Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080242273 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Interactive Services to Users Using Unicast and Broadcast Wireless Networks - The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing interactive services using unicast wireless networks and broadcast wireless networks. A method includes receiving content interaction information indicative of interactions by a user with content presented at a wireless user terminal, obtaining at least one service parameter, and providing a service using the content interaction information and the at least one service parameter, wherein the service is provided using one of the unicast wireless network or the broadcast wireless network. The content for which content interaction information is received is provided to the wireless user terminal using a broadcast wireless network and the content interaction information is received over a unicast wireless network. The service that is provided may include providing modified content over the broadcast wireless network, providing personalized content over the unicast wireless network, operating a proxy for a network-based service, and the like. | 10-02-2008 |
20080242290 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Content to Users Using Unicast and Broadcast Wireless Networks - The invention includes a method and apparatus for providing content to user terminals. A method includes identifying a request for content from a user terminal, obtaining a network selection parameter for the content request, selecting, using the network selection parameter, a wireless network over which to propagate the requested content, and propagating the requested content toward the user terminal using the selected wireless network. The selected wireless network may be a unicast wireless network or a broadcast wireless network. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244040 | Method and Apparatus for Dynamically Pushing Content Over Wireless Networks - The invention includes a method and apparatus for dynamically pushing content over a wireless network A method includes obtaining network-level state information and user-level state information for a user in response to an indication that content is available for the user, determining whether a network-level condition is satisfied using the network-level state information, determining whether a user-level condition is satisfied using the user-level state information, and pushing the available content toward the user terminal of the user using the wireless network in response to the conditions being satisfied. The network-level state information includes cell utilization information for a cellular region associated with the user terminal of the user. The user-level state information includes at least one of a user channel quality, a user terminal power state, a user terminal battery power status, a user terminal memory status, at least one user terminal capability, and user subscription information for the user. | 10-02-2008 |
20090193484 | ADAPTIVE SCHEDULING OF STREAMING VIDEO OVER WIRELESS NETWORKS - An adaptive scheduling process is disclosed which dynamically decides which frames need to be transmitted and which ones need to be dropped at any transmission opportunity based on current channel conditions and on characteristics of each video frame. | 07-30-2009 |
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 |
20090232064 | Scheduling in Multi-Cell Multi-Carrier Wireless Systems - Transmission is scheduled in a multi-cell multi-carrier wireless network. Assignments are determined for subcarriers by determining marginal gains for receivers, determining a receiver and an associated base station corresponding to a highest marginal gain, and assigning the receiver to the base station. These steps may be iteratively repeated until each of the receivers is assigned to a base station. The subcarriers are then allocated to the receivers by selecting the receiver with the highest gain. Alternatively, assignments are determined for subcarriers by determining a maximum additional queue size reduction, determining an assignment for each of the subcarriers, determining a receiver associated with a base station that has the determined maximum additional queue size reduction, assigning the receiver to the base station, and allocating the subcarriers to the receivers in the base stations. | 09-17-2009 |
20090291763 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FAIR MESSAGE EXCHANGES IN DISTRIBUTED MULTI-PLAYER GAMES - The Fair-Order Service of the present invention delivers action messages to the server as soon as it is feasible. Because action messages from different players exhibit different reaction times with respect to an update message, the Fair-Ordering Service executed at the server dynamically enforces a sufficient waiting period on each action message to guarantee the fair processing of all action messages. In reality, the waiting period at the server is bounded because of the real-time nature of interactive games. The algorithms that offer Fair Ordering Service take into consideration delayed and out-of-order action messages. When action messages corresponding to multiple update messages are interleaved, the Fair-Ordering Service matches the action message to the appropriate update message. It accomplishes this by maintaining a window of update messages and using the reaction times for an action message for each of the update messages in the window. This enables state changes at the game server to be performed with fairness to all the players. The Fair-Order Service invention is based on a framework that uses a proxy architecture making it transparent to any specific game application. The service is well suited to client-server based, online multi-player games, where a fair order of player actions is critical to the game outcome. | 11-26-2009 |
20100009710 | DISTRIBUTED INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN OFDMA MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS DATA NETWORKS - Systems and methods are disclosed for transmission with a plurality of base stations (BSs) in a wireless cellular data network where one BS communicates with neighboring BSs by determining a binary or discrete new power level on each subchannel to determine a weighted sum modified rates of a BS and in-neighbor BSs; and resolving concurrent power update in each BS in a distributed manner. | 01-14-2010 |
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 |
20100157924 | MU-MIMO-OFDMA SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVICING OVERLAPPING CO-SCHEDULED USERS - Methods and systems for conveying or transmitting to any given user in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO system scheduling information of other co-scheduled users to permit the user to perform error-correction on received data and/or interference reduction on its received signals. The scheduling information can include resource block assignment, modulation constellations employed, coding rates employed, power levels utilized and precoder matrix indices used. Further, the scheduling information can be conveyed in part through dedicated reference symbol layers or pilot streams. Moreover, a base station may transmit a preliminary estimate of the total number of users the base station expects to schedule, or an upper-bound on the total number of users, to the MU-MIMO users to permit the MU-MIMO users to determine preferred precoder matrix indices and indications of channel quality indices. | 06-24-2010 |
20100158150 | MAX-LOG STACK DECODER - A method for demodulating signals in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) receiver includes obtaining a transformed vector by a coordinate transformation of a received observation vector using a unitary matrix determined through QR decomposition of an estimated channel matrix; maintaining a list containing nodes along with a cost metric for each node; using the list to generate soft-outputs in the form of log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) for selected symbols of interest, based on the transformed vector and a lower triangular matrix determined through QR decomposition of the estimated channel matrix and the constellations to which the input symbols belong. | 06-24-2010 |
