the antennas. The precoding matrix of the rank-3 codebook is designed to equalize transmit power ratios between the antennas. The communication method and apparatus is advantageous to solve the problem of transmit power imbalance among the layers and the problem of performance degradation at the high SNR region in the conventional system using the rank-3 precoding matrices. | 06-06-2013 |
20130155978 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PERIODIC CHANNEL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus in which a terminal transmits channel information for at least one serving cell to a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method for receiving periodic channel information by a base station in a wireless communication system includes determining whether to set a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) mode for allowing a terminal to periodically transmit a plurality of channel information to the base station in one sub-frame, transmitting PUSCH mode information including a result of the determination to the terminal, and receiving the plurality of channel information from the terminal using a PUSCH in the one sub-frame, according to the result of the determination. | 06-20-2013 |
20130163506 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus are described for a Relay Node (RN) that is transparent to User Equipments to transmit, together with a base station (Node B), Reference Signals (RS) to UEs, to receive RS from UEs, to perform transmissions of Transport Blocks (TBs) to the Node B or to UEs and receptions of TBs from the Node B or from UEs, where the transmissions of TBs from the RN are for retransmissions associated with a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARD) process for the same TBs, and enabling the Node B to obtain control information signaled from UEs while signaling from the RN interferers with that signaling of control information. | 06-27-2013 |
20130208672 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS IN SC-FDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for transmitting information symbols in a communication system are provided. The method includes determining Channel Quality Information (CQI) and acknowledgement information, in response to data reception; generating a first symbol based on the CQI and a second symbol based on the acknowledgement information; and transmitting the first symbol and the second symbol. A first code is applied to the second symbol, when the acknowledgement information is negative, a second code is applied to the second symbol, when the acknowledgement information is positive, and the first code is applied to the second symbol, when the acknowledgement information does not exist. | 08-15-2013 |
20130215819 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING A CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE OF A RELAY NODE IN A BACKHAUL SUBFRAME - A method and apparatus for allocating control channels of a relay is provided. The method includes generating resource block assignment information related to resource blocks allocated to the relay; transmitting resource information comprising the resource block assignment information; and transmitting a control channel according to the resource information. | 08-22-2013 |
20130223389 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEQUENCE HOPPING IN SINGLE CARRIER FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (SC-FDMA) COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting a reference-signal and a data signal by a user equipment in a communication system. The data signal is generated. A sequence is determined for the reference-signal. The reference-signal is transmitted based on the sequence and the data signal through at least one resource block. The sequence is determined based on sequence-hopping if the number of resource blocks is equal to or greater than the predetermined value. The sequence is determined without sequence-hopping if the number of resource blocks is less than a predetermined value. | 08-29-2013 |
20130230017 | HARQ-ACK SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN RESPONSE TO DETECTION OF CONTROL CHANNEL TYPE IN CASE OF MULTIPLE CONTROL CHANNEL TYPES - Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit and for a base station to receive a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal in a resource of a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH). The HARQ-ACK signal is transmitted from the UE in response to a detection of a PDCCH transmitted from the base station and conveying a DCI format that, depending on the PDCCH type, can include a HARQ-ACK PUCCH Resource Offset (HPRO) information field. The UE and the NodeB determine the PUCCH resource depending on the PDCCH type and, if the DCI format includes the HPRO, also depending on a PDCCH transmission type. | 09-05-2013 |
20130230029 | HARQ-ACK SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN RESPONSE TO DETECTION OF CONTROL CHANNEL TYPE IN CASE OF MULTIPLE CONTROL CHANNEL TYPES - Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit and for a base station to receive a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal in a resource of a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH). The HARQ-ACK signal is transmitted from the UE in response to a detection of a PDCCH transmitted from the base station and conveying a DCI format that, depending on the PDCCH type, can include a HARQ-ACK PUCCH Resource Offset (HPRO) information field. The UE and the NodeB determine the PUCCH resource depending on the PDCCH type and, if the DCI format includes the HPRO, also depending on a PDCCH transmission type. | 09-05-2013 |
20130230030 | HARQ-ACK SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN RESPONSE TO DETECTION OF CONTROL CHANNEL TYPE IN CASE OF MULTIPLE CONTROL CHANNEL TYPES - Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit and for a base station to receive a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal in a resource of a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH). The HARQ-ACK signal is transmitted from the UE in response to a detection of a PDCCH transmitted from the base station and conveying a DCI format that, depending on the PDCCH type, can include a HARQ-ACK PUCCH Resource Offset (HPRO) information field. The UE and the NodeB determine the PUCCH resource depending on the PDCCH type and, if the DCI format includes the HPRO, also depending on a PDCCH transmission type. | 09-05-2013 |
20130235780 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A TERMINAL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for optimizing the power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method for optimizing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: a determination step of determining whether there is a need for changing a configuration for a discontinuous reception operation of the terminal; and a transmission step of transmitting, to a base station, a request message for a change in the discontinuous reception operation, if it is determined that the change is needed. | 09-12-2013 |
20130265970 | REPEATING TRANSMISSIONS OF SIGNALS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit an acknowledgement signal over multiple Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs). The method includes transmitting the acknowledgement signal in {(n+Q) | 10-10-2013 |
20130279544 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and User Equipment (UE) apparatuses are provided for transmitting Reference Signals (RSs). A method includes receiving a cell-specific sequence-hopping parameter; receiving a UE-specific sequence-hopping parameter; determining a reference signal sequence based on the UE-specific sequence-hopping parameter; and transmitting the reference signal based on the determined reference signal sequence. Sequence hopping does not apply to the reference signal sequence if the cell-specific sequence-hopping parameter indicates that the sequence hopping is enabled and the UE-specific sequence-hopping parameter indicates that the sequence hopping is disabled. | 10-24-2013 |
20130301492 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING FRAME CONFIGURATION INFORMATION IN TDD WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting Time Division Duplexing (TDD) configuration information by an evolved Node B (eNB) in a TDD wireless communication system are provided. The method includes determining a changed TDD configuration indicating a transmission direction of a plurality of sub-frames constituting a frame; generating a system information element including dynamic TDD configuration information indicating the changed TDD configuration; transmitting a system information block including the dynamic TDD configuration information; and sending a Media Access Control (MAC) message including information indicating whether a change in TDD configuration is activated. | 11-14-2013 |
20130336300 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - A data transmission method and apparatus is provided for transmitting UL grant or ACK/NACK at flexible subframes in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system. The data transmission method of a base station according to the present invention includes configuring subframes irrelevant to Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process as flexible subframes; scheduling uplink transmission at the flexible subframes with uplink grant; receiving uplink data transmitted by a terminal at the flexible subframes as scheduled; and transmitting, when decoding the uplink data fails, HARQ acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) or uplink grant to request retransmission of the uplink data. The data transmission method of the present invention is capable of utilizing flexible subframes for uplink transmission without influencing the uplink HARQ process associated with the downlink subframes configured as flexible subframes. | 12-19-2013 |
