Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090201889 | INTEGRATED SCHEDULING OF UNICAST AND MULTICAST TRAFFIC IN RELAY-ENABLED WIRELESS NETWORKS - A wireless network with integrated scheduling of unicast and multicast users in a relay-enabled two-hop wireless network is disclosed. In this system, users with finite buffers are considered and scheduled over multiple channels in an OFDMA-based wireless network. The gain-specific and efficient scheduling system helps leverage diversity and spatial reuse gains from these networks. The system is applicable to both unicast and multicast traffic and leverages diversity and spatial reuse gains simultaneously to optimize the target network with both unicast and multicast flows. The integrated scheduling system strikes a good balance in delivering efficient performance to unicast and multicast flows. | 08-13-2009 |
20090310783 | Controlled Dissemination of Information in Mobile Networks - The present invention discloses systems and methods for controlled dissemination of information in mobile networks using encrypted broadcasts that are decrypted at the device. An encryption key is generated corresponding to a particular category or granularity of information. The information is encrypted before it is broadcast to the sector. A user within the sector sends a key request across the network, in response to which the encryption key is sent to the user. The user can decrypt the encrypted information received in the broadcast. Additionally, a credit-checking mechanism may be employed to ensure that the user has sufficient credit to purchase the key. In one embodiment, the information to be disseminated is divided into a plurality of categories, wherein each category corresponds to a granularity of information. The encryption key is one in a set of encryption keys, each of said set of encryption keys being assigned to a particular hierarchical level corresponding to a particular granularity of information. | 12-17-2009 |
20100046414 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LEVERAGING SPATIAL REUSE IN OFDMA RELAY NETWORKS - Systems and methods for scheduling transmission that leverages both diversity and spatial reuse gains in the presence of finite user buffers in a two-hop wireless relay setting are disclosed. The system includes partitioning a set of relays to enable spatial reuse while accounting for half-duplex nature of relays, and assigning and reusing of channels to the relays (and associated users) in the two partitions to maximize the aggregate system throughput while ensuring proportional fairness. | 02-25-2010 |
20100054143 | UPLINK CONNECTIVITY FOR MOBILE CLIENTS - Methods and apparatus are provided for uplink connectivity for mobile clients. An apparatus in a mobile client includes an antenna for transmitting and receiving wireless signals, and an uplink connectivity manager for dividing an uplink transmission for each client location into an exploration phase and an operational phase. | 03-04-2010 |
20100056059 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING IN INDOOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methods are disclosed for transmitting signals between a transmitter and a receiver by differentially estimating channel coefficients for each of the antenna elements relative to a reference antenna element; determining beam weights to remove oscillator induced phase or offset; and applying a correction (beamforming solution) at the transmitter to make the phase of the received signal from different antenna elements to be coherently combined at the receiver. | 03-04-2010 |
20100118827 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATION OF MACRO CELL RESOURCES IN A DISTRIBUTED FEMTO CELL NETWORK AND A DISTRIBUTED RELAY STATION NETWORK - Methods and systems for reusing macro cell resources in femto cell base stations or relay stations in a non-collaborative manner are disclosed. In addition, orthogonal resource allocation between a macro cell base station and femto cell base stations/relay stations may be dynamically adjusted by considering user-population variance. Moreover, an additional level of spatial reuse by femto cell base stations or relay stations can be provided by employing macro cell user location information. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118996 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LOCATION-BASED ALLOCATION OF MACRO CELL RESOURCES - Methods and systems for reusing macro cell resources in femto cell base stations or relay stations in a non-collaborative manner are disclosed. In addition, orthogonal resource allocation between a macro cell base station and femto cell base stations/relay stations may be dynamically adjusted by considering user-population variance. Moreover, an additional level of spatial reuse by femto cell base stations or relay stations can be provided by employing macro cell user location information. | 05-13-2010 |
20100238851 | OPTIMAL BEAM SCHEDULING FOR MULTICASTING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methods are disclosed to partition a multicast group into a plurality of partitions where each partition has a mutually exclusive subset of users or clients; scheduling beam transmission with switched beamforming antennas; and performing the multicast transmission in accordance with the beam scheduling. | 09-23-2010 |
