Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080220806 | COMBINED OPEN LOOP/CLOSED LOOP METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UPLINK POWER OF A MOBILE STATION - A method and apparatus are disclosed comprising a combined open loop/closed loop uplink power control scheme for E-UTRA. The combined open and closed loop method for UL intra-cell PC controls the wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) transmit power spectral density (PSD), PSD | 09-11-2008 |
20080225822 | TRANSMISSION OF ACK/NACK AND TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL FEEDBACK IN EVOLVED UTRA - A method for transmitting feedback information for a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) includes multiplexing the feedback information with an uplink shared channel, mapping the multiplexed feedback information to orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) symbols and transmitting the feedback information to an e Node B. The method also includes multiplexing the feedback information with the uplink shared channel using distributed frequency division multiplexing (FDM), mapping the feedback information to a first OFDM symbol, and distributing the mapped feedback information equidistantly across the transmission bandwidth. | 09-18-2008 |
20080260054 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING A PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO IN A MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for reducing a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system are disclosed. Transmit beamforming or precoding is performed on transmit symbols based on a channel matrix. For feedback, channel matrices may be averaged over multiple subcarriers and the averaged channel matrices may be further quantized. In order to reduce the PAPR, amplitude clipping may be performed on the symbols after the transmit processing. The amplitude clipping may be performed by hard clipping, soft clipping, or smooth clipping. | 10-23-2008 |
20080301536 | CHANNEL CODING AND RATE MATCHING FOR LTE CONTROL CHANNELS - A method and apparatus for channel coding and rate matching of the Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) and the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) is disclosed that uses convolutional encoding to code the control channels. Rate matching is performed using a circular buffer based rate matching algorithm. A rate matching module may contain a single interleaver or may alternatively comprise a plurality of sub-block interleavers. Interleaved coded bits may be stored in the circular buffer in an interlaced format, or output streams from separate sub-block interleavers may be stored contiguously. When a plurality of sub-block interleavers are used, different interleaving patterns may be used. Rate matching may use bit puncturing or repetition to match the rate of the available physical channel resource. Rate matched output bits may be interleaved using a channel interleaver. | 12-04-2008 |
20080305745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING UPLINK TRANSMISSION OF CHANNEL QUALITY AND CODING INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for feedback in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) includes transmitting feedback over an aggregate of predefined control channel elements (CCEs) wherein the feedback is one of a channel quality indicator (CQI), a precoding matrix index (PMI) or a rank index. | 12-11-2008 |
20080316935 | GENERATING A NODE-B CODEBOOK - A method and apparatus generates a codebook and associated scheduling and control signaling. A plurality of channel combinations is generated for a plurality of wireless transmit receive units (WTRUs). The channel for each WTRU is quantized based on the WTRU codebook. A codebook for beamforming is generated for a plurality of WTRUs. The codebook includes a plurality of beamforming matrices. All possible beamforming matrices may be computed and the codebook may be quantized. | 12-25-2008 |
20090058726 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS USING FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS TO CREATE, OPTIMIZE AND INCORPORATE A BEAM SPACE ANTENNA ARRAY IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING RECEIVER - A wireless communication apparatus which uses fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver which incorporates a beam space antenna array. The beam space antenna array may be implemented with a Butler matrix array. The beam space antenna array may be a circular array, vertical array, or a combination of both circular and vertical arrays, for providing the desired angular antenna coverage. In one embodiment, the antenna array is optimized because the FFTs are linear invariant transform operators, whereby the order of operations in the OFDM receiver can be interchanged. | 03-05-2009 |
20090129499 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING SPACE FREQUENCY BLOCK CODING IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for implementing space frequency block coding (SFBC) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system. The present invention is applicable to both a closed loop mode and an open loop mode. In the closed loop mode, power loading and eigen-beamforming are performed based on channel state information (CSI). A channel coded data stream is multiplexed into two or more data streams. Power loading is performed based on the CSI on each of the multiplexed data streams. SFBC encoding is performed on the data streams for each of the paired subcarriers. Then, eigen-beamforming is performed based on the CSI to distribute eigenbeams to multiple transmit antennas. The power loading may be performed on two or more SFBC encoding blocks or on each eigenmodes. Additionally, the power loading may be performed across subcarriers or subcarrier groups for weak eigenmodes. | 05-21-2009 |
20090316307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE CHANNEL QUALITY FOR USE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) ANTENNAS - Apparatus and method that employ a technique which improves SINR in a communication system utilizing MIMO antennas are described. Transmitter and receiver components use fixed transmit and receive beamforming matrices and variable transmit and receive beamforming vectors. A method of channel conditioning using an iterative closed loop process is also described. | 12-24-2009 |
20100014617 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION OF A CHANNEL MATRIX - A method and apparatus for decomposing a channel matrix in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A channel matrix H is generated for channels between transmit antennas and receive antennas. A Hermitian matrix A=H | 01-21-2010 |