20130343329 | PARTITIONING OF FREQUENCY RESOURCES FOR TRANSMISSION OF CONTROL SIGNALS AND DATA SIGNALS IN SC-FDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for the partitioning frequency resources used in the transmission of control signals and data signals by user equipments in a communication system. The control signals and data signals are for periodic transmission and dynamic transmission. Also provided is an apparatus and method for user equipments to determine the first frequency unit available for the transmission of dynamic control signals, such as acknowledgement signals associated respective reception of data signals configured through a scheduling assignment by a serving Node B. The utilization of the operating bandwidth is maximized by avoiding fragmentation and facilitates the achievement of reception reliability targets particularly for control signals. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343333 | RESOURCE MAPPING METHOD AND APPARATUS OF OFDM SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for allocating resource between uplink ACK/NACK channel and downlink control channel supporting spatial multiplexing in an OFDM-based wireless communication system which configures uplink ACK/NAK channel implicitly using reference signals for discriminating among resource allocation spaces and physical channel resource. The method is capable of multiplexing the uplink ACK/NACK channel associated with the control channel extended by spatial multiplexing into the uplink ACK/NACK channel resource which does not support spatial multiplexing. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343334 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING FEATURES OF UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting a PUSCH and a DM RS associated with transmission of the PUSCH. The method includes receiving, by a UE, a DCI format including IEs over PDCCHs based on a UE ID, where the IEs include RA and RSC information indicating a combination of a CS and an OCC for the DM RS; identifying the CS and the OCC for the DM RS using the RSC information; acquiring a DM RS sequence based on the identified CS, the identified OCC, and a CAZAC-based sequence; mapping the DM RS sequence to sub-carriers, based on the RA; performing an IFT operation based on the DM RS sequence and the sub-carriers; generating a signal for transmitting on the PUSCH by adding a CP to a result of the IFT operation; and transmitting the signal on the PUSCH. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343335 | TRANSMISSION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS - Methods are described for a Node B to transmit and for a User Equipment (UE) to receive ACKnowledgement (ACK) information associated with the use of Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARM), also known as HARQ-ACK signaling, in a communication system that includes multiple downlink component carriers or multiple uplink component carriers. An HARQ-ACK signal to a UE is in response to a data packet transmission from the UE and may consist of 2 information bits when the UE has 2 or more transmitter antennas. The HARQ-ACK signal is always located in the same downlink component carrier as the scheduling assignment resulting to the data packet transmission from the UE. | 12-26-2013 |
20140003376 | DOWNLINK CHANNEL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS AND COMMON CHANNEL RECEPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING BANDWIDTH SCALABILITY | 01-02-2014 |
20140010193 | RESOURCE INDEXING FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS IN RESPONSE TO RECEPTIONS OF MULTIPLE ASSIGNMENTS - User Equipment (UE) transmits an acknowledgement signal in response to the reception of multiple Scheduling Assignments (SAs) transmitted by a base station. The SAs consist of Information Elements (IEs) including a Transmission Power Control (TPC) IE providing adjustments for the transmission power of the acknowledgement signal. The TPC IE in a first SA of the multiple SAs is used to provide the previous adjustments and the TPC IEs in the remaining of the multiple SAs are used to provide an indication of the resource used for the transmission of the acknowledgment signal. | 01-09-2014 |
20140016602 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALS FROM MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - Methods and apparatuses, through the use of a Downlink Control Indication (DCI) format or through higher layer signaling, for dynamic activation and deactivation of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) transmissions from User Equipments (UEs) in an UL Component Carrier (CC) with configured SRS transmissions, the dynamic configuration of SRS transmissions parameters, the dynamic activation and configuration of SRS transmissions in an UL CC without previously configured SRS transmissions for a reference UE, and the configuration of SRS transmissions from multiple UE transmitter antennas. | 01-16-2014 |
20140056187 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING OF HARQ-ACK TRANSMISSION IN TDD SYSTEMS WITH DOWNLINK CARRIER AGGREGATION - Methods and apparatus are provided for a User Equipment (UE) configured with multiple cells in a DownLink (DL) of a Time Division Duplex (TDD) communication system to determine the coding method for acknowledgement information bits as a function of their number, to apply bundling to the acknowledgement information bits when their number exceeds a first predetermined value, and to partition the acknowledgement information bits, possibly together with other control information bits, into two separate codewords when their total number exceeds a second predetermined value. | 02-27-2014 |
20140086113 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL CHANNEL IN DYNAMIC TIME DIVISION DUPLEX SYSTEM - A method and system for transmitting and receiving a control channel in a dynamic Time Division Duplex (TDD) system. Upon receiving a control signal DCI for a first Hybrid Automatic Retransmission Request (HARQ) process from a Node B, a User Equipment (UE) determines whether TDD configuration is changed in a radio frame to which the DCI is to be applied. If the TDD configuration is changed, the UE determines from the DCI whether retransmission for the first HARQ process is required. If the retransmission required, the UE interprets some bits of a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) field in the DCI as a target HARQ process index for the first HARQ process. As a result, the most is made of available UL data channel resources, contributing to an increase in the capacity of the dynamic TDD system and a reduction in packet delays of the UE. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086127 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A PLURALITY OF CELLS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for using a plurality of cells by an evolved NodeB (eNB) in a communication system are provided. A first eNB, which manages a first cell and is providing a communication service to a User Equipment (UE) located in the first cell, determines to provide the communication service to the UE together with a second cell of a second eNB, which neighbors the UE. A cell addition request message, making a request for aggregation of the first cell and the second cell, is transmitted to the second eNB to provide the communication service. When a cell addition response message, accepting the request for aggregation of the first cell and the second cell, is received from the second eNB, a cell activation request message, making a request for activation of the second cell, is transmitted to the second eNB. | 03-27-2014 |
20140105189 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DIFFERENT SIGNAL TYPES IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting a Reference Signal (RS) by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting a DeModulation Reference Signal (DM RS) and information data in a sub-frame; and transmitting a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) in a last symbol in another sub-frame. The DM RS is transmitted in a middle symbol in each slot of the sub-frame, and the information data is transmitted in other symbols in each slot of the sub-frame. | 04-17-2014 |
20140140302 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING UPLINK SIGNALING INFORMATION IN A SINGLE CARRIER FDMA SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus method are provided for transmitting uplink information in a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) wireless communication system. The method includes determining whether Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information indicating whether or not downlink data has been received exists to be transmitted, if uplink data exists to be transmitted; multiplexing the uplink data and control information for the uplink data and transmitting multiplexed data including the uplink data and the control information, through a frequency resource allocated for the uplink data, if no ACK/NACK information exists; and multiplexing the uplink data, the control information for the uplink data, and the ACK/NACK information, and transmitting multiplexed data through the frequency resource allocated for the uplink data, if the ACK/NACK information exists. The ACK/NACK information is located adjacent to a pilot for the uplink data. | 05-22-2014 |
20140153492 | INDEXING RESOURCES FOR TRANSMISSION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS IN MULTI-CELL TDD COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to determine a set of resources available for transmitting an acknowledgement signal in an UpLink (UL) Component Carrier (CC) in response to reception of multiple DownLink (DL) Scheduling Assignments (SAs) transmitted from a base station with each DL SA being associated with a respective DL CC. The UL CC and a first DL CC establish a communication link when the UE is configured for communication over a single UL CC and a single DL CC. | 06-05-2014 |