20100172292 | Wireless Network Connectivity in Data Centers - A method for wireless network connectivity in a data center includes communicating between nodes in a data center across a wireless interconnectivity through artificially created paths between nodes in the data center, the nodes being at least one of a server, router, switch, and other such components in the data center that require connectivity; and managing the wireless interconnectivity by a control and management entity. | 07-08-2010 |
20100189063 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RATE MATCHING AND RATE SHAPING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Rate matching and rate shaping methods and systems for managing data traffic on wireless channels are disclosed. Rate matching embodiments dynamically determine downlink video data transmission rates based on frame decoding deadlines and frame sizes. In addition, if the channel capacity cannot support the video data transmission rate, the rate matcher can adjust the video stream accordingly so that it is supportable by the channel capacity. In turn, rate shaping implementations can tailor the transmission rate shaping based on the state of the wireless data channel. Shaper operations can be specifically adapted to a saturated state of the wireless channel, to an unsaturated state of the wireless channel and to transitions between the unsaturated and saturated states. | 07-29-2010 |
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 |
20100269142 | UTILITY OPTIMIZATION FOR SCALABLE VIDEO MULTICAST IN WIRELESS SYSTEMS - The present invention provides a system and method for optimizing utility in a wireless data system. A connection is first established with a plurality of receiver devices. After the connection has been established, feedback is received from the receiver devices at periodic intervals, wherein the feedback includes channel quality information. A map is computed for each of a plurality of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) using the received feedback, wherein the map associated with each MCS reflects the set of receiver devices capable of receiving that particular MCS. Once the MCSs have been mapped, one of the MCSs is assigned to each of a plurality of variable-sized layers of at least one video session for optimizing total system utility. If the wireless system has multiple sessions, resources are also allocated among the different sessions in a manner which further optimizes system utility. | 10-21-2010 |
20110009196 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FAIR MESSAGE EXCHANGES IN DISTRIBUTED MULTI-PLAYER GAMES - The Fair-Order Service of the present invention delivers action messages to the server as soon as it is feasible. Because action messages from different players exhibit different reaction times with respect to an update message, the Fair-Ordering Service executed at the server dynamically enforces a sufficient waiting period on each action message to guarantee the fair processing of all action messages. In reality, the waiting period at the server is bounded because of the real-time nature of interactive games. The algorithms that offer Fair Ordering Service take into consideration delayed and out-of-order action messages. When action messages corresponding to multiple update messages are interleaved, the Fair-Ordering Service matches the action message to the appropriate update message. It accomplishes this by maintaining a window of update messages and using the reaction times for an action message for each of the update messages in the window. This enables state changes at the game server to be performed with fairness to all the players. The Fair-Order Service invention is based on a framework that uses a proxy architecture making it transparent to any specific game application. The service is well suited to client-server based, online multi-player games, where a fair order of player actions is critical to the game outcome. | 01-13-2011 |
20110064014 | MULTICAST WITH JOINT LAYER RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN BROADBAND WIRELESS NETWORKS - Methods and systems for allocating resources and modulation and coding schemes to transmit layers of a data stream are described. Embodiments provide efficient utilization of resources by collectively allocating resource slots to layers assigned a common modulation and coding scheme. Modulation and coding schemes are assigned based on a maximal utility that is modeled on the collective resource allocation. | 03-17-2011 |
20110070911 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC AND CONFIGURATION BASED FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY REUSE FOR UNEVEN LOAD DISTRIBUTIONS - Fractional frequency reuse systems and methods for assigning physical resource units of an available frequency band to sectors of cells are disclosed. In particular, the systems and methods permit adaptation of frequency configuration partitions to mobile station or throughput distribution within cells while at the same time ensuring mitigation of interference between neighboring sectors of different cells. | 03-24-2011 |
20110086602 | SEQUENTIAL SENSING SCHEME FOR COGNITIVE RADIO - A method and system for determining whether a given electromagnetic frequency is in use. An incoming signal is sampled and a test statistic is calculated based on the magnitude of the received samples and a predetermined constant. A determination is then made regarding whether the frequency is in use, based on whether the test statistic has exceeded a threshold. | 04-14-2011 |
20110103501 | INDEXING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for indexing signal option selections are disclosed. The signal options can be any of a variety of options that permit the establishment of a communication link, including modulation format, coding rate, precoding index and assigned subbands. The selected options can be represented as a vector and the index can be determined by employing a worth function for a particular selected vector element that is dependent on a selection occurrence count of the element and on an element position count of the element. In particular, the index can be the summation of worth function values for each selected element. | 05-05-2011 |
20110105044 | REVERSE INDEXING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for reversing indexing signal option selections are disclosed. The signal options can be any of a variety of options that permit the establishment of a communication link, including modulation format, coding rate, precoding index and assigned subbands. The selected options can be represented as a vector and the index can be determined by employing a worth function for a particular selected vector element that is dependent on a selection occurrence count of the element and on an element position count of the element. In particular, the index can be the summation of worth function values for each selected element. | 05-05-2011 |
20110105058 | SUBBAND INDEXING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for indexing subband selections are disclosed. The selected subbands can be represented as a binary sequence and the index can be determined by employing a choose function, where a choose function value for a particular selected bit position is defined by a selection occurrence count of the selected bit position that is chosen from a bit position count of the selected bit position. In particular, the index can be the summation of choose function values for each selected bit position. | 05-05-2011 |