20100285752 | BEAMFORMING METHODS AND SYSTEMS EMPLOYING MEASURED POWER AT A RECEIVER TO PERFORM CHANNEL ESTIMATION - Beamforming methods and systems are described in which differential channel estimation can be computed based on measured power at receiver. Simultaneous activation of antennas in separate pairs can be used to determine relative phases of antennas with respect to a reference antenna based on the power measurements. In turn, the beam forming signals can be weighted in accordance with the relative phases to adapt the signals to a multipath environment. Existing power measurement capabilities of conventional receivers can be employed to achieve approximate channel estimates. | 11-11-2010 |
20110199913 | MULTICAST SCHEDULING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LEVERAGING COOPERATION GAINS IN RELAY NETWORKS - Methods and systems for transmitting multicast data in a wireless relay network are described. A tradeoff between the benefits of relay cooperation and session multiplexing can be addressed through careful association of relay stations for resource allocation purposes to maximize the total system throughput. In addition, various complex and greedy scheduling procedures that are based on the distributed pet mutation model and the contiguous permutation model are also described. | 08-18-2011 |
20110279321 | Wireless Multicasting with Beamforming Antennas - A method for wireless multicasting with beamforming includes dividing single lobe beam patterns into groups, each group being a composite beam pattern, the dividing being according to one of an equal power partition configuration and an asymmetric power partition configuration; and transmitting the information with the composite beam pattern. | 11-17-2011 |
20120026932 | High Performance and Low Complexity Scheduling Method for Adaptive Resource Usage in OFDMA Wireless Relay Networks - A method for scheduling transmissions in wireless network includes receiving information ranging from conventional data to real-time streaming applications into a basestation of an OFDMA wireless relay network and scheduling transmission of the information from the basestation by influencing adaptive frame segmentation and access hop reuse in the transmission of the information for achieving higher transmission flow of the information, Where the scheduling is formulated as an integer program, the scheduling includes solving a linear programming relaxation of the integer program and rounding to integral allocations with allocation to at least one of a subset of wireless users and subsets of relays in the network for obtaining frame segmentation and reuse. Where the scheduling is formulated by following a bisection approach to guide adaptation of the frame segmentation, the scheduling determines a subset of users with maximum flow per unit resource for a given frame segmentation and the resulting flow from current and previous scheduling being used to guide adaptation of frame segmentation towards convergence. | 02-02-2012 |
20120087419 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS BASED ON POWER MEASUREMENT AT RECEIVERS - Methods and systems that enable the determination of accurate channel estimates by measuring only power values of pilot signal transmissions at a receiver are described. Various measurement procedures that are based on average power measurements or short term, per-symbol measurements can be employed. Furthermore, procedures utilizing adaptive pilots generated with receiver feedback and deterministic pilots generated without receiver feedback are also described. | 04-12-2012 |
20120131632 | VIDEO MULTICAST SCHEDULING - Methods and systems for scheduling multicast transmissions that includes scheduling layered data for one or more multicast transmissions across a plurality of sub-channels using multi-resolution modulation. The sub-channels for each transmission may have diverse or uniform capacities. Scheduling includes allocating sub-channels to the layers of the layered data. | 05-24-2012 |
20120147790 | Method for a Canceling Self Interference Signal Using Active Noise Cancellation in RF Circuits and Transmission Lines for Full Duplex Simultaneous (In Time) and Overlapping (In Space) Wireless Transmission & Reception on the Same Frequency band - A method for full duplex communication includes creating a canceling self interference signal using active noise cancelation in RF circuits and transmission lines with a plurality of receive antennas being used and a signal received by the antennas are destructively combined in the transmission lines and passive RF components, and attaining full-duplex simultaneous in time and overlapping in space wireless transmission and reception on same frequency band responsive to the step of creating a canceling self interference signal. | 06-14-2012 |
20120154249 | METHOD FOR ANTENNA CANCELLATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A method for antenna cancellation including placing a transmit antenna and its tandem transmit antenna in one line being a transmit antenna line, and placing a receive antenna and its tandem receive antenna in another line being a receive antenna line so that the transmit antenna and receive antenna lines are orthogonal and the transmit antenna line being the bisector of the line segment between the receive antenna and its tandem and the receive antenna line being the bisector of the line segment between the transmit antenna and its tandem antenna. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155335 | Method for a Canceling Self Interference Signal Using Active Noise Cancellation in the Air for Full Duplex Simultaneous (In Time) and Overlapping (In Space) Wireless Transmission & Reception on the Same Frequency band - A method for full duplex communication includes creating a canceling self interference signal using active noise cancelation in the air by using a plurality of transmit antennas and feeding the plurality of antennas with an RF signal in so that part of said RF signal is destructively combined at a receive antenna, and attaining full-duplex simultaneous in time and overlapping in space wireless transmission and reception on same frequency band responsive to the step of creating a canceling self interference signal. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155336 | Method For A canceling Self Interference Signal Using Passive Noise Cancellation For Full-Duplex Simultaneous (in Time) and Overlapping (In Space) Wireless transmission and Reception On The Same Frequency Band - A method for full duplex communication that includes creating a canceling self interference signal using a passive noise cancellation, and attaining full-duplex simultaneous in time and overlapping in space wireless transmission and reception on same frequency band responsive to the step of creating a canceling self interference signal. | 06-21-2012 |
20120230267 | FEMTOCELL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION - Methods and systems for managing resources in femtocells are disclosed. One method includes transmitting at least one frame including a first zone of resources on which a set of base stations including at least one femtocell base station and base stations that are adjacent to the femtocell base station implement transmission of signals to impose interference. The one or more frames further includes a second zone dedicated for measuring throughput of mobile stations served by the femtocell base station without interference. The mobile stations are categorized by determining throughputs of the mobile stations with interference based on the transmission of signals on the first zone. Resources of at least one additional frame are configured based on the categorization. Further, the additional frame(s) are transmitted in a cell of the femtocell base station in accordance with the configuration. | 09-13-2012 |
20120322454 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR DISTRIBUTED OFDMA FEMTOCELL NETWORKS - Systems and methods for resource management in distributed femtocell networks include categorizing a clients into a first category that includes interference-insensitive clients and a second category that includes interference-sensitive clients and sub-categorizing the clients in the second category into a low-sensitivity sub-category and a high-sensitivity sub-category. A desired local reuse zone is determined based on a number of interference-insensitive clients and a common reuse zone size is determined based on transmissions from neighboring base stations. Positions for a local reuse zone, transition zone, and isolation zone within a frame are allocated based on the desired local reuse zone and the common reuse zone size. Probing is used on a coarse time scale to determine whether network conditions have changed and, if network conditions have changed, a fine time scale is used for probing to adjust zone sizes according to the changed network conditions. | 12-20-2012 |
20130039335 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATION OF MACRO CELL RESOURCES IN A DISTRIBUTED FEMTO CELL NETWORK AND A DISTRIBUTED RELAY STATION NETWORK - Methods and systems for reusing macro cell resources in femto cell base stations or relay stations in a non-collaborative manner are disclosed. In addition, orthogonal resource allocation between a macro cell base station and femto cell base stations/relay stations may be dynamically adjusted by considering user-population variance. Moreover, an additional level of spatial reuse by femto cell base stations or relay stations can be provided by employing macro cell user location information. | 02-14-2013 |
20130064218 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATION OF MACRO CELL RESOURCES IN A DISTRIBUTED FEMTO CELL NETWORK AND A DISTRIBUTED RELAY STATION NETWORK - A method implemented in a wireless network including a first base station and a second base station is disclosed. The method includes, upon a change in a load condition, transmitting from the second base station to the first base station load information through backhaul in order to coordinate the first base station and the second base station, allocating, to the second base station, one or more tiles corresponding to one or more time-frequency resource blocks of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), and allocating remaining tiles to the first base station. Other methods and apparatuses are also disclosed. | 03-14-2013 |
20130121195 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATING BATCH SCHEDULING WITH EXTERNAL BEAMFORMING - Methods and systems for simultaneous determination of channel resource allocations and beam vectors for uplink frames are disclosed. One method includes receiving batch information from client devices indicating amounts of data to be transmitted on the uplink by the client devices. Further, signal quality can be measured on channel resources for each of the client devices and for each of a plurality of beam vectors. Additionally, rate information for the channel resources for each of the client devices is determined based on signal quality measurements. Moreover, the method includes computing, based on the batch information and the rate information, utilities for allocations of the channel resources to the client devices and for the beam vectors for at least one uplink frame and selecting, based on the utilities, at least one of the beam vectors and at least one of the allocations for transmission of the data on the uplink frame(s). | 05-16-2013 |