20140160916 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING CODE RESOURCES TO UPLINK ACK/NACK CHANNELS IN A CELLULAR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for allocating code resources to ACK/NACK channel indexes, when UEs need ACK/NACK transmission in a wireless communication system in which a predetermined number of orthogonal cover Walsh codes is selected from among available orthogonal cover Walsh codes, at least one subset is formed, having the selected orthogonal cover Walsh codes arranged in an ascending order of cross interference, subsets are selected for use in first and second slots of a subframe, and the orthogonal cover Walsh codes of the subset selected for each slot and ZC sequence cyclic shift values are allocated to the ACK/NACK channel indexes. | 06-12-2014 |
20140161094 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus and for transmitting downlink Hybrid Automatic Repeat request (HARQ) information in a wireless communication system are provided. In the method, at least one Physical Resource Block (PRB) for transmitting a Physical HARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) signal is set among all PRBs forming an available frequency band. A PHICH resource is determined within the set at least one PRB. A PHICH signal is transmitted using the determined PHICH resource. | 06-12-2014 |
20140177572 | TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION OVER A DATA CHANNEL OR OVER A CONTROL CHANNEL - Methods and apparatus are described for User Equipment (UE) to concurrently transmit Uplink Control Information (UCI) and data information to a Node B. The Node B can configure the UE to transmit UCI together with data information in a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) or separate from data information in a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH). The UE may also determine whether to transmit UCI together with data information in the PUSCH or separate from data information in the PUCCH based on criteria involving a ratio of PUSCH resources for UCI transmission over the total PUSCH resources, a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) for the data information, an absolute power difference between PUCCH and PUSCH transmissions, whether the PUSCH transmission uses frequency hopping, and/or whether spatial multiplexing is used for the data transmission. | 06-26-2014 |
20140219228 | METHODS FOR POWER HEADROOM REPORTING, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, AND POWER CONTROL - Methods and apparatuses are provided for reporting power headroom for a UE. At least one of power control information associated with a PUSCH transmission in a subframe and power control information associated with a PUCCH transmission in the subframe is received. One of a first power headroom information and a second power headroom information is conditionally generated. One of the first power headroom information and the second power headroom information is conditionally transmitted. If the UE transmits the PUSCH without the PUCCH in the subframe, the second power headroom information is generated by subtracting the transmit power for the PUSCH transmission and a transmit power for a PUCCH from the maximum transmit power of the UE in the subframe based on the power control information associated with the PUSCH transmission and power control information associated with the latest PUCCH transmission. | 08-07-2014 |
20140233501 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION TO RANDOMIZE INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting control information in an SC-FDMA system. A UE determines cyclic shift values for SC-FDMA symbols. The UE acquires cyclic shift sequences by the cyclic shift values. The UE applies the cyclic shift sequences to the control information on an SC-FDMA symbol basis. The control information applied with the cyclic shift sequences in the SC-FDMA symbols is transmitted to a Node B | 08-21-2014 |
20140233506 | TRANSMISSION DIVERSITY AND MULTIPLEXING FOR HARQ-ACK SIGNALS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit in a control channel ACKnowledgement signals associated with a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest process (HARQ-ACK signals) in response to receiving Transport Blocks (TBs) transmitted from a base station. The UE conveys the HARQ-ACK information by selecting one resource from multiple resources in the control channel and by selecting a constellation point of the modulation scheme for the HARQ-ACK signal. Transmission diversity is supported using different control channel resources that are already available to the UE without configuring additional resources. Design principles are described to optimally map the HARQ-ACK information to control channel resources and modulation constellation points for a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system and for a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) system. | 08-21-2014 |
20140269596 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DOWNLINK CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting channel state information (CSI) by a user equipment in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving a CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) for measuring a state of a downlink channel and a CSI feedback-related configuration from a base station (BS); determining a channel quality indication (CQI) for at least one transmission point and control information for determining a CQI for multiple transmission points, based on the received CSI-RS and CSI feedback-related configuration; and transmitting the determined CQI for the at least one transmission point and control information to the BS. | 09-18-2014 |
20140269639 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DATA AND CONTROL INFORMATION THROUGH AN UPLINK IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting data and control information in a wireless communication system. The method include determining if the control information is to be transmitted via a data channel; and if the control information is to be transmitted in the data channel, determining a number of symbols for coded control information in consideration of the data, generating the coded control information based on the number of symbols for the coded control information, generating coded data based on an MCS for the data, multiplexing the coded data and the coded control information, modulating the multiplexed coded control information and coded data by a modulation scheme, performing FT on the modulated coded control information and coded data, performing IFT on the FTed coded control information and coded data based on sub-carrier mapping, and transmitting the IFTed coded control information and coded data via the data channel. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286176 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RADIO LINK MONITORING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for radio link monitoring in a wireless communication system are provided, in which a transmission point communicating with a network where a Base Station (BS) and at least one Remote Radio Head (RRH) coexist within a cell receives Reference Signal Configuration Information (RSCI) from the network to which the transmission point belongs, receives RSs of at least one RS type indicated by the received RSCI from the BS and the at least one RRH that coexist within the cell, and performs radio link monitoring using the received RSs of the at least one RS type. | 09-25-2014 |
20140286263 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING A REFERENCE SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a method for sending and receiving a reference signal for a backhaul subframe in a wireless communication system in which a relay is present and also to a device therefor, constituted in such a way that common reference signals for a plurality of receiving devices and reference signals dedicated to separate receiving devices are allocated dispersed in a subframe, and the common reference signals and the dedicated reference signals are generated and are sent and received via the subframe. The present invention can improve the channel estimation performance for subframes in a wireless communication system. In this way, communications efficiency in wireless communication systems can be improved. | 09-25-2014 |
20140307597 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRANSCEIVING OF PHYSICAL CHANNELS IN TIME DIVISION DUPLEX COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for controlling the transceiving of physical channels in a time division duplex (TDD) communication system. The method comprises: a step of determining whether a point of time of HARQ ACK/NACK transmission in component carrier #1 and a point of time of the transmission of another signal in component carrier #2 coupled with the component carrier #1 are overlapped with each other; and a step of preferentially transmitting or receiving a HARQ ACK/NACK signal when the points of time of transmission are overlapped with each other. Thus, the method and the apparatus of the present invention may prevent transceiving error or transmission delay of data or a control channel. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307671 | CONTROL AND DATA SIGNALING IN SC-FDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An apparatus is provided for receiving a signal in a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a signal including a reference signal, data information and acknowledgement information. The apparatus also includes a controller configured to control de-mapping the acknowledgement information that is mapped in first symbols in a slot of a subframe, the reference signal not being mapped to the first symbols and the first symbols being directly adjacent to a middle symbol in the slot, and de-mapping the data information that is mapped to remaining symbols in the slot. | 10-16-2014 |