20100246377 | MIMO BEAMFORMING-BASED SINGLE CARRIER FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beamforming-based single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system is disclosed. At the transmitter, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) is performed on transmission data to generate frequency domain data. The frequency domain transmit data is mapped to assigned subcarriers. An inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) is performed on the transmit data mapped to the assigned subcarriers to generate time domain transmit data. The time domain transmit data is transmitted via antennas. At a receiver, an FFT is performed on the received data to generate frequency domain received data. Subcarrier demapping is performed to extract data mapped on the assigned subcarriers. A channel estimator generates a channel matrix which is decomposed into U, D and V | 09-30-2010 |
20110096857 | QUALITY CONTROL SCHEME FOR MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM) SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for optimizing the system capacity of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system that uses with Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas. In a receiver, a target quality of service (QoS) metric and reference data rate are set. The target QoS metric may be set to a predetermined value and/or may be adjusted dynamically with respect to packet error rate (PER) by a slow outer-loop control processor. The QoS of received signals are compared to the target QoS. Depending on the comparison, the receiver generates a channel quality indicator (CQI) which is sent to the transmitter. The CQI is a one or two bit indicator which indicates to the transmitter to disable, adjust or maintain data transmission rates of particular sub-carriers, groups of sub-carriers per transmit antenna, or groups of sub-carriers across all transmit antennas. At the transmitter, the transmitted data rate is disabled, adjusted or maintained. | 04-28-2011 |
20110122958 | POWER LOADING TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING IN MIMO-OFDM WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method is disclosed for tuning a beamformed signal in wireless communications including a plurality of sub-carriers and a plurality of eigenbeams. The method includes adjusting a total gain of each of the plurality of sub-carriers and eigenbeams, and applying the adjusted total gain to each of the sub-carriers and each of the eigenbeams. | 05-26-2011 |
20110211474 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATION AND CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK TO SUPPORT TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING IN A MIMO SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for calibration and channel state feedback to support transmit beamforming in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system are disclosed. For radio frequency (RF) calibration, a first station (STA) sends a calibration request to a second STA, and the second STA sends a sounding packet to the first STA. The first STA receives the sounding packet, performs at least one channel measurement and performs calibration based on the channel measurement. For channel state feedback, the first STA sends a channel state feedback request to the second STA. The second STA sends a sounding packet to the first STA. The first STA receives the sounding packet and performs at least one channel measurement with the sounding packet. The first STA then calculates a steering matrix for transmit beamforming based on the channel measurement. | 09-01-2011 |
20120140845 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINING SPACE-FREQUENCY BLOCK CODING SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING AND BEAMFORMING IN A MIMO-OFDM SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for combining space-frequency block coding (SFBC) and frequency shift transmit diversity (FSTD) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. | 06-07-2012 |
20120173946 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST PROCESSES PER TRANSMISSION TIME INTERVAL - A method and apparatus may be used for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes per transmission time interval (TTI). A transmitter and a receiver may include a plurality of H-ARQ processes. Each H-ARQ process may transmit and receive one TB per TTI. The transmitter may generate a plurality of TBs and assign each TB to a H-ARQ process. The transmitter may send control information for each TB, which may include H-ARQ information associated TBs with the TBs. The transmitter may send the TBs using the associated H-ARQ processes simultaneously per TTI. After receiving the TBs, the receiver may send feedback for each of the H-ARQ processes and associated TBs indicating successful or unsuccessful receipt of each of the TBs to the transmitter. The feedback for multiple TBs may be combined for the simultaneously transmitted H-ARQ processes, (i.e., TBs). | 07-05-2012 |
20120307945 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION OF A CHANNEL MATRIX - A method and apparatus for decomposing a channel matrix in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A channel matrix H is generated for channels between transmit antennas and receive antennas. A Hermitian matrix A=H | 12-06-2012 |
20130039441 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING SPACE TIME PROCESSING WITH UNEQUAL MODULATION AND CODING SCHEMES - A method and apparatus for implementing spatial processing with unequal modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) or stream-dependent MCSs are disclosed. Input data may be parsed into a plurality of data streams, and spatial processing is performed on the data streams to generate a plurality of spatial streams. An MCS for each data stream is selected independently. The spatial streams are transmitted via multiple transmit antennas. At least one of the techniques of space time block coding (STBC), space frequency block coding (SFBC), quasi-orthogonal Alamouti coding, time reversed space time block coding, linear spatial processing and cyclic delay diversity (CDD) may be performed on the data/spatial streams. An antennal mapping matrix may then be applied to the spatial streams. The spatial streams are transmitted via multiple transmit antennas. The MCS for each data stream may be determined based on a signal-to-noise ratio of each spatial stream associated with the data stream. | 02-14-2013 |