20110110453 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING BEAMS TO ENABLE EFFICIENT DETERMINATION OF SUITABLE COMMUNICATION LINKS - Methods and systems for enabling the rectification of deteriorated channel conditions on a communication link are described. In particular, the methods and systems can employ mechanisms that prioritize beams in accordance with signal quality measures, direction of departures of transmission beams and/or direction of arrivals of reception beams to address variable channel conditions. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113137 | BEAM COMBINATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTING COMMUNICATION LINKS TO VARYING CHANNEL CONDITIONS - Methods and systems for rectifying deteriorated channel conditions on a communication link are described. In response to the detection of a link deterioration event, a cluster of beams about a currently utilized beam pair can be trialed to determine a suitable, alternate pair of beams on which to establish a communication link. In turn, in the case of a link blockage event, a set of beams having a relatively large azimuthal angle with respect to a currently utilized beam pair can be trialed to determine a suitable beam pair for further communication. | 05-12-2011 |
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 |
20110218768 | Sequential Sensing Scheme for Cognitive Radio Based on a Block of Received Samples - A method and system for determining whether a given electromagnetic frequency is in use includes applying a transformation to an amplitude of received samples, adjusting the transformed samples by a constant based on a minimum detection signal-to-noise ratio; combining the adjusted samples to produce a test statistic; and using a processor to make a determination regarding if the frequency is in use based on the test statistic exceeded or falling below a threshold, said test statistic being based on Ξ | 09-08-2011 |
20110243017 | MU-MIMO-OFDMA SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-RANK CQI COMPUTATION AND PRECODER SELECTION - Methods and systems for determining attributes of communication channels of MU-MIMO users in an OFDMA system are disclosed. One method comprises receiving from a base station, for at least one sub-band of contiguous sub-carriers, an indication of an estimate of or an upper-bound on a total number of streams that are co-scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band. In addition, the method further comprises determining one or more signal quality measures for the at-least one sub-band based on the estimate of or the upper-bound on the total number of streams that are scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band. Moreover, an indication of the one or more signal quality measures is transmitted to the base station. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243018 | MU-MIMO-OFDMA METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SIGNALING MULTI-RANK CQIs AND PRECODERS - Methods and systems for determining attributes of communication channels of MU-MIMO users in an OFDMA system are disclosed. One method includes receiving from a base station, for at least one sub-band of contiguous sub-carriers, an indication of an estimate of or an upper-bound on a total number of streams that are co-scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band and an indication of a fraction of a transmit power at the base station that is applied to streams that are scheduled for transmission to a particular user. The method further includes determining one or more signal quality measures for the at least one sub-band based on at least one of the fraction or the estimate of or the upper-bound on the total number of streams that are scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band. In addition, an indication of the one or more signal quality measures is transmitted to the base station in the method. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243019 | MU-MIMO-OFDMA MULTI-RANK CQI AND PRECODER SIGNALING SCHEMES - Methods and systems for determining attributes of communication channels of MU-MIMO users in an (OFDMA) system are disclosed. One method includes receiving from a base station, for at least one sub-band of contiguous sub-carriers, an indication of an estimate of or an upper-bound on a total number of streams that are co-scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band. The method further includes determining one or more signal quality measures for the at least one sub-band based on the estimate of or the upper-bound on the total number of streams that are scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band in accordance with at least one of single-user scheduling rules or multi-user scheduling rules. In addition, the method includes transmitting to the base station an indication of the one or more signal quality measures and at least one tag identifying each signal quality measure as being determined in accordance with the single-user scheduling rules or the multi-user scheduling rules. | 10-06-2011 |
20110250900 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCOUNTABLE RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN CELLULAR AND BROADBAND NETWORKS - A method includes receiving information flows between users into a basestation of a cellular network, applying a usage accountability framework responsive to predetermined user fairness metrics, bandwidth resources on the network and a history of channel bandwidth variations by the users, and executing bandwidth allocation for the flows between the users responsive to the applying an accountability framework for improving user experience on the network by the users. | 10-13-2011 |
20110255582 | SELECTIVE JOINT DEMODULATION - Systems, methods and apparatuses for jointly demodulating data signals are disclosed. In accordance with the method, pilot signals are received from a base station and are processed. In addition, from a set of expected co-scheduled data streams, a subset of the co-scheduled data streams that are actually transmitted by the base station are determined based on the pilot signals. Further, a group of the transmitted co-scheduled data streams are selected from the determined subset. The data signals are received and jointly demodulated by employing the selected group of co-scheduled data streams and by suppressing non-selected data streams from the determined subset. | 10-20-2011 |
20110255632 | SIGNALING OF MIXTURE COMBINATION SETS - Systems and methods for conveying and determining modulations schemes employed by co-scheduled users are disclosed. In addition, methods and systems for designing signaling schemes that convey such information are also disclosed. In accordance with one method, an index is received and a table of indices in which the received index denotes a plurality of different sets of modulation schemes is referenced. Further, one or more modulation schemes of at least one co-scheduled user is determined based on the referencing. In addition, data signals are received and are processed by utilizing the one or more modulation schemes. | 10-20-2011 |
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 |
20110304504 | Adaptive Beamforming - A computer implemented method for generating transmit (TX) and receive (RX) antenna weight vectors (AWVs) for beamforming without utilizing explicit channel estimation. | 12-15-2011 |
20110305299 | WIDEBAND CODEBOOK CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATIONS - A precoding scheme in which the downlink channel is estimated and an optimal precoding matrix to be used by the multi antenna transmitter is determined accordingly. The optimal precoding matrix is selected from a codebook of matrices that includes matrices having a structure matched to that of the eigenvectors of the spatial covariance matrix, wherein the spatial covariance matrix is modeled as a Hermitian and Toeplitz matrix parameterized by a single complex-valued scalar. | 12-15-2011 |
20120002620 | Remote Virtualization of a Cellular Basestation - The present invention is directed to a method employing a basestation with downlink and uplink flows of information between users; remotely virtualizing the flows from an entity external to the basestation without any modification to the basestation; and creating virtual basestations or networks responsive to the remotely virtualizing. | 01-05-2012 |
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 |