20140321396 | CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REQUEST/FEEDBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for Channel State Information (CSI) feedback. An Uplink (UL) grant is received from a Node B. Information included in the UL grant is identified. If the information is mapped to at least one DownLink (DL) Component Carrier (CC) based on configuration information relating to at least one set including the at least one DL CC, at least one CSI corresponding to the at least one DL CC is generated. The generated at least one CSI is transmitted to the Node B. | 10-30-2014 |
20140321405 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A SINGLE CARRIER-FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting data in a subframe including two slots in a communication system. Resource allocation information is received at a UE. The UE determines a resource for data transmission based on the resource allocation information, whether hopping is enabled, whether mirroring is enabled, and whether hopping is intra-subframe and inter-subframe hopping or inter-subframe hopping. Data is transmitted via the determined resource from the UE to a Node B | 10-30-2014 |
20140348144 | TERMINAL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION TIMING RANDOMISATION METHOD AND DEVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a terminal signal transmission timing randomisation method and device in a wireless communication system, and the terminal signal transmission method in a wireless communication system of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, setting information for randomising transmission timing with respect to a signal transmitted by a terminal; determining the transmission timing for the signal in accordance with the setting information; and transmitting the signal to the base station in accordance with the determined transmission timing. | 11-27-2014 |
20140369298 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting Uplink Control Information (UCI) on a data channel in a multi-carrier wireless communication system. The method includes channel-coding a UCI with reference to a number of UCI bits available; dividing the channel coded UCI bits into a number of Physical Uplink Shared Channels (PUSCHs); and transmitting the UCI multiplexed with data on the individual PUSCHs. | 12-18-2014 |
20140376482 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method and device for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a cooperative communication system. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a macro base station, SRS resource information indicating transmission resources of an SRS to be transmitted by a user equipment (UE); transmitting the SRS and uplink data on the basis of a UE-specific SRS subframe configuration included in the SRS resource information when the SRS resource information includes information on the UE-specific SRS subframe configuration; and transmitting the SRS and the uplink data on the basis of a pre-stored cell-specific SRS subframe configuration when the SRS resource information does not include the information on the UE-specific SRS subframe configuration. When a destination of the SRS to be transmitted by the UE is selected as a base station related to the macro base station, the SRS resource information includes information on the UE-specific SRS subframe configuration of the base station selected as the destination of the SRS. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376485 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN DOWNLINK COORDINATED MULTI-POINT SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting and receiving CSI (Channel State Information). A CSI transmission method at a CoMP (Coordinated Multi-Point) device includes steps of receiving a CSI-RS (Reference Signal) from a plurality of transmission points, acquiring an optimal phase difference value causing an optimal channel quality between the plurality of transmission points, based on the CSI-RS, acquiring a CQI (Channel Quality Indicator), based on the optimal phase difference value, and transmitting the CSI including the CQI. According to an embodiment of the present invention, efficient CSI transmission/reception method and device can be provided in a CoMP system. | 12-25-2014 |
20150016395 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and UE apparatuses are provided for transmitting RSs. A method includes receiving a cell-specific sequence-hopping parameter; receiving a UE-specific sequence-hopping parameter; acquiring a first reference signal sequence for a PUSCH based on the UE-specific sequence-hopping parameter; acquiring a second reference signal sequence for a PUCCH based on the cell-specific sequence-hopping parameter; and transmitting at least one of a first reference signal and a second reference signal. Sequence hopping is not applied to acquire the first reference signal sequence when the cell-specific sequence-hopping parameter indicates that the sequence hopping is enabled and the UE-specific sequence-hopping parameter indicates that the sequence hopping is disabled, and sequence hopping is applied to acquire the second reference signal sequence when the cell-specific sequence-hopping parameter indicates that the sequence hopping is enabled and the UE-specific sequence-hopping parameter indicates that the sequence hopping is disabled. | 01-15-2015 |
20150023231 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCEIVING CHANNEL RELATED TO TERMINAL THAT SUPPORTS HALF DUPLEX TRANSMISSION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transceiving a channel related to a terminal that supports half duplex transmission in a mobile communication system. The terminal receives scheduling information on multi-carriers having different TDD configurations from a base station, determines whether to receive a downlink channel for a plurality of different subframes of each multi-carrier including at least one special subframe, and transceives a channel to/from the base station depending on whether the downlink channel is received or not. | 01-22-2015 |
20150043694 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS IN AN OFDM BASED CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting a synchronization signal for cell search in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communications system. The method includes identifying a primary synchronization sequence; identifying a secondary synchronization sequence associated with a cell identifier; mapping the primary synchronization sequence based on center subcarriers in a first OFDM symbol; mapping the secondary synchronization sequence based on the center subcarriers in a second OFDM symbol; transmitting the mapped primary synchronization sequence in the first OFDM symbol; and transmitting the mapped secondary synchronization sequence in the second OFDM symbol. The second OFDM symbol is adjacent to the first OFDM symbol, and the center subcarriers are part of a system bandwidth and a part of the center subcarriers is not used for mapping the secondary synchronization sequence. | 02-12-2015 |
20150049622 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL CHANNELS AND UPLINK DATA CHANNELS IN COMP SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink channel in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting an uplink channel of a terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving a downlink control message; extracting the starting point of a dynamic physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource region from the downlink control message; and transmitting an uplink channel according to the starting point of the extracted dynamic PUCCH resource region. An embodiment of the invention exhibits effects in reducing the signaling overhead, and preventing the terminal from unnecessarily consuming power, when transmitting the uplink channel in a CoMP system. | 02-19-2015 |
20150049729 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING ACKCH RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communication. A scheduling message including resource allocation information to allocate a resource for uplink transmission, is received. Data and a pilot are transmitted via the allocated resource for uplink transmission. An ACK/NACK resource is identified based on an index of the allocated resource for uplink transmission and information associated with the transmitted pilot. An ACK/NACK signal is received in response to the transmitted data using the identified ACK/NACK resource. | 02-19-2015 |
20150055643 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS IN SC-FDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving information symbols in a communication system are provided. A method includes determining a channel quality indicator (CQI); determining two acknowledgement bits in response to data reception; generating a first symbol based on the CQI; generating a second symbol based on the two acknowledgement bits; and transmitting the first symbol and the second symbol. A first code is applied to the second symbol, if the two acknowledgement bits have a first value, a second code is applied to the second symbol, if the two acknowledgement bits have a second value, a third code is applied to the second symbol, if the two acknowledgement bits have a third value, and a fourth code is applied to the second symbol, if the two acknowledgement bits have a fourth value. | 02-26-2015 |