20130155912 | Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Wireless Communications with Full Duplex Radios - An apparatus used in a full duplex multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications system is disclosed. In an aspect, the apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, each of which is connected to a combination of at least a TX (transmit) RF (radio frequency) chain and an RX (receive) RF chain. The plurality of antennas are split into one or more transmit antennas and one or more receive antennas, and the apparatus communicates with another apparatus. Other apparatuses and some methods for wireless communications also are disclosed. | 06-20-2013 |
20130170533 | Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission - In a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system supporting Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission and having a first base station, a second base station, and a user equipment, a communications method implemented in the first base station is disclosed. In an aspect, the communications method includes exchanging, with the second base station through local information exchange, first information about a first channel between the first base station and the user equipment and second information about a second channel between the second base station and the user equipment, and computing at least one of a precoding matrix, a receiver filter, and a projection matrix, wherein the user equipment estimates the first information and the second information, and shares the first information and the second information with the first base station. Other apparatuses and some methods for wireless communications also are disclosed. | 07-04-2013 |
20130237265 | SCALABLE NETWORK MIMO FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methods for system for channel access adaptation are disclosed. One system includes a plurality of remote antennas and a plurality of access points. The remote antennas transmit data to receivers and obtain channel state information. Additionally, each access point controls a different cluster of the remote antennas and receives the respective channel state information from the remote antennas of the cluster. Further, each access point is configured to, independently from other access points, adapt channel allocations to the remote antennas of the respective cluster based on a tracking of sums of collision loss probabilities. Each given sum is determined by the access point for a different given set of a plurality of sets of cooperating remote antennas in the respective cluster, where each constituent collision loss probability in the given sum is determined by the access point from a different interference clique to which the given set belongs. | 09-12-2013 |
20140023005 | TAILORING WIRELESS TRANSMISSION STRATEGIES TO USER PROFILES - Systems and methods for data transmission include categorizing users into one of a plurality of profiles using a processor based on device and channel characteristics. Each of the plurality of profiles is mapped to one of a plurality of transmission schemes. Data is combined for a plurality of users categorized with different profiles for data transmission. | 01-23-2014 |
20150023248 | MULTI-USER MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) COMMUNICATION WITH DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - A system and a method are provided. The method includes deploying a plurality of antennas of an access point or a base station as a distributed antenna system. The method further includes configuring the distributed antenna system for multi-user wireless transmissions by applying medium access techniques and power-balanced pre-coding at the access point or the base station. The method also includes providing device localization for devices communicating with the distributed antenna system by applying time-difference-of-arrival techniques to antenna pairs from among the plurality of antennas at the access point or the base station. | 01-22-2015 |
20150029904 | ENABLING FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATION IN LEGACY LTE SYSTEMS - Methods are provided for converting from half-duplex communication to full-duplex communication in a legacy wireless cellular system having a base station. A method includes providing in the base station separate transmit and receive paths for transmit signals and receive signals, respectively. The method further includes converting an uplink frequency band and a downlink frequency band for the base station to a same frequency band. The method also includes applying analog signal cancellation techniques at the base station to isolate a full-duplex wireless reception signal from a full-duplex wireless transmission signal. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029908 | Resource Management with Device-Device Communication in Next Generation Cellular Networks - At the beginning of every epoch the invention estimates the average traffic demand from cellular and device-to-device traffic in each sector in either DL or UL directions based on history from previous epochs. It partitions the network into interfering sectors and employing device-to-device traffic to determine the dynamic fractional frequency reuse FFR patterns for each of these clusters. Then, in every frame, for the set of sectors co-located at the same base station and instantaneous traffic demands, the invention solves the problem of device-to-device traffic placement and scheduling of cellular and device-to-device traffic jointly. | 01-29-2015 |