20120027106 | BEAMFORMING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINK LAYER MULTICASTING - Beamforming systems and methods are disclosed. In accordance with one method, an optimization problem that is based on channel matrices for a plurality of receivers is solved to obtain corresponding multipliers for each of the channel matrices. In addition, a determination of whether a maximum eigenvalue of a particular matrix that is based on the channel matrices and the multipliers has a multiplicity of one is made. Further, the method includes applying an eigenvector of the particular matrix for the maximum eigenvalue as a beamforming matrix to data symbols if the maximum eigenvalue has a multiplicity of one. Moreover, data signals are transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the beamforming matrix. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027117 | LINK LAYER MULTICASTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Beamforming systems and methods are disclosed. In accordance with one method, indications of channel matrices for a plurality of receivers are obtained. Further, a beamformer matrix is formulated as a linear combination of columns of hermitians of the channel matrices. In addition, coefficients of the hermitians in the linear combination are determined to compute the beamformer matrix such that a lowest reception rate among reception rates of each of the receivers is maximized. Data signals are transmitted to the receivers by applying the computed beamformer matrix to data symbols to maximize the lowest reception rate. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030716 | Multicast Video and Data Delivery With Beamforming Antennas in Indoor Wireless Networks - A method includes receiving input information related to transmission of video and data by an access point in a wireless network, the input information including at least one of setup connections, modulating and coding scheme MCS; receiving, by the access point, channel state each information from each user in the wireless network, the channel state information including signal-to-interference-and-noise-ratio SINR for each user under each beam pattern; and multicast beamform scheduling, responsive to the receiving, for multicast delivery of the video and data from the access point with beamforming antennas, the videos being at least one of a multi-resolution and a multi-layered video, the scheduling including a greedy procedure for selecting beams, assigning MCS and video layer or resolution to each of the beams. | 02-02-2012 |
20120039411 | FEED-FORWARD CONTROL SIGNALING AND DECODING SCHEMES - Systems and methods for conveying wireless transmission allocation information are disclosed. In accordance with one method, an index indicating selected data stream parameters is received. In addition, an indication of a number of transmit antennas at a transmitter from which the data stream is transmitted is also received. Further, the selected parameters are determined from the index based on the number of transmit antennas at the transmitter. Moreover, data signals are received and processed with a processor in accordance with the selected data stream parameters. | 02-16-2012 |
20120057557 | Method and Systems for Conveying Scheduling Information of Overlapping Co-Scheduled Users in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO System - Methods and systems for conveying or transmitting to any given user in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO system scheduling information of other co-scheduled users to permit the user to perform error-correction on received data and/or interference reduction on its received signals. The scheduling information can include resource block assignment, modulation constellations employed, coding rates employed, power levels utilized and precoder matrix indices used. Further, the scheduling information can be conveyed in part through dedicated reference symbol layers or pilot streams. Moreover, a base station may transmit a preliminary estimate of the total number of users the base station expects to schedule, or an upper-bound on the total number of users, to the MU-MIMO users to permit the MU-MIMO users to determine preferred precoder matrix indices and indications of channel quality indices. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057558 | Method and Systems for Conveying Scheduling Information of Overlapping Co-Scheduled Users in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO System - Methods and systems for conveying or transmitting to any given user in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO system scheduling information of other co-scheduled users to permit the user to perform error-correction on received data and/or interference reduction on its received signals. The scheduling information can include resource block assignment, modulation constellations employed, coding rates employed, power levels utilized and precoder matrix indices used. Further, the scheduling information can be conveyed in part through dedicated reference symbol layers or pilot streams. Moreover, a base station may transmit a preliminary estimate of the total number of users the base station expects to schedule, or an upper-bound on the total number of users, to the MU-MIMO users to permit the MU-MIMO users to determine preferred precoder matrix indices and indications of channel quality indices. | 03-08-2012 |
20120069928 | ROBUST PRECODER AND RECEIVER FILTER DESIGN FOR GAUSSIAN INTERFERENCE CHANNEL - A system and method for providing at least one transmit precoder includes transforming at least one of a weighted sum-rate and max-min rate objective into two or more sub-problems by introducing at least one slack variable. The two or more sub-problems are iterated on a computer readable storage medium to provide at least one transmit precoder for each transmitter. | 03-22-2012 |
20120082259 | Precoding Selection for Retransmission in Uplink MIMO Hybrid ARQ - A method includes obtaining a precoder for retransmission of one codeword responsive to a known precoding matrix of a certain rank and modulation and coding scheme assignments used in an original transmission, and a desired retransmission rank', forming an approximate channel covariance matrix; stimating an a minimum mean square error receiver signal-to-noise-interference-ratio for each layer to be retransmitted responsive to the prior forming; and finding a precoding matrix from a preceding codebook that maximizes a sum-rate for enabling precoding selections for retransmissions in uplink multiple-input multiple-output MIMO hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ. | 04-05-2012 |
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 |
20120114030 | Power Scaling for Retransmissions in Uplink MIMO Hybrid ARQ - A method includes obtaining a precoder for retransmission of one codeword responsive to known precoding matrix P of rank r and modulation and coding scheme MCS assignments used in an original transmission, and a desired retransmission rank r′; and scaling power in the retransmission responsive to at least two of 1) information parameters Index of UL precoder in previous transmission, 2) rank r of uplink UL precoder in previous transmission, 3) MCS assignments in previous retransmission (MCS | 05-10-2012 |
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 |
20120150597 | Opportunistic Alignment of Advertisement Delivery with Cellular Basestation Overloads - A method includes controlling communications by users across a network with a predetermined capacity for desired communication flows for all the users and opportunistically aligning advertisement delivery to the users when an overload condition in the network occurs so that users perceive the disruption in communication service by the network as a minimum. | 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 |