20150078314 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PERIODIC CHANNEL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus in which a terminal transmits channel information for at least one serving cell to a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method for receiving periodic channel information by a base station in a wireless communication system includes determining whether to set a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) mode for allowing a terminal to periodically transmit a plurality of channel information to the base station in one sub-frame, transmitting PUSCH mode information including a result of the determination to the terminal, and receiving the plurality of channel information from the terminal using a PUSCH in the one sub-frame, according to the result of the determination. | 03-19-2015 |
20150085802 | EXTENSION OF PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL SIGNALING IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are provided for the transmission of physical downlink control signaling. In one method, a User Equipment (UE) receives information associated with a physical resource block (PRB) for enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) from a base station. Based on either first information received on physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) or second information received on higher layer signaling, the UE determines a starting orthogonal frequency division multiple (OFDM) symbol on which EPDCCH transmission starts. The UE receives control information on the EPDDCH based on the information associated with the PRB and the determined starting OFDM symbol. | 03-26-2015 |
20150092721 | TRANSMISSION OF SCHEDULING ASSIGNMENTS IN MULTIPLE OPERATING BANDWIDTHS - Methods and apparatuses are described for the transmission of Scheduling Assignments (SAs) from a base station to User Equipments (UEs) for data reception in the downlink or data transmission in the uplink of a communication system. A method for wireless communication includes receiving a scheduling assignment in a search space on a primary component carrier, the scheduling assignment including information indicating a component carrier on which data is transmitted; and receiving the data on the indicated component carrier. The search space for the primary component carrier is different from a search space for a secondary component carrier. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092726 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DATA AND CONTROL INFORMATION THROUGH AN UPLINK IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting data and control information in a wireless communication system. The method includes determining a number of symbols for control information based on a number of data bits and scheduled resources; generating coded control information based on the number of symbols for the control information; generating coded data based on a modulation scheme; multiplexing the coded data and the coded control information; modulating the multiplexed coded control information and coded data by the modulation scheme; and transmitting the modulated coded control information and coded data on a channel based on the scheduled resources. | 04-02-2015 |
20150094115 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK TRANSMISSION POWER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling an uplink transmission power in wireless communication system. Information is received indicating a reference downlink carrier among a plurality of downlink carriers for measuring a pathloss. The pathloss of the indicated reference downlink carrier is measured. A transmit power control (TPC) command is received. The uplink transmission power is determined based on the TPC command and the measured pathloss. Data is transmitted using the determined uplink transmission power. | 04-02-2015 |
20150098431 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A SINGLE CARRIER-FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting data. An index of a first resource block is obtained from a scheduling grant. A user equipment determines value related to hopping based on a sequence generated by cell specific information. The user equipment determines a value related to mirroring based on the sequence generated by the cell specific information. The user equipment determines a second resource block for uplink transmission by the index of the first resource block, the value related to hopping, and the value related to mirroring. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098433 | CONTROL AND DATA MULTIPLEXING IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communication. First offset information and second offset information are received. A scheduling assignment for transmitting uplink data is received. The uplink data is transmitted with at least one of acknowledgement/non-acknowledgment (ACK/NAK) information and channel quality information (CQI) on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). A number of symbols for the ACK/NACK information is determined based on the first offset information. A number of symbols for the CQI information is determined based on the second offset information. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106706 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OBJECT DISPLAY - An electronic device and a method for controlling an object display are provided. The method of controlling an object display includes displaying at least one input object on a screen, creating and storing property information of the at least one displayed object, creating a preview window in a region of the screen so as to display the at least one object on the preview window, and controlling a display of the object by using the property information of the at least one selected object in correspondence to the at least one displayed object. | 04-16-2015 |
20150117302 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING A CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE OF A RELAY NODE IN A BACKHAUL SUBFRAME - A method and apparatus for receiving control channel resources of a relay by the relay is provided. The method includes receiving resource information including a resource block assignment information related to resource blocks allocated to the relay; and receiving control channel according to the resource information. | 04-30-2015 |
20150117384 | UPLINK TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL IN MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for wireless communication by and in a base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE). The method by the UE includes determining a first power for transmitting both first data and control information on a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), determining a second power for transmitting second data on a second PUSCH, reducing the second power if a sum of the determined first power and the determined second power exceeds a predetermined value, and transmitting the first data and the control information on the first PUSCH using the determined first power, and transmitting the second data on the second PUSCH using the reduced second power. | 04-30-2015 |
20150139133 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL CHANNELS BY RESTRICTING A SET OF THE CONTROL CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting control information in a base station for a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving, from a terminal, a channel quality indicator (CQI); determining at least one control channel element (CCE) for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) based on the received CQI and an identifier (ID) of the terminal; and transmitting, to the terminal, control information on the PDCCH including the determined at least one CCE. A number of the at least one CCE is determined based on the CQI. | 05-21-2015 |
20150146763 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN UPLINK WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS AND SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL HOPPING - Disclosed is a sounding reference signal transmission method which is efficient in an uplink wireless telecommunications system using a multiple antenna technique and sounding reference signal hopping. A terminal is equipped with a plurality of antennas, and a base station receives the sounding reference signal transmitted from these antennas and estimates the uplink channel state of each antenna. The sounding reference signal performs frequency hopping so that the base station determines the channel condition for the entire bandwidth to which data is transmitted in the uplink system. In this environment, the sounding reference signal is transmitted through an antenna pattern through the entire data transmission bandwidth of the uplink system for each antenna of the terminal without additional overhead. | 05-28-2015 |
20150155988 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first parameter and a second parameter, which are cell specific parameters; receiving a third parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; acquiring the reference signal for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), based on the third parameter; and transmitting the reference signal on the PUSCH. Sequence hopping and group sequence hopping are disabled for the reference signal, regardless of values of the first parameter and the second parameter, if the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. The sequence hopping includes hopping between two sequences in a group, and the group sequence hopping includes hopping among different groups. | 06-04-2015 |
20150155989 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first parameter, which is a cell specific parameter; receiving a second parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; acquiring a reference signal for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), based on the second parameter; and transmitting the reference signal on the PUSCH. Group sequence hopping is not applied to acquire the reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled, and the group sequence hopping includes hopping among different groups. | 06-04-2015 |
20150155990 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first parameter, which is a cell specific parameter; receiving a second parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; acquiring a first reference signal for a PUSCH, based on the second parameter; acquiring a second reference signal for a PUCCH, based on the first parameter; and transmitting at least one of the first reference signal and the second reference signal. Group sequence hopping is not applied to acquire the first reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled. The group sequence hopping is applied to acquire the second reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled. | 06-04-2015 |
20150155991 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first parameter, which is a cell specific parameter; receiving a second parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; receiving a cyclic shift indicator (CSI) indicating a cyclic shift for a sequence and an orthogonal covering code; acquiring the reference signal for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), based on the CSI and the second parameter; and transmitting the reference signal on the PUSCH. Group sequence hopping is not applied to acquire the reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled. The first parameter includes a group hopping enabled parameter, and the group sequence hopping includes hopping among different groups. | 06-04-2015 |
20150155994 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first cell specific parameter; receiving a second UE specific parameter; receiving a CSI; acquiring a first reference signal for a PUSCH, based on the second parameter and the CSI; acquiring a second reference signal for a PUCCH, based on the first parameter; and transmitting at least one of the first reference signal and the second reference signal. Group sequence hopping is not applied to acquire the first reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled. The group sequence hopping is applied to acquire the second reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled. | 06-04-2015 |
20150155995 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes transmitting a first parameter and a second parameter, which are cell specific parameters; transmitting a third parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; transmitting a CSI; and receiving at least one of a first reference signal, which is generated based on the CSI, for a PUSCH and a second reference signal for a PUCCH. The first reference signal is generated by not applying sequence hopping and group sequence hopping, regardless of values of the first parameter and the second parameter, if the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. The second reference signal is generated by applying the group sequence hopping, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. | 06-04-2015 |
20150162951 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving first and second cell specific parameters; receiving a third UE specific parameter; acquiring a first reference signal for a PUSCH, based on the third parameter; acquiring a second reference signal for a PUCCH, based on the first parameter; and transmitting at least one of the first reference signal and the second reference signal. Sequence hopping and group sequence hopping are disabled for the first reference signal, regardless of values of the first parameter and the second parameter, if the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. The group sequence hopping is applied to acquire the second reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163005 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION TO RANDOMIZE INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving information. A User Equipment (UE) obtains a sequence based on a Zadoff-Chu sequence and e | 06-11-2015 |
20150163006 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION TO RANDOMIZE INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving information. A User Equipment (UE) receives information related to a cyclic shift value α transmitted from a Node B. The UE obtains a reference sequence based on a Zadoff-Chu sequence and e | 06-11-2015 |
20150163030 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first parameter and a second parameter, which are cell specific parameters; receiving a third parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; receiving a cyclic shift indicator (CSI) indicating a cyclic shift for a sequence and an orthogonal covering code; acquiring the reference signal for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), based on the third parameter and the CSI; and transmitting the reference signal on the PUSCH. Sequence hopping and group sequence hopping are disabled for the reference signal, regardless of values of the first parameter and the second parameter, if the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. The sequence hopping includes hopping between two sequences in a group, and the group sequence hopping includes hopping among different groups. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163779 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION TO RANDOMIZE INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving information. A User Equipment (UE) receives information for a cyclic shift value and information for an orthogonal sequence transmitted from a Node B. The cyclic shift value is defined per Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbol and the orthogonal sequence is defined per slot. The UE obtains a reference sequence based on the cyclic shift value and the orthogonal sequence. The UE transmits the reference sequence in a SC-FDMA symbol to the Node B. The SC-FDMA symbol is predefined among a plurality of SC-FDMA symbols in a slot of a subframe. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163796 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION TO RANDOMIZE INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving information. A User Equipment (UE) identifies first information for a cyclic shift value, transmitted from a Node B. The UE identifies second information for the cyclic shift value, transmitted from the Node B. The UE obtains a sequence based on a Zadoff-Chu sequence and the cyclic shift value defined based on the first information and the second information. The UE transmits the sequence in a Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbol to the Node B. The SC-FDMA symbol is predefined among a plurality of SC-FDMA symbols in a slot of a subframe. | 06-11-2015 |
20150180624 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION TO RANDOMIZE INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving information. A User Equipment (UE) identifies a sequence based on a Zadoff-Chu sequence and e | 06-25-2015 |
20150208405 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING UPLINK CHANNEL SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting uplink control information by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The uplink control information is transmitted in a sub-frame comprising a first slot and a second slot by applying a first orthogonal sequence in the first slot and a second orthogonal sequence in the second slot. A reference signal is transmitted in the first slot. A length of the first orthogonal sequence is shorter than a length of the second orthogonal sequence. | 07-23-2015 |
20150215020 | ANTENNA ALLOCATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CELLULAR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for communicating with a terminal of a base station in a mobile communication system. Configuration information on a plurality of antenna ports of reference signals (RSs) which comprise first type antenna ports and second type antenna ports, is transmitted. Status information for at least one antenna port of an RS among the plurality of antenna ports of the RSs, is received. At least one indicator indicating at least one selected antenna port of an RS is transmitted based on the status information. The terminal is communicated with using the at least one selected antenna port of the RS. The first type antenna ports are for a centralized antenna and the second type antenna ports are for a distributed antenna | 07-30-2015 |
20150230218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING AND ACQUIRING ACK/NACK RESOURCES IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for receiving ACK/NACK information by a base station. The method includes transmitting data and control information to at least one UE, the control information being transmitted on a downlink control channel including at least one CCE; transmitting information related to cyclic shift values of a sequence used for transmission of the ACK/NACK information in an RB, wherein the ACK/NACK information and CQI are multiplexed in the RB; checking a resource for reception of ACK/NACK information mapped to the at least one CCE based on the information related to cyclic shift values and a mapping rule between CCEs and a resource for reception of the ACK/NACK information, wherein the resource for reception of the ACK/NACK information is identified by a cyclic shift index, an orthogonal sequence index, and a resource block index; and receiving the ACK/NACK information for the transmitted data using the checked resource. | 08-13-2015 |