20120170530 | METHOD FOR LTE DOWNLINK SCHEDULING WITH MIMO - A method for LTE or WiMAX scheduling includes collecting, by a basestation BS, channel feedback from multiple mobiles with downlink traffic. The channel feedback enables the BS to determine an achievable rate or block error probability if transmitting to a mobile with a given modulation and coding scheme MCS and multiple-input multiple-output MIMO mode. The method includes determining, by the BS, which of the mobiles is scheduled on each resource block RB and what the MCS and MIMO mode is selected for each scheduled mobile, and allocating bits on the set of the RBs assigned to each scheduled mobile. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170531 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN 4G MIMO CELLULAR UPLINKS - Methods and systems for allocating resources in a cellular uplink include iteratively allocating uplink resource blocks (RBs) to a plurality of user devices in a multiple-input multiple-output network. Allocation is performed subject to constraints and incremental utility maximization according to an approximation that has a worst-case guarantee. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170676 | Robust Linear Precoder Designs for Multi-Cell Downlink Transmission - Methods and systems for optimizing the utilities of receiver devices in a wireless communication network are disclosed. Precoder design formulations that maximize a minimum worst-case rate or a worst-case sum rate are described for both full base station, cooperation and limited base station cooperation scenarios. In addition, optimal equalizers are also selected to optimize the worst-case sum rate. | 07-05-2012 |
20120188929 | Scalable Video Multicast with Non-Overlapping Beamforming Antennas - A method includes initializing transmission of multicast data with non-overlapping beamforming antennas by a wireless access point responsive to multiple clients; determining a beam pattern for transmission of the data by the access point responsive to feedback on a signal-to-noise-ratio SNR of each client under every beam pattern; and scheduling a multicast of the data to the clients responsive to the determining and to one of an optimal beam streaming configuration and a sub-optimal beam streaming configuration for partitioning the beam patterns into groups for creating composite beam patterns associated with assigned modulation coding and video streams. | 07-26-2012 |
20120195214 | MULTITAPER SPECTRUM SENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Spectrum sensing methods and systems for detecting spectrum holes for use in cognitive radio secondary transmissions are disclosed. In one method, an indication of an assignment of a set of subcarriers to a primary user is received. The method further includes determining multitaper spectral estimates for at least a subset of the set of subcarriers based on the assignment of the set of subcarriers to the primary user by processing samples for the at least a subset of the set of subcarriers. In addition, a test statistic that is based on the multitaper spectral estimates is compared to a threshold to determine whether the set of subcarriers is utilized for primary transmissions to the primary user. Moreover, data signals are received on at least one of the subcarriers in the set of subcarriers if the set of subcarriers is not utilized for primary transmissions to the primary user. | 08-02-2012 |
20120219078 | Subband Indexing Methods and Systems - Methods and systems for indexing subband selections are disclosed. The selected subbands can be represented as a binary sequence and the index can be determined by employing a choose function, where a choose function value for a particular selected bit position is defined by a selection occurrence count of the selected bit position that is chosen from a bit position count of the selected bit position. In particular, the index can be the summation of choose function values for each selected bit position. | 08-30-2012 |
20120238267 | MULTIPLE STAGE HYBRID SPECTRUM SENSING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COGNITIVE RADIO - Systems and methods for detecting unused channels in a cognitive radio system are described. In one method, data is communicated on a particular channel for a secondary receiver. In addition, a set of channels is iteratively scanned by collecting samples for each channel and for each iteration of the scanning. Here, iterations of the scanning progressively removes channels from the set of channels based on the collected samples and updates states of the channels in the set based on the collected samples to obtain a set of candidate channels. In response to detecting a pre-determined condition, communications on the particular channel are precluded and at least one of the candidate channels is evaluated by collecting additional samples on each of the channels. Further, at least one of the candidate channels is selected based on the evaluation for utilization by the one or more secondary receivers for data communication. | 09-20-2012 |
20120250804 | Efficient Square-Root Free 2 Symbol Max-Log Receiver - The present invention employs a look up table based implementation for the metric computations which eliminate redundancy and substantially reduce the number of multiplications. Moreover, inventive method exploits the fact that the un-normalized constellation symbols are complex integers so that the product of a real-number and an un-normalized constellation symbol can be implemented by only additions. The inventive method also enables a greater efficiency for whitening colored noise prior to demodulation, one of which involves no square-root operation. The invention results in less complexity, faster operation, lower power consumption, without sacrificing performance | 10-04-2012 |
20120257664 | Method for Improving Multiuser MIMO Downlink Transmissions - A method for improving multiple-input multiple-output MIMO downlink transmissions includes obtaining a channel state information CSI report including preferred matrix index PMI for precoding, channel quality index CQI and rank index RI at a base station from user terminals through a channel feedback; applying selectively a signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio SINR offset to a SINR of said CSI report; applying selectively a rate matching responsive to SINR offset or the CSI report; and controlling or adjusting the SINR offset. | 10-11-2012 |
20120275313 | Enhancement of Download Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Wireless Communications - A method implemented in a user equipment configured to be used in a multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications system is disclosed. In an aspect, the user equipment transmits to a base station a first channel state information (CSI) report determined according to a single-user (SU) MIMO rule and a second CSI report based on a residual error. | 11-01-2012 |
20120275314 | Enhancement of Download Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Wireless Communications - A method implemented in a user equipment configured to be used in a multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications system is disclosed. In an aspect, the user equipment transmits to a base station a first channel state information (CSI) report determined according to a single-user (SU) MIMO rule and a second CSI report determined according to an MU-MIMO rule. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281662 | Scheduling Information of Overlapping Co-Scheduled Users in an OFDMA-MU-MIMO System - A user equipment (UE) used in a multi-user (MU)-multiple input multiple output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is disclosed. The UE includes a receiving unit to receive from a base station an indication of an estimate of or an upper-bound on the total number of MU-MIMO user equipments (|S|) that are scheduled on a sub-band by the base station, wherein the sub-band includes one or more resource units, a calculation unit to calculate channel quality based on the indication of the estimate of or the upper-bound on the total number of MU-MIMO user equipments, and a transmission unit to transmit to the base station an indication of the channel quality. Other methods and apparatuses also are disclosed. | 11-08-2012 |
20120294381 | Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output Wireless Communications - A method implemented in a user equipment used in a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) wireless communications system is disclosed. The method includes receiving from a base station an indication of a first modulation type for the user equipment, receiving a first data signal for the user equipment, receiving a second data signal for a co-scheduled user equipment, where a second modulation type for the co-scheduled user equipment is unknown to the user equipment, and deciding the second modulation type. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed. | 11-22-2012 |