20150230229 | TRANSMISSION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS FROM A USER EQUIPMENT FOR ORTHOGONAL RECEPTION AT MULTIPLE POINTS - Methods and user equipment (UE) apparatuses are provided to transmit a control signal using a first sequence or a second sequence, in response to a detected control channel. A method includes determining a first resource for the control signal transmission from a sum of a lowest control channel element (CCE) index of the detected control channel and a first offset, if the UE is not configured to use the second sequence by higher layer signaling; determining a second resource for the control signal transmission from a sum of the lowest CCE index of the detected control channel and a second offset, if the UE is configured to use the second sequence by the higher layer signaling; and transmitting the control signal in the first resource or in the second resource. | 08-13-2015 |
20150289274 | CONTROL SIGNALING FOR TRANSMISSIONS OVER CONTIGUOUS AND NON-CONTIGUOUS FREQUENCY BANDS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for communication between a UE and a Node B in a communication system. The UE receives a control signal including one bit of frequency hopping information, a resource allocation type, a resource allocation, and a cyclic shift for a reference signal from the Node B. It is determined that the frequency hopping information is used as a part of resource allocation information, if the resource allocation type indicates that two sets of resource blocks are allocated. The UE transmits data based on the frequency hopping information, the resource allocation type, and the resource allocation included in the control signal. Each of the resource blocks comprises one or more resource block groups, and a size of each resource block group is determined based on an uplink bandwidth. | 10-08-2015 |
20150304006 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN UPLINK WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS AND SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL HOPPING - Disclosed is a sounding reference signal transmission method which is efficient in an uplink wireless telecommunications system using a multiple antenna technique and sounding reference signal hopping. A terminal is equipped with a plurality of antennas, and a base station receives the sounding reference signal transmitted from these antennas and estimates the uplink channel state of each antenna. The sounding reference signal performs frequency hopping so that the base station determines the channel condition for the entire bandwidth to which data is transmitted in the uplink system. In this environment, the sounding reference signal is transmitted through an antenna pattern through the entire data transmission bandwidth of the uplink system for each antenna of the terminal without additional overhead. | 10-22-2015 |
20150305018 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A SINGLE CARRIER-FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method are provided for transmitting data by a UE in a communication system using SC-FDMA. The method includes receiving resource information from a Node B; determining a hopping parameter; determining a mirroring parameter using a random sequence for a cell; determining a resource for data transmission based on the received resource information; and transmitting the data using the resource for data transmission. Hopping and mirroring are performed at a slot. | 10-22-2015 |
20150326367 | TRANSMISSION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting a set of acknowledgement (ACK) bits, by a user equipment (UE). A first subset of ACK bits is transmitted. A second subset of ACK bits is transmitted. The first subset of ACK bits is a response to a reception of one or more scheduling assignments (SAs) for a first cell group, and the second subset of ACK bits is a response to a reception of one or more SAs for a second cell group. The first subset of ACK bits is different from the second subset of ACK bits. A union of the first subset of ACK bits and the second subset of ACK bits is the set of ACK bits that the UE transmits in a subframe. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326368 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING UPLINK SIGNALING INFORMATION IN A SINGLE CARRIER FDMA SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus method are provided for transmitting uplink information including acknowledgement information in a wireless communication system. The method includes coding uplink data and the acknowledgement information by using different coding schemes respectively; multiplexing the coded uplink data and the coded acknowledgement information into the uplink information; and transmitting the uplink information using resources, wherein some of the uplink data is transmitted based on a first resource and the acknowledgment information is transmitted based on a second resource, and wherein the first and second resources are adjacent to each other with respect to a time domain. | 11-12-2015 |
20150333872 | TRANSMISSION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS - Methods are described for a Node B to transmit and for a User Equipment (UE) to receive ACKnowledgement (ACK) information associated with the use of Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ), also known as HARQ-ACK signaling, in a communication system that includes multiple downlink component carriers or multiple uplink component carriers. An HARQ-ACK signal to a UE is in response to a data packet transmission from the UE and may consist of 2 information bits when the UE has 2 or more transmitter antennas. The HARQ-ACK signal is always located in the same downlink component carrier as the scheduling assignment resulting to the data packet transmission from the UE. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334690 | EXTENSION OF PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL SIGNALING IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are provided for the transmission of physical downlink control signaling. In one method, a User Equipment (UE) receives information associated with a physical resource block (PRB) for enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) from a base station. Based on either first information received on physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) or second information received on higher layer signaling, the UE determines a starting orthogonal frequency division multiple (OFDM) symbol on which EPDCCH transmission starts. The UE receives control information on the EPDDCH based on the information associated with the PRB and the determined starting OFDM symbol. | 11-19-2015 |
20150349941 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING OF HARQ-ACK TRANSMISSION IN TDD SYSTEMS WITH DOWNLINK CARRIER AGGREGATION - Methods and apparatus are provided for a User Equipment (UE) configured with multiple cells in a DownLink (DL) of a Time Division Duplex (TDD) communication system to determine the coding method for acknowledgement information bits as a function of their number, to apply bundling to the acknowledgement information bits when their number exceeds a first predetermined value, and to partition the acknowledgement information bits, possibly together with other control information bits, into two separate codewords when their total number exceeds a second predetermined value. | 12-03-2015 |
20150358107 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEQUENCE HOPPING IN SINGLE CARRIER FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (SC-FDMA) COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting a signal using a sequence in a wireless communication system. A first sequence used to transmit a first signal in a first channel is determined by performing group-hopping using a pseudo-random pattern over a first group of sequences. A second sequence used to transmit a second signal in a second channel is determined by performing the group-hopping using the pseudo-random pattern over a second group of sequences. | 12-10-2015 |
20150365944 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses are provided for receiving system information by a user equipment (UE). System information including first partial bits of a system frame number (SFN) and bandwidth information are received at a first subframe of a radio frame. The system information is identical during a broadcast channel transmission period. Second partial bits of the SFN are acquired having a different value in each of radio frames within the broadcast channel transmission period. | 12-17-2015 |
20160028511 | HARQ-ACK SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN RESPONSE TO DETECTION OF CONTROL CHANNEL TYPE IN CASE OF MULTIPLE CONTROL CHANNEL TYPES - Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communications. Configuration information including a resource start offset and information for a transmission type of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) are transmitted. Downlink control information (DCI) is transmitted to a user equipment (UE) using at least one antenna port of a base station on the EPDCCH using at least one of control channel elements (CCEs). A resource of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is determined based on a first CCE of the at least one of CCE, information in the DCI, and the resource start offset in the configuration information, if the transmission type of the EPDCCH is distributed transmission. A hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal is received on the determined resource. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028524 | TRANSMISSION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS FROM A USER EQUIPMENT FOR ORTHOGONAL RECEPTION AT MULTIPLE POINTS - Methods and user equipment (UE) apparatuses are provided to transmit an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ack/nack) signal. A method includes receiving configuration information through higher layer signaling; determining a first resource or a second resource based on the received configuration information; transmitting the ack/nack signal using a first sequence on the first resource, if the first resource is determined; and transmitting the ack/nack signal using a second sequence on the second resource, if the second resource is determined. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028525 | TRANSMISSION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNALS FROM A USER EQUIPMENT FOR ORTHOGONAL RECEPTION AT MULTIPLE POINTS - Methods and user equipment (UE) apparatuses are provided to transmit a control signal using a first sequence or a second sequence in response to a detected control channel. The method includes identifying, through higher layer signaling, a configuration; determining a resource for control signal transmission from a sum of a lowest control channel element (CCE) index of the detected control channel and either a first offset or a second offset based on the identified configuration; and transmitting the control signal in the resource using the first sequence or the second sequence. | 01-28-2016 |
20160029309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A TERMINAL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for optimizing the power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method for optimizing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: a determination step of determining whether there is a need for changing a configuration for a discontinuous reception operation of the terminal; and a transmission step of transmitting, to a base station, a request message for a change in the discontinuous reception operation, if it is determined that the change is needed. | 01-28-2016 |
20160029310 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A TERMINAL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for optimizing the power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method for optimizing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: a determination step of determining whether there is a need for changing a configuration for a discontinuous reception operation of the terminal; and a transmission step of transmitting, to a base station, a request message for a change in the discontinuous reception operation, if it is determined that the change is needed. | 01-28-2016 |
20160029317 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A TERMINAL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for optimizing the power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method for optimizing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: a determination step of determining whether there is a need for changing a configuration for a discontinuous reception operation of the terminal; and a transmission step of transmitting, to a base station, a request message for a change in the discontinuous reception operation, if it is determined that the change is needed. | 01-28-2016 |
20160029365 | HARQ-ACK SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN RESPONSE TO DETECTION OF CONTROL CHANNEL TYPE IN CASE OF MULTIPLE CONTROL CHANNEL TYPES - Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communications. Configuration information including a resource start offset is received. Downlink control information (DCI) is received on an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) using at least one of control channel elements (CCEs). The DCI includes a resource offset for a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback. A resource of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is determined based on a first CCE of the CCEs, the resource offset in the DCI, and the resource start offset in the configuration information. A HARQ-ACK signal is transmitted on the PUCCH using the determined resource to a base station. | 01-28-2016 |
20160029366 | HARQ-ACK SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN RESPONSE TO DETECTION OF CONTROL CHANNEL TYPE IN CASE OF MULTIPLE CONTROL CHANNEL TYPES - Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communications. Configuration information including a resource start offset is received. Downlink control information (DCI), transmitted using a first antenna port of a base station on an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) using at least one of control channel elements (CCEs), is received. A resource of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is determined based on a first CCE of the at least one of CCEs, the first antenna port, information in the DCI, and the resource start offset in the configuration information, if a transmission type of the EPDCCH is localized transmission. A hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal is transmitted on the resource to the base station. | 01-28-2016 |
20160029367 | HARQ-ACK SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN RESPONSE TO DETECTION OF CONTROL CHANNEL TYPE IN CASE OF MULTIPLE CONTROL CHANNEL TYPES - Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communications. Configuration information including a resource start offset and information for a transmission type of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) are received. Downlink control information (DCI), transmitted using at least one antenna port of a base station on the EPDCCH using at least one of control channel elements (CCEs), are received. A resource of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is determined based on a first CCE of the at least one of CCEs, information in the DCI, and the resource start offset in the configuration information if the transmission type of the EPDCCH is distributed transmission. A hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) signal is transmitted on the resource to the base station. | 01-28-2016 |
20160037451 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A TERMINAL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for optimizing the power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method for optimizing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: a determination step of determining whether there is a need for changing a configuration for a discontinuous reception operation of the terminal; and a transmission step of transmitting, to a base station, a request message for a change in the discontinuous reception operation, if it is determined that the change is needed. | 02-04-2016 |
20160043845 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING A REFERENCE SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a method for sending and receiving a reference signal for a backhaul subframe in a wireless communication system in which a relay is present and also to a device therefor, constituted in such a way that common reference signals for a plurality of receiving devices and reference signals dedicated to separate receiving devices are allocated dispersed in a subframe, and the common reference signals and the dedicated reference signals are generated and are sent and received via the subframe. The present invention can improve the channel estimation performance for subframes in a wireless communication system. In this way, communications efficiency in wireless communication systems can be improved. | 02-11-2016 |
20160043851 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING A CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE OF A RELAY NODE IN A BACKHAUL SUBFRAME - A method and apparatus for configuring a control channel between a first transceiver and a second transceiver in a communication system are provided. The method includes generating, by the first transceiver, a signaling message including information for the control channel; transmitting, by the first transceiver, the signaling message including information for the control channel to the second transceiver; generating, by the first transceiver, the control channel based on the information for the control channel; and transmitting, by the first transceiver, the generated control channel to the second transceiver, wherein the information for the control channel includes resource assignment information, reference signal information, and information related to at least one of a localized type and a distributed type. | 02-11-2016 |
20160050713 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A TERMINAL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for optimizing the power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method for optimizing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: a determination step of determining whether there is a need for changing a configuration for a discontinuous reception operation of the terminal; and a transmission step of transmitting, to a base station, a request message for a change in the discontinuous reception operation, if it is determined that the change is needed. | 02-18-2016 |
20160057757 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING FEATURES OF UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting a DM RS associated with a PUSCH in a communication system. The method includes allocating a CS for a DM RS of a UE, and an OCC; transmitting DCI including a plurality of IEs over PDCCHs, where each of the plurality of IEs respectively includes information indicating the CS for the DM RS and the OCC; and receiving, from the UE, the DM RS associated with the PUSCH. A DM-RS sequence is acquired based on the CS for the DM RS and the OCC identified from the information indicating the CS for the DM RS and the OCC, the CS is a value for determining a cyclic shift of a reference sequence, and the CS corresponds to a predetermined OCC, and the information indicating the CS for the DM RS and the OCC consists of 3 bits. | 02-25-2016 |