20130034176 | ROBUST LINEAR PRECODER DESIGNS FOR MULTI-CELL DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION - Methods and systems for optimizing the utilities of receiver devices in a wireless communication network are disclosed. Precoder design formulations that maximize a minimum worst-case rate or a worst-case sum rate are described for both full base station cooperation and limited base station cooperation scenarios. In addition, optimal equalizers are also selected to optimize the worst-case sum rate. | 02-07-2013 |
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 |
20130072210 | LTE and LTE-Advanced UL Power Control - A method for LTE and LTE-A uplink power control includes open loop power control where user equipment UE measures downlink pathloss which is sent to an eNodeB that determines uplink UL transmit power based on the downlink pathloss. | 03-21-2013 |
20130101063 | DFT-BASED CHANNEL ESTIMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - DFT-based channel estimation methods and systems are disclosed. One system includes an inverse discrete Fourier transform module, a noise power estimator, a noise filter and a discrete Fourier transform module. The inverse discrete Fourier transform module is configured to determine time domain estimates by applying an inverse discrete Fourier transform to initial channel estimates computed from pilot signals. Additionally, the noise power estimator is configured to estimate noise power by determining and utilizing time domain samples that are within a vicinity of sinc nulls of the time domain estimates. The noise filter is configured to filter noise from the time domain estimates based on the estimated noise power to obtain noise filtered time domain estimates. Further, the discrete Fourier transform module is configured to perform a discrete Fourier transform on the noise filtered time domain estimates to obtain frequency domain channel estimates for channels on which pilot signals are transmitted. | 04-25-2013 |
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 |
20130122923 | Method and System for Customizable Flow Management in a Cellular Basestation - A method for customizable flow management in a cellular basestation is disclosed. The method includes configuring a framework on a cellular basestation; and executing customized flow management functions through the framework by an external entity. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 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 |
20130155935 | Method for Multicast Video Delivery for 4G Cellular Networks - A method for video multicast delivery for 4g wireless networks includes collecting client feedback and obtaining supportable modulation and coding scheme MCS for each client over a base station of wireless network, prioritizing video packets for said clients and setting a utility for each of the video packets; performing a radio resource allocation for determining a utility optimization for transmitted frames of the video packets; and assigning an MCS to each transmitted frame of the video packets, responsive to step performing a radio resource allocation | 06-20-2013 |
20130170422 | Precoder Design for Physical Layer Multicasting - A method for a transmit precoder for multicast communication over a downlink in a wireless network, including: initializing a transmit precoder, a channel estimate for each user in the wireless network; updating for each user a receive filter and a slack matrix; updating the transmit precoder by solving a second order cone routine solvable in closed form; determining if a predetermined convergence is met; and outputting the updated transmit precoder responsive to the convergence criteria. | 07-04-2013 |
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 |
20130229992 | Coordinated Multiple Point Transmission and Reception - A method implemented in a mobile communications network supporting coordinated multiple point transmission and reception (CoMP) is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), data in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and transmitting a reference signal to the UE, wherein a union of resource elements (REs) allocated for reference signals transmitted from a subset of a plurality of transmission points (TPs) in a CoMP set are excluded from resource mapping for transmitting the data to the UE. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed. | 09-05-2013 |
20130231058 | BEAMFORMING - A method implemented in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method includes determining a first candidate set of transmit beams for a wireless transmitter having a transmit antenna array and a second candidate set of receive beams for a wireless receiver having a receive antenna array, transmitting, from the wireless transmitter, each transmit beam in the first candidate set, and applying, at the wireless receiver, receive beams in the second candidate set to receive said each transmit beam in the first candidate set. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed. | 09-05-2013 |
20130231059 | BEAMFORMING - A method implemented in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method includes: transmitting, from a wireless transmitter having a transmit antenna array, a first signal on each of a plurality of different transmit beams in transmitter (TX) sector level sweep (SLS), receiving, at a wireless receiver having a receive antenna array, the first signal, and determining, at the wireless receiver, quality of the first signal. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed. | 09-05-2013 |
20130237239 | Radio Access Network Sharing - A method implemented in an apparatus used in a radio access network (RAN) sharing system including a plurality of basestations is disclosed. The method includes estimating resource requirement or demand of one or more entities in each base station according to feedback from the plurality of basestations, computing resource allocation for said one or more entities, and enforcing the computed resource allocation using basestation-level virtualization. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 09-12-2013 |
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 |
20130242926 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONVEYING SCHEDULING INFORMATION OF OVERLAPPING CO-SCHEDULED USERS IN AN OFDMA-MU-MIMO SYSTEM - A method implemented in a base station for conveying scheduling information in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) multi-user (MU)-multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting to a first user equipment (UE) the scheduling information including first scheduling information of the first UE and at least a portion of second scheduling information of at least one second UE, wherein the scheduling information includes a resource block (RB) assigned to the first UE, the number of streams, and an indication of one or more dedicated reference symbol (RS) layers assigned to the first UE. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250868 | User Pairing and Resource Allocation for Downlink Multiuser Multi-Input-Multi-Output In Long Term Evolution Advanced Systems - A method for user pairing and resource allocation, includes performing a multiuser multi-input-multi-output (MU-MIMO) user pairing process to maximize an objective metric without common rank restriction; performing a rank balancing process to determine a uniform transmission user rank along all allocated resource blocks for each user; and with the uniform transmission user rank fixed for all the users, determining optimal user pairing and allocation for each of the resource blocks for each user. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254805 | Opportunistic Video Advertisement from Clients Cache - Advertisements are shown to users when the queue underflows to avoid video stalls in players/plugins so users see minimum disruption in video quality. The advertisements are pre-fetched and cached at the mobile phone to schedule them during queue underflows. If there is no congestion in the network, the queue does no underflow and advertisements are shown only to meet ad contracts. During network congestion or disruption, the queue might underflow and specific advertisements are shown to equalize network unavailability until sufficient video data has been received. | 09-26-2013 |
20130286903 | Interference Cancellation for Full-Duplex Communications - A communications apparatus used in a wireless full duplex system is disclosed. The communications apparatus includes a receiver chain connected to an antenna and an interference cancelling chain. One or more cancellation signals generated by the interference cancelling chain are fed back to the receiver chain prior to the first baseband amplifier which uses the first automatic gain control and the second automatic gain controller. Other methods and systems also are disclosed. | 10-31-2013 |
20130286971 | SIGNALING OF MIXTURE COMBINATION SETS - A method implemented in a user terminal used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an index, referencing a table of indices in which the received index denotes at least a total number of co-scheduled streams and one or more modulation schemes, determining at least one modulation scheme of at least one co-scheduled user based on the referencing, and receiving data signals and processing the data signals by utilizing the at least one modulation scheme, wherein each index of a plurality of the indices in the table denotes a total number of co-scheduled streams and denotes one or more stream indices for a user terminal to which the index is directed. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed. | 10-31-2013 |
20130329677 | FEED-FORWARD CONTROL SIGNALING AND DECODING SCHEMES - A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting an index indicating data stream parameters, and transmitting an indication of the number of transmit antennas at the base station, wherein the data stream parameters for 8 transmit antennas are indicated by the index according to a first table, and wherein the data stream parameters for 4 transmit antennas are indicated by the index according to a second table. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 12-12-2013 |
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 |
20140086178 | Buffer-Aware Packet Scheduling for Downlink Multiuser Systems - An inventive duffer aware adaptive BAA scheduler considers both channel and buffer conditions to make scheduling decisions. Specifically, channel conditions are used to select candidate users, i.e., only the users whose transmission rates satisfy a certain condition are considered as candidate users. It guarantees a maximum of throughput deduction. Then the buffer conditions are used to make scheduling decisions among all the candidate users, i.e., the user with largest queue backlog among candidate users will be scheduled, to provide improved delay performance. | 03-27-2014 |
20140087783 | Uplink Power Control - A method for uplink power control implemented in a wireless communications system including one or more user equipment, a serving base station, and at least one neighboring base station is disclosed. The method comprises measuring, at each user equipment, pathloss, sending, from each user equipment to the serving base station, the pathloss, and determining, at the serving base station, uplink transmit power based on the pathloss. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed. | 03-27-2014 |
20140133325 | Feedback and Scheduling for Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) Joint Transmission (JT) in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) - A method implemented in a user equipment (UE) used in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless communications system supporting coordinated multi-point (CoMP) joint transmission (JT) is disclosed. The method includes measuring reference signal received power (RSRP), transmitting, to a network, first feedback on the RSRP, receiving, from the network, a CoMP measurement set, conducting pre-scheduling CoMP UE fallback according to the CoMP measurement set, computing channel quality and direction information according to a UE category, and transmitting, to the network, second feedback on the channel quality and direction information. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 05-15-2014 |
20140140428 | THROUGHPUT ENHANCEMENT THROUGH REPERCUSSIVE CODING IN MIMO SYSTEMS - There is provided a method performed by a transmitter in a multi-user communication system. The method includes transmitting a first part of a codeword to a plurality of receivers over a communication channel in a transmission. The method further includes receiving feedback on the transmission of the first part of the codeword. The method also includes providing an artificial channel having channel parameters adjustable responsive to the received feedback. The method additionally includes virtually feeding the artificial channel with the first part of the codeword to generate artificial channel output data. The method further includes encoding a second part of the codeword for transmission to the plurality of receivers over the communication channel responsive to the artificial channel output data. The method also includes transmitting the encoded signals to the plurality of receivers over the communication channel. | 05-22-2014 |
20140198750 | Multi-User (MU) Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) Enhancement - A method implemented in a base station used in a mobile communications system is disclosed. The method includes configuring for a user equipment (UE) a channel state information (CSI) process for multi-user (MU) multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), the CSI process for MU-MIMO being associated with a channel part and an interference part, and according to the interference part, configuring the UE to measure or estimate inter-cell interference (ICI) and to compute or estimate intra-cell interference. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods also are disclosed. | 07-17-2014 |
20140198751 | Channel Feedback for Vertical and Full-Dimensional Beamforming - A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system where different antenna arrays are employed for transmissions to different co-scheduled users in a cell is disclosed. The method includes configuring multiple channel state information (CSI) processes for a user equipment (UE), and configuring, for the UE, a plurality of non-zero power (NZP) CSI reference signal (RS) resources, each of which is associated with an antenna array. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods also are disclosed. | 07-17-2014 |
20140204865 | Exploiting Hybrid-Channel Information For Downlink Multi-User Scheduling - A method for determining an optimal network utilization maximization in a communication system with wireless links in which current and coarse channel state information CSI is available from all users, along with a limited amount of fine CSI by way of a frame based entails a scheduling and feedback under which a virtual queue is associated with each user with virtual rates being determined at start of each frame and policy of each frame being determined by solving a decision process. | 07-24-2014 |
20140219379 | Precoding Selection for Retransmission in Uplink MIMO Hybrid ARQ - A method implemented in a user terminal is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining known precoding matrix P of rank r and modulation and coding scheme assignments used in an original transmission, and a desired retransmission rank r′, forming an approximate channel covariance matrix, estimating a minimum mean square error receiver SINR for each layer to be retransmitted responsive to said forming, and finding a retransmission precoding matrix from a preceding codebook that maximizes a sum-rate for enabling precoding selections for retransmissions in uplink multiple-input multiple-output MIMO hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 08-07-2014 |
20140233414 | MU-MIMO-OFDMA METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SIGNALING MULTI-RANK CQIs AND PRECODERS - A method for determining attributes of communication channels of multi-user (MU)-multiple input multiple output (MIMO) users in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based multiple access (OFDMA) system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving from a base station, for at least one sub-band of contiguous sub-carriers, an indication of an estimate of or an upper-bound on a total number of streams that are co-scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band or an indication of a fraction of a transmit power at the base station that is applied to streams that are scheduled for transmission to a particular user, determining one or more signal quality measures for the at least one sub-band based on at least one of the fraction or the estimate of or the upper-bound on the total number of streams that are scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band, and transmitting to the base station an indication of the one or more signal quality measures. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233485 | Method and System for Customizable Flow Management in a Cellular Basestation - A basestation used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The basestation includes a plurality of flow management schedulers, wherein the base station receives an indication of function selection from an entity, and wherein the base station chooses for the entity one of the plurality of flow management schedulers according to the indication of function selection. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 08-21-2014 |
20140241449 | Codebook Construction - A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises having a codebook including a plurality of precoding matrices, precoding data with one of the plurality of precoding matrices, and transmitting, to a user equipment, the precoded data, wherein each precoding matrix W satisfies W=W | 08-28-2014 |
20140241450 | Codebook Construction - A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises having 1-layer, 2-layer, 3-layer, and 4-layer codebooks for 4 transmit antenna (4TX) transmission, each codebook including a plurality of precoding matrices, precoding data with one of the plurality of precoding matrices, and transmitting, to a user equipment, the precoded data, wherein each of the 1-layer and 2-layer codebooks comprises a first codebook and a second codebook, and wherein each precoding matrix in the first codebook comprises a first index and a second index. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods also are disclosed. | 08-28-2014 |
20140269323 | SCHEDULING FRAMEWORK FOR ADAPTIVE VIDEO DELIVERY OVER CELLULAR NETWORKS - Systems and methods for adaptive video delivery over a network, including receiving a plurality of types of data flows from one or more network base stations; separating resource management of the plurality of types of data flows, wherein the data flows include one or more of adaptive video streaming flows, regular video traffic flows, and other traffic flows by resource slicing. A scheduling framework for adaptive video delivery is instantiated; available choices of video bit rates for all users is received as input to an allocator; optimal allocation of resources is computed for all users by determining and selecting an optimal bit rate for each user using the allocator; the optimal bit rate being sent to an enforcer; resources across flows are isolated using the enforcer; and the optimal bit rate for each user is enforced using per-flow traffic shapers to maximize resource utilization without reaching network capacity. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270023 | Low-Complexity Estimation of QAM Symbols and Constellations - Disclosed are methods and structures for soft symbol and variance estimation for QAM constellations including a big-flipping framework and efficient methods for soft symbol estimation and variance estimation for QAM. Disclosed are efficient Gray mapping which provides a much lower complexity, i.e., log N for N-QAM for both squared and non-squared QAM constellations. Also disclosed is an approximation method that avoids multiplications completely while exhibiting only a slight performance degradation. Finally, a low complexity method for variance estimations, particularly second moment estimations for both squared and non-squared QAM constellations with Gray mapping are disclosed. Advantageously—using the disclosed methods—the complexity of the second moment estimation is reduced to O((log N)̂2) for an N-QAM symbol for both squared and non-squared QAM. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286164 | FLOW MANAGEMENT FOR DATA STREAMS OVER CELLULAR NETWORKS - Methods and systems for data flow control include establishing a first connection between a gateway and a network client responsive to a connection request from the network client; establishing a second connection between the gateway and a server specified by the connection request; determining a user class for the network client based on a level of network congestion detected at the gateway based on throughput and round-trip-time delays; modifying a data flow received at the gateway on the second connection to remove data from the flow based on the determined user class of the network client; and transmitting the modified data flow to the network client via the first connection. | 09-25-2014 |
20140341064 | Enhancement of Download Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Wireless Communications - A method implemented in a user equipment configured to be used in a multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting to a base station a first channel state information (CSI) report determined according to a single-user (SU) MIMO rule, and transmitting to the base station a second CSI report determined according to an MU-MIMO rule. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140362783 | Channel State Information (CSI) Feedback and Subsampling - A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a user equipment, rank indication (RI), a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI), and a second PMI, the RI and the first PMI being jointly encoded, wherein 5 bits are used for transmission of the jointly encoded RI and first PMI, and wherein first 8 values of values expressed by the 5 bits are used for RI=1, second 8 values of the values expressed by the 5 bits are used for RI=2, a third value of the values expressed by the 5 bits is used for RI=3, a fourth value of the values expressed by the 5 bits is used for RI=4, and remaining 14 values of the values expressed by the 5 bits are reserved. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362784 | Channel State Information (CSI) Feedback and Subsampling - A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a user equipment, rank indication (RI), a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI), and a second PMI (codebook index i | 12-11-2014 |
20140362940 | Channel State Information (CSI) Feedback and Subsampling - A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a user equipment, rank indication (RI), a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) (codebook index i | 12-11-2014 |
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 |
20150063254 | LOW-COMPLEXITY PRECODER DESIGN FOR LARGE-SCALE MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and system are provided. The method includes providing transmit precoders for a multiple-input and multiple-output communication system having a plurality of transmit antennas. The plurality of transmit antennas are for forming, using precoding, a plurality of channels such that each of the plurality of channels are configurable to serve a respective one of a plurality of users. The providing step includes imposing a respective average transmit antenna power constraint on each of the plurality of transmit antennas. The providing step further includes determining a diagonal precoder responsive to applying column scaling to a downlink channel matrix having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The providing step additionally includes generating, from the diagonal precoder, a weighted precoder in accordance with the respective average antenna power constraint by optimizing a weighted sum-rate obtained upon transmitting respective signals over the plurality of channels. | 03-05-2015 |